Saturday Morning Coffee Break

16 DATELINE: Panera in the suburbs. It's sunny and 48 F., but rain predicted for tonight and tomorrow (so my washing the car is partly in vain. At least the big sedan will look good for about 18 hours).

As I do every 3 weeks, I'm out here to get my ears lowered, make some essential purchases at the Target nearby, then flee home before the traffic gets bad. At this time of year the weather is good; but by late Feb. or early March it will be sticky and warm.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:07 AM (DHNlU)

17 Pigs' revenge...

Hoo-ee. (Or should that be "soo-ee?)
Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 09:06 AM (XxJt1)

"Wheek".

Posted by: hogmartin at January 25, 2020 09:07 AM (t+qrx)

18 Guys, how often do you shave? That is, if you use a blade of any kind, the old safety razor method or even a straight. I find my whiskers are much more comfortable to plane off if I've gone 2 days between shaves. How about you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:09 AM (DHNlU)

19 Where I go for dim sum, they know to just walk those duck tongues and chicken feet right past my table.

Yes, duck tongues.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 25, 2020 09:09 AM (EZebt)

20 Hogmartin! How did the interview go?

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 25, 2020 09:09 AM (/+bwe)

21 Hogmartin! How did the interview go?
Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 25, 2020 09:09 AM (/+bwe)

The what?

OH SHI-

Posted by: hogmartin at January 25, 2020 09:10 AM (t+qrx)

22 How about you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:09 AM (DHNlU)

40 years

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 09:10 AM (XzVUd)

23 Good Saturday morning to you from wintery Canuckistan, where our Conservatives can't find someone to lead them and Justin is at least smart enough to stay the hell out of the papers this week (maybe there was a sale on shoe polish).

The coffee is hot and my seat is warm, but the store is a mess and I'm buying about half a million cards on Saturday, so I have to figure out where the hell I'm going to put them.
*raises holiday cup from Rod's Coffee Donuts/Gas Station, who apparently hasn't run out of them yet*

Posted by: TheHoser at January 25, 2020 09:11 AM (IDjUx)

24 On U-Hell screening for nicotine use... for a healthier workforce... and to save money on insurance...

Wonder if they can screen for employees for diabetes, heart disease, and other issues too and fire them?

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2020 09:11 AM (1g7ch)

25 How about you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:09 AM (DHNlU)

40 years
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020

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Forty years between shaves? Do birds nest in your beard, then?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:11 AM (DHNlU)

26 Good Saturday morning, horde!

I've got a steaming pot of Guatemalan, and I am experimenting with CBD oil starting this weekend, for relentless hot flashes and bad sleep. Anyone out there using CBD products and have advice?

Also, I can attest to men being "emotional" at work. Every place I've ever worked (career in tools, hardware, logistics, farm & ranch, and car sales), the men are caught up in drama with each other. Usually, one thinks the place can't operate without him, and the others think it's just the opposite.

Posted by: April at January 25, 2020 09:11 AM (OX9vb)

27 Guys, how often do you shave? That is, if you use a blade of any kind, the old safety razor method or even a straight. I find my whiskers are much more comfortable to plane off if I've gone 2 days between shaves. How about you?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I just got rid of 8 weeks worth of beard.

First cut with scissors, then SEVERAL passes with razor.

I will NEVER do that again !

Posted by: JT at January 25, 2020 09:12 AM (arJlL)

28 24 On U-Hell screening for nicotine use... for a healthier workforce... and to save money on insurance...

Wonder if they can screen for employees for diabetes, heart disease, and other issues too and fire them?
Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2020 09:11 AM (1g7ch)

And valu-rite.

Posted by: Mosquitos The Size of Ravens at January 25, 2020 09:12 AM (aA3+G)

29 Berta don't you come around here, anymore.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2020 09:12 AM (ZLI7S)

30 >Guys, how often do you shave? That is, if you use a blade of any kind, the old safety razor method or even a straight.

every other day works for me- btw I am safety razor, soap and brush, the works

Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 09:13 AM (iTXRQ)

31 @MikeEmanuelFox 2 minutes ago

Today, Managers for the U.S. House of Representatives will file a 28,578-page trial record with the Secretary of the Senate for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump - per a Democratic Official working on the impeachment trial.

Don't they care about the environment!? HOW DARE THEY!

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 09:13 AM (cF8AT)

32 Shave daily. (Face only).

Posted by: henry at January 25, 2020 09:13 AM (J3Rfi)

33 Forty years between shaves? Do birds nest in your beard, then?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:11 AM (DHNlU)

I have it trimmed back with #2 or #4 setting on the trimmer whenever I get a haircut. Sometimes trim mustache with scissors between visits to barber.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 09:14 AM (XzVUd)

34 19
Where I go for dim sum, they know to just walk those duck tongues and chicken feet right past my table.

Yes, duck tongues.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 25, 2020 09:09 AM (EZebt)
---My wife is from the Toronto area. Across the street was a HUGE Chinese buffet, and a good portion of it was actual old-school Chinese food. I would force myself to try horrible-looking dish each time, and I never found a damned thing I liked. Cuttlefish, incidentally, tastes like an old mop smells. Same consistency, too.

The looks on the faces of the old Chinese guys was great, though.

Posted by: TheHoser at January 25, 2020 09:14 AM (IDjUx)

35 27 Guys, how often do you shave? That is, if you use a blade of any kind, the old safety razor method or even a straight. I find my whiskers are much more comfortable to plane off if I've gone 2 days between shaves. How about you?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

I just got rid of 8 weeks worth of beard.

First cut with scissors, then SEVERAL passes with razor.

I will NEVER do that again !
Posted by: JT at January 25, 2020 09:12 AM (arJlL)

I grew a beard starting in November. I haven't had one for about 25 years. Yeah I started early at 4.

Come Spring I'll shave it off. The way winter is going I'm guessing sometime between Flag Day and Independence Day

Posted by: Mosquitos The Size of Ravens at January 25, 2020 09:14 AM (aA3+G)

36 I've got a steaming pot of Guatemalan, and I am experimenting with CBD oil starting this weekend, for relentless hot flashes and bad sleep. Anyone out there using CBD products and have advice? . . .

Posted by: April at January 25, 2020

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I bought some CBD cream at a dispensary late last year, to try on the arthritis-like twinges I get at the base of my thumbs. Stuff smelled nice. No effect. I could probably use it to shave with, though.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:14 AM (DHNlU)

37 Off old sock yucky

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 25, 2020 09:15 AM (aA3+G)

38 Sen. Bernie Sanders leads the field of Democratic presidential candidates in Iowa, according to a new poll released Saturday.

25 percent, pick Sanders as their first choice in next month's caucuses.

That gives Sanders a 7-point lead over his closest competitor, former South Bend (Ind.) Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who is at 18 percent, roughly tied for second place with former Vice President Joe Biden at 17 percent and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts at 14 percent

I really want Comrade Bernie to win these caucuses and primaries and then the DNC step in and say, "Yeah, no we're still not giving you the nomination" and watch his lunatic supporters freak the fark out. A Dem civil war would be a thing of beauty

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 25, 2020 09:15 AM (rC3Hg)

39 April, I just started using the CBD oil as well. I've just grown very weary of living in constant pain and hoping this will ease my arthritis. Been on it for close to a week. She said it could take a few weeks. Let's keep each other posted on our progress. I've been using the ointment and it's wonderful. But I can't spread it all over my body lol!

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 25, 2020 09:16 AM (dUJdY)

40 16 DATELINE: Panera in the suburbs. It's sunny and 48 F

I read this as *PaneMA* and thought "gee, it gets chilly there" LOL

Posted by: Cheribebe at January 25, 2020 09:16 AM (a4qVe)

41 Hogmartin! How did the interview go?
Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 25, 2020 09:09 AM (/+bwe)

Well, for all I know, they could have another candidate who's a better fit for the position. It could be. Nothing I can do about it, if that's the case, and it would be irrational not to choose the best one.

But as for my part, I went out on that field and left none of my cards on the table, gave it 110% adjusted for inflation and just kept moving the goalposts down the court on a triple word score. My word as a Biden.

Posted by: hogmartin at January 25, 2020 09:16 AM (t+qrx)

42 18
Guys, how often do you shave? That is, if you use a blade of any kind,
the old safety razor method or even a straight. I find my whiskers are
much more comfortable to plane off if I've gone 2 days between shaves.
How about you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:09 AM (DHNlU)

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I don't care that I have stubble around my goatee (neither does my wife), so I only shave once a week. I have a really soft beard, so if I do it more often it just tears the hair out of my face. Can't use electrics, either.

Posted by: TheHoser at January 25, 2020 09:16 AM (IDjUx)

43 Minnesota story is actually kinda funny... if you think it's funny to leave sasquatch bait about.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2020 09:17 AM (1g7ch)

44 I really want Comrade Bernie to win these caucuses and primaries and then the DNC step in and say, "Yeah, no we're still not giving you the nomination" and watch his lunatic supporters freak the fark out. A Dem civil war would be a thing of beauty
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 25, 2020 09:15 AM (rC3Hg)
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As they say in the funny papers, "Hilarity ensues".

Posted by: Captain Obvious at January 25, 2020 09:17 AM (jW9oF)

45 "Wonder if they can screen for employees for diabetes, heart disease, and other issues too and fire them? "

Good of U-haul to want to reduce their health care costs.

Sickle cell is pretty expensive to treat.

Just sayin.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 25, 2020 09:17 AM (tT0V4)

46 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

47 Willowed:

Unless I change my mind at the last minute, which is always possible,

I'll be cooking -

Red Snapper Veracruz

with

Arroz Verde (that's green rice, y'all)

Using Diana Kennedy's recipes, which pretty much guarantee a perfect dish every time.

Assuming you follow the recipe.

No Instant Pot involved!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 25, 2020 09:17 AM (T+nBE)

48 That settles it. Nuke China. It's the only way to save the human species.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:17 AM (Zz0t1)

49 Last shave was Oct. '82.

Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2020 09:18 AM (X/Pw5)

50 41
But as for my part, I went out on that field and left none of my
cards on the table, gave it 110% adjusted for inflation and just kept
moving the goalposts down the court on a triple word score. My word as a
Biden.

Posted by: hogmartin at January 25, 2020 09:16 AM (t+qrx)

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I hope you kicked a touchdown, hogmartin. Fingers crossed.

Posted by: TheHoser at January 25, 2020 09:18 AM (IDjUx)

51 Good morning Jewells

Go Chiefs

Good morning to you and yes indeed!! Go Chiefs! One week to the Super Bowl!

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 25, 2020 09:18 AM (dUJdY)

52 My apologies to anyone here from MN, but it's been my experience that most of them are anything but nice, especially in the cities area.

Posted by: isolden at January 25, 2020 09:18 AM (dB99g)

53
I saw Massachusetts Serial Pooper open for the Butthole Surfer at the Cow Palace in '96.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 25, 2020 09:18 AM (T+nBE)

54 Guys, how often do you shave? That is, if you use a blade of any kind, the old safety razor method or even a straight.

every other day works for me- btw I am safety razor, soap and brush, the works
Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020

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I got into the old-fashioned way of shaving after I cut myself with an electric.

'Struth. I was shaving along with my Braun electric and felt a sting. Thought I had pulled a hair. Then I saw the thin scratch and the blood. Turned out a tiny bit of the metal foil had broken and was sticking up.

I played with a Norelco for a while, then went to a safety razor, and now like you do the brush, cream or soap, and 2-3 passes on the face about every 24-48 hours. I have a "Commander Riker" style beard, so I don't have much facial real estate to shave. But it feels good to be clean-shaven, and I'm saving a LOT of money over those expen$$ive cartridge razors.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:18 AM (DHNlU)

55 Guys, how often do you shave? That is, if you use a blade of any kind, the old safety razor method or even a straight. I find my whiskers are much more comfortable to plane off if I've gone 2 days between shaves. How about you?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:09 AM (DHNlU)

Every morning than again in the late afternoon if I have a hot date.

Safety razor, hot water and soap. Follow up with a nice skin balm like Gold Bond for that silky smooth finish.

More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 25, 2020 09:18 AM (Z+IKu)

56 Yeah, Wolfus, I' skeptical. If you believe everything you read, CBD is the miracle cure for everything from anxiety to the heartbreak of psoriasis.

Posted by: April at January 25, 2020 09:19 AM (OX9vb)

57 CBD is just like the lottery. You would be better off giving me that money.

Posted by: Snake Oil Salesman at January 25, 2020 09:19 AM (/LQkF)

58 Speaking of interviews, I did a video interview with Amazon, wherein they sent me a list of questions and I recorded the answers.

A week later, they sent me an email, "oops, would you mind doing your interview again? We sent you the wrong questions."

I declined to do their video assessment again. I don't need the job that badly and if their HR department makes that kind of mistake, I don't think it bodes well for the future.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 25, 2020 09:19 AM (WEBkv)

59 I really want Comrade Bernie to win these caucuses and primaries and then the DNC step in and say, "Yeah, no we're still not giving you the nomination" and watch his lunatic supporters freak the fark out. A Dem civil war would be a thing of beauty
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 25, 2020 09:15 AM (rC3Hg)

I really want him to go away. I'm not wishing anyone physical ailments or harm, but a vast majority of conservatives don't want to kill anyone, but if Bernie gets screwed again, there will be blood. And the 'Bro's won't like who's it is.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:20 AM (Zz0t1)

60 Just got an SEO offer from Broke Shields. That's almost funny enough to answer.

Posted by: TheHoser at January 25, 2020 09:20 AM (IDjUx)

61 You would be better off giving me that money.

Not true. The ointment has worked great for me. Jury is still out on the oil as I said.

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 25, 2020 09:20 AM (dUJdY)

62 >My apologies to anyone here from MN, but it's been my experience that most of them are anything but nice, especially in the cities area.
Posted by: isolden

uh oh

Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 09:20 AM (iTXRQ)

63 52 My apologies to anyone here from MN, but it's been my experience that most of them are anything but nice, especially in the cities area.
Posted by: isolden at January 25, 2020 09:18 AM (dB99g)

I spent the better part of 3 days in downtown Minnehopeolis this past week.

What a freaking zoo.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 25, 2020 09:21 AM (aA3+G)

64 I guess Schiff-for Brains has managed to piss off more Senators with his 'Head on a pike' accusation.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 25, 2020 09:21 AM (tT0V4)

65 Yeah, Wolfus, I' skeptical. If you believe everything you read, CBD is the miracle cure for everything from anxiety to the heartbreak of psoriasis.
Posted by: April at January 25, 2020 09:19 AM (OX9vb)

The only thing CBD does (not the cob) is mask pain by numbing / deadening nerves. Period.

It cures nothing. It only masks.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

66 Serial pooper would fit right in at San Fran!

Shaving? I am either blessed or cursed. I couldn't grow a beard if allah demanded it. At 49 I keep a smooth face shaving once a week.

Posted by: Horus Hearsay at January 25, 2020 09:21 AM (DB16e)

67 Blake, you don't want to work for Amazon.

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 25, 2020 09:21 AM (dUJdY)

68 I shave daily.

Mainly because I am unable to really grow a beard and if I let it go, it looks really bad.

Though, it does remind me of how foolish I was when I was a young man, because I wanted to start shaving, like a grown up.

Now that it's a daily chore, no thanks.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 25, 2020 09:21 AM (WEBkv)

69 Heads on a pike!! Get your heads on a pike here!!! How about you little lady, can I get you a head on a pike?

Posted by: Muad'dib at January 25, 2020 09:21 AM (MHHCZ)

70 Morning Horde.

Dateline: China
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has held a special government meeting on the Lunar New Year public holiday to warn that the spread of a deadly new virus is "accelerating".

The country is facing a "grave situation" Mr Xi told senior officials, according to state television.
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The President of China is admitting its a "grave" situation? That's just great.

Posted by: WisRich at January 25, 2020 09:21 AM (OAlmw)

71 Every morning than again in the late afternoon if I have a hot date.

Safety razor, hot water and soap. Follow up with a nice skin balm like Gold Bond for that silky smooth finish.

More coffee.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 25, 2020

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I hit the cheeks, lower lip, and throat with Clubman Pinaud talc, you know, the stuff that makes a barbershop smell like a barbershop. Smooths everything out and reduces any irritation. That stays on while I have breakfast, then I rinse it off and spray on the cologne.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:21 AM (DHNlU)

72 But I can't spread it all over my body lol!
Posted by: Jewells45 at January 25, 2020 09:16 AM (dUJdY)

Deal!

You know you're just asking for it, posting a comment like that.

Posted by: April at January 25, 2020 09:22 AM (OX9vb)

73 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:18 AM (DHNlU)
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Do you frequent Daily Timewaster? He'll often post the Shave of the Day, showing the soap, brush and razor used. He has a very nice collection of straight razors, both new and vintage.

Posted by: Captain Obvious at January 25, 2020 09:22 AM (jW9oF)

74 Jewells, did you see my travel update on the Chiefs yesterday?

Posted by: Muad'dib at January 25, 2020 09:22 AM (MHHCZ)

75 I am watching the Tata Steel chess tournament and Fabiana Caruana's opponent has inexplicably run more than 40 minutes off his clock for the next move. I'm wondering if he's got locked in the bathroom or something.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 09:22 AM (XzVUd)

76
I've got a steaming pot of Guatemalan

I find Guatemalans awfully gamey.

I prefer Nicaraguans and have a nice one dry-aging in the garage. Better even than hobo.

Maybe I'll make Nicaraguan Shank Chili today.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 25, 2020 09:22 AM (T+nBE)

77 I shave every other day.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 25, 2020 09:23 AM (wIvHX)

78 I hit the cheeks, lower lip, and throat with Clubman Pinaud talc, you know, the stuff that makes a barbershop smell like a barbershop.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:21 AM (DHNlU)

I thought that was Stephan 320 astringent.

*discreetly tries to smell his own neck*

Posted by: hogmartin at January 25, 2020 09:23 AM (t+qrx)

79 Oi!

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 25, 2020 09:23 AM (7Fj9P)

80 am experimenting with CBD oil starting this weekend, for relentless hot flashes and bad sleep. Anyone out there using CBD products and have advice?

I tried the CBD gummies my granddaughter bought for my wife after she decided she didn't like the taste of them. I took them for the inflammation in my back and they seemed to work for me. But they are pricey...about a buck per gummy, I think.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at January 25, 2020 09:24 AM (6bGcD)

81 Shaving: Two or three times a week, now that I'm retired (one year ago). I shaved every work day. Now, I don't care about having a two or three day stubble when going to the store, or a movie, or a restaurant. I look pretty scraggly if I let it grow four days.

Posted by: Gref at January 25, 2020 09:24 AM (AMIL/)

82 I told you about the Year of the Rat. Did't I tell you? Yes, I told you. And now we have bubonic plague spreading around the world. Disguised as pneumonia.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:24 AM (zr5Kq)

83 The country is facing a "grave situation" Mr Xi told senior officials, according to state television.
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The President of China is admitting its a "grave" situation? That's just great.
Posted by: WisRich at January 25, 2020 09:21 AM (OAlmw)

It seems their biological warfare experiment has gone horribly, horribly wrong.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

84 He just made a move. 41 minutes and the engine evaluation of his position dropped by 1.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 09:24 AM (XzVUd)

85 Jewells, did you see my travel update on the Chiefs yesterday?

No! I missed it!

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 25, 2020 09:25 AM (dUJdY)

86 The President of China is admitting its a "grave" situation? That's just great.
Posted by: WisRich at January 25, 2020 09:21 AM (OAlmw)
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"Ask for me tomorrow, and you will find me a grave man."
-Mercutio, after being mirtally wounded

Posted by: Captain Obvious at January 25, 2020 09:25 AM (jW9oF)

87 But as for my part, I went out on that field and left none of my cards on the table, gave it 110% adjusted for inflation and just kept moving the goalposts down the court on a triple word score. My word as a Biden.
Posted by: hogmartin at January 25, 2020 09:16 AM (t+qrx)

Between this and your other reply, my sinuses are painfully clear and I had to wipe coffee from myself. Will change before I run errands...

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 25, 2020 09:25 AM (/+bwe)

88 The only thing CBD does (not the cob) is mask pain by numbing / deadening nerves. Period.

It cures nothing. It only masks.
Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020

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I'd be glad of a little masking of these twinges. I'm fine most of the time, but when I pinch thumb and forefinger together, especially on the left hand, to open a package or to hold something tightly, I get a "Hey! Man! You're usin' us too much!"

Naproxen and ibuprofen help a little. Tylenol works a bit better, but I've read about its effect on the liver, and since I have but one of those, I'm cautious.

It's minor. I thought the CBD cream might help. Maybe I didn't use it long enough.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:25 AM (DHNlU)

89 i can't find a good mug. & mugs are expensive.

Posted by: mjc at January 25, 2020 09:25 AM (Pg+x7)

90 It seems their biological warfare experiment has gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

I think it's their bad, horrible hygiene.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:26 AM (zr5Kq)

91 This China situation is getting more and more fishy.

Posted by: davidt at January 25, 2020 09:26 AM (l3+k2)

92 Hogmartin @ 17:
"Wheek!"

Screen cleaner, please.

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 09:26 AM (XxJt1)

93 The President of China is admitting its a "grave" situation? That's just great.
Posted by: WisRich at January 25, 2020 09:21 AM (OAlmw)

But has it reached "mass grave" yet?

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2020 09:26 AM (1g7ch)

94 Didn't they find the epicenter to be some fish market ?

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:26 AM (zr5Kq)

95 and guys try an alum block instead of styptic pencil

Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 09:26 AM (iTXRQ)

96 Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 25, 2020 09:19 AM (WEBkv)

Unless you're in the computer/administrative end-and even then that can be very stressful if you have to hound the employees all the time-do not work for Amazon if you are older. My husband worked there for two months-worked his backside off. You have to meet quotas that go up all the time, and the pace is unrelenting. He went to work there for the benefits but it was quite obvious that they hired older workers merely to say that they did. so but when they couldn't keep up a pace that even some younger workers struggled with all the older workers got fired.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2020 09:27 AM (WI7YS)

97 Jewells, my best friend is a captain for United. He was picked to fly the 767-400 that will take the Chiefs from KC to the Super Bowl. He is very excited!

Posted by: Muad'dib at January 25, 2020 09:27 AM (MHHCZ)

98 Do you frequent Daily Timewaster? He'll often post the Shave of the Day, showing the soap, brush and razor used. He has a very nice collection of straight razors, both new and vintage.
Posted by: Captain Obvious at January 25, 2020

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I'll have to look. I was frequenting Badger and Blade, and found myself buying more soaps and more vintage razors than I needed. So much for saving money by shaving 1950s style.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:27 AM (DHNlU)

99 This China situation is getting more and more fishy.
Posted by: davidt at January 25, 2020 09:26 AM (l3+k2)
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I thought it was snaky. Or was it batty? Signals keep changing.

Posted by: Captain Obvious at January 25, 2020 09:27 AM (jW9oF)

100 65 The only thing CBD does (not the cob) is mask pain by numbing / deadening nerves. Period.

Well, to be fair, that's all any other pain cream does, too, right? Even prescription diclofenac.

Posted by: April at January 25, 2020 09:28 AM (OX9vb)

101 Naproxen and ibuprofen help a little. Tylenol works a bit better, but I've read about its effect on the liver, and since I have but one of those, I'm cautious.

It's minor. I thought the CBD cream might help. Maybe I didn't use it long enough.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:25 AM (DHNlU)

I tried a cream recommended by a friend for joint pain in my fingers/hands.

It did very little, if anything. It mainly just made my skin feel funky.

I, too, may've not used it long enough, but initial thoughts were not impressed.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:28 AM (Zz0t1)

102 in the previous thread i said it was outrageous that nadler and schiff called trump a dictator and russian asset.

sorry for going on a wild rant so early in the morning.

Posted by: mjc at January 25, 2020 09:28 AM (Pg+x7)

103 93 But has it reached "mass grave" yet?

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2020 09:26 AM (1g7ch)

Mass panic.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 09:28 AM (XzVUd)

104 Jewells, my best friend is a captain for United. He was picked to fly the 767-400 that will take the Chiefs from KC to the Super Bowl. He is very excited!

Oh wow that's awesome!!

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 25, 2020 09:29 AM (dUJdY)

105 Well, to be fair, that's all any other pain cream does, too, right? Even prescription diclofenac.
Posted by: April at January 25, 2020 09:28 AM (OX9vb)

Yes. This is rated as true.

It's just that they're pushing it as "a cure for all that ails you."

No cure. Only cover up.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:29 AM (Zz0t1)

106 This, "Heads on pikes," thing sounds fishy, too.

Posted by: davidt at January 25, 2020 09:29 AM (l3+k2)

107 'Ready To Move On': David Axelrod Says Focus Group Of Democrats Didn't Care About Impeachment

"I was in a focus group this morning for the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago with Chicago Democratic voters and it was chilling to hear them talk about this because impeachment didn't even come up,"

Don't worry Schifty E. Coyote will order some new evidence from ACME and get Trump this time

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 25, 2020 09:29 AM (rC3Hg)

108 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2020 09:27 AM (WI7YS)
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Actually, the job is on the IT side of the house for a new facility being built in my area. I thought it might be interesting but, this kind of mistake during the hiring process, plus some of the crap I've heard about Amazon, leads me to believe I'm better off going another direction.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 25, 2020 09:30 AM (WEBkv)

109 i have the flu. not the carnovirus. just the ordinary, run of the mill variety. but it's knocked me down a bit.

Posted by: mjc at January 25, 2020 09:30 AM (Pg+x7)

110 Didn't they find the epicenter to be some fish market ?
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:26 AM (zr5Kq)

Then they said it was from snakes. Now they're suggesting it's from bats.

It's China. They'll never admit it was a biological weapon released in testing and got out of hand.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

111 I was using the Harry's Shave Club for over two years.

Delighted with the products.

Then they went SJW on us with their donations to their causes.

I dropped 'em.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 25, 2020 09:30 AM (tT0V4)

112 106 This, "Heads on pikes," thing sounds fishy, too.
Posted by: davidt at January 25, 2020 09:29 AM (l3+k2)
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I called bullsh*t on it as soon as I heard it. Went to read the stories and not one named source.

Posted by: WisRich at January 25, 2020 09:31 AM (OAlmw)

113 CBD ointment. Apply 2 or 3 times a day initially. After you apply it you need to stay still. If you put it on your knee then run around all over the place it won't work. Put it on, relax for 15 minutes. Do this 3 times a day until you are able to actually pare it down to once a day as I did with my foot.

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 25, 2020 09:31 AM (dUJdY)

114 "I was in a focus group this morning for the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago with Chicago Democratic voters and it was chilling to hear them talk about this because impeachment didn't even come up,"

In Chicago. This alone should tell them something. But TDS is strong and fatal. There is no cure.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:31 AM (zr5Kq)

115 After 22 years of his shaving, except on vacations, I am loving the full beard my husband grew. The tiny scruff on the boy/man not so much. I gave him an electric razor for Christmas to take care of it.

Posted by: no good deed at January 25, 2020 09:31 AM (MmFTx)

116 I was using the Harry's Shave Club for over two years.

Delighted with the products.

Then they went SJW on us with their donations to their causes.

I dropped 'em.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice

Did they change it to"Barry's Shave Club " ?

Posted by: JT at January 25, 2020 09:32 AM (arJlL)

117 People who try to commit suicide -- don't attempt to save them!... China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.

Posted by: Zombie Mao Zedong at January 25, 2020 09:32 AM (Z+IKu)

118 >
Then they said it was from snakes. Now they're suggesting it's from bats.

It's China. They'll never admit it was a biological weapon released in testing and got out of hand.
Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020

I heard it was from otters. Surprise!!

Posted by: Muad'dib at January 25, 2020 09:32 AM (MHHCZ)

119 'Ready To Move On': David Axelrod Says Focus Group Of Democrats Didn't Care About Impeachment

"I was in a focus group this morning for the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago with Chicago Democratic voters and it was chilling to hear them talk about this because impeachment didn't even come up,"

"Chilling" because Americans know the impeachment is a sham and Democrats are embarrassing the fuck out of themselves.

Fuck you, Axlerod. With a mace.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

120 Sponge, CBD does cure some things. It completely removed a brown spot the size of a quarter from the back of my left hand (along with half a dozen smaller ones) and snapped my skin back after losing a hundred pounds.

I don't know about the internal affects of CBD, but for the outside of the body it's the bomb.

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 09:32 AM (XxJt1)

121 It seems their biological warfare experiment has gone horribly, horribly wrong.
Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:24 AM (Zz0t1)

Still not tired of winning.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 25, 2020 09:32 AM (y7DUB)

122 try Classic Shaving dot com
or Amazon- they have shit-tons of wet shave products

Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 09:32 AM (iTXRQ)

123 t's China. They'll never admit it was a biological weapon released in testing and got out of hand.
Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

Yes, sure. They never do. Like Russia. But bio weapon that is not very potent ?

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:32 AM (zr5Kq)

124 ... chills, congested, weakfish, tired.

flu.

Posted by: mjc at January 25, 2020 09:32 AM (Pg+x7)

125 I was using the Harry's Shave Club for over two years.

Delighted with the products.

Then they went SJW on us with their donations to their causes.

I dropped 'em.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 25, 2020

*
*

As I have Gillette after their anti-male and "woke" ads. I use vintage Gillette razors, but that doesn't put any money in their pockets, and I avoid Procter and Gamble products where I can. I skip Gillette razor blades too; there are plenty of other manufacturers (Personna, Derby, Feather from Japan) with excellent blades.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:33 AM (DHNlU)

126 weakish not weakfish (huh, splchk?)

Posted by: mjc at January 25, 2020 09:33 AM (Pg+x7)

127 Bats, snakes. WHo the heck knows what they eat.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:34 AM (zr5Kq)

128 Jewells- weren't you supposed to get nekkid and post pics if the Chiefs won ?

And STAY nekkid all year of they won the Supe ?

Posted by: JT at January 25, 2020 09:34 AM (arJlL)

129 I was using the Harry's Shave Club for over two years.

Delighted with the products.

Then they went SJW on us with their donations to their causes.

I dropped 'em.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at January 25, 2020 09:30 AM (tT0V4)

I don't shave much, but the wife and kid do. We're Dollar Shave Club patrons.

We have NO issues with their razors or the price. And they're very accommodating when we need to change the frequency of delivery, too.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:34 AM (Zz0t1)

130 The only thing CBD does (not the cob) is mask pain by numbing / deadening nerves. Period.

It cures nothing. It only masks.
Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:21 AM (Zz0t1)

Duh! So as I kind of implied about the CBD gummies, they/the oil acts as an inflammation drug, same as, say, Ibuprofen or Tramadol, ect., but maybe without the side effects associated with those drugs.

Disclaimer...I am not a doctor. But I have experience with the above mentioned medicines.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at January 25, 2020 09:34 AM (6bGcD)

131 The only thing CBD does (not the cob) is mask pain by numbing / deadening nerves. Period.

Well, to be fair, that's all any other pain cream does, too, right? Even prescription diclofenac.
Posted by: April at January 25, 2020 09:28 AM (OX9vb)

Well, diclofenac's an anti-inflammatory. (NSAID)

And a rather powerful one, so you're also keeping the inflammation down which helps minimize the arthritic damage.

Like the pain upon pinching with thumb and forefinger could be thumb arthritis. Not going away without the surgery, but maybe you can live with it on diclofenac ointment.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 25, 2020 09:35 AM (T+nBE)

132 Dems are pandering to their base with crazy accusations. The scary thing is how organized they are and how well they are bankrolled.

Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 09:35 AM (11H2y)

133 CBD ointment. Apply 2 or 3 times a day initially. After you apply it you need to stay still. If you put it on your knee then run around all over the place it won't work. Put it on, relax for 15 minutes. Do this 3 times a day until you are able to actually pare it down to once a day as I did with my foot.
Posted by: Jewells45 at January 25, 2020

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*

Maybe I should try putting it on before I go to bed. In the morning and afternoon, I'm using my hands too much for "quiet time."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:35 AM (DHNlU)

134 I don't know about the internal affects of CBD, but for the outside of the body it's the bomb.
Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 09:32 AM (XxJt1)
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Hmmm. I've got chronic inflammation of the tendons at the base of my thumbs. I may have to give it a go.

Posted by: Captain Obvious at January 25, 2020 09:35 AM (jW9oF)

135 Yes, sure. They never do. Like Russia. But bio weapon that is not very potent ?
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:32 AM (zr5Kq)

Sometimes, it's only the delivery system. That shit appears to be spreading like wildfire.

May not be killer, this time.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

136 Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 25, 2020 09:30 AM (WEBkv)

Well, I couldn't speak the IT side of it, but it is unfortunate that they got things so messed up initially.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2020 09:35 AM (WI7YS)

137 Like Insty says this morning, it's telling that the Dems aren't organizing watching parties for the impeachment hearings.

Posted by: davidt at January 25, 2020 09:36 AM (l3+k2)

138 Hong Kong leader declares citywide virus emergency over coronavirus, first cases appear in Australia

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam on Saturday declared a virus emergency in the city of 7.3 million, extending school cancellations until February 17 and canceling all official visits to mainland China.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 25, 2020 09:36 AM (rC3Hg)

139 Disclaimer...I am not a doctor. But I have experience with the above mentioned medicines.
Posted by: Traveling Man&&&&

Do ya play one on tv ?

Posted by: JT at January 25, 2020 09:36 AM (arJlL)

140 Wash your hands with soap.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:36 AM (zr5Kq)

141 Dems are pandering to their base with crazy accusations. The scary thing is how organized they are and how well they are bankrolled.
Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 09:35 AM (11H2y)

The left has a lot of billionaires.

Their motto is "a billion for me, but not for thee."

They don't WANT a strong American economy because their small group becomes watered down.

We can't have the plebeians acquiring wealth, now can we.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

142 CBD is the new Laetrile.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 25, 2020 09:37 AM (sGotD)

143 On the U-Haul article. The owner lost a friend to lung cancer and his grief has made him a little crazy. I am not saying his policy is right. In fact, I think it is ridiculous. It is legal in 21 states to discriminate this way. When did that become a thing?

Also, I think they do penalize for being overweight.

Posted by: Quirky bookworm at January 25, 2020 09:37 AM (EbJ6H)

144 JT, I never promised pics

All year?? Are you nuts?

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 25, 2020 09:37 AM (dUJdY)

145 I don't know about the internal affects of CBD, but for the outside of the body it's the bomb.
Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 09:32 AM (XxJt1)
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Hmmm. I've got chronic inflammation of the tendons at the base of my thumbs. I may have to give it a go.
Posted by: Captain Obvious at January 25, 2020

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*

Well, the stuff I bought is still in my medicine cabinet. I could try it before my nap this afternoon, and every night just before bed.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:37 AM (DHNlU)

146 *raises holiday cup from Rod's Coffee Donuts/Gas Station, who apparently hasn't run out of them yet*
Posted by: TheHoser at January 25, 2020 09:11 AM

Dude.

Posted by: Tim Horton's at January 25, 2020 09:37 AM (qUYRk)

147 The commies are trying to oust the President and spread disease all over the world and you want to talk about shaving???

Ok.

Car wreck in '78 left me with a scar across my chin, which I can but don't like to shave, so I just had a goatee since then, the chin hairs looking a bit lonely without a mustache.

Been letting the face grow out for the winter. My cheeks hair is thin and doesn't look like much until it gets long, then I have a passable gray beard. (WHY does the neck hair grow back so fast?)

The mustache is usually trimmed, but I've been letting it grow, and it's at that point where it's not yet easy to brush to the sides, so it hangs like a soup strainer a lot.

Now about these hairs in my nose and ears...

*creak* *groan* Being over 29 isn't for the faint of heart.

Posted by: mindful webworker - hair today, gone tomorrow at January 25, 2020 09:37 AM (0mP7b)

148 Is cbd cannabis?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 25, 2020 09:38 AM (PUmDY)

149 I just got rid of 8 weeks worth of beard.

First cut with scissors, then SEVERAL passes with razor.

I will NEVER do that again !

Posted by: JT at January 25, 2020 09:12 AM (arJlL)

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I've got a hell of a leave beard going. Haven't shaved since the first weekend of December.

I've got a clipper that will make short work of it and then a single blade disposable will sacrifice its life to reduced the stubble to something easier to manage.

When I was in high school I grew a long beard the spring of my senior year just to see what it would look like. Still had it when I got my drivers license photo taken.

To shave it off, I had to use grass shears since our household scissors weren't up to the task.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:38 AM (cfSRQ)

150 135 That shit appears to be spreading like wildfire.

No. Just misinformation.

Try this:

https://tinyurl.com/ua87xh6

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 09:38 AM (XzVUd)

151 Is cbd cannabis?

Derivative.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:38 AM (zr5Kq)

152 Awright, folk, time to run off to the barber. Later!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 25, 2020 09:38 AM (DHNlU)

153 28,578-page trial record

-
Your tax dollars at work.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 09:38 AM (+y/Ru)

154 Wash your hands with soap.
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:36 AM (zr5Kq)

Was at work the other day and overheard a contractor dude say he didn't wash his hands with soap and only used water. When asked why, he said "they say that soaps only get 99% of germs. What's in that 1%?"

So, let me get this straight. You won't kill 99% because of 1%? So just let all 100% run roughshod?

You, sir, are why tigers occasionally eat their young.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

155 To shave it off, I had to use grass shears since our household scissors weren't up to the task.

Wow, did you raid a village before you shaved it off?

Posted by: no good deed at January 25, 2020 09:39 AM (MmFTx)

156 144
JT, I never promised pics

All year?? Are you nuts?

It's pretty easy. We can just replace the banner for the site.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 09:39 AM (XzVUd)

157 Or at least hot chocolate and a cinnamon bagel time

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 09:40 AM (ZCEU2)

158 142
CBD is the new Laetrile.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 25, 2020 09:37 AM (sGotD)

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oooh, nice.

I disagree only insofar as it has helped my wife. It's an anti-inflammatory and if your pain is from nerves rather than inflammation, it's useless.

But hers comes from inflammation and it works great - similar to motrin but that tears up her stomach. She's much more active since she started using it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:40 AM (cfSRQ)

159 Jewells, thanks for the advice on CBD for pain. I never tried that and have an ankle that's just begging for it. Will give it a whirl.

It took six months for CBD to get rid of that big spot on my hand. But the spot started to shrink noticeably after a week of applying it. Time must be a crucial ingredient in its efficacy.

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 09:40 AM (XxJt1)

160 No. Just misinformation.

Try this:

https://tinyurl.com/ua87xh6

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 09:38 AM (XzVUd)

It's China investigating China.

I trust none of it.

I'd rather wildly speculate and conspiracy theorize because it's CHINA and we should be VERY VERY wary of info they release.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

161 It's bewildering how many marginal personalities are drawn to those lefty billionaires' schemes, though. maybe they think that gets them a seat at the Grownups table..

Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 09:41 AM (11H2y)

162 Now about these hairs in my nose and ears...

*creak* *groan* Being over 29 isn't for the faint of heart.
Posted by: mindful webworker - hair today, gone tomorrow at January 25, 2020 09:37 AM (0mP7b)
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Eh, just braid it with little beads and be done with it.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 25, 2020 09:41 AM (WEBkv)

163 JT, I never promised pics

All year?? Are you nuts?
Posted by: Jewells45

Awwwwww........you'll get used to it !

Posted by: JT at January 25, 2020 09:41 AM (arJlL)

164 Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 09:38 AM (XzVUd)

Thanks. I kinda thought that is what happened. Based on what i"ve read so far.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:41 AM (zr5Kq)

165 >>Is cbd cannabis?

negative

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2020 09:41 AM (ZLI7S)

166

Damn, the global warming is really starting to come down now. Looks like I'll be shoveling this afternoon

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 25, 2020 09:42 AM (rC3Hg)

167 Academic who left China because of socialism now running in Florida for the Congressional HOR. He's running on the Republican ticket and against socialism:

https://tinyurl.com/vgsnszu

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2020 09:42 AM (WI7YS)

168 Was at work the other day and overheard a contractor
dude say he didn't wash his hands with soap and only used water. When
asked why, he said "they say that soaps only get 99% of germs. What's
in that 1%?"

So, let me get this straight. You won't kill 99% because of 1%? So just let all 100% run roughshod?

You, sir, are why tigers occasionally eat their young.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

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This isn't as dumb as it sounds.

If you only can kill 99 percent, that remaining 1 percent has all the terrain to itself, so it can multiply freely - and it's the hardest one to kill.

It's why hospitals are breeding grounds for antibiotic resistant bacteria - some bacteria's got to be there because nature abhors a vacuum, so the stuff that survives flourishes.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:42 AM (cfSRQ)

169 I saw Massachusetts Serial Pooper open for the Butthole Surfer at the Cow Palace in '96.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 25, 2020 09:18 AM

Heh. I was laughing at that when I heard it on the radio last night. Used to live about 500 yds from the scene of the, um, crime, when I was a very small RMBS.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 25, 2020 09:43 AM (rBtIz)

170 The Gunflint Trail is no place to get lost in the dead of winter. Those Carolinians are lucky to be alive.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 25, 2020 09:43 AM (6k4hZ)

171 Was at work the other day and overheard a contractor dude say he didn't wash his hands with soap and only used water. When asked why, he said "they say that soaps only get 99% of germs. What's in that 1%?"

So, let me get this straight. You won't kill 99% because of 1%? So just let all 100% run roughshod?

You, sir, are why tigers occasionally eat their young.
Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)

That's disgusting.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:43 AM (zr5Kq)

172 If you just smoke a bunch of weed every day you'll forget that you even have pain, and every thing else

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 25, 2020 09:44 AM (fmexF)

173
Wow, did you raid a village before you shaved it off?

Posted by: no good deed at January 25, 2020 09:39 AM (MmFTx)

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No, but our spring musical was about Robin Hood, and I was a Sheriff's Man. Is that close enough?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:44 AM (cfSRQ)

174 On aches and pains and CBD. Topical cream works well for me for occasional pain. I take the oil, too, although it mostly helps me sleep; I haven't noticed any difference on aches and pains.

Best thing I've found for aches and pains in turmeric/curcumin pills. Also seems to help my blood pressure, FWIW.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at January 25, 2020 09:44 AM (fTtFy)

175 Never promised you a rose garden.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 25, 2020 09:44 AM (PUmDY)

176 JT - I'm guessing only the neighborhood gets the show

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 09:44 AM (ZCEU2)

177 Welp, Trump keeps buzzing through the Obambi regulatory crap like a chainsaw through butter. He repealed the Waters of the US act. (WOTUS). This would have placed a ridiculous regulatory burden on (in particular, but NOT limited to) farmers and energy companies. (I'm sure windmills and solar farms had iron clad exemptions). He ran on this; and it's a huge win for Ag and Energy. This is exactly the kind of stuff RiNOs would ignore, thereby tacitly endorsing. Even Reagan would have licked his finger, tested the political winds and done...NOTHING.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 25, 2020 09:45 AM (7Fj9P)

178 Do ya play one on tv ?
Posted by: JT at January 25, 2020 09:36 AM (arJlL

Nah, hell, I didn't even stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at January 25, 2020 09:45 AM (6bGcD)

179 You know you're just asking for it, posting a comment like that.
Posted by: April at January 25, 2020 09:22 AM

Surely you're not suggesting that The Horde would take advantage in any way of an innocent typo or remark?

That would be ... cynical.

Posted by: Duncanthrax The Mirthful at January 25, 2020 09:46 AM (zvl8Y)

180 awaiting the start of the Senate trial. What are the chances the Dems:

-get up & leave during it either in a body or one by one to distract the defense/draw the cameras

-arrange for demonstrators to disrupt the proceedings by yelling or holding up signs

-Senators themselves yell 'you lie" or "not true" or "Traitor" or some such bullshit

Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 09:46 AM (11H2y)

181 Cosmic Charlie, it's one component. There's a whole string of them...CBD, CBDV, CBG, CBC, CBN and, of course, THC...the one that gets you stoned. The pharmacology of cannabis is actually very impressive.

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 09:46 AM (XxJt1)

182 Morning.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 09:46 AM (NWiLs)

183 >>> Morning.
~~~~~

Yes.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 25, 2020 09:46 AM (sGotD)

184 >>> 89 i can't find a good mug. & mugs are expensive.
Posted by: mjc at January 25, 2020 09:25 AM (Pg+x7)

Try here:
https://www.blackriflecoffee.com/ collections/mugs

...or here:
https:// www.deathwishcoffee.com/ collections/ death-wish-merchandise/ mug-collection

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 25, 2020 09:46 AM (0ReGO)

185 It's why hospitals are breeding grounds for antibiotic resistant bacteria - some bacteria's got to be there because nature abhors a vacuum, so the stuff that survives flourishes.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:42 AM (cfSRQ)

I'll take my chances and keep washing my hands with soap.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

186 183 >>> Morning.
~~~~~

Yes.
Posted by: IrishEi at January 25, 2020 09:46 AM (sGotD)

Nailed it!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 09:47 AM (NWiLs)

187 No, but our spring musical was about Robin Hood, and I was a Sheriff's Man.

Ha! Good enough.

Posted by: no good deed at January 25, 2020 09:47 AM (MmFTx)

188 I managed to get my Mexican grandfather's beard genes.

So no great beard growing available to me.

The best I can manage is one of those right along the jawline dealios that link up with sideburns and connect at the other end to a sort of "devil's beard"/Van Dyke thing.

The weirdest thing is that my whiskers grow out in all different colors - red (not a ginger), black, brown, blonde, white, grey.

I believe the cosmos is telling me...don't grow a beard.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 25, 2020 09:47 AM (T+nBE)

189 Morning.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 09:46 AM (NWiLs)

That it is for this part of the world. That it is.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)

190 Kung Flu killing only a few score would be disinformation (if true) as that number would not rise above statistical noise in a country of a billion +/-.

The entire Kung Flu story could be disinformation... but not with admitted very large quarantines.

UNLESS... China wants to sow chaos with the threat of a pandemic.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2020 09:47 AM (1g7ch)

191 Ah, The Brown Ring of Quality

Posted by: Kindltot at January 25, 2020 09:48 AM (6rS3m)

192 I have some oxy left over from a recent trip to the oral surgeon
it's very nice
but they don't carry it at Walgreen's

Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 09:48 AM (iTXRQ)

193 Well, I couldn't speak the IT side of it, but it is unfortunate that they got things so messed up initially.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 25, 2020 09:35 AM (WI7YS)
----------------

Well, I've yet to receive a response from declining the interview. I'm sort of looking forward to what they have to say. The gal I had been dealing with was gone by the time I was able to reply.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 25, 2020 09:48 AM (WEBkv)

194 Bacon wanted revenge

Without reading the story, or even hovering over the link -- Let me guess, this is a pig bites man tale?

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 25, 2020 09:48 AM (Z4rgH)

195 Best thing I've found for aches and pains in turmeric/curcumin pills. Also seems to help my blood pressure, FWIW.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at January 25, 2020 09:44 AM (fTtFy)

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I do this as well. I haven't noticed much of a difference, though it seems to help with weight loss and digestion.

Honestly losing weight helped me a lot. I was started to get high blood pressure and dropping a few pounds put me back at "theoretic optimum" levels I used to enjoy.

Visit to cardiologist after my "cardiac event" in September left them quite happy. Nurse told me they rarely get to give people good news but I was one of them. No damage, minimal risk, full recovery, come back in a year.

So I have that going for me, which is nice.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:48 AM (cfSRQ)

196 Speaking of mugs... I purchased a beautiful Sowell Train mug from SooperMexican. I use it every day

Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 25, 2020 09:48 AM (6k4hZ)

197 Splat!, uh, I meaning Boeing, is test flying a new big ass airliner, the 777, that is so big it must have folding wings to fit through through airport gates.

https://bit.ly/2tOMCI1

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 09:49 AM (+y/Ru)

198 From American Thinker - Interesting things are happening in Iran; Gunmen in Iran shot dead a commander of the hardline Basij militia who was an ally of Qassem Soleimani.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 09:49 AM (ZCEU2)

199 No, but our spring musical was about Robin Hood, and I was a Sheriff's Man. Is that close enough?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:44 AM

For some reason, the position of Sheriff of Nottingham has been vacant IRL for some years.

Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at January 25, 2020 09:49 AM (ajLi/)

200 Cosmic Charlie, it's one component. There's a whole string of them...CBD, CBDV, CBG, CBC, CBN and, of course, THC...the one that gets you stoned. The pharmacology of cannabis is actually very impressive.
Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 09:46 AM (XxJt1)

And it's been around for centuries. They found some prehistoric dude frozen in a glacier somewhere and he had a pouch of some sort and in it was cannabis.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

201 Men more emotional than women at work?

Someone give this bitch writer a Midol.

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 25, 2020 09:50 AM (Z4rgH)

202 I managed to get my Mexican grandfather's beard genes.

So no great beard growing available to me.
===

I think it's a latin thing. I've seen Italian men with...similar beard generation problem.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:50 AM (zr5Kq)

203 Without reading the story, or even hovering over the link -- Let me guess, this is a pig bites man tale?
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 25, 2020 09:48 AM (Z4rgH)

Yes.

Human bones found on pig farm suspected to be missing farmer.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:50 AM (Zz0t1)

204 168 Uh, no - I'll take things no one ever said in Microbiology class for $200 Alex

Posted by: rammajamma at January 25, 2020 09:51 AM (SwWMX)

205 160 I'd rather wildly speculate and conspiracy theorize because it's CHINA and we should be VERY VERY wary of info they release.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

You might at least check a couple of reputable outlets to see if they have any interest in your theories. The Epoch Times is good. They hate the CCP.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 09:51 AM (XzVUd)

206 >He repealed the Waters of the US act.

is that the one where if you were a farmer and some heavy rains created an ephemeral pond on your land, that pond became 'protected waters' ?

Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 09:51 AM (iTXRQ)

207 runner, what you standing there for?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 25, 2020 09:51 AM (PUmDY)

208 Best thing I've found for aches and pains in turmeric/curcumin pills. Also seems to help my blood pressure, FWIW.
Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at January 25, 2020 09:44 AM (fTtFy)

Yeah, the CBD gummies I took had turmeric as an additive.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at January 25, 2020 09:51 AM (6bGcD)

209 Ah, The Brown Ring of Quality
Posted by: Kindltot at January 25, 2020 09:48 AM

Which seems to be roundly derided and snarked upon around here.

Posted by: Hope Solo at January 25, 2020 09:52 AM (+Gdib)

210 runner, what you standing there for?
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 25, 2020 09:51 AM (PUmDY)

I'm tired ???

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:52 AM (zr5Kq)

211 This isn't as dumb as it sounds.

If you only can kill 99 percent, that remaining 1 percent has all the terrain to itself, so it can multiply freely - and it's the hardest one to kill.

It's still dumb and there's no evidence he's connected the dots like you have.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 25, 2020 09:52 AM (y7DUB)

212 Best thing I've found for aches and pains in turmeric/curcumin pills. Also seems to help my blood pressure, FWIW.
====================
W/out going all infomercial, turmeric is a big ingredient in Relief Factor. I believe the other capsules are some form of fish oil. Their claim is it fights inflammation*, and my wife got me taking it. I think it works. That's not to say you couldn't make your own solution; the advantage w/RF is the packaging: it comes w/individual doses sealed up you can pocket and take w/lunch. *I've heard proper MDs say inflammation is the source of most nagging ailments.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 25, 2020 09:52 AM (7Fj9P)

213 The weirdest thing is that my whiskers grow out in all different colors - red (not a ginger), black, brown, blonde, white, grey.

I believe the cosmos is telling me...don't grow a beard.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 25, 2020 09:47 AM (T+nBE)

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Not unusual. My beard was a little lighter than the hair on my head, with reddish and almost blond streaks in it. Kind of cool.

Since then the red had turned white and my wife laments my shaving it off, because she really liked the color pattern on it. Said I looked like a gray wolf/viking chieftain.

I told her that with the proper persuasion I may let it grow back until the next drill.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:53 AM (cfSRQ)

214 UNLESS... China wants to sow chaos with the threat of a pandemic.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2020 09:47 AM (1g7ch)

The worst panic is in their own cities. The CCP is not stupid.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 09:53 AM (XzVUd)

215 180 awaiting the start of the Senate trial. What are the chances the Dems:

-get up & leave during it either in a body or one by one to distract the defense/draw the cameras

-arrange for demonstrators to disrupt the proceedings by yelling or holding up signs

-Senators themselves yell 'you lie" or "not true" or "Traitor" or some such bullshit

Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 09:46 AM (11H2y)

>>>>
Odds for above:
0%
100%
0%

Odds that every MFM organization describes today's defense as: Weak, not refuting Schiff's brilliant attacks, pointless, insulting our intelligence, boring, repetitive, propaganda, incorrect reading of the Constitution, worse than a first year law student can do, and clearly written by Putin: 100%

Posted by: Gref at January 25, 2020 09:53 AM (AMIL/)

216 >>I'm tired ???

But there is fire on the mountain.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2020 09:53 AM (ZLI7S)

217 checked out the black rifle coffee mugs (thank you) and, like i say, they're expensive - $15.00. for a ceramic mug.

Posted by: mjc at January 25, 2020 09:54 AM (Pg+x7)

218 It's still dumb and there's no evidence he's connected the dots like you have.
Posted by: Captain Hate at January 25, 2020 09:52 AM (y7DUB)

I'm pretty sure that's not the reasoning behind his theory, no. I'm sure he's a nice young man, tho.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:54 AM (Zz0t1)

219 And it's been around for centuries. They found some prehistoric dude frozen in a glacier somewhere and he had a pouch of some sort and in it was cannabis.
Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:49 AM (Zz0t1)

Your world frightens and confuses me. For all I know, the demons in my laptop are here to possess me and make me howl at the moon.

I use CBD oil to calm my nerves before my next court appearance or when I have to take my BMW in for an oil change.

Posted by: Keyrock, unfrozen caveman lawyer at January 25, 2020 09:54 AM (Z+IKu)

220 Well, time to get the day going.

Our shooting club has an annual breakfast/meeting/yearly dues thing this morning and I must head out and hang around a bunch of guys who think nothing of putting multiple rounds in a row in the 10 ring at 200 yards using iron sights, while shooting from a standing position.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 25, 2020 09:54 AM (WEBkv)

221 Hay, Insom. Do you have any experience with class action lawsuits?

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 09:54 AM (XxJt1)

222 JS, the Mexico shows were very good.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 25, 2020 09:55 AM (PUmDY)

223 192-DB, you could try asking a prescription when they discharge you. They may give you an argument but its worth a try. Make sure they give you a dietary guide to take home.

Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 09:55 AM (11H2y)

224 But there is fire on the mountain.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2020 09:53 AM (ZLI7S)

The rain will come...

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:55 AM (zr5Kq)

225 The gray hairs in my beard shoot off at weird angles, and they are harder than the rest

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 25, 2020 09:56 AM (fmexF)

226 I'm tired ???

No ways!

Posted by: Hillary! Riding To The Rescue In 2020! at January 25, 2020 09:56 AM (Y59Ns)

227 is that the one where if you were a farmer and some heavy rains created an ephemeral pond on your land, that pond became 'protected waters' ?
=======================
Yes. It had an insane scope, and if carried out to the letter of the law, basically ceded control of private property to the EPA. Oh, you still owned it. You also owned all the fines, leans and legal fees trying to fight the EPA. I used to be in the enviro. industry, and the EPA were viscous.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 25, 2020 09:56 AM (7Fj9P)

228 The entire Kung Flu story could be disinformation... but not with admitted very large quarantines.

UNLESS... China wants to sow chaos with the threat of a pandemic.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2020 09:47 AM (1g7ch)

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China is seriously screwed.

Their entire society is corrupt. The incentive is to lie about everything, cover it up, keep the narrative at all costs.

Then they scramble to react. Wretchard says that it shows Orwell is wrong - you can control the past and still lose the present and future because reality always wins.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:56 AM (cfSRQ)

229 I saw Fire on the Mountain open for I'm Tired at Blind Lemon in '92.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 09:56 AM (Zz0t1)

230 I bet Charlie. Wish I could have been there.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2020 09:56 AM (ZLI7S)

231 221 Hay, Insom. Do you have any experience with class action lawsuits?
Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 09:54 AM (XxJt1)

Not especially, but I might be able to address specific questions.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 09:57 AM (NWiLs)

232 THE PLAGUE! THE PLAGUE !!

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 09:57 AM (zr5Kq)

233 >>> But there is fire on the mountain.
~~~~~

Beats smoke on the water.

Posted by: IrishEi at January 25, 2020 09:57 AM (sGotD)

234 217 checked out the black rifle coffee mugs (thank you) and, like i say, they're expensive - $15.00. for a ceramic mug.
Posted by: mjc at January 25, 2020 09:54 AM (Pg+x7)

Thrift store.

Posted by: April at January 25, 2020 09:58 AM (OX9vb)

235 Don't worry, everybody!

Norah O'Donnell@NorahODonnell
Pressed about projections that his universal healthcare plan will lead to layoffs, Sen. Bernie Sanders tells us, "At the end of the day, we will create more jobs. Will there be some job loss? Yes, there will. We're gonna create more jobs. ... There'll be a net plus of jobs."

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More jobs a bureaucrats and grave diggers, I guess. Well, at least grave digging is honest work.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 09:58 AM (+y/Ru)

236 And it's been around for centuries. They found some prehistoric dude frozen in a glacier somewhere and he had a pouch of some sort and in it was cannabis.

You may be high. They call the guy Oetzi, unless you know of another one, and he was thawing out in the Alps between Italy and Austria. He did have a pouch with herbs with him. And he had arrowheads lodged in him and they examined his gut bacteria. He's a treasure trove of insight into ancient humans.

But I don't think cannabis was growing in the high Alps 5,000 years ago.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 25, 2020 09:58 AM (gd9RK)

237 and I must head out and hang around a bunch of guys who think nothing of putting multiple rounds in a row in the 10 ring at 200 yards using iron sights, while shooting from a standing position.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at January 25, 2020 09:54 AM

* vapors *

Posted by: Dianne Fineswine at January 25, 2020 09:58 AM (xvns3)

238 >>Beats smoke on the water.

Nothing worse than fog.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2020 09:59 AM (ZLI7S)

239 228 China is seriously screwed.

Their entire society is corrupt. The incentive is to lie about everything, cover it up, keep the narrative at all costs.

Look at the left in the west. We'd be in the same boat if they ever got fully in control.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 09:59 AM (XzVUd)

240 215 - You don't think the Dems will pull some showboating BS for the cameras? They don't give a shit about decorum.
Agree that MSM will hate whatever the defense says.

What are the odds the MSM will find any disgraced/fired employees of all the defense lawyers to poison the well.

Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 09:59 AM (11H2y)

241 I turned on the trial but didn't quite start yet so found Black Hawk Down on, get sucked in every time.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 09:59 AM (ZCEU2)

242 Tinfoilbaby #172: If you just smoke a bunch of weed every day you'll forget that you even have pain, and every thing else

Really?

* frowns, looking at pipeful of homegrown ditch weed *

Guess I oughter git me down to one o' them thar dis-pen-sorries and try that newfangled twenny-times-stronger stuff I've been readin' 'bout.

Oops, wait, wait. Oklahoma sez I hasta be sick to get legal "medical" weed. Dangit.

* goes back to homegrown, wondering if this is really weed at all *

/hilarious not-really skit brought to you c/o Head Shop Comix (nic)

Posted by: mindful webworker - weed: any plant growing where you don't want it at January 25, 2020 09:59 AM (0mP7b)

243 >DB, you could try asking a prescription when they discharge you. They may give you an argument but its worth a try. Make sure they give you a dietary guide to take home.
Posted by: vivi

they gave me 20 @ 5mg each to go, with zero refills.
it's a shame really because ordinary OTC pain relievers only work for me if I take 'too many'.

Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 10:00 AM (iTXRQ)

244 The worst panic is in their own cities. The CCP is not stupid.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 09:53 AM (XzVUd)

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No, they are stupid, which is the problem.

Everyone credits them with genius-level strategery, but they are in fact comically inept.

It is no great accomplishment to infiltrate an open society. Literally anyone with money can do it. They do all this sweeeeet tech theft and yet can't contain a viral outbreak. Or provide breathable air.

No one knows if any of their military gear actually works, or if their troops can do anything other than mug for the camera and club unarmed college students.

For all its vaunted deep thinking, China hasn't won an external war since the early Ming Dynasty and that was mostly a numbers gambit.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 10:00 AM (cfSRQ)

245 Norah O'Donnell@NorahODonnell
Pressed about projections that his universal healthcare plan will lead to layoffs, Sen. Bernie Sanders tells us, "At the end of the day, we will create more jobs. Will there be some job loss? Yes, there will. We're gonna create more jobs. ... There'll be a net plus of jobs."

This is garbage.

We will create $100 Trillion more unfunded liabilities and that will lead to JOBS!!!!

We're at 3% unemployment now in a staggeringly good economy.

It's physically IMPOSSIBLE for your plan to top that.

Posted by: Sponge at January 25, 2020 10:01 AM (Zz0t1)

246 He repealed the Waters of the US act.

is that the one where if you were a farmer and some heavy rains
created an ephemeral pond on your land, that pond became 'protected
waters' ?

Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 09:51 AM

---

Yes. And is also dictated how you can deal with rain runoff from your property.

In essence you can't change, alter or impede the natural flow of runoff from your property without Federal Government approval, which they almost never give.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 25, 2020 10:01 AM (JUOKG)

247 putting multiple rounds in a row in the 10 ring at 200 yards using iron sights,
======================
THAT THINGIE THAT GOES UP?!?!

Posted by: Gun Reg Tards at January 25, 2020 10:01 AM (7Fj9P)

248 I watched Battle of Britain (1969) the other day. It was not good. Many famous actors, though.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:01 AM (zr5Kq)

249 UNLESS... China wants to sow chaos with the threat of a pandemic.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2020 09:47 AM (1g7ch)

---
China is seriously screwed.

Their entire society is corrupt. The incentive is to lie about everything, cover it up, keep the narrative at all costs.

Then
they scramble to react. Wretchard says that it shows Orwell is wrong -
you can control the past and still lose the present and future because
reality always wins.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:56 AM (cfSRQ)

I
know someone from Wuhan she lives here. She is very worried about her
family who are still there. I mentioned I heard the death toll was about
30. She said it's over 100 and probably worse than the government is
reporting. She flat out said she doesn't believe anything the government
is saying about this

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 25, 2020 10:01 AM (rC3Hg)

250 And it's been around for centuries. They found some prehistoric dude frozen in a glacier somewhere and he had a pouch of some sort and in it was cannabis.

You may be high. They call the guy Oetzi, unless you know of another one, and he was thawing out in the Alps between Italy and Austria. He did have a pouch with herbs with him. And he had arrowheads lodged in him and they examined his gut bacteria. He's a treasure trove of insight into ancient humans.

But I don't think cannabis was growing in the high Alps 5,000 years ago.

-
Dave's not here, man.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 10:01 AM (+y/Ru)

251 Jewell45, if you are looking for arthritis nostrums, research Boron supplements.
If nothing else, it may make your nails harder, but it may help ease some of the issues with the pain.

Boric Acid U.S.P is exceptionally cheap in the pharmacies, it is used as a antiseptic dust for skin and an eye wash.
I bought some pre-made supplements and have been taking them, it seems to work for my hands in that they don't ache before weather fronts come in, but I find them expensive, so I may just go back to dissolving Boric Acid into water.

(It tastes a damn-sight better than Borax, even though it is not tasty as honey)

Posted by: Kindltot at January 25, 2020 10:02 AM (6rS3m)

252 Not especially, but I might be able to address specific questions.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 09:57 AM (NWiLs)

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For a modest fee, of course.

Billable hours, you know.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 10:02 AM (cfSRQ)

253 I don't think the Democrats could walk out if horses dragged them, there are rules.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:03 AM (ZCEU2)

254 >>Is cbd cannabis?

negative

Posted by: JackStraw

I'm pretty sure its derived from the plant - just minus the THC...

Posted by: Boswell at January 25, 2020 10:03 AM (32YRo)

255 .....She flat out said she doesn't believe anything the government
is saying about this
Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 25, 2020 10:01 AM (rC3Hg)

Of course not. The always conceal the death toll. Still does not make a bio weapon experiment gone awry.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:03 AM (zr5Kq)

256 248
I watched Battle of Britain (1969) the other day. It was not good. Many famous actors, though.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:01 AM (zr5Kq)

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Aerial combat scenes recycled for Piece of Cake miniseries. Which is serious Spitfire pr0n.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 10:03 AM (cfSRQ)

257 244 No, they are stupid, which is the problem.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 10:00 AM (cfSRQ)

Stupidity is relative. They were doing quite well before Trump was elected.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 10:04 AM (XzVUd)

258 Don't be knocking China. Their greatest inventions were the compass and gunpowder.

... which they didn't develop much beyond cheap parlor tricks.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2020 10:04 AM (1g7ch)

259 >>I'm pretty sure its derived from the plant - just minus the THC...

Yep. But not cannabis.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2020 10:05 AM (ZLI7S)

260 Opening prayer being said in the Senate...

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 10:05 AM (cF8AT)

261 Quiet Man - you may or not want to see Gellar Report on the Chinese virus, posted a link from there reports of thousands dead.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:05 AM (ZCEU2)

262 Chicago has a confirmed case of corona virus. ::Thinks about meeting with four Chinese people last Thursday, one of whom took tissues from the dispenser in the conference room:: Yay.

Posted by: Gem at January 25, 2020 10:05 AM (65i3Q)

263 No, they are stupid, which is the problem.

Everyone credits them with genius-level strategery, but they are in fact comically inept.

It is no great accomplishment to infiltrate an open society. Literally anyone with money can do it. They do all this sweeeeet tech theft and yet can't contain a viral outbreak. Or provide breathable air.

No one knows if any of their military gear actually works, or if their troops can do anything other than mug for the camera and club unarmed college students.

For all its vaunted deep thinking, China hasn't won an external war since the early Ming Dynasty and that was mostly a numbers gambit.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 10:00 AM (cfSRQ)

Magic 8 ball says this be true.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 25, 2020 10:05 AM (y7DUB)

264 I still think the Senate Dems will try some dumb stunt. They'll dare CJ Roberts to do something to them. what's he gonna do? Imprison them?

Bet the Dem gals will all wear white or red or some damn thing.

Surprised and disappointed no Dems exploded into flames when reciting the Pledge.

Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 10:06 AM (11H2y)

265 Has the Chaplain been doing this every time?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 25, 2020 10:06 AM (PUmDY)

266 I

know someone from Wuhan she lives here. She is very worried about her

family who are still there. I mentioned I heard the death toll was about

30. She said it's over 100 and probably worse than the government is

reporting. She flat out said she doesn't believe anything the government

is saying about this

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 25, 2020 10:01 AM (rC3Hg)

---
I've read a number of accounts from Chinese experts that the Cultural Revolution was successful in destroying the traditional honor-based culture. It exists only on Taiwan and in expatriate communities. Maybe in isolated villages in the mainland, but not in mainstream society.

It has been replaced with an amoral ruthlessness that values advancement over everything else.

Such a society is indifferent to suffering and worries more about how careers can be protected than whether lives can be saved.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 10:06 AM (cfSRQ)

267 Let me see if I can give you the Cliff's Notes version, Insom.

A couple of years before he died my late hubby allowed his life insurance to lapse. Premium kept going up and he said he couldnt afford it. He died four years ago with no life insurance.

Fast-forward to yesterday, when I received a notice from a third-party administrator that a class action suit was filed because the insurer was overcharging. I'm eligible to join the suit ( and, in fact, have an ID number assigned) but I'm not sure I want to do that. I'd lose the option to litigate it individually.
We could be talking six figures. I'm paralyzed by the entire thing. Thoughts?

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 10:07 AM (XxJt1)

268 240 215 - You don't think the Dems will pull some showboating BS for the cameras? They don't give a shit about decorum.

Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 09:59 AM (11H2y)

vivi,
Good point - I can see Warren or Kamala making a big show of getting up and walking out, so I'll revise my odds on that one to 33%.

Posted by: Gref at January 25, 2020 10:07 AM (AMIL/)

269 Pat Cipollone up.

"Everything those guys said is bullshit!"

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 10:07 AM (cF8AT)

270 Pat Cipollone up, 2-3 hours today

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:07 AM (ZCEU2)

271 Norah O'Donnell@NorahODonnell

Pressed about projections that his universal healthcare plan will
lead to layoffs, Sen. Bernie Sanders tells us, "At the end of the day,
we will create more jobs. Will there be some job loss? Yes, there will.
We're gonna create more jobs. ... There'll be a net plus of jobs."

So the bureaucracy will triple. Yay.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 25, 2020 10:07 AM (oVJmc)

272 We smart! Not dumb like Yankee say! And we want respect!

Posted by: China at January 25, 2020 10:07 AM (l3+k2)

273 Go time.

Posted by: WisRich at January 25, 2020 10:08 AM (OAlmw)

274 For all its vaunted deep thinking, China hasn't won an external war since the early Ming Dynasty and that was mostly a numbers gambit.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

The Chinese steal everything not nailed down and then try and recreate it - no military power will ever be built from a society that has to do that. Its Potemkin Villages all the way down.

Posted by: Boswell at January 25, 2020 10:08 AM (32YRo)

275 >I still think the Senate Dems will try some dumb stunt.

paper mache heads!

Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 10:08 AM (iTXRQ)

276 Quiet Man - you may or not want to see Gellar Report on the Chinese virus, posted a link from there reports of thousands dead.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:05 AM (ZCEU2)

She also said what's really bad about this is Wuhan is a transportation hub of the country and people were traveling through it for the New Year. So people from all over the country have been through Wuhan and if they picked it up there they are spreading all over the country

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 25, 2020 10:08 AM (rC3Hg)

277 I don't think the Democrats could walk out if horses dragged them, there are rules.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:03 AM (ZCEU2)

And penalties. Pencil Neck said they'd be hunted down by the Sargent at Arms and tossed in the hoosegow.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 25, 2020 10:08 AM (aIRv9)

278 Bet the Dem gals will all wear white or red or some damn thing.
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Go full "Hand Maiden", ftw.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 25, 2020 10:08 AM (7Fj9P)

279 Pat C. is starting out pretty measured, attacking the incomplete nature of the evidence presented.

Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 10:09 AM (11H2y)

280 Chicago has a confirmed case of corona virus.

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If it's anything like the Budweiser flu, you don't want it.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 10:10 AM (+y/Ru)

281 "They're asking you to not only overturn the results from 2016 but they're asking you to remove Trump from the ballot for the election in 9 months."

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 10:10 AM (cF8AT)

282 paper mache heads!

Posted by: DB- just DB

They'll save the Uncle Sam ones for those "Death to America!" DNC protests down on the National Mall.

Posted by: Boswell at January 25, 2020 10:11 AM (32YRo)

283 Pat C. is starting out pretty measured, attacking the incomplete nature of the evidence presented.
Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 10:09 AM (11H2y)

What evidence?

Just a lot of #orangemanbad opinions.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2020 10:11 AM (1g7ch)

284 Stupidity is relative. They were doing quite well before Trump was elected.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 10:04 AM (XzVUd)

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A football team that runs up the score against paraplegics isn't necessarily any good.

No one was resisting and what's remarkable is how Trump's minimal (and it was very minimal) trade actions threw China into a tailspin.

This is stuff that was once bipartisan consensus territory and longstanding US policy going back to the founding. The super-smart Chinese did not see it coming and had zero plans in place to counter it.

And now Xi has a nation that is trembling on the brink of famine, facing a pandemic, is being penned in by a regional alliance that hates and fears him and has its richest city in open rebellion for a year.

Oh, and Taiwan is going to get the most advanced arms package in decades, including F-16s fitted with special weapons pylons allowing them to add even more missiles so that they can down extra Red jets without having to rearm.

Heckuva job, guy.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 10:11 AM (cfSRQ)

285 For all its vaunted deep thinking, China hasn't won an external war since the early Ming Dynasty and that was mostly a numbers gambit.
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They had to undertake the biggest civil engineering project in history to keep a few thousand yogurt eating crazies out of their western frontier. The only advantage the Chicoms have in any war is throwing more bodies into the meat grinder than the other guys.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 25, 2020 10:12 AM (7Fj9P)

286 Cipollone now reading the transcript of the call.

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 10:12 AM (cF8AT)

287 What evidence?

Just a lot of #orangemanbad opinions.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2020 10:11 AM (1g7ch)
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He's being nice. Kind of like when your kid brings you a mudball sculpture.

Posted by: Captain Obvious at January 25, 2020 10:12 AM (jW9oF)

288 why is he talking about burden sharing?

Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 10:13 AM (11H2y)

289 I thought the cat story in the sidebar was some kind of joke until I click over and read it. That is flat out disgusting.

Posted by: irright at January 25, 2020 10:13 AM (RVcmP)

290 Yes, there is a confirmed case in the 3rd largest City in the U.S.A. The woman is in isolation at some unnamed hospital and doing well. They are testing at O'Hare, but...temperature only.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:13 AM (iwZ9u)

291 vivi, as it relates to what Trump said in the call about European nations not helping Ukraine.

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 10:13 AM (cF8AT)

292 Pat is reading part of the best evidence he said, the phone call

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:13 AM (ZCEU2)

293 Those snowmobilers were luck it was not very cold that day.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 10:14 AM (HALdu)

294 I turned on the trial but didn't quite start yet so found Black Hawk Down on, get sucked in every time.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 09:59 AM (ZCEU2

********

I cannot watch that movie without raising my blood pressure into dangerous territory.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 25, 2020 10:14 AM (6k4hZ)

295 http://bit.ly/2tSTlAy
*********
Why Jeff Bezos's Claim That Saudi Arabia Hacked His Phone Is Ridiculous

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 25, 2020 10:14 AM (BqBId)

296
Why

Jeff Bezos's Claim That Saudi Arabia Hacked His Phone Is Ridiculous

==

His girlfriend leaked it. She is a piece of work.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:15 AM (iwZ9u)

297 Has anyone heard more about the swine epidemic that was wiping out China's pig industry? Has it been contained?

Posted by: Captain Obvious at January 25, 2020 10:15 AM (jW9oF)

298 Going to tackle these one at a time:

Male gender getting weirder? Nope, it's frickin' China.

Doesn't count. Next.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:15 AM (hku12)

299 Cardboard dreams

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 25, 2020 10:16 AM (PUmDY)

300 They had to undertake the biggest civil engineering
project in history to keep a few thousand yogurt eating crazies out of
their western frontier. The only advantage the Chicoms have in any war
is throwing more bodies into the meat grinder than the other guys.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 25, 2020 10:12 AM (7Fj9P)

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They don't even have that advantage any more.

The one-child policy leaves them starved of recruits and they've created a culture that hates children.

Such societies are not known for their willingness to give up their own lives for a 'greater good.'

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 10:16 AM (cfSRQ)

301 Nice point about the process the Dems used.

Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 10:16 AM (11H2y)

302 KFC in Oz is being criticized for a sexist ad in which boys like girls. And I didn't even know they had a Kentucky in Oz.

https://yhoo.it/30U51PM

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 10:17 AM (+y/Ru)

303 China needs to go Kosher. No more swine flue, no more SARS.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:17 AM (iwZ9u)

304 Yeah, the China is a superpower that is going to take over the world thing is a myth that is loved by communists and the sinophiles in State and the other government agencies.

Chines dynastys average about 80 years is the communists are nothing but a dynasty despite their unrivaled taste for murder.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 10:17 AM (HALdu)

305 For all its vaunted deep thinking, China hasn't won an external war since the early Ming Dynasty and that was mostly a numbers gambit.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 10:00 AM (cfSRQ)

Yup....they "punished" Vietnam in 1979. Compared to the US Air Force, Vietnam pointed and laughed at them.

Food will always be China's problem.....you cannot project power if you can't feed the troops or the folks back home.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 25, 2020 10:17 AM (Z+IKu)

306 Shorter Cipillone:
This was not prosecution, it was a persecution.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 25, 2020 10:17 AM (EZebt)

307 Spray it with cologne

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 25, 2020 10:18 AM (PUmDY)

308 Michael Purpura up now...

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 10:19 AM (cF8AT)

309 China may not conquer with foot soldiers, but it has a hell of an influence around the world and can bend policies to its needs.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:19 AM (iwZ9u)

310 267 Let me see if I can give you the Cliff's Notes version, Insom.

A couple of years before he died my late hubby allowed his life insurance to lapse. Premium kept going up and he said he couldnt afford it. He died four years ago with no life insurance.

Fast-forward to yesterday, when I received a notice from a third-party administrator that a class action suit was filed because the insurer was overcharging. I'm eligible to join the suit ( and, in fact, have an ID number assigned) but I'm not sure I want to do that. I'd lose the option to litigate it individually.
We could be talking six figures. I'm paralyzed by the entire thing. Thoughts?
Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 10:07 AM (XxJt1)

Find a lawyer with experience in that field and get their advice. Seriously. Typically, your run-of-the-mill member of a class won't get a whole lot out of it, but also in some cases it's not worth the undertaking to litigate individually. That's not necessarily the case for each potential member of a class. However, I can't tell you which category you fall into. So, I recommend you consult with an attorney who understands class actions and has experience litigating against insurance companies so they can evaluate your potential claim against the insurance company as an individual.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 10:19 AM (NWiLs)

311 He is going to shove it right up Schiff's ass.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2020 10:19 AM (ZLI7S)

312 Food will always be China's problem.....you cannot project power if you can't feed the troops or the folks back home.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 25, 2020 10:17 AM (Z+IKu)
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It's telling that a common colloquial greeting in China is, "Have you eaten yet?"

Posted by: Captain Obvious at January 25, 2020 10:19 AM (jW9oF)

313 ast-forward to yesterday, when I received a notice from a third-party administrator that a class action suit was filed because the insurer was overcharging. I'm eligible to join the suit ( and, in fact, have an ID number assigned) but I'm not sure I want to do that. I'd lose the option to litigate it individually.
We could be talking six figures. I'm paralyzed by the entire thing. Thoughts?
Posted by: creeper at Janu

My 2 cents- if you think you might have a viable claim, get the complaint and other filings, (available online or from the plaintiffs attorneys) and bring them to your own lawyer. If the case is developed (and /or if your facts are good ) and there are no great defenses to your claim, like statute of limitations,you shouldnt have a problem finding someone to take it on contingency (but also consider if you have the stomach for it).

Posted by: LASue at January 25, 2020 10:19 AM (Ed8Zd)

314 Here is an article everybody needs to read. No BS. https://tinyurl.com/wyeygc2

Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 25, 2020 10:20 AM (0Euvx)

315 Having them play the video of Schiff lying about what's was said in the phone call. His made up 'conversation'.

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 10:20 AM (cF8AT)

316 Which brings us to Sun-Tzu...The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:20 AM (iwZ9u)

317 Playing clip of Shifftys phone scam

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:20 AM (ZCEU2)

318 KFC in Oz is being criticized for a sexist ad in which boys like girls. And I didn't even know they had a Kentucky in Oz.

https://yhoo.it/30U51PM
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 10:17 AM (+y/Ru)

They should redub the ad with The Waitresses song "I Know What Boys Like". That should make everybody happy.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2020 10:20 AM (1g7ch)

319 His girlfriend leaked it. She is a piece of work.
*******
But he blamed the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia because he is a deep stater & the Deep State HATES the Crown Prince

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 25, 2020 10:20 AM (BqBId)

320 test

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:20 AM (zr5Kq)

321 excellent !

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:21 AM (zr5Kq)

322 There was a smart chicom gerneral a while back that America was designed by geniuses to be run by idiots, which is pretty true.

One thing that we have that the chicom do not is structural flexibility. Even savaging the country as the left has done for so long is not enough to permanently destroy the country. There is room to snap back.

The chicoms are the opposite. They have a very effective system for quashing any that would create mischief or worse, as the left has done in America, however, there is nothing they can do once the rebels get established.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 10:21 AM (HALdu)

323 >>Which brings us to Sun-Tzu...The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting

Do you know who else likes to quote Sun Tzu?

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2020 10:22 AM (ZLI7S)

324 test
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:20 AM (zr5Kq)

Unpunctuated, uncapitalized, no subject verb agreement, unimaginative, shows no sign of effort.

F-

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 25, 2020 10:22 AM (gd9RK)

325 Think maybe that fellow's ex who prematurely put up his head stone is giving him a hint?

Posted by: random ~~lurker~~ commenter at January 25, 2020 10:23 AM (48RE5)

326 I hope they have a chyron with all six facts.
this guy is gooood. And a paisan!

Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 10:23 AM (11H2y)

327 is that the one where if you were a farmer and some heavy rains created an ephemeral pond on your land, that pond became 'protected waters' ?

Yeah, and the ditch you dug to drain water off your property became a navigable waterway.

Posted by: no good deed at January 25, 2020 10:23 AM (MmFTx)

328 China will get old before they get rich. It is a dying society.

Posted by: Truck Monkey at January 25, 2020 10:23 AM (6k4hZ)

329 Saudi Crown Prince Calls Jeff Bezos To Casually Ask Him About His First Pet, Mother's Maiden Name, And The Street He Lived On As A Child

Babylon Bee headline.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at January 25, 2020 10:24 AM (u82oZ)

330 Oh, as an addendum, check the notice for any applicable deadlines, and make sure to seek legal counsel in plenty of time ahead of any such deadlines.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 10:24 AM (NWiLs)

331 Well, I've finished my tea. Time to get moving, I'm donating blood this morning. Ciao, bambini!

Posted by: Captain Obvious at January 25, 2020 10:24 AM (jW9oF)

332 Hillary?

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 25, 2020 10:25 AM (PUmDY)

333 China will implode. I gave it 15 years five years ago.

Because of One Child, China will now get real old real fast

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2020 10:25 AM (1oLRD)

334 I really want these guys to hit Schiff for being the lying glob of excrement we all know him to be, but they are going cool, calm and methodical, attacking the "evidence" itself.

Better and wiser men than me. I'd be introducing pictures of Schiff having sex with farm animals by now.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at January 25, 2020 10:25 AM (Wm5SB)

335 If it's anything like the Budweiser flu, you don't want it.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 10:10 AM

Multiple micturitions?

Posted by: Duncanthrax The Mirthless at January 25, 2020 10:25 AM (FWkdB)

336 Emotional at work?

I guess if you think of "emotional" as getting hysterical, you might object to the idea that men are "more emotional."

However, given there are ranges of emotions, and the one more often expressed by men is anger, then yeah, it's probably quite true that men get "more emotional" at work than women do.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:25 AM (hku12)

337

Unpunctuated, uncapitalized, no subject verb agreement, unimaginative, shows no sign of effort.

F-
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 25, 2020 10:22 AM (gd9RK)

*sobs uncontrollably

I will do better next time, professor !

*assembles gang of like-minded individuals together to teach prof a lesson...

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:26 AM (zr5Kq)

338 Thanks, Insom. This has me tail over teakettle. The company is not a fly-by-night outfit. They're rock solid, IYKWIM. I could be awarded as much as 75% of the face value. Or $250 if my usual luck holds.

My lawyer is in Iowa and I emailed him yesterday. He's been lawyering for me for fifty years and is no stranger to a courtroom. We'll see what he says.

In the meantime, be still my heart!

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 10:26 AM (XxJt1)

339 "Facts! We don't need no stinking 'facts'." Schiff, et al

Posted by: itsacookbook at January 25, 2020 10:27 AM (yPxXc)

340 Better and wiser men than me. I'd be introducing pictures of Schiff having sex with farm animals by now.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Low Glycemic Souls at January 25, 2020 10:25 AM (Wm5SB)

Fake but ACCURATE.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2020 10:27 AM (1g7ch)

341 314
Here is an article everybody needs to read. No BS. https://tinyurl.com/wyeygc2
Posted by: Xipe Totec at January 25, 2020 10:20 AM (0Euvx)

Very good. The communists were in South Africa 30 years earlier than he says and he does not mention china.

Some of the details, which were new to me are obviously true. Stanley and Livingstone opened up the interior centuries after the slave trade (north american).

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 10:27 AM (XzVUd)

342 I hope they play the video of Biden smugly telling an audience how he withheld funds to the Ukraine and got the Ukrainian prosecutor fired.

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 10:27 AM (cF8AT)

343 >>> 323 >>Which brings us to Sun-Tzu...The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting

Do you know who else likes to quote Sun Tzu?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2020 10:22 AM (ZLI7S)

Ummm...... some orange dude??

Or do you mean Lord Shelvington?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 25, 2020 10:27 AM (0ReGO)

344 My lawyer is in Iowa and I emailed him yesterday. He's been lawyering for me for fifty years and is no stranger to a courtroom. We'll see what he says.

In the meantime, be still my heart!
Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 10:26 AM (XxJt1)

Deep cleansing breaths...

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 10:27 AM (NWiLs)

345 Well, time to get productive. Later morons.

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 25, 2020 10:28 AM (dUJdY)

346 Trump is tweeting.

Newsies will not be able to refrain from covering

He called AOC dumb as a rock.

Posted by: blaster at January 25, 2020 10:28 AM (BuB4M)

347

Do you know who else likes to quote Sun Tzu?
Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2020 10:22 AM (ZLI7S)

Who ?

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:29 AM (zr5Kq)

348 Anonosaurus Wrecks #302: KFC in Oz is being criticized for a sexist ad in which boys like girls...

Boys liking girls? Oh, the cisheteronormative horror!

Surely they were at least of different ethnicities-melanin content!

Anyway, aren't the critics being awfully presumptuous? How do we know that was a 'boy' and 'girl'? Did we peek into their underwear? Did we ask them how they identify? Do we know their transitioning-surgery history?!? If not, they should STFD, STFU, and enjoy some chicken.

Posted by: mindful webworker - eat more beef at January 25, 2020 10:29 AM (0mP7b)

349 His girlfriend, Bezos's, what a piece of trash. Never was news whore who abandons hubby and kids to be a real whore.

Bezos, not so much doctor evil as some nerd that was seduced by the siren scream of "Ay Papi", wasted $35bn to dump his wife and kids for her worn out ass.

How stupid is this whore to be working to make a couple hundred k off her super billionaire sugar daddy?

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 10:29 AM (HALdu)

350 Ex-wife gravestone? Yeah, that's quite common, actually. People put their names on headstones, to be buried next to a spouse who is already dead.

Is the ex-wife dead? I couldn't tell from the story, which comes off as a silly write-up by some journo who wants to put a "sensational" spin on a mundane story.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:29 AM (hku12)

351 Unpunctuated, uncapitalized, no subject verb agreement, unimaginative, shows no sign of effort.

F-
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 25, 2020 10:22 AM

Harsh.

He *did* show up and make a minimal effort.

Not to mention his entry begins with "t", which also initiates one of your favorite words.

I move to reconsider.

Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at January 25, 2020 10:29 AM (PYRk8)

352 Test, this is a test of my internet connection and time validation.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:30 AM (ZCEU2)

353 Emotional Rescue grooves.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 25, 2020 10:30 AM (PUmDY)

354 Grimes > Bezos's sidepiece

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 25, 2020 10:30 AM (YaJXa)

355 Nice, I'm going full Maya with my hash today

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 25, 2020 10:31 AM (YaJXa)

356 352
Test, this is a test of my internet connection and time validation.

Connection obviously works. You trust pixy on the time?

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 10:31 AM (XzVUd)

357 Biden's prid quo pro is going to get into this, and should be a shot across the bow they don't really want additional witnesses.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:31 AM (ZCEU2)

358 Then they scramble to react. Wretchard says that it
shows Orwell is wrong - you can control the past and still lose the
present and future because reality always wins.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 09:56 AM (cfSRQ)

So, Rand tells Orwell to get bent?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 25, 2020 10:31 AM (6rS3m)

359 >>Ummm...... some orange dude??

>>Or do you mean Lord Shelvington?

The Orange Man, of course. His pre-presidency twitter is littered with Sun Tzu quotes.

If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2020 10:31 AM (ZLI7S)

360 Sparkle joke of the day.

https://bit.ly/2ROBsuP

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 10:31 AM (+y/Ru)

361 [djt] called AOC dumb as a rock.

That's not gneiss.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 25, 2020 10:32 AM (YaJXa)

362 U-haul won't hire smokers... yeah, lots of companies won't hire smokers.

Why?

Because it costs businesses shedloads of money to have smokers on the job. Both in terms of healthcare benefits paid out, and loss of productivity for the multiple smoke breaks they take.

But sure, let's have the government step in and prevent companies from choosing who they can and can't hire. That works out so well.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:32 AM (hku12)

363 LASue @313

This sounds like excellent advice. I did include the website address for the settlement in the email to my attorney.

I have the stomach for it. Believe me, I do.

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 10:32 AM (XxJt1)

364 I will be your knight in shining armor.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 25, 2020 10:33 AM (PUmDY)

365 Test, this is a test of my internet connection and time validation.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:30 AM (ZCEU2)

Now see? This guy uses a complete sentence and provide a clear and succinct explanation of his test, which is appropriate for the conduct of his test.

A

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 25, 2020 10:33 AM (gd9RK)

366 PJ Watson did a video of the bat soup thing.

Seems to me, if you like to eat Mexican, you rayciss for culturally appropriating their food. I guess if you WON'T eat bat, you rayciss because you think your steak is better.

What a wonderful world.....

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:33 AM (hku12)

367 The AoSHq time machine has actually been spot on since before New Years. Years past time here it has been usually 4 - 6 minutes off.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:33 AM (ZCEU2)

368 Ok, now let's see what the rest of y'all have to say.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:34 AM (hku12)

369 The Orange Man, of course. His pre-presidency twitter is littered with Sun Tzu quotes.

==

Right !

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:34 AM (zr5Kq)

370 Ok, now let's see what the rest of y'all have to say.

burrrrp

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 25, 2020 10:34 AM (YaJXa)

371 FOOL NELSON @FOOL_NELSON
50s
Overheard convo between two Democrat Senators who only watch CNN. "is this stuff real? I haven't heard any of this before. I thought it was all about QPQ. If half the stuff Cipollone is saying is true, we're up shit's creek. Can't believe the House omitted exculpatory evidence."

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 25, 2020 10:35 AM (BqBId)

372 This guy is good!

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 10:35 AM (cF8AT)

373 Test, this is a test of my internet connection and time validation.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:30 AM (ZCEU2)

*Suck-up

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:35 AM (zr5Kq)

374 It is coming down in buckets here, a pond is forming in my yard.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:35 AM (ZCEU2)

375 Test, this is a test of my internet connection and time validation.
Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:30 AM

=====

Now see? This guy uses a complete sentence and provide a clear and succinct explanation of his test, which is appropriate for the conduct of his test.

A
Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 25, 2020 10:33 AM

A semicolon, instead of the comma, after Test would have been more appropriate.

Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at January 25, 2020 10:36 AM (LHBAu)

376 Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 25, 2020 10:35 AM (BqBId)

LOL!

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 10:36 AM (cF8AT)

377 The AoSHq time machine has actually been spot on since before New Years. Years past time here it has been usually 4 - 6 minutes off.
Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:33 AM (ZCEU2)

It's the Y2K2X bug.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2020 10:36 AM (1g7ch)

378 Fire's out. Moar wood!

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 10:36 AM (XxJt1)

379 Re bacon's revenge. Not buying it. Fake news to remind everyone that Guy Ritchie has a new gangster film coming out. "Never trust a man who keeps pigs". Sage advice I've followed for nearly 20 years now.

Posted by: WTP at January 25, 2020 10:37 AM (WQfDg)

380 When smoking is declared a disease, U-Haul will be unable to discriminate against the handicapped.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 25, 2020 10:37 AM (YA914)

381 298 Going to tackle these one at a time:

Male gender getting weirder? Nope, it's frickin' China.

Doesn't count. Next.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:15 AM (hku12)

Ha ha - yep, i saw Shanghai and this was my thought process, as well.

Posted by: Gem at January 25, 2020 10:38 AM (65i3Q)

382 sun-Tzu or wopr?

'the only move is not to play'

Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 10:38 AM (iTXRQ)

383 Highly likely that Schiff was trading leaks for Media airtime.

Comey was #1 on my traitor list. Now it's Schiff

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2020 10:38 AM (1oLRD)

384 Stupidity is relative. They were doing quite well before Trump was elected.
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 10:04 AM (XzVUd)

No, they were doing well for the same reason the USSR was doing well, they get subsidies and get to externalize a lot of their debts, AND they convinced the world they were an invincible economic and military powerhouse and the kingmakers for SE Asia.
Because of that everyone wanted them to succeed because it looked like a cheap and easy way to power -- And the PRC pays off politicians all over the world. Right down to state legislators, and what politician doesn't love a bit of quid pro quo when they are the catcher, right?

Who can fail when the entire political and propaganda forces of the world are on call to provide support?

Posted by: Kindltot at January 25, 2020 10:38 AM (6rS3m)

385
Woke up early and decided to go to Mass. Now sitting in a diner in a coat and tie. Everyone else is wearing hunting clothes.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2020 10:39 AM (uQyfE)

386 So, kind of sad story, guy got hit jaywalking through a major thoroughfare yesterday during rush hour.

Now the fuzz that does is hammering motorists with tickets for everything in that neighborhood.

Sigh

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 10:39 AM (HALdu)

387 >A semicolon, instead of the comma, after Test would have been more appropriate.
Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere

your comma after the word 'comma' sounds awkward

Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 10:39 AM (iTXRQ)

388 Star Woke joke of the day.

https://bit.ly/2Rr60Us

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 10:40 AM (+y/Ru)

389 Grimes > Bezos's sidepiece
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 25, 2020 10:30 AM (YaJXa)

There is something oddly compelling about her music. I shouldn't like it, really. And she's way more attractive than a women with such extraordinarily ordinary features should be.

I have no clue what's up with her and Musk, as far as being a couple goes, except pics I've seen of them together, I almost think they're not human, but are aliens wearing human skin.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:40 AM (hku12)

390 This guy needs to keep talking ALL day today.

He is that good!

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 10:41 AM (cF8AT)

391 Now sitting in a diner in a coat and tie. Everyone else is wearing hunting clothes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2020 10:39 AM

Exude the gravitas for which The Horde is so rightly famous.

Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at January 25, 2020 10:41 AM (r8rdP)

392 Was Jay Walker playing with phone?

Posted by: klaftern at January 25, 2020 10:41 AM (RuIsu)

393 Star Woke joke of the day.

https://bit.ly/2Rr60Us
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 10:40 AM (+y/Ru)

HAHAHAHAHAH !!!!

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:41 AM (zr5Kq)

394 Everyone is guilty of mirror imaging to some extent.
Businessmen in America tended to think that working with China was a win win and why would they want to screw us when there is so much money to be made for everyone.

The Chinese seem to have thought that when the government decides something that is that and not understood that that is not necessarily how things are here.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 10:42 AM (HALdu)

395

Finally!

Finally, someone has said the Democrats are calling our allies, Ukraine, liars!

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 10:42 AM (VEsoa)

396 Now sitting in a diner in a coat and tie. Everyone else is wearing hunting clothes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2020 10:39 AM

Exude the gravitas for which The Horde is so rightly famous.
Posted by: Duncanthrax The Austere at January 25, 2020 10:41 AM (r8rdP)

Please to note that Hadrian said nothing about wearing pants.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:42 AM (zr5Kq)

397 Trump is tweeting.

Newsies will not be able to refrain from covering

He called AOC dumb as a rock.

Posted by: blaster at January

How DARE he!!!

Posted by: Rocks everywhere at January 25, 2020 10:43 AM (Ed8Zd)

398 > First cut with scissors, then SEVERAL passes with razor.

What works best for me if I've got enough growth to be considered an actual beard is to first buzz it off using my hair clippers (the same ones I use to give myself a buzz cut), then shave.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 25, 2020 10:43 AM (qUFPp)

399 ..Which is fine, since it is not Sunday Book Thread.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:43 AM (zr5Kq)

400 Going to tackle these one at a time:

Male gender getting weirder? Nope, it's frickin' China.

Doesn't count. Next.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:15 AM (hku12)

Ha ha - yep, i saw Shanghai and this was my thought process, as well.
Posted by: Gem at January 25, 2020 10:38 AM (65i3Q)

I think we go looking for weird, because American news is so boringly stupid.

Trump called someone a bad word, let's impeach.

Or, drug deal gone bad... people dead.

Or, weather related bad stuff.

See? Boring. Nothing to sell papers. And we gotta sell papers.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:44 AM (hku12)

401
Exude the gravitas for which The Horde is so rightly famous.

*splutters coffee*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2020 10:44 AM (uQyfE)

402 > How DARE he!!!

> Posted by: Rocks everywhere

The rocks are reportedly in contact with Nick Sandmann's attorney to discuss the possibility of a libel suit.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 25, 2020 10:44 AM (qUFPp)

403 >>This guy needs to keep talking ALL day today.

First rule of sales. Stop talking when the deal is done.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2020 10:45 AM (ZLI7S)

404 > to first buzz it off using my hair clippers (the same ones I use to give myself a buzz cut), then shave.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

those Wahl clippers are great- will reduce any beard to mere stubble

Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 10:45 AM (iTXRQ)

405

To my delight, the president's legal team has come out aggressively. Thank Christ.

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 10:45 AM (VEsoa)

406 I wonder how many gf's will get choked today when they WANT to watch the impeachment trial.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 25, 2020 10:46 AM (vEIlU)

407 My husband has started the renovations on our kitchen.

He is hammering, sawing and drilling while I'm trying to listen!

THIS WILL NOT STAND!

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 10:46 AM (cF8AT)

408 During the 21 hours he spoke. Haha

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 25, 2020 10:46 AM (PUmDY)

409 To my delight, the president's legal team has come out aggressively.

"We're gay! You hear that, motherfuckers? WE'RE ALL GAY!!!"

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 10:46 AM (NWiLs)

410 >>> 409 To my delight, the president's legal team has come out aggressively.

"We're gay! You hear that, motherfuckers? WE'RE ALL GAY!!!"
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 10:46 AM (NWiLs)

Reason forty bazillion why I can't eat or drink while reading AoS.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 25, 2020 10:47 AM (0ReGO)

411 He is hammering, sawing and drilling while I'm trying to listen!

THIS WILL NOT STAND!

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 10:46 AM (cF8AT)

headphones...get some

Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2020 10:47 AM (X/Pw5)

412
If it was up to Rudy, they would've come out in drag.
(Rudy liked to do that.)

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 10:48 AM (VEsoa)

413 > those Wahl clippers are great- will reduce any beard to mere stubble

Indeed they are. One of the best purchases I ever made. Just replace the blades every few years (supposedly you can sharpen 'em, but I've never had any luck with it... too many tiny little teeth to make it worth my time) and they'll last almost forever.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 25, 2020 10:48 AM (qUFPp)

414 23 Good Saturday morning to you from wintery Canuckistan, where our Conservatives can't find someone to lead them and Justin is at least smart enough to stay the hell out of the papers this week (maybe there was a sale on shoe polish).

The coffee is hot and my seat is warm, but the store is a mess and I'm buying about half a million cards on Saturday, so I have to figure out where the hell I'm going to put them.
*raises holiday cup from Rod's Coffee Donuts/Gas Station, who apparently hasn't run out of them yet*
Posted by: TheHoser at January 25, 2020 09:11 AM (IDjUx)

-----
Barre Ontario?

Posted by: Groundhog at January 25, 2020 10:48 AM (VYwSh)

415 I wonder how many gf's will get choked today when they WANT to watch the impeachment trial.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 25, 2020 10:46 AM (vEIlU)

Probably not that many. There's no football on.

Besides, if your girl wants to watch the impeachment trial, you probably spend your time on Saturdays arranging for her other boyfriend's visit.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:49 AM (hku12)

416 My husband has started the renovations on our kitchen.

He is hammering, sawing and drilling while I'm trying to listen!

THIS WILL NOT STAND!
Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 10:46 AM

We tried.

Posted by: The Kitchen Shelves at January 25, 2020 10:49 AM (HJM04)

417 ==
364 No, they were doing well for the same reason ...
Posted by: Kindltot at January 25, 2020 10:38 AM (6rS3m)

==

I didn't give a reason. So, yes, they were doing well.

==
they convinced the world they were an invincible economic and military powerhouse
==

That is what they were doing well at. Propaganda. And their propaganda infrastructure has hardly been affected by the economic downturn.

I was never convinced of truth of their propaganda neither am I convinced of the opposite now. Their economic improvement over the past 20 years is stupendous ... no matter how they were cheating and lying to achieve that. But they are obviously not a match for the West. Yet. They won't give up though and if Trump were to lose in 2020, they'll regroup.

What is interesting to me is that it is now evident that they have had the same strategy toward the west throughout the history of the CCP, despite changes at the top. Their aim is to be the world hegemon and people like Obama and Merkel were willing to bend over for them (Merkel still is).

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 10:50 AM (XzVUd)

418 Glacier ice cores on Tibetan Plateau archive fifteen-thousand-year-old viruses
t.co/Bj0Mb5GQXO

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 25, 2020 10:50 AM (YaJXa)

419 Biden is Dead Candidate Walking.

Lindsay raised the Chinese investing $1.5B with Hunter after he flew in on Air Force 2. Worse than Ukraine. Hunter hasn't made an honest dime in his life

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2020 10:50 AM (1oLRD)

420 Food will always be China's problem.....you cannot project power if you can't feed the troops or the folks back home.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 25, 2020 10:17 AM (Z+IKu)

China's food problem comes from central planning. The Great Leap Forward and the subsequent Cultural Revolution caused massive famine for the same reason the Ukrainian Homodolor had such famine and Pol Pot killed so many by famine. Central planning by idiots whose only goal was to take as much food to the central cities from a rural populace who had been made actual slaves of the government.
When push came to shove, the Communists were willing for massive famines instead of admitting error of the economic model. They then claimed the famines were caused by overpopulation (too many mouths) and they instituted the one family one child laws.

I am told the only thing that ended the cycle of famines was the Cultural Revolution causing so many apparatchiks to denounce so many fellow apparatchiks, that the Cadres were so thin on the ground, the locals were able to restart black market farming and get markets up

Posted by: Kindltot at January 25, 2020 10:51 AM (6rS3m)

421 That is what they were doing well at. Propaganda. And their propaganda infrastructure has hardly been affected by the economic downturn.

I was never convinced of truth of their propaganda neither am I convinced of the opposite now. Their economic improvement over the past 20 years is stupendous ... no matter how they were cheating and lying to achieve that. But they are obviously not a match for the West. Yet. They won't give up though and if Trump were to lose in 2020, they'll regroup.

What is interesting to me is that it is now evident that they have had the same strategy toward the west throughout the history of the CCP, despite changes at the top. Their aim is to be the world hegemon and people like Obama and Merkel were willing to bend over for them (Merkel still is).

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January

You are overestimating their economic strength and underestimating their structural weakness.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 10:53 AM (HALdu)

422 To my delight, the president's legal team has come out aggressively.

"We're gay! You hear that, motherfuckers? WE'RE ALL GAY!!!"
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 10:46 AM (NWiLs)

Reason forty bazillion why I can't eat or drink while reading AoS.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 25, 2020 10:47 AM (0ReGO)

Took me like 14 seconds to get it.

I haven't had my second cup yet.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:53 AM (hku12)

423 Posted by: Kindltot at January 25, 2020 10:51 AM (6rS3m)

I think it is similar to NEP (New Economic Policy) of old 1920's USSR rather than Socialist/Communist central planning model.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:54 AM (zr5Kq)

424 Sondland is a goofball.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 25, 2020 10:54 AM (PUmDY)

425 To my delight, the president's legal team has come out aggressively. Thank Christ.
=================
Indeed. Amen.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 25, 2020 10:54 AM (7Fj9P)

426 > Their aim is to be the world hegemon and people like Obama and Merkel were willing to bend over for them (Merkel still is).

People like Obama and Merkel imagine that they'll be put in charge, come the revolution, when in reality they'd be the first people on the bus to the camps. Chicoms don't turn a hair at murdering their own people, much less gwailo.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 25, 2020 10:54 AM (qUFPp)

427 Which is still a problem. Not really a free market.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:54 AM (zr5Kq)

428 In Hunter's defense, kind of hard to get off on the right track when you cocksucker dad shoves you into a BoD chair for Amtrak right after grad.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 10:54 AM (HALdu)

429 boulder, stop drilling!

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 10:55 AM (XxJt1)

430 STOP THE HAMMERING!!

Posted by: Lawrence O'Donnell at January 25, 2020 10:55 AM (yQpMk)

431 These clips he keeps playing a fantastic. Only those that watched the house hearings have seen these.

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 10:55 AM (cF8AT)

432 They need to get the whistleblower bullshit out in the open.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:55 AM (ZCEU2)

433 > You are overestimating their economic strength and underestimating their structural weakness.

Agreed. I think China collapses within five years. Hong Kong is just the first crack in the dam.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January 25, 2020 10:55 AM (qUFPp)

434 Probably not that many. There's no football on.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:49 AM (hku12)

Senior Bowl 2:30 EST. Yeah, I'll watch. College fb withdrawal is long and hard.

Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2020 10:56 AM (X/Pw5)

435 not so - that and cocaine use

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:57 AM (ZCEU2)

436

I don't care that the chicom want to make the world their bitch, everyonewants to, except the Japanese and Germans.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 10:57 AM (HALdu)

437 Purpura finished.

Excellent presentation.

Sekulow up now.

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 10:57 AM (cF8AT)

438 Jay is up

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:57 AM (ZCEU2)

439
I kinda feel bad for Sondland. But then I remember he was a nevertrumper cuck. Then he made a very big donation to the president's inaugural thing (to buy himself an ambassadorship ).

But he owns a unique hotel, or hotels and the fascists on the Left have really targeted him and his hotel(s).

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 10:57 AM (VEsoa)

440 Hunter got a $350k job at giant credit card company MBNA out of law school. Joe pushed anti consumer bank legislation. Quid pro quo?

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2020 10:57 AM (1oLRD)

441 This guy just made his point in about 20 minutes and yielded. Where are the three hour Schiffish stemwinders?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at January 25, 2020 10:57 AM (gd9RK)

442 437 Purpura finished.

Excellent presentation.

Sekulow up now.
Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 10:57 AM (cF8AT)

"Everything pencil-neck Schiff just said is bullshit."

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 10:57 AM (NWiLs)

443 To quote Steve Mosher: China Will Grow Old Before It Grows Rich. The One-Child Policy has killed them.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 25, 2020 10:57 AM (yQpMk)

444 Besides, if your girl wants to watch the impeachment trial, you probably spend your time on Saturdays arranging for her other boyfriend's visit.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:49 AM (hku12)

Hey there, watch it.

Posted by: LASue at January 25, 2020 10:58 AM (Ed8Zd)

445 not so - that and cocaine use
Posted by: Skip at January

Heh, agreed.

Even then though, had his dad not been using him as a way to funnel graft into the family and he had to get a real job he might have turned out not a cokehead.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 10:58 AM (HALdu)

446
This is like watching a post by Ace come to life on my tv set, minus the profanity and incessant references to rectums.

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 10:58 AM (VEsoa)

447 Investigation called "Bus Driver?" What the heck?

Posted by: IrishEi at January 25, 2020 10:58 AM (sGotD)

448
Agreed. I think China collapses within five years.

Return of the Warlords!

Taiping Rebellion, Part the Second!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 25, 2020 10:59 AM (uQyfE)

449 However, given there are ranges of emotions, and the one more often expressed by men is anger, then yeah, it's probably quite true that men get "more emotional" at work than women do.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:25 AM (hku12)

My sis has worked in manufacturing, sales, etc. At one point, she was fielding calls exclusively to/from one of the vendors because he wouldn't talk to the guy in charge of the account.

I couldn't believe it.

But over the years, she had two "admin" jobs - at an auto manufacturer and another in finance - in which the boss flat-out described how she'd be a babysitter/counsellor for pouty, angry men in crucial positions.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 25, 2020 10:59 AM (/+bwe)

450 Probably not that many. There's no football on.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:49 AM (hku12)

Senior Bowl 2:30 EST. Yeah, I'll watch. College fb withdrawal is long and hard.
Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2020 10:56 AM (X/Pw5)

That's not really football though, is it? More like a beauty pageant before the NFL scouts.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:59 AM (hku12)

451 Jay bringing up the failed Mueller report

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 10:59 AM (ZCEU2)

452 I hope someone will have a highlights clip of today's rebukes/debunking/slaughtering of Schiffhead and
Nadless.

Posted by: LASue at January 25, 2020 10:59 AM (Ed8Zd)

453 Senior Bowl 2:30 EST.

The players came to visit our hospital yesterday. If you have been out of college a few decades, it is hard to appreciate just how big the players are now.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 25, 2020 10:59 AM (yQpMk)

454 421 You are overestimating their economic strength and underestimating their structural weakness.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 10:53 AM (HALdu)

ROFLMAO. I never *said* anything about those topics.I *said* that I never believed the propaganda on them and you have somehow completely taken that to mean the opposite.No-one knows their real economic strength or weakness. It is however undeniable that the population in large cities, which is about 200M, has a living standard similar to the west. 20 years ago those people were mostly subsistence farmers.So that they have had economic *growth* is undeniable. The growth *rate* is unknown. The real figures are a state secret.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 10:59 AM (XzVUd)

455 You are overestimating their economic strength and underestimating their structural weakness.

Agreed. I think China collapses within five years. Hong Kong is just the first crack in the dam.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at January

I do think that they have reached the peak of their power, which worries me, because I have a sense they might be willing to do some irrational things to keep power at home.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 10:59 AM (HALdu)

456 We need an impeachment thread.

This is what hearings like this sound with adults in charge

Posted by: JoeF. at January 25, 2020 11:00 AM (CqE5x)

457 Rectum? Damn near killed him.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2020 11:00 AM (ZLI7S)

458 I don't care that the chicom want to make the world their bitch, everyonewants to, except the Japanese and Germans.

-
Everybody Wants To Rule the World

Posted by: Tears For Fears at January 25, 2020 11:00 AM (+y/Ru)

459 To quote Steve Mosher: China Will Grow Old Before It Grows Rich.

or, there's the 'None Of The Above' option

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 25, 2020 11:00 AM (YaJXa)

460 Besides, if your girl wants to watch the impeachment trial, you probably spend your time on Saturdays arranging for her other boyfriend's visit.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:49 AM (hku12)

Hey there, watch it.
Posted by: LASue at January 25, 2020 10:58 AM (Ed8Zd)

No! You can't tell me what to do. Don't make me choke you.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 11:00 AM (hku12)

461
Agreed. I think China collapses within five years. Hong Kong is just the first crack in the dam.

China on the brink, Iran dwindling, Saudi in reform, EU reduced, Norks reduced to issuing threats in semaphore.
'Merica running hot on economics and SPACE FORCE!
That's a lot of winning, Mr. President.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 25, 2020 11:01 AM (oVJmc)

462 I think it is similar to NEP (New Economic Policy) of old 1920's USSR rather than Socialist/Communist central planning model.
Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 10:54 AM (zr5Kq)

Mao was following in Stalin's economic footsteps and was very resistant to Khrushchev's reforms

Posted by: Kindltot at January 25, 2020 11:01 AM (6rS3m)

463 Hunter hasn't made an honest dime in his life
Posted by: Ignoramus
-------

His daddy tried and tried to use Hunter to establish a Biden dynasty, as he had seen those around him do, but Hunter proved to be a self-indulgent wastrel.

Teddy Kennedy was the same, except he was surrounded by protectors.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 25, 2020 11:01 AM (LxqES)

464 386 So, kind of sad story, guy got hit jaywalking through a major thoroughfare yesterday during rush hour.

Now the fuzz that does is hammering motorists with tickets for everything in that neighborhood.

Sigh
Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 10:39 AM (HALdu)

I drive through the Loop frequently, with its bus lanes and bike lanes and pedestrians who dart between cars and arrogant bikers who give no fvcks about laws. I am terrified of hitting someone who is breaking the law, because that fact will not matter in the slightest.

Posted by: Gem at January 25, 2020 11:01 AM (65i3Q)

465 don't care that the chicom want to make the world their bitch, everyonewants to, except the Japanese and Germans.

-
Everybody Wants To Rule the World
Posted by: Tears For Fears at January 25, 2020 11:00 AM (+y/Ru)

I'd like to buy the world's coke.

Posted by: Hunter Biden at January 25, 2020 11:02 AM (t+qrx)

466 In Hunter's defense, kind of hard to get off on the right track when you cocksucker dad shoves you into a BoD chair for Amtrak right after grad.
Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 10:54 AM (HALdu)

Board of Directors, right? I read that as the HQ acronym and thought, "Hunter likes men, too?"

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 25, 2020 11:02 AM (/+bwe)

467 The players came to visit our hospital yesterday. If you have been out of college a few decades, it is hard to appreciate just how big the players are now.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 25, 2020 10:59 AM (yQpMk)

And fast....I was a "big guy" @265# in the mid '70s.

Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2020 11:03 AM (X/Pw5)

468 This guy Jay is good!

Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 11:03 AM (11H2y)

469 I watched about 10 minutes of the House accusations so really that was repeated for three days so I actually heard all their time.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 11:03 AM (ZCEU2)

470

Let me tell you now: When they adjourn today, do not expect Fake News to acknowledge ANY of what was said today.

If they do acknowledge it, which they won't, it will be brief and mis-characterized.

Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 11:03 AM (VEsoa)

471 Damn, he says "when the FBI misled..."

Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 11:03 AM (11H2y)

472 Read that again, Jay.

According to the FISC, the FBI lied to the DOJ.

Something very important to keep in mind.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 25, 2020 11:03 AM (ZLI7S)

473
When I'd look at fox on youtube while the donks were blathering, viewership was usually around 15k.
Right now? 60k.

Posted by: Gooshy at January 25, 2020 11:04 AM (drhIO)

474 Investigation called "Bus Driver?" What the heck?
Posted by: IrishEi at January 25, 2020 10:58 AM (sGotD)

They started with "Peg Hunter" and it kind of evolved into various forms including "Train Hunter", "Train Driver", and finally "Bus Driver".

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2020 11:04 AM (1g7ch)

475 Time to comb the maple syrup out of my beard and get to work on my covered porch project. Later peeps.

Posted by: Traveling Man&&&& at January 25, 2020 11:04 AM (6bGcD)

476 I think China collapses within five years.

-
I have mixed feelings about this, sweet and sour.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 11:04 AM (+y/Ru)

477 ROFLMAO. I never *said* anything about those topics.I *said* that I never believed the propaganda on them and you have somehow completely taken that to mean the opposite.No-one knows their real economic strength or weakness. It is however undeniable that the population in large cities, which is about 200M, has a living standard similar to the west. 20 years ago those people were mostly subsistence farmers.So that they have had economic *growth* is undeniable. The growth *rate* is unknown. The real figures are a state secret.
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January

Now, get back up off the floor and explain how you statement that:

"I never *said* anything about those topics.I"

does not contradict your other statement that:

"Their economic improvement over the past 20 years is stupendous ... no matter how they were cheating and lying to achieve that. "

Reading is fundamental big guy.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 11:04 AM (HALdu)

478 Sowing the Seeds is a great song.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 25, 2020 11:05 AM (PUmDY)

479 However, given there are ranges of emotions, and the one more often expressed by men is anger, then yeah, it's probably quite true that men get "more emotional" at work than women do.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 10:25 AM (hku12)

My sis has worked in manufacturing, sales, etc. At one point, she was fielding calls exclusively to/from one of the vendors because he wouldn't talk to the guy in charge of the account.

I couldn't believe it.

But over the years, she had two "admin" jobs - at an auto manufacturer and another in finance - in which the boss flat-out described how she'd be a babysitter/counsellor for pouty, angry men in crucial positions.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 25, 2020 10:59 AM (/+bwe)

Yep.

There's probably a book to be written on this subject, but then, you probably aren't allowed to write such books these days.

Many women, when men get angry at work, they see it as abuse. Because yeah, there's lots of abuse in this world.

Men get angry at work, and it gets expressed in juvenile ways, because in this world you can't punch somebody in the nose, so nobody gets threatened with getting punched in the nose. Therefore, lots of pent up anger.

Quite a bad mix.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 11:05 AM (hku12)

480 Board of Directors, right? I read that as the HQ acronym and thought, "Hunter likes men, too?"
Posted by: NaughtyPine at January

heh

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 11:05 AM (HALdu)

481 This is like watching a post by Ace come to life on my tv set, minus the profanity and incessant references to rectums.
Posted by: Soothsayer, now with a gentle glide applicator tip at January 25, 2020 10:58 AM (VEsoa)

...and surprise anal.

Posted by: LASue at January 25, 2020 11:05 AM (Ed8Zd)

482 I do think that they have reached the peak of their
power, which worries me, because I have a sense they might be willing to
do some irrational things to keep power at home.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 10:59 AM (HALdu)

They certainly have not achieved the peak of their ambition and they will do whatever it takes to retain power.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 11:05 AM (XzVUd)

483 CNN is playing this, I'm watching on C-span

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 11:05 AM (ZCEU2)

484 Reading is fundamental big guy.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 11:04 AM (HALdu)

You should try it.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 11:06 AM (XzVUd)

485 From the sidebar, re: the "heads on pikes" story, Stiff sez:

"I'm struck by the irony of the idea that a president who would make himself a monarch - that whoever that was would use the terminology of a penalty that was imposed by a monarch."

I'm sure all kinds of monarchs did this. I know the British used it for Cromwell. But, AFAIK, the most prevalent and famous deployment of the tactic was in the French Revolution - where peasants and workers did it on a damn near daily basis, parading through Paris with the piked heads of their class enemies.

Our betters, etc.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice... EJEXIT: If Not Now, When? at January 25, 2020 11:06 AM (EQRLd)

486 ...and surprise anal.

The Otter is up next for Team Trump.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 25, 2020 11:06 AM (yQpMk)

487 I am terrified of hitting someone who is breaking the law, because that fact will not matter in the slightest.

This happened to me my first year here. Before I'd wrangled a permanent address. Hit a bicycless who'd darted through an intersection where I'd previously stopped and started.

I was ruled at fault because, fuck you, bicyclists rule.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 25, 2020 11:06 AM (YaJXa)

488 Jay needs to breathe.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 25, 2020 11:06 AM (PUmDY)

489 Damn, he says "when the FBI misled..."
Posted by: vivi at January 25, 2020 11:03 AM (11H2y)

Remember that one time Debbie Wasserman-Schultz pronounced "misled" as "myzled" on MSNBC, because she was reading from the script they had provided for her, and she was too time-dilatingly stupid to know how to pronounce normal English words?

I miss her honest, up-front, straightforward perfidy. It was an artifact from a purer, more innocent time.

Posted by: hogmartin at January 25, 2020 11:07 AM (t+qrx)

490 Ooooh burn!

Just read a letter to the Ukraine about cooperating with Mueller's investigation...signed by Menendez, Leahy and Durbin!

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 11:07 AM (cF8AT)

491 Do they get bathroom breaks?

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 11:07 AM (ZCEU2)

492 "Peg Hunter"

This will be the nickname of That Stripper forever.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at January 25, 2020 11:07 AM (YaJXa)

493 You should try it.
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January

Answer the question, sugartits, explain how your two statements are not contradictory.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 11:08 AM (HALdu)

494 I couldn't believe it.

But over the years, she had two "admin" jobs - at an auto
manufacturer and another in finance - in which the boss flat-out
described how she'd be a babysitter/counsellor for pouty, angry men in
crucial positions.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 25, 2020 10:59 AM (/+bwe)

---
Read the report about the destroyer collision where the all-female bridge crew didn't check a radar plot because of Officer on Deck was having a spat with the gal running the CIC.

It would be comical if actual sailors didn't die as a result.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 11:08 AM (cfSRQ)

495 I miss her honest, up-front, straightforward perfidy. It was an artifact from a purer, more innocent time.

Posted by: hogmartin at January 25, 2020 11:07 AM (t+qrx)

She should be mgr. instead of Schiff.

Posted by: BignJames at January 25, 2020 11:09 AM (X/Pw5)

496 In Hunter's defense, kind of hard to get off on the right track when you cocksucker dad shoves you into a BoD chair for Amtrak right after grad.
Posted by: not so
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A fair point. Hunter is just a victim of his father's expectations, but that's what I meant by Joe's desire for a typical Dem dynasty. Joe is probably still puzzled as to why it has gone wrong.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 25, 2020 11:09 AM (LxqES)

497 In the pillar of the community article about the serial pooper:

"Store owner Henry Kanner said he couldn't understand why she did it - but was flush with excitement at her arrest."

Snerk.

Posted by: Gem at January 25, 2020 11:09 AM (65i3Q)

498 Morning all and thanks again Mis Hum.

Heidi said she read that the Corona Virus comes from snakes. HIV from monkeys. How do you get it from snakes? You have to live them? Could that be a thing?

Posted by: Xannibal Bob at January 25, 2020 11:10 AM (hmgiv)

499 Just in tone and presentation skills, Trump's team is D-1 and Schitthead is JuCo.

Posted by: LASue at January 25, 2020 11:10 AM (Ed8Zd)

500 In the pillar of the community article about the serial pooper:

Was it a high-fiber serial?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 25, 2020 11:11 AM (oVJmc)

501 Remember that one time Debbie Wasserman-Schultz pronounced "misled" as "myzled" on MSNBC, because she was reading from the script they had provided for her, and she was too time-dilatingly stupid to know how to pronounce normal English words?

-
And Mister Mxyzptlk had to return to the 5th dimension.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at January 25, 2020 11:11 AM (+y/Ru)

502 Men more emotional at work? NOPE. Teaching I saw chick teachers crying in the copy room on a regular basis. No guys, and that's considering most of the guys teaching in elementary school were like chicks anyway. Soiboy Central.

Posted by: Xannibal Bob at January 25, 2020 11:12 AM (hmgiv)

503 Lots of shade being thrown re: the number of hours the House managers took and how they repeated videos over and over ("We're not going to do that. You saw it.").

Posted by: Vendette at January 25, 2020 11:12 AM (SL4lK)

504
JAN. 21-23
Rasmussen Reports/Pulse Opinion Research
1,500 LV 0.79
49% (approve
49% (disapprove
43% (adjusted
51% (adjusted
JAN. 21-23
Emerson College
1,128 RV 1.89
47% (approve
48% (disapprove
46% (adjusted
50% (adjusted

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 11:13 AM (zr5Kq)

505 482 I do think that they have reached the peak of their
power, which worries me, because I have a sense they might be willing to
do some irrational things to keep power at home.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 10:59 AM (HALdu)

They certainly have not achieved the peak of their ambition and they will do whatever it takes to retain power.
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 11:05 AM (XzVUd)

Are you still discussing China or have you switched to our Democratic Party?

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 25, 2020 11:13 AM (/+bwe)

506
I miss her honest, up-front, straightforward perfidy. It was an artifact from a purer, more innocent time.
Posted by: hogmartin
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It was enhanced by her physiognomy. Looking at her, it was as if a bag lady was speaking. It was, in a strange way, hard to look away.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 25, 2020 11:13 AM (LxqES)

507 Hunter lost his mother when he was young, which is hard

Then he got raised by Stepmother of the Year Doctor Doctor Jill Biden.

And a father who's a domineering pompous shithead

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2020 11:14 AM (1oLRD)

508 Answer the question, sugartits, explain how your two statements are not contradictory.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 11:08 AM (HALdu)

I was commenting on the propaganda not "economic strength".The *growth* I asserted is a *fact*. Any measure of "economic strength" is a theory based on data, which is required before any conclusion can be drawn.
It is well-known that the available data is almost entirely based on data inferred from trade figures and the like. That is subject to interpretation, which up until now has been guided by the helping hand of the CCP.I made no claim on "economic strength" but I did assert that there had undeniably been "growth".

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 11:14 AM (XzVUd)

509 In Hunter's defense, kind of hard to get off on the right track when you cocksucker dad shoves you into a BoD chair for Amtrak right after grad.
Posted by: not so
-----------

A fair point. Hunter is just a victim of his father's expectations, but that's what I meant by Joe's desire for a typical Dem dynasty. Joe is probably still puzzled as to why it has gone wrong.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 25, 2020 11:09 AM (LxqES)

The statute of limitations on being "victim" of one's parents expectations runs out around age 25.

Let's see, how old is Hunter.....

Turns 50 next week?

Yeah, not a victim. A co-conspirator.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 11:14 AM (hku12)

510 Mister Mxyzptlk was kind of awesome, like Bizarro

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 25, 2020 11:14 AM (PUmDY)

511 Just in tone and presentation skills, Trump's team is D-1 and Schitthead is JuCo.
Posted by: LASue at January 25, 2020 11:10 AM (Ed8Zd)

----

Don't worry, scrote. There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick-ass lives. My Congessman was 'tarded. He's an Impeachment Manager now.

Posted by: CA-28 voter at January 25, 2020 11:14 AM (EQRLd)

512

I love how they use the term house managers. I know that is who they are, but it gives them no credibility - at all.

Those House Managers! lol

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 25, 2020 11:15 AM (vEIlU)

513 505 Are you still discussing China or have you switched to our Democratic Party?

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 25, 2020 11:13 AM (/+bwe)

The former ... but if the shoe fits.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 11:15 AM (XzVUd)

514 You should try it.
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January

The story about emotions deliberately confuses "men at work have emotions and feel strongly about their work" with women behave in an emotional way."

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 11:15 AM (HALdu)

515 Part of that Ukrainian corruption problem was a Biden

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 11:15 AM (ZCEU2)

516
Turns 50 next week?

Yeah, not a victim. A co-conspirator.
Posted by: BurtTC
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Again, Teddy Kennedy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 25, 2020 11:16 AM (LxqES)

517 That survey is for "how popular is POTUS" question.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 11:16 AM (zr5Kq)

518 crew didn't check a radar plot because of Officer on Deck was having a spat with the gal running the CIC.

It would be comical if actual sailors didn't die as a result.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 11:08 AM (cfSRQ)

Yeah, I saw that. I also remember the would-be assassin astronaut caught on her long-distance trek to kill her romantic rival.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 25, 2020 11:16 AM (/+bwe)

519 Part of that Ukrainian corruption problem was a Biden
Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 11:15 AM (ZCEU2)

Part of that Ukrainian corruption problem was a Biden, Clinton's, Obama, Soros...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 25, 2020 11:16 AM (vEIlU)

520 The fact that this impeachment bullshit is going on at all is absurd and shows just how far things have degraded.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 11:17 AM (NWiLs)

521 Men more emotional at work? NOPE.
==================
Yeah, that doesn't pass the smell test. Probably questions like: "Have you ever felt extremely angry at work?"
Yes. Angry b/c all the wominz are crying in the copy room and there's a bid to get out.
Chicks bring their personal problems to work all the time. In fact, they often spill over into work relationships. Dudes typically want to gtfo after they kill and eat.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 25, 2020 11:17 AM (7Fj9P)

522 Not watching em-peach, like most of America.

Posted by: runner at January 25, 2020 11:17 AM (zr5Kq)

523 The statute of limitations on being "victim" of one's parents expectations runs out around age 25.

Let's see, how old is Hunter.....

Turns 50 next week?

Yeah, not a victim. A co-conspirator.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 11:14 AM (hku12)

Bidens and Kennedys are real time examples of how throughout history even the strongest dynasties quickly degenerate. The first spawn may be a chip off the old block that built an empire, but they are usually struggling by the third generation with buffoons.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at January 25, 2020 11:18 AM (1g7ch)

524 Cleanup on Aisle 511?

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 11:18 AM (XxJt1)

525 How many D Senators vote to acquit

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2020 11:18 AM (1oLRD)

526 Does Sekulow wear a bullet proof vest too? Looks like it

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 25, 2020 11:18 AM (vEIlU)

527 507 Hunter lost his mother when he was young, which is hard

I lost my mother when I was 1 month old.

and my dad always blamed me.

I turned out alright.

Hunter would be a scumbag no matter what

scum's gonna scum

Posted by: REDACTED at January 25, 2020 11:18 AM (rpxSz)

528 I can't think of how the cable legal analcysts can shit all over trump's lawyers at the next recess, but they'll think of something

Posted by: JoeF. at January 25, 2020 11:18 AM (CqE5x)

529 >I also remember the would-be assassin astronaut caught on her long-distance trek to kill her romantic rival.
Posted by: NaughtyPine

oh yeah and she was wearing space diapers so she could drive all night without stopping to pee

Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 11:18 AM (iTXRQ)

530 I was commenting on the propaganda not "economic strength".The *growth* I asserted is a *fact*. Any measure of "economic strength" is a theory based on data, which is required before any conclusion can be drawn.
It is well-known that the available data is almost entirely based on data inferred from trade figures and the like. That is subject to interpretation, which up until now has been guided by the helping hand of the CCP.I made no claim on "economic strength" but I did assert that there had undeniably been "growth".
Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January

you are contradicting your "ROFLMAO. I never *said* anything about those topics" statement now.

does not explain how the first two statements were not contradictory. go back, try again.

kind of wonder why you ever said anything to begin with.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 11:18 AM (HALdu)

531 Men at Work were great.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at January 25, 2020 11:19 AM (PUmDY)

532 The so called President's team has made their appearance, spewing lie after lie. Fortunately for them, tomorrow is an off day and they can get back to collusion. Only Hillary can save us.

Posted by: We Are CNN at January 25, 2020 11:19 AM (C1Lsn)

533 How many D Senators vote to acquit
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2020 11:18 AM (1oLRD)

1?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 25, 2020 11:19 AM (vEIlU)

534 The statute of limitations on being "victim" of one's parents expectations runs out around age 25.
--------

Amy Carter gave it a modest go, and bailed.

Once Bill and Hill are off of the scene, we will probably never hear of Chelsea again.

Right now, Hillary is trying her best to thrust Chelsea into the socio-political limelight, but I don't think Chelsea has any enthusiasm for it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 25, 2020 11:19 AM (LxqES)

535 Cleanup on Aisle 511?
Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 11:18 AM (XxJt1)

It's from a movie.

Posted by: hogmartin at January 25, 2020 11:19 AM (t+qrx)

536 Hunter lost his mother when he was young, which is hard

Then he got raised by Stepmother of the Year Doctor Doctor Jill Biden.

And a father who's a domineering pompous shithead
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2020 11:14 AM (1oLRD)

Not sure where any of this is going.

The guy took cash from a country doing business with the US government. He put his peener in a stripper. He's had more snow up his nose than a polar bear has under its feet.

You look in any prison across the country, you'll find thousands and thousands of men who could claim all sorts of hellish experiences that you might not even imagine is possible in this world.

Eventually, the biography stops mattering. Let's look at the crimes, and shut the f**k up about what a hard time this pampered douchebag has had.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 11:19 AM (hku12)

537 * sheepish grin*

Never mind the cleanup. Nice one, YD.

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 11:19 AM (XxJt1)

538 Historically speaking, revolutions don't happen when things go from bad to worse. That actually is a pretty stable circumstance, which is why Venezuela and North Korea are pretty quiet. See also Zimbabwe, South Africa, etc.

You get a revolution when expectations are sharply at variance with reality, which is to say things started to get better than then retreat unexpectedly.

Alternatively, when authority figures are exposed as blindingly inept.

A third cause is a shocking show of weakness in the face of challenge.

China has all three happening simultaneously.

They claim the economy is still growing, but that's a lie.

Hong Kong's defiance is a gaping wound to their aura of invincibility.

And now you have a pandemic. Much of the roadblocks and teams in moon suits are just for show.

"We've got this, everyone calm down."

But they don't, and unless they suddenly get a grip, things will get real sporty.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 11:19 AM (cfSRQ)

539 A fair point. Hunter is just a victim of his father's expectations, but that's what I meant by Joe's desire for a typical Dem dynasty. Joe is probably still puzzled as to why it has gone wrong.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 25, 2020 11:09 AM (LxqES)

Agreed

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 11:20 AM (HALdu)

540 535 Cleanup on Aisle 511?
Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 11:18 AM (XxJt1)

It's from a movie.
Posted by: hogmartin at January 25, 2020 11:19 AM (t+qrx)

Idiocracy. Which we're living in right now.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at January 25, 2020 11:20 AM (NWiLs)

541 Ignore me, hogmartin. I'm addled.

Posted by: creeper at January 25, 2020 11:21 AM (XxJt1)

542 I can't think of how the cable legal analcysts can
shit all over trump's lawyers at the next recess, but they'll think of
something

Posted by: JoeF. at January 25, 2020 11:18 AM (CqE5x)

Things are expected to finish up today by no later than 1 p.m., so they will have all afternoon and evening (and tomorrow).

Posted by: Vendette at January 25, 2020 11:21 AM (SL4lK)

543 Perfect for a rainy Saturday morning - a hilarious send up of Greta from the BBC in Scotland:

https://tinyurl.com/uuh5l43

Posted by: RondinellaMamma at January 25, 2020 11:21 AM (8/7u2)

544 noodddd

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 25, 2020 11:21 AM (vEIlU)

545 >But they don't, and unless they suddenly get a grip, things will get real sporty.
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

yes but then the PLA gets to weigh in

Posted by: DB- just DB at January 25, 2020 11:21 AM (iTXRQ)

546 Thinking about going to CNN at end just to hear their side

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 11:21 AM (ZCEU2)

547 does not explain how the first two statements were not contradictory. go back, try again.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 11:18 AM (HALdu)

No.

You will have to go back and *read* what I said and try to *understand* it, rather than just putting your own gloss on it.

I am not interested in quibbling over your interpretation of what I said.

The statements were not contradictory because they were discussing *different* things. One a fact, the other a theory.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January 25, 2020 11:22 AM (XzVUd)

548 >>>Now, finally, the grown ups get the stage.

I'm watching C-SPAN:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/r43q4jr

Posted by: m at January 25, 2020 11:22 AM (ghFVE)

549 525
How many D Senators vote to acquit

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2020 11:18 AM (1oLRD)

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Five.

Maybe more if FISA stuff/Deep State crap keeps coming out.

Dem fallback position will be: "I hate OrangeManBad but House managers stepped on their dicks and blew it."

Pelosi will take the fall.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 25, 2020 11:22 AM (cfSRQ)

550 546 Thinking about going to CNN at end just to hear their side

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 11:21 AM (ZCEU2)

Better you than me.

Oh and shower before you come back here.

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 11:22 AM (cF8AT)

551 Not excusing Hunter in the least. But he wasn't the driver. It was Joe

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2020 11:23 AM (1oLRD)

552 How many D Senators vote to acquit

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2020 11:18 AM (1oLRD)

Nah, that would make Chuck look bad.
Maybe two--
Manchin and Sinema

Posted by: JoeF. at January 25, 2020 11:24 AM (CqE5x)

553 Not sure where any of this is going.

The guy took cash from a country doing business with the US government. He put his peener in a stripper. He's had more snow up his nose than a polar bear has under its feet.

You look in any prison across the country, you'll find thousands and thousands of men who could claim all sorts of hellish experiences that you might not even imagine is possible in this world.

Eventually, the biography stops mattering. Let's look at the crimes, and shut the f**k up about what a hard time this pampered douchebag has had.
Posted by: BurtTC at January

Nobody is suggesting that he does not have any responsibility just that the circumstances surrounding him were a big thing in how he turned out.

Having a powerful family and access to easy cash is something that lot of guys would be seduced by. His dad setting him up in jobs, as a way to funnel graft to the family, made it easier for him to go wrong. Think of how many guys have gone wrong with fewer influences acting against them.

Does it mean he is blameless? No. Does it mean his dad is an even bigger cocksucker than acknowledged? Yes.

Hunter was an idiot to begin with.

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 11:25 AM (HALdu)

554 From the workplace emotion article

Young people have a happier future to look forward to though as their experience of negative emotions at work is expected to decline dramatically with age.

Yes, its called becoming emotionally dead and resigned to your fate.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at January 25, 2020 11:25 AM (YA914)

555 Chinese President Xi Jinping has held a special government meeting on the Lunar New Year public holiday to warn that the spread of a deadly new virus is "accelerating".

It must be breaking Stephen King's heart that Captain Trips is starting in commie China rather than the USA

Posted by: Boomer Redneque, MAGAbilly at January 25, 2020 11:25 AM (dva7v)

556 Yeah, that doesn't pass the smell test. Probably questions like: "Have you ever felt extremely angry at work?"
Yes. Angry b/c all the wominz are crying in the copy room and there's a bid to get out.
Chicks bring their personal problems to work all the time. In fact, they often spill over into work relationships. Dudes typically want to gtfo after they kill and eat.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 25, 2020 11:17 AM (7Fj9P)

If all the women are crying in your copy room, your problem may be your hiring practices, not women in general.

And yeah, to say it again... anger IS an emotion, and men get angry at work. Often.

Probably more often than the wimminz are crying in the copy room.

Posted by: BurtTC at January 25, 2020 11:25 AM (hku12)

557 Men more emotional at work? NOPE. Teaching I saw chick teachers crying in the copy room on a regular basis. No guys, and that's considering most of the guys teaching in elementary school were like chicks anyway. Soiboy Central.
Posted by: Xannibal Bob at January 25, 2020 11:12 AM

Ha ha! Sounds like where I student-taught. Then I went to saner places.

Although I had a run-in with a co-worker because he was letting kids use his keys to get into teachers-only places. I told a kid to leave, and he became irate, cited his busy coaching/teaching schedule, and asked if i was going to tell our principal.

I laughed about the idea of me "tattling to dad."

So he went to the principal about me laughing at him. Unprofessional, I am. I don't think he'd have lasted this long if our older coach/teachers hadn't retired.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at January 25, 2020 11:27 AM (/+bwe)

558 Sekulow finished.

Patrick Philbin up now...

Posted by: Tami at January 25, 2020 11:27 AM (cF8AT)

559 525
How many D Senators vote to acquit

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 25, 2020 11:18 AM (1oLRD)
________

I'm hoping at least Sinema will in representing the legal and non-parasitic citizens of Arizona.

Posted by: ShainS, Club Gulag > Club Gitmo at January 25, 2020 11:28 AM (64Qju)

560 No.

You will have to go back and *read* what I said and try to *understand* it, rather than just putting your own gloss on it.

I am not interested in quibbling over your interpretation of what I said.

The statements were not contradictory because they were discussing *different* things. One a fact, the other a theory.

Posted by: Enquiring Minds Want to Know at January

Yes.

First you discussed economics.

Second shit yourself saying you did not discuss economics.

Third you said that what you meant when you discussed economics the first time was different than how it was written.

You are just wrong and seem not to understand the things you are copying and pasting.

Not sure I can help you much here. Does you library have a literacy program you could sign up for?

Posted by: not so at January 25, 2020 11:28 AM (HALdu)

561 https://gph.is/1m5FwFD
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1 Hour In & Deep State & MFM are like

Posted by: Ghost of Qassem Soleimani at January 25, 2020 11:28 AM (BqBId)

562 I take it the big vote after the President's side is to ask for more witnesses.

Posted by: Skip at January 25, 2020 11:32 AM (ZCEU2)

563 hogmartin #489: ...Remember that one time Debbie Wasserman-Schultz pronounced "misled" as "myzled" on MSNBC, because she was reading from the script they had provided for her, and she was too time-dilatingly stupid to know how to pronounce normal English words?
I miss her honest, up-front, straightforward perfidy. It was an artifact from a purer, more innocent time.

Heh. I say, old sport, a webwork hook!
1-min vid from 2013 Nov 7 when I could still did vid
Myzled by the Prezident
New Rap Star Congresscritter
link in nic

Posted by: mindful webworker - myzled at January 25, 2020 11:42 AM (0mP7b)

564 nood
PDT in Davos

Posted by: m at January 25, 2020 11:48 AM (ghFVE)

565 It's outrageous, egregious, preposterous!

Posted by: Jackie Chiles Schiff at January 25, 2020 01:13 PM (LxqES)

566 On the U-Haul/nicotine thing. Are people who vape now smokers?

Posted by: RosalindJ at January 25, 2020 03:52 PM (RrnBJ)

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