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Mid-Morning Art Thread
Nicolas-Antoine Taunay It's not great art, and it really needs to be seen on a large screen for the full effect, but as OM said, "given recent events, it seems timely." [Hat Tip: Oregon Muse]
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 09:31 AM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at June 15, 2020 09:31 AM (9QPEY)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 15, 2020 09:31 AM (s2VJv)
Posted by: A. Adams at June 15, 2020 09:32 AM (wPVhA)
Revenge of the Mountain!
Posted by: Mark Morland at June 15, 2020 09:33 AM (gAMkn)
Posted by: Someguy at June 15, 2020 09:33 AM (zR1US)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 15, 2020 09:33 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020 09:33 AM (JFO2v)
Madame le Guillotine.
Posted by: Flyover at June 15, 2020 09:34 AM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at June 15, 2020 09:34 AM (NVYyb)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2020 09:34 AM (FtO5h)
Posted by: Qmark at June 15, 2020 09:34 AM (DFHLf)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 09:34 AM (rpbg1)
Posted by: McCool at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (lWCRE)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (wPVhA)
Posted by: Qmark at June 15, 2020 09:34 AM (DFHLf)
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They're pantsing Waldo.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (UWqZJ)
There's always a trade-off.
Posted by: Flyover at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (axaxF)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (Dc2NZ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (mht8P)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (rpbg1)
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2020 09:36 AM (FtO5h)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 15, 2020 09:36 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: redridinghood at June 15, 2020 09:36 AM (wiXsO)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 09:36 AM (rpbg1)
Posted by: Bert G at June 15, 2020 09:36 AM (OMsf+)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 15, 2020 09:36 AM (ZLI7S)
Posted by: Archer at June 15, 2020 09:36 AM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 15, 2020 09:37 AM (wPVhA)
I know a few heads have popped off accidentally, but not sure if it's been done on purpose.
Posted by: MJ at June 15, 2020 09:37 AM (gAMkn)
Posted by: JuJuBee at June 15, 2020 09:37 AM (COzlW)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 09:37 AM (rpbg1)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 09:34 AM (rpbg1)
Cerberus guards the gate of Hell to prevent the punished souls from leaving.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020 09:37 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: redridinghood at June 15, 2020 09:37 AM (wiXsO)
Posted by: Archer at June 15, 2020 09:37 AM (gmo/4)
Posted by: JackStraw at June 15, 2020 09:36 AM (ZLI7S)
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You'd think so, but no.
It's Baltimore in 2015.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 09:37 AM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Xipe Totec-Death to AntiFa! at June 15, 2020 09:38 AM (o2MD2)
Posted by: Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light at June 15, 2020 09:38 AM (wPVhA)
Glad I don't have what was in THAT guy's head.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at June 15, 2020 09:38 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 09:38 AM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: redridinghood at June 15, 2020 09:38 AM (wiXsO)
In December 1776, the Revolution looked like it was about to come to a terrible end. New York and Rhode Island had fallen into enemy hands and the Brits had chased Washington's army across NJ and into PA. NJ was under a harsh occupation, with pillaging, rape and murder by foreign troops. Many had deserted the cause and had sworn an oath to the Crown. Washington only had about 3,000 ragged troops left facing the mightiest army on earth. Men were deserting daily. And yet, there was a revival that December:
"This great revival grew from defeat, not victory.The awakening was a response to a disaster.Dr. Benjamin Rush,....thought it was a national habit of the American people to not deal with a difficult problem until it was nearly impossible. 'Our republic cannot exist long in prosperity,' Rush wrote. 'We require adversity and appear to possess most of the republican spirit when most depressed.'"
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 15, 2020 09:38 AM (HabA/)
Posted by: Allie at June 15, 2020 09:38 AM (vmRc0)
I think they renamed CHAZ to CHOP (Capitol Hill Organized Protest), so the painting is even more apropos.
Posted by: Bert G at June 15, 2020 09:36 AM (OMsf+)
Splitters!
The painting...I don't get it?
Posted by: Chad at June 15, 2020 09:39 AM (FadXl)
Posted by: Anthrax at June 15, 2020 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 15, 2020 09:39 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: CN at June 15, 2020 09:39 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Xipe Totec-Death to AntiFa! at June 15, 2020 09:39 AM (o2MD2)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 09:34 AM (rpbg1)
Cerberus guards the gate of Hell to prevent the punished souls from leaving.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020
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Cerberus would be a hell of an animal to keep. He only has one stomach, so you couldn't feed him more than he could take in, but then he has three slavering mouths. You'd need one heck of a big food bowl. More like a pig trough.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 09:39 AM (rpbg1)
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at June 15, 2020 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Chip Diller at June 15, 2020 09:40 AM (sWM8x)
Posted by: Gref at June 15, 2020 09:40 AM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 15, 2020 09:40 AM (wPVhA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 09:41 AM (rpbg1)
It's kind of shameful that Americans surrendered before the French.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 15, 2020 09:41 AM (N30JC)
Has anyone been beheaded as a form of execution in the US?
I know a few heads have popped off accidentally, but not sure if it's been done on purpose.
Posted by: MJ at June 15, 2020 09:37 AM (gAMkn)
Heads popping off are caused by mistakes in rope length.
Why anyone would call lethal injection "cruel and unusual" is a mystery to me. I've sat through the last act of love with many of our dogs and none has so much as twitched or shown anything but peace in their final moments of life.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 15, 2020 09:41 AM (mht8P)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2020 09:41 AM (FtO5h)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 09:42 AM (rpbg1)
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 15, 2020 09:42 AM (Z4rgH)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2020 09:41 AM (FtO5h)
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It helped that our king wasn't close by, and that England was far less repressive than France.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 09:42 AM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: redridinghood at June 15, 2020 09:42 AM (wiXsO)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at June 15, 2020 09:43 AM (sWM8x)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2020 09:41 AM (FtO5h)
It was the French monarchy that helped us.
Posted by: Someguy at June 15, 2020 09:43 AM (zR1US)
Why anyone would call lethal injection "cruel and unusual" is a mystery to me. I've sat through the last act of love with many of our dogs and none has so much as twitched or shown anything but peace in their final moments of life.
Dogs don't have activist lawyers.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 15, 2020 09:43 AM (oVJmc)
Time to re-educate myself, I guess.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 15, 2020 09:43 AM (gd9RK)
Posted by: AC / DC at June 15, 2020 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 15, 2020 09:40 AM (wPVhA)
How many of you out there are sans coulottes at the keyboard today?
Posted by: Archer at June 15, 2020 09:44 AM (gmo/4)
By then, 16,594 official death sentences had been dispensed throughout France since June 1793, of which 2,639 were in Paris alone.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020 09:44 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 15, 2020 09:40 AM (wPVhA)
How many of you out there are sans coulottes at the keyboard today?
Posted by: Archer at June 15, 2020
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I'm in jeans and work shirt, about to run out to the store and the bank.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 09:45 AM (rpbg1)
Has anyone been beheaded as a form of execution in the US?
I know a few heads have popped off accidentally, but not sure if it's been done on purpose.
Posted by: MJ at June 15, 2020 09:37 AM (gAMkn)
No, but....
Posted by: Jayne Mansfield at June 15, 2020 09:45 AM (AMIL/)
considerable role in helping us accomplish our revolution, which we
managed to do without murdering tens of thousands of civilians. And then
they lost their goddam minds. No wonder Jefferson was so slow to
believe it.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2020 09:41 AM (FtO5h)
It was the French monarchy that helped us.
Posted by: Someguy at June 15, 2020 09:43 AM (zR1US)
And it bankrupted the regime leading to the revolution.
Posted by: Archer at June 15, 2020 09:45 AM (gmo/4)
Posted by: JimH at June 15, 2020 09:45 AM (NzURT)
It's kind of shameful that Americans surrendered before the French.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 15, 2020 09:41 AM (N30JC)
And Macron said hell, no, we're not taking down any statues or renaming anything.
Of course, they already did that back in 1789.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 15, 2020 09:45 AM (HabA/)
Posted by: Brian from Allstate at June 15, 2020 09:46 AM (PiwSw)
I hated it then because I couldn't tell anyone apart and there was no one to root for because everyone was awful.
It just set the pattern for every commie regime ever anywhere. Slaughter the ancien regime then slaughter each other, all the while slaughtering the general population that objects. But the next time we'll do it right!!!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 15, 2020 09:47 AM (mht8P)
Posted by: Brian from Allstate at June 15, 2020 09:46 AM (PiwSw)
It's sad that the original Jake, from State Farm is asked by the new and improved because black Jake, from State Farm if they ask what he's wearing.
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at June 15, 2020 09:47 AM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: dingbat at June 15, 2020 09:47 AM (PMMrm)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 15, 2020 09:47 AM (wPVhA)
Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 09:48 AM (QgtlX)
Posted by: Archer at June 15, 2020 09:48 AM (gmo/4)
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And threw the army into the maw of the Russian winter.
Posted by: MJ at June 15, 2020 09:49 AM (gAMkn)
Time to re-educate myself, I guess.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 15, 2020 09:43 AM (gd9RK)
The key point not often well understood is that the parasitic class of bureaucrat-nobles had swelled unsustainably. This group had originally been created to establish absolutism in France(a single man cannot administrate a country, and delegating to dukes is risky). It's a cycle that plays out after "strong" rulers centralize power, and it either ends with the collapse of the state or a massacre of the bureaucracy.
Posted by: Someguy at June 15, 2020 09:49 AM (zR1US)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 15, 2020 09:49 AM (wPVhA)
Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 09:49 AM (QgtlX)
A nice picture to hang in the home-schooling study room.
Posted by: t-bird at June 15, 2020 09:49 AM (OFJlJ)
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 09:49 AM (Qf83p)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 15, 2020 09:50 AM (oVJmc)
A woman walks into a library in Paris and asks the librarian if they have a copy of the French Constitution. "Madame," the librarian sniffs, "this is a library. We do not carry periodicals."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 15, 2020 09:50 AM (mht8P)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 15, 2020 09:50 AM (+y/Ru)
Doesn't mean you can control the crowd..
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 15, 2020 09:50 AM (/xhgE)
Napoleon saved the country from the excesses of the revolution.
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And threw the army into the maw of the Russian winter.
Posted by: MJ at June 15, 2020 09:49 AM (gAMkn)
One little miscalculation...gee-wiz.
Posted by: Archer at June 15, 2020 09:50 AM (gmo/4)
As one can see in the map, the U.S. is too white.
Posted by: Marooned at June 15, 2020 09:50 AM (yYptV)
Our own revolutin seesms quaint except fro the fact that we sent to mosrt poerfull army in the world packing.
Just one mor way the Amerian Way of War is bes. Hell, we were back colluding with the Brits in no time
Posted by: Quint at June 15, 2020 09:50 AM (hHxp2)
Posted by: Gref at June 15, 2020 09:51 AM (AMIL/)
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 15, 2020 09:51 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 15, 2020 09:51 AM (CTN7u)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 09:51 AM (LHT0w)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 15, 2020 09:52 AM (CTN7u)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 09:52 AM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: redridinghood at June 15, 2020 09:52 AM (wiXsO)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 09:52 AM (fagTl)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 09:53 AM (Q8c/L)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 15, 2020 09:53 AM (CTN7u)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 15, 2020 09:53 AM (wPVhA)
Posted by: Quint at June 15, 2020 09:53 AM (hHxp2)
The first 150 issues were pretty good, but Dave Sim kind of lost his mind after that.
#DeepCut
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 15, 2020 09:53 AM (N30JC)
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 09:53 AM (Qf83p)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 09:52 AM (UWqZJ)
++++++++++++
Had some nice, dense bacon and cheese grits on Friday. Awesome.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 09:53 AM (Q8c/L)
CNN - Mostly peaceful protests. Maybe some unsubstantiated reports of heads getting chopped off
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 15, 2020 09:54 AM (mpeBU)
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 09:54 AM (Qf83p)
Posted by: Quint at June 15, 2020 09:53 AM (hHxp2)
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There's more than one way to do it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 15, 2020 09:54 AM (wPVhA)
I did spell that wrong, didn't I?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 15, 2020 09:54 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 09:55 AM (Qf83p)
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-itself
Posted by: Augustine at June 15, 2020 09:55 AM (BDZWU)
It coulda been great.
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 09:55 AM (Qf83p)
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Lost it, though, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 09:55 AM (UWqZJ)
https://tinyurl.com/la-guillotine
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 09:55 AM (hKLpI)
It's kind of shameful that Americans surrendered before the French.
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo
So now we're hamburger eating surrender monkeys?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 15, 2020 09:55 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Archer at June 15, 2020 09:56 AM (gmo/4)
Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 09:56 AM (QgtlX)
A woman walks into a library in Paris and asks the librarian if they
have a copy of the French Constitution. "Madame," the librarian sniffs,
"this is a library. We do not carry periodicals."
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 15, 2020 09:50 AM (mht8P)
LOL. I've lost track. Is the current French government the Third Republic, or the Fourth? Maybe Fifth???
Posted by: Gref at June 15, 2020 09:56 AM (AMIL/)
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at June 15, 2020 09:56 AM (eMtQa)
As one can see in the map, the U.S. is too white.
China gets a pass? And what's going on in Belarus?
Posted by: t-bird at June 15, 2020 09:56 AM (XHrkn)
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 09:56 AM (Qf83p)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 09:51 AM (LHT0w)
I'm about ready to change my nic to The Margins.
Chances are, I'll get blown 5 times a day.
That's infinity times as often as I am accustomed to.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 15, 2020 09:56 AM (Z4rgH)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 09:57 AM (fagTl)
Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 09:57 AM (T6t7i)
Posted by: Rod Stewart at June 15, 2020 09:58 AM (NVYyb)
Pfft, Trump has killed over 100,000 with his bungling of the COVID pandemic. Hitting People of Color hardest !
Posted by: Lefties everywhere at June 15, 2020 09:58 AM (lWCRE)
by @luinalaska of twitter via vanderleun @ american digest and reprinted by Ann B via Zero hedge.
Wish I'd said it.
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 09:59 AM (AHq56)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 09:52 AM (fagTl)
And German soccer teams were wearing BLM armbands. You think they would have thought about the optics of Germans wearing armbands a little more.
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at June 15, 2020 09:59 AM (LZ7Gl)
Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM
Wow. Is that a 3-headed dog that spits fire both out of its mouth(s) and its ass(es)?!?
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 15, 2020 10:00 AM (Do5/p)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 15, 2020 09:55 AM (+y/Ru)
Ow. That's very hurtful. No french fries for you.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 15, 2020 10:00 AM (Z4rgH)
> Posted by: Archer
Not today. It's a little cool this morning, so I'm wearing sweat-cullotes, or les pantalons de survêtement.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:00 AM (hKLpI)
throughout France since June 1793, of which 2,639 were in Paris alone.
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This happens every time the far left takes power anywhere.
Of course the irony of the French revolution is that they replaced their king with...an emperor.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:01 AM (WdocV)
Posted by: Gref at June 15, 2020 09:56 AM (AMIL/)
I think I was in high school during the 5th ...
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 10:01 AM (AHq56)
Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 10:01 AM (T6t7i)
Posted by: t-bird at June 15, 2020 10:01 AM (Za8VV)
In Lousiana, to some degree. Not the rest of the country.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:01 AM (hKLpI)
Posted by: t-bird
Holy shit on a shingle Batguano!
One Meelion?
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 10:02 AM (Qf83p)
The first 150 issues were pretty good, but Dave Sim kind of lost his mind after that.
I did spell that wrong, didn't I?
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 15, 2020 09:54 AM (oVJmc)
I read it wrong. "Tissues". Eww...
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 10:03 AM (AHq56)
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at June 15, 2020 10:03 AM (eMtQa)
Posted by: Lefties everywhere at June 15, 2020 09:58 AM (lWCRE)
Since you brought that up ---Don't look now, but due to the way deaths due to COVID are being counted, the US is on-track to have 200,000 dead from it by Labor Day, and a quarter of a million by Election Day. The Usual Suspects are salivating at the thought of broadcasting those Big Round Numbers news in the final 8 weeks before the election. (assumes the US count keeps going at 800-1000 per day)
Posted by: Gref at June 15, 2020 10:03 AM (AMIL/)
Fifth, with intervening monarchies, empires, reigns of terrror, anarchies, and Nazi collaborator regimes.
That's why we should always take advice on running our government from the French. They have so much more experience with it.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:04 AM (hKLpI)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 15, 2020 10:04 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 10:04 AM (T6t7i)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2020 10:04 AM (FOGOI)
103 So they finally did it. Tennis players and organizers of ...German soccer teams Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at June 15, 2020 09:59 AM (LZ7Gl)
All the adulation and attention is setting Black America up for one heck of a fall. If this isn't just about straightening up the police (and it doesn't seem to be limited to that), then the performance that follows the gales of applause and cheering had better be something worthy of it.
I don't think it will be--the expectations are absurd. Nothing as substantive as everyone is blubbering about will come to pass.
The dogs bark, the caravan moves on.
Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 10:04 AM (QgtlX)
Posted by: klaftern at June 15, 2020 10:04 AM (RuIsu)
> Posted by: Archer
Not today. It's a little cool this morning, so I'm wearing sweat-cullotes, or les pantalons de survêtement.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:00 AM (hKLpI)
My stupid building management turns off the A/C during the weekend and the office is literally 90 degrees on Monday morning as the A/C struggles to cool the building down again. It's about 85 degrees right now. By lunch it may be 75.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:04 AM (fagTl)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 15, 2020 10:04 AM (XEfKE)
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated
Where is it cold and rainy in June?
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 10:04 AM (Qf83p)
https://tinyurl.com/la-guillotine
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth)
Maybe Hollywood should click through that.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 15, 2020 10:05 AM (+y/Ru)
Speaking of the French, French Police are reportedly refusing to kneel to BLM protesters.
It's kind of shameful that Americans surrendered before the French.
I hear ya. But three histoty is differettent and more triupholist. They lke wing wars and have won many. It is hard to fimed a Fremc ,man wp os asshameb by thsi. The alos who can focus on minority oppression.And if people do this, they can get sent paking
the French has the CRS unites that they deploy aroud the country. Thse guy don't kneel o help set pu autonomous zones. They many bust you up with exreme prejudicedl
Posted by: Quint at June 15, 2020 10:05 AM (hHxp2)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 15, 2020 10:06 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: microcosme at June 15, 2020 10:06 AM (B+xWY)
And lastly whatever you do never ever take even a moment to self reflect on your own failures. Never own them. Never take a hint of responsibility. Remember youre just a helpless victim of circumstances beyond your control. This all means nothing. Its like you werent even here.
A whole lot a people cryin' don't blame me
They point their crooked little fingers at everybody else
Spend all their time feelin' sorry for themselves
Victim of this victim of that
Your mama's too thin and your daddy's too fat
Get over it
Get over it
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020 10:06 AM (JFO2v)
Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 15, 2020 10:07 AM (SqopC)
by @luinalaska
Would be a great guest rant for the Grape Ape, who's coming next after the Art Thread.
Posted by: t-bird at June 15, 2020 10:07 AM (8DRUP)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 09:57 AM (fagTl)
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Eh, not so much.
Posted by: Zombie Duc d'Enghien at June 15, 2020 10:07 AM (1jlUc)
Taunay's paintings are generally quite realistic whether portraits, landscapes or action scenes. This one is worthy of Hogarth doing a color scene from Hell. It could be an illustration from Dante's Inferno with the overall dark reds, the underground setting and the random slaughter. To increase the horror is the celebration of the slaughter; the gleeful display of the man holding the guillotined head, the decapitation of random figures in the scene and the mindless panic as men and animals run amok in terror.
I don't know how large the painting is but it must have been incredibly powerful and disturbing to put it mildly.
For us today, I can't look at this work and not think of Islamic terrorists and the Left with their glee from death and destruction. I don't think there is much difference between the two groups.
I'm glad CBD used this but damn. Welcome to F'ing Monday.
Posted by: JTB at June 15, 2020 10:07 AM (7EjX1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 15, 2020 09:55 AM (+y/Ru)
Lone Watie: I didn't surrender, but they took my horse and made him surrender. They have him pulling a wagon up in Kansas I bet.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 15, 2020 10:07 AM (Z4rgH)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 15, 2020 10:04 AM (H8QX
Heroine. There is no evidence that she was a nutcase - that's a leftist smear.
She was completely lucid and eloquent at her show trial and went to her death bravely.
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 15, 2020 10:07 AM (HabA/)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 15, 2020 10:08 AM (H8QX8)
What is old is new again.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at June 15, 2020 10:08 AM (NVYyb)
In response to a question after his talk, he discussed his vision of a tolerant, multicultural society which was ironic given his book which would seem to indicate such a thing is impossible. He, incidentally, a Jew born in Israel (although his mother was from Buczacz) is writing a book about how the Jews were the bad guys in founding Israel.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 15, 2020 10:09 AM (+y/Ru)
What is old is new again.
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at June 15, 2020 10:08 AM (NVYyb)
Czechs, Poles,and Hungarians are now the defenders of Christendom
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at June 15, 2020 10:09 AM (LZ7Gl)
Hahahahahaha. Just what this country needs is a pasty white, do nothing lesbian VP. She has absolutely ZERO accomplishment as anything. Other than her identity politics. A total non entity.
Posted by: Pete Seria at June 15, 2020 10:09 AM (7ZQe3)
I
hear ya. But three histoty is differettent and more triupholist. They
lke wing wars and have won many. It is hard to fimed a Fremc ,man wp os
asshameb by thsi. The alos who can focus on minority oppression.And if
people do this, they can get sent paking
the French has the CRS
unites that they deploy aroud the country. Thse guy don't kneel o help
set pu autonomous zones. They many bust you up with exreme prejudicedl
Worst typing EVAR!
Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 10:09 AM (T6t7i)
Heroine. Marat was a murderous thug. Corday appears to have been a genuine republican, not a proto-communist hiding under the false flag of republicanism.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:10 AM (hKLpI)
Posted by: Pete Seria at June 15, 2020 10:10 AM (7ZQe3)
Oh dear, Bloomberg "news" has Always Proud on the side of its screen. I think they are disrespecting BLM. Time to torch their studios
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 15, 2020 10:10 AM (kw5n8)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 15, 2020 10:00 AM (Do5/p)
He's guarding the door to the Restricted Wing of Hogwarts.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at June 15, 2020 10:11 AM (yy2FI)
Posted by: Pete Seria at June 15, 2020 10:09 AM (7ZQe3)
++++++++++++
That's ideal. You know who else was a veritable non-entity other than his identity politics? Barack Obama. And he was one of our most (perhaps most) successful presidents.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:11 AM (Q8c/L)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 15, 2020 10:09 AM (+y/Ru)
Multi ethnic is possible(nationalities are a combination of many smaller ethnic groups), multicultural will ultimately explode.
Posted by: Someguy at June 15, 2020 10:11 AM (zR1US)
Posted by: CN at June 15, 2020 10:12 AM (ONvIw)
LOL. I've lost track. Is the current French government the Third Republic, or the Fourth? Maybe Fifth???
Posted by: Gref at June 15, 2020 09:56 AM (AMIL/)
United States
1789-Present: Constitution
France
1789: Bourbon monarchy
1789-1792: Constitutional monarchy
1792-1795: National Convention (First Republic)
1795-1799: French Directory
1799-1804: Napoleonic Consulate
1804-1814: Napoleonic Empire
1814-1815: First Bourbon Restoration
1815: Napoleonic Restoration
1815-1830: Second Bourbon Restoration
1830-1848: Orleanist Empire
1848-1851: Second Republic
1851-1870: Second Empire
1870-1940: Third Republic
1940-1944: Vichy Government
1944-1946: Provisional Gaullist Government
1946-1958: Fourth Republic
1958-So Far: Fifth Republic
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 15, 2020 10:12 AM (mht8P)
***
Why are we paying to defend these scumbags again?
Might be time to have some serious discussions with Russia about what to do with China....
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:12 AM (WdocV)
Posted by: SturmToddler at June 15, 2020 10:12 AM (8D42x)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton
That's the yard dog. Never comes in the house.
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 10:12 AM (Qf83p)
In Lousiana, to some degree. Not the rest of the country.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:01 AM (hKLpI)
Should have been clearer and said influenced not that we set a up Napoleonic Code. And by influence I mean it was the start of establishing various codes to compete with the Napoleonic code.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:13 AM (fagTl)
Low earth orbit?
Landing on the moon?
Bringing the asteroid to earth in a controlled landing?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 10:13 AM (LHT0w)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2020 10:14 AM (FOGOI)
Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 10:14 AM (T6t7i)
Posted by: Bill and Ted at June 15, 2020 10:14 AM (WdocV)
Posted by: CN at June 15, 2020 10:12 AM (ONvIw)
++++++++++++
Thinking back, I think we did our times tables in third grade in my district. Second grade was long-form addition/subtraction (borrowing/carrying) and simple non-methodical multiplication. Systematic multiplication (times tables) and long division were third grade.
If second grade will be single-digit addition and subtraction (which was first semester of first grade, with simple two-digit in the second semester), then multiplication tables won't happen until fourth grade. Keep pushing this out, and you'll find that you get to Algebra II in the senior year of high school instead of freshman year (assuming that you also disrupt fractions and decimal arithmetic).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:15 AM (Q8c/L)
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 10:15 AM (AHq56)
I
hear ya. But three histoty is differettent and more triupholist. They
lke wing wars and have won many. It is hard to fimed a Fremc ,man wp os
asshameb by thsi. The alos who can focus on minority oppression.And if
people do this, they can get sent paking
the French has the CRS
unites that they deploy aroud the country. Thse guy don't kneel o help
set pu autonomous zones. They many bust you up with exreme prejudicedl
Worst typing EVAR!
Posted by: pep
Stereotyping is bad, mmmmkay?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 15, 2020 10:15 AM (+y/Ru)
Ok, go on... I'd like to hear more about option two.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 15, 2020 10:15 AM (dF1YT)
Then search Charlotte Corday.
Then search Bezos security arrangements.
Flood the search engines with that progression.
Just for fun. Not because Bezos is a sanctimonious, barbarian, upper-class twit.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 15, 2020 10:15 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at June 15, 2020 10:17 AM (NVYyb)
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 10:17 AM (AHq56)
1789: Bourbon monarchy
1789-1792: Constitutional monarchy
1792-1795: National Convention (First Republic)
1795-1799: French Directory
1799-1804: Napoleonic Consulate
1804-1814: Napoleonic Empire
1814-1815: First Bourbon Restoration
1815: Napoleonic Restoration
1815-1830: Second Bourbon Restoration
1830-1848: Orleanist Empire
1848-1851: Second Republic
1851-1870: Second Empire
1870-1940: Third Republic
1940-1944: Vichy Government
1944-1946: Provisional Gaullist Government
1946-1958: Fourth Republic
1958-So Far: Fifth Republic
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 15, 2020 10:17 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 15, 2020 10:18 AM (L/JEd)
***
The formal argument, as I recall, was that the French revolutionaries were sure that she was put up to it by a male lover.
Probably they just wanted to slander her though really.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:18 AM (WdocV)
Posted by: klaftern at June 15, 2020 10:18 AM (RuIsu)
So Trump will have ended up saving 2.25 million lives.
Not bad.
Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 10:18 AM (wCLLY)
I read 'Bezos' as 'Soros,' which I realized is VERY disturbing.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 15, 2020 10:18 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 15, 2020 10:18 AM (SqopC)
Posted by: Menack at June 15, 2020 10:19 AM (buTO7)
Now that the riots have fizzled, msm is back to OMG VIRUS 24/7 after having ignored the virus for the past 2 weeks. Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 15, 2020 10:18 AM (L/JEd)
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia...
Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 10:19 AM (QgtlX)
Mask required.
I'll try again later.
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 10:19 AM (Qf83p)
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at June 15, 2020 10:20 AM (yy2FI)
Ok, go on... I'd like to hear more about option two.
Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 15, 2020 10:15 AM (dF1YT)
The trick to option two is it requires a powerful and dynamic leader with a loyal military following. This won't necessarily be the existing king or emperor which can lead to further chaos. Even if they are the king or emperor killing a bunch of bureaucrats upsets a lot of apple carts and can get messy.
Posted by: Someguy at June 15, 2020 10:20 AM (zR1US)
***
The argument I've seen the left make to try and justify this is that so many blacks are murdered by cops that they needed to riot even with the virus.
Last year about 1K people were killed by cops in total - white, black, good shoot, bad shoot, etc.
And the FNM has been telling us Wuhan Flu will kill millions if we aren't all sentenced to house arrest so....I don't think the numbers work on this one...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:20 AM (WdocV)
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at June 15, 2020 10:20 AM (yy2FI)
+++++++++++
Amateurs.
Posted by: The Peoples' Caretakers of Lenin's Tomb at June 15, 2020 10:21 AM (Q8c/L)
Posted by: CN at June 15, 2020 10:12 AM (ONvIw)
But they will still complain wHy dO PRo aTHLeteS mAkE MoRE MOnEy tHaN teaChERs
Posted by: Biggs Darklighter at June 15, 2020 10:21 AM (LZ7Gl)
Saw a post from a resident of Soymalia whining because his MacBook had been stolen from his tent while he was out for a walk.
"Liberate", comrade. The word is "liberated". It's not "your" MacBook. It's the community's MacBook.
Then the dumbass suggested that people "lock" their tents before leaving.
How do you lock a tent?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:21 AM (hKLpI)
Low earth orbit?
Landing on the moon?
Bringing the asteroid to earth in a controlled landing?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 10:13 AM
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Dump them on the moon.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 10:22 AM (JUOKG)
We received our "multiplication tables" toward the end of second grade. I remember it well as my Catholic friends felt overloaded as they were memorizing prayers for the Communion activities.
As for math, they are being actively discouraged from memorizing addition and subtraction facts. I don't get this reliance on math games and having to draw the equations with pictures instead of numerals.
Posted by: CN at June 15, 2020 10:22 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice
What a difference an hour makes. Hillarious/infuriating juxtaposition of two NBC News tweets.
https://bit.ly/37yelfG
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 15, 2020 10:22 AM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 15, 2020 10:22 AM (L/JEd)
Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2020 10:22 AM (DJFLF)
More black people get shot on a typical weekend in Chicago than get shot by police nationwide over the course of a year.
But those "black lives" don't "matter", apparently.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:22 AM (hKLpI)
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:22 AM (WdocV)
How do you lock a tent?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:21 AM (hKLpI)
++++++++++++++
With a small padlock like you would use on a suitcase, I reckon. This will work, too. No one who would go into an unlocked tent to forcibly redistribute the rich person's property would ever consider casually cutting through the fabric in pursuit of the same goal. This is a very good solution that will work well.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:23 AM (Q8c/L)
Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution. I enjoyed that book.
Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 10:23 AM (T6t7i)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 15, 2020 10:23 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: McCool at June 15, 2020 10:23 AM (lWCRE)
Went to the hair cutters to get my Pandemic hair finally cut.
Mask required.
I'll try again later. Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 10:19 AM (Qf83p)
Wahl #2 clippers.
Lagniappe: Better gas-mask fit.
Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 10:23 AM (QgtlX)
little disagreement between neighbors over the placement of a fence,
that kind of thing.
***
Mostly peaceful arson.
Hey that Wendy's was wearing a short skirt so she deserved it!
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:23 AM (WdocV)
Landing/crashing them on the moon only makes sense if you're going to use the material on the moon. Otherwise you have to waste the delta-v to get it back into orbit again.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:24 AM (hKLpI)
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 15, 2020 10:18 AM (L/JEd)
It was very good of Flu Manchu to take 2 weeks off to show its solidarity with BLM. Now it can get back to slaughtering the population
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 15, 2020 10:24 AM (kw5n8)
Yep. His "Of Landscape and Memory" is also good.
Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 10:24 AM (QgtlX)
Posted by: McCool at June 15, 2020 10:24 AM (lWCRE)
Years ago, my parents were looking at a product called the Archimedes Bath Lift to help my grandma get in and out of the bath. I was looking over their shoulders at the brochure, which included line drawings of a person getting in the lift and being lowered into the water. Naturally, the first thing I noticed was that despite the product being named after Archimedes, the drawings did NOT show the water level changing after the person was fully in the bath.
I guess they just googled "famous people bathtubs", and we should all feel fortunate they didn't name it the Marat Bath Lift. (Or the Taft Bath Lift.)
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at June 15, 2020 10:25 AM (rWZ8Y)
He got the current contract info for 800,000 potential voters, 800,000 potential donors, 800,000 potential campaign workers.
And now you know why we're going to see Civid threats and even bomb threats to the rally--prevent future rallies
Posted by: RoyalOil at June 15, 2020 10:25 AM (aO8Gd)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:24 AM (hKLpI)
No! That will spoil the cheese!
Posted by: Comrade Zoe, CHAZ Science Czar at June 15, 2020 10:25 AM (PiwSw)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Easy peasy.
1) Get a 3-headed dog that spits and farts fire.
2 Chain dog in tent.
Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 10:25 AM (T6t7i)
Posted by: CN at June 15, 2020 10:22 AM (ONvIw)
++++++++++
I know, and I don't get it. It makes some potential sense initially - the goal is to teach how to solve the problem rather than rote memorization of facts. But the problem is that you *need* that rote memorization as a shortcut later. Being able to simply *know* the basic inputs makes it much easier later. I can solve parts of an equation because I just know that 5*6 is 30, rather than having to systematically solve every part. If I don't have the basics flat-out memorized, I have to solve every single component of every single problem, and it takes forever and is wildly inefficient and makes it impossible for me to do it mentally.
I see this all the time. In my cohort, I am the one of only a couple of people I know who can calculate the tip without a cell phone to help.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:26 AM (Q8c/L)
2 Chain dog in tent.
Posted by: pep
The old ways are best.
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 10:26 AM (Qf83p)
Malor very happy...
Posted by: McCool at June 15, 2020 10:24 AM (lWCRE)
Well that's just fucking great. Sick of this bullshit I am.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 10:26 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 15, 2020 10:26 AM (mht8P)
> 2 Chain dog in tent.
Better make that tent out of Nomex.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:26 AM (hKLpI)
wherein NJ requires 'good reason' to carry
Posted by: McCool
How does SCOTUS square that circle in regards to other states Constitutional Carry? Seems NJ isn't being treated equally.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 10:26 AM (LHT0w)
use the material on the moon. Otherwise you have to waste the delta-v to
get it back into orbit again.
Even Ceres has almost no surface gravity to speak of. Just park them at the stable Lagrangian points and use them as gas stations.
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 10:27 AM (AHq56)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 15, 2020 10:12 AM (mht8P)
Thank you, sir. I wasn't sure if deGaulle, or the threat of him becoming President for Life or something, had caused a new Republic to be "created" in the 50's or 60's.
Posted by: Gref at June 15, 2020 10:27 AM (AMIL/)
Posted by: T-Rex at June 15, 2020 10:27 AM (wCLLY)
Posted by: Serious Cat at June 15, 2020 10:27 AM (zqs/f)
He got the current contract info for 800,000 potential voters, 800,000 potential donors, 800,000 potential campaign workers.
And now you know why we're going to see Civid threats and even bomb threats to the rally--prevent future rallies
Posted by: RoyalOil at June 15, 2020 10:25 AM (aO8Gd)
===========
The biggest use of the rallies was never the theater of them, but of the data they collected, especially from non-voters and Democrats who showed up.
With their email addresses and even phone numbers, suddenly the get out the vote effort has tens of thousands more names to pull from when trying to get people to show up at the polls.
Not to mention potential donations.
They were always a key part of Trump's campaign. Had to shut those down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 10:27 AM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 15, 2020 10:27 AM (L/JEd)
The more New Ideas they try, the worse the learning gets.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 15, 2020 10:27 AM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 10:27 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Bert G at June 15, 2020 09:36 AM (OMsf+)
If it's "autonomous" they are no longer in US, and in open rebellion.
If they are "organized" they are just friendly neighborhood looters and terrorosts.
Posted by: Flyover at June 15, 2020 10:28 AM (Rbu5d)
Is that a pile of heads on the side of that hill?
G'mornin', Horde.
Posted by: creeper at June 15, 2020 10:29 AM (XxJt1)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 15, 2020 10:29 AM (fIHXk)
So Trump wasnt dictatorial enough by allowing courts to decide things instead of ruling by decree? Lol. These fucking cucks gets dumber daily.
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 15, 2020 10:29 AM (L/JEd)
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:29 AM (WdocV)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 10:27 AM (UWqZJ)
+++++++++++++
It was a major component in Trump's victory. He probably wouldn't have won without all of the first-time and first-time-in-a-long-time voters. Dormant vote came out of the woodwork bigly in 2016, and most of it came out for Trump. It is one of the reasons local polling broke down - they weren't "likely voters" or "recent voters" but the showed up in droves (this is also one of the reasons that people argue that polling will be better in 2020 - those invisible voters are visible now and can be integrated into the modeling).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:29 AM (Q8c/L)
@SCOTUSblog
·
34m
#SCOTUS also turns down group of cases involving doctrine of qualified immunity, which shields officials from liability for constitutional violations that do not violate clearly established law
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 10:30 AM (++MjY)
We need a national divorce or just LIB.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:30 AM (fagTl)
A Lagrange point for storage and purification.
I prefer L2 of the Earth-Sun Lagrange points.
Use most of the metal for space expansion.
The rest needs a reliable, low impact delivery system. Chile and her deserts looks good.
Make the Chinese pay a lot extra for Tibetan delivery.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 15, 2020 10:30 AM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Justice Roberts at June 15, 2020 10:30 AM (55lwO)
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:30 AM (WdocV)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:29 AM (Q8c/L)
=======
I remember reading that pollsters chose not to actually change much from 2016.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 10:31 AM (UWqZJ)
#SCOTUS also turns down group of cases involving doctrine of qualified immunity, which shields officials from liability for constitutional violations that do not violate clearly established law
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 10:30 AM (++MjY)
++++++++++++++
Ah SCOTUS. One of the few places where, "this is a hard problem and I don't want to do it" is an acceptable and even expected outcome.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:31 AM (Q8c/L)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 10:31 AM (pB6Gt)
1789: Bourbon monarchy
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 15, 2020 10:12 AM (mht8P)
Does this mean the French were somehow involved with the Whiskey Rebellion?
Posted by: Robert at June 15, 2020 10:31 AM (jbnKH)
Posted by: McCool at June 15, 2020 10:32 AM (lWCRE)
@SCOTUSblog
·
41m
#SCOTUS declines to hear a group of Second Amendment cases that the justices had considered at several conferences
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 10:32 AM (++MjY)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2020 10:32 AM (1aH4X)
Thank you.
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 15, 2020 10:32 AM (L/JEd)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 10:31 AM (UWqZJ)
++++++++++
Some have, some haven't. I still stand by my assertion that the only purpose of public polling is to move opinion rather than to measure it, and so it shouldn't be trusted in general. When they're not wrong, they're lying (and sometimes they're wrong *and* lying).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:32 AM (Q8c/L)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at June 15, 2020 10:32 AM (sWM8x)
And isn't Seattle like 100% hydroelectric? What a bunch of morons.
Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 10:33 AM (eAZVt)
In 2010, Donald Zarda was fired from his skydiving job at Altitude
Express. He had told a customer he was gay to make her more comfortable
with being strapped together. The woman's boyfriend later complained to
the company that Zarda had inappropriately touched her, and Zarda was
fired as a result
So a gay guy groped a woman and got fired. And then...his estate (since he died) successfully sued because gay outweighs gropey
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:33 AM (WdocV)
He's guarding the door to the Restricted Wing of Hogwarts.
Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at June 15, 2020 10:11 AM
Need to find my harp...
Speaking of which, do you call someone who plays the harp a "harpie"? Or is that solely reserved for mean, foul-tempered women.
Or... were harpies so-named, because women who played the harp were mean, foul-tempered women?
This information is crucial for me to get on with my day...
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 15, 2020 10:33 AM (Do5/p)
I've been pointing out for years that SCOTUS packing is only one, federal statute away.
"Tradition" and consensus that stopped the one or two prior attempts is long gone. And you KNOW the rationale will be to create 3-4 new spots for the "historically disadvantaged" just to "balance things out."
If we manage to secure the Presidency in 2020 Priority One should be to start the process of amending the Constitution to limit SCOTUS to nine.
Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 15, 2020 10:34 AM (SqopC)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at June 15, 2020 10:32 AM (sWM8x)
We have two reliable conservatives on the Court. We've got a long way to go.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 15, 2020 10:34 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 15, 2020 10:29 AM (fIHXk)
Thank you.
*pulverizes computer*
Ahhhhh...cathartic.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 10:34 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:34 AM (WdocV)
So Trump wasnt dictatorial enough by allowing courts to decide things instead of ruling by decree? Lol. These fucking cucks gets dumber daily.
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 15, 2020 10:29 AM (L/JEd)
Yeah, here is the rantings about that from a Nevertrumper who writes for National Review, apparently...
********
Varad Mehta
@varadmehta
LOLOLOLOL: Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion. Trump is done. He lost the election today. His "I gave you the Supreme Court" argument just blew up in his face and there's no reason for social conservatives to vote for him now. It's over. Say hello to President Biden.
Varad Mehta
@varadmehta
This is also the end of the Federalist Society judicial project. Gorsuch was grown in the Federalist Society lab and did this. The whole thing just imploded. It's all finished.
10:08 AM · Jun 15, 2020·Twitter Web App
Varad Mehta
@varadmehta
Replying to
@varadmehta
The whole point of the Federalist Society judicial project, the whole point of electing Trump to implement it, was to deliver Supreme Court victories to social conservatives. If they can't deliver anything that basic, there's no point for either. The damage is incalculable.
*******
Posted by: Serious Cat at June 15, 2020 10:35 AM (zqs/f)
Posted by: DB- just DB at June 15, 2020 10:35 AM (iTXRQ)
SCOTUS what good are you ?
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:36 AM (fagTl)
He got the current contract info for 800,000 potential voters, 800,000 potential donors, 800,000 potential campaign workers.
And now you know why we're going to see Civid threats and even bomb threats to the rally--prevent future rallies
Posted by: RoyalOil at June 15, 2020 10:25 AM
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The left also hates it when the Trump campaign publishes how many democrats are attending his rallies.
Drives them nuts.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 10:36 AM (JUOKG)
Posted by: creeper at June 15, 2020 10:36 AM (XxJt1)
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:34 AM (WdocV)
lich?
Posted by: BignJames at June 15, 2020 10:36 AM (X/Pw5)
Quite a birthday present.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:36 AM (hKLpI)
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 15, 2020 10:36 AM (L/JEd)
Oh and if the federalist society had any balls they'd formally expel him. Today.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:36 AM (WdocV)
@varadmehta
LOLOLOLOL: Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion. Trump is done. He lost the election today. His "I gave you the Supreme Court" argument just blew up in his face and there's no reason for social conservatives to vote for him now. It's over. Say hello to President Biden.
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So...Social conservatives are now going to...vote for Biden?
To let their cities burn as progressives run wild and not even vote?
I had no idea this case was a thing until this morning. I have a feeling that most social conservatives were the same way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 10:36 AM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 10:37 AM (pB6Gt)
In 2010, Donald Zarda was fired from his skydiving job at Altitude
Express. He had told a customer he was gay to make her more comfortable
with being strapped together. The woman's boyfriend later complained to
the company that Zarda had inappropriately touched her, and Zarda was
fired as a result
So a gay guy groped a woman and got fired. And then...his estate (since he died) successfully sued because gay outweighs gropey
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:33 AM (WdocV)
If you're jumping tandem, you're basically butts to nuts with the master skydiver so if that was the basis of the boyfriend's complaint it's stupid.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 10:37 AM (NWiLs)
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:37 AM (WdocV)
Or... were harpies so-named, because women who played the harp were mean, foul-tempered women?
This information is crucial for me to get on with my day...
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 15, 2020 10:33 AM (Do5/p)
+++++++++++++
A Harpy (or Harpie) is a Greco-Latin monster with roots in those languages and has nothing to do with the musical instrument.
The instrument (Harp) has its etymology in German and Old English and its operator is called a "harpist."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:37 AM (Q8c/L)
skydiver so if that was the basis of the boyfriend's complaint it's
stupid.
***
Based on the complaint I don't think that was all he did.
I guess believe all women is already old and busted again...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:38 AM (WdocV)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 10:38 AM (xfb67)
I think it was more about a reach around.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:38 AM (fagTl)
Are these people actually brain damaged? So the result of Trump not being able to deliver a complete victory is to vote for Democrats?
Am I missing something?
Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 10:39 AM (wCLLY)
Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 15, 2020 10:34 AM (SqopC)
++++++++++++
Ten. SCOTUS should be an even number, and should be allowed to hang.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:39 AM (Q8c/L)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:26 AM
One of our local wonderboys experienced the shock of feeling like an idiot in a college class. His classmates had all but memorized the periodic table.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 15, 2020 10:39 AM (/+bwe)
Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 10:39 AM (eAZVt)
I think it was more about a reach around.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:38 AM (fagTl)
Well at least he had some goddamn common courtesy.
Hilariously unfortunate hash you got there.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 10:39 AM (NWiLs)
I mean, that plus the 800,000 signing up for the rally doesn't exactly sound like a guy who's losing to me.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:39 AM (hKLpI)
SCOTUS denied cert to NJ 2A challenge
wherein NJ requires 'good reason' to carry
Posted by: McCool
How does SCOTUS square that circle in regards to other states Constitutional Carry? Seems NJ isn't being treated equally.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 10:26 AM (LHT0w)
IMHO, Roberts is getting enough Justices to deny cert on any 2A cases in order to let state and local politics can play-out on school protections, what an "assault weapon" is, and the capacity of detachable magazines. He must believe that eventually we'll peacefully come to a nation-wide large-majority agreement on that stuff, and then Congress can pass laws on those subjects that he'll rule Constitutional.
That is not his job, but he's more concerned with his legacy than the Law. He had a similar mindset on ObamaCare. He ruled it constitutional on a made-up excuse so he could punt it back to the political arena.
Posted by: Gref at June 15, 2020 10:39 AM (AMIL/)
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Yeah, some of them should be allowed to hang.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at June 15, 2020 10:40 AM (sWM8x)
Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 15, 2020 10:34 AM (SqopC)
++++++++++++
Ten. SCOTUS should be an even number, and should be allowed to hang.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:39 AM (Q8c/L)
The ruling is just whatever the lower court decided then.
Posted by: Someguy at June 15, 2020 10:40 AM (zR1US)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 15, 2020 10:40 AM (fIHXk)
Alliance Defending Freedom
16 mins
This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against ADF client Harris Funeral Homes and redefined 'sex' in federal law.
Here is what ADF Vice President of Appellate Advocacy John Bursch had to say about the decision:
"Americans must be able to rely on what the law says, and it is disappointing that a majority of the justices were unwilling to affirm that commonsense principle. Redefining 'sex' to mean 'gender identity' will create chaos and enormous unfairness for women and girls in athletics, women's shelters, and many other contexts. Civil rights laws that use the word 'sex' were put in place to protect equal opportunities for women. Allowing a court or government bureaucrats to redefine a term with such a clear and important meaning undermines those very opportunities --- the ones the law was designed to protect."
Stay tuned for more information.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 15, 2020 10:40 AM (Do5/p)
Yeah me too. I figured maybe tranny wasnt a protected class but gays surely have been protected for a long time.
Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 15, 2020 10:40 AM (L/JEd)
I mean, that plus the 800,000 signing up for the rally doesn't exactly sound like a guy who's losing to me.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:39 AM (hKLpI)
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Plus the primary vote totals.
But the polls, which are broken and everyone recognizes as broken but we have to believe them anyway.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 10:40 AM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15,
Phrasing?
Posted by: Ha at June 15, 2020 10:41 AM (55lwO)
Posted by: Someguy at June 15, 2020 10:40 AM (zR1US)
+++++++++++
Yes, but without creating precedent and case law, with no legacy to overcome should SCOTUS readdress it later.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:41 AM (Q8c/L)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:41 AM (fagTl)
Posted by: Agitator at June 15, 2020 10:41 AM (y/e6R)
***
I presume the tranny part is new.
This should be amusing when your Hooters waitress is supporting a crappy mustache and a fake deep voice...
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:41 AM (WdocV)
Right. Sometimes it just means that the issue in that particular case is cloudy, with a whole bunch of side-issues going on, and they're waiting for a case that allows for a more clear-cut ruling.
The Supreme Court moves slowly, but it does move.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:41 AM (hKLpI)
Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2020 10:41 AM (Zmnko)
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 10:42 AM (AHq56)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 10:42 AM (++MjY)
***
As long as we allow Thomas and Alito to retire first I'd say that is a great idea.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:42 AM (WdocV)
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 15, 2020 10:42 AM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Menack at June 15, 2020 10:42 AM (buTO7)
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 10:43 AM (AHq56)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:41 AM (fagTl)
++++++++++++
The argument (I am assuming, because I didn't read it) is that it isn't a "sexual orientation" argument because according to the modern social theories, sexual orientation and sex and gender are all independent variables. This wasn't a question of who you want to bang, but is a question as to what gender you are.
This is nonsense and they are *not* independent variables, but if you concede that point then a lot of stuff starts making a sort of twisted form of sense.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:43 AM (Q8c/L)
Don't you think he's overcompensating a bit? I'll take twenty potential election officials over 1 million people who *think* they're voters any day.
Posted by: Joey B. at June 15, 2020 10:43 AM (4EIFd)
Brekkie time here, too.
Later, 'rons.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:43 AM (hKLpI)
Posted by: klaftern at June 15, 2020 10:43 AM (RuIsu)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 10:44 AM (pB6Gt)
Posted by: Joe Biden at June 15, 2020 10:44 AM (AHq56)
I prefer L2 of the Earth-Sun Lagrange points.
Use most of the metal for space expansion.
The rest needs a reliable, low impact delivery system. Chile and her deserts looks good.
Make the Chinese pay a lot extra for Tibetan delivery.
Posted by: NaCly Dog
I see I have some reading to do one this subject.
Lagrange point sounds interesting.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 10:44 AM (LHT0w)
"sexual orientation" argument because according to the modern social
theories, sexual orientation and sex and gender are all independent
variable
***
Ok, I'm officially a transgender lesbian then. Can't fire me ever suckers!
Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:44 AM (WdocV)
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WORST DAY EVER!
I'll miss you Cap'
Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at June 15, 2020 10:45 AM (WdocV)
______________________
Wonder Woman is DC, right? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 10:46 AM (xfb67)
Posted by: humphreyrobot
"electric"
How fucking old are you, Ebenizer?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 10:46 AM (++MjY)
Posted by: Ha at June 15, 2020 10:46 AM (55lwO)
Posted by: humphreyrobot
"electric"
How fucking old are you, Ebenizer?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 10:46 AM (++MjY)
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Gotta upgrade to mechanical. Wind them up and let them go.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 10:47 AM (UWqZJ)
And isn't Seattle like 100% hydroelectric? What a bunch of morons.
Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 10:33 AM (eAZVt)
I think there's some nukepower in the mix, as well. At least there was until WPPS defaulted on one group of their bonds 35 years ago.
Posted by: Fox2! at June 15, 2020 10:47 AM (qyH+l)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 10:47 AM (pB6Gt)
The instrument (Harp) has its etymology in German and Old English and its operator is called a "harpist."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:37 AM
Thank you, Joe Mannix. I was actually trying to be clever. Obviously I failed miserably.
Tyler Durden: "How's that going for you? Being clever.
Clyde Shelton: "I am Jack's complete sense of failure..."
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 15, 2020 10:47 AM (Do5/p)
Yep
Posted by: Ha at June 15, 2020 10:46 AM (55lwO)
+++++++++++
Roberts will act in whatever way maximizes the protection of his institution. The way to maximize the protection of his institution is to vote in favor of additional state power. Therefore, Roberts will always vote to increase state power.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:48 AM (Q8c/L)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 10:39 AM (NWiLs)
My hash is now protected and I can't fire it.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:48 AM (fagTl)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 10:48 AM (++MjY)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 10:47 AM (UWqZJ)
++++++++++++
Seems like an opportunity for some sort of thrust-activated winding mechanism...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:48 AM (Q8c/L)
As the spring winds down, the voice slows--it doesn't cut out like an electric doll.
So when the electric one fails, it sounds like a sharp, sudden death. When the wind-up version fails, it sounds like a prolonged, terminal stroke.
(Cues up Gary Numan...)
Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 10:49 AM (QgtlX)
If only Madame Guillotine had used her powers for good -
like slicing lunch meat for sammiches and opening beer bottles,
instead of evil.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 15, 2020 10:49 AM (rTZNj)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 10:49 AM (++MjY)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 10:44 AM (LHT0w)
Start here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_%28celestial_body%29Not just for safer sex.
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 10:49 AM (AHq56)
++++++++++++++
Ugh. Never test the limits of the Mannix Density Theorem. You will always find that you had the problem defined too narrowly
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:49 AM (Q8c/L)
Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 10:49 AM (eAZVt)
1. Who cares?
2. Hooters has shitty food and beer, so that's the mistake, not the waitress you get.
Posted by: Give Me a Break at June 15, 2020 10:49 AM (976+d)
If only Madame Guillotine had used her powers for good -
like slicing lunch meat for sammiches and opening beer bottles,
instead of evil.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 15, 2020 10:49 AM (rTZNj)
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I don't know...killing Robespierre was a good thing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 10:49 AM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 10:49 AM (AHq56)
Wish we could mobilize these kinds of numbers for other "events"
Posted by: Eisenhorn at June 15, 2020 10:50 AM (F6tBH)
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 10:50 AM (Qf83p)
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I'm constantly looking for ways to drop out further.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at June 15, 2020 10:50 AM (sWM8x)
Wish we could mobilize these kinds of numbers for other "events"
Posted by: Eisenhorn at June 15, 2020 10:50 AM (F6tBH)
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*nods sagaciously*
Prometheus screening.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 10:50 AM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 10:50 AM (pB6Gt)
Posted by: DJIA Deathwatch at June 15, 2020 10:50 AM (wCLLY)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:48 AM (Q8c/L)
perpetual motion machine.
Golly.
2020 really *is* an interesting year....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2020 10:50 AM (FOGOI)
Posted by: Hank Hill at June 15, 2020 10:51 AM (wCLLY)
1. Who cares?
2. Hooters has shitty food and beer, so that's the mistake, not the waitress you get.
Posted by: Give Me a Break at June 15, 2020 10:49 AM (976+d)
You already have a mental break.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:51 AM (fagTl)
Wasn't sure these existed. Two known. One for NY and one for SF.
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 10:52 AM (AHq56)
Posted by: Serious Cat
It's a largely meaningless fart in a whirlwind. This just codifies how most businesses operate now. Almost nobody fires people for being trans/gay/lesbian, etc.
They can get fired for being a disruptive influence, and this probably creates another hurdle to firing a bad employee, beyond their sexual orientation.
Ho-hum. What else?
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at June 15, 2020 10:52 AM (vcOmj)
Nah, go with solar cells. Take her to the beach. It's good family fun.
Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 10:52 AM (T6t7i)
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. The problem with sleeping in on a day with art like this is I'm sure I've missed all the cutting edge puns.
Goes looking for coffee.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 15, 2020 10:52 AM (axyOa)
Posted by: Serious Cat
It's a largely meaningless fart in a whirlwind. This just codifies how most businesses operate now. Almost nobody fires people for being trans/gay/lesbian, etc.
They can get fired for being a disruptive influence, and this probably creates another hurdle to firing a bad employee, beyond their sexual orientation.
Ho-hum. What else?
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at June 15, 2020 10:52 AM (vcOmj)
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking.
I mean, I thought it was already illegal to fire someone for being trans.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 10:52 AM (UWqZJ)
Am I missing something?
Posted by: Grump928©
Tighten your grouping during practice at the range, then you won't miss as much.
That's all I've got.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at June 15, 2020 10:53 AM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:54 AM (fagTl)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 10:54 AM (++MjY)
It was believed that the sex bots would be unable to survive without an energy source as abundant as the sun.
Posted by: Morpheus at June 15, 2020 10:54 AM (wCLLY)
Posted by: Fox2! at June 15, 2020 10:55 AM (qyH+l)
first known Uranus trojan to be discovered. It measures approximately 60 kilometers in diameter
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 10:55 AM (AHq56)
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 15, 2020 10:55 AM (jvt6t)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2020 10:55 AM (FOGOI)
That is not his job, but he's more concerned with his legacy than the Law. He had a similar mindset on ObamaCare. He ruled it constitutional on a made-up excuse so he could punt it back to the political arena.
Posted by: Gref
I think you pretty much nailed the judicial strategy behind what Roberts is doing.
In other words (to paraphrase the Left in the Media), he grew in the office.
Ta-da!
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at June 15, 2020 10:55 AM (vcOmj)
If you're serious.
Posted by: Ha at June 15, 2020 10:55 AM (55lwO)
Posted by: Serious Cat at June 15, 2020 10:27 AM (zqs/f)
++++++++++++
No, SCOTUS failed them. Gorsuch looked great. Excellent choice. That he voted this way is a surprise unless you follow SCOTUS history at all, especially 20th century (where they vote to increase state power almost to exclusion).
The problem isn't Trump. It's a mixture of his appointee (who behaved unexpectedly) and on the institution itself. But the NT can't do anything but worship the state, and so they misattribute blame.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:56 AM (Q8c/L)
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 10:44 AM (LHT0w)
Is that anything like an Ooo La La Grange point
Posted by: Commissar M. Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 15, 2020 10:56 AM (mMLSg)
Posted by: Give Me a Break at June 15, 2020 10:49 AM
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Their smoked wings are good. Better than I can make.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 10:56 AM (JUOKG)
Posted by: BignJames at June 15, 2020 10:36 AM (X/Pw5)
A variety of undead.
Posted by: Fox2! at June 15, 2020 10:55 AM (qyH+l)
Learn something every day here.
Posted by: BignJames at June 15, 2020 10:56 AM (X/Pw5)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:54 AM (fagTl)
I am sure that will change when the 2nd Amendment Sanctuary Movement goes widespread.
Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 10:56 AM (wCLLY)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 10:57 AM (pB6Gt)
Posted by: naturalfake at June 15, 2020 10:57 AM (rTZNj)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 10:58 AM (xfb67)
How can the military now ban trans from serving?
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:58 AM (fagTl)
VII decision means Trump lost the election... saying that he failed
social conservatives.
Posted by: Serious Cat
It's a largely meaningless fart in a whirlwind. This just codifies
how most businesses operate now. Almost nobody fires people for being
trans/gay/lesbian, etc.
They can get fired for being a disruptive influence, and this
probably creates another hurdle to firing a bad employee, beyond their
sexual orientation.
Ho-hum. What else?
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at June 15, 2020 10:52 AM
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That's exactly what's going on with this decision. Those three people were fired for other reasons but convinced the Court they got fired for being lgbtrzdsf.
Guarantee you their employers did not have a single piece of paper to back up their firing decision.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 10:58 AM (JUOKG)
-- Douglas Adams
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:58 AM (Q8c/L)
How about them Cowboys?
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 10:57 AM (pB6Gt)
I don't see the connection....
Oh, wait. It's because Ezekiel Elliot is a complete dildo, isn't it?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2020 10:58 AM (FOGOI)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan _%28celestial_body%29
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June
"two Uranus trojans".
Hehe hehe hehehehe.
Hence why I couldn't be an astronomer.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 10:59 AM (LHT0w)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 10:49 AM (UWqZJ)
Didn't the entire Committee for Public Safety getthe chop that day?
Posted by: Fox2! at June 15, 2020 10:59 AM (qyH+l)
Posted by: Emmie at June 15, 2020 10:59 AM (clsJu)
Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at June 15, 2020
*
*
I miss the original ending to that spot.
Wife: "She sounds hideous."
Husband: "Well, he's a guy, so . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 10:59 AM (rpbg1)
How can the military now ban trans from serving?
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:58 AM
Read this too fast as "the military is banning the serving of trans fats".
I should probably get back to what I am supposed to be doing, which is pretending to work from home... only more working, less pretending...
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 15, 2020 10:59 AM (Do5/p)
Posted by: E. Maunder at June 15, 2020 11:00 AM (mMLSg)
Posted by: Fox2!
Everyone hates committees.
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 11:00 AM (Qf83p)
I miss the original ending to that spot.
Wife: "She sounds hideous."
Husband: "Well, he's a guy, so . . ."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 10:59 AM
Yeah, the new guy is annoying.
Posted by: White Jake from State Farm at June 15, 2020 11:00 AM (Do5/p)
-- Douglas Adams
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:58 AM (Q8c/L)
93 billion light years. That we know of.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 11:01 AM (fagTl)
Posted by: Give Me a Break at June 15, 2020 10:49 AM
Hooters is as soul-destroying as a strip club.
Why bother going someplace with gorgeous waitresses in tiny shorts and jacked-up wonderbras when you can't touch or "have it your way," IYKWIM?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 11:01 AM (2JVJo)
Posted by: CN at June 15, 2020 10:12 AM (ONvIw)
Two words: Home School!
And now , as I adjust my tin foil hat, but not without reason, it's all part of the plan to keep our kids ignorant and controllable. Kids who can actually recognize patterns and solve problems aren't easily led, you know.
Posted by: RondinellaMamma at June 15, 2020 11:02 AM (8/7u2)
Posted by: Pliney at June 15, 2020 11:02 AM (YB1W6)
Posted by: AltonJackson at June 15, 2020 11:02 AM (9C0cu)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 15, 2020 11:02 AM (mMLSg)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus_trojan
Wasn't sure these existed. Two known. One for NY and one for SF.
it's always a good idea to wear a trojan when orbiting the lagrange points of uranus.
Posted by: Anachronda at June 15, 2020 11:02 AM (sGtp+)
Posted by: Pliney at June 15, 2020 11:02 AM (YB1W6)
Rowing machine?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2020 11:03 AM (FOGOI)
Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 11:03 AM (eAZVt)
Hehe hehe hehehehe.
Hence why I couldn't be an astronomer.
Posted by: rickb223
I guess anthropologist is right out.
Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 11:03 AM (T6t7i)
Nevertrumpers on Twitter are crowing that the Title VII decision means
Trump lost the election... saying that he failed social conservatives.
Posted by: Serious Cat at June 15, 2020 10:27 AM (zqs/f)
This is the most deeply unserious opinion I have ever read. If this is fixed, it will need to be through legislation but I do not see how it effects Trump's election.
The opinion that Gorsech wrote acknowledges that this was not what the writers of the legislation meant but that "an employer who fires someone for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex." This is some Alice in Wonderland logic.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 15, 2020 11:03 AM (nAiE/)
Lineups at Disney's new ride : BIDENS BRAIN..............Walt at Head of the line.
Must be this hairy to enter.
sniff ..sniff, but Daddy please..........
Posted by: saf at June 15, 2020 11:03 AM (5IHGB)
Posted by: Warai-otoko
Well, he is kind of a complete man whore. He always wants to hit on every woman he meets. All the time.
It's a way of life. He was like that in college too (Ohio State). He got some kind of STD just before a big game (they lost) in the regular season, and was in the hospital the whole week before, and was weak and sick the day of the game (2015).
Posted by: Bozo Conservative....outlaw in America at June 15, 2020 11:04 AM (vcOmj)
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 15, 2020 11:04 AM (k/TB6)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 11:04 AM (xfb67)
You literally can't get there from here. We will never reach even the next galaxy. It's not going to happen.
Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 11:04 AM (eAZVt)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at June 15, 2020 11:04 AM (sWM8x)
Posted by: Sponge
Supposedly, white Jake is an actual employee. That's the reason he only got two words,"Uh, khakis".
Black Jake and the woman and husband are trained actors.
I don't think the ad agency thought it would mainstream like it did, so they used an employee to keep costs down for only two words.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 11:04 AM (LHT0w)
Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at June 15, 2020 11:04 AM (FCQR/)
Posted by: CN at June 15, 2020 10:12 AM (ONvIw)
Remember that Issac Newton guy. He could never have done what he did in later life if they hadn't held him back so he could master two digit addition and subtraction in second grade!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 15, 2020 11:05 AM (mMLSg)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 11:05 AM (pB6Gt)
"butts to nuts" reminded me of a corny joke heard long time ago. Two friends -- a psychiatrist and a proctologist -- decided to open a shared medical office and needed a name for the practice. One suggested "Nuts & Butts", the other "Queers & Rears". After considerable thought, however, they agreed on "Odds & Ends".
Posted by: Kathy at June 15, 2020 11:05 AM (Me4XW)
?? That sounds high. I thought more like 15 billion?
Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 11:03 AM (eAZVt)
That's the age of the universe but it's still expanding which is why it's 93 billion light years of the observable universe.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 11:05 AM (fagTl)
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at June 15, 2020 11:05 AM (eMtQa)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here
Woo! That's big alright! Lemmee tell you, THAT'S BIG!
Posted by: Rodney Dangerfield, Lemmee tell you at June 15, 2020 11:06 AM (vcOmj)
It is my understanding that we did. Of course, it was a long time ago, and far, far away.
Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 11:06 AM (T6t7i)
The chair is against the wall.
John has a fucking merkin on his face.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 11:06 AM (++MjY)
This should be amusing when your Hooters waitress is supporting a crappy mustache and a fake deep voice...
mustachimony?
Posted by: Anachronda at June 15, 2020 11:06 AM (sGtp+)
You literally can't get there from here. We will never reach even the next galaxy. It's not going to happen.
Posted by: Chris M
Not with current technology.
We need light speed or near light speed to travel the vast distances of space.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 11:07 AM (LHT0w)
"One of the reasons that the Left and the D party feared and hated the Trump movement was its emphasis on class rather than race, a more fluid and potentially more dynamic appeal, and one with the potential to unite rather than divide those of different tribes."
And THIS is why all that is happening right now is being funded and fomented.
Posted by: Liz at June 15, 2020 11:07 AM (Wv/W7)
Posted by: Tiny Elvis at June 15, 2020 11:07 AM (wCLLY)
Posted by: Tiny Elvis at June 15, 2020 11:08 AM (wCLLY)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 11:08 AM (KZzsI)
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Never understood the whole size of the universe thing. So what happens when you reach the end ... is there a wall?... whats on the other side? ... does the universe loop back upon itself like a globe?
Posted by: Pliney at June 15, 2020 11:08 AM (YB1W6)
I don't think the ad agency thought it would mainstream like it did, so they used an employee to keep costs down for only two words.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 11:04 AM
The irony is that it mainstreamed specifically because of the two lines they now cut out of the new commercials.
The "Well, he's a guy, so..." response by the husband was the entire reason that commercial was so popular. Mainly, because 99% of commercials make the husband the bumbling fool and the wife the perfect hero. This commercial turned that trope on its head and delivered a line that husbands everywhere want to deliver to their wives when they're freaking out over nothing.
Posted by: White Jake from State Farm at June 15, 2020 11:08 AM (Do5/p)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 11:08 AM (xfb67)
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 15, 2020 11:08 AM (Do5/p)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 11:08 AM (xfb67)
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Generation ship stories can be fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 11:09 AM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 15, 2020 11:10 AM (mMLSg)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June
Eh. We don't have freedom of speech either.
Let's stop pretending we're a free country.
Posted by: Ha at June 15, 2020 11:10 AM (55lwO)
Posted by: klaftern at June 15, 2020 11:10 AM (RuIsu)
Doesn't time dilation that care of that? You're civilization, even your homeworld, might be gone by the time you get back though.
Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:10 AM (wCLLY)
Posted by: CN at June 15, 2020 11:10 AM (ONvIw)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 11:08 AM (xfb67)
Nearest Star other than the sun is just over 4 light years away. A light year is about 6 trillion miles.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 11:10 AM (fagTl)
Doesn't time dilation that care of that? You're civilization, even your homeworld, might be gone by the time you get back though.
Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:10 AM (wCLLY)
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Everything I know about time dilation I learned from Interstellar and The Forever War.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 11:10 AM (UWqZJ)
And she panics, shoots up, screams, "Why is no one else acting like me? The world is going to end in 5 million years!"
No no, the speaker corrected her - billion. With a B.
She calms down, sits down and straightens herself out. "Oh...well I suppose that's fine."
Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at June 15, 2020 11:10 AM (FCQR/)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Did I ever tell you about The Starlost?
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 11:11 AM (Qf83p)
"Space is big."
You literally can't get there from here. We will never reach even the next galaxy. It's not going to happen.
Posted by: Chris M
Not with current technology.
We need light speed or near light speed to travel the vast distances of space.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 11:07 AM
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Even with light speed we will never reach another galaxy. Way too much distance to our closest neighbors for anything man builds to last that long.
2.5 million light years to the closest one.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 11:11 AM (JUOKG)
You literally can't get there from here. We will never reach even the next galaxy. It's not going to happen.
Posted by: Chris M
Not with current technology.
We need light speed or near light speed to travel the vast distances of space.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020
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Even at light speed it would take over 4 years to reach the nearest star. Another galaxy, what, 20,000 years?
We need warp tech stat!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:11 AM (rpbg1)
Finally watched the movie Ad Astra the other night. That could be considered a "generation ship" story if you squint real hard. It was just OK. No robots, tho'.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BrainwashedLivesMatter at June 15, 2020 11:11 AM (HaL55)
The victory of the gay clones is inevitable.
Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:11 AM (wCLLY)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
Alcubierre bubbles don't mind your doubt.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 11:11 AM (++MjY)
We need warp tech stat!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:11 AM (rpbg1)
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I'll just figure out how to bend space real quick.
Hopefully I don't end up in Hell.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 11:12 AM (UWqZJ)
about the court ruling because I think gays and lesbians shouldn't be
discriminated against in matters of employemnt" - doesn't work that way
anymore. Somehow, some way, through some insane Rube Goldberg shit, this
ruling will be used to deprive everybody else of certain rights. If I
wasn't positive a smarter person had beaten me to it, I'd try to coin
Broseidon's Law.
Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at June 15, 2020 11:04 AM (FCQR/)
Look for suits soon against religious groups for maintaining that homosexuality is a sin and refusing to hire homosexuals.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 15, 2020 11:12 AM (nAiE/)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 11:12 AM (KZzsI)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 11:08 AM (xfb67)
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Generation ship stories can be fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
FUBAR'ed Suspended Animation stories suck for the participants.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 11:12 AM (LHT0w)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 11:12 AM (xfb67)
Posted by: Fox2!
Everyone hates committees.
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 11:00 AM (Qf83p)
The CPS was replaced by the Directory, which chose Napoleon as First Citizen, who eventually became Emperor.
And ended committees.
Posted by: Fox2! at June 15, 2020 11:12 AM (qyH+l)
Posted by: Broseidon - Now A Scientist, Too at June 15, 2020 11:04 AM (FCQR/)
I haven't been paying attention too closely, but it seems Dems have always opposed civil rights and finally started to support their own version of "civil rights" which involves giving one person the right to trample another person's legitimate civil right.
Posted by: Emmie at June 15, 2020 11:12 AM (clsJu)
Finally watched the movie Ad Astra the other night. That could be considered a "generation ship" story if you squint real hard. It was just OK. No robots, tho'.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BrainwashedLivesMatter at June 15, 2020 11:11 AM (HaL55)
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It just came to HBO Max, and it's in my list.
The guy who directed it is a solid, classically inclined director who did The Lost City of Z and The Immigrant.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 11:12 AM (UWqZJ)
Or the Transylvania Twist.
Posted by: klaftern at June 15, 2020 11:10 AM (RuIsu)
There's a society for a jazz guitar?
Posted by: BignJames at June 15, 2020 11:13 AM (X/Pw5)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 11:08 AM (xfb67)
++++++++++++
Sure it does. Assuming instantaneous acceleration/deceleration (just for the sake of argument) is less than 5 years away if you're going light speed.
The rest of the world ages a lot more than you do in vessel.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 11:13 AM (Q8c/L)
Posted by: Chris M
Not with current technology.
We need light speed or near light speed to travel the vast distances of space.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 11:07 AM (LHT0w)
Never is a really big word.
Especially when Alcubierre's Warp Theory exists. We've already figured out that this is possible (how to make it happen mechanically is a separate problem.)
How long does it usually take our species to go from dreaming of some technological feat to actually making it a reality?
Historically, the answer is "not long".
We are going to space. It's not a matter of if, but whether it'll be in our lifetimes.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 11:13 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 11:13 AM (pB6Gt)
This won't matter to most voters, but to social conservatives like myself, it's a big freaking deal.
Posted by: PissedOffWISocialConservative at June 15, 2020 11:13 AM (yR5e+)
Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:14 AM (wCLLY)
Or am I missing something.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at June 15, 2020 11:14 AM (sWM8x)
Posted by: hogmartin at June 15, 2020 11:14 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Ha at June 15, 2020 11:14 AM (55lwO)
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 15, 2020 11:12 AM (nAiE/)
And the RCC will be the first to bend the knee.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 11:14 AM (2JVJo)
We need warp tech stat!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:11 AM (rpbg1)
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I'll just figure out how to bend space real quick.
Hopefully I don't end up in Hell.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 11:12 AM
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There was a video game and a subsequent movie based on demons from some other dimension being released when they started messing around with some alien transporter technology on Mars or some other planet.
Can't recall the name of though.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 11:14 AM (JUOKG)
The victory of the gay clones is inevitable.
Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:11 AM (wCLLY)
And Farscape. They did get time travel wrong though. In theory it's possible going forward but not backwards.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 11:15 AM (fagTl)
Posted by: McCool at June 15, 2020 11:15 AM (lWCRE)
Posted by: Ha at June 15, 2020 11:15 AM (55lwO)
And Farscape. They did get time travel wrong though. In theory it's possible going forward but not backwards.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 11:15 AM (fagTl)
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I travel forwards in time all the time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 11:15 AM (UWqZJ)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 11:05 AM (fagTl)
The 93 billion is not observable. Stretch is faster than light speed (for points sufficiently far apart).
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 11:15 AM (AHq56)
Posted by: redbanzai
They are already open to lawsuits. The 'decision' changes nothing.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 11:15 AM (++MjY)
Never understood the whole size of the universe thing. So what happens when you reach the end ... is there a wall?... whats on the other side? ... does the universe loop back upon itself like a globe?
Posted by: Pliney at June 15, 2020 11:08 AM
there's a restaurant...
Posted by: Douglas Adams at June 15, 2020 11:16 AM (ceIDk)
The guy who directed it is a solid, classically inclined director who did The Lost City of Z and The Immigrant.
It was more a father/son story, but the setting was pretty interesting, IMO.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BrainwashedLivesMatter at June 15, 2020 11:16 AM (HaL55)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:11 AM (rpbg1)
Scottie: Captain the engines can nae take any more
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 15, 2020 11:16 AM (mpeBU)
Speaking of which, do you call someone who plays the harp a "harpie"? Or is that solely reserved for mean, foul-tempered women.
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The instrument (Harp) has its etymology in German and Old English and its operator is called a "harpist."
don't want to harp on it, but, technically, the harpist would be a harper while the harp itself would be the harpee.
Posted by: Anachronda at June 15, 2020 11:16 AM (sGtp+)
Fingers Biden is your man then. You will never be disappointed in his social conservative onafides.
Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:16 AM (wCLLY)
Darned if this doesn't sound a bit like CHAZ.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:16 AM (rpbg1)
Fingers Biden is your man then. You will never be disappointed in his social conservative onafides.
Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:16 AM (wCLLY)
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Ah, but it's not binary.
Surely the Green Party will appeal to him.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 11:16 AM (UWqZJ)
Can't recall the name of though.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 11:14 AM (JUOKG)
That would be the great game DOOM.
Posted by: I Have Questions at June 15, 2020 11:17 AM (+v+zN)
Especially when Alcubierre's Warp Theory exists. We've already
figured out that this is possible (how to make it happen mechanically is
a separate problem.)
How long does it usually take our species to go from dreaming of some technological feat to actually making it a reality?
Historically, the answer is "not long".
We are going to space. It's not a matter of if, but whether it'll be in our lifetimes.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 11:13 AM
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We were promised flying cars in 2015 and never got them. And remember the TV series Space 1999?
Should have already had a colony on the Moon by now and be working on sending one to Mars and the asteroid belt but we quit after the Moon landings.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 11:17 AM (JUOKG)
our government abandoned the constitution decades ago, and we the people let them, by reelecting the very people who did it. The republic died long ago, we're just debating over whether or not we keep the country, now.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 11:17 AM (KZzsI)
re-election life in a horrible political environment, you cannot afford
to have your signature issue to conservatives...that he would appoint
strict constitutionalist conservative judges...turn out to be a lie.
This won't matter to most voters, but to social conservatives like myself, it's a big freaking deal.
Posted by: PissedOffWISocialConservative at June 15, 2020 11:13 AM (yR5e+)
Trolls really need to try harder at blending in.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 15, 2020 11:17 AM (nAiE/)
I haven't been paying attention too closely, but it seems Dems have always opposed civil rights and finally started to support their own version of "civil rights" which involves giving one person the right to trample another person's legitimate civil right.
Posted by: Emmie at June 15, 2020 11:12 AM (clsJu)
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After their filibuster failed and they realized, finally, that the American people were well and truly finished with their ancient, dessicated authoritarian racism, they did the Great Society as:
1.) A means of using cash rather than German Shepherds and fire hoses to reassert control over "their" blacks,
and
2.) to re-cast themselves as the champions of minorities against the evil, racist GOP in one of the most astounding pieces of projection and Orwellian legerdemain of all time.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 15, 2020 11:17 AM (wXhu+)
Darned if this doesn't sound a bit like CHAZ.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:16 AM (rpbg1)
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I think that's why they're fun.
They allow for those microcosmic stories of humanity that normally don't seem to work in any other instance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 11:17 AM (UWqZJ)
"Daddy why isn't life exactly the way I want it to be all the time?"
Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at June 15, 2020 11:17 AM (ea36Y)
I travel forwards in time all the time.
as do i, although i only mosey along at the stately clip of one second per second.
Posted by: Anachronda at June 15, 2020 11:17 AM (sGtp+)
I thought Ad Astra was plodding and pointless. A couple of "name" actors just phoning it in.
Agree. I had high hopes for it, since I think both Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones are very good actors. Unfortunately, it just wasn't very engaging. 2.5 out of 5.
Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 11:17 AM (T6t7i)
Psalms 9:17
Posted by: Jmel at June 15, 2020 11:18 AM (Xt5Tj)
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 11:15 AM (AHq56)
Observable means able to measure not actually see it.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 11:18 AM (fagTl)
This won't matter to most voters, but to social conservatives like myself, it's a big freaking deal.
Posted by: PissedOffWISocialConservative
You're not a social conservative.
You're a fucking obvious troll.
This won't matter to most voters, but to social conservatives like myself, it's a big freaking deal.
Posted by: PissedOffWISocialConservative
You're not a social conservative.
You're a fucking obvious troll.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 11:18 AM (++MjY)
Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:18 AM (wCLLY)
Posted by: hogmartin at June 15, 2020
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"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here"?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:18 AM (rpbg1)
I would be pissed.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 11:18 AM (xfb67)
Thought they opened up the portal to hell?
Posted by: thathalfrican - Clark Kent with the glasses off at June 15, 2020 11:18 AM (ea36Y)
This is the most deeply unserious opinion I have ever read. If this is fixed, it will need to be through legislation but I do not see how it effects Trump's election.
The opinion that Gorsech wrote acknowledges that this was not what the writers of the legislation meant but that "an employer who fires someone for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex." This is some Alice in Wonderland logic.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 15, 2020 11:03 AM (nAiE/)
That truly is results oriented reasoning, working their way backwards to get to the desired result. The discrimination against women that the was was created to address was based on hatred of woman, not hatred of woman behaviors.
Posted by: Serious Cat at June 15, 2020 11:19 AM (zqs/f)
Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at June 15, 2020 11:19 AM (EMi53)
Darned if this doesn't sound a bit like CHAZ.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:16 AM (rpbg1)
"For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 15, 2020 11:19 AM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (1aH4X)
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (Qf83p)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:18 AM (rpbg1)
Yep.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (ifmtJ)
Posted by: Laughing in Texas at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (9QPEY)
Yeah the "size of the universe" is a silly concept. Maybe "furthest extent of matter" is a better term.
And the RCC will be the first to bend the knee.
"Not if we can get there first!"
--Epsicopalian and Anglican mainline churches
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (KZzsI)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (pB6Gt)
Posted by: Surfperch at June 15, 2020 11:21 AM (tVQUs)
Matter creates space.
Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:21 AM (wCLLY)
More. Milky way dimensions are ~30K light years ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way
Radius ~ 85K light years.
Nearest galaxies are more like 150K+
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellanic_Clouds
LMC 163K, SMC 206K.
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 11:21 AM (AHq56)
Posted by: Puddleglum at June 15, 2020 11:21 AM (HPZbe)
Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro
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11m
The Alito dissent is a devastating rebuttal, but logic is of course of no account here. Those who love the outcome will celebrate, because the first rule of legal interpretation is that the law comes last.
Posted by: PissedOffWISocialConservative at June 15, 2020 11:21 AM (yR5e+)
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 11:17 AM (JUOKG)
That's because our political leadership blows chunks. They don't want us to ever become a multiplanetary species, let alone interstellar. Their dreams of global domination and controlling all of humanity would be forever out of reach if you could just up stakes and move to another asteroid.
Once the Earth is no longer the limit, the totalitarians will never be able to restrain us again.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at June 15, 2020 11:21 AM (J+mig)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:22 AM (rpbg1)
I thought Ad Astra was plodding and pointless. A couple of "name" actors just phoning it in.
i pretty much lost the plot when our hero stowed away on the rocket by climbing up between the engine nozzles, opening the hatch, and jumping in.
Posted by: Anachronda at June 15, 2020 11:22 AM (sGtp+)
My Lotus is faster than light...damn where is that Gargle Blaster overdrive gear, I had it here a nano minute ago.......I'll be right in dear............last time at the end of the Universe pub there was no "distancing" and the chicks were free !!!
beyond that, after 5 Long Time Pulsar Teas I don't remember a thing.............cost me $4 Billion in Rocket fuel...prolly cheaper to swallow a Tab! (wink,wink ,nudge nudge.............)
Posted by: saf at June 15, 2020 11:22 AM (5IHGB)
You're a fucking obvious troll.
Yeah Erik Erikson is trying out this push but the problem is both Hillary and Biden (the other choices) would have chose much, much worse judges if elected. Its imbecilic.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 11:22 AM (KZzsI)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:22 AM (ifmtJ)
I would be pissed.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 11:18 AM (xfb67)
You're soaking in it.
Seriously, the Left is doing freaky things to our culture and people's minds. They've created an alternate reality.
Posted by: Emmie at June 15, 2020 11:22 AM (clsJu)
Posted by: Surfperch at June 15, 2020 11:21 AM (tVQUs)
LOL... ok
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at June 15, 2020 11:22 AM (nAiE/)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 11:23 AM (++MjY)
Posted by: klaftern at June 15, 2020 11:23 AM (RuIsu)
Some here are much more optimistic than I am! I also don't believe that goofy tricks like "entanglement" will ever yield any real results. But maybe I'm wrong!
Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 11:23 AM (eAZVt)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 11:18 AM (fagTl)
No. Obviously not.
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 11:23 AM (AHq56)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BrainwashedLivesMatter at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (HaL55)
Posted by: Dante Alighieri at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (17+9D)
Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 11:27 AM (pB6Gt)
Posted by: Beelzebubba at June 15, 2020 11:27 AM (17+9D)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 11:18 AM (fagTl)
No. Obviously not.
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 11:23 AM (AHq56)
I'm not arguing with you. That's the term that is used.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (fagTl)
Just as Trump, and we, have been betrayed by every political insider selected - so will we be betrayed by every judicial insider. Unfortunately - this Gordian Knot will not be untied in an orderly manner. The only way to reform the Judiciary would be to appoint non-judicial members - and that wouldn't be a palatable solution to either congress or, honestly, many here.
But it's the truth. Many on this thread have said what others said during the ObamaCare disaster - Roberts is doing what he see's as necessary to protect the power of the court. Nothing more. Sadly - what you're going to find is that his beliefs are not out-of-line with the mainstream of acceptable Republican nominees.
I don't know how to fix it. But I know what is being done now is not working. I know appointing Republican nominees does very little besides give some a false sense of security.
Posted by: Ramblin' Man at June 15, 2020 11:31 AM (S4XGD)
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 11:29 AM (fagTl)
The *observable* universe is 16B LY.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observable_universeNo need to argue.The 93B LY figure is one estimate of the size of the "entire universe" (in some sense). Wiki says 91B.
Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 11:36 AM (AHq56)
Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 15, 2020 04:54 PM (FLiOE)
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