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Mid-Morning Art Thread

Taunay Guillotine.jpg

Le Triomphe De La Guillotine
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]

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




Comments

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1 Apropos

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 09:31 AM (UWqZJ)

2 Inner city, 2020.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at June 15, 2020 09:31 AM (9QPEY)

3
It's CHAZ!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 15, 2020 09:31 AM (s2VJv)

4 Heads are going to roll.

Posted by: A. Adams at June 15, 2020 09:32 AM (wPVhA)

5 Robespierre had a terrible face wound from a large caliber bullet but was kept alive in agony so his head could be cut off.

Revenge of the Mountain!

Posted by: Mark Morland at June 15, 2020 09:33 AM (gAMkn)

6 So that's what they do down there.

Posted by: Someguy at June 15, 2020 09:33 AM (zR1US)

7 No happy little trees...

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 15, 2020 09:33 AM (PiwSw)

8 You are not going to like Thursdays in CHAZ!

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 15, 2020 09:33 AM (JFO2v)

9 Uh-oh...
Madame le Guillotine.

Posted by: Flyover at June 15, 2020 09:34 AM (Rbu5d)

10 Mob rule cuts both ways.

Heh.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at June 15, 2020 09:34 AM (NVYyb)

11 3
It's CHAZ!

Soon enough, if they have their way.

Would not hang.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2020 09:34 AM (FtO5h)

12 spot the Animaniacs....

Posted by: Qmark at June 15, 2020 09:34 AM (DFHLf)

13 My gosh. Is that a 3-headed dog in the lower left?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 09:34 AM (rpbg1)

14 Where is Ilhan Omar aka Madame Defarge ?

Posted by: McCool at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (lWCRE)

15 Blood, boobs and butchery.

That's definitely art.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (wPVhA)

16 12 spot the Animaniacs....
Posted by: Qmark at June 15, 2020 09:34 AM (DFHLf)

========

They're pantsing Waldo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (UWqZJ)

17 Wow, I made it to the top ten, but totally missed the Morning Report.

There's always a trade-off.

Posted by: Flyover at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (Rbu5d)

18 Artist did a good job of creating a terroristic atmosphere.

Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (axaxF)

19 Artists and writers, and what looks like an alien face hugger, descending.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Michigangsta at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (Dc2NZ)

20
The National Razor

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (mht8P)

21 This looks like the Andersonville prison camp on an average day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (rpbg1)

22 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

23 Minneapolis, Minnesota, in about 6 months.

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at June 15, 2020 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

24 The hell is that beast at the bottom? MooseDogSteer?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 15, 2020 09:36 AM (FtO5h)

25 Subtitle: "We're all in this together!"

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 15, 2020 09:36 AM (PiwSw)

26 Is that a Wendy's?

Posted by: redridinghood at June 15, 2020 09:36 AM (wiXsO)

27 Westwood One radio news this am reported that CHAZ was changing their name to "Capitol Hill Occupied Protest." Sort of like the NKVD evolving into the KGB; name change, nothing else is different.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 09:36 AM (rpbg1)

28 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+)

29 Nice painting of Minneapolis.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 15, 2020 09:36 AM (ZLI7S)

30 I don't think they're socially distancing..

Posted by: Archer at June 15, 2020 09:36 AM (gmo/4)

31 They just need to kill a few more people and then, utopia.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 15, 2020 09:37 AM (wPVhA)

32 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)

33 Autumn colors.

Posted by: JuJuBee at June 15, 2020 09:37 AM (COzlW)

34 Mardi Gras after the cops are defunded.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 09:37 AM (rpbg1)

35 13 My gosh. Is that a 3-headed dog in the lower left?
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)

36 Coming to a city near you.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 15, 2020 09:37 AM (wiXsO)

37 FESTIVAL!!!

Posted by: Archer at June 15, 2020 09:37 AM (gmo/4)

38 29 Nice painting of Minneapolis.
Posted by: JackStraw at June 15, 2020 09:36 AM (ZLI7S)

=========

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)

39 Looks like workers paradise to me.

Posted by: Xipe Totec-Death to AntiFa! at June 15, 2020 09:38 AM (o2MD2)

40 I can't even...

Posted by: Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light at June 15, 2020 09:38 AM (wPVhA)

41 Upon zoom, that's one fucking disturbing painting.

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)

42 37 FESTIVAL!!!
Posted by: Archer at June 15, 2020 09:37 AM (gmo/4)

=========

Renew!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 09:38 AM (UWqZJ)

43 Summer of Love!

Posted by: redridinghood at June 15, 2020 09:38 AM (wiXsO)

44 I posted this in the last thread and will continue to repost when the mood gets too suicidal around here. Some perspective, horde:

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/)

45 The National Razor.

Posted by: Allie at June 15, 2020 09:38 AM (vmRc0)

46 28
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)

47 FESTIVAL!!!
Posted by: Archer at June 15, 2020 09:37 AM (gmo/4)


FUN, you stupid idiot!

Posted by: Anthrax at June 15, 2020 09:39 AM (Zz0t1)

48 It's very Boschian (Boschesque?), as in Hieronymous.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 15, 2020 09:39 AM (PiwSw)

49 Too timely.

Posted by: CN at June 15, 2020 09:39 AM (ONvIw)

50 Seattle street festival.

Posted by: Xipe Totec-Death to AntiFa! at June 15, 2020 09:39 AM (o2MD2)

51 My gosh. Is that a 3-headed dog in the lower left?
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


*
*

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)

52 Is that Zombie posting pictures of the Fulsom Street Fair again?

Posted by: Sponge - China is asshoe! at June 15, 2020 09:40 AM (Zz0t1)

53 All is well!

Posted by: Chip Diller at June 15, 2020 09:40 AM (sWM8x)

54 An image from the dreams of Nanzi, Hillzebub, Pocahontas, Kamalatoe, AOC and the other members of the Squad - each sees herself on top of the world, holding Trump's head. And Trump's head is simply a representation of the head of every non-woke Soyboy and white woman in the country.

Posted by: Gref at June 15, 2020 09:40 AM (AMIL/)

55 The sans culottes aren't taking shit from anybody.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 15, 2020 09:40 AM (wPVhA)

56 Except that most of the participants seem to be white European, this could be a painting of Haiti during their revolt.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 09:41 AM (rpbg1)

57 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.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at June 15, 2020 09:41 AM (N30JC)

58
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)

59 The Franch had, only a few years earlier, played a 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)

60 And what is the scene in the upper center? It looks like angels descending, or a slew of DC superheroes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 09:42 AM (rpbg1)

61 Overtones of Hell.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 15, 2020 09:42 AM (Z4rgH)

62 59 The Franch had, only a few years earlier, played a 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 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)

63 I spy Nancy Pelosi and Ilhan Omar.

Posted by: redridinghood at June 15, 2020 09:42 AM (wiXsO)

64 I think the condemned should have the option to choose death by bunga-bunga.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at June 15, 2020 09:43 AM (sWM8x)

65 59 The Franch had, only a few years earlier, played a 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)

66

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)

67 I haven't really looked at the French Revolution since high school. I hated it then because I couldn't tell anyone apart and there was no one to root for because everyone was awful.

Time to re-educate myself, I guess.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 15, 2020 09:43 AM (gd9RK)

68 They're on the Highway to Hell.

Posted by: AC / DC at June 15, 2020 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

69 The sans culottes aren't taking shit from anybody.

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)

70 wow

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)

71 The sans culottes aren't taking shit from anybody.

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


*
*

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)

72
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/)

73 59 The Franch had, only a few years earlier, played a
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)

74 Pour encourager les autres

Posted by: JimH at June 15, 2020 09:45 AM (NzURT)

75 57 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.
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/)

76 I'm wearing khakies.

Posted by: Brian from Allstate at June 15, 2020 09:46 AM (PiwSw)

77
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)

78 I'm wearing khakies.
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)

79 Where's the garden on top of cardboard?

Posted by: dingbat at June 15, 2020 09:47 AM (PMMrm)

80 Napoleon had a hell of a mess to clean up.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 15, 2020 09:47 AM (wPVhA)

81 ZOD IMPERIAL.

Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 09:48 AM (QgtlX)

82 Napoleon saved the country from the excesses of the revolution.

Posted by: Archer at June 15, 2020 09:48 AM (gmo/4)

83 Napoleon saved the country from the excesses of the revolution.
--------------
And threw the army into the maw of the Russian winter.

Posted by: MJ at June 15, 2020 09:49 AM (gAMkn)

84 67 I haven't really looked at the French Revolution since high school. I hated it then because I couldn't tell anyone apart and there was no one to root for because everyone was awful.

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)

85 Looks like the Committee of Public Safety really fell down on the job.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 15, 2020 09:49 AM (wPVhA)

86 Alternate title: Shad Planking at the Satan Ranch.

Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 09:49 AM (QgtlX)

87 4' x 5 1/2'. I was expecting it to be huge, because he's packed so many details into this.

A nice picture to hang in the home-schooling study room.

Posted by: t-bird at June 15, 2020 09:49 AM (OFJlJ)

88 It's nice.


Kitchen maybe?

Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 09:49 AM (Qf83p)

89 Cerebus is poorly done.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 15, 2020 09:50 AM (oVJmc)

90
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)

91 The Mid-Morning Art Thread: News of Tomorrow Today!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at June 15, 2020 09:50 AM (+y/Ru)

92 Just because you may summon the crowd..
Doesn't mean you can control the crowd..

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 15, 2020 09:50 AM (/xhgE)

93
Napoleon saved the country from the excesses of the revolution.

--------------

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)

94 https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/data/maps/#prevalence

As one can see in the map, the U.S. is too white.

Posted by: Marooned at June 15, 2020 09:50 AM (yYptV)

95 There revoluttion was nihlist. They keept cuting off heads until they finally go around to cut of the heads of the ring leaders. The French could have gone full commie but someone got tired of the head chopping.
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)

96 In 54, I meant to write: ...the head of every non-woke, NON-Soyboy...

Posted by: Gref at June 15, 2020 09:51 AM (AMIL/)

97 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 15, 2020 09:50 AM (mht8P)

I larfed.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at June 15, 2020 09:51 AM (PiwSw)

98 Alternate Title: Antifa's Work Here Is Done

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 15, 2020 09:51 AM (CTN7u)

99 Margins >>> smoking cigarettes and giving thanks.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 15, 2020 09:51 AM (LHT0w)

100 Hundy

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 15, 2020 09:52 AM (CTN7u)

101 So, grits...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 09:52 AM (UWqZJ)

102 THIS IS CNN

Posted by: redridinghood at June 15, 2020 09:52 AM (wiXsO)

103 So they finally did it. Tennis players and organizers of a pro tournament in France wore Black Lives Matter t-shirts. I wanted to watch this tournament too. Unfortunately they didn't want me to.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 09:52 AM (fagTl)

104 Snakes. Unchained dogs. Fire. Corpses. Councils of judgement. Lake of blood.

Yup. #CHAZ.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 09:53 AM (Q8c/L)

105 Notice the minions of Satan up in the left hand corner.


I truly believe that.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 15, 2020 09:53 AM (CTN7u)

106 The OT lamp is lit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 15, 2020 09:53 AM (wPVhA)

107 I don't recall the area but it was one of the poor downtrodden areas for the people of Paris. Instead of looting, the proleteriat took out their frustrions on the cats in the citty. I doubt the parisieans look up to that time when they went into a frenzy skinning cats.

Posted by: Quint at June 15, 2020 09:53 AM (hHxp2)

108 Cerebus is poorly done.

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)

109 Autumn colors.
Posted by: JuJuBee



Kinda peaceful, really.

Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 09:53 AM (Qf83p)

110 So, grits...
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)

111
CNN - Mostly peaceful protests. Maybe some unsubstantiated reports of heads getting chopped off

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 15, 2020 09:54 AM (mpeBU)

112 The OT lamp is lit.
Posted by: Cicero


Star Trek.

Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 09:54 AM (Qf83p)

113 I doubt the parisieans look up to that time when they went into a frenzy skinning cats.
Posted by: Quint at June 15, 2020 09:53 AM (hHxp2)

--------

There's more than one way to do it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 15, 2020 09:54 AM (wPVhA)

114 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)

115 Just re-discover The Starlost on youtube.

It coulda been great.

Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 09:55 AM (Qf83p)

116 Another great piece from Matt Taibbi: The American Press is Destroying Itself:

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-itself

Posted by: Augustine at June 15, 2020 09:55 AM (BDZWU)

117 115 Just re-discover The Starlost on youtube.

It coulda been great.
Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 09:55 AM (Qf83p)

========

Lost it, though, huh?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 09:55 AM (UWqZJ)

118 Nice Twatter thread on some of the "progressive" victims of Madame Guillotine.


https://tinyurl.com/la-guillotine

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 09:55 AM (hKLpI)

119 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.
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)

120 Who are the two men being carried on a the solders of other men?

Posted by: Archer at June 15, 2020 09:56 AM (gmo/4)

121 Alternate title: Moonlit Thomas Kinkade Brookside Cottage--Interior Study.

Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 09:56 AM (QgtlX)

122 90


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/)

123 Revolutionary Paris or second level of hell?

What does it matter.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at June 15, 2020 09:56 AM (eMtQa)

124 https://www.globalslaveryindex.org/2018/data/maps/#prevalence

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)

125 Lost it, though, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison



Coulda been a contenda.

Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 09:56 AM (Qf83p)

126 Margins >>> smoking cigarettes and giving thanks.

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)

127 Napoleon did establish a fair code that is the basis for a lot of our law. He even tried to ban the metric system. Napoleon was a righteous dude.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 09:57 AM (fagTl)

128 Reminds me of the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, or maybe Where's Waldo. So many interesting yet lurid little vignettes to discover.

Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 09:57 AM (T6t7i)

129 This painting would make a great pop song....

The first cut is the deepest...

Posted by: Rod Stewart at June 15, 2020 09:58 AM (NVYyb)

130 By then, 16,594 official death sentences had been dispensed throughout France since June 1793, of which 2,639 were in Paris alone.


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)

131 Epic Rant: https://tinyurl.com/y9fan7xx


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)

132 103 So they finally did it. Tennis players and organizers of a pro tournament in France wore Black Lives Matter t-shirts. I wanted to watch this tournament too. Unfortunately they didn't want me to.
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)

133 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."

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)

134 So now we're hamburger eating surrender monkeys?

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)

135 > How many of you out there are sans coulottes at the keyboard today?

> 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)

136 By then, 16,594 official death sentences had been dispensed
throughout France since June 1793, of which 2,639 were in Paris alone.

***

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)

137 Third Republic, or the Fourth? Maybe Fifth???


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)

138 I was trying to remember the other Bosch-like painter. It's Pieter Brueghel the Elder.

Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 10:01 AM (T6t7i)

139 Now they're close to 1 million tickets requested for Sat night rally in Tulsa. What a shame, the dempanic has backfired.

Posted by: t-bird at June 15, 2020 10:01 AM (Za8VV)

140 > Napoleon did establish a fair code that is the basis for a lot of our law.

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)

141 Now they're close to 1 million tickets requested for Sat night rally in Tulsa. What a shame, the dempanic has backfired.
Posted by: t-bird


Holy shit on a shingle Batguano!

One Meelion?

Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 10:02 AM (Qf83p)

142 114
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)

143 Yeah to cold and rainy to go pants less today. Darn that global cooling.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at June 15, 2020 10:03 AM (eMtQa)

144 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)

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/)

145 > LOL. I've lost track. Is the current French government the Third Republic, or the Fourth? Maybe Fifth???

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)

146 Charlotte Corday, heroine or nutcase?

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 15, 2020 10:04 AM (H8QX8)

147 To the right of the guillotine there is a swordsman leading a demon. Why? Isn't this hell? Where else would the demon go upon decapitation?

Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 10:04 AM (T6t7i)

148 At least we can rest secure in the knowledge that most of these dicks don't even know which end of the guillotine goes up.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2020 10:04 AM (FOGOI)

149 >>132
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)

150 Reminds me of a highway rest stop up east somewhere.

Posted by: klaftern at June 15, 2020 10:04 AM (RuIsu)

151 > How many of you out there are sans coulottes at the keyboard today?

> 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)

152 Last nights dream. I was armed so theres that..

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 15, 2020 10:04 AM (XEfKE)

153 Yeah to cold and rainy to go pants less today. Darn that global cooling.
Posted by: Big V Caffeinated


Where is it cold and rainy in June?

Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 10:04 AM (Qf83p)

154 Nice Twatter thread on some of the "progressive" victims of Madame Guillotine.


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)

155
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)

156 The Left will do everything possible to stop Trump's rallies. Their fear and loathing of them is "off the charts."

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 15, 2020 10:06 AM (H8QX8)

157 This is wierd, I came across this artist and painting for the first time a couple of days ago. Now it's posted here.

Posted by: microcosme at June 15, 2020 10:06 AM (B+xWY)

158 from that hedge rant

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)

159 The real face of terror is having to politely say Good Morning to your spiteful neighborhood Karen because she might denounce you to the secret police.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 15, 2020 10:07 AM (SqopC)

160 Epic Rant: https://tinyurl.com/y9fan7xx
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)

161 Napoleon was a righteous dude.
Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 09:57 AM (fagTl)
-----
Eh, not so much.

Posted by: Zombie Duc d'Enghien at June 15, 2020 10:07 AM (1jlUc)

162 Well, this is appropriate.

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)

163 So now we're hamburger eating surrender monkeys?

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)

164 146 Charlotte Corday, heroine or nutcase?
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/)

165 Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at June 15, 2020 10:07 AM (HabA/)

I concur.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 15, 2020 10:08 AM (H8QX8)

166 Prague has returned a statue of the Virgin Mary to a large pedestal sitting in it's town center, from when it was removed by a crowd of protestors in 1918.

What is old is new again.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at June 15, 2020 10:08 AM (NVYyb)

167 I saw author Omer Bartov from 2018 on CSPN discussing his book Anatomy Of a Genocide: Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz about the Nazi occupation of a small town in the contested area between Poland and Ukraine. It starts before WWII as terror gangs of Ukrainians versus Poles dispute ownership agreeing only that they don't want the Jews. Then the Nazis come along and things go from bad to worse. Then the Nazis leave and the old hatreds revive and "memory laws" are enforced in which you aren't allowed to discuss certain embarrassing historical facts. (Russia has one, for example, in which one may not mention that the USER invaded Poland in 1939.)

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)

168 166 Prague has returned a statue of the Virgin Mary to a large pedestal sitting in it's town center, from when it was removed by a crowd of protestors in 1918.

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)

169 Tammy Baldwin being better for VP for Biden.

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)

170 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


Worst typing EVAR!

Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 10:09 AM (T6t7i)

171 > 146 Charlotte Corday, heroine or nutcase?

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)

172 Vetted, I meant

Posted by: Pete Seria at June 15, 2020 10:10 AM (7ZQe3)

173
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)

174 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)


He's guarding the door to the Restricted Wing of Hogwarts.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at June 15, 2020 10:11 AM (yy2FI)

175 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)
++++++++++++
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)

176 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)

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)

177 I have to vent. My 1st grade grandson's "teacher" asked the kids to set "math goals" for next year. Many said "learn multiplication and division". She squashed those as inappropriate. Only two digit addition and subtraction was "approved". We're paying a lot of tax money to keep those lazy teacher on the dole.

Posted by: CN at June 15, 2020 10:12 AM (ONvIw)

178
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)

179 EU wont ally with US against China, foreign policy chief says before Pompeo meeting

***

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)

180 supreme court say 6-3 trannies can sue under title 7 of the civil rights act.

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 15, 2020 10:12 AM (8D42x)

181 Wow. Is that a 3-headed dog that spits fire both out of its mouth(s) and its ass(es)?!?
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)

182 Napoleon did establish a fair code that is the basis for a lot of our law.

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)

183 Since we're past 100, dragging the end of the Morning Report over, mining asteroids, the best methods.

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)

184 Napoleonic code?


......


STELLLLAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2020 10:14 AM (FOGOI)

185 Hilarious picture of real vs. antifa farming.
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/380215/#respond

Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 10:14 AM (T6t7i)

186 Napoleon was a righteous dude.

___

Plays air guitar

Posted by: Bill and Ted at June 15, 2020 10:14 AM (WdocV)

187 I have to vent. My 1st grade grandson's "teacher" asked the kids to set "math goals" for next year. Many said "learn multiplication and division". She squashed those as inappropriate. Only two digit addition and subtraction was "approved". We're paying a lot of tax money to keep those lazy teacher on the dole.
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)

188 63 trannies ... wtf ?

Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 10:15 AM (AHq56)

189 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

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)

190 it either ends with the collapse of the state or a massacre of the bureaucracy.

Ok, go on... I'd like to hear more about option two.

Posted by: Hawkpilot at June 15, 2020 10:15 AM (dF1YT)

191 One of my conservative virtue signaling thoughts is for all pragmatists, Morons, and art critics to search The Death of Murat by David on 13 July, the 227th anniversary of his death.

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)

192 It is interesting that revolutionary authorities had Charlotte Cordray's corpse examined after execution in order to see if she was a virgin. Sort of anti-revolutionary one would think, to be so interested in her sexual life, and certainly very gruesome.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, hunker in the bunker at June 15, 2020 10:17 AM (NVYyb)

193 AntiFarming ...

Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 10:17 AM (AHq56)

194 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

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)

195 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)

196 Sort of anti-revolutionary one would think, to be so interested in her sexual life, and certainly very gruesome.
***

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)

197 Antique F-15C is missing, this one at sea off Limeyland.

Posted by: klaftern at June 15, 2020 10:18 AM (RuIsu)

198 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)


So Trump will have ended up saving 2.25 million lives.

Not bad.

Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 10:18 AM (wCLLY)

199 Then search Bezos security arrangements.


I read 'Bezos' as 'Soros,' which I realized is VERY disturbing.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 15, 2020 10:18 AM (oVJmc)

200 I believe the picture represents the day after I put up a MAGA yard sign in our little blue suburb.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 15, 2020 10:18 AM (SqopC)

201 So now Chad or whatever is burning their trash in dumpsters and running INTERNAL COMBUSTION generators for electricity.

Posted by: Menack at June 15, 2020 10:19 AM (buTO7)

202 >>195
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)

203 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)

204 I remember reading Simon Schama's book about the French Revolution, and he covered Marat's funeral. it was a real shit show. Marat's body was displayed the way he is in the painting by David, in his bath, where he was murdered. Unfortunately, he suffered from serious skin problems (that's why he spent so much time soaking in the bath - to relieve the itching) and in the hot July temperatures, his corpse began putrefying almost immediately. It got so bad, his arm actually fell off, and had to be stitched back on so the show could go on!

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at June 15, 2020 10:20 AM (yy2FI)

205 190 "it either ends with the collapse of the state or a massacre of the bureaucracy."

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)

206 Now that the riots have fizzled, msm is back to OMG VIRUS 24/7 after having ignored the virus for the past 2 weeks.
***

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)

207 I remember reading Simon Schama's book about the French Revolution, and he covered Marat's funeral. it was a real shit show. Marat's body was displayed the way he is in the painting by David, in his bath, where he was murdered. Unfortunately, he suffered from serious skin problems (that's why he spent so much time soaking in the bath - to relieve the itching) and in the hot July temperatures, his corpse began putrefying almost immediately. It got so bad, his arm actually fell off, and had to be stitched back on so the show could go on!
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)

208 177 I have to vent. My 1st grade grandson's "teacher" asked the kids to set "math goals" for next year. Many said "learn multiplication and division". She squashed those as inappropriate. Only two digit addition and subtraction was "approved". We're paying a lot of tax money to keep those lazy teacher on the dole.
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)

209 > So now Chad or whatever is burning their trash in dumpsters and running INTERNAL COMBUSTION generators for electricity.

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)

210 Since we're past 100, dragging the end of the Morning Report over, mining asteroids, the best methods.



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)

211 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:15 AM (Q8c/L)

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)

212 The Left will do everything possible to stop Trump's rallies. Their fear and loathing of them is "off the charts."
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)

213 Per Fox Bidness: there is new unrest in Atlanta. Unrest. You know just a little disagreement between neighbors over the placement of a fence, that kind of thing.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 15, 2020 10:22 AM (L/JEd)

214 The left side of the painting is devils and demons all the way down.

Posted by: kallisto at June 15, 2020 10:22 AM (DJFLF)

215 > Last year about 1K people were killed by cops in total - white, black, good shoot, bad shoot, etc.

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)

216 mining asteroids, the best methods.

***

I vote we drop them on CHAZ.

Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:22 AM (WdocV)

217 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)
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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)

218 I remember reading Simon Schama's book about the French Revolution, and he covered Marat's funeral.

Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution. I enjoyed that book.

Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 10:23 AM (T6t7i)

219 If only George Floyd George had stayed quarantined, he'd be alive and using drugs today.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 15, 2020 10:23 AM (oVJmc)

220 SCOTUS denied cert to NJ 2A challenge

wherein NJ requires 'good reason' to carry

Posted by: McCool at June 15, 2020 10:23 AM (lWCRE)

221 >>203
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)

222 Per Fox Bidness: there is new unrest in Atlanta. Unrest. You know just a
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)

223 > Since we're past 100, dragging the end of the Morning Report over, mining asteroids, the best methods.

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)

224 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)


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)

225 >>Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution. I enjoyed that book. Posted by: pep at June 15, 2020 10:23 AM (T6t7i)

Yep. His "Of Landscape and Memory" is also good.

Posted by: Zod at June 15, 2020 10:24 AM (QgtlX)

226 Scotus says gays and trannies are covered by Title VII protections

Malor very happy...

Posted by: McCool at June 15, 2020 10:24 AM (lWCRE)

227 Wasn't Marat also way fatter than the painting?

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)

228 Trump didn't get 800,000 ticket requests for the Tulsa rally

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)

229 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)

No! That will spoil the cheese!

Posted by: Comrade Zoe, CHAZ Science Czar at June 15, 2020 10:25 AM (PiwSw)

230 How do you lock a tent?





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)

231 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)
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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)

232 1) Get a 3-headed dog that spits and farts fire.
2 Chain dog in tent.
Posted by: pep



The old ways are best.

Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 10:26 AM (Qf83p)

233 226 Scotus says gays and trannies are covered by Title VII protections

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)

234
Chiropractor appointment this morning, thank goodness.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 15, 2020 10:26 AM (mht8P)

235 > 1) Get a 3-headed dog that spits and farts fire.
> 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)

236 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)

237 233 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.



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)

238 1958-So Far: Fifth Republic



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/)

239 I see no way a direct return of asteroid material to Earth can go wrong.


Posted by: T-Rex at June 15, 2020 10:27 AM (wCLLY)

240 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)

241 228 Trump didn't get 800,000 ticket requests for the Tulsa rally

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)

242 I hope blue cities and states start shutting down again. Fuck em. Let them have a never ending cycle of high unemployment and riots. These assholes need to learn what touching a hot stove does.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 15, 2020 10:27 AM (L/JEd)

243 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.


The more New Ideas they try, the worse the learning gets.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 15, 2020 10:27 AM (oVJmc)

244 And I am ready to smash my computer with a sledgehammer.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 10:27 AM (NWiLs)

245 28 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+)


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)

246 Now that's some party. Their quarantine must have been lifted.

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)

247 *hands Insomniac a sledgehammer*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 15, 2020 10:29 AM (fIHXk)

248 240

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)

249 The title VII ruling was

Gorsuch, joined by Roberts, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, Kagan


Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:29 AM (WdocV)

250 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. ...
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)

251 whoops:

@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)

252 Looks like we lost the Supreme Court too even though conventional wisdom says it's a 5-4 conservative split .

We need a national divorce or just LIB.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:30 AM (fagTl)

253 rickb223

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)

254 Tee hee!

Posted by: Justice Roberts at June 15, 2020 10:30 AM (55lwO)

255 Pretty tired of "conservative" judges always voting for the left whenever the left really wants something

Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:30 AM (WdocV)

256 250 (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)

=======

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)

257 @SCOTUSblog
#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)
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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)

258 trying to recapture that decapitated feeling.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 10:31 AM (pB6Gt)

259 France
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)

260 I predict there will be a slew of lawsuits against churches and christian schools from LGBTQIA++ teachers and workers who were fired for being openly LGBTQIAA++

Posted by: McCool at June 15, 2020 10:32 AM (lWCRE)

261 Yer on yer own:

@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)

262 Alternate title - Scenes from the CHAZ

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2020 10:32 AM (1aH4X)

263 Attention current and any future boss: I officially identify as a gay transgendered person. Therefore you can never fire me.

Thank you.

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 15, 2020 10:32 AM (L/JEd)

264 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)
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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)

265 OK, fuck Gorsuch.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at June 15, 2020 10:32 AM (sWM8x)

266 "running INTERNAL COMBUSTION generators for electricity."

And isn't Seattle like 100% hydroelectric? What a bunch of morons.

Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 10:33 AM (eAZVt)

267 By the way this is the grounds for the Title 7 case

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)

268 174

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)

269 @255
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)

270 265 OK, fuck Gorsuch.
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)

271 247 *hands Insomniac a sledgehammer*
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)

272 If we do get a conservative majority in both houses of congress after 2020 can we impeach RBG on the grounds she's a lich and therefore actually already dead?

Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:34 AM (WdocV)

273 240

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)

274 Did anyone notice the AoS flag at center of the scene ?

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 15, 2020 10:35 AM (iTXRQ)

275 SCOTUS also declined to hear the sanctuary city case . It's basically their approval to let local governments not cooperate with Federal agencies task with one of the few duties laid out in the Constitution.

SCOTUS what good are you ?

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:36 AM (fagTl)

276 Trump didn't get 800,000 ticket requests for the Tulsa rally



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


---

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)

277 So much for the president's "conservative" SCOTUS. He must be furious.

Posted by: creeper at June 15, 2020 10:36 AM (XxJt1)

278 If we do get a conservative majority in both houses of congress after 2020 can we impeach RBG on the grounds she's a lich and therefore actually already dead?

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)

279 The Trump campaign took in $14 million in donations yesterday, his biggest one-day total ever.

Quite a birthday present.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at June 15, 2020 10:36 AM (hKLpI)

280 273

Oh dear!!!!!

Posted by: Hotgas VIP Member at June 15, 2020 10:36 AM (L/JEd)

281 I presume that Roberts got hit with whatever is wrong with his kid's adoption again....what does Gorsuch have in his closet?

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)

282 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.


==========

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)

283 the World needs gasoline vasoline. Big drones with guns and shit...Run on kerosene.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 10:37 AM (pB6Gt)

284 267 By the way this is the grounds for the Title 7 case

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)

285 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lich

Posted by: 18-1 at June 15, 2020 10:37 AM (WdocV)

286 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)
+++++++++++++
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)

287 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.

***

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)

288 These SCOTUS cases rarely mean what the media says they mean.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 10:38 AM (xfb67)

289 Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 10:37 AM (NWiLs)

I think it was more about a reach around.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:38 AM (fagTl)

290 @varadmehta



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)

291 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)
++++++++++++
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)

292 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

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)

293 Regarding that SCOTUS ruling - is this somehow a new thing? I assumed you already couldn't fire someone for being gay.

Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 10:39 AM (eAZVt)

294 289 Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at June 15, 2020 10:37 AM (NWiLs)

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)

295 > The Trump campaign took in $14 million in donations yesterday, his biggest one-day total ever.

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)

296 236
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/)

297 Ten. SCOTUS should be an even number, and should be allowed to hang.
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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)

298 291 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)
++++++++++++
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)

299

290 @varadmehta


More psyops.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 15, 2020 10:40 AM (fIHXk)

300 Probably reported up-thread already, but...

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)

301 293

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)

302 295 > The Trump campaign took in $14 million in donations yesterday, his biggest one-day total ever.

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)

===========

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)

303 SCOTUS should be an even number, and should be allowed to hang.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 

Phrasing?

Posted by: Ha at June 15, 2020 10:41 AM (55lwO)

304 The ruling is just whatever the lower court decided then.
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)

305 The aggravating thing is they admit that Title VII did not intend on covering sexual orientation. They should have sent it back and said it's up to Congress to specify in the law.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:41 AM (fagTl)

306 All the demons on the left side of the painting are retreating from the evil mob.

Posted by: Agitator at June 15, 2020 10:41 AM (y/e6R)

307 Regarding that SCOTUS ruling - is this somehow a new thing? I assumed you already couldn't fire someone for being gay.

***

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)

308 > These SCOTUS cases rarely mean what the media says they mean.

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)

309 Mornin' all... So I see SCOTUS trolls.... Wouldn't worry about the cases today...... Laughable to call Gorsuch Liberal...

Posted by: It's me donna at June 15, 2020 10:41 AM (Zmnko)

310 285
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lich


... they left out nethack ...

Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 10:42 AM (AHq56)

311 Am I missing something?

Posted by: Grump928©


Yes.

Nevertrumpers eat their own shit.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 10:42 AM (++MjY)

312 SCOTUS should be an even number, and should be allowed to hang.

***

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)

313 290 @varadmehta


Just more empty hysteria. They can't go a day without it.

Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at June 15, 2020 10:42 AM (H8QX8)

314 Time for my breakfast ribeye, and pontificate humorously upon the stupid.

Posted by: Menack at June 15, 2020 10:42 AM (buTO7)

315 Phrasing?

Posted by: Ha at June 15, 2020 10:41 AM (55lwO)

Looks deliberate to me.

Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 10:43 AM (AHq56)

316 The aggravating thing is they admit that Title VII did not intend on covering sexual orientation. They should have sent it back and said it's up to Congress to specify in the law.
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)

317 I mean, that plus the 800,000 signing up for the rally doesn't exactly sound like a guy who's losing to me.

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)

318 > Time for my breakfast ribeye, and pontificate humorously upon the stupid.

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)

319 It's Judicial Overreacharound! And High-handed!

Posted by: klaftern at June 15, 2020 10:43 AM (RuIsu)

320 All the electric sex dolls from China are being recalled...Especially the Marvel collection.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 10:44 AM (pB6Gt)

321 308 The Supreme Court moves slowly, but it does move.





I recommend more prunes.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 15, 2020 10:44 AM (AHq56)

322 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


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)

323 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
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)

324 All the electric sex dolls from China are being recalled...Especially the Marvel collection.
___

WORST DAY EVER!

I'll miss you Cap'

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at June 15, 2020 10:45 AM (WdocV)

325 324 All the electric sex dolls from China are being recalled...Especially the Marvel collection.
______________________

Wonder Woman is DC, right? Asking for a friend.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 10:46 AM (xfb67)

326 All the electric sex dolls from China are being recalled...Especially the Marvel collection.
Posted by: humphreyrobot


"electric"

How fucking old are you, Ebenizer?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 10:46 AM (++MjY)

327 How do you think Roberts will vote on releasing trump's tax records?


Yep

Posted by: Ha at June 15, 2020 10:46 AM (55lwO)

328 326 All the electric sex dolls from China are being recalled...Especially the Marvel collection.
Posted by: humphreyrobot

"electric"

How fucking old are you, Ebenizer?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 10:46 AM (++MjY)

=========

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)

329 266 "running INTERNAL COMBUSTION generators for electricity."

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)

330 I never considered a doll until you said Wonder Woman. Fucker.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 10:47 AM (pB6Gt)

331 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

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)

332 How do you think Roberts will vote on releasing trump's tax records?

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)

333 Hilariously unfortunate hash you got there.
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)

334 electric...

Holy fuck.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 10:48 AM (++MjY)

335 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)
++++++++++++
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)

336 >>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)


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)

337
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)

338 ELECTRIC

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 10:49 AM (++MjY)

339 Lagrange point sounds interesting.

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)

340 Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 15, 2020 10:47 AM (Do5/p)
++++++++++++++
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)

341 Never have I been happier that my business doesn't interact with the public in any way. Our culture has become disgustingly sick, and I choose to no longer participate in it.

Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 10:49 AM (eAZVt)

342 >>>This should be amusing when your Hooters waitress is supporting a crappy mustache and a fake deep voice.

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)

343 337
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)

=======

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)

344 Pixy saves the day.

Posted by: Palindrome Paduan at June 15, 2020 10:49 AM (AHq56)

345 I mean, that plus the 800,000 signing up for the rally doesn't exactly sound like a guy who's losing to me.

Wish we could mobilize these kinds of numbers for other "events"

Posted by: Eisenhorn at June 15, 2020 10:50 AM (F6tBH)

346 Gas powered sex doll?

Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 10:50 AM (Qf83p)

347 Our culture has become disgustingly sick, and I choose to no longer participate in it.
---
I'm constantly looking for ways to drop out further.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at June 15, 2020 10:50 AM (sWM8x)

348 345 I mean, that plus the 800,000 signing up for the rally doesn't exactly sound like a guy who's losing to me.

Wish we could mobilize these kinds of numbers for other "events"
Posted by: Eisenhorn at June 15, 2020 10:50 AM (F6tBH)

==========

*nods sagaciously*

Prometheus screening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 10:50 AM (UWqZJ)

349 if we can have dolls than we cannot have robots with guns or are you still thinking of dolls?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 10:50 AM (pB6Gt)

350

25,210.54 -395.00 (-1.54%)
As of 10:50AM EDT. Market open.

Posted by: DJIA Deathwatch at June 15, 2020 10:50 AM (wCLLY)

351 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)

perpetual motion machine.

Golly.

2020 really *is* an interesting year....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2020 10:50 AM (FOGOI)

352 Gas powered sex doll?


Sweet Mother Propane.

Posted by: Hank Hill at June 15, 2020 10:51 AM (wCLLY)

353 This should be amusing when your Hooters waitress is supporting a crappy mustache and a fake deep voice.

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)

354 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus_trojan

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)

355 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


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)

356 Gotta upgrade to mechanical. Wind them up and let them go.

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)

357 Wakes up
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)

358 355 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


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)

==========

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)

359 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©

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)

360 The refusal to hear the sanctuary city case is the most disturbing. Both Alito and Thomas of course indicate they would be in favor of hearing the case.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:54 AM (fagTl)

361 E.L.E.C.T.R.I.C.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 10:54 AM (++MjY)

362 Nah, go with solar cells.


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)

363 lich?
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)

364 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_QF99

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)

365 When have NeverTrumpers been right on anything? Ever.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 15, 2020 10:55 AM (jvt6t)

366 What nincompoop ever thought Donald Trump was even trying to be a "social conservative"????

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 15, 2020 10:55 AM (FOGOI)

367 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

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)

368 One of the best ways to help remove yourself from the culture is cutting the cord.


If you're serious.

Posted by: Ha at June 15, 2020 10:55 AM (55lwO)

369 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)
++++++++++++
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)

370 Lagrange point sounds interesting.

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)

371 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

---

Their smoked wings are good. Better than I can make.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 15, 2020 10:56 AM (JUOKG)

372 lich?
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)

373 The refusal to hear the sanctuary city case is the most disturbing.

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)

374 Most recharge during the game.

How about them Cowboys?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 10:57 AM (pB6Gt)

375
The Dutch have a Windmill Powered Sex Doll

now approved for use by the EPA.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 15, 2020 10:57 AM (rTZNj)

376 Federal income tax sanctuary city.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 10:58 AM (xfb67)

377 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 10:52 AM (UWqZJ)

How can the military now ban trans from serving?

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 10:58 AM (fagTl)

378 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





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

---

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)

379 Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
-- Douglas Adams

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 15, 2020 10:58 AM (Q8c/L)

380 374 Most recharge during the game.

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)

381 Start here.
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)

382 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)

Didn't the entire Committee for Public Safety getthe chop that day?

Posted by: Fox2! at June 15, 2020 10:59 AM (qyH+l)

383 Heh. I just noticed that Biden's campaign logo has fingers in the design.

Posted by: Emmie at June 15, 2020 10:59 AM (clsJu)

384 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


*
*

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)

385 377

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)

386 Don't count on solar powered rechargeable sex olls for you future needs!

shorturl.at/jwI58

Posted by: E. Maunder at June 15, 2020 11:00 AM (mMLSg)

387 Didn't the entire Committee for Public Safety getthe chop that day?
Posted by: Fox2!



Everyone hates committees.

Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 11:00 AM (Qf83p)

388 384

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)

389 Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
-- 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)

390 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


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)

391 187 I have to vent. My 1st grade grandson's "teacher" asked the kids to set "math goals" for next year. Many said "learn multiplication and division". She squashed those as inappropriate. Only two digit addition and subtraction was "approved". We're paying a lot of tax money to keep those lazy teacher on the dole.
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)

392 Electric sex doll attached to bicycle powered generator. You can fuck your sex doll only after you get to 60 rpm.

Posted by: Pliney at June 15, 2020 11:02 AM (YB1W6)

393
wasn't Robespierre executed for being "insufficiently authentic"?

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 15, 2020 11:02 AM (9C0cu)

394 SCCJ Roberts was, is, and will forever be a certified PoS!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 15, 2020 11:02 AM (mMLSg)

395 354
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+)

396 392 Electric sex doll attached to bicycle powered generator. You can fuck your sex doll only after you get to 60 rpm.
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)

397 "93 billion light years. That we know of."

?? That sounds high. I thought more like 15 billion?

Posted by: Chris M at June 15, 2020 11:03 AM (eAZVt)

398 "two Uranus trojans".

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)

399
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/)

400
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)

401 Oh, wait. It's because Ezekiel Elliot is a complete dildo, isn't it?
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)

402 CHAZ needs to be called what it really is, Bumbershoot.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 15, 2020 11:04 AM (k/TB6)

403 How can it be 93 billion light years when the universe is only 14 billion years old?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 11:04 AM (xfb67)

404 "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 at June 15, 2020 11:04 AM (eAZVt)

405 Fuck Gorsuch.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at June 15, 2020 11:04 AM (sWM8x)

406 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


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)

407 Wish I still had the ignorance to say "I don't care 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/)

408 We're paying a lot of tax money to keep those lazy teacher on the dole.
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)

409 Everybody rEady for a powerful retarded day?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 11:05 AM (pB6Gt)

410 >>>[267] 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)

"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)

411 93 billion light years. That we know of."

?? 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)

412 Cold and rainy in the Outer Banks. High will only be in the 60s today. Plus it is windy.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at June 15, 2020 11:05 AM (eMtQa)

413 93 billion light years. That we know of.
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)

414 You literally can't get there from here. We will never reach even the next galaxy. It's not going to happen.

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)

415 SCOTUS is citing pirate ships.

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)

416 307
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+)

417 "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 (LHT0w)

418 From VDH piece recommended by JJ:
"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)

419 93 billion light years. That we know of.


Man! That sucker's huge!

Posted by: Tiny Elvis at June 15, 2020 11:07 AM (wCLLY)

420 I mean .. it's big.

That's all I'm sayin'.

Posted by: Tiny Elvis at June 15, 2020 11:08 AM (wCLLY)

421 The Supreme Court ruled that there is yet another reason why businesses cannot fire workers. Right to property? Not in the USA!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 11:08 AM (KZzsI)

422 411 93 billion light years. That we know of."
=====

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)

423 406

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)

424 Even light speed travel won't get you very far in the span of a human lifetime.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 11:08 AM (xfb67)

425 Annnd, we're back...

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 15, 2020 11:08 AM (Do5/p)

426 424 Even light speed travel won't get you very far in the span of a human lifetime.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 11:08 AM (xfb67)

========

Generation ship stories can be fun.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 11:09 AM (UWqZJ)

427 Hrothgar's Law: Any person confirmed (by any conceivable political composition of the US Senate) to the Supreme Court, will eventually, and always, betray the Constitution.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at June 15, 2020 11:10 AM (mMLSg)

428 The Supreme Court ruled that there is yet another reason why businesses cannot fire workers. Right to property? Not in the USA!

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)

429 Whatever happened to the L5 Society?

Or the Transylvania Twist.

Posted by: klaftern at June 15, 2020 11:10 AM (RuIsu)

430 Even light speed travel won't get you very far in the span of a human lifetime.


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)

431 391 That and they are teaching toward the lowest common denominator. Even when my kids were small, they grouped kids by ability. Now it's one size fits all.

Posted by: CN at June 15, 2020 11:10 AM (ONvIw)

432 Even light speed travel won't get you very far in the span of a human lifetime.
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)

433 430 Even light speed travel won't get you very far in the span of a human lifetime.


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)

=========

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)

434 In one of the Firing Line debates, Buckley told a joke - he was not a master comedian - but that this stuffy old white hair is at a science lecture, and the speaker says the world will end in 5 billion years when the sun becomes a supernova.

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/)

435 Generation ship stories can be fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison



Did I ever tell you about The Starlost?

Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 11:11 AM (Qf83p)

436
"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)

437 "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


*
*

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)

438 Generation ship stories can be fun.

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)

439 Everything I know about time dilation I learned from Interstellar and The Forever War.


The victory of the gay clones is inevitable.

Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:11 AM (wCLLY)

440 Even light speed travel won't get you very far in the span of a human lifetime.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe


Alcubierre bubbles don't mind your doubt.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 11:11 AM (++MjY)

441 437 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)

=========

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)

442 Wish I still had the ignorance to say "I don't care
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/)

443 If there ever comes a time when the US Constitution is re-written, it has to be specific about protecting private property and limiting the powers of the court. With penalties for government which does not carry out its duties properly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 15, 2020 11:12 AM (KZzsI)

444 Even light speed travel won't get you very far in the span of a human lifetime.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 11:08 AM (xfb67)

========

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)

445 I think time dilation just makes the trip seem longer to you in the ship, not speed up the rest of the universe.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 11:12 AM (xfb67)

446 387 Didn't the entire Committee for Public Safety getthe chop that day?
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)

447 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/)


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)

448 438 Generation ship stories can be fun.

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)

=========

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)

449 Whatever happened to the L5 Society?

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)

450 Even light speed travel won't get you very far in the span of a human lifetime.
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)

451 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)

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)

452 that's just one part of the universe. Just this part of expansion. Then further...Twinkle toes.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 11:13 AM (pB6Gt)

453 When you're President Trump and fighting for your 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+)

454 I thought Ad Astra was plodding and pointless. A couple of "name" actors just phoning it in.

Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:14 AM (wCLLY)

455 If "sex" under Title VII means gender identity, then "sex" under Title IX also means gender identity.

Or am I missing something.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at June 15, 2020 11:14 AM (sWM8x)

456 Not sure if I like it, but it does have one of my favorite Italian phrases over the doorway on the right.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 15, 2020 11:14 AM (t+qrx)

457 Pedos will be protected in 5 years.

Posted by: Ha at June 15, 2020 11:14 AM (55lwO)

458 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/)


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)

459 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)



=========



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


---

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)

460 Everything I know about time dilation I learned from Interstellar and The Forever War.


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)

461 Not only must you bake the damn cake....

You must hire an LGBTQIA+ to do it...

Posted by: McCool at June 15, 2020 11:15 AM (lWCRE)

462 Posted by: PissedOffWISocialConservative at June 15, 2020 11:13 AM (yR5e


Concerned too!

Posted by: Ha at June 15, 2020 11:15 AM (55lwO)

463 460
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)

=========

I travel forwards in time all the time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting terrorist in Nakatomi Tower at June 15, 2020 11:15 AM (UWqZJ)

464 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)


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)

465 Look for suits soon against religious groups for maintaining that homosexuality is a sin and refusing to hire homosexuals.
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)

466
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)

467 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.


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)

468 We need warp tech stat!

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)

469 286
Speaking of which, do you call someone who plays the harp a "harpie"? Or is that solely reserved for mean, foul-tempered women.



+++++++++++++


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+)

470 This won't matter to most voters, but to social conservatives like myself, it's a big freaking deal.


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)

471 Generation ship stories, like the granddaddy of them all, Heinlein's "Universe," usually wind up with the society aboard declining and forgetting they are on a ship. The inhabitants invent a peculiar philosophy or religion to explain the peculiarities of the ship, but the ship operates automatically, without them.

Darned if this doesn't sound a bit like CHAZ.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:16 AM (rpbg1)

472 470 This won't matter to most voters, but to social conservatives like myself, it's a big freaking deal.


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)

===========

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)

473 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)

That would be the great game DOOM.

Posted by: I Have Questions at June 15, 2020 11:17 AM (+v+zN)

474 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

---

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)

475 Let's stop pretending we're a free country.

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)

476 When you're President Trump and fighting for your
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/)

477
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+)

478 471 Generation ship stories, like the granddaddy of them all, Heinlein's "Universe," usually wind up with the society aboard declining and forgetting they are on a ship. The inhabitants invent a peculiar philosophy or religion to explain the peculiarities of the ship, but the ship operates automatically, without them.

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)

479 Posted by: PissedOffWISocialConservative at June 15, 2020 11:13 AM (yR5e+)

"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)

480 463
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+)

481 454
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)

482 Every nation that forgets God is turned into Hell.
Psalms 9:17

Posted by: Jmel at June 15, 2020 11:18 AM (Xt5Tj)

483 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)

Observable means able to measure not actually see it.

Posted by: Kilroy wasn't here at June 15, 2020 11:18 AM (fagTl)

484 When you're President Trump and fighting for your 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


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)

485 I travel forwards in time all the time.


The future is now!

No wait, now!

NOW!





dammit.

Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:18 AM (wCLLY)

486 Not sure if I like it, but it does have one of my favorite Italian phrases over the doorway on the right.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 15, 2020


*
*

"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:18 AM (rpbg1)

487 There was a generational ship story on Syfy, I think, were the people weren't even in space, they we're still on Earth and they didn't know it. It was just a big experiment and they were the guinea pigs.

I would be pissed.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 15, 2020 11:18 AM (xfb67)

488 Posted by: I Have Questions at June 15, 2020 11:17 AM (+v+zN)

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)

489
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)

490 Given the recent events in Atlanta, maybe the next gun thread could review the High-tech TASER X3 multiple shot stun-gun.

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at June 15, 2020 11:19 AM (EMi53)

491 Generation ship stories, like the granddaddy of them all, Heinlein's "Universe," usually wind up with the society aboard declining and forgetting they are on a ship. The inhabitants invent a peculiar philosophy or religion to explain the peculiarities of the ship, but the ship operates automatically, without them.

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)

492 Generation ships?

[i[Megazone Two Three
https://youtu.be/MtcMT7w0A5Y

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (1aH4X)

493 There is only this moment.


You're welcome.

Posted by: eleven at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (Qf83p)

494 "Abandon hope, all ye who enter here"?
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)

495 How is this not great art?

It's better than most of that impressionist or all cubist stuff.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (ifmtJ)

496 Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood!

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (9QPEY)

497 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?

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)

498 Biden is super duper malleable.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 11:20 AM (pB6Gt)

499 Gorsuch sold us out in a way I didn't believe possible. So much for Trump's re-election prospects.

Posted by: Surfperch at June 15, 2020 11:21 AM (tVQUs)

500 Yeah the "size of the universe" is a silly concept. Maybe "furthest extent of matter" is a better term.


Matter creates space.

Posted by: Grump928© at June 15, 2020 11:21 AM (wCLLY)

501 437 Even at light speed it would take over 4 years to reach the nearest star. Another galaxy, what, 20,000 years?



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)

502 484 weft cut-loop: that's got to be the worst effort at 'concern' trolling I've ever seen. Wasted valuable bits typing it all out too. Terrible effort.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 15, 2020 11:21 AM (HPZbe)

503 Mark Hemingway Retweeted
Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro
·
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+)

504 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)

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)

505 Noodus simianus major

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 15, 2020 11:22 AM (rpbg1)

506 454
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+)

507
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)

508 You're not a social conservative.

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)

509 Snowpiercer would have worked better on a Generation Ship.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Free WA, Buy Ammo at June 15, 2020 11:22 AM (ifmtJ)

510 It was just a big experiment and they were the guinea pigs.

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)

511 Gorsuch sold us out in a way I didn't believe possible. So much for Trump's re-election prospects.

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/)

512 there is, unforts, a new thread...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at June 15, 2020 11:23 AM (++MjY)

513 Homosexuality needs to declare itself an official religion, get tax exempt status, charge dues, build a gigantic bath house by the bay, do some shunning, lots of rules...

Posted by: klaftern at June 15, 2020 11:23 AM (RuIsu)

514 "Not with current technology. We need light speed or near light speed to travel the vast distances of space."

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)

515 Observable means able to measure not actually see it.

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)

516 The future is now!

No wait, now!

NOW!





dammit.


"When will "then" be "now?"

"Soon."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - #BrainwashedLivesMatter at June 15, 2020 11:24 AM (HaL55)

517 I don't remember telling my illustrator anything about a guillotine.

Posted by: Dante Alighieri at June 15, 2020 11:26 AM (17+9D)

518 not space...It's called dark energy. Did you get the memo?

Posted by: humphreyrobot at June 15, 2020 11:27 AM (pB6Gt)

519 My wife said I should visit Paris.I visited Paris. It was fun.

Posted by: Beelzebubba at June 15, 2020 11:27 AM (17+9D)

520 Observable means able to measure not actually see it.

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)

521 I've said it from the beginning - the remedy to an over-reaching Judiciary will not be found in the Judiciary.

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)

522 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)

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)

523 THIS WHAT SEATTLE WILL SOON LOOK LIKE

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at June 15, 2020 04:54 PM (FLiOE)

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