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Dairy farmers also successfully lobbied for restrictions that banned the use of yellow dyes to make margarine look more appetizing. By 1900, artificially colored margarine was contraband in 30 U.S. states. Several states took even more extreme measures to turn consumers away from margarine—they required the product to be dyed an unappealing pink color.
As the coloring restrictions became widespread around the turn of the 20th century, margarine producers accepted that they couldn’t dye their wares yellow. There was no reason why they couldn’t simultaneously sell consumers margarine and yellow dye, though. When you bought a block or tube of margarine, you also got a packet of food coloring that could be kneaded into the margarine by hand.
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LOOKING FOR LAW IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, a Harvard Law graduate, has become a reliably left-wing vote on the Supreme Court. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy was also a Harvard Law School graduate who became a reliable left-wing vote. Supreme Court Justice David Souter was – guess what - a Harvard Law School graduate who became a reliable left-wing vote. What do all three of these left-wing justices have in common? They were all appointed by Republican Presidents who assured us they were conservative constitutionalists. Oh yeah, and they all have the ugly stink of an Ivy League Law Degree on them.
Here’s the deal, trying to find a conservative justice from a pool of Ivy Leaguers is like trying to find a conservative girlfriend at Whole Foods. There are some who may be less liberal, but they are still living in a liberal world with a liberal social circle and liberal assumptions.
Well at least Gorsuch and Kavanaugh have degrees from – ugh – Harvard and Yale. It’s hopeless.
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HOW TEXAS SAVED THE FRENCH WINE INDUSTRY
Next time you drink a Bordeaux or other French wine, remember to salute the rootstock of wild Texas grapes that saved the French wine industry. Or drink an American wine instead. But it’s true that wild grapes from Texas saved the French wine industry in the late 19th century.
In 1887, Thomas Munson rode horseback with French scientist Pierre Viala along the Red River during Viala’s search for a hearty species resistant to phylloxera. The small aphid had wreaked havoc throughout France, destroying an estimated 80 percent of the country’s vines. Munson, an expert in grape botany and plant grafting, was Viala’s last hope for a solution to the problem. Munson directed Viala to western Bell County, where the limestone soil approximated that of the French countryside. Viala found three native species thriving in poor soil conditions and, through grafting European vines to the phylloxera-resistant Texas rootstock, replenished French vineyards wiped out by the epidemic. A year later, France recognized Munson as Chevalier du Mérite Agricole in the French Legion of Honor.
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THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN JOURNALISM
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WHERE ARE THE SELF DRIVING CARS?
Fully autonomous cars have been just 4 or 5 years away from being a reality for a decade now. And ten years from now they’ll still be 4 or 5 years away. (It reminds me of how nuclear fusion has always been 20 years away - for the past 50 years.) The combination of grandiose fools in auto manufacturer executive suites and credulous media have allowed this fiction to keep getting written. Reality is finally starting to set in that self driving cars are not going to happen for a long time, if at all.
Manufacturers are backing away from aggressive promises, too. Nissan has admitted that it's unlikely to produce self-driving cars before the end of the decade. And GM, which had previously promised to sell an autonomous vehicle by 2019, has not announced an updated projection.
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TYRANNY
“When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom, because that is according to your principles. When I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom, because that is according to my principles.” – Frank Herbert (Children Of Dune)
“When they tell us that our own beliefs – to which they do not subscribe – force us to accept serfdom, we need to tell them to go pound sand.” – Kurt Schlichter
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OXBOW LAKES
When on an airplane, I’m always fascinated by looking at oxbow lakes in the rivers below me. The town of Carter Lake, Iowa is entirely on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River, due to a course change in the river which left the oxbow lake and its namesake Iowa town surrounded by Omaha. This little 17-second time-lapse video shows real oxbow lakes being formed over a 32-year period.
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BUCK THOUGHTS
A characteristic of effective leaders is that they don’t obsess about leadership, or waste their time studying leadership, or bore people by talking about leadership. Instead, they simply lead.
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MOTIVATION
(h/t – despair.com)
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THE FOUNDER OF ORGANIC FARMING WAS A VIRULENT RACIST
Have you noticed how the founding fathers (and mothers) of the progressive movement were all ugly racists? Woodrow Wilson re-segregated the US military as he rolled out the modern form of left-wing governance. Margaret Sanger founded Planned Parenthood to eliminate “undesirable” populations. Oh, and looky here, Rudolf Steiner, the father of the organic farming movement…
Therefore Biodynamics in a nutshell is the 'Biological' practices of organic farming that improve the quality and fertility of the soil. It is bringing a higher degree of life activity in the soil, plants and animals by using the dynamic methods of Mother Nature.
Steiner argued there was also what he called a hierarchy in races. Inferior races were at the bottom of an evolutionary staircase he helpfully sketched out in one of his books. When a person of any race died they were reincarnated. If they had good karma they would come back as what Steiner saw as a superior race until after a number of satisfactory lives they would achieve a top-of-the-pile white Aryan existence. Others would move down in the pecking order.
Rudolf Steiner is still revered in the cult of organic farming.
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THROCKMORTON’S FIRST LAW OF LIVE MUSIC: IF THERE’S AN UPRIGHT BASS IN THE BAND, IT’S PROBABLY GOING TO BE GOOD
Western Swing isn’t dead, it’s just Asleep At The Wheel.
Bob Wills was in very poor health and mostly forgotten in 1973 when Ray Benson, a 22-year old Jewish hippie from Pennsylvania, rolled into Austin. Mr. Benson gave new life to Western Swing, the music that Bob Wills made famous in the 1930s and ‘40s. With his band Asleep At The Wheel, Mr. Benson took western swing back to the charts, collected a room full of Grammys, and has recorded with pretty much every country music star around. Actually, those stars all wanted a chance to swing with Ray and the Wheel. Almost 50 years on, the Wheel is still rolling.
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MEN AND WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT – BOOKS I RECEIVED FROM GRAMMA & GRAMPA THROCKMORTON
Oregon Muse’s wonderful Sunday book thread recently triggered memories of the books I read as a child, and how often I cured boredom by picking up a book. It also brought back an old memory of how my grandmother and grandfather had just slightly different tastes in the childrens books they bought for me to read.
From my grandmother:
From my grandfather:
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the books I read as a child, and how often I cured boredom by picking up a book. It also brought back an old memory of how my grandmother and grandfather had just slightly different tastes in the childrens books they bought for me to read.
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Posted by: runner at July 18, 2020 09:53 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 18, 2020 09:57 PM (+y/Ru)
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The white margarine and yellow dye is why we never had margarine in the house when I was a kid. During WW II, butter was pretty much unavailable and my mother remembered squishing yellow dye into a white blog of goop. No matter how tight my folks' finances were, there was always butter in the fridge. To this day, I never use margarine, either.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at July 18, 2020 09:57 PM (P0lHU)
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BMW has a self driving motorcycle.
https://youtu.be/MfGmfV9em1A
Posted by: Menack at July 18, 2020 09:58 PM (buTO7)
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The One Consistent Factor In All of Your Dysfunctional Relationships Is You.
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Is that a motivational poster ?
Posted by: runner at July 18, 2020 09:58 PM (zr5Kq)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 18, 2020 09:58 PM (tIU+r)
38
ETEX has Keipersol winery, founded by the late Peter D Weit, a South African. Their wines rival any to be had. And they also make spirits.
Posted by: Eromero at July 18, 2020 09:58 PM (XhWtx)
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I read a young adult novel back in middle school that was called "The Frogmen" (I think, it's been a while). That one up there looks like non-fiction; this one was a novel about UDT divers defusing pressure-based mines in a channel. I wish I remembered more about it (I don't even remember the author).
Posted by: hogmartin at July 18, 2020 09:58 PM (t+qrx)
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Why is Most Trusted News playing pocket pool in the one storm to end tham all?
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 18, 2020 09:58 PM (iz7Jh)
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The One Consistent Factor In All of Your Dysfunctional Relationships Is You.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 18, 2020 09:56 PM (3z0gk)
Cousin asked me to come to 3rd
I said
I was in first
Took Pics at number 2
Call me 4 or 5 years after this one
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 18, 2020 09:58 PM (JFO2v)
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37 Life is too short - use real butter.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 18, 2020 09:58 PM (tIU+r)
You got that right.
Posted by: Marlon Brando at July 18, 2020 09:58 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: DB- just DB at July 18, 2020 09:58 PM (iTXRQ)
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The One Consistent Factor In All of Your Dysfunctional Relationships Is You.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 18, 2020 09:56 PM (3z0gk)
*fistbump* Yes.
When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 18, 2020 09:58 PM (A5zUN)
45 I love Despair.com. It captures my sense of humor exactly.
Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at July 18, 2020 09:52 PM (TdMsT)
It's the snarling face of business when the false nose of rah-rah motivation is removed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 18, 2020 09:58 PM (mht8P)
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Milk is white
Cream is white
Butter is churned cream, no way it is yellow.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 18, 2020 09:59 PM (UGlAW)
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Forget self driving cars. Where's my damn flying car?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 18, 2020 09:59 PM (+y/Ru)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 18, 2020 10:01 PM (3z0gk)
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Here's what I need explained to me. If you are so full of virus that you are spewing it out with every breath - the viral load in your respiratory system is so high that you can infect someone just by walking past them in the grocery store - how the hell are you asymptomatic? That would mean your immune system is not responding at all to an insanely high viral load, higher even than a symptomatic person's (since they need 10-15 minutes of close contact to infect you).
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at July 18, 2020 10:01 PM (rWZ8Y)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 18, 2020 10:01 PM (A5zUN)
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I love Despair.com. It captures my sense of humor exactly.
Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at July 18, 2020 09:52 PM (TdMsT)
It's the snarling face of business when the false nose of rah-rah motivation is removed.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 18, 2020 09:58 PM (mht8P)
Indeed it is. I have a full poster size of the "Pessimism" demotivator nicely framed that I had on the wall of my office.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 10:01 PM (NWiLs)
My boys have Ray's autograph, and are big fans as well.
He played a small gig just outside my office building in the late 90's. One of those "summer in the square" offerings that no one goes to.
Maybe 50-100 people showed up, 20 or so being a group of my friends. Much dancing and beer was consumed.
Good times, good times...
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 10:02 PM (BgMrQ)
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My mom was a teenager during WWll; her family used the margarine with the dye pack. She told me it took awhile to work the yellow dye evenly into the margarine.
Posted by: Lirio100 at July 18, 2020 10:02 PM (JK7Jw)
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51 37 Life is too short - use real butter.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 18, 2020 09:58 PM (tIU+r)
except for sex feels good until it does not!
Posted by: rhennigantx
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"Do you smoke after sex?"
"I don't know, I've never looked!"
Posted by: Tonypete at July 18, 2020 10:02 PM (tIU+r)
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"Forget self driving cars. Where's my damn flying car?"
I'll settle for an Aston with machine guns behind the headlights.
Or Pussy Galore's headlights, for that matter.
15 yo son, after witnessing the testosterone: "they couldn't make that today"
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 18, 2020 10:03 PM (iz7Jh)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 18, 2020 10:03 PM (A5zUN)
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https://bit.ly/2CqeJS9
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Democrat Conor Lamb's Campaign Manager and Brother Wishes Death on Opponent Sean Parnell
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Coleman & Conor Were their Parents Siblings ?
Minds are like parachutes. Just because you've lost yours doesn't mean you can borrow mine.'
Posted by: runner at July 18, 2020 10:04 PM (zr5Kq)
74No matter how tight my folks' finances were, there was always butter in the fridge. To this day, I never use margarine, either.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at July 18, 2020 09:57 PM (P0lHU)
I don't use margarine either, and my parents also kept butter in the refrigerator... but I don't. And now, they don't either.
You can keep it on the counter under a butter dish, it stays soft and spreadable and it lasts for weeks. I've never had a stick of butter on the counter come anywhere close to going bad before it was used up.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 18, 2020 10:05 PM (t+qrx)
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I always like oxbow lakes, my wife grew up in a house on one in Louisiana (which has a whole lot of them!) It's fun to try and get a handle on why they are self propagating.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 18, 2020 10:05 PM (V2Yro)
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A characteristic of effective leaders is that they don’t obsess about leadership, or waste their time studying leadership, or bore people by talking about leadership. Instead, they simply lead.
*cancels order for a copy of "The Six Habits of Highly Effective Throckmortons*
Posted by: Miklos, now on to "The Six Minute Throckmanager" at July 18, 2020 10:05 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 18, 2020 10:05 PM (A5zUN)
78 Back in the day (mid 60s), my Dad would stop in MI, just before the WI border, to pick up regular (colored) margarine to bring to his folks. I'm not sure what they found so wonderful about margarine vs real butter, but there we were.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 18, 2020 10:06 PM (1hy/q)
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34 The white margarine and yellow dye is why we never had margarine in the house when I was a kid. During WW II, butter was pretty much unavailable and my mother remembered squishing yellow dye into a white blog of goop. No matter how tight my folks' finances were, there was always butter in the fridge. To this day, I never use margarine, either.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at July 18, 2020 09:57 PM (P0lHU)
And do you know where all the butter went???
Good ol' mother Russia.
Millions of tons were sent during WW2 to the rooskies.
See Diana West's book "American Betrayal" for that little nugget of information.
I know I should have dogeared that page as a reference.
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 10:06 PM (BgMrQ)
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I remember when I was in college, I had to adjust my story for each parent. My dad wanted to know if I was studying hard, and my mom wanted to know if I'd met anyone nice.
Posted by: artemis at July 18, 2020 10:06 PM (AwPyG)
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CNN says Joe Biden could win the white evangelical vote because he's a man of faith
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Believes in Captain Planet?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 18, 2020 10:06 PM (+y/Ru)
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a very old joke: A spanish mother is at he son's funeral, kneeling next to the casket, repeating "por que? por que?"
and the casket lid pops up and says "Butter!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 18, 2020 10:07 PM (V2Yro)
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Nice ONT, but the thought that an upright bass makes a song good is just plain fucked up. It's one thing to like that shit, it's a completely other thing to claim it's good........
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at July 18, 2020 10:07 PM (rf8LA)
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"Lies! Dye it as you will, margarine cannot look appetizing."
I Can Believe It's Not Butter.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 18, 2020 10:07 PM (iz7Jh)
86 It's an op and scam at every level of analysis.
They aren't even trying to hide it anymore and it looks like most people are just dealing with the bullshit
Ask a mask wearer specifically to explain why they are wearing the mask.
You may actually witness smoke pouring out of their ears. "To protect..I ... viruses are not....YOU JUST WANT TO KILL GRANDMA"
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 18, 2020 10:07 PM (3z0gk)
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My assumption is most "super spreaders" are having sex with the people they spread it to.
That's why the media will NOT talk about what the hell the super spreaders are actually doing.
You aren't being paid to believe in the power of your dreams.
I had forgotten how much I loved this website.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 18, 2020 10:07 PM (A5zUN)
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You may actually witness smoke pouring out of their ears.
"To protect..I ... viruses are not....YOU JUST WANT TO KILL GRANDMA"
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 18, 2020 10:07 PM (3z0gk)
Maybe I don't like grandma.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 10:08 PM (NWiLs)
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I think the world of motivational posters is gone....
Posted by: runner at July 18, 2020 10:08 PM (zr5Kq)
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"CNN says Joe Biden could win the white evangelical vote because he's a man of faith"
Maybe the white psychedelical vote.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 18, 2020 10:08 PM (iz7Jh)
Posted by: DB- just DB at July 18, 2020 10:08 PM (iTXRQ)
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Thanks for the ONT BT. I liked the bit about Oxbow lakes.
In my mor than 99 yrs I've seen changes in the family farm on the Rock River in N IL. Islands have disappeared, sandbars grew and added to the acreage, while in some places shorelines eroded.
Wish I would have documented that.
Posted by: Farmer at July 18, 2020 10:09 PM (4VJ6T)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 18, 2020 10:09 PM (2p+uR)
95 You aren't being paid to believe in the power of your dreams.
Remember, ultimately you're just a cost.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 18, 2020 10:09 PM (mht8P)
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"CNN says Joe Biden could win the white evangelical vote because he's a man of faith"
faith in what every pol gets religion when it's election season
Posted by: DB- just DB at July 18, 2020 10:09 PM (iTXRQ)
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If anyone loves good old fashioned American country music you should check out these guys from Sweden they do it right, real Hank Williams type stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGEZIiZWuyk
Posted by: kyle jolly at July 18, 2020 10:09 PM (JY798)
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90 I think the world of motivational posters is gone....
Posted by: runner at July 18, 2020 10:08 PM (zr5Kq)
You're probably right, but those of us who remember them from college or modern HR offices, that website is gold.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 18, 2020 10:10 PM (A5zUN)
99"CNN says Joe Biden could win the white evangelical vote because he's a man of faith"
Joe Biden could win the Asian-American vote because he is a man of epicanthic folds.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 18, 2020 10:10 PM (3z0gk)
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test
Posted by: DB- just DB at July 18, 2020 10:08 PM (iTXRQ)
pass
Posted by: runner at July 18, 2020 10:10 PM (zr5Kq)
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Love asleep at the wheel. Had a old Texan mention something about them once and I piped up. He asked me what a boy from Michigan knew about them and I went on to quote a bunch of songs. Much respect earned that day.
I still have an asleep at the wheel tribute to Bob Wills CD around somewhere. Absolute treasure.
Posted by: F2000 at July 18, 2020 10:10 PM (IIUCn)
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You're probably right, but those of us who remember them from college or modern HR offices, that website is gold.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 18, 2020 10:10 PM (A5zUN)
I do like it !
Posted by: runner at July 18, 2020 10:11 PM (zr5Kq)
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Triumph has released a brief video including some clips of the never-before-seen secret production line for the Rocket III. Really good video.
Really good.
Really.
https://youtu.be/T2QFxoDHU9o
Posted by: hogmartin at July 18, 2020 10:00 PM (t+qrx)
You were right.
That was funny, indeed.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 18, 2020 10:11 PM (m2EfB)
Posted by: Farmer at July 18, 2020 10:14 PM (4VJ6T)
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I still have an asleep at the wheel tribute to Bob Wills CD around somewhere. Absolute treasure.
Posted by: F2000 at July 18, 2020 10:10 PM (IIUCn)
That is a great album. I liked the fact that they brought in major artists to record their own favorite BW song.
Vince Gill does a great turn on Yearning.
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 10:15 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 18, 2020 10:15 PM (3z0gk)
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Why anyone would push for a completely self-driving car is beyond me.
Human beings can't reliably use a manual toothbrush without fucking up somehow, but our brains are infinitely faster and more complex than any processing system you can put into a motor vehicle.
Just makes no sense at all.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 18, 2020 10:15 PM (1YlHz)
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Vince Gill is as great as you think he could be with the Eagles.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 18, 2020 10:17 PM (s7y11)
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My Mom always hated margarine. In the late 30's, she would get a tub of the stuff and it was pure white like lard because it was made from animal fats with veggie oils added.
She was always disgusted by the stuff even later on when the product was more like we know today.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 18, 2020 10:17 PM (Z+IKu)
Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at July 18, 2020 10:17 PM (d9Irc)
121Just because you're unique doesn't mean you're going anywhere.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 10:13 PM (NWiLs)
You're unique, just like everyone else!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 10:18 PM (eTZoJ)
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118 Vince Gill is as great as you think he could be with the Eagles.
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 18, 2020 10:17 PM (s7y11)
Pure Prarie League...
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 10:18 PM (BgMrQ)
123 Why will there never be self driving cars? Because too many idjits out there are like Eleanor Holmes Norton, who went ahead and pushed the red button on an electric car -- killing it -- despite being explicitly told not to do that.
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 10:20 PM (BgMrQ)
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And Earth Day was the big idea of a guy who murdered and subsequently composted his girlfriend. Go Green!
Posted by: PacosMojo at July 18, 2020 10:20 PM (ivZ+f)
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As a kid of 7 or 8 in Idaho, it was my task to bust the dye packet in the white glob of margarine and knead it until there was a uniform shade of yellow. Hey, it was cheaper than butter and child labor is low cost.
Posted by: Panhandler at July 18, 2020 10:20 PM (S/rwf)
Posted by: the Butcher at July 18, 2020 10:21 PM (OonSC)
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When on an airplane, I'm always fascinated by looking at oxbow lakes in
the rivers below me. The town of Carter Lake, Iowa is entirely on the
Nebraska side of the Missouri River, due to a course change in the river
which left the oxbow lake and its namesake Iowa town surrounded by
Omaha.
I've filled up in Carter Lake more than once due to its proximity to Eppley Airfield. There's also a "call phone lot" next to the lake for people waiting to be called to pick up arrived passengers. Beautiful scenery to distract you from the delays and frustrations of modern air travel.
Posted by: pookysgirl, listening to cicadas at July 18, 2020 10:21 PM (XKZwp)
132 And Earth Day was the big idea of a guy who murdered and subsequently composted his girlfriend. Go Green!
Posted by: PacosMojo
Who's idea was Green Day?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2020 10:22 PM (aKsyK)
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Mrs. JTB grew up in Wisconsin and remembers her family getting packs of margarine with a packet of yellow coloring in its own thin plastic envelope inside the container. It was her job to pop the coloring envelope and gush it in by kneading the bag. Margarine was apparently much cheaper than butter. She knew of people driving from Milwaukee to Chicago to get the already colored stuff.
Posted by: JTB at July 18, 2020 10:22 PM (7EjX1)
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74 -- Hogmartin -- Can't keep the butter dish out of the fridge during summer in Omaha. After five minutes, all you have is an oily puddle oozing onto the counter.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at July 18, 2020 10:22 PM (P0lHU)
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It's funny. Pointing out obvious truths just seems to get me called names.
For example. To a vegetarian that so was Hitler and Torquemada.
Sanger was as racist as Woodrow Wilson but with less power. History is being buried for a reason.
Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at July 18, 2020 10:24 PM (d9Irc)
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Some people that drive don't need to be driving.
You see it everyday. I don't see how they keep a license...unless all the state cares about is getting the money for the license.
Posted by: Case at July 18, 2020 10:24 PM (yXRhk)
142Can't keep the butter dish out of the fridge during summer in Omaha. After five minutes, all you have is an oily puddle oozing onto the counter.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at July 18, 2020 10:22 PM (P0lHU)
Fair point, if I leave it on top of the refrigerator when the furnace is on... well, I have a nicely buttered refrigerator. But it never gets hot enough on my counter to completely melt, even in the worst summer heat.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 18, 2020 10:25 PM (t+qrx)
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Ok, before I conk out for the night, I wanna once again wish Eris a Happy Birthday !
And I hope it was everything a 29th birthday should be.
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Vince Gill does a great turn on Yearning.
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 10:15 PM (BgMrQ)
That is a great track, among great tracks.
Posted by: F2000 at July 18, 2020 10:26 PM (IIUCn)
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Stand-Up Bass? Got it right here.
Not to mention the musicians are all MUCH easier to look at than Ray Benson. Just Sayin'.....
https://youtu.be/joUwy8lpvP0
Posted by: TXMarko at July 18, 2020 10:26 PM (2QCBw)
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Vince Gill is similar to Alison Krause. He could win a Grammy by just singing out of a phone book.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 18, 2020 10:27 PM (yLETX)
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That is a great track, among great tracks.
Posted by: F2000 at July 18, 2020 10:26 PM (IIUCn)
Susie Bogguss on "Old Fashioned Love"...SWOON!
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 10:27 PM (BgMrQ)
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Teh Younger Zettaispawn eats something called "plant butter"... I don't know what it's made of, but I suspect it's just some sort of margarine...
Posted by: Zettai at July 18, 2020 10:27 PM (prJfn)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 18, 2020 10:28 PM (s7y11)
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Hey. That picture up top makes my phone fart!!!
Posted by: Diogenes at July 18, 2020 10:29 PM (axyOa)
152. When a person of any race died they were reincarnated. If they had good karma they would come back as what Steiner saw as a superior race until after a number of satisfactory lives they would achieve a top-of-the-pile white Aryan existence. Others would move down in the pecking order.
Sound a lot like the racial theories of that goofball Louis Farrakahn that the cool kids are all into now.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 18, 2020 10:29 PM (oVJmc)
153
146 Vince Gill is similar to Alison Krause. He could win a Grammy by just singing out of a phone book.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 18, 2020 10:27 PM (yLETX)
This next statement isn't gonna win me any friends, but:
Alison Krause has never moved the needle for me. I appreciate her talent, but there's no visceral connection for me.
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 10:30 PM (BgMrQ)
154
And Earth Day was the big idea of a guy who murdered and subsequently composted his girlfriend. Go Green!
Posted by: PacosMojo at July 18, 2020 10:20
Stop telling the Truth! I don't think that's allowed anymore.
He didn't compost her tho, he just put her in a box in the closet. Nice guy.
And what is it about the founder of Kwanzaa? He was some kind of weirdo.
Posted by: Farmer at July 18, 2020 10:30 PM (4VJ6T)
155 Work harder. Millions on welfare depend on you.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 18, 2020 10:31 PM (t5m5e)
156
Bush did try to put a non- Ivy leaguer on the court but people screamed bloody murder. Someone who knew more about business law than any other justice and also a staunch pro lifer. Oh and minored in Mathematics for all those attorney hating Amishdude types.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 10:31 PM (2DOZq)
157
Susie boguss/aatw tt Bob wills - old fashioned love
https://youtu.be/0Ozh9YZV6Ns
Posted by: F2000 at July 18, 2020 10:31 PM (IIUCn)
158
Mom remembers having to mix the dye into margarine. Every so rare often in old pulp stories and radio shows, you'll get a reference to it like "I woke up and She was massaging my scalp like a housewife with a block of margarine"
159You can keep it on the counter under a butter dish, it stays soft and spreadable and it lasts for weeks. I've never had a stick of butter on the counter come anywhere close to going bad before it was used up.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 18, 2020 10:05 PM (t+qrx)
My daughter swears that my mother kept butter on the counter so it was immediately usable, but I do not remember this, even though I grew up in my parent's house. I will be trying this, even though I remember warnings about rancid butter!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 10:31 PM (eTZoJ)
160
149 Vince Fill, yearning. A tribute to Bob wills
https://youtu.be/5xuLRPxplHQ
Posted by: F2000 at July 18, 2020 10:28 PM (IIUCn)
Yeah, I got the album up on my YouTube favorites right now.
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 10:32 PM (BgMrQ)
161
Mom also calls it "oleo" because that was the original name it was called by: Oleomargarine. It sounds super old fashioned now because nobody uses that except crossword puzzles these days, but that was the official name. Was created as a butter substitute for French soldiers, won a prize from one of the Napoleons.
162
Well at least Gorsuch and Kavanaugh have degrees from -- ugh -- Harvard and Yale. It's hopeless.
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Does the University of Phoenix hand out law degrees?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 18, 2020 10:32 PM (wPVhA)
163
Cream has a yellow cast, especially from summer milk. Concentrate it and it's yellow butter. Some of the NZ butter is bright yellow and has no coloring.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 18, 2020 10:33 PM (YynYJ)
164
Margarine is an abomination to anyone who cooks. I've not used the crap for over 20 years and I will use it about the same time I voluntarily don a mask.
Posted by: Mookie at July 18, 2020 10:33 PM (3vIkC)
165
The people who were the loudest against Miers was National Review.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 10:33 PM (2DOZq)
166
So if I'm to understand the ONT correctly, it would be okay to blue the margarines.
CBD and MisHum ain't gonna like that.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 18, 2020 10:33 PM (VD4DS)
167
157 Susie boguss/aatw tt Bob wills - old fashioned love
https://youtu.be/0Ozh9YZV6Ns
Posted by: F2000 at July 18, 2020 10:31 PM (IIUCn)
***fist bump***
As we pedal steel into the night.
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 10:33 PM (BgMrQ)
168
"Oleo" sounds like an aeronautical term to me... But "oleo strut" sounds like a disease!
Posted by: Zettai at July 18, 2020 10:34 PM (prJfn)
Posted by: F2000 at July 18, 2020 10:35 PM (IIUCn)
172
You can get butter crocks that hold the butter under water. Great for keeping butter soft and available in summer, while avoiding oxidation.
Posted by: Splunge at July 18, 2020 10:35 PM (dOV9E)
173
New Orleans is not called the Crescent City because of the moon.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 10:35 PM (2DOZq)
174
Brother -- Get a butter bell. Works really good until the weather gets too hot and the butter drops into the water.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at July 18, 2020 10:35 PM (P0lHU)
175I will be trying this, even though I remember warnings about rancid butter!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 10:31 PM (eTZoJ)
"Rancid butter" must be a thing that happens, but I haven't encountered it. I don't use a LOT of butter, and it's just me in the house, but I've never had it last so long that it goes bad - and I must've had it around for at least three or four weeks several times over the years.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 18, 2020 10:36 PM (t+qrx)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 10:36 PM (2DOZq)
177Margarine is an abomination to anyone who cooks.
Its a superior substitute to vegetable oil for frying. Better flavor, fewer nasty substances, and tends not to upset delicate or sensitive stomachs as much (GERD, etc).
178
Whoa! Kat makes sense. Whew, still a one. Big time.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 18, 2020 10:37 PM (iz7Jh)
179You know ComHor and many others are the reason I read here. So much wisdom mixed in w/ humor and lord knows what else...
Posted by: Farmer at July 18, 2020 10:23 PM (4VJ6T)
The best part for me is that in your wildest dreams, you will NEVER be able to predict the turn any post will take, humor, tragedy, politics, ancient history, current history, grammar lessons, crossbows, math oops...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 10:37 PM (eTZoJ)
180You can get butter crocks that hold the butter under water.
Posted by: Splunge at July 18, 2020 10:35 PM (dOV9E)
Yep. It sounds so cruel, though.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 18, 2020 10:37 PM (t+qrx)
181164 Margarine is an abomination to anyone who cooks. Posted by: Mookie at July 18, 2020 10:33 PM (3vIkC)
And anyone who eats. That said, in my mis-spent youth, I had a craving for the way margarine tastes on rye bread. I got over it.
Posted by: Splunge at July 18, 2020 10:37 PM (dOV9E)
182 I don't use a LOT of butter, and it's just me in the house, but I've never had it last so long that it goes bad
Yeah, butter CAN go bad but its very unlikely to unless you have vast quantities out in the open because people will use it up in short order.
183
SSBN (84): You're exactly right. There's nothing special about the sound of an upright bass. I always prefer the piano, or dobro, or fiddle, etc. It's just that the presence of an upright bass seem to be a signifier that good music will be played.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 18, 2020 10:38 PM (d9Cw3)
184
Crescent City is where the 'Mexican micrometer' was invented!
Posted by: Zettai at July 18, 2020 10:38 PM (prJfn)
185
176 I use Smart Balance.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 10:36 PM (2DOZq)
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I can't believe it's not butter.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 18, 2020 10:38 PM (wPVhA)
Her earlier political history shows support for the Democrats during the 1980s, with recorded contributions to Democratic candidates and causes, including the Democratic National Committee, the Senate campaign of Lloyd Bentsen and the 1988 presidential campaign of Al Gore, totaling $3,000. Her last recorded contribution to a Democratic cause or campaign was in 1988. Ed Gillespie said that she was a "conservative Democrat" at the time.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 18, 2020 10:39 PM (m2EfB)
187
That album also made me understand what Julia Roberts saw in Lyle Lovett
Posted by: F2000 at July 18, 2020 10:39 PM (IIUCn)
188
Petroleum-based margarines are the best. They're made from dinosaurs.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 18, 2020 10:39 PM (wPVhA)
189
Rancid butter smells really gross. I'm talking "how you would imagine that Lena Dunham smells" gross.
Posted by: Splunge at July 18, 2020 10:39 PM (dOV9E)
190
I remember massaging the packet of dye into the margarine.
Posted by: Northernlurker at July 18, 2020 10:41 PM (lgiXo)
191
I don't deep fry food much. If I use oil to saute, it's typically olive oil, which is superior to vegetable oil in every respect. Not sure about margarine, because - made with vegetable oil, right? - will not enter my realm. Kinda like Cool Whip, another oil-based abomination.
Posted by: Mookie at July 18, 2020 10:41 PM (3vIkC)
192
Thinking of Kat Timpf makes me nethers tingle...
Posted by: Zettai at July 18, 2020 10:41 PM (prJfn)
193
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 18, 2020 10:39 PM (m2Ef
That's when Texas was Democrat. Who do you think Rick Perry and Phil Graham donated too before they became Republican.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 10:41 PM (2DOZq)
Posted by: Sharkman at July 18, 2020 10:41 PM (1YlHz)
195
I don't much care for chefs who use butter as a skill substitute. This steak is not that great, brush more butter on it. Put butter on and in everything to spike the flavor. Its like using liquid smoke instead of smoking meat
196
187 That album also made me understand what Julia Roberts saw in Lyle Lovett
Posted by: F2000 at July 18, 2020 10:39 PM (IIUCn)
But what did he see in her?
Gonna queue up "That's right you're not from Texas" now.
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 10:41 PM (BgMrQ)
197
I think the super spreaders are getting shit on their hands and not fucking washing them. Respiratory viruses do NOT spread via "super spreaders". GI viruses do.
Posted by: Mrs. Peel at July 18, 2020 10:42 PM (rWZ8Y)
198Rancid butter smells really gross. I'm talking "how you would imagine that Lena Dunham smells" gross.
Posted by: Splunge at July 18, 2020 10:39 PM (dOV9E)
Here, try my "perfume".
Posted by: Gwenyth Paltrow at July 18, 2020 10:42 PM (AiZBA)
199
115 ... "Vince Gill does a great turn on Yearning."
Vince Gill does a great job on everything. Saw him at a concert I covered for the local newspaper. He put on a fantastic show (what a guitarist!!) and was gracious talking to reporters afterwards, even to someone like me from a small town daily.
That was a hell of a show. It also featured Trisha Yearwood (a real sweetie) and Garth Brooks.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 18, 2020 10:43 PM (wPVhA)
201
Anyone remember the AirPod car that runs on compressed air? It has been coming "next year" since around 2008. The latest website indicates they will ship cars in the 2nd half of 2019. Never mind it is now the 2nd half of 2020. Not only have they not shipped a car, they haven't even updated their website in a year.
Posted by: WarEagle82 at July 18, 2020 10:44 PM (+Kpte)
202
200 I love Kurt Schlichter.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 18, 2020 10:43 PM (wPVhA)
Fag.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 10:44 PM (NWiLs)
203
Stopped by our county R HQ this morning.
Dropped a few bucks into the kitty to repair the vandalism done a few days ago.
I made sure to tell the good folks there about our place here. At least one bookmarked it right away.
Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at July 18, 2020 10:44 PM (d9Irc)
204
199 115 ... "Vince Gill does a great turn on Yearning."
Vince Gill does a great job on everything. Saw him at a concert I covered for the local newspaper. He put on a fantastic show (what a guitarist!!) and was gracious talking to reporters afterwards, even to someone like me from a small town daily.
That was a hell of a show. It also featured Trisha Yearwood (a real sweetie) and Garth Brooks.
Posted by: JTB at July 18, 2020 10:43 PM (7EjX1)
I bet...color me jealous.
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 10:44 PM (BgMrQ)
205
"Thinking of Kat Timpf makes me nethers tingle..."
Just put in the AirPods and git you some!
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 18, 2020 10:44 PM (iz7Jh)
206
Alison Krauss is immensely talented and has the voice of an angel, but she doesn't strike me as being very personable or sweet.
207I think the super spreaders are getting shit on their hands and not fucking washing them. Respiratory viruses do NOT spread via "super spreaders". GI viruses do.
actually this is interesting - I agree the "super spreader" thing does NOT hold for upper respiratory viruses
I just assumed there really weren't super spreaders but rather multiple infected people ... but maybe you're right, there's some overlap between the nosocomial virus and a GI bug. it likes to live both places maybe.
Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at July 18, 2020 10:44 PM (j9HX3)
208
Harriet Miers would've been another SCOTUS disaster. And Samuel Alito ended up being appointed in her place, which may end up being the only beneficial legacy of GWB's entire presidency.
Posted by: PacosMojo at July 18, 2020 10:45 PM (ivZ+f)
209
200 I love Kurt Schlichter.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 18, 2020 10:43 PM (wPVhA)
When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it's really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you're pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it's death by meteor.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
And it comes to be
That the soothing light
At the end of your tunnel
Is just a freight train coming your wayyyyyyy
https://youtu.be/Sh5S3OxiE-s
No Leaf Clover from Metallica's S&M Album.
Looks like they got together with the SF Symphony again and S&M2 will be out soon.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 18, 2020 10:45 PM (1YlHz)
212202 200 I love Kurt Schlichter.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 18, 2020 10:43 PM (wPVhA)
Fag.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 10:44 PM (NWiLs)
Insom, gets straight to the point!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 10:45 PM (eTZoJ)
213
Good evening all, good wishes to you. Here are over 200 synonyms for drunk, courtesy of a founding father.
bit.ly/30r8zcw
Goodnight.
Posted by: ghost of kari at July 18, 2020 10:45 PM (8IQhD)
214
193 Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 18, 2020 10:39 PM (m2Ef
That's when Texas was Democrat. Who do you think Rick Perry and Phil Graham donated too before they became Republican.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 10:41 PM (2DOZq)
You're absolutely correct about that.
I didn't see what the big deal about Miers was, at the time either. I trusted W, he trusted her - I was fine with that.
Looking at it all now, however, I'm not so sure anymore. He got it spectacularly wrong with Roberts, so I guess it's coloring all of my former views on the guy.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 18, 2020 10:45 PM (m2EfB)
215
Lots of music here tonight. May I present Eric Clapton, Doyle Bramhall II, Steve Jordan, and Derek Trucks channeling the late great Duane Allman in a killer version of Derek the Dominoes "Tell the Truth". https://bit.ly/39eaEN0
Posted by: Mookie at July 18, 2020 10:46 PM (3vIkC)
216
210 202 200 I love Kurt Schlichter.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 18, 2020 10:43 PM (wPVhA)
Fag.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 10:44 PM (NWiLs)
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No homo. Seriously.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 18, 2020 10:45 PM (wPVhA)
Too late. The "no homo" disclaimer must be stated contemporaneously.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 10:46 PM (NWiLs)
217
I actually only posted so I could see my hash, and it says I have 8 IQ.
I'm leaving now.
Posted by: ghost of kari at July 18, 2020 10:46 PM (8IQhD)
218
Posted by: PacosMojo at July 18, 2020 10:45 PM (ivZ+f)
People are so sure of what they can't know.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 10:46 PM (2DOZq)
219
206 Alison Krauss is immensely talented and has the voice of an angel, but she doesn't strike me as being very personable or sweet.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2020 10:44 PM (KZzsI)
Like I said earlier, I can't make an emotional connect with her.
And it doesn't take much for me to fall under the spell of a female vocalist of any style.
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 10:46 PM (BgMrQ)
Posted by: Miklos, 'avin' a pint at July 18, 2020 10:47 PM (QzkSJ)
222
Susie boguss/aatw tt Bob wills - old fashioned love
https://youtu.be/0Ozh9YZV6Ns
Posted by: F2000 at July 18, 2020 10:31
OMG. I worked in the pizza place/bar where she first started when we were in college. She was a nice gal. Sounds much more country than when she started.
Posted by: Farmer at July 18, 2020 10:47 PM (4VJ6T)
He never talked about it (and I wasn't around him much for reasons).
I know he was a very intense, real and fearless guy. (well to a 10 yo anyway).
I always wanted him to be my Dad. I mean I admired/respected/honored my Father but he was very quiet and boring. For all I know he was a secret agent in the War. That's how most of those guys are.
One regret I have is never taking/making the opportunity to ask my Father just what the hell he did as a young man before he met my Mother. Because he didn't talk much about anything the topic never had a chance to come up.
To you youn'ns out there; get to know your Father while they're still around cause when you're old and you'd like to know, they'll be gone. And so will you Mother probably and she won't know the half of it.
Posted by: jakee308 at July 18, 2020 10:47 PM (cEeb1)
224Like I said earlier, I can't make an emotional connect with her.
I connect with her music very deeply, but personally she seems cold and disinterested. That might be unfair, its just the sense I get.
Posted by: Philosophical Miklos at July 18, 2020 10:48 PM (QzkSJ)
226 My daughter swears that my mother kept butter on the counter so it was immediately usable, but I do not remember this, even though I grew up in my parent's house. I will be trying this, even though I remember warnings about rancid butter!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 10:31 PM (eTZoJ)
{{{Hrothgar}}}
I've always kept one stick of butter in a butter dish in a cabinet.
Dropping off to sleep, my cat Leela (VERY FIRST PET on the Pet threat) suddenly started roaming all around me claws out.
I "woke up" but she wasn't anywhere around.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 18, 2020 10:49 PM (l9m7l)
230
215 Lots of music here tonight. May I present Eric Clapton, Doyle Bramhall II, Steve Jordan, and Derek Trucks channeling the late great Duane Allman in a killer version of Derek the Dominoes "Tell the Truth". https://bit.ly/39eaEN0
Posted by: Mookie at July 18, 2020 10:46 PM (3vIkC)
https://tinyurl.com/yxuydpbw
I Looked Away from Layla
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 10:49 PM (BgMrQ)
Re self-driving cars: it's gonna be a while before people are anywhere close to used to the idea, I think. Even my 15-year-old niece and 19-year-old nephew aren't crazy about the idea and say they'll always want to drive their own cars.
At the same time, when the big marketing push for it comes, I know just what it'll look like: imagine being able to go out to a bar, drink yourself silly, throw yourself in the back seat of your car, and say "take me home," without having to worry about a DUI.
Also I've heard and read, the first major road transportation that will be self-driving will be... major-haul trucks, which I find kind of spooky.
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 18, 2020 10:50 PM (L2ZTs)
234
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 10:46 PM (NWiLs)
You know who argues about who's a fag or not?
Yeah. FAGS!
Posted by: jakee308 at July 18, 2020 10:50 PM (cEeb1)
235
Looking at it all now, however, I'm not so sure anymore. He got it spectacularly wrong with Roberts, so I guess it's coloring all of my former views on the guy.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 18, 2020 10:45 PM (m2EfB)
I don't blame Presidents for their nominations. Very few if any know these nominees personally. Miers was an exception. I don't blame Trump for Gorsuch who has made three bad rulings in his short career as a SCJ.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 10:50 PM (2DOZq)
The ONT is always a bargain,
Just don't be caught blowing a margin,
C B D will sure gripe,
MisHum's anger gets ripe,
At least Buck will let us hue the margarine
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 18, 2020 10:50 PM (YA914)
237
153 ... "Alison Krause has never moved the needle for me. I appreciate her talent, but there's no visceral connection for me."
Try listening to her sing the Wexford Carol. There's a YT video of her accompanied by Yo Yo Ma which is exquisite and haunting.
Posted by: JTB at July 18, 2020 10:50 PM (7EjX1)
238To you youn'ns out there; get to know your Father while they're still around cause when you're old and you'd like to know, they'll be gone. And so will you Mother probably and she won't know the half of it.
Lord God please yes. If only I could have back and hour with my father to talk to him, to spend time with him, that I didn't when I was young. He would ask me if I wanted to go to the store with him and I was too busy drawing or reading or something and I'd say no. God forgive me. I miss him so much some days.
Spend time with your father while you can. Spend all the time you can. Learn from him, be with him, know about him. You cannot take that time back. I never got that time to be an adult with my father, to be his buddy. I never learned all about him that I should have. He knew so much and I know so little, I feel like a tenth the man he was.
Yeah. FAGS!
Posted by: jakee308 at July 18, 2020 10:50 PM (cEeb1)
Ok, fag.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 10:51 PM (NWiLs)
240
Lowes and Home Depot are going mandatory mask.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2020 10:51 PM (aKsyK)
241
Attn Miklos (76): After you finish The Six Minute Throckmanager, I'd recommend you next read a book to help you accept and embrace change: Who Moved My Throckmorton?
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at July 18, 2020 10:52 PM (d9Cw3)
242
240 Lowes and Home Depot are going mandatory mask.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2020 10:51 PM (aKsyK)
That's fucking retarded.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 10:52 PM (NWiLs)
243
Too late. The "no homo" disclaimer must be stated contemporaneously.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 10:46 PM (NWiLs)
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Crap.
Okay. Give me the lube.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 18, 2020 10:52 PM (wPVhA)
244
Self driving cars... autonomous vehicles... whatever you want to call them will never be viable as long as there are lawyers around. Period.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 18, 2020 10:52 PM (3H9h1)
245
Margarine is not food. Neither is Cool Whip, or Taco Bell. Some things are just not meant for human consumption.
Posted by: tcn in AK
One of the ladies in Two Fat Ladies said that her uncle was a director of Unilever, would not eat or allow her to eat margarine. Nasty stuff, he said.
Posted by: Miklos, min. 60% solids at July 18, 2020 10:52 PM (QzkSJ)
246I've always kept one stick of butter in a butter dish in a cabinet.
Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at July 18, 2020 10:48 PM (TdMsT)
{{{Ladyl}}}
As usual, the ONT is a life changing event, I had no intention of changing my butter storage technology before this thread!
I'll report back in a week with a butter update.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 10:53 PM (eTZoJ)
247
My daughter swears that my mother kept butter on the counter so it was immediately usable, but I do not remember this, even though I grew up in my parent's house. I will be trying this, even though I remember warnings about rancid butter!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 10:31 PM (eTZoJ)
{{{Hrothgar}}}
I've always kept one stick of butter in a butter dish in a cabinet.
Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at July 18, 2020 10:48 PM (TdMsT)
My grandmother had a butter cabinet built into the exterior wall of her kitchen. I just keep as stick in the butter dish on the counter. You should really use enough butter to avoid rancid butter--stuff lasts nicely. I think the butter cabinet was to keep it from melting, rather than going bad.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 18, 2020 10:53 PM (kdyeC)
Either that, or the plan was to hook us all on them, get rid of all the other types of cars then ban them for some bogus safety reason and finally force us all into buses and other shitty mass transit.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 18, 2020 10:53 PM (1YlHz)
grilling din-din, after a *very* productive day...
too bad it's a chicken tit, and not something good, but the land lord says we have to eat different meats, not just beef, piggy, and the occasional sheep.
#slavedriver!
Posted by: redc1c4 at July 18, 2020 10:53 PM (vgnpr)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2020 10:53 PM (aKsyK)
251
OMG. I worked in the pizza place/bar where she first started when we were in college. She was a nice gal. Sounds much more country than when she started.
Posted by: Farmer at July 18, 2020 10:47 PM (4VJ6T)
https://tinyurl.com/yxzka95z
Susie and Chet Atkins.
You will fall in love with her right off the first verse///
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 10:53 PM (BgMrQ)
252 Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2020 10:51 PM (aKsyK)
Well at least you can still open carry at their stores.
Posted by: jakee308 at July 18, 2020 10:54 PM (cEeb1)
But then realized that that would be a slight to all ONTs I never complemented. Like affirmative BUCKaction.
* sigh *
It's like they bricked it.
Posted by: ALL ONT'S MATTER at July 18, 2020 10:55 PM (d+41L)
258
I am not in favor of mandatory masking. when do you suppose this idiocy will end?
Posted by: ALH at July 18, 2020 10:55 PM (WIRy8)
259
255 That's fucking retarded.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 10:52 PM (NWiLs)
At least it isn't fucking crazy. I'm told that's worse.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 18, 2020 10:54 PM (kdyeC)
Both can land you in jail, though.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 10:56 PM (NWiLs)
260215 Lots of music here tonight. May I present Eric Clapton, Doyle Bramhall II, Steve Jordan, and Derek Trucks channeling the late great Duane Allman in a killer version of Derek the Dominoes "Tell the Truth". https://bit.ly/39eaEN0
Posted by: Mookie
That was fantastic.
Also, the black chick in the cowboy hat is smokin' hot.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 18, 2020 10:56 PM (yLETX)
261
Who Moved My Throckmorton?
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton
If it wasn't you, I don't need to know.
Posted by: Miklos, respectful of private peccadilloes at July 18, 2020 10:56 PM (QzkSJ)
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240
Lowes and Home Depot are going mandatory mask.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2020 10:51 PM (aKsyK)
I am so sick of this. All we are doing is annoying people and (maybe) delaying the inevitable. The Peking Pox is not going to overwhelm the system. Just let it spread and get it the hell over with.
Posted by: Mookie at July 18, 2020 10:56 PM (3vIkC)
263Spend time with your father while you can. Spend all the time you can. Learn from him, be with him, know about him. You cannot take that time back. I never got that time to be an adult with my father, to be his buddy. I never learned all about him that I should have. He knew so much and I know so little, I feel like a tenth the man he was.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2020 10:50 PM (KZzsI)
This, this, this!!
My sister spent a lot of time with my dad in his late years (when I was otherwise engaged), and she still comes up with details that I never knew. Oh how I wish I had a chance to talk to him again!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 10:56 PM (eTZoJ)
264258 I am not in favor of mandatory masking. when do you suppose this idiocy will end?
Posted by: ALH at July 18, 2020 10:55 PM (WIRy
November 4th
Posted by: Splunge at July 18, 2020 10:56 PM (dOV9E)
265 I am not in favor of mandatory masking. when do you suppose this idiocy will end?
Posted by: ALH at July 18, 2020 10:55 PM (WIRy
November 4
Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 18, 2020 10:57 PM (WZIFd)
266
That write-up about Rudolf Steiner, racist, came from a Commie website. He does sound like a froot-loop, but the Commies obviously hate him because, not Commie.
I don't remember ever being tasked with kneading dye into margarine, but it my have been in the household when I was little. I could always taste the corn in margarine, did not like it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 10:57 PM (LnPiv)
267
Try listening to her sing the Wexford Carol. There's a YT video of her accompanied by Yo Yo Ma which is exquisite and haunting.
Posted by: JTB at July 18, 2020 10:50 PM (7EjX1)
I've seen a version.
She's just not my cup of tea.
o/t here's the Moody Blues performing "in the Bleak Midwinter" for your Christmas rotation
https://tinyurl.com/yywqhgso
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 10:58 PM (BgMrQ)
268
I want to pet the coolest dog ever. If I threw a stick for him to fetch, he would probably finish his drink, and put out his cig (fag, for you Brits) on my arm, and skate away.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 18, 2020 10:59 PM (ufFY8)
269
So it's only people not wearing masks that are getting the Wu Han Flu? Has to be right?
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 10:59 PM (2DOZq)
270
Also, the black chick in the cowboy hat is smokin' hot.
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 18, 2020 10:56 PM (yLETX)
I've long said if reincarnation is real I'd want to come back as a black chick singing backup in a blues band...
Posted by: Mookie at July 18, 2020 10:59 PM (3vIkC)
271
The horde's musical taste is as eclectic as it is sublime.
Posted by: DR.WTF at July 18, 2020 10:59 PM (AiZBA)
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255 That's fucking retarded.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 10:52 PM (NWiLs)
At least it isn't fucking crazy. I'm told that's worse.
Posted by: tcn in AK at July 18, 2020 10:54 PM (kdyeC)
Is this worse than fucking Goofy?
Posted by: ALH at July 18, 2020 10:59 PM (WIRy8)
273
Vince Gill could sing the alphabet and bring down the house.
Here's a couple questions for Teh Horde. Who was his best pairing, or the best group he was with? Who would you like to hear him sit in with for a concert or album?
274So it's only people not wearing masks that are getting the Wu Han Flu? Has to be right?
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 10:59 PM (2DOZq)
Nope, it's all the people who ARE wearing masks. The people who aren't wearing masks are infecting them. And Grandma.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 18, 2020 11:00 PM (t+qrx)
275
273
Vince Gill with Carrie Underwood singing How Great Thou Art
Posted by: Jmel at July 18, 2020 11:00 PM (bVhJi)
276
Here's a couple questions for Teh Horde. Who was his best pairing, or the best group he was with? Who would you like to hear him sit in with for a concert or album?
Jim
The Moron Tabernacle Choir
Posted by: Musical Miklos at July 18, 2020 11:01 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Sharkman at July 18, 2020 11:01 PM (1YlHz)
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273 Vince Gill could sing the alphabet and bring down the house.
Here's a couple questions for Teh Horde. Who was his best pairing, or the best group he was with? Who would you like to hear him sit in with for a concert or album?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 18, 2020 10:59 PM (QzJWU)
I'd like to hear him with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band live.
His best pairing...who ever he's playing with that night.
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:01 PM (BgMrQ)
279
Kinda funny. That hot rod lincoln? 110 and ain't no more.
Crap, I've done that in my truck. More than that in my Durango. Well north of that in my 2013 Camaro.
And I won't even start talking about the stupid shit I did in my 20's on Motorcycles.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 18, 2020 11:01 PM (NgKpN)
280
I have never understood the drive (heh) for self driving cars.
I've never wanted one or thought it was a good idea for me or anyone else.
I think it's another ploy like GM when they got rid of all the trolleys so they could sell buses.
They try to make something they want a consumer demand.
Trouble is in this case they tried sooner than they had perfected the technology and I think they've actually scared a lot of potential buyers off with all the accidents and problems.
Probably the only way to have self driving cars would be in areas where the streets and intersections and traffic control was built from the ground up with self driving cars in mind.
The lighting the road design, the street markings and traffic signals would all need to have as little randomness and variances as possible and that only happens by design.
Frankly the worst thing that happened when the USA moved west is we took the rectangle layout of streets and built very boring and dull driving experience to the new frontier.
They even mandated the naming of the streets in some cases.
I think it was a French innovation that some Harvard lawyer decided was cool.
Posted by: jakee308 at July 18, 2020 11:02 PM (cEeb1)
281
When all the sheep are compliant their "good shepherds" might let them breathe fresh air again, but only if Biden is elected* President!
N.B. Biden will never actually "BE" President.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:02 PM (eTZoJ)
282
Is this worse than fucking Goofy?
Posted by: ALH at July 18, 2020 10:59 PM (WIRy
--------
Nothing is worse than fucking Goofy. Sure, it seems like a good idea at first, but...
Posted by: Minnie Mouse at July 18, 2020 11:02 PM (wPVhA)
283
I think you will have to have designated roadways for driverless cars to ease them into society.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 10:54 PM (2DOZq)
Require them to use the bicycle lanes.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 11:03 PM (LnPiv)
284
The best part for me is that in your wildest dreams, you will NEVER be able to predict the turn any post will take, humor, tragedy, politics, ancient history, current history, grammar lessons, crossbows, math oops...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 10:37
Xactly CH. I've met a few Morons and Ettes IRL and they are as you would expect. Intelligent , astute and funny folks.
Posted by: Farmer at July 18, 2020 11:03 PM (4VJ6T)
Posted by: Puddleglum at July 18, 2020 11:03 PM (yLETX)
286
274 So it's only people not wearing masks that are getting the Wu Han Flu? Has to be right?
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 10:59 PM (2DOZq)
Nope, it's all the people who ARE wearing masks. The people who aren't wearing masks are infecting them. And Grandma.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 18, 2020 11:00 PM (t+qrx)
Hey, you get it from being coughed and sneezed on?
So, I got a novel idea, if you got a cough, or are sneezing, STAY HOME.
Masks don't do a dang thing unless YOU are the one spreading the virus.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 18, 2020 11:03 PM (NgKpN)
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275 273
Vince Gill with Carrie Underwood singing How Great Thou Art
Posted by: Jmel at July 18, 2020 11:00 PM (bVhJi)
Wholeheartedly agree.
What got me giving Country a second look, beside the song, was the reaction of the star-studded audience to their performance.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 18, 2020 11:04 PM (m2EfB)
I don't want them. I know the types who make them. They aren't smart enough (neither am i). They don't know (or didnt until I told them) what certificate spoofing is.
Many will die (not joking, sadly).
No one will be legally responsible.
But it's been obvious for a decade at least. Liability wise it's not possible.
Having to choose between another car and an animal (or child, who is to say?) that darts from behind a parked one.
Good luck with that.
Nah. It was obvious this was fantasy. Same as climate change.
Posted by: ALL ONT'S MATTER at July 18, 2020 11:06 PM (d+41L)
291
I don't blame Presidents for their nominations. Very few if any know these nominees personally. Miers was an exception. I don't blame Trump for Gorsuch who has made three bad rulings in his short career as a SCJ.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 10:50 PM (2DOZq)
I do, but only because it never seems that Democratic presidents never end up getting disappointed in their SCOTUS nominations.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 18, 2020 11:06 PM (m2EfB)
As more communities and businesses adopt mandatory mask orders, supporters of an "anti-mask" movement are looking to make a statement. They are wearing masks that cover their nose and mouth but provide no ability to slow the spread of disease.
https://tinyurl.com/yxuu6km4
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2020 11:07 PM (aKsyK)
Did you think that they would come to take your guns? Did you think that they would burn your books?
Did you think that they would order your church shut down?
Did you think that they would put you into the re-education camp?
Oh no.
They just want you to #wearthemask. It's perfectly reasonable really.
Just strap it on. For America.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 18, 2020 11:07 PM (3z0gk)
295So, I got a novel idea, if you got a cough, or are sneezing, STAY HOME.
Masks don't do a dang thing unless YOU are the one spreading the virus.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 18, 2020 11:03 PM (NgKpN)
Let's be serious here.
How can our betters possibly trust US to be good citizens?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:09 PM (eTZoJ)
296
I would like to hear Vince do American Beauty/Workingman era Dead
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 18, 2020 11:09 PM (s7y11)
297
Kinda funny. That hot rod lincoln? 110 and ain't no more.
Crap, I've done that in my truck. More than that in my Durango. Well north of that in my 2013 Camaro.
And I won't even start talking about the stupid shit I did in my 20's on Motorcycles.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 18, 2020 11:01 PM (NgKpN)
The original, and real Hot Rod Lincoln didn't have a V8; it had a Lincoln Zephyr V12. It was built by a rockabilly musician by name of Charlie Ryan, who also wrote the song. Charlie has passed on, but his Hot Rod Lincoln still exists.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 11:10 PM (LnPiv)
As more communities and businesses adopt mandatory mask orders,
supporters of an "anti-mask" movement are looking to make a statement.
They are wearing masks that cover their nose and mouth but provide no
ability to slow the spread of disease.
https://tinyurl.com/yxuu6km4
I like, but I will still not comply. I guess I will settle for curbside. As several people in the article mention, it's all about compliance (or submission). It has nothing to do with health.
Posted by: Mookie at July 18, 2020 11:11 PM (3vIkC)
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Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 18, 2020 11:06 PM (m2EfB)
I think we all know it's easier to be a liberal and more difficult to be a conservative regard to making the hard decisions and that's why the default is to move left for the court.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 11:12 PM (2DOZq)
301
Spend time with your father while you can. Spend all the time you can. Learn from him, be with him, know about him. You cannot take that time back. I never got that time to be an adult with my father, to be his buddy. I never learned all about him that I should have. He knew so much and I know so little, I feel like a tenth the man he was.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
My Dad was career Air Force, then a stockbroker. He was a very intelligent, very, very VERY quiet man who was probably driven absolutely nuts by having 3 kids 5 years apart.
I got to spend a lot of time with him in his 70s, then he slid into 5 years of Alzheimer's Hell and passed away on June 1, 2016. So I knew him pretty well, I guess, but like most kids not as well as I could have. I mostly remember him being solid, always willing to teach me anything I needed to know, and quiet.
After he died my Mom gave me a novel he wrote but has never been published. Novel's hero was an orphan who grows into a spy and a war hero, saves lives, always in danger, great Dad and businessman. The love story in the book is so obviously my Mom and Dad it is really touching. Not a bad nook. I am working on getting it published.
The thing is, he wrote such an over-the-top hero, who was all these things that he never achieved, but he obviously wished he had.
When I finished reading the book I remember telling my Mom: "He wrote this story as if he didn't realize that he was a hero to me just for building a baseball field for us kids when we were little, teaching me how to be a man and for always just being there."
Mom said: "Your Dad wasn't the flashiest guy who wanted to marry me, but he definitely was the best one."
Yup.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 18, 2020 11:12 PM (1YlHz)
Met Ray Benson one time, briefly, after we were on the same flight to my hometown. He is very nice, down to earth and humble. Glad to meet fans, unlike some entertainers one hears about.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 18, 2020 11:12 PM (WFcrO)
303
273
Vince Gill with Carrie Underwood singing How Great Thou Art
... My God that's gorgeous.
Posted by: F2000 at July 18, 2020 11:12 PM (IIUCn)
304I don't blame Presidents for their nominations.
I do.
And I blame the First Germaphobe for fucking up the COVID response turning America into a goddamned Twilight Zone episode and Commie hell-scape. Over a virus that has yet to even stack up to an average flu season in mortality rates.
Trump opened this fucking mess up. Trump did this. Do not make excuses for him.
I will vote for him, but yeah. I blame the shit out of him.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 18, 2020 11:13 PM (3z0gk)
305Aurora's Rosy Fingers!
Posted by: Blind Poet Miklosopoulos at July 18, 2020 11:07 PM (QzkSJ)
Bravo Miklos!
I've loved that line since the first time I read The Odyssey.
Posted by: DR.WTF at July 18, 2020 11:13 PM (AiZBA)
306
One more Susie Bogguss cover to carry me off to dreamland:
https://tinyurl.com/yys4q55b
Someday Soon live
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:13 PM (BgMrQ)
307
Frankly the worst thing that happened when the USA moved west is we took the rectangle layout of streets and built very boring and dull driving experience to the new frontier.
They even mandated the naming of the streets in some cases.
I think it was a French innovation that some Harvard lawyer decided was cool.
Posted by: jakee308 at July 18, 2020 11:02 PM (cEeb1)
I like towns laid out on the grid plan. Very easy to get around in, and easy to find an address. I hate, hate, hate those new subdivisions with all the "you can't get there from here" crescents and cul-de-sacs, and "mews", all with stunningly similar names.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 11:13 PM (LnPiv)
308
Masks are predicated on a premise of assumed guilt.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 18, 2020 11:13 PM (oVJmc)
309
Masks. Take a standard N-95 Mask, and turn it into a paper colander by means of a standard office hole-punch.
Keep your video app handy on the cel phone, for when some random Karen comes completely unglued upon seeing it.
Posted by: angsterdamn at July 18, 2020 11:14 PM (3b35n)
312
Serious you guys, find the actual text of your local Emperor's "Mandate", and I bet you will find a medical exception that can be claimed without proof! In Virginia, it is EO 63 D.6 per our infanticidal maniac Governor Coonman. I fhe left such a paragraph in the VA order, I'd bet there is similar exemption almost everywhere.
It disgusts me to resort to such integrity-stealing deviousness (and I haven't yet done so), but a copy of the order is on my phone!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:14 PM (eTZoJ)
313
And yes, Trump fucking fawned all over Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. I blame him for that too.
How'd that work out? Oh they're batting .180 on conservative rulings?
Hooray.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 18, 2020 11:14 PM (3z0gk)
314Someday Soon live
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:13 PM (BgMrQ)
Only Judy Collins can do that right, but Susie is a close second!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:17 PM (eTZoJ)
315
152 . When a person of any race died they were reincarnated. If they had good karma they would come back as what Steiner saw as a superior race until after a number of satisfactory lives they would achieve a top-of-the-pile white Aryan existence. Others would move down in the pecking order.
Sound a lot like the racial theories of that goofball Louis Farrakahn that the cool kids are all into now.
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at July 18, 2020 10:29 PM (oVJmc)
------------------------------------
Sounds like Hinduism too. I suspect that was as much an influence on Steiner as Darwin.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 18, 2020 11:17 PM (M/9m0)
316
Spend time with your father while you can. Spend all the time you can. Learn from him, be with him, know about him. You cannot take that time back. I never got that time to be an adult with my father, to be his buddy. I never learned all about him that I should have. He knew so much and I know so little, I feel like a tenth the man he was.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2020 10:50
Chris, I think this post shows you absorbed more from your father than you realize. You are a thoughtful and intelligent person from what I see here. Enjoy your posts.
Posted by: Farmer at July 18, 2020 11:17 PM (4VJ6T)
317
I'll grudgingly wear a (cheap, well ventilated) mask in my AO if it makes my neighbours feel better... But I will NOT get "tested", be "vaccinated", nor will I cooperate with "contract tracing"!
Posted by: Zettai at July 18, 2020 11:17 PM (prJfn)
I love Mrs. Piggle Wiggle!!! I read all those books when I was little, and then searched them out to read to my kids!
I want Frogmen of WWII now, 'cause research.
And Asleep at the Wheel helped us survive Saudi Arabia. We would crank up "Boogie Back to Texas" roll down the windows and sing it at the top of our lungs. That and the Maverick's All You Ever Do is Bring Me Down. Ah, good times.
Posted by: Moki at July 18, 2020 11:18 PM (/H+aK)
319
Remember that video from what, a month ago? Blonde girl, backwards cap, doing a little performance that could be titled, "It's just a mask."
Only two weeks, just an app, only a test, etc. A riff on all the mandates coming at us, almost every few hours, grinding us down.
Where did it go and why does Google not give me a lead?
Was it Tic Toc? Instagram?
Posted by: Les Kinetic at July 18, 2020 11:18 PM (f1KEu)
320
"I believe that they should have some freedom there. But I'm a mask guy!" - Donald Trump Interview with Piss Wallace
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 18, 2020 11:18 PM (3z0gk)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 18, 2020 11:19 PM (s7y11)
323
That pic up top, it's just like the view out my window. Well, except it's Angus beef cattle here, not Guernsey dairy or whatever those are.... Anyway, that sunset is familiar.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 18, 2020 11:21 PM (3z0gk)
327
The hot rod Lincoln was going 110 UP THE GRAPEVINE!
For the ignorant here, the Grapevine is an 8% grade.
Posted by: JAS at July 18, 2020 11:13 PM (2BZBZ)
Geek trivia: the events related in "Hot Rod Lincoln" actually happened, embellished somewhat, but the big race didn't happen on Grapevine Hill in California, but on a long steep hill with switchbacks in it, between Lewiston, Idaho, and Clarkston, Washington, which was Charlie Ryan's old stomping grounds. It's one mother of a hill, too.
Charlie knew the value of marketing, though, and he set the venue of the song as Grapevine Hill.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 11:21 PM (LnPiv)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 18, 2020 11:22 PM (s7y11)
330
317 I'll grudgingly wear a (cheap, well ventilated) mask in my AO if it makes my neighbours feel better... But I will NOT get "tested", be "vaccinated", nor will I cooperate with "contract tracing"!
Posted by: Zettai at July 18, 2020 11:17 PM (prJfn)
I just ordered a rhinestone mesh mask from Amazon.
331
I just ordered a rhinestone mesh mask from Amazon.
Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at July 18, 2020 11:23 PM
Is it the same one I linked to a week or so ago on Teh ONT?
Posted by: Zettai at July 18, 2020 11:24 PM (prJfn)
332Serious you guys, find the actual text of your local Emperor's "Mandate", and I bet you will find a medical exception that can be claimed without proof! In Virginia, it is EO 63 D.6 per our infanticidal maniac Governor Coonman. I fhe left such a paragraph in the VA order, I'd bet there is similar exemption almost everywhere.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:14 PM (eTZoJ)
Gretch the Wretch just yesterday ratcheted up her diktat on masks. Now, you still have to wear one everywhere at all times, and there's still the medical necessity exemption, that she grudgingly had to accommodate it until she figures out a way around that. And both the customer and the business get fined if they aren't obeying her whim. But she specifically tightened the requirements so that a business cannot assume that a customer who is not wearing a mask has a medical exemption; they must ask to confirm.
Because nothing says "masks and social distancing protect everybody" like requiring employees to accost un-masked people and shake them down face to face.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 18, 2020 11:24 PM (t+qrx)
333
Getting off track a ways from aatw, but vince gill powering through a ln emotional go rest high with patty loveless covering for him was an amazing performance.
https://youtu.be/l11oCvBxnQ0
Posted by: F2000 at July 18, 2020 11:24 PM (IIUCn)
"2020 blows. Effective immediately we're putting the cocaine back in."
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 18, 2020 11:25 PM (L2ZTs)
335
I like towns laid out on the grid plan. Very easy to get around in, and easy to find an address. I hate, hate, hate those new subdivisions with all the "you can't get there from here" crescents and cul-de-sacs, and "mews", all with stunningly similar names.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 11:13
You just described my In Laws place in Sun City West. It was crazy to drive in and out of that subdivision.
Posted by: Farmer at July 18, 2020 11:26 PM (4VJ6T)
336
The mention of Suzy Bogguss reminded me I've seen some videos of her she's done recently. She does her old 'hits' but is doing a lot of more traditional country songs. I don't know how her record sales are but I like the current sound. She's found a niche and does it well.
A lot of country music these days leaves me cold and I gave up on the local country music station. But I seek out material by George Strait, Alan Jackson, and a few others.
Kathy Mattea and Michael Martin Murphy are two others who have gone their own way from the current 'country' sound. Mattea has gone more traditional folk and gospel and MMM went to traditional western cowboy songs. They are making really good music.
Posted by: JTB at July 18, 2020 11:26 PM (7EjX1)
337
Bought a roll of chicken wire, should make about 20 masks.
Posted by: Menack at July 18, 2020 11:27 PM (buTO7)
Links may not work anymore (for your own good). All are worth a glance.
It's just
https://twitter.com/KarluskaP/status/
1278790185728303112
Also
AmazingPolly "Is this torture...?"
https://tinyurl.com/y8ykrvy8
And
FDA regs
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=239625
Just for laughs, I saw a box of masks being offered for sale in Costco or some such place and the exterior label effectively said this mask is not certified to to prevent the transmission of the COVID-19 virus, nice touch.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:27 PM (eTZoJ)
339
I just ordered a rhinestone mesh mask from Amazon.
Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at July 18, 2020 11:23 PM (TdMsT)
I have an M17A1 mask just like this, and it works. I have used it while painting cars, and and I cannot even smell the solvent when I am spraying. Looks badass, and has an exhalation valve, too. Kind of claustrophobic to wear.
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y3p9mz5u
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 11:27 PM (LnPiv)
340
Someday Soon live
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:13 PM (BgMrQ)
Only Judy Collins can do that right,
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*?!*
Sorry, Ian Tyson and Sylvia. You know, the guy that *wrote* the song.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 18, 2020 11:28 PM (1vynn)
341
314 Someday Soon live
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:13 PM (BgMrQ)
Only Judy Collins can do that right, but Susie is a close second!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:17 PM (eTZoJ)
Ooooooh, I understand the issue, I do...really.
I default to the Galadriel / Arwen Evenstar compromise.
No duels needed.
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:28 PM (BgMrQ)
I love Mrs. Piggle Wiggle!!! I read all those books when I was little, and then searched them out to read to my kids!
I want Frogmen of WWII now, 'cause research.
And Asleep at the Wheel helped us survive Saudi Arabia. We would crank up "Boogie Back to Texas" roll down the windows and sing it at the top of our lungs. That and the Maverick's All You Ever Do is Bring Me Down. Ah, good times.
Posted by: Moki at July 18, 2020 11:18 PM (/H+aK)
The Wonky Donkey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yskf94MYM1I
Posted by: DR.WTF at July 18, 2020 11:28 PM (AiZBA)
343
one of these days steve will actually say something funny.
Posted by: angsterdamn at July 18, 2020 11:28 PM (3b35n)
344
Bought a roll of chicken wire, should make about 20 masks.
Posted by: Menack at July 18, 2020 11:27 PM (buTO7)
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Great for protection against rodents and very large viruses.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 18, 2020 11:29 PM (wPVhA)
345
Bought a roll of chicken wire, should make about 20 masks.
Posted by: Menack
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Hardware cloth.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 18, 2020 11:29 PM (1vynn)
346 Kathy Mattea and Michael Martin Murphy are two others who have gone their own way from the current 'country' sound. Mattea has gone more traditional folk and gospel and MMM went to traditional western cowboy songs. They are making really good music.
Posted by: JTB at July 18, 2020 11:26 PM (7EjX1)
{{Hey JTB!!! Please give Mrs. JTB a big hug from me!!}}
Mattea's "Where've You Been" was the song Mr. Moki and i danced to at our wedding. I love her voice, and that song in particular is poignant.
Posted by: Moki at July 18, 2020 11:29 PM (/H+aK)
347
Time to go out and see if there is any chance to see the comet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 11:30 PM (LnPiv)
348Chris, I think this post shows you absorbed more from your father than you realize.
I wish you could have known him. Then you'd understand
Posted by: angsterdamn at July 18, 2020 11:32 PM (3b35n)
353
Small world. I had both of those books given to me as a much younger version of myself, too. I liked the "Frogmen" book better of the two. Now some of my writing is about 'splody stuff.
354
336 The mention of Suzy Bogguss reminded me I've seen some videos of her she's done recently. She does her old 'hits' but is doing a lot of more traditional country songs. I don't know how her record sales are but I like the current sound. She's found a niche and does it well.
A lot of country music these days leaves me cold and I gave up on the local country music station. But I seek out material by George Strait, Alan Jackson, and a few others.
Kathy Mattea and Michael Martin Murphy are two others who have gone their own way from the current 'country' sound. Mattea has gone more traditional folk and gospel and MMM went to traditional western cowboy songs. They are making really good music.
Posted by: JTB at July 18, 2020 11:26 PM (7EjX1)
She lost her contract with the major houses a while back. So she's crowdsourced a few albums, and seems to have found her niche.
Here's a nice Red River Valley:
https://tinyurl.com/y5aohuus
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:32 PM (BgMrQ)
355
I just ordered a rhinestone mesh mask from Amazon.
Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at July 18, 2020 11:23 PM (TdMsT)
There's been a load of compromisin, on the road to my horizon. But I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.....
Posted by: Mookie at July 18, 2020 11:32 PM (3vIkC)
356
I swear I was the only guy in Wegman's supermarket parking lot and store today without a mask!
The baaaah-baaaah is strong!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:33 PM (eTZoJ)
357
Wear Margin Protection at all times. Think of others. Be better.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 18, 2020 11:33 PM (ELgVT)
358Manufacturers are backing away from aggressive promises, too. Nissan has admitted that it's unlikely to produce self-driving cars before the end of the decade. And GM, which had previously promised to sell an autonomous vehicle by 2019, has not announced an updated projection.
But nevertheless --
GM autonomous car projections > Imperial College Covid-19 death projections.
Posted by: Hands at July 18, 2020 11:33 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Sharkman at July 18, 2020 11:34 PM (1YlHz)
360
CNN says Joe Biden could win the white evangelical vote because he's a man of faith
Hey Joe, how do y'all feel about abortion.
Posted by: Sock Monkey...still entertaining to children and squirrels at July 18, 2020 11:35 PM (A3q/s)
361
Watching a pretty good Retired Female Assassin Dragged Back Into The Business By An Attack On Her Family(tm) movie, set in the Philippines, called: "Maria".
Girl is legit with her martial art skills.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 18, 2020 11:35 PM (1YlHz)
362
I hate, hate, hate those new subdivisions with all
the "you can't get there from here" crescents and cul-de-sacs, and
"mews", all with stunningly similar names.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 11:13 PM (LnPiv)
What's a "mew"? Is it Canadian for "kitty-corner" or "catta-wumpus"? Or are cats sitting on the lawns of subdivisions, meowing as you go by?
Posted by: pookysgirl, listening to cicadas at July 18, 2020 11:36 PM (XKZwp)
372
I wore my Masks Macht Frei mask to the Farmer's market today.
I had to explain it a few times but the message got across.
Tomorrow will be the one with 666 on it.
Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at July 18, 2020 11:39 PM (d9Irc)
An overly sexualized cow
Threw a tantrum and caused quite a row
She said, "Hey there brudder!
Get yer hands off my udder!
You need written consent for that now."
Posted by: Muldoon at July 18, 2020 11:39 PM (Fc5rx)
374What's a "mew"? Is it Canadian for "kitty-corner" or "catta-wumpus"? Or are cats sitting on the lawns of subdivisions, meowing as you go by?
Posted by: pookysgirl, listening to cicadas at July 18, 2020 11:36 PM (XKZwp
I had to look it up, because I'm embarrassed to admit I had no idea where the term actually comes from. I could look at a boulevard and say "that sure looks like a boulevard, that right there", but couldn't tell you the first thing about a mews.
Anyway, it's a place near stables that isn't stables.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/mews
Posted by: hogmartin at July 18, 2020 11:39 PM (t+qrx)
375
What's a "mew"? Is it Canadian for "kitty-corner" or "catta-wumpus"? Or are cats sitting on the lawns of subdivisions, meowing as you go by?
Posted by: pookysgirl, listening to cicadas at July 18, 2020 11:36 PM (XKZwp)
It's "mews", noun singular, and I think it's an old British term for the laneway behind a home where the carriage house was. I think it turns up in some Sherlock Holmes stories.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 11:40 PM (LnPiv)
376
Posted by: Sharkman at July 18, 2020 11:35 PM (1YlHz)
Sounds like Peppermint which I really liked and I hate girl power movies.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 11:40 PM (2DOZq)
377
Too much cloud for comet-viewing tonight, again.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 11:37 PM (LnPiv)
378
372
I wore my Masks Macht Frei mask to the Farmer's market today.
I had to explain it a few times but the message got across.
Tomorrow will be the one with 666 on it.
Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at July 18, 2020 11:39 PM (d9Irc)
Revelation
13:16-17 "And the second beast required all people small and great,
rich and poor, free and slave, to wear a mask, so that no one could buy
or sell unless he had the mask." OK, I may have a few words wrong, but it seems pretty close....
Posted by: Mookie at July 18, 2020 11:41 PM (3vIkC)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 18, 2020 11:41 PM (s7y11)
382
347 ... "{{Hey JTB!!! Please give Mrs. JTB a big hug from me!!}}
Mattea's "Where've You Been" was the song Mr. Moki and i danced to at our wedding. I love her voice, and that song in particular is poignant."
Moki!! Hugs bestowed and Mrs. JTB says back at you.
I love Mattea's voice. I can't sing along with "Where've You Been" because I always choke up. The poignancy gets me every time. It's such a beautiful song. When I want to belt out one of her songs I play "Ready For the Storm".
Posted by: JTB at July 18, 2020 11:41 PM (7EjX1)
383
I wore my Masks Macht Frei mask to the Farmer's market today.
I had to explain it a few times but the message got across.
Tomorrow will be the one with 666 on it.
Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at July 18, 2020 11:39 PM
"Schutzmasken macht frei!" in the Krautish tongue...
Posted by: Zettai at July 18, 2020 11:42 PM (prJfn)
384
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:28 PM (BgMrQ)
Oooh, I just noticed my new hash.
Big Mr Q...
No relation to the Q Anon Q
Nor MI5's Q
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:42 PM (BgMrQ)
385CNN says Joe Biden could win the white evangelical vote because he's a man of faith
Hey Joe, how do y'all feel about abortion.
Posted by: Sock Monkey...still entertaining to children and squirrels
Praise the, you know, you know, the thing!
Posted by: Joe Biden at July 18, 2020 11:42 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 18, 2020 11:42 PM (3z0gk)
387
Time to go out and see if there is any chance to see the comet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 11:30 PM (LnPiv)
* * * *
Good luck! We have too many clouds in just the wrong places. But if they bring r-a-i-n then I don't really mind missing the comet one more night.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 18, 2020 11:42 PM (WFcrO)
388
The town of North Bonneville WA has been moved twice by the Corps of Engineers. First time was in the 30s, when they put in Bonneville Dam. Second time was in the 70s, when they put in the second power house.
They did the entire town as cul de sacs. No one has postal delivery, just PO Boxes. And it took about twenty years to get the permits to put in a gas station. At one point, none of the houses had the street number. I hope they don't move it again.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 18, 2020 11:42 PM (YynYJ)
389
Saw the Wheel a bunch back inna day. Inc'l the Palamino Club. Good times. Shout waa hey!
Posted by: getting the banned back together at July 18, 2020 11:43 PM (ptMQk)
390 When a person of any race died they were reincarnated.
How does one tell the reincarnated from those who are just starting their first iteration?
Not the two words *I* would use after "go", but it works.
Posted by: GWB at July 18, 2020 11:43 PM (zDcxE)
392
Patty Loveless has an amazing voice but I think her choice of material is rather erratic. When she has really good material, she is great...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:41 PM (eTZoJ)
That's a problem for a lot of vocalists: not picking or working with good material on a consistent basis.
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:44 PM (BgMrQ)
393
Mookie
In WA state the governor has decreed the mask.
It's my small way of pointing out what should be obvious.
I had to replace the mask with the bright yellow, six pointed star on it.
Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at July 18, 2020 11:44 PM (d9Irc)
394
Watch the margins folks....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
Oookayyyy.
* squints, waits *
Posted by: Sock Monkey...still entertaining to children and squirrels at July 18, 2020 11:44 PM (A3q/s)
395 CNN says Joe Biden could win the white evangelical vote because he's a man of faith
He worships...the thing. You know the thing!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 18, 2020 11:45 PM (aKsyK)
396 I wore my Masks Macht Frei mask to the Farmer's market today.
What was the reaction with the sewn on yellow star of David?
Posted by: 🐧 at July 18, 2020 11:45 PM (C+evo)
397
I'm so proud of you!
Posted by: Ladyl--now mask-free! at July 18, 2020 11:37 PM (TdMsT)
Subservient in unum, subservient in omnibus
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:45 PM (eTZoJ)
398
CNN says Joe Biden could win the white evangelical vote because he's a man of faith
---------
*blinks*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 18, 2020 11:45 PM (wPVhA)
399
If Chris is Fredo, then surely Andrew is Sonny, homicidal and short tempered
Posted by: Josh Brolin's Blistered Taint at July 18, 2020 11:46 PM (aGVBf)
400
Posted by: Muldoon at July 18, 2020 11:39 PM (Fc5rx)
* * * *
Bravo! Thank you.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 18, 2020 11:46 PM (WFcrO)
401
351 Watch the margins folks....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 18, 2020 11:32 PM (CMrf/)
If I can get the hang of tinyurl, all y'all can too.
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:46 PM (BgMrQ)
402
What does Biden worship? Has anyone asked him?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 18, 2020 11:46 PM (wPVhA)
403
Zettai
That won't fir on teh mask.
Besides, except for some old timers and members of the German Baptist Church here, I'm not sure many speak Kraut.
Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at July 18, 2020 11:47 PM (d9Irc)
404
Sounds like Peppermint which I really liked and I hate girl power movies.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation
I saw that a couple weeks ago. Really liked it. She sure killed the Hell out of a lot of folks who needed killin'.
I'm on a retiring/retired hit man flick binge these days. One I saw the other night, Polar, with Mads Mikkelsen, was kinda trippy and better than the reviews said it was.
Posted by: Sharkman at July 18, 2020 11:47 PM (1YlHz)
405
Up till now I've been able to avoid being in a situation where a mask (aka the Mark Of Karen) is required.
But now I have to pick up a Rx, and my governor is a dipshit who will fine me or jail me for not complying, so sigh, masking up it is.
I still have a notion to write MAGICAL ANTI-GERM TALISMAN on it.
Posted by: Hands at July 18, 2020 11:47 PM (786Ro)
It's my small way of pointing out what should be obvious.
I had to replace the mask with the bright yellow, six pointed star on it.
Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at July 18, 2020 11:44 PM (d9Irc)
I get it. We have no statewide mandate here (yet) but most stores are going full Mask Sharia. I'm going to get one of the useless masks as a protest (in the event I have to enter a store) but I like your technique.
Posted by: Mookie at July 18, 2020 11:48 PM (3vIkC)
Posted by: Muldoon at July 18, 2020 11:48 PM (Fc5rx)
410
402 What does Biden worship? Has anyone asked him?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 18, 2020 11:46 PM (wPVhA)
You know...that guy...him
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:48 PM (BgMrQ)
411That's a problem for a lot of vocalists: not picking or working with good material on a consistent basis.
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:44 PM (BgMrQ)
And there's a lot of crap lyrics out there!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:48 PM (eTZoJ)
412
396
The Yellow Star of David got a fair few glares from some. I had a couple of older gentlemen actually thank me for doing that.
Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at July 18, 2020 11:48 PM (d9Irc)
413
Billy Ray Cyrus album Shot Full if Love is really good. The guy has a great voice. Little did he know that he screwed himself with Achy Breaky Heart.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 11:49 PM (2DOZq)
414
I didn't see anyone at the gas station wearing a mask today. I'm resigned to wearing one to test drive a car.
But they always say it prevents the spread if you are coughing or sneezing. (They've added singing lately. By what power can a governor prevent you from singing?). But when you say you aren't coughing or sneezing, they tell you it can be spread by just breathing.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 18, 2020 11:49 PM (YynYJ)
415
I've of people putting inverted red triangles on their submission masks... Maybe here!
Posted by: Zettai at July 18, 2020 11:49 PM (prJfn)
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 11:51 PM (NWiLs)
421
It's "mews", noun singular, and I think it's an old
British term for the laneway behind a home where the carriage house was.
I think it turns up in some Sherlock Holmes stories.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 11:40 PM (LnPiv)
There's an obvious square outline of streets that used to be our city boundaries, and beyond that it's subdivisions with cul-de-sacs but no cutesy names. Inside that square are alleys running past detached garages, which used to be stables. So I think those qualify as mews?
Posted by: pookysgirl, listening to cicadas at July 18, 2020 11:52 PM (XKZwp)
422
They did the entire town as cul de sacs. No one has postal delivery, just PO Boxes. And it took about twenty years to get the permits to put in a gas station. At one point, none of the houses had the street number. I hope they don't move it again.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 18, 2020 11:42 PM (YynYJ)
...if the Keystone Kops were a fire department, too:
(Bell rings loudly in firehouse)
"Alright boys, mount up. House fire at 18 Oxford Mews."
Ladder truck goes clangity clanging out of the firehall, down the street, takes corner on two wheels.
"Here we are boys, 18 Oxford View. But I don't see no fire. They must have put it out already."
Guy on the ladder dolly with the extra steering wheel silently points to a pillar of smoke, rising two blocks away. There is a loud explosion, and a big donut of red fire shoots up, encircling the smoke pillar, and vanishes.
"Oh, fuck."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 11:52 PM (LnPiv)
423
Just got back from visiting Captain Josepha Sabin and her XO in an adjacent state.
Quite fun.
One word sum up (which is totally unfair to any human being, and we do it all the time) -- feisty.
Off to bed. Long day.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 18, 2020 11:52 PM (u82oZ)
424
Oh. One my walk today I visited the county R HQ.
No one was masked and everyone took theirs off to enter.
Posted by: Winston, dreg of society at July 18, 2020 11:53 PM (d9Irc)
425
420 Hey. Still here.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 11:51 PM (NWiLs)
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Move toward the light.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 18, 2020 11:53 PM (wPVhA)
426
And there's a lot of crap lyrics out there!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:48 PM (eTZoJ)
I'm not gonna pick on songwriters too much. Writing a good song is catching lightning in a bottle.
It's really up to the vocalist knowing what fits their style, and having the conviction to hold their ground when pressed to work with something not to their liking.
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:54 PM (BgMrQ)
427
Posted by: Mookie at July 18, 2020 11:48 PM (3vIkC)
Consider printing on the mask
"There is no mask that is FDA certified to prevent transmission of the COVID-19 virus!!"
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:55 PM (eTZoJ)
428Just got back from visiting Captain Josepha Sabin and her XO in an adjacent state.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 18, 2020 11:52 PM (u82oZ)
The wonderful thing about Morons is Morons are wonderful things.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 18, 2020 11:55 PM (t+qrx)
429
Browndog, Many thanks for the link. I may have that CD. Will have to take a look at the shelves. Love that music.
Posted by: JTB at July 18, 2020 11:47 PM (7EjX1)
I go down a lot of YouTube rabbit holes...you're welcome!
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:55 PM (BgMrQ)
430
All this talk of masks, we are going to be graced by a visit from our favorite terlit hobo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 11:55 PM (LnPiv)
431
I am calling for an end to the oppression of all Margarinealized peoples!
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 18, 2020 11:55 PM (oAY8z)
432It's really up to the vocalist knowing what fits their style, and having the conviction to hold their ground when pressed to work with something not to their liking.
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:54 PM (BgMrQ)
Gotta fill the CD with something...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:55 PM (eTZoJ)
433
Anyone still thinking about non refrigerated butter, use salted instead on no salted. Less likely to spoil.
Posted by: Van down by the river at July 18, 2020 11:56 PM (XhuAl)
434
I'm going to write Wearing A Mask Is Stupid on mine.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 11:57 PM (2DOZq)
435
430 All this talk of masks, we are going to be graced by a visit from our favorite terlit hobo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 11:55 PM (LnPiv)
betelgeuse betelgeuse betelgeuse
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:57 PM (BgMrQ)
436420 Hey. Still here.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 11:51 PM (NWiLs)
Are you a regular here?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:57 PM (eTZoJ)
437
434 I'm going to write Wearing A Mask Is Stupid on mine.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 11:57 PM (2DOZq
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I proposed, "This Side Toward Enemy."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 18, 2020 11:58 PM (wPVhA)
438
436 420 Hey. Still here.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 11:51 PM (NWiLs)
Are you a regular here?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:57 PM (eTZoJ)
I'm an abnormal here.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 11:58 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Zettai at July 18, 2020 11:58 PM (prJfn)
440
I'm surprised that Nike hasn't come out with a Swoosh Mask. Or have they?
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 11:58 PM (2DOZq)
441
Are you a regular here?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:57 PM (eTZoJ)
Irregular
Posted by: ALH at July 18, 2020 11:59 PM (WIRy8)
442
Gotta fill the CD with something...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:55 PM (eTZoJ)
Yeah...
The default should be performing something from The American Songbook
Posted by: browndog at July 18, 2020 11:59 PM (BgMrQ)
443433 Anyone still thinking about non refrigerated butter, use salted instead on no salted. Less likely to spoil.
Posted by: Van down by the river at July 18, 2020 11:56 PM (XhuAl)
Interesting, but sounds somewhat reasonable!
I always buy unsalted butter because I salt the heck out of everything, but I guess a little more can't hurt!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:59 PM (eTZoJ)
444
439 *acknowledges Insomniac's gilded presence*
Posted by: Zettai at July 18, 2020 11:58 PM (prJfn)
--------
Read that as "gelded."
Sorry.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 19, 2020 12:00 AM (wPVhA)
445438 436 420 Hey. Still here.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 11:51 PM (NWiLs)
Are you a regular here?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 18, 2020 11:57 PM (eTZoJ)
I'm an abnormal here.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 11:58 PM (NWiLs)
But that's normal here!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 19, 2020 12:01 AM (eTZoJ)
446
Anyone still thinking about non refrigerated butter, use salted instead on no salted. Less likely to spoil.
Posted by: Van down by the river at July 18, 2020 11:56 PM (XhuAl)
Many refrigerators have a butter keeper, usually in the door, that has a heating element, or else poorer insulation than the rest of the fridge, so that the butter compartment runs a few degrees warmer.
I am kind of surprised that no manufacturer has made a counter-top "butter chest" using a thermoelectric module to chill it to about 45 or 50 degrees F, whatever it takes to make butter just spreadable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2020 12:01 AM (LnPiv)
Posted by: Zettai at July 19, 2020 12:01 AM (prJfn)
448440 I'm surprised that Nike hasn't come out with a Swoosh Mask. Or have they?
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 18, 2020 11:58 PM (2DOZq)
They have but you have to kneel while wearing it!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 19, 2020 12:02 AM (eTZoJ)
449
Maybe this should be on the movie thread, it just watched Casablanca again. The scene where they sing the French national anthem has some resonance what with them trying to ban the Star Spangled Banner.
Posted by: InCali at July 19, 2020 12:03 AM (9AFWN)
450
They have but you have to kneel while wearing it!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 19, 2020 12:02 AM (eTZoJ)
And it comes with a penis-sized hole.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2020 12:03 AM (LnPiv)
451
Hey. Still here.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 18, 2020 11:51
Give me a call sometime. In fact tonight would work if you are so inclined. Tomorrow is Sun so you shouldn't have to work. Call meeeeeee...
Posted by: Farmer at July 19, 2020 12:03 AM (4VJ6T)
452 It's "mews", noun singular, and I think it's an old British term for the laneway behind a home where the carriage house was. I think it turns up in some Sherlock Holmes stories.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 11:40 PM (LnPiv)
I thought mews was where the estate owner kept his hunting birds-falcons, hawks, etc, back in the middle ages.
Posted by: Moki at July 19, 2020 12:03 AM (/H+aK)
453
a) take butter out of fridge a half hour or more before you need to spread it on something
b). Microwave for 7-8 seconds, flip over, microwave again for 5-6 seconds.
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 19, 2020 12:04 AM (oAY8z)
454
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2020 12:01 AM (LnPiv)
Really great idea, The Ace of Spades butter keeper.
My refrigerator has such a spot, but the butter is not immediately spreadable as it is too cold!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 19, 2020 12:04 AM (eTZoJ)
455
I thought mews was where the estate owner kept his hunting birds-falcons, hawks, etc, back in the middle ages.
Posted by: Moki at July 19, 2020 12:03 AM (/H+aK)
Seconded...
Posted by: browndog at July 19, 2020 12:05 AM (BgMrQ)
456
My mask has the word " PLACEBO " in red, but I mostly don't wear it and when I do, not over my nose, I have a bit of claustrophobia going on.
Posted by: angsterdamn at July 19, 2020 12:05 AM (3b35n)
457
I thought mews was where the estate owner kept his hunting birds-falcons, hawks, etc, back in the middle ages.
Posted by: Moki at July 19, 2020 12:03 AM (/H+aK)
According to the link given up-thread, it started out as that, then became a courtyard filled with carriage houses, and then became a residential court, as the cities became denser.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2020 12:05 AM (LnPiv)
458
Because white evangelicals love nothing better than a fake catholic..../// I'm not sure what they consider an evangelical. After the way Christians have been attacked by the left recently, I can't see this.
Posted by: lin-duh en fugue at July 19, 2020 12:06 AM (UUBmN)
459And it comes with a penis-sized hole.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2020 12:03 AM (LnPiv)
Every once in a while it can be used to catch your breath, eh?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 19, 2020 12:06 AM (eTZoJ)
460
Bob Wills factoid: He never considered himself as a "country' musician. More of a mashup of big band arrangements and cowboy music.
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 19, 2020 12:07 AM (oAY8z)
461 According to the link given up-thread, it started out as that, then became a courtyard filled with carriage houses, and then became a residential court, as the cities became denser.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2020 12:05 AM (LnPiv)
Ah, that makes sense. I rather like the idea of a mews. It's very Once and Future Kingish.
Posted by: Moki at July 19, 2020 12:07 AM (/H+aK)
462
My refrigerator has such a spot, but the butter is not immediately spreadable as it is too cold!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 19, 2020 12:04 AM (eTZoJ)
My fridge, which is a very old round-shouldered Philco, has one, but the door to the butter chest is missing. I love the flavor of icy cold butter, anyway.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2020 12:08 AM (LnPiv)
463
Moki, are you a Once and Future King aficionado?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 19, 2020 12:08 AM (eTZoJ)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 19, 2020 12:10 AM (eTZoJ)
465
There's a rally in downtown Portland of "medical professionals" denouncing the cops.
You can tell that they are Experts and stuff, because they are wearing white coats.
One of them called the mayor, Ted Wheeler, "a traitor".
The destruction of expertness continues apace...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 19, 2020 12:10 AM (I2/tG)
466
460 Bob Wills factoid: He never considered himself as a "country' musician. More of a mashup of big band arrangements and cowboy music.
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 19, 2020 12:07 AM (oAY8z)
Big Band / Jazz...
Check this guys channel: https://tinyurl.com/y6dmdb5a
Posted by: browndog at July 19, 2020 12:11 AM (BgMrQ)
467
Bob Wills factoid: He never considered himself as a "country' musician. More of a mashup of big band arrangements and cowboy music.
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 19, 2020 12:07 AM (oAY8z)
Back in that era, "country" and "western" were two different genres of music. Remember the cowboy bar scene in Blues Brothers?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2020 12:11 AM (LnPiv)
468
We can have autonomous cars just as soon as someone figures out how to account for ALL the variables. How likely is that, do you think?
Posted by: irongrampa at July 19, 2020 12:11 AM (KATBx)
469
Good night good people ( and you know who you are)
I am burned out and need to get up early to walk pup while it is still possible!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 19, 2020 12:12 AM (eTZoJ)
470
Or have all the cars on a track from which they can't depart - autonomous!
Posted by: InCali at July 19, 2020 12:13 AM (9AFWN)
Posted by: klaftern at July 19, 2020 12:13 AM (RuIsu)
472
I'm surprised that Nike hasn't come out with a Swoosh Mask. Or have they?
Posted by: Can't resist temptation
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In the mail, I received a pair of masks from my insurer, loudly emblazoned 'Humana'. I wonder what marketing genius came up with that?
I gave them away.
I do think that we could get ahead of the curve though. Gear up for Christmas themed masks, St. Patrick's Day, etc., etc.
A Christmas item with tiny twinkling LED's would be a big hit.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 19, 2020 12:13 AM (9Fwwf)
473
468 We can have autonomous cars just as soon as someone figures out how to account for ALL the variables.
How likely is that, do you think?
Posted by: irongrampa at July 19, 2020 12:11 AM (KATBx)
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At this point, I think the legal issues are more daunting than the technical ones.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 19, 2020 12:13 AM (wPVhA)
Check this guys channel: https://tinyurl.com/y6dmdb5a
Posted by: browndog at July 19, 2020 12:11 AM (BgMrQ)
I forgot to add that this gentleman features a number of retired BWaTTP players, so he's fairly well dialed in as to what the foundation of the music was.
Posted by: browndog at July 19, 2020 12:13 AM (BgMrQ)
475How likely is that, do you think?
Posted by: irongrampa at July 19, 2020 12:11 AM (KATBx)
Let's not let little details like that get in the way of the potential graft!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 19, 2020 12:13 AM (eTZoJ)
476
I swear, this isolation thing is even affecting my animals. They're just listless.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 19, 2020 12:13 AM (9Fwwf)
477
The Oregon ACLU filed a lawsuit against the Feds in Federal court.
Part of the lawsuit complains that the cops are retaliating against people filming them, and points out that you have an absolute right to film anyone in a public space, including the cops.
Of course, if you try film Antifa in a public space, you get curb-stomped. That doesn't bother the ACLU.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 19, 2020 12:14 AM (I2/tG)
https://www.ebay.com/b/
V-For-Vendetta-Mask/116724/bn_7023246541
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 19, 2020 12:10 AM (eTZoJ)
Fun part? Youngsters never figures out that Guy Fawkes, was trying to blow up Parliament because they were trying to outlaw the Catholic Religion.
So, the whole V thing? Yeah, they are wearing a mask that is Pro Religion.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 19, 2020 12:14 AM (NgKpN)
479
476 I swear, this isolation thing is even affecting my animals. They're just listless.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 19, 2020 12:13 AM (9Fwwf)
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This is a great argument in favor of pet tortoises.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 19, 2020 12:15 AM (wPVhA)
480
I look forward to punking auto-drive cars. Four-way stops ought to be amusing.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 19, 2020 12:15 AM (9Fwwf)
481
Mask protest today (Saturday) at the Ohio Statehouse! Just read about it at the Daily Mail, nothing about this in the US media...
Posted by: Zettai at July 19, 2020 12:15 AM (prJfn)
482
I always have a stick of butter in a dish on my counter. I keep my house on the cooler side so don't really have issues with it actually melting, it can get very soft during July and August..
Posted by: lin-duh en fugue at July 19, 2020 12:16 AM (UUBmN)
483
I'm neither gilded nor gelded. I am a tad frustrated, though.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 19, 2020 12:16 AM (NWiLs)
484
Dr. Rachel Levine of Pennsylvania is cashing in on COVID-19.
https://tinyurl.com/Dr-Rachel-Levine
Posted by: Muldoon at July 19, 2020 12:17 AM (Fc5rx)
485
Betty MacDonald also wrote The Egg and I, and several other books about living in Washington. One, The Plague and I is about contracting and surviving TB.
Grandma had a copy of Mrs Piggle Wiggle, but I am pretty sure Dad was too old for Mrs Piggle Wiggle when it came out. I wonder if she had heard Mrs MacDonald speak at her ladies' service club since she lived in Tacoma.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 19, 2020 12:17 AM (WyVLE)
486
I'm not wearing a mask unless I"m in a medical facility, and even then, it's not going to be all that effective. I keep hearing "Think about everyone else's health!" and I want to scream "THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING TO EVERYONE'S MENTAL HEALTH!" Because the suicide rates are skyrocketing and mental health professionals are getting overwhelmed. You want to talk about flattening the curve? How about we work on flattening the curve of suicides due to this baloney sausage?
My husband has paranoia AND biowarfare training. It's not hard for him to conclude that the government is pushing an ineffective solution to condition us to accept ever-more-stringent measures. This has not been good for his mental health, and he is by far not the only one.
Posted by: pookysgirl, whose stress level is in the stratosphere at July 19, 2020 12:17 AM (XKZwp)
Dog looking harried with thought bubble: "After 24/7 COVID lock down, Snuggles realizes he just doesn't have what it takes to be an emotional support dog."
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 19, 2020 12:18 AM (eTZoJ)
488
486 I'm not wearing a mask unless I"m in a medical facility, and even then, it's not going to be all that effective. I keep hearing "Think about everyone else's health!" and I want to scream "THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING TO EVERYONE'S MENTAL HEALTH!" Because the suicide rates are skyrocketing and mental health professionals are getting overwhelmed. You want to talk about flattening the curve? How about we work on flattening the curve of suicides due to this baloney sausage?
My husband has paranoia AND biowarfare training. It's not hard for him to conclude that the government is pushing an ineffective solution to condition us to accept ever-more-stringent measures. This has not been good for his mental health, and he is by far not the only one.
Posted by: pookysgirl, whose stress level is in the stratosphere at July 19, 2020 12:17 AM (XKZwp)
A nearby hospice was requiring everyone to wear masks. Ponder that for just a moment.
And no, it's not good for anyone. It's also not paranoia when they really are fucking with you.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 19, 2020 12:19 AM (NWiLs)
489
Who is the Main Stream Media idiot grabbing his dick waist-deep in the flood waters?
Posted by: Fritz at July 19, 2020 12:20 AM (95j/9)
490
Tonight's wedding reception was an Ecuadorian couple, by way of Vegas holding their wedding in the hills of Tennessee.
Strange patterns the COVID lockdowns have created. Made lots of mojitos and Old Fashioneds.
Something just seems wrong about muddling drinks in disposable plastic cups.
Still yet, Ecuadorian women are apparently pretty hot. The bride and a couple of the bride's maids had children, but unlike Mexican women they were tall and thin and hot.
Usually after the Mexican women squeeze out a kid or two, they turn round and squatty, like a round ball of masa dough.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2020 12:20 AM (VD4DS)
491
I swear, this isolation thing is even affecting my animals. They're just listless.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 19, 2020 12:13 AM (9Fwwf)
You need to get a velociraptor, and give it a list.
I did some more work on the poor wretched Panhard today! Ran a wire from the hot post on the starter solenoid to the ammeter, so the electrical system is now live. And I hooked up the stop light switch, an old hydraulic one from a Studebaker, and when I step on the brake pedal, the Panhard's little* stop lamps glim away bravely.
*and they are little, precisely the size and shape of those old beehive clearance lamps you used to see on farm trucks.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2020 12:20 AM (LnPiv)
492
Those curious can google (or whatever you use) the phrase butter boat. We used to use one.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 19, 2020 12:22 AM (KATBx)
493Four-way stops ought to be amusing.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
********
In Grand Junction, at 4-way stops, the four drivers get out of their cars, meet in the middle of the intersection, exchange pictures of their kids and grandkids, then plays best two out of three rock-paper-scissors to determine who goes first.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 19, 2020 12:22 AM (Fc5rx)
494 I connect with her music very deeply, but personally she seems cold and disinterested. That might be unfair, its just the sense I get.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 18, 2020 10:48 PM (KZzsI)
It's the cold disinterested women that give the best blow jobs.
Posted by: Justsayin' at July 19, 2020 12:23 AM (xdWdc)
495
You need to get a velociraptor, and give it a list
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In the America I remember, a kid with $5 could buy a velociraptor from an ad in the back of Boys Life magazine.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 19, 2020 12:23 AM (wPVhA)
496
Dr. Rachel Levine of Pennsylvania is cashing in on COVID-19.
https://tinyurl.com/Dr-Rachel-Levine
Posted by: Muldoon at July 19, 2020 12:17 AM (Fc5rx)
Heh!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2020 12:24 AM (LnPiv)
497
495 You need to get a velociraptor, and give it a list
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In the America I remember, a kid with $5 could buy a velociraptor from an ad in the back of Boys Life magazine.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 19, 2020 12:23 AM (wPVhA)
Plus $4.99 shipping and handling.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 19, 2020 12:24 AM (NWiLs)
498
In the America I remember, a kid with $5 could buy a velociraptor from an ad in the back of Boys Life magazine.
Posted by: Cicero
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And x-ray glasses.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 19, 2020 12:25 AM (1vynn)
499
463 Moki, are you a Once and Future King aficionado?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 19, 2020 12:08 AM (eTZoJ)
I am! My high school English teacher had been a Cambridge professor of English for years until her husband retired from teaching art there. They came to Texas and she started teaching at my (private) school. We spent a good bit of time with OaFK, and I appreciated all the nuance of how to be a good leader, as well as how difficult the job is, no matter your intentions.
I had my kids read it and they loved it too, so I feel like I did my job as a parent.
Posted by: Moki at July 19, 2020 12:26 AM (/H+aK)
500
And x-ray glasses.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 19, 2020 12:25 AM (1vynn)
And death rays:
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=cEKsF2NWQUI
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2020 12:27 AM (LnPiv)
501
>The following individuals are exempt from the requirements of this Executive Order:Individuals ten (10) years old and younger; or Individuals who cannot medically tolerate a face covering.
Posted by: DB- just DB at July 19, 2020 12:27 AM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: klaftern at July 19, 2020 12:28 AM (RuIsu)
503
And no, it's not good for anyone. It's also not paranoia when they really are fucking with you.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 19, 2020 12:19 AM (NWiLs) I couldn't really call it paranoia when his superintendent was actually attempting to frame him for a felony three years ago. But that experience *has* made him paranoid.
Posted by: pookysgirl, whose stress level is in the stratosphere at July 19, 2020 12:28 AM (XKZwp)
504
Thanks to Buck, Browndog, Moki, et al for the music discussion. Gotta get my beauty sleep (lost cause, I know) before the book thread in the morning.
Everyone have a good night.
Posted by: JTB at July 19, 2020 12:29 AM (7EjX1)
505
that's from CO gov Polesmoker's EO of 16 July 2020
Posted by: DB- just DB at July 19, 2020 12:29 AM (iTXRQ)
506
Lots of Aryan blood in South America.
Posted by: klaftern at July 19, 2020 12:28 AM (RuIsu)
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But some of it leaves with a pillow slip over its head.
Posted by: Mossad at July 19, 2020 12:30 AM (wPVhA)
507
493 Four-way stops ought to be amusing.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
********
In Grand Junction, at 4-way stops, the four drivers get out of their cars, meet in the middle of the intersection, exchange pictures of their kids and grandkids, then plays best two out of three rock-paper-scissors to determine who goes first.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 19, 2020 12:22 AM (Fc5rx)
I thought the rule in Junction was that whoever had the nearest whole numbered street had the right of way.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 19, 2020 12:30 AM (NgKpN)
508
I couldn't really call it paranoia when his superintendent was actually attempting to frame him for a felony three years ago. But that experience *has* made him paranoid.
Posted by: pookysgirl, whose stress level is in the stratosphere at July 19, 2020 12:28 AM (XKZwp)
Good Lord. Can't really blame him.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 19, 2020 12:30 AM (NWiLs)
509
501 >The following individuals are exempt from the requirements of this Executive Order:Individuals ten (10) years old and younger; or
Individuals who cannot medically tolerate a face covering.
Posted by: DB- just DB at July 19, 2020 12:27 AM (iTXRQ)
OK! My mental health does not allow me to wear a mask, because UnAmerican Unconstitutional orders drive me crazy!
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 19, 2020 12:32 AM (NgKpN)
510
Well, I suppose that if our little family winds up in Colorado, Pooky will claim mask exemption for PTSD reasons, I've got "lung issues" (when I get a cold it's hard for it to leave my lungs), and Pookette's under 10. So we're good, right?
Posted by: pookysgirl, whose stress level is in the stratosphere at July 19, 2020 12:33 AM (XKZwp)
511
Anyone remember those Romanian orphanages? The people running them had no time for the children. Some had been confined for years. None of them could be adopted. The mental issues from isolation were too great.
Starting to be a regular thing on Twitter, where someone has a relative that committed suicide.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 19, 2020 12:34 AM (YynYJ)
512
We are in Wyoming now, where none but the elderly are wearing masks. Spoke with a woman who works at the school in town and she just got the word they're going back in September. But the kids have to wear a mask going into the classroom. Once they're in the classroom the masks come off. When they leave they put the masks on. She told us the reasoning is they're putting each grade together and not allowing any mixing. The first grade stays together, the second stays together on through the high school. She was incredulous. What if a child in the fifth grade gets sick, infects the entire class then they go home with other siblings, infects the household and grandma and grandpa. How is a mask working there? She was amazed at the stupidity coming out of the school board.
Posted by: Megthered at July 19, 2020 12:35 AM (3lnSV)
513I thought the rule in Junction was that whoever had the nearest whole numbered street had the right of way.
Posted by: Romeo13
*****
In high school I lived at the intersection of 35 Road and F-3/4 Road.
Posted by: Muldoon at July 19, 2020 12:35 AM (Fc5rx)
514
>OK! My mental health does not allow me to wear a mask, because UnAmerican Unconstitutional orders drive me crazy!
Posted by: Romeo13
I cannot medically tolerate any of this bullshit any longer
and there's nothing in Polesmoker's EO that says I have to explain my intolerance I will test it tomorrow and tell you what happened
Posted by: DB- just DB at July 19, 2020 12:35 AM (iTXRQ)
515
>She was amazed at the stupidity coming out of the school board.
Posted by: Megthered
to be fair, the same can be said of most school boards in America
Posted by: DB- just DB at July 19, 2020 12:36 AM (iTXRQ)
516
Dr. Rachel Levine of Pennsylvania is cashing in on COVID-19.
https://tinyurl.com/Dr-Rachel-Levine
Posted by: Muldoon at July 19, 2020 12:17 AM (Fc5rx)
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That's the most flattering picture I've ever seen of her!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 19, 2020 12:37 AM (M/9m0)
15h
With the passing of John Lewis, America has lost not only a man of history, but a man for our season; O how we need such men of unwavering principle, unassailable character, penetrating purpose, and heartfelt compassion.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 19, 2020 12:37 AM (LxTcq)
518
The lovely and long-suffering Mrs Z and I have a wager on teh skoolz reopening this year: two half-days or less physically on campus and I win, any more than that and she wins... Two half-days a week is one of the options the local skool bord is exploring according to a recent survey we'd got from teh skool!
Posted by: Zettai at July 19, 2020 12:39 AM (prJfn)
519
But some of it leaves with a pillow slip over its head.
Posted by: Mossad
Some of it leaves with its head in a pillow slip.
Posted by: THE Mossad at July 19, 2020 12:39 AM (1YlHz)
520
InCali - if you're still here, I mentioned that Casablanca scene earlier this week - on Bastille Day. And how we used to love watching that movie at the large classics-only theater. Casablanca was always sold out. People hissed when Col. Strasser came on the screen, and many sang Le Marseillaise during the scene. Bonus: you get the first stanza/whatever of Wacht am Rhein, before the piggish krauts get drowned out by ze Fwench.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2020 12:39 AM (OTzUX)
521
It has always been a deep, dark secret of mine that, in the 4th Grade, I discovered the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle series in the school library, and read through every one of them. I remember almost nothing, but it was Mary Poppins Harry Potter magical house stuff for kids. I think.
I just knew Mrs PW was 'kid stuff,' below my reading level at the time, but I was always an SF/Fantasy fan, and it was fun. I think.
522
Allons enfants de la Patri-e, le jour de gloire est arrivé...
Posted by: Zettai at July 19, 2020 12:42 AM (prJfn)
523
Every study shows that the kids are low risk and they don't spread it. The flu is actually riskier for them. In Italy, they were concerned about it spreading in households from the children. It didn't happen.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 19, 2020 12:43 AM (YynYJ)
524
490---....Ecuadorian women are apparently pretty hot. The bride and a couple of the bride's maids had children, but unlike Mexican women they were tall and thin and hot.....
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2020 12:20 AM (VD4DS)
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"Ecuadorian" and "Mexican" are national, not genetic, designations.
I could easily flip your comparison on its head by filling a room with tall Euro-Mexicans and squat Quechua Indians!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 19, 2020 12:43 AM (M/9m0)
How many thousand years did Lewis warm his seat in Congress? Did he ever, in all those decades, do anything to help the country, his constituents, or reflect any "principle" or "courage" of any kind? We know he lied, infamously, and slandered decent Americans protesting the idiotic and unconstitutional O-care, with a typical bit of low-market race-baiting.
Is there any reason every intelligent decent non-racist American should not be glad he's gone, and wish he'd take 1,000s more like him along?
Just asking questions.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2020 12:45 AM (OTzUX)
With the passing of John Lewis, America has lost not only a man of history, but a man for our season; O how we need such men of unwavering principle, unassailable character, penetrating purpose, and heartfelt compassion.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 19, 2020 12:37 AM (LxTcq)
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Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 19, 2020 12:45 AM (M/9m0)
528
I saw Asleep at the Wheel probably 18 months ago in Livermore CA. Great show by consummate entertainers. Their Austin City Limits show backing the Bob Wills tribute Album is fantastic.
Posted by: Pete Bog at July 19, 2020 12:46 AM (Jzz++)
529 506 Lots of Aryan blood in South America.
Posted by: klaftern at July 19, 2020 12:28 AM (RuIsu)
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Not for long.
Posted by: Boom Shakka Lakka at July 19, 2020 12:46 AM (J6pq9)
530
Is there any reason every intelligent decent non-racist American should not be glad he's gone, and wish he'd take 1,000s more like him along?
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I keep reading that he's a "civil rights icon." Not so?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 19, 2020 12:46 AM (wPVhA)
Posted by: DB- just DB at July 19, 2020 12:47 AM (iTXRQ)
532
523 Every study shows that the kids are low risk and they don't spread it. The flu is actually riskier for them. In Italy, they were concerned about it spreading in households from the children. It didn't happen.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 19, 2020 12:43 AM (YynYJ)
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NEJM just published a major study out of Iceland that showed kids under 18 do not spread the virus even to their parents. They couldn't find even ONE case of it happening.
*sigh*
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 19, 2020 12:49 AM (M/9m0)
Posted by: DB- just DB at July 19, 2020 12:47 AM (iTXRQ)
Cowboy butter songs! There has to be one somewhere....
Posted by: pookysgirl doesn't actually listen to country music at July 19, 2020 12:51 AM (XKZwp)
535
Just asking questions.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2020 12:45
And good questions. What did John Lewis do that was positive? Seems like he rode his connection to MLK all his life and really did jack shit. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Posted by: Farmer at July 19, 2020 12:52 AM (4VJ6T)
536
And good questions. What did John Lewis do that was positive? Seems like he rode his connection to MLK all his life and really did jack shit. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Posted by: Farmer at July 19, 2020 12:52 AM (4VJ6T)
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Yeah, but that interloper Jesse Jackson swooped in your soak up all the blood, grandstanding bastard.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 19, 2020 12:53 AM (wPVhA)
537
I went on the ESPN-owned f*cking "Sports" network here in Canada to look for the replay of today's F2 race, and they were offering up clips of "news" about how the NBA was honoring John Lewis.
Why would any Canadian give a flying f*ck?
Eat shit and die, TSN.
Posted by: spindrift at July 19, 2020 12:54 AM (sVVyr)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 18, 2020 09:58 PM (tIU+r)
I resemble this remark. It seems quite a few others here agree too.
Interestingly though, the US isn't even on the top 15 list for butter consumption per person. France is #1 by far (2018 figures); heck, Pakishitstan is #8 on the list. No country on the American continents is there.
Weird.
Posted by: GnuBreed - Z4rgH at July 19, 2020 12:54 AM (Z4rgH)
539
One kid gets eaten by a velociraptor and suddenly you can't buy them anywhere. Weak.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 19, 2020 12:55 AM (LxTcq)
Posted by: klaftern at July 19, 2020 12:56 AM (RuIsu)
541
One kid gets eaten by a velociraptor and suddenly you can't buy them anywhere. Weak.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 19, 2020 12:55 AM (LxTcq)
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Lawyers are ruining this country.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 19, 2020 12:57 AM (wPVhA)
542
In high school I lived at the intersection of 35 Road and F-3/4 Road.
Posted by: Muldoon
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If you are in N. Georgia, and reach an intersection with War Woman Road, the well-advised yield to cross traffic.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 19, 2020 12:57 AM (AytXr)
543
SO if I'm reading the CO order right, I don't have to wear a mask (because of my medical intolerance of same) but this means I can't enter any 'public space' such as Lowe's or 7-11. Without the mark of the beast, I can neither buy nor sell.
Posted by: DB- just DB at July 19, 2020 12:57 AM (iTXRQ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 19, 2020 12:58 AM (aKsyK)
545
Just to be clear, Romney actually wrote that shit. It's not the usual gag.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 19, 2020 12:58 AM (LxTcq)
546
>What did John Lewis do that was positive? Seems like he rode his connection to MLK all his life and really did jack shit.
would make a great Wiki bio
Posted by: DB- just DB at July 19, 2020 12:58 AM (iTXRQ)
547
The CDC just updated the weekly corona death tally for the week ending 11 JUL 20:
1,099, down from the previous week's tally of 2,462, and from 16,935 at the peak on 18 APR 20...
Posted by: Zettai at July 19, 2020 12:59 AM (prJfn)
548
And Margarita, the Iceland study wasn't sampling - it was the entire universe of relevant cases - AND it was by genetic analysis, not symptoms, or PCR tests, etc. So - in a completely, completely different universe than almost any other study related to this seen to date.
Of course one could also do real science and epidemiology, look at the age-stratified morbidity of acute cases and deaths (we now are far past the point where adequate N has been gathered), and immediately conclude all school-age kids and adults up to 50 face *zero* effective risk. Or - you'd have to shut down schools October-April, every year, for the far higher risk from flu (to ALL cohorts mentioned).
Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2020 01:00 AM (OTzUX)
549
538---Interestingly though, the US isn't even on the top 15 list for butter consumption per person.... No country on the American continents is there. Weird.
Posted by: GnuBreed - Z4rgH at July 19, 2020 12:54 AM (Z4rgH)
----------------------------------------
Very weird.
Have we always been so unbuttered or is this evidence of decline?
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 19, 2020 01:00 AM (M/9m0)
550
Romney is a simpering, pusillanimous pile of steaming weasel shit.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 19, 2020 01:00 AM (wPVhA)
551
"Pierre Delicto." The man needs professional help.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 19, 2020 01:01 AM (wPVhA)
552
Pakistan surely is there due to ghee consumption. I think it's the basic cooking fat, so large consumption is not surprising.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2020 01:01 AM (OTzUX)
553
The CDC just updated the weekly corona death tally for the week ending 11 JUL 20:
1,099, down from the previous week's tally of 2,462, and from 16,935 at the peak on 18 APR 20...
Posted by: Zettai at July 19, 2020 12:59 AM (prJfn)
And yet, some states and national chain stores are clamping down even harder. It's almost as if they're ignoring their deity of SCIENCE!
Posted by: pookysgirl, with actual lab experience at July 19, 2020 01:02 AM (XKZwp)
I was thinking of THIS week's tally, ending 18 JUL 20, actually NOT updated then...
Posted by: Zettai at July 19, 2020 01:03 AM (prJfn)
555
Cicero - Romney really does stand out, among all the pathetically unfit and bizarre and dishonest and weak and dumb public figures of the era, which is obviously saying a lot. And yes, dumb. People have to expand their understanding of "smart" and "stupid", and use a practical metric. In fact, the ignominy attaching to the stupidity of a Romney, or of all the pundits ace rails against, is elevated, as they have no excuse.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2020 01:03 AM (OTzUX)
556
548---Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2020 01:00 AM (OTzUX)
-----------------------------------
Truly the lunatics are running the asylum.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 19, 2020 01:04 AM (M/9m0)
557 Yeah, but that interloper Jesse Jackson swooped in your soak up all the blood, grandstanding bastard.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 19, 2020 12:53 AM (wPVhA)
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Jackson was never anywhere near King's body. He was excluded from the inner circle because he was regarded as an opportunistic grifter by King's people, quite correctly as it turned out.
That white cotton sweater with the blood on it --Jesse probably bought a raw beef roast and rolled it around on the sweater.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 19, 2020 01:05 AM (t5m5e)
558
We continue in negative territory for all-cause deaths (compared to recent year averages) - were only above it briefly.
And as Dr Scarf could tell you, the actual $ of C19 fatalities is obviously and certainly very different (less) than that being used, thanks to poor, and shifting, definitions.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2020 01:05 AM (OTzUX)
559
Um, that shoulda been "#" of C19 fatalities, duh.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2020 01:06 AM (OTzUX)
560
Still down and falling, though, so there's that... But we knew that already... I'm certain this week's official tally will be less still, fatal motorbike crashes related to coronavirus notwithstanding!
Posted by: Zettai at July 19, 2020 01:06 AM (prJfn)
561
Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2020 01:03 AM (OTzUX)
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Agree completely.
Twitter has ripped away the facade that normally allows a public figure to maintain an air of enigmatic mystery. Once the mask comes off, it turns out that they're all execrable mediocrities with the mentality of insecure junior high school students who want to sit at the cool kids' table.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 19, 2020 01:08 AM (wPVhA)
562
559 Um, that shoulda been "#" of C19 fatalities, duh.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2020 01:06 AM (OTzUX)
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Oh, I dunno.
Higher #s can = higher $s in this con!
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 19, 2020 01:08 AM (M/9m0)
563
How time flies when one is not having fun... It seems as if it were scarcely a month ago there was snow on the ground in Upstate Newyorkistan -- oh, wait!
Posted by: Zettai at July 19, 2020 01:10 AM (prJfn)
In decades in/around related activities, the one guy who probably impressed me the most, substantively and in terms of leaning forward against powerful people to promote national and taxpayer interest .... ended up a central, infamous figure in one of the most disgusting and outrageous injustices of his time. Most here will know his name and the episode, if I name him.
Truly pathetic.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2020 01:15 AM (OTzUX)
569
Yeah, but that interloper Jesse Jackson swooped in your soak up all the blood, grandstanding bastard.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 19, 2020 12:53
Why is it all these "black leaders" turn out to be really grifters? Who falls for this sh*t? Jackson, Farrakahn and the fat guy who lost a lot of weight, oh yeah Sharpton.
Posted by: Farmer at July 19, 2020 01:18 AM (4VJ6T)
570 Why is it all these "black leaders" turn out to be really grifters? Who falls for this sh*t? Jackson, Farrakahn and the fat guy who lost a lot of weight, oh yeah Sharpton.
Posted by: Farmer
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Opportunists, holding a Race card.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 19, 2020 01:20 AM (l0Lgi)
Posted by: DB- just DB at July 19, 2020 01:20 AM (iTXRQ)
It's only *mostly* dead! In an hour you can go through its pockets and look for loose change.
Posted by: pookysgirl believes in too blathe at July 19, 2020 01:22 AM (XKZwp)
573
Revelation
13:16-17 "And the second beast required all people small and great,
rich and poor, free and slave, to wear a mask, so that no one could buy
or sell unless he had the mask."
OK, I may have a few words wrong, but it seems pretty close....
Posted by: Mookie at July 18, 2020 11:41 PM (3vIkC)-------------------
They are really on this mask thing. Seems that all the usual suspects are all in for wearing a mask, and the freedom side is "nah, brah."
All of the Chinese officials while in session wear a surgical mask, but the top 7 to 10 are not wearing one. It is a symbol of submission.
Posted by: fly gal at July 19, 2020 01:25 AM (6CtMt)
574
Why is it all these "black leaders" turn out to be really grifters? Who falls for this sh*t? Jackson, Farrakahn and the fat guy who lost a lot of weight, oh yeah Sharpton.
Posted by: Farmer
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Opportunists, holding a Race card.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Oh, and, an up-and-comer, the Rev. William Barber. Here's a pic: https://tinyurl.com/y39wt33y
Pretty sure his suits are custom made.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 19, 2020 01:28 AM (1vynn)
575
Goodnite, good people. Be safe, stay warm and sleep well.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 19, 2020 01:14
You also, time for me to nod off. I've got a half day of work tomorrow. We will see how much time I spend outside working on the yard and garden at work.
Posted by: Farmer at July 19, 2020 01:28 AM (4VJ6T)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2020 01:35 AM (LnPiv)
577
I have not seen anything regarding BLM in about tens days. I guess Black Lives don't matter as much as they did a month ago............ Just Saying.......
Posted by: James "Buster" Hymannd at July 19, 2020 01:39 AM (qM84C)
Posted by: He is Batman! at July 19, 2020 02:06 AM (/zO8a)
584
That quote about Steiner is a terrible distortion of his views. He was using the term "race" as a shorthand for what the Theophists called "root races". You may think that it is weird to be talking about the "root races" of Atlantis, but to take that talk as talk about what we call "races" can lead to nothing but nonsense.
i got an e-mail fryday from a local reporter about the ongoing contretemps.
since i don't trust anyone from the #MFM, my lawyer is dealing with them.
Posted by: redc1c4 at July 19, 2020 02:09 AM (vgnpr)
588
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 18, 2020 11:21 PM
That road is known locally as the "Spiral Highway" and it's a stone cold beyotch at even 35. I think it's mostly posted at 25 on the hairpins... Plenty of wrecks at normal speeds, and oh Lord have mercy on the chilluns what get carsick!
Thankfully there is a newer, much less windey replacement highway going Up The Hill.
Posted by: JQ at July 19, 2020 02:10 AM (whOIk)
589
didn't say you were, just playing along with your "outrage!"
you are, after all, a Large Vicious Nurse, and i a farmacy type, so the rivalry is honest.
here's a chit to see the chaplain...
Posted by: redc1c4 at July 19, 2020 02:13 AM (vgnpr)
590
I always liked that guy , who thought it was the beggining(sarc).
We are close to the end of the end!?
Posted by: It's the Kobi aushy MARU! at July 19, 2020 02:13 AM (/zO8a)
591 I want to grab this ont and take it to the other room.
Posted by: Unsaid Unravelings at July 19, 2020 02:14 AM (d+41L)
Posted by: ankle pm at July 19, 2020 02:24 AM (/zO8a)
600
Oh, but I suppose the *actual* Mark of the Beast will end up being that Trust Stamp thing that was mentioned here earlier today (sorry, forgot who posted it originally)
Posted by: The Nightwatch with Reme at July 19, 2020 02:26 AM (u1WYs)
604
I'll drink to that...and have my Yeoman dash out a proper request.
Posted by: The Nightwatch with Reme at July 19, 2020 02:24 AM (u1WYs)
--- so, y'all got a new supply of crayons in, to replace the ones they are?
lucky you!
Posted by: redc1c4 at July 19, 2020 02:37 AM (vgnpr)
605
I'm involved in a slow-motion text conversation about COVID with my 21-year-old daughter who is living near her college. She seems determined to see everything about the way the US has handled this crisis in the worst possible light. Our latest topic was about masks, and I tried to explain to her how badly the so-called "experts" have damaged their credibility during this time.
I wasn't getting much traction, then I realized I had the perfect example: hydroxychloroquine. The press went all-in on condemning this 65-year-old drug because Trump said it looked promising. As a result, some states even banned it's used! Well:
https://tinyurl.com/y59jlduf (Note: goes to Twitter)
At this point, treating with HCQ + azythromycin (sp?) + zinc at earliest possible time from onset of symptoms shows uniformly excellent results with very little side effects, which makes sense because the course of treatment is so short. The graph that leads off that Twitter thread is really striking.
Yet here in the US, there are still millions of people who wouldn't take HCQ if it was prescribed for them, because Trump talked about it. That's just insane.
If the we had an honest media, and a more mature political class, things would be going so much better. Things are actually not going so badly now -- AZ hospitalizations have peaked, and cases are falling as well. Viruses are gonna virus, and we ARE getting through this. Early treatment can drastically reduce deaths and the number of people suffering long-term effects. With that knowledge, state and local governments should be able to encourage citizens that it's OK to open up, but because everything is so politicized here, they won't. Many feel it's to their political advantage to stay shut down until the election, even though that makes no sense at all.
And, knowing the HCQ + Az + Zinc treatment protocal is so effective should calm the fears of parents, teachers, and administrators about the re-opening of schools.
All of this is SO GOOD, but I'm a voice in the wilderness, commenting on a blog on a Saturday night.
/crossposted from Althouse, where I'm Joan.
Posted by: quietI at July 19, 2020 02:41 AM (T0lUe)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 19, 2020 02:45 AM (ufFY8)
609
82 CNN says Joe Biden could win the white evangelical vote because he's a man of faith
-
Believes in Captain Planet?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at July 18, 2020 10:06 PM (+y/Ru)
But he betrays that faith every time he endorses abortion on demand Just like Nanzi and Young Andrew. And his (Cuomo's) father.
Posted by: Fox2! at July 19, 2020 03:00 AM (qyH+l)
610
Raimonodo you are drunk or high get a grip man. Rioters deseve to be arrested. Go away.
Posted by: USNtakim at July 19, 2020 03:01 AM (0OmEj)
611
you are drunk or high get a grip man. Rioters deseve to be arrested. Go away.
Posted by: USNtakim at July 19, 2020 03:01 AM (0OmEj)
embracing the power of 'and'?
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 19, 2020 03:03 AM (ufFY8)
612
Tell ya what, "raimondo"-- if those so-called 'protestors' (violent insurrectionists) are taken off the streets BAMN I'm all for it... F them.
Let your side's candy-assed novices arm themselves however they desire. More goodies for our side to take from them when it all goes hot.
Have a good night, little one! Tell your mommy there's a 20 on the dresser...
Posted by: JQ at July 19, 2020 03:04 AM (whOIk)
613
Tell your mommy there's a 20 on the dresser...
Posted by: JQ at July 19, 2020 03:04 AM (whOIk)
Same as in town.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 19, 2020 03:05 AM (ufFY8)
614
605
Funny how all the persons seized are wearing black and are a white person. My take on this is that the arrested individuals are going down for appropriating black culture.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 19, 2020 03:08 AM (e1mEI)
AHhh....so nice of you to help me with my second "O" of OODA LOOP.
Thanks much
Posted by: The Nightwatch with Reme at July 19, 2020 03:10 AM (u1WYs)
616
I just talked to a friend and mentioned HCQ as an effective treatment and he was all "wut?" He had never heard of it. He's a CNN guy who likes to think he's on top of things. I tried to explain, but I'm a mushmouth. Even worse than raimondo.
Posted by: george at July 19, 2020 03:10 AM (GulhD)
Mommies basement starting to stress you out no doubt.
Gee, after 4 months ...small wonder.
Posted by: The Nightwatch with Reme at July 19, 2020 03:13 AM (u1WYs)
618
Posted by: raimondo at July 19, 2020 02:38 AM (FWns2)
--- looks like someone farted
Posted by: redc1c4 at July 19, 2020 03:13 AM (vgnpr)
619Funny how all the persons seized are wearing black and are a white person. My take on this is that the arrested individuals are going down for appropriating black culture.
Heh.
And they should just stfu anyway, because "white-splaining"
621
618 I just talked to a friend and mentioned HCQ as an effective treatment and he was all "wut?" He had never heard of it. He's a CNN guy who likes to think he's on top of things. I tried to explain, but I'm a mushmouth. Even worse than raimondo.
Posted by: george at July 19, 2020 03:10 AM (GulhD)
You sir, are a paragon of discourse compared to the delusional ravings of the (insert R word here).
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 19, 2020 03:17 AM (e1mEI)
No Boo Boo, we are targeting the paid Marxist/Soc/Coms leaders in these street actions...what a tool you are.....
We are going for the heads of the collective SNAKE.....and if we have to break a few eggs......
Wink Wink MF'er
War is a brutal bitch
Posted by: The Nightwatch with Reme at July 19, 2020 03:22 AM (u1WYs)
623
Must suck to have the 0100 shift at the glory hole. Go home it's late Ray.
Posted by: USNtakim at July 19, 2020 03:22 AM (0OmEj)
624
626
Must suck to have the 0100 shift at the glory hole. Go home it's late Ray.
Posted by: USNtakim at July 19, 2020 03:22 AM (0OmEj)
By definition it sucks.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 19, 2020 03:24 AM (ufFY8)
625
I just talked to a friend and mentioned HCQ as an
effective treatment and he was all "wut?" He had never heard of it. He's
a CNN guy who likes to think he's on top of things. I tried to explain,
but I'm a mushmouth. Even worse than raimondo.
Posted by: george at July 19, 2020 03:10 AM (GulhD)
A friend of mine has been a doctor for 30 years. He's in one of the southern states. He's been treating patients every day since this shit started with HCQ and hasn't lost a single...single fucking patient. Everybody lived. He's beyond pissed at so called doctors. He said they're acting like a bunch of year 1 med students and people are dying for no reason. He explained to me how the covid works and why the HCQ kicks it's ass. He lost me in a shit ton of medical jargon, but I kind of understood. HCQ is cheap and effective, and he saved a ton of lives.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 19, 2020 03:26 AM (9Om/r)
626
Hubby & I watched the Space Station cross the sky a little while ago... so cool.
I've wanted to see it for a long time, but either forgot or it was too cloudy or too late or whatever.
Thinking of rickl right now. Anniversary of Apollo 11 reaching the Moon...
Posted by: JQ at July 19, 2020 03:26 AM (whOIk)
627
618 I just talked to a friend and mentioned HCQ as an effective treatment and he was all "wut?" He had never heard of it.
.....
Really blow his mind and tell him to investigate budesonide.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2020 03:26 AM (kU/I0)
Have you had a chance to check out spacestationfinder.com?
Enter city and get next sighting ...
Posted by: Adriane the Subtitled Movie Critic ... at July 19, 2020 03:29 AM (LPnfS)
629
I just watched badge cam video from Phoenix pd shooting a guy. Ryan Whitaker. He answered the door with a gun not knowing it was police. Tried to get to his knees when he realized. They shot him anyhow. I Imagine his family stand a good chance of a payday for his execution. Am i wrong here? Cop murdered him imho. Not that answering the door gun in hand not knowing what is there is a good idea.
Posted by: USNtakim at July 19, 2020 03:33 AM (0OmEj)
there...... oh, sorry, he should have a liter of Val-U-Rite prior to considering his options.....wait is Ray a "HE" or is he gender neutral? Or maybe a binary neutral...LBGTQORUX subsidiary of biological ooze....with purple hair?
Help me out here......
Posted by: The Nightwatch with Reme at July 19, 2020 03:35 AM (u1WYs)
641 Saw part of an antifa documentary awhile back. They definitely have a command structure in europe, and have sent people here to help build our merry band of turds. The latest were a german and a frog.
whoa I'm up early.
Posted by: Gooshy at July 19, 2020 03:59 AM (gE3QS)
642
But Gooshy do you have a reason or just happen to be awake like me?
Posted by: Skip at July 19, 2020 04:04 AM (6f16T)
643 A bit too hot and 100% humidity, I suspect.
And I went to sleep an hour early.
Posted by: Gooshy at July 19, 2020 04:06 AM (gE3QS)
644
Not to bad here, have window open, wouldn't say its hot or cold
Posted by: Gooshy at July 19, 2020 04:12 AM (gE3QS)
646
spacestationfinder.com?
Posted by: Adriane
Thank you, I have been looking for NeoWise, but the space station would be good too. Currently outputs *no sightings for the next few days*
Posted by: MikeM at July 19, 2020 04:13 AM (vk7YV)
647
The ISS comes around every few weeks, just missed the best day, Friday, 6 minutes and 69 degrees up.
htspotthestation.nasa.gov/ country United States
Posted by: Skip at July 19, 2020 04:20 AM (6f16T)
648
spotthestation
Posted by: Skip
Thank you. Signed up for email alerts. I will be ready next time.
Posted by: MikeM at July 19, 2020 04:31 AM (vk7YV)
649
Portland police station was peacefully burned down.
Posted by: Menack at July 19, 2020 04:39 AM (buTO7)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 19, 2020 05:14 AM (A5zUN)
653
Good Morning Morons. I don't care about the color of margarine. I use real butter.
Posted by: Vic at July 19, 2020 05:25 AM (mpXpK)
654
Good Morning Morons. I don't care about the color of margarine. I use real butter.
Posted by: Vic
Yep. I remember mom buying the spreadable margarine in those tubs. As a kid it was okay, once I got older it was like eating cold Vaseline on toast.
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 05:32 AM (vd8XM)
655
If I thought that I was good, I would be guilty of the sin of presumption.
Posted by: JAS at July 19, 2020 05:35 AM (2BZBZ)
656
One tip on the spreadable margarine. Do not melt it to put on popcorn. It's got water blended into it to make it spreadable. Ruins a whole batch of popcorn.
Unless you like soggy popcorn.
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 05:37 AM (vd8XM)
659
Apparently, most of us were poor back in the day when real butter was expensive and oleo margarine was what we could afford. Then the price of butter came down and the rest is history.
Posted by: JAS at July 19, 2020 05:40 AM (2BZBZ)
660
Apparently, most of us were poor back in the day when real butter was expensive and oleo margarine was what we could afford.
Then the price of butter came down and the rest is history.
Posted by: JAS
I think so. We never realized we were "poor". We had stuff. We had a house. I had a bike. Food.
Then my dad turned his life around by becoming a rapper/DJ, and the rest is history!
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 05:45 AM (vd8XM)
661 Diet For a Small Planet - anyone remember that? It was all about rancid butter & oils & how we were poisoning ourselves.
Posted by: MHK at July 19, 2020 06:02 AM (iQIUe)
662
Heh.
Superman TV episode on. They show Superman typing at super speed. Something I never thought of
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 06:05 AM (vd8XM)
663
For the simple fact you cannot control two minds ... we know this is poppycock.
Proven decades ago: anew begin
I had always thought the transporter in Star Trek was a device which killed you for another you somewhere else.
Let us investigate this - since apparently it did not stick.
So, we begin with this assumption that when can dissemble ourselves
So let us do this. Atom by atom - not impossible. We begin with our craniaum
Still me ?
Then we continue on to the hiposampus .
Still me ? Yes. (Ask roger he knows)
So we have finished to the spinal stem
We wish to begin reassembly but
We have come across a contradiction
A problem
That is that this process can be forked (because we can copy quantum states and yet we cannot make consciousness duex capable.)
Do you see ?
This is a very critical point
If I can duplicate you and I have proven that I can do this I have left the souls Baren.
Who rides which monster ?
Originaly I said this is a contradiction because there is only one You.
But no one understands .
You cannot download conscience for it is of God let alone the fact of who would govern it. If not you (and it's won't be) then what exactly is the point.
If I can copy you who is that consciousness ?
12 years gone and you should all know this fact. I have no purpose in secrets any more.
It is here by proven and claimed that the soul cannot be replicated.
I will repeat this at one other place.
Posted by: 20200719 at July 19, 2020 06:06 AM (d+41L)
664
I will repeat this at one other place.
Posted by: 20200719
I can't argue with these facts
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 06:08 AM (vd8XM)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at July 19, 2020 06:11 AM (OWgiM)
668
Imagine my delight when I discovered that the Navy would allow me to eat as much butter as I wanted at every meal.
I was in heaven.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2020 06:11 AM (3D/fK)
669
Imagine my delight when I discovered that the Navy would allow me to eat as much butter as I wanted at every meal.
I was in heaven.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
When I went to college. The cafeteria had milk in a pour it yourself device like the restaurants had. Whole, skim, and chocolate.
And no one to tell you that you could only have one glass
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 06:14 AM (vd8XM)
670
"When I went to college. The cafeteria had milk in a pour it yourself device like the restaurants had. Whole, skim, and chocolate.
And no one to tell you that you could only have one glass"
Mess decks was the same way.
And real whole milk.
None of that 2% emo shit.
And the cheese?
Huge blocks of government surplus sharp cheddar.
Much as you wanted.
Shit on a shingle every Sunday.
For a kid who grew up for a while in B'More, where the family split a pound of shrimp for a special meal, and not too much extra money on any given week, it was absolute luxury.
And butter on everything.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2020 06:19 AM (3D/fK)
Posted by: a r a b e l l s at July 19, 2020 06:21 AM (ONvIw)
672
LOOKING FOR LAW IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES
________
A bit overstated. After all, Cruz also went to Harvard, and I'd love to see him on the court.
Also, Kav hasn't yet shown himself to be rotten. Not Thomas, of course, but we can't expect that.
Even Roberts isn't yet a "reliable" liberal vote. Put yourself in their position; they'll see him as someone worse that Souter or Blackmun, better than O'Connor. Part of my problem with him is that I don't see anything resembling a legal philosophy, other than minimizing the BS he'll take. Since he's in DC, that automatically makes him lean left. At least with Kennedy (spit!) I knew ahead of time which cases he'd be wrong about.
Gorsuch I never trusted, for religious reasons. I was Episcopalian, now Catholic. To go the other way strikes me as bizarre, especially as his church was described as "liberal". To stand out as liberal in TEC means it must be pretty bad. It's not that he converted, but to convert to THAT? (If it were one of the breakaway "Continuing Anglican" ones I wouldn't say that.)
Posted by: Eeyore at July 19, 2020 06:21 AM (LMs+g)
673 And butter on everything.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2020 06:19 AM (3D/fK)
Never had any complaints about any of the dining facilities (not mess halls, at least in my day) from 90 a 96. Best one was Edgewood, MD for AIT. Made to order eggs Mon - Sat. Sat nite and Sun morn you were on your own. Usually it was pizza and beer.
Posted by: No Thanks at July 19, 2020 06:24 AM (y1gYQ)
674
Just to the west (left) of Red River is an oxbow called Cane River Lake.
http://mapq.st/2NamU9s
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2020 06:27 AM (JFO2v)
675
A characteristic of effective leaders is that they don't obsess about leadership, or waste their time studying leadership, or bore people by talking about leadership. Instead, they simply lead.
________
Do we really know that? OK, obsessing and talking incessantly, I'll grant. But studying? Don't see that that is so, unless you just mean "study" the way it's used a lot today - endless seminars and consultants and team meetings. But I'm pretty clear Nelson thought about it a fair amount, improved, and was damned great at it.
Of course, he also thought more about the goals he was leading toward, and the means to reach them. And those - especially the former - are not really in vogue as food for thought. Not what you'd really call "thought".
BTW, why is it that ONT's almost always give pixie errors when you copy and paste, but the daytime ones rarely do?
Posted by: Eeyore at July 19, 2020 06:28 AM (LMs+g)
676
Yeah, the DFACs at APG were pretty good in 2001-2002.
Posted by: SMH at July 19, 2020 06:30 AM (RU4sa)
677
662 Heh.
Superman TV episode on. They show Superman typing at super speed. Something I never thought of
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 06:05 AM (vd8XM)
My Mom could make the first ball selectrics lock up she typed so fast.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2020 06:31 AM (JFO2v)
678
This Mirror workout commercial creeps me out a little.
Posted by: jsg at July 19, 2020 06:31 AM (4Qy2z)
679
Rudolph Steiner also had a big fan in C S Lewis's friend, Owen Barfield. My only knowledge of him is from Barfield. Weird shit.
Posted by: Eeyore at July 19, 2020 06:32 AM (LMs+g)
680
Is Krak out "protesting" with the local Antifa?
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 06:32 AM (vd8XM)
681
I ate better in Afghanistan than I did at Fort Hood.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 19, 2020 06:32 AM (LxTcq)
682
My Mom could make the first ball selectrics lock up she typed so fast.
Posted by: rhennigantx
Wow!
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 06:33 AM (vd8XM)
Anthony Fauci praises New York's coronavirus response: 'They did it correctly'
York has seen more than 400,000 cases of coronavirus and nearly 28,000 deaths
Fauci is asshoe
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2020 06:35 AM (JFO2v)
689
"I don't see it catching on like treadmills. No place to hang your laundry"
Command hooks should stick to the surface pretty well.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2020 06:36 AM (3D/fK)
690
Those self driving cars are all over town, driving like an old lady from Pacific Heights on her weekly trip to church.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 19, 2020 06:33 AM (EZebt)
Driving like a real estate agent!
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2020 06:36 AM (JFO2v)
691
Anthony Fauci praises New York's coronavirus response: 'They did it correctly'
York has seen more than 400,000 cases of coronavirus and nearly 28,000 deaths
Fauci is asshoe
Posted by: rhennigantx
Eh, could have been worse.
...Fauxi...
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 06:36 AM (vd8XM)
I bet he cursed that 5am alarm like someone who hasn't heard that this blog is a family blog, but with added profanities.
After all, I like to use the phrase "Fuck you very much" as a nod to politeness.
Posted by: GnuBreed - Z4rgH at July 19, 2020 06:36 AM (Z4rgH)
693
And here I thought it would be the latest EMT I ever got to.
Wife has had tablet hostage
Posted by: Skip at July 19, 2020 06:37 AM (6f16T)
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681 I ate better in Afghanistan than I did at Fort Hood.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 19, 2020 06:32 AM (LxTcq)
Maybe the people in Afgan thought that you deserved good food.
God bless them!
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2020 06:37 AM (JFO2v)
695
Command hooks should stick to the surface pretty well.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice
At 1500 for the device and an additional 39 a month, they should include two packs of the Command hooks with each unit
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 06:37 AM (vd8XM)
696
Is a "Family Size" box of Trisquits plus a half pound of Cheddar bad for losing weight? Oh and chocolate bars. Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2020 06:37 AM (1XIkG)
697
"After all, I like to use the phrase "Fuck you very much" as a nod to politeness."
Sure beats 'Well bless your heart', don't it?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2020 06:38 AM (3D/fK)
698 In an ' Are they watching me?' kinda way?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2020 06:33 AM (3D/fK)
Yeah. I could see it telling me I was using too much salt on my eggs or something during breakfast.
And then I would have to shoot it.
Posted by: jsg at July 19, 2020 06:38 AM (4Qy2z)
699
> Self driving cars... autonomous vehicles... whatever you want to call them will never be viable as long as there are lawyers around. Period.
Until the moment at which it's proven that they're safer than human drivers.
At that point, you will not be able to buy insurance for manual driving.
"So, Mr. Johnson.... you're telling this court that even though you KNEW that the automated driving system was safer, you DELIBERATELY turned it off?"
Yeah, no insurance company is going to defend that case.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 19, 2020 06:38 AM (unn44)
700 Also, Kav hasn't yet shown himself to be rotten. Not Thomas, of course, but we can't expect that.
I don't trus Kav or Gorsuch.
Gorsuch strikes me as a guy too grounded in the legal process. Show him lines for the cattle cars - and he'll calmly search for past precedent. If he thinks he found it - stare decisis and let 'em roll.
Kavenaugh ? I never trust a man that cries in public like that.
Posted by: No Thanks at July 19, 2020 06:38 AM (y1gYQ)
701
Fauci is all-in on killing America (and Americans!) to get rid of the President and keep everyone under subjection.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at July 19, 2020 06:39 AM (OWgiM)
702
Is a "Family Size" box of Trisquits plus a half pound of Cheddar bad for losing weight? Oh and chocolate bars. Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Common Tater
As long as you wash it down with a diet coke, you're good to go
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 06:39 AM (vd8XM)
703
> Rudolph Steiner also had a big fan in C S Lewis's friend, Owen Barfield. My only knowledge of him is from Barfield. Weird shit.
Is he the one who muttered, loudly, "Oh, Christ, not another fucking elf!" when Tolkien started reading his latest to the group?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 19, 2020 06:39 AM (unn44)
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2020 06:36 AM (JFO2v)
Driving like a little old lady that only travels to church on Sundays. This is a used car saleman's favorite lie, once the odometer has been cut.
If the original owner's name is 'The ToeCutter', be wary.
Posted by: GnuBreed - Z4rgH at July 19, 2020 06:40 AM (Z4rgH)
705
Maybe self driving cars Will be available as long as there are lawyers around.
Posted by: Skip at July 19, 2020 06:40 AM (6f16T)
706
"As long as you wash it down with a diet coke, you're good to go"
Small diet coke...
No ice.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2020 06:40 AM (3D/fK)
707
701 Fauci is all-in on killing America (and Americans!) to get rid of the President and keep everyone under subjection.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, we are being gaslighted 24/365 at July 19, 2020 06:39 AM (OWgiM)
rulers gotta rule
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2020 06:42 AM (JFO2v)
708
I'm all for the self driving car As long as I can pile into it stinking from drinking and it gets me home safely.
The ones I've heard about still require you to "take the wheel" in emergencies.
I thought that Jesus was supposed to do that
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 06:42 AM (vd8XM)
I wish I could join in on the movie threads, but I am usually, and ironically, watching some movie at the time. Last night's was Carol Reed's 1947 Odd Man Out, with James Mason and Robert Newton (the actor who apparently created the whole vocal styling we call "Talk Like a Pirate" when he played Long John Silver a few years later).
Mason, an IRA rebel, accidentally kills a man and is wounded while he and his team are robbing a mill, and he becomes the subject of a manhunt. It's far less about the police hunting him than it is about the people of Ireland.
The film is exactly what a B&W movie should be and does best; the range of characters Mason encounters reminds me of Dickens's Bleak House . . . and I need to see more of Carol Reed's films.
I'm becoming more of a director junkie. Who'da thunk it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 19, 2020 06:43 AM (rpbg1)
710
"I thought that Jesus was supposed to do that"
I thought he rode on the dashboard?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2020 06:43 AM (3D/fK)
711"After all, I like to use the phrase "Fuck you very much" as a nod to politeness."
Sure beats 'Well bless your heart', don't it?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2020 06:38 AM (3D/fK)
The Mom, ten years after, still can't get over the idea that 'bless your heart' is an insult.
Posted by: GnuBreed - Z4rgH at July 19, 2020 06:43 AM (Z4rgH)
712
Reading that piece in the sidebar about that Angel of Death Cuomo, it's absolutely eye-popping the disconnect and tongue bath he gets from the lying, traitorous "media." Throw Fauci in with them as well.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 19, 2020 06:43 AM (O+I8R)
713
Has anyone tried the new low-cal communion wafers?
They're called "I Can't Believe It's Not Jesus".
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 19, 2020 06:44 AM (unn44)
714
krak is beating his alarm clock like it owes him money.
Posted by: GnuBreed - Z4rgH at July 19, 2020 06:44 AM (Z4rgH)
715
krak is beating his alarm clock like it owes him money.
Posted by: GnuBreed
He mentioned it was the bishop.
Must be at church
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 06:45 AM (vd8XM)
716
Fauci is all-in on killing America (and Americans!) to get rid of the President and keep everyone under subjection.
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And he purportedly worships Hillary. Here's your sign as to what he's doing and what he's all about.
Posted by: Lady in Black at July 19, 2020 06:45 AM (O+I8R)
717
" Has anyone tried the new low-cal communion wafers?
They're called "I Can't Believe It's Not Jesus".
Groan..
*Facepalm*
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2020 06:46 AM (3D/fK)
718
Kanye West is back in the Presidential Race. Has filed paperwork with the FEC.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 19, 2020 06:47 AM (unn44)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2020 06:47 AM (3D/fK)
720
Kanye West is back in the Presidential Race. Has filed paperwork with the FEC.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
I'm definitely voting for someone that as committed as he is
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 06:48 AM (vd8XM)
721
VIA when I was in BSA we looked forward to rare occasions where we ate at atmilitary bases as opportunities for massive consumption, especially the full fat southern style cuisine we never had back home.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 19, 2020 06:48 AM (EZebt)
722
"I'm definitely voting for someone that as committed as he is"
They did commit him?
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2020 06:49 AM (3D/fK)
723
The viper pit needs a gasman and someone to light the match. They're covered with gas but I haven't seen a match guy yet.
Posted by: jsg at July 19, 2020 06:49 AM (4Qy2z)
724
Diet Coke, why didn't I think of that? Yeah I'm so screwed today. Not gonna get on the scale, nope.
And I can't find my Felco clippers, which are needed badly. The universe always seems to conspire against me. Somebody (obviously) came in and went right for the Felco clippers.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2020 06:49 AM (1XIkG)
Posted by: 20200719 at July 19, 2020 06:49 AM (6anZz)
726
And I can't find my Felco clippers, which are needed badly. The universe always seems to conspire against me. Somebody (obviously) came in and went right for the Felco clippers.
Posted by: Common Tater
Nobody likes you, everybody hates you, you should go out and tear down a statue somewhere
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 06:50 AM (vd8XM)
727
>Has anyone tried the new low-cal communion wafers?
They're called "I Can't Believe It's Not Jesus".
normally it's very hard for me to laugh at anything at 0450 in the morning
Posted by: DB- just DB at July 19, 2020 06:50 AM (iTXRQ)
728
"when I was in BSA we looked forward to rare occasions where we ate at atmilitary bases as opportunities for massive consumption, "
Oh yeh...
We used to take the troop down to NOB Norfolk for a weekend trip every year.
Stayed in the Sea Cadet Barracks, and ate at the base chow hall. The Scouts loved eating there.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2020 06:51 AM (3D/fK)
729 Fauci is all-in on killing America (and Americans!) to get rid of the President and keep everyone under subjection.
The Wu Flu has given a pretext to everyone that gets a thrill down their leg at the prospect of an even bigger police state.
Listen real close - and you may be surprised at just how many there are. Including here.
Posted by: No Thanks at July 19, 2020 06:51 AM (y1gYQ)
730
718 Kanye West is back in the Presidential Race. Has filed paperwork with the FEC.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 19, 2020 06:47 AM (unn44)
731723 The viper pit needs a gasman and someone to light the match. They're covered with gas but I haven't seen a match guy yet.
Posted by: jsg at July 19, 2020 06:49 AM (4Qy2z)
724 Diet Coke, why didn't I think of that? Yeah I'm so screwed today. Not gonna get on the scale, nope.
And I can't find my Felco clippers, which are needed badly. The universe always seems to conspire against me. Somebody (obviously) came in and went right for the Felco clippers.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 19, 2020 06:49 AM (1XIkG)
It's very clear, after reading these two consecutive comments, that I am smoking inferior dope.
*takes bigger tokes*
Posted by: GnuBreed - Z4rgH at July 19, 2020 06:52 AM (Z4rgH)
732Superman TV episode on. They show Superman typing at super speed. Something I never thought of
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020
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Whenever H&I runs the second season episode "Five Minutes to Doom," I have to sit down and watch. The most perfect and most exciting Reeves-as-Superman episode ever.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 19, 2020 06:53 AM (rpbg1)
733
It's very clear, after reading these two consecutive comments, that I am smoking inferior dope.
*takes bigger tokes*
Posted by: GnuBreed
Maybe try a TidePod?
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 06:53 AM (vd8XM)
734
Oddly enough, this is not problematic for the Left.
https://tinyurl.com/y58vecaw
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2020 06:54 AM (3D/fK)
735
And I can't find my Felco clippers, which are needed badly. The universe always seems to conspire against me. Somebody (obviously) came in and went right for the Felco clippers.
Posted by: Common Tater
736
Whenever H&I runs the second season episode "Five Minutes to Doom," I have to sit down and watch. The most perfect and most exciting Reeves-as-Superman episode ever.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
I'll have to see if I can find it on the intertubes
Thanks!
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 06:55 AM (vd8XM)
737
Don't know what happened to Youtube, but now almost every video has an ad every three minutes.
And if you chose to enable ''block content' in Safari, 90% of the videos won't even play.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2020 06:57 AM (3D/fK)
738
Are those people that yell at you for not wearing a mask Branch Covidians?
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2020 06:58 AM (JFO2v)
739
Are those people that yell at you for not wearing a mask Branch Covidians?
Posted by: rhennigantx
HA!
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020 06:58 AM (vd8XM)
740
"Are those people that yell at you for not wearing a mask Branch Covidians?"
Stolen!
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2020 06:59 AM (3D/fK)
742Whenever H&I runs the second season episode "Five Minutes to Doom," I have to sit down and watch. The most perfect and most exciting Reeves-as-Superman episode ever.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
I'll have to see if I can find it on the intertubes
Thanks!
Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2020
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It's a classic. Without giving anything away, I'll say that it has the perfect balance between Clark Kent's work as a reporter and Superman's abilities, and it features a ticking clock and atmosphere as well.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 19, 2020 06:59 AM (rpbg1)
743
738 Are those people that yell at you for not wearing a mask Branch Covidians?
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2020 06:58 AM (JFO2v)
Where have the ACLU been when all our rights continue to be put aside for all these unconstitutional lock down orders? Masks? and now curfews?
So now they object to unmarked police vehicles.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2020 07:00 AM (JFO2v)
746
The local "news" in its fawning coverage of John Lewis's death mentioned that he boycotted two presidential inaugurations. Let me guess: Reagan's and Trump's?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 19, 2020 07:03 AM (rpbg1)
747
So wifey buys new sheet as old ones got pilly. She is now standing hall asking me which of 2 sets she is holding is old. I mentioned to her that is why I suggested trying a new color.
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2020 07:04 AM (JFO2v)
748
Let me guess: Reagan's and Trump's?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 19, 2020 07:03 AM (rpbg1)
we had a name for that in my time
poor loser
Posted by: rhennigantx at July 19, 2020 07:06 AM (JFO2v)
749
Are the Ghanaian funeral guys getting a gig at the John Lewis sendoff?
Posted by: bill in arkansas at July 19, 2020 07:06 AM (C1Lsn)
750
676 Yeah, the DFACs at APG were pretty good in 2001-2002.
Posted by: SMH at July 19, 2020 06:30 AM (RU4sa)
Arizona Proving Grounds?
Posted by: clutch at July 19, 2020 07:07 AM (9UmRs)
751
americanthinker.com/civil war 20 going hot in portland Oregon
I see what Nanzi was saying now about 'kidnapping ' civilians, but you know eventually helicopter rides will come into play if it becomes Civil War II.
I like that "useless mask" idea linked above. But I made the mistake of reading some of the comments on that article. Oy. The Brownshirt Karens are legion.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at July 19, 2020 07:11 AM (FtO5h)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 19, 2020 07:11 AM (3D/fK)
759
In defense of Krak he is rarely missed a Sunday EMT, so saying that I am worried. Has anyone gotten a notice for bail yet?
Posted by: Skip at July 19, 2020 07:12 AM (6f16T)
760 The local "news" in its fawning coverage of John Lewis's death mentioned that he boycotted two presidential inaugurations. Let me guess: Reagan's and Trump's?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 19, 2020
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I looked it up: He boycotted Trump, yes, but also GW Bush in 2001, saying he thought Bush was not the legitimate president.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 19, 2020 07:12 AM (rpbg1)
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at July 19, 2020 07:14 AM (JUOKG)
763 I had that Frogman book when I was a kid! It was good.
Posted by: ArthurK at July 19, 2020 08:53 AM (yLxSe)
764
Margarine: Canada is *waaaay* behind the US when it comes to stupid irrelevancies forced on the public by political arm-twisting.
Coloured margarine was illegal in Ontario until *1995*. And Quebec, being Quebec, home of the 15,000 dairy farmers who keep 'supply management' of milk, a thing, only gave up in *2008*. We still have 'supply management' which forces up the price of milk and cheese, together with obscene tariff barriers on both, up to 300% on some cheese from Europe ( effectively reversing the EU agricultural policy subsidies and then adding a tariff). Oh the fun!
"In November, 2005, provincial Agriculture Department inspectors raided four Wal-Mart stores in the Quebec City area and seized 72 tubs of illicit yellow margarine. The action came a day after an outraged member of the opposition Parti Québécois tabled a Unilever produced container of yellow margarine in the National Assembly, saying he had purchased it in Quebec City."
My parents stopped using margarine in the early 60's. My mother said is always reminded her of the stuff she had to use in Britain during WWII. I always hated the stuff. For cooking, butter for mushrooms or fresh saute'd fish, Otherwise canola.
Posted by: Dyspeptic Curmudgeon at July 19, 2020 09:36 AM (Kc1Sm)
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