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Sunday Overnight Open Thread (5/3/20)
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. C. P. Snow: English novelist & scientist (1905 - 1980)
Quote II
“We are mixing into this epidemic the most lethal means for suicide that has ever been invented,” Dr. Eric Fleegler, a professor of emergency medicine at Harvard Medical School
Quote III
“The current status quo relies on one-size-fits-all edicts that unfairly punish millions of people across the state without giving them any recourse or voice in the process. The people deserve a better solution, and we can provide it.” State of Michagan Assembly Speaker Lee Chatfield(R)
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I know these delays have been hard. You depend on our courts to protect your rights and help resolve your disputes. We are all looking forward to the day when we can get back to something that feels more normal. For now, we must remain vigilant about protecting each other.North Carolina Chief Justice Cheri Beasley
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“Biden is such a fucking slime ball, he’s so weak, and has no appeal to anybody. Trump, at least, is a snake oil salesman, he does tricks. He does them really badly, but people don’t care.” Pink Floyd's Roger Waters
What's up with Asia? First China gives us the Kung flu. Now Asia is giving us murderous hornets. H/T CBD
If you didn't think 2020 could get much worse, it just did with the invasion of murder hornets. The Asian giant hornet (vespa mandarinia) is described as 1.5 inches to 2 inches in length with an orange-yellow head and black stripes on its abdomen. Kyoto Sangyo University researcher Jun-ichi Takahashi said the hornet species earned its "murder hornet" nickname due to its toxic venom, which is equivalent to that of a venomous snake, according to a New York Times piece on Saturday that got social media talking about the horrifying pest. Multiple stings from this large hornet can be fatal. So much so that hornets kill up to 50 people a year in Japan alone. And now they're in the United States.
Scrubs star Sam Lloyd has died, aged 56. RIP.
Lloyd, who played the bumbling lawyer Ted Buckland on the beloved medical sitcom, was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour and lung cancer in 2019. The diagnosis shortly followed the birth of his new baby, Weston, with his wife Vanessa. Lloyd, whose death was confirmed by his representative, is the nephew of Back to the Future star Christopher Lloyd.
Probably a good thing Mitt Romney never saw this contraption.
Oh no we won't punish you. We just wish to know who you are.
Earlier this month, Dickinson College’s administration and security officials sought to identify the anonymous operator of an Instagram account, “menofdickinson,” while asking Instagram to remove the account. In response to a letter from FIRE, the college has committed that it will not discipline any student responsible for the account, but defended its efforts to investigate and identify its operator, claiming that it was required to do so by federal law. (It wasn’t.) The Dickinson student newspaper, collecting screenshots of a number of posts from the account, reported that the account was created in the wake of student protests criticizing the college’s response to sexual assault — protests that ultimately led Dickinson’s administration to agree to some of the changes urged by students. Phrases in the now-deleted “menofdickinson” tagline (“Empowering men since 1783” and “Made for men and woMEN”were borrowed from a “womenofdickinson” account (“empowering women since 1783” and “made for women and feMENists”
Christopher Wray of The FBI is a typical lawyer. He can talk out of both sides of his mouth.
Christopher Wray, the FBI director who has been one of the fiercest critics of encryption under the Trump administration, previously worked as a lawyer for WhatsApp, where he defended the practice, according to new court filings. The documents, which were released late on Wednesday night as part of an unrelated matter, show Wray worked for WhatsApp in 2015 while he was an attorney for the Washington law firm of King & Spalding. While there are sparse details about the precise nature of the work, the filings indicate that Wray strongly defended the need for end-to-end encryption in his previous representation of WhatsApp, the popular messaging application owned by Facebook.Personally, I don't hold that against him. I do find him totally reprehensible for the FBI remaining a sewer. Or reason #352 I hate the Federal Government. (Nope, no Humanitarian feelings towards them.)
'30 Years Later, This Big Boy Fusion Reactor Is Almost Ready to Turn On. Then it just needs to get hot.'
Could nuclear fusion finally be right around the corner ... in 2035? The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, or ITER, is a 30-year-old project started by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. With tens of billions of dollars on the line, this experimental tokamak fusion reactor—a nuclear fusion plasma reactor where extremely hot, charged plasma spins and generates virtually limitless energy—is one of a handful of extremely costly “miniature suns” around the world.
The coronavirus pandemic swiftly put an end to concerts for the foreseeable future, with every level of touring halted until COVID-19 is under control. Experts are predicting large-scale gatherings won’t be safe until “fall 2021 at the earliest” — but apparently Denmark can’t wait that long. Last week, the city of Aarhus held a drive-in concert where audience members could watch live music from the comfort of their cars. The government in Denmark has enforced social distancing measures akin to those in the US, but Aarhus residents read those rules and decided to get creative. A stage was erected on the city’s outskirts so that singer-songwriter Mads Langer could perform to an audience in-person instead of via livestream (via Stereogum). From inside their socially-distanced cars, attendees could turn their FM dials to the designated radio station to hear his set live on air, hence experiencing a concert the way you would a drive-in movie.
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On this day: 3 May 1968I would have been so pissed. There wasn't enough dope to give me to stick around for the second half.
The Beach Boys opened their US tour on which the co-headliner was Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The second half of the concert which featured the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, lectured the audience on "spiritual regeneration." The reaction was so negative, more than half of the remaining tour dates were cancelled. via thisdayinmusic.com
Born on this day: 3 May 1933
James Brown 'Soul Brother No.1', (1966 US No.8 and UK No.13 single 'It's A Man's World', 1986 UK No.5 single 'Living In America', 1963 album 'Live At The Apollo'). Brown demanded extreme discipline from his musicians and dancers, and had the practice of assessing fines on members of his band who broke his rules, such as wearing un-shined shoes, dancing out of sync or showing up late on stage. Brown died on 25th Dec 2006 at the age of 73. via thisdayinmusic.com
Florida, Tasers. Of course Genius Award Winners.
ST. PETERSBURG — A police officer was suspended after an internal investigation found he used his Taser on his then-fiancée and a family friend. The two gave Officer John Pace their permission to use the weapon them, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department. Pace was handed a 160-hour suspension without pay, removed from specialized units for 18 months and referred to the department’s employee assistance program, police said. He will also have to meet with his supervisor once a month to ensure he’s using his Taser properly. Pace could not be reached for comment Thursday.
Way back in October of 1992, a 17-year-old Waterbury boy had his 1990 Kawasaki KX125-H dirt bike stolen. According to FOX 61, it was swiped when the boy was taken away to presumably get medical attention after he broke his arm riding it. More than 27 years later, however, the former Kawasaki owner has finally been reunited with his old dirt bike. According to police, the bike was seized after an officer spotted it "tearing through" Bushnell Park in Hartford, CT—likely by someone taking advantage of the park's newfound emptiness brought on by the state's current stay-at-home orders. Authorities were able to trace the bike back to the October 1992 Waterbury police report using manufacturer records kept by the National Insurance Crime Bureau and the National Crime Information Center. The method is helpful when VINs are scratched off. Apparently, dozens of stolen items are returned to their rightful owners this way every year.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Charles the Simple at May 03, 2020 09:56 PM (HuH1F)
Posted by: boomers remember stuff at May 03, 2020 09:56 PM (+U5Yr)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at May 03, 2020 09:56 PM (HuH1F)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at May 03, 2020 09:56 PM (HuH1F)
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 09:56 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at May 03, 2020 09:57 PM (HuH1F)
I am actually surprised I have not hit the wall of shame more than once during the lockdown.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 03, 2020 09:59 PM (A5zUN)
Posted by: wing at May 03, 2020 09:59 PM (JFzNN)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 03, 2020 10:00 PM (A5zUN)
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 10:01 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: SCCJ Juan Roberts at May 03, 2020 10:02 PM (jnM20)
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Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 10:02 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at May 03, 2020 10:03 PM (dlZr1)
Yeah, Biden is a slime ball. And a stoopid one at that.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 03, 2020 10:03 PM (WFcrO)
What am I doing wrong in my life?
Posted by: SCCJ Juan Roberts at May 03, 2020 10:03 PM (jnM20)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:04 PM (jnM20)
Posted by: irongrampa at May 03, 2020 10:04 PM (KATBx)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:04 PM (jnM20)
Posted by: mindful webworker
link: Lizard Queen of Chicago
at May 03, 2020 10:04 PM (oBghv)
Posted by: clutch at May 03, 2020 10:05 PM (9UmRs)
Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at May 03, 2020 10:05 PM (Vf4Y7)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 03, 2020 10:06 PM (6SvfK)
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 10:06 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 03, 2020 10:06 PM (l9m7l)
Posted by: ALH at May 03, 2020 10:07 PM (Lhcx9)
Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has slammed Joe Biden as a "f---ing slime ball."
Waters was a supporter of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for president and gave an expansive interview to Rolling Stone in April that addressed the 2020 presidential election.
Biden is such a f---ing slime ball, he's so weak, and has no appeal to anybody," Waters said of the presumptive Democratic nominee. "Trump, at least, is a snake oil salesman, he does tricks. He does them really badly, but people don't care."
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Even a blind clock finds a nut once in a while.
https://washex.am/3c1vU9e
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 03, 2020 10:07 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 03, 2020 10:07 PM (mht8P)
I've always thought that was the grandest old flag!
Posted by: mindful webworker
link: Lizard Queen of Chicago
at May 03, 2020 10:04 PM (oBghv)
1906
https://tinyurl.com/ybrdnmn9
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 03, 2020 10:07 PM (A5zUN)
just buy one on craigslist or ... ?
and then go buy a SIM card for cash at your local walmart.
boom, working phone, zero id, lolgf gummint.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at May 03, 2020 10:08 PM (cqteU)
Early in? Where's the sparing repartee?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 03, 2020 10:08 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Boo Boo at May 03, 2020 10:08 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 03, 2020 10:06 PM (l9m7l)
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That's wonderful! I hope you told them just how awesome they are.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 03, 2020 10:09 PM (WFcrO)
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Fusion is the power source of tomorrow and always will be.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 03, 2020 10:07 PM (mht8P)
#twodecades
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 03, 2020 10:09 PM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Working on his manifesto at May 03, 2020 10:10 PM (x8Wzq)
just buy one on craigslist or ... ?
and then go buy a SIM card for cash at your local walmart.
boom, working phone, zero id, lolgf gummint.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at May 03, 2020 10:08 PM (cqteU
Feel free to drop me a burner phone and all of the accessories to the email addy above.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 03, 2020 10:10 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 03, 2020 10:07 PM (mht8P)
Except for those minima!
Posted by: Zombie E Maunder at May 03, 2020 10:10 PM (jnM20)
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 10:10 PM (Qf83p)
It takes quite a lot to get me to side with Team Tarantula, but way to go, vespids. You fuckin' dicks.
Posted by: hogmartin at May 03, 2020 10:11 PM (t+qrx)
So... check it our if you have seven hours & 45 minutes.
You'll thank me. It's astonishing. It was his last performance before he died, btw.
Posted by: mnw at May 03, 2020 10:11 PM (Cssks)
Wedding anniversary today - 23 years. I grilled burgers. Yay me!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 03, 2020 10:11 PM (pNxlR)
And they wonder why no one trusts the government-media complex anymore.
Posted by: Dr. T at May 03, 2020 10:11 PM (pxDdN)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 03, 2020 10:12 PM (zqhdn)
Posted by: JTB at May 03, 2020 10:12 PM (7EjX1)
Posted by: Miklos, preferring Mardi Gras parades at May 03, 2020 10:12 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 03, 2020 10:12 PM (A5zUN)
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I've got this.
Posted by: Cyberfrog at May 03, 2020 10:12 PM (kOpft)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 03, 2020 10:12 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 03, 2020 10:12 PM (pNxlR)
Good on ya mate, don't screw it up!
Posted by: Zombie E Maunder at May 03, 2020 10:12 PM (jnM20)
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 10:10 PM (Qf83p)
Poor soul, he is just too high strung.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 03, 2020 10:13 PM (A5zUN)
https://otherpeoplesvideos.wordpress.com/
2020/05/03/now-meet-the-asian-murder-hornets/
Posted by: mindful webworker
link: Lizard Queen of Chicago
at May 03, 2020 10:13 PM (oBghv)
But I hate the whole "Trump is turribul, but Biden is worse" brand of opining.
Oh. And you're a fucking Limey, Roger.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Working on his manifesto at May 03, 2020 10:13 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 10:13 PM (Qf83p)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:14 PM (jnM20)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 03, 2020 10:12 PM (aKsyK)
Done in by their own hubris.
Posted by: hogmartin at May 03, 2020 10:14 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 03, 2020 10:11 PM (pNxlR)
Happy anniversary!
Posted by: Dr. T at May 03, 2020 10:14 PM (pxDdN)
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 10:14 PM (Qf83p)
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 03, 2020 10:14 PM (C3BnY)
Wedding anniversary today - 23 years. I grilled burgers. Yay me!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)
Burgers on the grill
https://youtu.be/HdQEAeBa7nw
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 03, 2020 10:14 PM (aKsyK)
I hope the murder hornets don't clash with the African killer bees that took over 15 years ago
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
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Well, let's hope they don't mate.
As for a clash, that I'd like to see.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 03, 2020 10:15 PM (G51Gf)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 03, 2020 10:15 PM (mht8P)
Posted by: Traveling Man Who's Stuck At Home&&&& at May 03, 2020 10:15 PM (FmqVP)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 03, 2020 10:15 PM (G51Gf)
The Shareef won't like it.
Posted by: hogmartin at May 03, 2020 10:15 PM (t+qrx)
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I'd apologize to Mr. Snow for using this quote shamelessly without attribution* for my entire life, but he's been dead since before I was born.
*thanks, MisHum, I now know where this comes from.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2020 10:15 PM (5jaxN)
Happy Anniversary, Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)!
Now that's something that would look funny on a greeting card.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 03, 2020 10:16 PM (G51Gf)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 03, 2020 10:16 PM (mht8P)
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 10:16 PM (Qf83p)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 03, 2020 10:11 PM (pNxlR)
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Congratulations! Here's to many, many more happy years together!!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 03, 2020 10:16 PM (WFcrO)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 03, 2020 10:15 PM (mht8P)
If only he had closed the border earlier and renounced slavery...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:16 PM (jnM20)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 03, 2020 10:06 PM (6SvfK)
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Shouldn't chemtrails and global warming be in there somewhere?
Posted by: bluebell at May 03, 2020 10:17 PM (/669Q)
As for a clash, that I'd like to see.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 03, 2020 10:15 PM (G51Gf)
The Shareef won't like it.
Posted by: hogmartin
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As for the Shareef, if he's one of these dudes who patrols the parks and arrests mothers, I'd like to see him referee the clash.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 03, 2020 10:17 PM (G51Gf)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 03, 2020 10:17 PM (mht8P)
Posted by: bluebell at May 03, 2020 10:17 PM (/669Q)
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How could I forget?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 03, 2020 10:18 PM (6SvfK)
Posted by: bluebell at May 03, 2020 10:17 PM (/669Q)
Net neutrality killed those already.
Or lack of net neutrality.
One of those. The one we hate.
Posted by: hogmartin at May 03, 2020 10:18 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: mindful webworker
link: Lizard Queen of Chicago
at May 03, 2020 10:18 PM (oBghv)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 03, 2020 10:18 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: DB- just DB. at May 03, 2020 10:18 PM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 03, 2020 10:19 PM (6SvfK)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2020 10:15 PM (5jaxN)
You're welcome.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 03, 2020 10:19 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: bluebell at May 03, 2020 10:19 PM (/669Q)
What could possibly go wrong?
Where are these? Just for my own information. And safe solar distancing.
Posted by: mindful webworker
link: Lizard Queen of Chicago
at May 03, 2020 10:19 PM (oBghv)
Or lack of net neutrality.
One of those. The one we hate.
Posted by: hogmartin
I really hate the one we hate whichever it is!
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 10:19 PM (Qf83p)
He hates everything.
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 10:16 PM (Qf83p)
I can't believe that guy wrote Dark Side Of The Moon. On the other hand, he also wrote that horrible solo album that consisted of about 35 minutes of noise, followed by that one song I liked on the radio that was the reason I bought the album.
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 10:19 PM (dOV9E)
And screw Menards. Costco too
Posted by: Pete Seria at May 03, 2020 10:20 PM (7ZQe3)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 03, 2020 10:20 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:14 PM (jnM20)
{{{Hrothgar}}}
I sure hope you're okay.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 10:21 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Pete Seria at May 03, 2020 10:20 PM (7ZQe3)
Gotta seriously rethink Costco!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:21 PM (jnM20)
Posted by: 18-1 at May 03, 2020 10:21 PM (WdocV)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 03, 2020 10:20 PM (+y/Ru)
No, that would be MurderHornetNado!
Part III!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 03, 2020 10:21 PM (A5zUN)
Some researchers think it's possible!
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 03, 2020 10:22 PM (6SvfK)
I have two free standing book shelves. Seem solid against the wall on carpet and leaning back, bottoms on baseboard and tops against the wall. Always put albums (vinyl) on bottom and heavy low and light on top shelves.
Question, should I attach them to the wall with an L bracket?
Posted by: Infidel at May 03, 2020 10:22 PM (nvc6v)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 03, 2020 10:22 PM (+vAGU)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 03, 2020 10:22 PM (A5zUN)
https://tinyurl.com/8yczrzw
Posted by: Aetius451AD
Well, there you go again.
Posted by: Miklos Wilson Reagan at May 03, 2020 10:23 PM (QzkSJ)
However, if we don't get back to work soon this is going to really, really suck.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 03, 2020 10:23 PM (WdocV)
He hates everything.
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 10:16 PM (Qf83p)
I can't believe that guy wrote Dark Side Of The Moon. On the other hand, he also wrote that horrible solo album that consisted of about 35 minutes of noise, followed by that one song I liked on the radio that was the reason I bought the album.
Posted by: Splunge
"The Pro's and Con's of Hitchhiking"? I actually liked that one.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 03, 2020 10:23 PM (C3BnY)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 03, 2020 10:23 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 10:21 PM (TdMsT)
No worries, I just got far less done than needed to be done and now it is raining cats and dogs AGAIN! All out of my control and I hate that!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:23 PM (jnM20)
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Even a blind clock finds a nut once in a while.
https://washex.am/3c1vU9e
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 03, 2020 10:07 PM (+y/Ru)
I thought the AoS Style Guide called for "Even a blind squirrel f*cks a pumpkin once in a while."
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 03, 2020 10:23 PM (0ReGO)
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 10:24 PM (Qf83p)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
I got ways
Posted by: Miklos, Idiot Sock Savant at May 03, 2020 10:24 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 10:19 PM (dOV9E)
I despised his first solo album, The Final Cut. And it went downhill from there.
As a friend put it once (he was brave and decided to check out Mr. Waters's solo albums), "Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking had its moments but I wanted to turn Radio KAOS into a frisbee."
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 03, 2020 10:24 PM (zqhdn)
Posted by: Infidel at May 03, 2020 10:22 PM (nvc6v)
I never do. I have never really had an issue, even with the Ikea-like shelving I buy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 03, 2020 10:24 PM (A5zUN)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 03, 2020 10:06 PM (l9m7l)
{{{Beckoning Chasm}}}.
I'm glad you have a good family.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 10:24 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 03, 2020 10:23 PM (C3BnY)
Oh. You mean I have to dig it out again? Okay, then.
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 10:24 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:24 PM (jnM20)
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 03, 2020 10:19 PM (aA3+G)
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Thanks again. Also, if you can find it, I have a saying from a grandmother: "Piece of paper lie still, let you write anything on it." She said it was from the Indians, but I've never figured out whom.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2020 10:25 PM (5jaxN)
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at May 03, 2020 10:25 PM (+3rQF)
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 10:24 PM (Qf83p)
But enough about scotch.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 03, 2020 10:25 PM (A5zUN)
https://bit.ly/2Su5JQz
Sure, we've all been thinking it, but it's different when you see it on TV
Posted by: t-bird at May 03, 2020 10:25 PM (n/x6m)
I fucking hate that fucking fuck.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Working on his manifesto at May 03, 2020 10:25 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 10:24 PM (Qf83p)
Peat weasel keep on churnin'
Posted by: hogmartin at May 03, 2020 10:26 PM (t+qrx)
No worries, I just got far less done than needed to be done and now it is raining cats and dogs AGAIN! All out of my control and I hate that!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:23 PM (jnM20)
I makes me mad, too, when the weather doesn't follow my precise instructions! Here's to a better day tomorrow.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 10:26 PM (TdMsT)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A9askVdzI8
Second was that her full name is Odetta Holmes. Ring a bell? Yeah, that's gotta be where Stephen King got the name of a character in the Dark Tower series.
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 10:26 PM (dOV9E)
Dude, Roger Waters left Pink Floyd 35 years ago.
On top of that, the band finally split up, like, five or six years ago.
Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2020 10:28 PM (1Yy3c)
I fucking hate that fucking fuck.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Working on his manifesto at May 03, 2020 10:25 PM (x8Wzq)
Years ago, I decided to come up with a dream lineup, consisting of musicians who were not only top notch, but team players. Guys who would put aside their egos and only concern themselves with the band and what it could accomplish as a whole.
Vocals: Axl Rose
Guitars: Dave Mustaine, Yngwie Malmsteen, Ritchie Blackmore
Bass: Roger Waters
Drums: Tommy Lee
(I still can't think of a keyboardist that will fit this mold)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 03, 2020 10:29 PM (zqhdn)
Posted by: Eccentric Etymology with Most Excellent Miklos at May 03, 2020 10:29 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: lin-duh en fugue at May 03, 2020 10:29 PM (UUBmN)
But, past experience has me checking weather site to make sure we won't be getting basketball size* hail like we' gotten more than once.
*maybe a slight exaggeration* But we lost windshields and rear windows in the past.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Working on his manifesto at May 03, 2020 10:29 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 10:26 PM (TdMsT)
And I yell at the sky with such fervor, yet I so rarely get the results I demand?
It's a mystery, I tells ya'!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:30 PM (jnM20)
Posted by: hogmartin at May 03, 2020 10:26 PM (t+qrx)
Proud furry keep on burnin'
Posted by: Beto O'Rourke at May 03, 2020 10:30 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 03, 2020 10:30 PM (C3BnY)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 03, 2020 10:23 PM (dUJdY)
{{{Jewells}}} that is fantastic!
I bet your daughter was thrilled.
I returned today from a weekend at my daughter's house, for a grandlovie's birthday. I'm just over the moon.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 10:30 PM (TdMsT)
jeebus if those commie dipshits are gonna really try to make me never again play any of their fucking crap-ass commie fucken music, they're going the right way about it.
*spits*
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at May 03, 2020 10:30 PM (cqteU)
Chuckling through it. Didn't know wireless electric guitars were that advanced back then. And what talent! They were able to sound just like the studio recording.
But what a bonus! Train-wreck 1968 comedy with Jack and Bob! Love the wigs. Even got a stock Jack-is-cheap joke in there.
What an age.
"Sock it to me?" - Richard Nixon on Laugh-In
Posted by: mindful webworker
link: Lizard Queen of Chicago
at May 03, 2020 10:31 PM (oBghv)
I thanked Home Depot for not treating us like children and requiring masks today. It felt good.
And screw Menards. Costco too
Posted by: Pete Seria
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I had no choice, had to go grocery shopping in my mask-mandatory county today and I wrapped a scarf around my face. Phew. I couldn't breathe. Tomorrow at work I have to mask. Fine, if I faint at my work station they can take me to the hospital. Place is empty right now.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 03, 2020 10:31 PM (G51Gf)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2020 10:31 PM (5jaxN)
Dude, Roger Waters left Pink Floyd 35 years ago.
On top of that, the band finally split up, like, five or six years ago.
Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2020 10:28 PM (1Yy3c)
FLOYD, PINK WILL NEVER DIE, HEATHEN!!!!
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 03, 2020 10:31 PM (zqhdn)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 03, 2020 10:31 PM (NWiLs)
Sorry about that tangent. I get tired of "researchers" and "scientists" that keep telling me to panic about everything.
Nutria rats. Global warming. African bees. Domestic boas taking over the wetlands. Zombie coyotes. Asteroids. Murder hornets. Bat colonies destroyed by humans. Human colonies destroyed by bats. Water shortages. Flooding. Red-headed pecker mites.
And miraculously none of it ever winds up killing us all. I'm beginning to think the "researchers" pick their next extinction-level event like that video of the Vice writer chucking dildos at the wall.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 03, 2020 10:31 PM (6SvfK)
Posted by: Eccentric Etymology with Most Excellent Miklos at May 03, 2020 10:29 PM (QzkSJ)
"Bog Bhoys" seemed so much more appropriate...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:31 PM (jnM20)
Why is in unconstitutional to demand a license to vote, but it is constitutional to demand you have a mask to leave your house?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 03, 2020 10:31 PM (WdocV)
Posted by: Braenyard at May 03, 2020 10:32 PM (C+nsl)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 10:30 PM (TdMsT)
You have a spacecraft?
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 03, 2020 10:32 PM (NWiLs)
Why is in unconstitutional to demand a license to vote, but it is constitutional to demand you have a license to drive a car?
Posted by: Braenyard at May 03, 2020 10:33 PM (C+nsl)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2020 10:31 PM (5jaxN)
If I can put dead musicians on there. He died 7 years ago this month, sadly.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 03, 2020 10:33 PM (zqhdn)
She was and she has amazing friends. About 5th in line was this gorgeous red corvette. I was on the steps recording so I didn't know til later..he was just some poor random guy that got stuck in the parade but he said what the hell.. I'll join in lol!!
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 03, 2020 10:33 PM (dUJdY)
This has been one of those days...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:14 PM
Word.
Posted by: Limp Bizkit at May 03, 2020 10:33 PM (Do5/p)
Vocals: Axl Rose
Guitars: Dave Mustaine, Yngwie Malmsteen, Ritchie Blackmore
Bass: Roger Waters
Drums: Tommy Lee
(I still can't think of a keyboardist that will fit this mold)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 03, 2020 10:29 PM (zqhdn)
But...they're all raging egomaniacal assholes...
Anyway, put Eddie Van Halen on keyboards.
Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2020 10:33 PM (1Yy3c)
Interesting that the invasive hornets appeared now, in several locations. Intentionally introduced? If so, by whom?
It's nice they're trying to eradicate them, I wish it would work, but I kind of doubt that it will.
Life will go on. They have honeybees in Asia, clearly the giant hornets didn't eat them all.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 03, 2020 10:33 PM (t5m5e)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 03, 2020 10:33 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 10:34 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 10:30 PM (TdMsT)
Thanks for telling us that. I was so hoping that you would have a fabulous visit, and it sounds like you did!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:34 PM (jnM20)
Nose-to-grindstone tomorrow, but I know you're knocking 'em dead!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 10:34 PM (TdMsT)
{{{Ladyl}}}
I'm rockin and rollin! My boss even said something really complimentary to me on Friday. Winning!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 03, 2020 10:35 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 10:35 PM (dOV9E)
She was and she has amazing friends. About 5th in line was this gorgeous red corvette. I was on the steps recording so I didn't know til later..he was just some poor random guy that got stuck in the parade but he said what the hell.. I'll join in lol!!
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 03, 2020 10:33 PM (dUJdY)
What a nice guy!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 10:35 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Barack Obama at May 03, 2020 10:35 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2020 10:36 PM (5jaxN)
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 10:35 PM (dOV9E)
Warming up the candiru tank over here, boss!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 03, 2020 10:36 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 03, 2020 10:33 PM (dUJdY)
Good on him for being willing to go off script!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:36 PM (jnM20)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 03, 2020 10:36 PM (dUJdY)
Dude, Roger Waters left Pink Floyd 35 years ago.
On top of that, the band finally split up, like, five or six years ago.
Posted by: Robert
The Endless River was the last Pink Floyd album. It's very good. Mostly instrumental. The late Richard Wright had apparently recorded some music during the 'Division Bell' album. Gilmore and Nick Mason used it to create 'The Endless River'. Again, it's very very good.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 03, 2020 10:36 PM (C3BnY)
Posted by: Jewells45
That is wonderful. Sorta restores my faith in humanity.
Posted by: Infidel at May 03, 2020 10:36 PM (nvc6v)
I'm rockin and rollin! My boss even said something really complimentary to me on Friday. Winning!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 03, 20
That just makes my night, Insom!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 10:36 PM (TdMsT)
Anyway, put Eddie Van Halen on keyboards.
Posted by: Robert at May 03, 2020 10:33 PM (1Yy3c)
Deadpan ironic delivery doesn't translate well into the electronic world.
Eddie Van Halen? Hmmm. Interesting. I like that idea. I'll think it over.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 03, 2020 10:36 PM (zqhdn)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 03, 2020 10:35 PM (NWiLs)
Now scream sexual harassment and sue.
Posted by: Barack Obama at May 03, 2020 10:37 PM (1Yy3c)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 03, 2020 10:35 PM (NWiLs)
Most excellent!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:37 PM (jnM20)
Warming up the candiru tank over here, boss!
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 03, 2020 10:36 PM (NWiLs)
Putting ideas into peoples heads.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 03, 2020 10:37 PM (C+nsl)
Posted by: Insomniac
Already getting drunk with the Boss? Damn!!
Posted by: Miklos from Barrel Strength HR at May 03, 2020 10:38 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 10:38 PM (dOV9E)
I know! I wish I knew who he was! I'll have to keep my eyes peeled now for a red corvette!
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 03, 2020 10:38 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 10:38 PM (Qf83p)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 10:39 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 10:30 PM (TdMsT)
Thanks for telling us that. I was so hoping that you would have a fabulous visit, and it sounds like you did!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:34 PM (jnM20)
It was wonderful beyond words. Lots of great memories were made.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 10:39 PM (TdMsT)
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I was laughing about that, too. And they are. Not exactly the models for team play. Except Mustaine. He actually cared about his bands, unlike the jerks in the one he made famous.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2020 10:39 PM (5jaxN)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 03, 2020 10:39 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: Infidel at May 03, 2020 10:36 PM (nvc6v)
In spite of all the obvious evidence thrust upon us by our "betters", there are a heckuva lot of decent people out there!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:39 PM (jnM20)
Posted by: Splunge
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One of our cats likes to hang out in our front window...that's better than a stuffed animal. You can hear the kids when they go by saying there's the cat!
Posted by: lin-duh en fugue at May 03, 2020 10:40 PM (UUBmN)
She came up and asked why I wasn't wearing a mask. I asked her why she was violating social distancing.
She literally ran to complain to the store clerk. It was hilarious.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 03, 2020 10:41 PM (WdocV)
Maybe some day the fools will understand that if only we go full communist, no one will ever die again.
Seriously: communism was the proposed solution to every one of those "problems". Remember?
Never mind that no communist country has ever even managed to feed itself.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2020 10:41 PM (7JiKU)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 10:39 PM (TdMsT)
Now that sounds like the way to spend a day!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:41 PM (jnM20)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 03, 2020 10:41 PM (6SvfK)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 03, 2020 10:42 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at May 03, 2020 10:42 PM (cqteU)
Posted by: lin-duh en fugue at May 03, 2020 10:42 PM (UUBmN)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 03, 2020 10:42 PM (dUJdY)
Posted by: stumck at May 03, 2020 10:42 PM (uksaT)
( Ed Sullivan.. zzz 💤 )
I'm not really all that familiar with either of them, but watching Brown, I thought, Michael Jackson on his best day couldn't make his legs do that.
I'm more familiar with Marty McFly doing Michael Jackson than I am with Michael Jackson (doing James Brown?).
Posted by: mindful webworker
link: Lizard Queen of Chicago
at May 03, 2020 10:42 PM (oBghv)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at May 03, 2020 10:43 PM (ja/kn)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 03, 2020 10:42 PM (dUJdY)
That's right, you're re-tired! So how do you plan on filling the time?
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 03, 2020 10:43 PM (NWiLs)
...
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2020 10:41 PM (7JiKU)
To be fair, I liked it better under Obama when we were all immortal!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:44 PM (jnM20)
He tells me someone was worried about so many helicopters flying over his house.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 03, 2020 10:44 PM (C+nsl)
Sorry about that tangent. I get tired of "researchers" and "scientists" that keep telling me to panic about everything.
Nutria rats. Global warming. African bees. Domestic boas taking over the wetlands. Zombie coyotes. Asteroids. Murder hornets. Bat colonies destroyed by humans. Human colonies destroyed by bats. Water shortages. Flooding. Red-headed pecker mites.
And miraculously none of it ever winds up killing us all. I'm beginning to think the "researchers" pick their next extinction-level event like that video of the Vice writer chucking dildos at the wall.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 03, 2020 10:31 PM (6SvfK)
Quite the vision
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 03, 2020 10:44 PM (aA3+G)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 03, 2020 10:41 PM (6SvfK)
* * * *
*fistbump*
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 03, 2020 10:44 PM (WFcrO)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2020 10:39 PM (5jaxN
I am also an obsessed Dream Theater fan and in their authorized biography, David Prater (who produced Images and Words) is depicted as being a dick of the highest order (and he does himself no favors in the book). So, I'd have him produce the band's first album.
So my next question to you is...
Is the recording studio reinforced with bulletproof material???
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 03, 2020 10:44 PM (zqhdn)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:44 PM (jnM20)
That's why he had those Greek columns made out of Styrofoam. It lasts forever.
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 10:45 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 10:45 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 03, 2020 10:42 PM (dUJdY)
* * * *
Congratulations!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 03, 2020 10:45 PM (WFcrO)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2020 10:46 PM (7JiKU)
I am writing a letter to the President of Hillsdale College. Could I beg for your insight on my draft?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 10:46 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2020 10:46 PM (5jaxN)
Posted by: mindful webworker
link: Lizard Queen of Chicago
at May 03, 2020 10:47 PM (oBghv)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at May 03, 2020 10:43 PM (ja/kn)
I will admit that I totally agree with you on Radio Waves. It piqued my interest to see what the rest of the album is like. Tide Is Turning would be the point where I turn the CD into a clay. PULL!!!
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 03, 2020 10:47 PM (zqhdn)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:44 PM
In the end, there can be only one.
Posted by: Duncan MacLeod at May 03, 2020 10:47 PM (Do5/p)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 10:47 PM (u82oZ)
I had a boxed set of The Prisoner on DVD. It came with a documentary, made while the creator (head writer and star of the show, Patrick McGoohan) was still alive. Everyone they interviewed said he was a gentleman, that it was an honor to work with him, and that people didn't understand the last few episodes of the show because he was misunderstood and ahead of his time.
Now I have a boxed set of The Prisoner on Blu-ray. That set came with a documentary made after Patrick McGoohan's death. Many of the people interviewed say that he was a nightmare to work with, and that the last few episodes made no sense because he was making it up as he went, had written himself into a corner, and ended up having to turn in whatever ideas he had whether they made sense or not.
In this case the Blu-ray set makes more than just the picture and sound clearer.
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 10:47 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 03, 2020 10:41 PM (6SvfK)
* * * *
*fistbump*
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 03, 2020 10:44 PM (WFcrO)
Dittos as to what LS said
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at May 03, 2020 10:48 PM (aA3+G)
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
How'd you escape the poison Alar Apples?
Posted by: boomers remember stuff at May 03, 2020 10:48 PM (+U5Yr)
Posted by: IC at May 03, 2020 10:48 PM (sYDum)
***
I've actually raised this point a few times.
How did the last media firestorm go? Oh, the impact was some tiny fraction huh? And the one before that? And before that?
Yeah, but people are dying now!
How many died last year? How many died in 2009? If you don't know how can you judge the danger this year?
How much is the house arrest costing the country? How much is it costing working class people you are banning from working? How much more money can they afford to go without?
And....It is like trying to reason with a cat....
Posted by: 18-1 at May 03, 2020 10:49 PM (WdocV)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 10:46 PM (u82oZ)
As you know, for a quite modest fee, I will be more than glad to tell you what you are doing wrong!
Hopefully you didn't burn my contact info, as I can see a quite lucrative future ahead!!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:49 PM (jnM20)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 10:49 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 03, 2020 10:47 PM (zqhdn)
Yeah, but it was funny when it turned out the West held all the cards, and the Soviet Union turned to dust, right?
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 10:49 PM (dOV9E)
IMPEACH!!!!!
Posted by: Rogers Waters on the Brain at May 03, 2020 10:49 PM (uksaT)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 10:50 PM (u82oZ)
And they say that's just to have something new to sell at the wet markets.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at May 03, 2020 10:50 PM (QzJWU)
NaCly.. yeah a few tears.. so many loose ends I left the poor girl filling my shoes.. I'm sure I'll be back to help now and again.
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 03, 2020 10:50 PM (dUJdY)
We were talking about the Giant Chicom hornets last night. They've been discovered in the Pacific Northwest, both US and Canada, and nowhere else.
While they can kill humans, it takes about 30 or more stings to do that. Unless you're allergic, and one can do it, but so can native stings. You'll need medical attention for 10 or more stings, and 30 is the point where it can kill if you don't get treatment quickly.
They kill about 30-40 people in Japan every year, and injure a few thousand.
But that's the not the danger of them here. Our honey bees have no defense against them, which native bee species in Asia do, and they can wipe out a bee hive in a few hours.
The fuckers go in and decapitate the bees, throwing the heads away and taking the bodies to feed themselves.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 03, 2020 10:50 PM (f1Vqw)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2020 10:39 PM (5jaxN)
My lifelong friend met Dave at a guitar store in Vegas, years ago, right before Dave hired Marty Friedman. Dave liked what he was hearing, but my friend was skeptical, given Dave's history. Kind of think Friend missed out on an opportunity.
Seriously, though, my friend was an outstanding metal guitarist, but had crippling stage fright something fierce. I should have been there to punch him in the face and sack up.
Oh, and my friend informed me that Mark Slaughter is a dickweed.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Working on his manifesto at May 03, 2020 10:51 PM (x8Wzq)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 10:51 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: IC
Thank you.
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 10:51 PM (Qf83p)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger
Sounds intolerant, un-diverse, and not respecting The Ways of Your People.
Posted by: Miklos, Obergruppen fuhrer for Diversity and Inclusion at May 03, 2020 10:51 PM (QzkSJ)
Had to read that twice, then it made perfect sense!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:51 PM (jnM20)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 03, 2020 10:50 PM (f1Vqw)
No worse than what a weasel will do, if it worms its way into your chicken coop. Don't ask me how I know.
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 10:52 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 10:52 PM (Qf83p)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 10:52 PM (u82oZ)
I'll bet murder hornets love the spray too.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at May 03, 2020 10:53 PM (H5knJ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 03, 2020 10:07 PM (mht8P)
I think eventually, the technical problems will be solved. That Popular Mechanics article linked is real crap, though.
Did you know there are table-top sized fusion reactors for sale? They are based upon the Farnsworth Fusor, which is sort of a vacuum-tube device. They consume energy, and don't put out any useful energy, but they do emit neutrons, which is proof that fusion is taking place. And that is why they are sold: a handy neutron source that can be switched on or off at will.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2020 10:53 PM (LZcDP)
Posted by: Jewells45 at May 03, 2020 10:50 PM (dUJdY)
Charge hefty consultant fees.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 03, 2020 10:53 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: publius
Vote by Hive
Posted by: isn't this, to, the story of Democrats? at May 03, 2020 10:53 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at May 03, 2020 10:43 PM
You say that like it's a Bad Thing.
Posted by: Alexandria Occasio-Cortex at May 03, 2020 10:54 PM (DMUuz)
I suppose it varies.
Posted by: eleven
As a worldly women I knew would say: "Showers and growers. It's like snowfall. Until you see it, you don't know how many inches you are getting. "
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 10:54 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Jewells45
That's wonderful! Today was a great day!
Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 03, 2020 10:54 PM (/+bwe)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 10:50 PM (u82oZ)
Formal contracts like this, with many many Horde witnesses are the best kind!
I look forward to your email!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 10:54 PM (jnM20)
The one that was most egregious was that in early March, I put up a post that said "We've about got the virus licked. We'll be back to life in no time."
Oh my. The shit-storm that elicited. I'd love to be on just to say, "See, Tennessee's back open".
The finishing crone however, was something akin to what Splunge referenced.
There is a post around NextDour about putting stuffed bears in your windows for the kiddies to spot while on a walk for fun. The called it a "Bear Hunt".
So I spoofed then meme and made a bastardized post with pictures of beers in windows and text urging neighbors to put beers in windows for men to look at while on a walk with all the bars shut down. I called it a "Beer Hunt".
Booted the next day.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 03, 2020 10:55 PM (6SvfK)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at May 03, 2020 10:56 PM (dKiJG)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at May 03, 2020 10:56 PM (ja/kn)
https://tinyurl.com/ybrdnmn9
That was great. (Milady exclaimed, "That was amazing.") Thanks, Aetius.
A pretty good recording, too. I wonder what the original medium was. Tom's tubes or did they have platters by '06?
Posted by: mindful webworker
link: Lizard Queen of Chicago
at May 03, 2020 10:56 PM (oBghv)
Posted by: Jewells45
Next thing Jewells will hand sew a flag that people will still fly in 230-some years.
Posted by: Miklos, also back to the future at May 03, 2020 10:57 PM (QzkSJ)
I didn't expect her mom and younger sister (both of whom I love love love!) to come, too. It was the best time, although I couldn't hug em.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 03, 2020 10:58 PM (/+bwe)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2020 10:58 PM (c6gLH)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio
You don't know the half of it.
Posted by: the Candiru at May 03, 2020 10:58 PM (QzkSJ)
Do you ever have little ones come to visit? One of the reasons for securing bookshelves is that some kids can't resist climbing them.
Posted by: Emmie at May 03, 2020 10:58 PM (ouBhA)
But dammit. Why does Roger Waters have to be such a douche? And David Gilmour isn't much better, either.
Posted by: Andy_in_Colorado at May 03, 2020 10:58 PM (vya2L)
https://otherpeoplesvideos.wordpress.com/
2020/05/03/now-meet-the-asian-murder-hornets/
Posted by: mindful webworker
link: Lizard Queen of Chicago
at May 03, 2020 10:13 PM (oBghv)
If these damn things start to become prevalent, we are going to need some defense against them. How about special pistols made to fire shotshells loaded with salt or sand? Not lethal to humans or pets, but would either kill the hornets outright, or at least shred their wings, so they fall to the ground, whereupon a good stomping can be administered.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2020 10:59 PM (LZcDP)
Posted by: irongrampa at May 03, 2020 10:59 PM (KATBx)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2020 10:58 PM (c6gLH)
I think he was a Bernie Bro. The wonderful thing about Bernie Bros is that they don't care if Biden loses to Trump. They kind of want that to happen.
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 10:59 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2020 11:00 PM (c6gLH)
https://tinyurl.com/ybrdnmn9
Never be recorded today and surprised it wasn't banned on YouTube!
And thanks!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 11:00 PM (jnM20)
Invasive Chinese carp.
Needs further research funding.
Posted by: Miklos, aspiring grantee and rapper at May 03, 2020 11:01 PM (QzkSJ)
are nurtured by the subway walls
Posted by: S & G at May 03, 2020 11:01 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: davidt at May 03, 2020 11:02 PM (l3+k2)
Posted by: Infidel at May 03, 2020 10:22 PM (nvc6v)
Couldn't hurt. Are you in an area subject to earthquakes? In that case, by all means do it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2020 11:02 PM (LZcDP)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2020 11:02 PM (c6gLH)
was trying, early this morning, to think back to the earliest instance of today's
OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE BECUZ TRUMP & GLOBAL WARMING OMG ELEVENTY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"news" coverage bs ... and alar apples was the farthest back I could remember, can anyone beat that ?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at May 03, 2020 11:02 PM (cqteU)
OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE BECUZ TRUMP & GLOBAL WARMING OMG ELEVENTY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"news" coverage bs ... and alar apples was the farthest back I could remember, can anyone beat that ?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at May 03, 2020 11:02 PM (cqteU)
Global cooling. Seriously.
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 11:03 PM (dOV9E)
A pretty good recording, too. I wonder what the original medium was. Tom's tubes or did they have platters by '06?
Posted by: mindful webworker
link: Lizard Queen of Chicago
at May 03, 2020 10:56 PM (oBghv)
I cannot take credit, I originally heard that on a Lilek's podcast he did on one of the 4ths.
As far as the medium I am not sure, perhaps Edison cylinder?
Although, according to wiki, disc phonographs were patented at early as 1887.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 03, 2020 11:03 PM (A5zUN)
The "killer bee" thing was mostly media hysteria. They made quite a few cheesy killer bee movies which added to the hype.
Some big bee-shot entomologist was trying to breed a better honey bee suitable for South American climate and conditions and cross-bred European honey bee with African honey bees.
African bees are very defensive, having to deal with things like honey badgers -- you've seen the hilarious Honey badger videos, of course.
Anyway, he was breeding these things down in South America, trying to keep the hybrids contained for study, but an assistant fucked up and let them escape.
They are no more venomous than a regular honey bee, but are much aggressive in defense like their African ancestors.
They are very difficult to collect honey from, but there has been success.
They will kill a few people every year from swarm attacks, but they are nowhere near as bad as the media hysteria of the time made them out to be.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 03, 2020 11:03 PM (f1Vqw)
"news" coverage bs ... and alar apples was the farthest back I could remember, can anyone beat that ?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
Hmmmm
Posted by: Rachel Carson at May 03, 2020 11:03 PM (QzkSJ)
I immediately SWYDT. With Axl described as a team player, there's obviously no other way to take it but as ironic!
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 03, 2020 11:04 PM (oyRx8)
https://otherpeoplesvideos.wordpress.com/
2020/05/03/now-meet-the-asian-murder-hornets/
Posted by: mindful webworker
link: Lizard Queen of Chicago
at May 03, 2020 10:13 PM (oBghv)
If these damn things start to become prevalent, we are going to need some defense against them. How about special pistols made to fire shotshells loaded with salt or sand? Not lethal to humans or pets, but would either kill the hornets outright, or at least shred their wings, so they fall to the ground, whereupon a good stomping can be administered.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2020 10:59 PM (LZcDP)
You rang?
https://www.bugasalt.com
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 03, 2020 11:04 PM (0ReGO)
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 11:04 PM (Qf83p)
https://tinyurl.com/ydd9o35t
https://tinyurl.com/ycz7p8dd
https://tinyurl.com/yc9wecf2
https://tinyurl.com/y8qk45ej
https://tinyurl.com/ydaj6qk2
https://tinyurl.com/yd2hvbmw
Posted by: kbdabear at May 03, 2020 11:04 PM (qAR6u)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at May 03, 2020 11:04 PM (ja/kn)
Posted by: Ries Gorthanes at May 03, 2020 11:05 PM (Ium52)
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 11:04 PM (Qf83p)
Beg to differ.
Posted by: Paul Erlich at May 03, 2020 11:05 PM (dOV9E)
Well there is always Times Beach with Dioxin.
Love Canal when the idiots who were told not to break the clay seal on the waste broke the seal.
The Ozone Layer hole.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2020 11:05 PM (c6gLH)
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 11:03 PM (dOV9E)
Well, we are darn sure something really bad is going to happen, so we should get used to arbitrary draconian measures as soon as possible just to be ready!!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 03, 2020 11:05 PM (jnM20)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2020 11:06 PM (c6gLH)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 03, 2020 11:06 PM (q3gwH)
That hug was very life-affirming.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 10:52 PM (u82oZ)
Well you get another one, {{{Salty Dog}}}!!!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 11:06 PM (TdMsT)
https://tinyurl.com/ya8n7wgw
https://tinyurl.com/y73ttohj
https://tinyurl.com/y8mwp3mg
https://tinyurl.com/ybcrnupw
https://tinyurl.com/ycw5wg9m
https://tinyurl.com/y7nlwlae
https://tinyurl.com/y9dpfodt
Posted by: kbdabear at May 03, 2020 11:07 PM (qAR6u)
Which is amazing to me.
I don't think the very early images survived.
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 11:07 PM (Qf83p)
OMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE BECUZ TRUMP & GLOBAL WARMING OMG ELEVENTY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"news" coverage bs ... and alar apples was the farthest back I could remember, can anyone beat that ?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at May 03, 2020 11:02 PM (cqteU)
Rachel Carlson / Silent Spring
The Coming Ice Age, prevalent in the early '70s.
Global Famine, mid '70s
The Population Bomb, mid-late '70s.
Hole in the Ozone Layer, late '80s.
Slime in the Ice Machine! / Marvin Zindler, '70s through early aughts.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at May 03, 2020 11:07 PM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 03, 2020 11:09 PM (A5zUN)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 03, 2020 11:09 PM (q3gwH)
Absolutely. Biden loses, and The Squad takes over the Democratic Party.
It's sort of the mirror image of the Republican Party - the D's put up a couple of candidates because they were "electable", and if they both lose, that really undercuts the whole "electability" argument.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez turns 35 a week before the 2024 election.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 03, 2020 11:09 PM (I2/tG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2020 11:09 PM (c6gLH)
Cause fuck the tyrant DeWine and his hack witchdoctor. And fuck anyone that tries to defend him.
Posted by: buzzion at May 03, 2020 11:10 PM (Z7lwY)
Posted by: eleven at May 03, 2020 11:10 PM (Qf83p)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
One would get the impression you spent a great deal of time in the Houston area.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 03, 2020 11:10 PM (zqhdn)
Posted by: "Miklos" Malthus at May 03, 2020 11:10 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 03, 2020 10:33 PM (t5m5e)
Apparently, Asian honeybees have evolved a defensive tactic: they swarm and completely envelop a murder hornet with their bodies, and the hornet's body temperature goes off-scale, and it dies. European and American bees never evolved that strategy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2020 11:10 PM (LZcDP)
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 11:03 PM (dOV9E) "
Okay, yeah, "the coming ice age", i think there's even a magazine about that somewhere in the 'stuff' .
and yes, all the others, too.
So, IOW, we've been being gaslighted by fucking communists most of our lives, right ?
Joe McCarthy had no fucking idea. Fucking piker.
*spits*
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at May 03, 2020 11:11 PM (cqteU)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 03, 2020 11:11 PM (mht8P)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 03, 2020 11:11 PM (q3gwH)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 03, 2020 11:12 PM (6SvfK)
Posted by: Early medieval Monk Miklos at May 03, 2020 11:12 PM (QzkSJ)
alar apples was the farthest back I could remember, can anyone beat that ?
Posted by: sock_rat_eez
Witches?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 03, 2020 11:12 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Andy_in_Colorado at May 03, 2020 10:58 PM (vya2L)
Mr. Gilmour announced at one point that he is a proud Socialist. Damnit, man!
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 03, 2020 11:13 PM (zqhdn)
I got yer Original All Gonna Die.
Punks
Posted by: "Miklos" Malthus at May 03, 2020 11:10 PM (QzkSJ)
Warriors, come out to pla-ey-ay!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 03, 2020 11:13 PM (A5zUN)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 03, 2020 11:13 PM (q3gwH)
What's the best gun for hunting murder hornets? Or was that discussed in the Gun Thread?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 03, 2020 11:11 PM (mht8P)
^^^ points at 252
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 03, 2020 11:13 PM (0ReGO)
She literally ran to complain to the store clerk. It was hilarious.
Posted by: 18-1 at May 03, 2020 10:41 PM (WdocV)
"I don't wear a mask, so that you can clearly hear me when I tell you to fuck off."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2020 11:14 PM (LZcDP)
Posted by: Larro, cause Fred said so at May 03, 2020 11:14 PM (10GNe)
Posted by: Miklos wantin' his moneys back at May 03, 2020 11:14 PM (QzkSJ)
199 171 Hey, let's have some empathy here! I was killed by killer bees back in the '70s. That was after I was killed by insufficient Soylent Green, the new Ice Age, and drowning in an ocean of aluminum pop tops, but before I was killed by acid rain, nuclear winter, the ozone hole, global warming, peak oil, lack of net neutrality, and the ChiCom Flu (I'm sure I've left out a few things that Killed Us All). +
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
How'd you escape the poison Alar Apples?
Posted by: boomers remember stuff at May 03, 2020 10:48 PM (+U5Yr)
I thought we all died in a nuclear war caused by the Bay of Pigs Operation.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 11:14 PM (TdMsT)
Got to play nine holes this afternoon and a nice dinner with friends. With proper social distancing of course
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 03, 2020 11:14 PM (/UQ/R)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 11:15 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Tom Servo
On video conference these days.
Posted by: Associate Justice RBG at May 03, 2020 11:16 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 03, 2020 11:17 PM (oyRx8)
Here is a real smart idea, how about you leave the tribes alone.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2020 11:17 PM (c6gLH)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 11:18 PM (TdMsT)
Evolution of dance: 80s to now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uubH2ikgJPI
Posted by: SMH - Seriously? at May 03, 2020 11:18 PM (RU4sa)
Got to play nine holes this afternoon and a nice dinner with friends. With proper social distancing of course
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 03, 2020 11:14 PM (/UQ/R)
{{{WDS}}}
That sounds lovely!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 11:19 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 11:14 PM (TdMsT)
Before the onset of fourth grade, in Germany, my parents left out the NEO paperwork on the table for inspection. That was the worst thing they coulda done, for that was an invitation for me to read it.
Anyways, according to the paperwork, if the Soviets decided to head down the Fulda Gap, or, as Red Storm Rising has them do, go across the North German Plain, the plan was to get three of us to New York to wait out the war. If, that is, New York was available to go to or survived the war in one piece.
Such were the calculations of my brat mind.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 03, 2020 11:19 PM (zqhdn)
I am writing a letter to the President of Hillsdale College. Could I beg for your insight on my draft?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 10:46 PM (u82oZ)
Tell him I said hi, and he shouldn't have let Bob Murphy go.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 03, 2020 11:19 PM (WyVLE)
Eric Clapton was the lead guitarist on it. He toured with RW and band. I read a funny story about that tour. They started there tour in NYC. They had been in Europe before that. Clapton was jonesing for a Big Mac and Fries for a while. Well, RW was having none of that. Only the best and classy restaurants for HIS band. Anyway, Clapton paid a guy to bring him a Big Mac and Fries and deliver it to whatever fancy restaurant that RW brought them that night. Clapton got him his MCD meal and RW groused about it. I was always a Clapton fan but that story just enhanced my opinion of him.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 03, 2020 11:19 PM (C3BnY)
Posted by: Mittens Rombley at May 03, 2020 11:20 PM (EgshT)
Posted by: Braenyard at May 03, 2020 11:20 PM (C+nsl)
Occasio-Cortez in the Democratic primary in June. Since she calls O-C a "Democrat Socialist" I think she's a slightly more moderate Democrat:
https://tinyurl.com/y86gyhjt
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 03, 2020 11:20 PM (bW1Yb)
Eric Clapton was the lead guitarist on it. He toured with RW and band. I read a funny story about that tour. They started there tour in NYC. They had been in Europe before that. Clapton was jonesing for a Big Mac and Fries for a while. Well, RW was having none of that. Only the best and classy restaurants for HIS band. Anyway, Clapton paid a guy to bring him a Big Mac and Fries and deliver it to whatever fancy restaurant that RW brought them that night. Clapton got him his MCD meal and RW groused about it. I was always a Clapton fan but that story just enhanced my opinion of him.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 03, 2020 11:19 PM (C3BnY)
I've never been a Clapton fan (some songs are okay) but damn that's funny.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 03, 2020 11:21 PM (zqhdn)
Are you going to be the DJ / VJ / Dance scene leader in October?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 11:22 PM (u82oZ)
Occasio-Cortez in the Democratic primary in June.
Westchester Evita is capable of raising many millions of dollars from Leftists across the country for her reelection campaign.
She would be very hard to dislodge.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 03, 2020 11:22 PM (I2/tG)
The beer hunt thing is hilarious. I'm sorry you were booted.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 03, 2020 11:22 PM (bW1Yb)
Glad you had a good visit with grandlovie. We are considering breaking polesucker's ridiculous 10 mile "rule" and going across the state next weekend to see ours
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 03, 2020 11:22 PM (/UQ/R)
Are you going to be the DJ / VJ / Dance scene leader in October?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 11:22 PM (u82oZ)
---
lol
Maybe.
Posted by: SMH - Seriously? at May 03, 2020 11:24 PM (RU4sa)
She would be very hard to dislodge.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 03, 2020 11:22 PM (I2/tG)
I remember reading that the Dem establishment was planning to eliminate her district during the post-census district shuffle.
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 11:24 PM (dOV9E)
Evolution of dance: 80s to now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uubH2ikgJPI
Posted by: SMH - Seriously? at May 03, 2020 11:18 PM (RU4sa)
OMG can that guy dance!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 11:24 PM (TdMsT)
Over 50,000 people die in the U.S. every week. That's like A VIETNAM WAR EVERY WEEK, people.
I blame Trump.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2020 11:25 PM (mNq/0)
Caruso-Cabrera is a former T.V. anchorwoman. I don't think she's a slouch at raising money. A O-C being against Amazon putting a place there didn't go well with a big segment of the community.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 03, 2020 11:25 PM (bW1Yb)
Posted by: occam's brassiere at May 03, 2020 11:25 PM (ja/kn)
Glad you had a good visit with grandlovie. We are considering breaking polesucker's ridiculous 10 mile "rule" and going across the state next weekend to see ours
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 03, 2020 11:22 PM (/UQ/R)
Dear sweet Jesus--just do it!
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 11:25 PM (TdMsT)
Oregon population: 4,100,000
days of quarantine: 45 (so far)
Average life expectancy: 80 years?
Days in a year:365
4,100,000*45/365 = 505,479 people years
505,479/80 = 6,318 lives that Kate Brown has sacrificed so far
in another 60 days the total will be 14,743
They will probably claim that they saved 20 million Oregonians and the Portlanders will say "thank you Kate Brown, we don't know what we would do without you"
*Kate Brown was appointed by disgraced governor Kitzhaber and got to serve almost a full 4 years because Kitzhaber had just taken office about a month earlier, then she had the luxury of running as an incumbent.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at May 03, 2020 11:25 PM (h1jJh)
Wouldn't be opposed to stuffing Coonman Babykiller Northam up DeWine's ass, then shoving the two of them up Larry "Curley" Hogan's ass, and so on and so forth. Make a real big fuckhead turducken.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 03, 2020 11:26 PM (oyRx8)
She's managed to piss off both the D'Alesandro/Pelosi and Cuomo crime families.
Probably the Kennedy crime family too, but no one gives a shit about them any more.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2020 11:27 PM (mNq/0)
I thought you meant Bob Murphy the sportscaster, not the economist.
The economist Bob Murphy had some interesting ideas. But he covers up keen insights by being wrong on some other big ideas.
'Not even clear on any controversy with him at Hillsdale. He's bounced around a lot!
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 11:27 PM (u82oZ)
https://www.bugasalt.com
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 03, 2020 11:04 PM (0ReGO)
Yeah. I remember those. But I mean a real pistol, with cartridges loaded with smokeless powder, and small particles of shot. A little more jam than those toys.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2020 11:28 PM (LZcDP)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at May 03, 2020 11:19 PM (zqhdn)
Pretty scary, for a kid.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 11:29 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at May 03, 2020 11:30 PM (cqteU)
She would be very hard to dislodge.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
She might willingly lose for that very reason.
Exempli gratia: Bernard Sanders
Posted by: not at all cynical Miklos at May 03, 2020 11:30 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2020 10:36 PM (5jaxN)
Yep. Happened while he was playing "The End"
Posted by: Ghost of Bob Crane at May 03, 2020 11:30 PM (Cd618)
https://www.bugasalt.com
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 03, 2020 11:04 PM (0ReGO)
Yeah. I remember those. But I mean a real pistol, with cartridges loaded with smokeless powder, and small particles of shot. A little more jam than those toys.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2020 11:28 PM (LZcDP)
Yeah, I have one of those. The only Kickstarter I ever backed. It's great for flies, if you can get them to hold still. But a 2" murder wasp is not going down under that little puff of salt.
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 11:30 PM (dOV9E)
Harmless at any significant distance. Might be ideal for the ChiCom Murder Hornets.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2020 11:30 PM (mNq/0)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 03, 2020 11:30 PM (A5zUN)
Posted by: occam's brassiere
Heh! Pro's and Con's of Hitchhiking was Water's best solo album. Go figure.
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 03, 2020 11:30 PM (C3BnY)
Posted by: Jewells45
As Milady just said, That is so cool!
May have been asked & answered already, but what year birthday?
Also, happy birthday to Mom. Who did the work.
Posted by: mindful webworker
link: Lizard Queen of Chicago
at May 03, 2020 11:31 PM (oBghv)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain, Who Had A B-Wing... at May 03, 2020 11:31 PM (dwojT)
Harmless at any significant distance. Might be ideal for the ChiCom Murder Hornets.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2020 11:30 PM (mNq/0)
That rings a bell. Is that what they call snake shot?
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 11:32 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: The Fuckhead Turduckens, who will be seen opening for somebody at May 03, 2020 11:32 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 11:30 PM (dOV9E)
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Flamethrower.
Posted by: SMH - Seriously? at May 03, 2020 11:32 PM (RU4sa)
congrats on the bday parade and your retirement. Awesome.
Posted by: Farmer at May 03, 2020 11:32 PM (LthQw)
Yeah, I think I've heard it called that.
I believe farmers also use it on mice and similar critters.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2020 11:32 PM (mNq/0)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 03, 2020 11:32 PM (oyRx8)
Of the first 7 F-100F Wild Weasels to go into combat, five were lost.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2020 11:32 PM (c6gLH)
https://tinyurl.com/y7y5xe8q
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 03, 2020 11:33 PM (bW1Yb)
Posted by: Ladyl at May 03, 2020 11:34 PM (TdMsT)
Posted by: Splunge
Saltpeter.
Does stuff to the males.
Posted by: Miklos with Common Knowledge in the US Army c. 1942 at May 03, 2020 11:34 PM (QzkSJ)
Snake shot. For a revolver, not a magazine fed weapon, because not enough recoil to load the next round.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 11:34 PM (u82oZ)
Also, remember when the left told us that Wuhan Flu was going to kill Trump voters almost exclusively?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 03, 2020 11:35 PM (WdocV)
Of the first 7 F-100F Wild Weasels to go into combat, five were lost.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2020 11:32 PM (c6gLH)
It seems shocking, but when your job is to hunt anti-aircraft emplacements...
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 03, 2020 11:35 PM (A5zUN)
Green Jelly "Three Little Pigs"
https://youtu.be/Gtffv9bpB-U
Posted by: random lurker commenter at May 03, 2020 11:35 PM (48RE5)
This video had me laughing, because it's so true.
Evolution of dance: 80s to now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uubH2ikgJPI
Posted by: SMH
=======
Haha, and he never did grab his crotch!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at May 03, 2020 11:36 PM (G51Gf)
Posted by: Splunge
Saltpeter.
Does stuff to the males.
Posted by: Miklos with Common Knowledge in the US Army c. 1942 at May 03, 2020 11:34 PM (QzkSJ)
I've gotten pretty good with the salt gun. But not quite good enough to shoot a wasp's dick off.
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 11:36 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 03, 2020 11:22 PM (/UQ/R)
Does that goo-gobbler harass out of staters too? I might be flying into Denver on the way to Mt Rushmore later this month
Posted by: Ghost of Bob Crane at May 03, 2020 11:36 PM (Cd618)
Not until 2022. In any case, New York City is growing, and the rest of the state is shrinking, so it would be hard to "eliminate" a Congressional district in NYC. Pretty hard to redraw the map in such a way that AOC wouldn't have a viable district to run in.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 03, 2020 11:36 PM (I2/tG)
How is the writing these days?
And yes, we lost a lot to the North Vietnamese. I understand why Nixon took so long to be decisive, he had to decouple a response from the USSR and China before he took it to the North Vietnamese.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 11:36 PM (u82oZ)
309 305 Westchester Evita is capable of raising many millions of dollars from Leftists across the country for her reelection campaign.
She would be very hard to dislodge.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 03, 2020 11:22 PM (I2/tG)
I remember reading that the Dem establishment was planning to eliminate her district during the post-census district shuffle.
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 11:24 PM (dOV9E)
Has someone actually speculated on that besides me? I know I've said it here several times that they've probably told her to knock some of her shit off or they'll redistrict her ass. And that's why you get her doing stuff like endorsing Biden but then saying that Tara Read should be heard. Its a power struggle within the Dem Party, and Pelosi's type hold the reins but AOCs sect wants to replace them.
Posted by: buzzion at May 03, 2020 11:37 PM (Z7lwY)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 03, 2020 11:38 PM (0ReGO)
SMH flamethrower is the ticket.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 03, 2020 11:39 PM (C+nsl)
Posted by: Braenyard at May 03, 2020 11:40 PM (C+nsl)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 03, 2020 11:41 PM (aKsyK)
Posted by: Braenyard
For a mere $500
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbH3_feTpAw
Posted by: Miklos Musk (sold separately) at May 03, 2020 11:41 PM (QzkSJ)
Should be easy to get a qualified and winning Dem candidate in NYC!
Rerun the guy she won against, or did he want out? He was a competent, low profile criminal in office.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 11:42 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 03, 2020 11:42 PM (oyRx8)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 03, 2020 11:41 PM (aKsyK)
You're not here for the hugs, are you?
Posted by: Murder Wasp at May 03, 2020 11:43 PM (dOV9E)
Check the wiki on the giant hornets for the methods the Japs use to exterminate them.
One is literally beating them with a stick. They also use various trap contraptions taking advantage of the size difference between the hornets and the bees.
Then are poisoning tactics, trying to get them to take various poisons back to their hives.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 03, 2020 11:43 PM (f1Vqw)
novel. Ehrlichs's rehash came on top of at least 150 years of
continuous and obvious failure. (Which is why everyone except backs
ignored malthus)
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 03, 2020 11:09 PM (q3gwH)
Malthus did not say that a population would outstrip its resources, what he said that if we try to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the current limits on population growth from society, economic realities and custom will be removed and then the population growth would only be checked by starvation.
This is not completely accurate, but it was a novel and contra-intuitive stance. He also understood that subsidies to the poor do not work in the end, as they only drive demand higher, and create inflation, which was a poorly understood phenomenon at the time.
I believe, by the way, from reading Kipling's poem Gods of the Copybook Headings that Kipling had either read Malthus, or read authors who had read Malthus' On Population, because it also echos Malthus' points attacking Candorcet and Goodwin.
(one more defense of Malthus, by the way, and my card is punched out all the way and I can buy myself a free coffee with any equal or more expensive cup of coffee!)
Posted by: Kindltot at May 03, 2020 11:43 PM (WyVLE)
Harmless at any significant distance. Might be ideal for the ChiCom Murder Hornets.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2020 11:30 PM (mNq/0)
I am sure that would work. But those little .22 shotshells are kind of expensive. And i don't know if they feed reliably in a semi-auto.
What I had in mind is a purpose-built bug gun, built as an automatic pistol, that can only chamber and fire the special shotshells made for it. The idea being to get it declared as a "non-gun" for law-enforcement purposes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2020 11:44 PM (LZcDP)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2020 11:45 PM (c6gLH)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 03, 2020 11:45 PM (L2ZTs)
Question, should I attach them to the wall with an L bracket?
Posted by: Infidel at May 03, 2020 10:22 PM (nvc6v)
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Because of small child and earthquake zone, I secured all free-standing shelf units and cabinets to the wall with light metal chains, at the top. Medium heavy eyehook screwed into a wall stud and another screwed into top of cabinet or shelf unit. Chain and a removable locking ring to connect.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 03, 2020 11:45 PM (t5m5e)
I have a candidate for experimenting with the murder hornet: Greasy Gretchen Whitmer. We'll give her a stick, and tell her to chase down the murder hornet hive.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at May 03, 2020 11:46 PM (f1Vqw)
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 11:46 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 03, 2020 11:46 PM (L2ZTs)
The Government Lockdown in Democrat areas is like the German Enabling Act of 1933 (("Law to Remedy the Distress of People and Reich").
They both bypassed the legislatures, and over-rid parts of the applicable Constitutions. There was not going back for Germany.
For the US, we shall see. It would be true we would be in deep trouble now, if Hillary was President. Fortunately, HCWNBPOTUS.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 11:46 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2020 11:45 PM (c6gLH)
But think of all the ... colorful ... characters !
: -))
Best of luck, Anna ...
Posted by: Adriane the Bees Love My Backyard Critic ... at May 03, 2020 11:47 PM (LPnfS)
355 buzzion
Should be easy to get a qualified and winning Dem candidate in NYC!
Rerun the guy she won against, or did he want out? He was a competent, low profile criminal in office.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 11:42 PM (u82oZ)
I think the conventional wisdom is he lost because he didn't try.
Posted by: buzzion at May 03, 2020 11:47 PM (Z7lwY)
Posted by: qdpsteve
Gonna have say nah
Try again
Posted by: Haiku 101 at May 03, 2020 11:47 PM (QzkSJ)
It's ABCDE
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 03, 2020 11:48 PM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: navybrat, laying low at May 03, 2020 11:49 PM (w7KSn)
Hmm.... how about something like a paintball gun mechanism, except adapted to feed in charges of birdshot instead of paintballs?
They'd likely be considered air guns under the law, which means you'd only be in trouble if you lived in a full-communist region like Chicago.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2020 11:50 PM (mNq/0)
Posted by: Splunge at May 03, 2020 11:50 PM (dOV9E)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 11:46 PM (u82oZ)
Amen
Posted by: Braenyard at May 03, 2020 11:51 PM (C+nsl)
7 syllables
5 syllables
That is the basic form.
Posted by: navybrat, laying low at May 03, 2020 11:49 PM (w7KSn)
And it doesn't rhyme, so therefore not poetry. I will admit that some haiku are clever, but i would call them aphorisms, not poetry.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2020 11:51 PM (LZcDP)
Posted by: FIIGMO at May 03, 2020 11:51 PM (Qf08A)
Posted by: navybrat, laying low at May 03, 2020 11:53 PM (w7KSn)
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at May 03, 2020 11:53 PM (oyRx8)
Posted by: FIIGMO at May 03, 2020 11:51 PM (Qf08A)
Sometimes, quotes are put up just so that we can see how stupid and/or evil the person being quoted is. MisHum is not endorsing these people.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2020 11:54 PM (LZcDP)
Posted by: navybrat
csirkepaprikás
korettel izles szerint
jaj de jo, együnk!
Posted by: Miklosian Haiku at May 03, 2020 11:54 PM (QzkSJ)
There was exactly one American pop hit single that used the haiku form, and nothing rhymed.
Name it, please. No Google.
Posted by: navybrat, laying low at May 03, 2020 11:55 PM (w7KSn)
Posted by: navybrat, laying low at May 03, 2020 11:53 PM (w7KSn)
Hai samoka boo, bayeh, hai samoka boo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2020 11:55 PM (LZcDP)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 11:56 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: FIIGMO at May 03, 2020 11:57 PM (Qf08A)
http://f-100.org/pages/f-100f_81221-3.shtml
Same plane on roll out as a Wild Weasel at Eglin armed with rockets and napalm.
http://f-100.org/pages/f-100f_81221-2.shtml
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 03, 2020 11:58 PM (c6gLH)
Posted by: SMH - Seriously? at May 03, 2020 11:58 PM (RU4sa)
Posted by: navybrat, laying low at May 03, 2020 11:55 PM (w7KSn)
Macarthur Park?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 03, 2020 11:58 PM (LZcDP)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 03, 2020 11:58 PM (/UQ/R)
Give your body joy
Not trying to seduce you
Hey, Macarena!
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 03, 2020 11:58 PM (mNq/0)
Have a wonderful night, full of significant non-social distancing.
Not, repeat, NOT anti-social distancing. The sniper is for the Art thread only.
You are all wonderful, in your own way. Even our creatively mad Hungarian.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 11:59 PM (u82oZ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A9askVdzI8
Milady says, Oh, I love Odetta.
Thanks for the link!
...her full name is Odetta Holmes... gotta be where Stephen King got the name of a character in the Dark Tower series.
I mostly know of King from jibes on here, and moments of Carrie and others incompletely caught on hotel cable with commercials. Not my genre.
He wrote that one with the mystery murder semi chasing... Dennis Weaver was it? What I caught of that, I thought that was amusing.
Posted by: mindful webworker
link: Lizard Queen of Chicago
at May 03, 2020 11:59 PM (oBghv)
Posted by: navybrat, laying low at May 04, 2020 12:00 AM (w7KSn)
Posted by: pookysgirl, off in fantasyland at May 04, 2020 12:00 AM (XKZwp)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 03, 2020 11:27 PM (u82oZ)
No controversy, he just got his PhD elsewhere.
Murphy may be wrong about things, I think his pacifist position is a poor one for example in that it is literally a free rider position, but he is honest about his positions and he has thought things through. (and what sort of libertarian would I be if I did not embrace free riders as long as it doesn't cost me too much extra?)
he did point out a very large issue with Austrian/An-Cap thinking in that it is far to focused on absolute property rights, and has no answer to the socialist question about what to do about someone who is destroying his own property or animal or child? The radical An-Cap position is to treat everything as property, but is that right classification for a dog or a child? and even so, does an individual loose title to property if they neglect it or somehow otherwise act in a way to loose title or open it up for being claimed through adverse possession?
He has claimed no answer yet, but he is willing to say this is a huge question.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2020 12:00 AM (WyVLE)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Why did that make me think simultaneously of both Albert Gore Jr. and Senor Frog's in Playa del Carmen?
Posted by: Miklos, unsteady on his feet at May 04, 2020 12:00 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at May 04, 2020 12:01 AM (mNq/0)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2020 12:01 AM (LZcDP)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 04, 2020 12:02 AM (/UQ/R)
There was exactly one American pop hit single that used the haiku form, and nothing rhymed.
Name it, please. No Google.
Posted by: navybrat, laying low at May 03, 2020 11:55 PM (w7KSn)
This one rhymes, and you have to throw away the tag line, but...
Wild Thing
You make my heart sing
You make everything...groovy
Wild Thing
I think I love you
Posted by: Splunge at May 04, 2020 12:02 AM (dOV9E)
Posted by: navybrat, laying low at May 04, 2020 12:02 AM (w7KSn)
It's ABCDE
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 03, 2020 11:48 PM (L2ZTs)
CDB?
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y99fjzag
CD murderhornet?!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at May 04, 2020 12:03 AM (0ReGO)
Posted by: navybrat, laying low at May 04, 2020 12:03 AM (w7KSn)
Posted by: Miklos, under duress at May 04, 2020 12:03 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: navybrat, laying low at May 04, 2020 12:04 AM (w7KSn)
Posted by: Splunge at May 04, 2020 12:04 AM (dOV9E)
.....
It's all good Fen.
My sense of humor is an acquired taste for most and definitely out of place on NextDoor.
I think even God looks down and shakes his head and says "That boy ain't right".
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 04, 2020 12:04 AM (e+NXE)
Posted by: navybrat, laying low at May 04, 2020 12:05 AM (w7KSn)
Posted by: Splunge at May 04, 2020 12:06 AM (dOV9E)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZRkK9cSa8o
Posted by: SMH - Seriously? at May 04, 2020 12:06 AM (RU4sa)
Posted by: Miklos, Orthographic Social Justice Warrior at May 04, 2020 12:06 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: navybrat, laying low at May 04, 2020 12:07 AM (w7KSn)
A concert with the Beach Boys appearing would suck.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) at May 04, 2020 12:07 AM (0EVQt)
Please don't leave me, don't you go
Ain't too proud to plead
(some ancillary words omitted)
Posted by: Splunge at May 04, 2020 12:09 AM (dOV9E)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 04, 2020 12:09 AM (/UQ/R)
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2020 12:09 AM (c6gLH)
Posted by: navybrat
Just when raimondo could show up and be useful.
Figures.
Posted by: Miklos, modestly contributing at May 04, 2020 12:09 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 04, 2020 12:10 AM (Lqy/e)
I understand Nietzsche stated in essence, "it is too late, they are gone. We better start looking extra hard now"
Posted by: Kindltot at May 04, 2020 12:12 AM (WyVLE)
So... check it our if you have seven hours & 45 minutes.
You'll thank me. It's astonishing. It was his last performance before he died, btw.
Posted by: mnw at May 03, 2020 10:11 PM (Cssks)
It must have taken a ton of make unto get Richard Burton to look like Lindsey Wagner !!!
Posted by: Adriane the Bees Love My Backyard Critic ... at May 04, 2020 12:12 AM (LPnfS)
So, here is the answer:
"Moonlight in Vermont"
1944
Posted by: navybrat, laying low at May 04, 2020 12:12 AM (w7KSn)
Posted by: Braenyard at May 04, 2020 12:12 AM (C+nsl)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 04, 2020 12:12 AM (/UQ/R)
What the flying fuck am I supposed to do? Pray? Beg for help? I literally have to be completely at the mercy of others?
And I see Facebook posts from my other family members, none of whom are on the edge, showing off this frou-frou recipe or that cozy family situation. And it stabs me right in the heart again. I feel like family in name only.
I am filled with rage against myself and the world. And, I won't lie, a little at God.
Maybe a lot at God.
I don't know how to proceed. I don't know where to turn.
God, torturing me to get me to glorify you is not the work of a benevolent entity. But that's what it feels like is happening.
Fuck all of this. I don't want to wake up in the morning. Because the best I can hope for is more of the same, but...worse is more and more likely as time goes on.
I don't know what I want of life. I know what I used to want. Now all I want is for this stupid, drawn-out shit, the helplessness and pointlessness, to be over.
Not planning anything rash. I don't even have the courage for that.
I don't know what else to say or who to say it too. I guess I just want someone to know.
Posted by: Brother Cavil Tim at May 04, 2020 12:14 AM (CUU+W)
Posted by: Downcast at May 04, 2020 12:14 AM (xgpfE)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 04, 2020 12:09 AM (/UQ/R)
Call and speak with the podiatrist by phone?
Posted by: Adriane the Bees Love My Backyard Critic ... at May 04, 2020 12:14 AM (LPnfS)
Posted by: Kindltot
Nietzche stated nothing "in essence".
Germans don't write that way.
Posted by: Miklos, Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän at May 04, 2020 12:15 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Downcast at May 04, 2020 12:14 AM (xgpfE)
Aerial bombardment with Pall Mall Non-Filter 100s would probably have the same effect.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2020 12:16 AM (A5zUN)
Posted by: Brother Cavil Tim at May 04, 2020 12:14 AM (CUU+W)
I have some extra.
Any of the COBs have your e-mail?
Posted by: Adriane the Bees Love My Backyard Critic ... at May 04, 2020 12:16 AM (LPnfS)
Germans don't write that way.
Posted by: Miklos, Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän at May 04, 2020 12:15 AM (QzkSJ)
Might as well expect GK Chesterton to write a one sentence commentary.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2020 12:17 AM (A5zUN)
This will pass. All anyone can ask is that you do your best.
Posted by: Splunge at May 04, 2020 12:17 AM (dOV9E)
"Moonlight in Vermont"
1944
Posted by: navybrat
*all Morons (except for Broseidon) immediately sign up for Jeopardy*
Posted by: Miklostradamus at May 04, 2020 12:17 AM (QzkSJ)
Brother Tim.....email in my nic....will send you my number if you need to talk
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 04, 2020 12:18 AM (/UQ/R)
You tell yourself what I tell me every day, be not afraid. And it's hard where you are right now, because I've been there and thought I would never get out. But somehow, I got through it. Pray because it is always the best thing you can do, especially when it seems hopeless. And I will pray for you tonight too.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 04, 2020 12:19 AM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at May 04, 2020 12:20 AM (NeD6B)
I have known only 2 of those.
Posted by: navybrat, laying low at May 04, 2020 12:22 AM (w7KSn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaB9F3R9cIY
Wow again. Thanks for that! Wish I understood Italian. I tried turning on the closed captions, but it had English for Jim and Italian for Luci. Reeeal helpful.
Still, wow.
So hard to get caught up on comments when there's so many http tangents. Esp when I'm blogging some great vids.
What's the saying, the behinder I get... something...
Posted by: mindful webworker
link: Lizard Queen of Chicago
at May 04, 2020 12:23 AM (oBghv)
Posted by: Boots at May 04, 2020 12:24 AM (oGBso)
Sabres in the opening sequence but Wayne was shown flying a Starfighter.
Chuck Yeager did some of the stunt flying.
It was a Howard Hughes film which he thought one of his best. Wayne thought it was his worst film.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 04, 2020 12:24 AM (C+nsl)
Posted by: Brother Cavil Tim at May 04, 2020 12:25 AM (CUU+W)
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at May 04, 2020 12:28 AM (Ndje9)
Poland responds to DeBlasio:
https://t.co/5hC76XQXet
https://tinyurl.com/y7qx5dhs
Posted by: Braenyard at May 04, 2020 12:29 AM (C+nsl)
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Asia really lost their way after John Wetton died.
Posted by: RKae at May 04, 2020 12:29 AM (Y6EGw)
A real problem right now is a lack of human contact. They are underestimating how terrible this is for people. It has to stop or it will drive people crazy.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 04, 2020 12:31 AM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: occam's brassiere
Wait... doesn't this describe almost the entirety of the Moron comments on A♠ ?
Posted by: mindful webworker
link: Lizard Queen of Chicago
at May 04, 2020 12:33 AM (oBghv)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 04, 2020 12:31 AM (Lqy/e)
We'll they are so much smarter than all those people who are forced to live in quarantine. If they have to be sacrificed, so be it.
They will realize why there were all those western songs about guys going out to the hills, searching for gold alone, and then stirring up trouble when they came back to town.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2020 12:34 AM (A5zUN)
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And it was LEGAL to take your kids out into the wilderness and live a dangerous life.
...Now?
Not even lawn darts.
Posted by: RKae at May 04, 2020 12:34 AM (Y6EGw)
I've read that Heat Of The Moment and Video Killed The Radio Star are basically the same song. I don't hear it...
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 12:35 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Downcast at May 04, 2020 12:38 AM (xgpfE)
Posted by: Brother Cavil Tim at May 04, 2020 12:25 AM (CUU+W)
A few weeks ago, one of the - ettes mention that she hid indoors and had a good cry.
Guys don't like to do that.
So ... deep breath, hold for 5, and let it out forcefully. Learned it in an adult caregiver lecture of youtube. People under stress forget to exhale and start a shallow breathing pattern.
Does this change your situation? No.
What it might do is help you switch mental gears...
Posted by: Adriane the Bees Love My Backyard Critic ... at May 04, 2020 12:39 AM (LPnfS)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 04, 2020 12:39 AM (/UQ/R)
How about a Oh No Yoko concert?
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 04, 2020 12:09 AM (c6gLH)
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how about a combination Yoko/Frank Zappa concert?
Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at May 04, 2020 12:40 AM (dlZr1)
Posted by: Emmie at May 04, 2020 12:40 AM (ouBhA)
I think I'm getting the hang of this "don't overcook your steak" thing...
https://tinyurl.com/yc4olpoz
(Also, this ribeye I had tonight was really well marbled.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 12:41 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 04, 2020 12:39 AM (/UQ/R)
Dire Straight's I want my MTV !!!!
What do I win?
Posted by: Adriane the Bees Love My Backyard Critic ... at May 04, 2020 12:41 AM (LPnfS)
Posted by: qdpsteve
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That's complete madness. I don't know who would say that or why.
Geoff Downes is brilliant. Steve Howe said of him "He's the best keyboardist Yes have ever had." High praise indeed, considering who the other Yes keyboardists were!
Downes did a really cool all-instrumental album called "The Light Program." Right in the middle of the '80s, it very, very '80s! If you ever get a chance, give it a listen.
His new stuff with The Downes/Braide Association is unabashedly a throwback to the '80s sound. (Sort of like the way the Stray Cats brought the '50s into the '80s, Downes/Braide is bringing the '80s into the 21st Century.)
Posted by: RKae at May 04, 2020 12:41 AM (Y6EGw)
Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 04, 2020 12:42 AM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 04, 2020 12:42 AM (/UQ/R)
mindysosiare at hoo-ya dot komm
(Hope the address is not too cryptic. Yahoo is what I mean.)
Posted by: Emmie at May 04, 2020 12:42 AM (ouBhA)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 04, 2020 12:43 AM (/UQ/R)
I know Downes is a lot more talented than he looks. There's a pic of him with Trevor Horn (for the Buggles) from 1980 that cracks me up. Trevor is sitting there with his oversized glasses, the very picture of early 1980s new wave cool, and next to him is Downes with his long hair, leather pants, sneer and early 1970s swagger. :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 12:43 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 04, 2020 12:39 AM (/UQ/R)
Dire Straight's I want my MTV !!!!
What do I win?
Posted by: Adriane the Bees Love My Backyard Critic
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You win NOTHING! You are WRONG!
It was the Buggles: "Video Killed The Radio Star."
...And that Dire Straits song was called "Money For Nothing."
Posted by: RKae at May 04, 2020 12:44 AM (Y6EGw)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 04, 2020 12:44 AM (/UQ/R)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 04, 2020 12:42 AM (/UQ/R)
Pink Floyd's I want my MTV to Set Control to the Heart of the Sun ???
Posted by: Adriane the Bees Love My Backyard Critic ... at May 04, 2020 12:44 AM (LPnfS)
If I may confess, in the early days I always scanned your name as Nosferatu.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2020 12:44 AM (A5zUN)
Five syllables here.
Seven more syllables here.
Are you happy now?
Still my favorite grade school classroom haiku.
Posted by: Downcast at May 04, 2020 12:44 AM (xgpfE)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 04, 2020 12:45 AM (/UQ/R)
Posted by: Braenyard at May 04, 2020 12:46 AM (C+nsl)
Seven more syllables here.
Are you happy now?
Still my favorite grade school classroom haiku.
Posted by: Downcast at May 04, 2020 12:44 AM (xgpfE)
: -))
A rose may be red
A violet may be blue
That is my haiku ...
Posted by: Adriane the Bees Love My Backyard Critic ... at May 04, 2020 12:46 AM (LPnfS)
I think I'm getting the hang of this "don't overcook your steak" thing...
https://tinyurl.com/yc4olpoz
(Also, this ribeye I had tonight was really well marbled.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 12:41 AM (L2ZTs)
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steak: you're doing it right.
congratulations, grasshopper.
Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at May 04, 2020 12:49 AM (dlZr1)
Posted by: RKae at May 04, 2020 12:49 AM (Y6EGw)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 04, 2020 12:50 AM (/UQ/R)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 12:50 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: RKae at May 04, 2020 12:51 AM (Y6EGw)
Just act like itPosted by: westminsterdogshow at May 04, 2020 12:51 AM (/UQ/R)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 12:52 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2020 12:53 AM (A5zUN)
Posted by: qdpsteve
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I zap it with my eye lasers.
Posted by: RKae at May 04, 2020 12:53 AM (Y6EGw)
show the cow a picture of a fire on a flash card, then start cutting.
if a good vet can bring the steak back to life, you're golden.
Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at May 04, 2020 12:54 AM (dlZr1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 12:54 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 12:55 AM (L2ZTs)
qdp, have you tried any of the sources i e-mailed you?
the Rocker Bros in Inglewatts have *awesome* meat. we just ordered MOAR....
and the Espanola place in Harbor City had really interesting stuff too, just haven't had a chance to eat any yet.
Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at May 04, 2020 12:56 AM (dlZr1)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 12:56 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow at May 04, 2020 12:57 AM (/UQ/R)
I need more places to buy meat than Vons, Albertsons & Ralphs, that is for sure. Their selection often leaves me wanting.
Then there's Sprouts, which is weird... their steaks tend to look great, but most of them aren't graded. (Unless I'm missing something.)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 12:58 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2020 12:58 AM (A5zUN)
I admit I tend to be especially partial to OC establishments, and they have a fantastic reputation from everything I've seen, read and heard.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 12:59 AM (L2ZTs)
They oughta be flanked on the other side by either a topless bar or an adult bookstore. ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 01:00 AM (L2ZTs)
We don' need no education!
We don' need no thawt con-trol!
Dark Side of the moon is the most overrated album in history.
Posted by: BourbonChicken with a Face Colander at May 04, 2020 01:08 AM (LxTcq)
Is DSOTM pretty good? Yes.
As good as everyone says it is? No.
And I just refuse to take anything Roger Waters says seriously. The man is just filled with hate.
I believe there's a song on The Final Cut where he sings about putting Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan on an island, and then nuking the island.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 01:10 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
Oh, no. They know damn well how bad it is. The subject has been studied to death for decades. They know. This is not unintended consequences. I believe it is the clear point of the exercise, destroying all social bonds so they and their institutions can swoop in.
Posted by: Brother Cavil Tim at May 04, 2020 01:10 AM (CUU+W)
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Never heard of them, but i haven't been an OC frequent flyer since the early 90's.
good rule of thumb: if they carry Harris Ranch beef, it's likely pretty good.
https://www.harrisranch.com/product-category/harris-ranch-beef/
Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at May 04, 2020 01:10 AM (dlZr1)
Posted by: westminsterdogshow
Galleries Lafayette
Posted by: Miklos, hazarding a well-informed guess at May 04, 2020 01:11 AM (QzkSJ)
Yeah, I expect mass psychiatric casualties if this goes on another month.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 04, 2020 01:12 AM (I2/tG)
I just checked out Rocker Bros. They look good. I wonder if they'll come out to your car. Not too bad looking a spot in Inglewood (I had some nightmarish experiences just driving through years ago on my way to the Hollywood Park casino).
Unfortunately they're out of stock on a lot of items, but I will bookmark them. Anyone in SoCal who'll sell me a Wagyu without demanding my soul, both arms and both legs is good with me.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 01:12 AM (L2ZTs)
The "steakhouse" then, was more along the lines of Western Sizzler.
You were lucky to get a 1/2 inch thick steak, and even the Sirloin was a crappy, fatty cut of greasy, gristly horror.
But when ordered well done, and with ample quantities of black pepper applied, the grease was minimized, and it yielded a palatable, jerky-like flavor.
It was not then, nor ever could be a "good steak".
But I did find a way not to gag on the gristly greaseball, and that mattered, then.
I think that the 50s/60s Western Sizzler format "steakhouses" corrupted the concept of "Steak" for a generation, or more.
And I'll credit Stuart Anderson's "Black Angus" steakhouse chain, for the first wedge into "better".
While giving similar credit to Ruth's Chris towards the acceptance of the Premium Steak experience.
The rest, as they say, is history.
Neither Outback nor Texas Roadhouse can claim to have been game changers, compared to what I've written above.
What they are though, is magnificently successful successors to the "franchise" format of the Western Sizzler, and the "better" format of Black Angus.
Both produce perfectly good steaks at very approachable prices.
But Ruth's Chris, Morton's, Capital Grille, and others.
I'll put it to you this way. Even if you *aspire* to live in a trailer park, you owe it to your self to one such steak dinner at such a place, before you die.
They're that good. They're that far *beyond* good.
And if you don't have an 1,800 degree broiler, it's gonna be damn hard to compete with a 2" steak, hot all the way through, but perfectly rare in the center, and the JUST RIGHT bit of char, on the surface.
I think I cook one of the finest stovetop sirloins in the skillet, that can be found.
But I don't delude myself into thinking that my steak is the next Morton's.
'Cause it's not.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at May 04, 2020 01:12 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 04, 2020 01:14 AM (kFkpX)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 04, 2020 01:16 AM (vuisn)
A lot of the advice I've gotten here at AoS has turned out to be 100% spot-on correct and handy. For instance:
- I no longer look for straight red beef; I look for good marbling.
- I try to do things to ensure my steak will taste good *pre*-cook, *without* having to drown it in sauce.
- Also, I prep my steak and leave it unrefrigerated for at least an hour before putting it on a HOT grill pan.
All good stuff I learned here.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 01:16 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Dr. Varno
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Back in '85 (I was in my early 20s) I heard Marillion's "Misplaced Childhood." I said, "This is the album Pink Floyd THINKS they're making."
Pretty much stopped listening to Floyd after that.
Posted by: RKae at May 04, 2020 01:18 AM (Y6EGw)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 01:21 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 04, 2020 01:16 AM (vuisn)
Yes, Karen ...
Posted by: Adriane the Bees Love My Backyard Critic ... at May 04, 2020 01:22 AM (LPnfS)
Seriously, think about how the flag looks to you when you see it now. Like a stranger. Like a very welcome friend, but one you surely haven't seen in a while. How it wasn't such an uncommon sight when you were growing up. Or even two decades ago. How you'd see it waving proudly all the time in TV, movies, and not just flapping around at some house where some white supremacists live. Or hanging in some make believe FBI lobby where all the *real* super heroes work.
The American Flag as seen in media, is mostly just a quaint image now, the kind of thing that only makes you feel like you're looking to the past - not the present or the future. Think it's a coincidence?
Posted by: ... at May 04, 2020 01:23 AM (xvh8n)
Let me guess -- Guns? I dunno, but jumping in front of a speeding train has got a better track record.
Or having the goods on the Clintons? Jeffery Epstein could weigh in with an opinion, if he wasn't so very busy being still dead.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 04, 2020 01:25 AM (Z4rgH)
Sous Vide, cher Jim.
CBD, can I have a witness!
Posted by: Miklos, with well seasoned skillet at May 04, 2020 01:27 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: ...
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No image on your TV screen is accidental or a coincidence. At this point, it's ALL symbolic mass programming.
It's at the level of ritual now.
Posted by: RKae at May 04, 2020 01:29 AM (Y6EGw)
Posted by: MiklosWatch at May 04, 2020 01:29 AM (QzkSJ)
But it only kills 1 at a time ...
Posted by: Adriane the Bees Love My Backyard Critic ... at May 04, 2020 01:29 AM (LPnfS)
Corona = crown = queen = coronation = Hillary
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!
;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 01:31 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars
Awesome Krebs. Here's to the next 23! Huzzah!!
Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 04, 2020 01:32 AM (YFQDl)
7 syllables
5 syllables
That is the basic form.
Posted by: navybrat, laying low at May 03, 2020 11:49 PM (w7KSn)
There is also another basic rule for good haiku beyond the 5-7-5 syllable rule that is often overlooked/unknown. One line must be a line of action, a frog jumping, snow falling, that kind of thing. The other two lines are observational to that line; the action line can be any of the three.
A perfect example of this:
Waiting in the marsh,
The heron stands silently,
Fish sense death is near.
The action line here, though subtle, is the second one, 'the heron stands silently' while the other two lines revolve around/are observational to that action. Another action line would be something like 'lazily snowing' or 'a frog jumps into the pond'. Action in haiku does not necessarily mean 'bang, bang, shoot 'em up' as subtlety is generally the unwritten rule of the day.
Posted by: RickZ at May 04, 2020 01:32 AM (Y8PSl)
CBD, can I have a witness!
Posted by: Miklos, with well seasoned skillet at May 04, 2020 01:27 AM (QzkSJ)
Your or CBD. Same cut of meat, as in literally, two steaks cut sequentially from the same loin, backstrap or quarter.
Ruth's, Morton's or Capital cooks one.
Y'all cook the other.
Serve 'em both to me at table, and let me be the judge.
And I get to take the leftovers home in the doggie bag.
I'll pay $100 to one of you, and $100 to the restaurant, for the experiment and experience.
Not lookin' to mooch for free, here.
But y'all arrange it, and I'll show up and tucker in.
And write at length, as to the results.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at May 04, 2020 01:33 AM (QzJWU)
Over the pit with the hot at the top...2 inch bone in Rib Eyes..room aged for 3 days.. salt .cracked pepper
(my feat) a brushing of blended avocado oil and fresh garlic brushed both sides and then set to the sear hot.. drive the liquids to the center of the meat...then rotate in place 45 degrees to set the coat of bar marks...and further drive the liquids (we talking mere minutes)..pull the steak downward to slightly cooler and flip...repeat the above to get Med/Rare.
Or start at this point for a longer cook for Med..Med/well without burning Char into the meat
rest for 10 mins after pulling ...slice on the 45 degree angle blade to cutting board and against the grain of yer meat
slurp it up with a fine bottle of local CAB
Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 04, 2020 01:33 AM (kFkpX)
;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve
Ima send that to Alex Jones.
Might get you a discount on his private label Herbalife products.
Posted by: MiklosDeals at May 04, 2020 01:34 AM (QzkSJ)
37k, according to the CDC, killed by a WMD sneak attack by your allies in Beijing, but nice try.
Posted by: Methos at May 04, 2020 01:35 AM (kOpft)
Takes me back to 1989... ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 01:35 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 01:35 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 04, 2020 01:35 AM (I2/tG)
You are out of the loop, troll-fag. CDC just reduced their WuFlu death count to 37,000. Pity you ain't one.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2020 01:36 AM (LZcDP)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim
A blind steak tasting pairs well with a Chateau du Snarque and a Valu-Rite digestif.
Posted by: Miklos, doing the Fritz Feld "POP" at May 04, 2020 01:37 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: george at May 04, 2020 01:38 AM (gJZii)
MAGA
Posted by: Worst President Ever
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Damn! I do miss the Obama years when NO ONE EVER DIED!
Kids on skateboards got hit by cars, but bounced up off the road, laughing and unhurt...
Old people got younger and younger, until they transformed into teenagers again...
Sure, some planes crashed, but the passengers just strolled out of the wreckage, still sipping their cocktails.
Those were indeed the days.
Posted by: RKae at May 04, 2020 01:38 AM (Y6EGw)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 01:38 AM (L2ZTs)
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Grim milestones, man.
*sad concerned face*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at May 04, 2020 01:39 AM (cuKeo)
MAGA
Posted by: Worst President Ever
Your wife Karen called. She said her boyfriend is finished so it's time to come home. She also said you need to pick up some milk, bread and tampons on the way home.
Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 04, 2020 01:39 AM (YFQDl)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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And those numbers from the Center for Despicable Corruption are STILL inflated ridiculously.
We're watching tomorrow's worthless history books getting written in real time.
Posted by: RKae at May 04, 2020 01:40 AM (Y6EGw)
Posted by: qdpsteve
Let's go.
In 1989, formerly commie countries became free.
A great time and place to be alive.
In 2020, America....well...
Posted by: Miklos, avec le Nostalgie, and a soupcon of Ennui at May 04, 2020 01:41 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Miklos, doing the Fritz Feld "POP" at May 04, 2020 01:37 AM (QzkSJ)
So what you're telling me here, is that you're buying the test "steaks" at the Wuhan wet market?
Pass!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at May 04, 2020 01:41 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: RKae at May 04, 2020 01:40 AM (Y6EGw)
We don't need no steenkin' history books.
The NEA
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 04, 2020 01:43 AM (Z4rgH)
Jim, yeah that ain't "steak"
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 01:43 AM (L2ZTs)
Nicolai Ceaucescu wasn't laughing!
...He is NOW, of course, but he wasn't then.
Posted by: RKae at May 04, 2020 01:44 AM (Y6EGw)
Steve...REALLY....ya wanna crush me like that from my growing up days wine learning???
Do I have to strip down naked now and stand at the Metro Station in NOHo and declare my re-education?
That was harsh.......
Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 04, 2020 01:45 AM (kFkpX)
:-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 01:46 AM (L2ZTs)
Also I enjoy Frito-Lay bean dip, the official dip of the deep state.
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 01:47 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Brother Cavil Tim at May 04, 2020 01:48 AM (CUU+W)
Raked up the whacked weeds, and put them, and some rotten boards and pails into the burn barrel. Around 5:30, it began to rain a little, so I flashed up the burn barrel and came inside. Kept an eye on it, though, and it burned down without any trouble.
It's truly remarkable how much shit can accumulate just outside shop doors.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2020 01:49 AM (LZcDP)
Emergency! Everyone to get from street!
Posted by: BourbonChicken with a Face Colander at May 04, 2020 01:50 AM (LxTcq)
:-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 01:46 AM (L2ZTs)
Like a Viking?
/looks confused, backs out of the thread, slowly
Posted by: Romeo13 at May 04, 2020 01:50 AM (NgKpN)
I've got no room to criticize anyone else's oenologist credentials.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 04, 2020 01:50 AM (Z4rgH)
I've seen this particular piece of advice for a long time, now.
...and now I'm sounding like them. I've got YouTube and DLive Moderator stench all over me.
*hits the shower*
Posted by: Slapweasel at May 04, 2020 01:51 AM (Ckg4U)
Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 04, 2020 01:51 AM (kFkpX)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 01:52 AM (L2ZTs)
Thank you for your understanding.
The Paolo, LLP
Posted by: Miklos, Customer Experience Associate at May 04, 2020 01:53 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 01:54 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Brother Cavil Tim at May 04, 2020 01:48 AM (CUU+W)
I blew an $80 comp at one a decade or so ago...
on a meal for one. It was damn good, but pricey. They have a Ruths at the Hard Rock in Biloxi.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 04, 2020 01:55 AM (Z4rgH)
Emergency! Everyone to get from street!
Posted by: BourbonChicken
I thought Palp taught everyone how to do proper Slavlish.
Posted by: Miklos, is now having flashbackshchi at May 04, 2020 01:57 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at May 04, 2020 01:59 AM (a4EWo)
Posted by: Miklos (no homo) at May 04, 2020 01:59 AM (QzkSJ)
slurp it up with a fine bottle of local CAB
Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 04, 2020 01:33 AM (kFkpX)
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you misspelled "West-side Paso Robles Zinfandel"
HTH!
and you're welcome.
Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at May 04, 2020 01:59 AM (dlZr1)
Posted by: ... at May 04, 2020 02:02 AM (xvh8n)
on a meal for one. It was damn good, but pricey. They have a Ruths at the Hard Rock in Biloxi.
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 04, 2020 01:55 AM (Z4rgH)
You can get a pretty darn good steak at Caesar's Steak House in Calgary, Alberta. Same price range as Ruth's Chris. Waiters in tuxes, IIRC. Their claim to fame is the invention of the Caesar cocktail: vodka, Mott's Clamato juice, dash of Worcestershire sauce, dash of Tabasco, served with ice in a glass rimmed with spiced salt. Garnished with celery stick, or pickled string bean. Yummy, they are.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2020 02:02 AM (LZcDP)
Now it's time for me to hit the hay even though hay never did anything to me.
Fight the good fight, beloved Horde!
Posted by: Emmie at May 04, 2020 02:02 AM (ouBhA)
Put a match to that first, see if it burns clean.
Posted by: Miklos, speaking The Wisdom of His People at May 04, 2020 02:03 AM (QzkSJ)
Steve...REALLY....ya wanna crush me like that from my growing up days wine learning???
Do I have to strip down naked now and stand at the Metro Station in NOHo and declare my re-education?
That was harsh.......
Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 04, 2020 01:45 AM (kFkpX)
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ewwww
i drive by there several times a week...
atop that!
Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at May 04, 2020 02:04 AM (dlZr1)
But the really completely unremarked/curious detail about that movie, Russia-wise, was the the exchange at the pier, where "Whittaker Walt" is sort of lecturing the sub captain about threatening the town. When the Arkin character introduces Reiner, he tells the captain "he's a writer". Note the captain's reaction.
As in many societies, in Russia, an actual writer has very high status (try to find a square in Latin America named after anything but a poet or writer - OK, the odd independence revolutionary is there too, but overall, it's all writers).
The captain initially looks impressed and more interested. Then - "what does he write?".
"Musikalniye komediyii" - musical comedies.
Captain's face deflates.
Perfect, but no doubt unappreciated by 99% of the American audience. Curious.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2020 02:04 AM (El6T/)
oenologist?
Did you ever ride bicycles up the The Westside road wine trail to the Russian River Valley? In my 20s.....yes, some of the best vineyards....the tasting rooms were free.....and if you could ride back along that death defying 2 lane road to your starting point without ending up in the river....a fine day indeed
Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 04, 2020 02:05 AM (kFkpX)
Night, horde.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2020 02:05 AM (LZcDP)
Also teachers (not here, and for good reason).
Posted by: Miklos, let me tell you the one about the two immigrant dogs at May 04, 2020 02:08 AM (QzkSJ)
"West side" means west of the 101 in the Paso area. Because of topography, that also defines climatic regions, and to some extent soil type. West side - calcareous soils, marine influence (depending on elevation and location); east side, different soils, much hotter/drier.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2020 02:08 AM (El6T/)
Perfect, but no doubt unappreciated by 99% of the American audience. Curious.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2020 02:04 AM (El6T/)
Still gonna try the flight out there, more sooner than later. Sooner is cheaper, natch.
ANY of the Little Italy pizza joints, yet exist? I'm buying.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at May 04, 2020 02:09 AM (QzJWU)
Posted by: Miklos, let me tell you the one about the two immigrant dogs at May 04, 2020 02:08 AM (QzkSJ)
Many of the children killed at the Cheynain ? school massacre had brought flowers to their teacher on the 1st day of school.
Posted by: Adriane the Bees Love My Backyard Critic ... at May 04, 2020 02:13 AM (LPnfS)
Fucking MONDAY again as REMINDED me by the bitch I call my ALARM CLOCK......Telling me to to bail now or pay the price come O DARK 45....yes you Bitch....off to bed now...
Fuckin hate my life...night horde...
Posted by: The Nightwatch at May 04, 2020 02:14 AM (kFkpX)
I used to hit Sonoma wine country 2-3 times a year, even though I lived on the east coast. Starting mid-80s.
Those visiting now won't believe how different it was.
Not in terms of development, population, etc. - they've kept the lid on that.
But as Nightwatch said, all tasting rooms were free - it was a point of pride and reverse-snobbery vs. Napa, just a few miles and one mountain ridge east.
I would only go on weekdays, and out of peak season (those iron laws still apply to all wine travel). Still remember several times, winemaker/owner was pouring tastings, and had other things to do - rack some wines, other things - and would just bring us back with him into the working area.
Recall once - a few fairly hot but wine-newbie young women were there, guy brought them back too, and gave us a sample tasting of the just-crushed sauvignon blanc grape juice, from the tank.
It was, of course, incredible - as grape juice. Amazing flavor. The girls said - "why don't you just sell it like this?!". Winemaker said - "$5 a bottle, vs. $20 a bottle?".
Anyway. Sonoma changed. Most tasting rooms now have fees. Much more crowded. Healdsburg was pretty normal. Now, infinitely more chi-chi.
Posted by: rhomboid at May 04, 2020 02:16 AM (El6T/)
"Safer at home", maybe. Saner, fuck no.
Posted by: Brother Cavil Tim at May 04, 2020 02:19 AM (CUU+W)
Talk about a sobering statistic.
Of the first 7 F-100F Wild Weasels to go into combat, five were lost.
-- Anna Puma
I worked with a guy who knew a guy who was in on the beginning of the Wild Weasel program. It was unofficially named YGBSM. As in "I'm gonna ride backseat while some invulnerable fighter jock deliberately draws SAM fire, and I'm gonna play the music to make them miss? You Gotta Be S**+ing Me!" The guy still to that day had "YGBSM-1" vanity plates.
Posted by: Whiggish Boffin at May 04, 2020 02:19 AM (k/Co7)
rhomboid, yep, I've read that too. The Russians take their writers very seriously.
It's probably due to all the repression and censorship. When an errant sentence can land you in the gulag, it tends to focus the mind wonderfully (paraphrased).
Posted by: GnuBreed at May 04, 2020 02:22 AM (Z4rgH)
Posted by: qdpsteve at May 04, 2020 02:29 AM (L2ZTs)
Posted by: Brother Cavil Tim
"Insanely Sanitary at Home"
Posted by: Gov. Miklos Gretchen-Witless at May 04, 2020 02:48 AM (QzkSJ)
It's probably due to all the repression and censorship.
The repression and censorship is not what it appears.
Posted by: Nikolai Gogol at May 04, 2020 02:49 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Whiggish Boffin
Same here. Always kept an eye on that guy. You just never know.
Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 04, 2020 02:52 AM (YFQDl)
Posted by: JT at May 04, 2020 03:05 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Summer of Love at May 04, 2020 03:24 AM (FJrl0)
Posted by: JT at May 04, 2020 03:32 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety
Took my eye off that guy once.
Once.
Posted by: And that explains Miklos' monocle at May 04, 2020 03:33 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2020 03:42 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2020 03:45 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Skip
This is the perfect time to sneak up on the bee's nest
Posted by: JT at May 04, 2020 03:45 AM (arJlL)
Just looked at my daily log of Chinese Lung disease, NY, NJ, Pa,and Wisconsin all down, only my county had more than yesterday.
Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2020 03:50 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: My life is insanity at May 04, 2020 03:50 AM (kck+S)
Posted by: JT at May 04, 2020 03:51 AM (arJlL)
Posted by: MiklosAM at May 04, 2020 03:51 AM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: My life is insanity at May 04, 2020 03:52 AM (kck+S)
Posted by: My life is insanity at May 04, 2020 03:54 AM (kck+S)
NY usually has in the 400s but since May started been in the 200s,
Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2020 03:58 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2020 04:01 AM (ZCEU2)
Maybe the cold calculus of the Left in NY is that this saves money in the end. Like the Liverpool path in NHS, UK.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2020 04:08 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2020 04:09 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: My life is insanity at May 04, 2020 04:10 AM (kck+S)
Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2020 04:10 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: My life is insanity at May 04, 2020 04:10 AM (kck+S)
Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2020 04:13 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 04, 2020 04:16 AM (pNxlR)
Posted by: Farmer at May 04, 2020 04:19 AM (LthQw)
Posted by: Vic at May 04, 2020 04:20 AM (mpXpK)
https://tinyurl.com/y8qlawwv
Posted by: Vic at May 04, 2020 04:20 AM (mpXpK)
https://tinyurl.com/yd9w53mc
Posted by: Vic at May 04, 2020 04:21 AM (mpXpK)
https://tinyurl.com/y9pqppd5
And that's it for today. Combine coronacrap with normal slow news Monday and you get nothing out there.
Posted by: Vic at May 04, 2020 04:21 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: JT at May 04, 2020 04:24 AM (arJlL)
What an intellectual powerhouse that guy is!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
Ok Mr. Smart Guy.
Try saying that in Austrian.
Posted by: Miklos, pondering Poi Dogs at May 04, 2020 04:24 AM (QzkSJ)
Was all ready to say mornin' but upon 2nd refresh, Vic's 1st drop was up so I figured I'd give it a few.
Okay, mornin' all.
It's back to work day.
Posted by: TeeJ - slight change there but still me at May 04, 2020 04:30 AM (E6qoh)
Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2020 04:33 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at May 04, 2020 04:37 AM (dlZr1)
Better get going.
Have a good day, all
Posted by: My life is insanity at May 04, 2020 04:44 AM (kck+S)
Thanks for the links, Vic. I'm seeing a lot of criticism for Trump's
interview being held at the Lincoln Memorial. Good grief I am sick of
all of that.
Better get going.
Have a good day, all
Posted by: My life is insanity at May 04, 2020 04:44 AM (kck+S)
And
that was because he really gave it to the press on that interview. And he was 100% right. The MFM really is our enemy.
Posted by: Vic at May 04, 2020 04:48 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2020 04:52 AM (ZCEU2)
https://tinyurl.com/yalmxh7j
Posted by: Vic at May 04, 2020 04:56 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2020 05:01 AM (ZCEU2)
Movie alert: if you like revenge flicks, use Roku search and look for Rolling Thunder. Stars William Devane and Tommy Lee Jones.
Also spotted Flash Gordon...
enjoy!
Posted by: Gooshy at May 04, 2020 05:17 AM (pWIWK)
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Posted by: Case at May 04, 2020 05:32 AM (tWAkG)
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Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2020 05:35 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: fluffy at May 04, 2020 05:39 AM (NGm/n)
Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2020 05:40 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2020 05:41 AM (ZCEU2)
The consulting company Accenture (formerly Arthur Andersen Consulting) was originally supposed to be called Monday.
Because some branding consultant geniuses thought that "Monday" would be a great, happy, optimistic sounding name, because everybody loves Mondays.
The company is called Accenture.
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Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2020 05:45 AM (ZCEU2)
Posted by: Skip
Nobody's gonna go to school today
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Posted by: Colin at May 04, 2020 06:01 AM (/Quxn)
Should hit the road, though close could be long day as need to get as much done as possible today so tomorrow won't be worse.
Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2020 06:01 AM (ZCEU2)
Sad thinking this years seniors were getting shafted out of all those events. And fresh out of the gate and no where to go.
Posted by: Skip at May 04, 2020 06:04 AM (ZCEU2)
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Posted by: karen at May 04, 2020 06:29 AM (JFO2v)
Rub it on firmly with a steady pace until swelling is relieved.
Posted by: karen at May 04, 2020 06:31 AM (JFO2v)
It seems some guy who owns a brew pub/restaurant in a county free of Chinese Attack Virus problems objected to a the governor's order to close the whole state, and went on Tucker to complain. In a nice touch, he also gave out the governor's private cell number. Governor Pol Pot didn't like his general attitude so she got the state licensing board to pull his health and liquor licenses.
She put him out of business. The governor of Maine just executed a guy economically, costing him his life savings, and fired all his workers. No trial. No crimes really. She was offended he questioned her edicts, so she had him killed. Maine is run by a crime lord, the Saddam Hussein of politicians. Bitch should be tarred, feathered, and run out of town by a crowd carrying sticks.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at May 04, 2020 06:31 AM (NVYyb)
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at May 04, 2020 05:57 AM (COzlW)
There a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Posted by: karen at May 04, 2020 06:32 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at May 04, 2020 06:31 AM (NVYyb)
Huck
That is Big Govt 101. Anyone at anytime can become an enemy of the state. And enemies of the state must be destroyed.
Posted by: karen at May 04, 2020 06:34 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 04, 2020 06:34 AM (JUOKG)
https://tinyurl.com/yalmxh7j
Posted by: Vic at May 04, 2020 04:56 AM (mpXpK)
I permanently boycotted Shorpy the day after Trump won the R nomination, when they just by absolute coincidence ran a picture of a Klan rally.
Fuck them.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 04, 2020 06:37 AM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at May 04, 2020 06:31 AM (NVYyb)
And you notice no one in the state offices had the stones to stand up to the bitch. Behfel ist behfel.
This country needs a fucking Nuremberg court to hang all of these treasonous bastards, starting with Fauci and Birx and moving on to Halfwit and every other Dem governor.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 04, 2020 06:39 AM (2JVJo)
It was about 96 degrees at my HS graduation, and I wore very little under my robe. My cousin also graduated and when I got to my uncle's house for our party, he physically picked me up and threw me into his pool, robe and all. Fun Guy.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 04, 2020 06:40 AM (EZebt)
I have seen the 1970-80's movie "Attack of the Killer Bees" showing great swarms heading north over the gulf...The year of Towering Infernal movies of the same era.Now we have a new title "Attack of the Giant Hornets" going direct to Netflix.Alfred Hitchcock, where are you (RIP) The Birds..
Posted by: Colin at May 04, 2020 06:43 AM (/Quxn)
Posted by: karen at May 04, 2020 06:31 AM (JFO2v)
Of course us perverts take that the way it sounds....At least the females can relax as the male migrates are doing as suggested.
Posted by: Colin at May 04, 2020 06:47 AM (/Quxn)
The sun is shining here in northeast MA and it looks as though it is going to be a nice day. I'm just hanging to check the morning report, and then I have to get back to writing.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 04, 2020 06:49 AM (2JVJo)
Well, I guess the Illinois gov JB the Hutt has figured a way to get people back to work.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker proposed a massive $80 million program Friday to hire "an army" of nearly 4,000 state workers to track anyone who came into contact with people who test positive for COVID-19.
Illinois can't pay it's bills, tax money down because people are forced out of jobs, but not to worry, we will find the money to hire 4000 people to jobs that will never go away. Jobs like taking your temp and tracking down all the people you've had contact with so they can have (force) them in for testing.
Hutt is asshoe!
Posted by: Bruce at May 04, 2020 06:50 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Colin at May 04, 2020 06:51 AM (/Quxn)
You are so right. Something startling occurred to me this morning -- we have no champion. No one is standing up unequivocally for the Constitution and against this peremptory seizing of power and deprivation of livelihood and basic rights. Trump is babbling about vaccines and phased re-openings while offering mere lip service to governors maybe "going too far." The Republican governors are all hedging bets and playing it safe.
Fear has gripped everybody -- fear of appearing insensitive or unmindful of safety. No one among our class of "leaders" is standing for liberty.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at May 04, 2020 06:56 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: jsg at May 04, 2020 06:57 AM (jY/1v)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at May 04, 2020 06:57 AM (60iFt)
Posted by: freaked at May 04, 2020 07:00 AM (Tnijr)
Illinois is planning on getting a bundle of money from the U.S. government. Enough to get them out of debt with change left over.
I don't see why as a taxpayer from a state that has to keep a balanced budget we have to let these bum states off the hook.
Posted by: Case at May 04, 2020 07:01 AM (tWAkG)
Posted by: Case
Yep.
And I can just see, a "contact specialist" showing up at a house to test people. Only those people don't want to be tested.
I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
Posted by: Bruce at May 04, 2020 07:07 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: freaked at May 04, 2020 07:08 AM (Tnijr)
Posted by: freaked at May 04, 2020 07:08 AM (Tnijr)
You are correct.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at May 04, 2020 07:09 AM (H8QX8)
:CBD highlighted the Oregon governor trying to be more authoritarian than
Half-Whitmer, and now we have the woman who rules Maine entering the
race. Strong entry too.
Posted by: Huck Follywood:
Remember, As Oergon, Michigan and Maine prove, if we just had womyn running everything we would have world peace and harmony because they are so much better at the compassion thing.
Posted by: Ripley at May 04, 2020 07:10 AM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at May 04, 2020 07:11 AM (NVYyb)
Posted by: Colin at May 04, 2020 07:13 AM (/Quxn)
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at May 04, 2020 07:13 AM (nFRLh)
I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
Posted by: Bruce"
Think of them as a mobile TSA for your protection.
"We are here for you. Or else"
Posted by: Ripley at May 04, 2020 07:14 AM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at May 04, 2020 07:14 AM (H8QX8)
https://tinyurl.com/y8aovx7g
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at May 04, 2020 07:15 AM (NVYyb)
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at May 04, 2020 07:15 AM (nFRLh)
It seems we are getting the government we deserve good and hard.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
No one seems to be voicing concern about flattening the curve on pissed off Murican's.
Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 04, 2020 07:16 AM (YFQDl)
I see Cuomo was out disinfecting subway cars himself. That should save a few bucks.
Posted by: freaked at May 04, 2020 07:16 AM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at May 04, 2020 07:15 AM (nFRLh)
We can't allow that. We're too easily buying into it as a permanent feature of our lives.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at May 04, 2020 07:17 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 04, 2020 07:20 AM (3tnRw)
Dittos.
The Trump administration has been absolutely the worst when it comes to prosecuting lawless lawmakers and government officials.
The US and China are becoming more and more alike in terms of secularism and State dominion in the affairs and control of the people.
The difference between China Communism and US Communism is that there are real consequences for Chinese officials when they overstep their bounds.
Another is that China still has a system of laws.
In the US, we are now a lawless nation that is somewhere between Calvin Ball and Simon Says.
Posted by: 🐧 at May 04, 2020 07:21 AM (C+evo)
"We are here for you. Or else"
Posted by: Ripley
Plus they don't have to tell you who the person is that has the WOHOo, only that you were in contact with them.
Karens Go Wild!!
Posted by: Bruce at May 04, 2020 07:21 AM (vd8XM)
Six feet ok, five feet and get the crap beat out of you by the cops.
Posted by: freaked at May 04, 2020 07:21 AM (Tnijr)
I'm sure nothing bad will happen.
Posted by: Bruce
In the Inslee Empire, refusal has the threat of jail time and fines. I see that as a potential line in the sand regarding LE .
Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 04, 2020 07:21 AM (YFQDl)
Posted by: m at May 04, 2020 07:22 AM (Ot4ka)
Posted by: m
That Bastard!!
Posted by: Bruce at May 04, 2020 07:22 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: freaked at May 04, 2020 07:23 AM (Tnijr)
And this "social distancing" was something they pulled out of their asses without any rigorous research to confirm its stated goals.
By the way, what is the stated goal of "social distancing"?
Posted by: 🐧 at May 04, 2020 07:23 AM (C+evo)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at May 04, 2020 07:24 AM (gAXBD)
Posted by: freaked
Just goes to show ya, never try
Posted by: Bruce at May 04, 2020 07:24 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 04, 2020 07:25 AM (2JVJo)
Because the good old days when you pulled out a gun or sold drugs as a predicate to getting the crap beat out of you is long gone.
Posted by: 🐧 at May 04, 2020 07:25 AM (C+evo)
Posted by: freaked Lee at May 04, 2020 07:25 AM (Tnijr)
Posted by: Ripley at May 04, 2020 07:26 AM (MxEKc)
Posted by: Joey Choo Choo at May 04, 2020 07:26 AM (3tnRw)
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at May 04, 2020 07:27 AM (nFRLh)
Posted by: Case at May 04, 2020 07:28 AM (tWAkG)
What do you write?
Posted by: clutch at May 04, 2020 07:28 AM (9UmRs)
Private automobiles vs mass transit?
In other words..
have Progressive plans and goals contributed to the staggering infection rate of the Wu-Flu?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 04, 2020 07:29 AM (3tnRw)
5 dead...permanently social distancing
And 42 wounded this weekend in Chicago.
Hey, let's not let a little thing like SIP ruin our fun!
Posted by: Bruce at May 04, 2020 07:29 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: clutch at May 04, 2020 07:28 AM (9UmRs)
Silent film mysteries, starring Theda Bara.
Click on my nic - it will take you to my badly-needs-updating website.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 04, 2020 07:29 AM (2JVJo)
https://tinyurl.com/yd9w53mc
Posted by: Vic at May 04, 2020 04:21 AM (mpXpK)
And during the Town Hall, Bret Baier said that there are some in the Senate who criticized the choice of locale: the Lincoln Memorial, where Lincoln is larger than life, where his words of healing the nation are inscribed.
Posted by: m at May 04, 2020 07:29 AM (Ot4ka)
Posted by: Case at May 04, 2020 07:28 AM (tWAkG)
We have a couple of commie towns here in Texas that bought into solar so they have contracts that all electricity be renewable so when gas is cheap and plentiful their citizen are paying full boat high prices. GOOD AND HARD!
Posted by: karen at May 04, 2020 07:30 AM (JFO2v)
I've been everywhere, man.
I've been everywhere, man.
Crossed the desert's bare, man.
I've breathed the mountain air, man.
Of travel I've a-had my share, man.
I've been everywhere.
I've been to
Reno, Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota,
Buffalo, Toronto, Winslow, Sarasota,
Wichita, Tulsa, Ottawa, Oklahoma,
Tampa, Panama, Mattawa, La Paloma,
Bangor, Baltimore, Salvador, Amarillo,
Tocopilla, Barranquilla, and Padilla, I'm a killer.
I've been everywhere, man.
I've been everywhere, man.
Crossed the desert's bare, man.
I've breathed the mountain air, man.
Of travel I've a-had my share, man.
I've been everywhere.
I've been to
Boston, Charleston, Dayton, Louisiana,
Washington, Houston, Kingston, Texarkana,
Monterey, Faraday, Santa Fe, Tallapoosa,
Glen Rock, Black Rock, Little Rock, Oskaloosa,
Tennessee to Hennessey, Chicopee, Spirit Lake,
Grand Lake, Devil's Lake, Crater Lake, for Pete's sake.
I've been everywhere, man.
I've been everywhere, man.
Crossed the desert's bare, man.
I've breathed the mountain air, man.
Of travel I've a-had my share, man.
I've been everywhere.
I've been to
Louisville, Nashville, Knoxville, Ombabika,
Schefferville, Jacksonville, Waterville, Costa Rica,
Pittsfield, Springfield, Bakersfield, Shreveport,
Hackensack, Cadillac, Fond du Lac, Davenport,
Idaho, Jellico, Argentina, Diamantina,
Pasadena, Catalina, see what I mean-a.
I've been everywhere, man.
I've been everywhere, man.
Crossed the desert's bare, man.
I've breathed the mountain air, man.
Of travel I've a-had my share, man.
I've been everywhere.
I've been to
Pittsburgh, Parkersburg, Gravelbourg, Colorado,
Ellensburg, Rexburg, Vicksburg, El Dorado,
Larimore, Admore, Haverstraw, Chatanika,
Chaska, Nebraska, Alaska, Opelika,
Baraboo, Waterloo, Kalamazoo, Kansas City,
Sioux City, Cedar City, Dodge City, what a pity.
I've been everywhere, man.
I've been everywhere, man.
Crossed the desert's bare, man.
I've breathed the mountain air, man.
Of travel I've a-had my share, man.
I've been everywhere.
I've been everywhere.
Oh and by the way yesterday I went to both Spokane Costcos, Lowes and spent several hours at Walmart. Feel my forehead. Do I feel feverish to you?
Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 04, 2020 07:30 AM (YFQDl)
I've been riding in the desert, on a horse with no name....
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 04, 2020 07:31 AM (3tnRw)
Easy. It will happen automatically. If you look at the Occupancy numbers for a business, many times it will easily accommodate the crowds that show up on Black Friday or during Sales Tax Holiday for school shopping.
It is hard to imagine what would cause any crowds to even test the 25% occupancy rule.
Besides, there are still a significant number of people who are hiding in their closets to avoid the Chinese Death Miasma.
Posted by: 🐧 at May 04, 2020 07:31 AM (C+evo)
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I find these partial occupancy rules absolutely ridiculous and even more ridiculously useless. Are you going to let x number of people in, let them out and disinfect the entire area, then let x number more people in? If you aren't disinfecting every surface after the previous groups are allowed in, it's a pointless maneuver, imo.
Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at May 04, 2020 07:32 AM (O+I8R)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 04, 2020 07:32 AM (nRk/c)
exactly are they going to estimate and control the 25% occupancy rule?
Our local has maybe 10 unique entrances - I suppose multiple gendarmes
and radios would do the trick. I can't wait to see how they control
Sunday though when we have the normal afternoon strolls by our diverse
neighbors. Abbott is such an idiot.
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at May 04, 2020 07:27 A
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We are going to have the same problem when we reopen our VFW. We have almost 10,000 square feet and that means our fire code capacity is 260 people. But there is no way we can control the social distancing requirement because we have four separate rooms with six doors that have to remain open if those rooms are occupied and only one bartender.
Add to that, we have people actively trying to get us to lose our liquor license because of decades old feuds. They will call the Cops and like the last time the TABC showed up, they have to come if someone calls.
We will literally have to have 8 people working and we simply can't afford that.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 04, 2020 07:33 AM (JUOKG)
Same way they enforce normal maximum occupancy rules. Sporadically if at all.
Posted by: JackStraw at May 04, 2020 07:33 AM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Bruce at May 04, 2020 07:33 AM (vd8XM)
To a governor's power, I assume.
Posted by: jsg at May 04, 2020 07:34 AM (jY/1v)
It's not pointless, if you feel good about it.
-Shit some Karen said.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 04, 2020 07:34 AM (3tnRw)
I have nothing against soldiers, in view of the fact that the US government is our worst enemy, I'm not sure why I want to pay for a military to defend it.
It would be better to be ruled by Mexico right now.
Posted by: 🐧 at May 04, 2020 07:34 AM (C+evo)
Posted by: Federal Department of Emotional Engineering at May 04, 2020 07:36 AM (3nvHv)
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Insinuating Donald Trump hasn't been supplying healing words to the nation? Gee, that's surprising...given that I can't think of an instance where he's said anything to the contrary. Tell me again, Senate people, who exactly has been calling for Trump supporters to "die long and painful deaths?"
Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at May 04, 2020 07:36 AM (O+I8R)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 04, 2020 07:37 AM (nRk/c)
Especially since "social distancing" has not been proven as effective against whatever the hell they are attempting to accomplish.
Its theater. The same as the TSA theater.
They can't admit that they trashed the economy and destroyed millions of lives because the Enemedia stirred up a massive panic and the politicians, being complete and total idiots let their inner tyrant loose.
There is not a single politicians that will say: "We fucked up, this is really no different than any other flu outbreak".
Posted by: 🐧 at May 04, 2020 07:39 AM (C+evo)
I've been riding in the desert, on a horse with no name....
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
Did you happen to run into Sheriff Bart and the boys sitting around the campfire?
Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 04, 2020 07:40 AM (YFQDl)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 04, 2020 07:40 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: olddog in mo, F*ck BofA & uckfay ancercay at May 04, 2020 07:41 AM (Dhht7)
Kid tells her to go home and work on a cure.
Groot walks away. Nothing bad happens to the kid...
Lessons for everybody
Posted by: Bruce at May 04, 2020 07:41 AM (vd8XM)
There should be nothing unambiguous about that. Don't make us treat you like a criminal," she said. "But if you act like a criminal and you violate the law and you refuse to do what is necessary to save lives in the city in the middle of a pandemic, we will take you to jail. Period."
Posted by: karen at May 04, 2020 07:42 AM (JFO2v)
That's the language of an abuser. "You know I don't want to hurt you, baby, but you make me do it!"
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at May 04, 2020 07:43 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Case at May 04, 2020 07:44 AM (tWAkG)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at May 04, 2020 07:44 AM (oVJmc)
The tradition, time tested way of diminishing your chances of getting a cold or flu was in the form of basic hygiene. Wash your hands, don't touch your face, cover your mouth when sneezing, coughing, all of that stuff we were taught before we were five years old.
Unfortunately, the Progs introduced a population of foreigners who still defecate in the streets and consider soap an oddity.
Posted by: 🐧 at May 04, 2020 07:44 AM (C+evo)
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Yep. Freedom.
Just like the f*ckers insisting everyone else wear hazmat suits so they can go to Walmart, society could almost completely eradicate suicide by keeping everyone in bare individual rooms that are locked from the outside.
But freedom is what kills people. That's the trade off.
Posted by: Moron Robbie saw a man remove his mask to sneeze at May 04, 2020 07:45 AM (L+kF6)
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Is this in a sanctuary city?
Posted by: Moron Robbie saw a man remove his mask to sneeze at May 04, 2020 07:45 AM (L+kF6)
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at May 04, 2020 07:46 AM (T5bCv)
healing words to the nation? Gee, that's surprising...given that I
can't think of an instance where he's said anything to the contrary.
Tell me again, Senate people, who exactly has been calling for Trump
supporters to "die long and painful deaths?"
Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at May 04, 2020 07:36 AM (O+I8R)
Remember that the Senate is full of RINOs, DIABLOs, and commiecrats. I give no credence at all to any unnamed source from the Senate.
Posted by: Vic at May 04, 2020 07:46 AM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at May 04, 2020 07:46 AM (NVYyb)
No more ridiculous then me being all in this together with y'all standing 6 ft away and a rat bastard self centered selfish typhoid mary at 5 ft.
Posted by: Sock Monkey..safety off at May 04, 2020 07:46 AM (YFQDl)
Posted by: Bruce at May 04, 2020 07:47 AM (vd8XM)
Says the party of abortion, euthanasia, lets kill Trump supporters, ignoring urban violence, ignores the drug epidemic...
Now if you wear a mask, you are a superhero "saving lives"
Posted by: 🐧 at May 04, 2020 07:48 AM (C+evo)
We're being commanded to "socially distance" by Constitutionally illiterate lowlifes who allow people to defecate in our streets.
Moral authoriteh!
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at May 04, 2020 07:51 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Lady in Black, sans mask at May 04, 2020 07:32 AM (O+I8R)
Virtue signaling is NEVER pointless, comrade citizen!
But the point is almost never what it seems to be!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 04, 2020 07:57 AM (jnM20)
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The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)