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So We Beat On, An ONT Against The Current, Borne Back Ceaselessly Into The Past

Here's a pretty neat picture I found the other day of Eugene Stoner and Mikhail Kalashnikov.

Eugene Stoner and Mikhail Kalashnikov.jpg

420


mY ENTIRE FAMILY JUST ATE MY CANNABUTTER WHAT DO i DO??

“Cannabutter” is butter infused with cannabis. This dude's mom used his to make chicken and got the whole family high AF. There's a part 2 linked at the bottom of the page.


We Always Knew Government Was A Mickey Mouse Operation


RI mistakenly sent 176 tax refunds signed by ‘Mickey Mouse’ and ‘Walt Disney’

Refund checks from Walt Disney would be more fiscally sound than ones from the government. I'm jus' sayin'.


When Women Had Balls


That's Gladys Ingle, the only female member of the famous 13 Black Cats daredevil squad. Known as a fearless wing walker who never wore a parachute, she transferred from plane to plane in mid air hundreds of times. Believe it or not, she lived until 1981 when she died at age 82. What a woman!


What Is It With Girls From Calgary?


I mean, I met one online and managed to convince her I wasn't an asshole (it's been 18 years, nobody tell her!), but this, this is a whole other level of gullible.


'This is no joke': Calgary single mom warns others after getting scammed twice


First she fell for the “You've won a new truck but we need money to clear customs” scam, and then she fell in love with “Vin Diesel “ who, just before he was supposed to come meet her in person, suddenly “needed money to fix a critical piece of movie equipment” to save the film he was starring in.

**** PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT ****

Women of Calgary: Movie stars are not going to court you online! (Losers from The States, absolutely. We're thicker than flies on shit. Movie stars, no) Do not believe them! Do not send them money! Do not masturbate for them on the phone, even if Henry Rollins introduces you!* That is all!

*You'll have to ask Gingy for that story



Public Service Announcement, Part 2

How to spot a Communist:


Biden's Plan For Suburbia

CBD stole some of my thunder by linking this in yesterday's rant, so I held off on posting it until tonight.

Joe Biden’s disastrous plans for America’s suburbs

Bottom line: You can not have a successful Marxist state with a strong middle class, so the middle class must be destroyed. It really is that simple. And it isn't about race, either. Decades ago, I lived in a neighborhood that was rife with white section 8 housing. I couldn't wait to move away because I didn't like living there. The next door neighbor's “girlfriend” was a whore who sold herself to truckers under the interstate. She got him addicted to heroin, and when he went away to rehab she trashed his house. There was a drug house down the alley, trash in the streets and fights all around. I wanted better for my family. Through hard work and determination, I did it. I now live in a nice suburb. I have black, white and asian neighbors. It's a nice place to live. If you told me you were going to replace all of my minority neighbors with poor whites from my old neighborhood, I'd fight against it. Race doesn't have a goddamn thing to do with it.

I suspect this gal would agree with me:


Feel Good Clips

Fill-In-The-Blank “Justice”


Social Justice: The Presumption of Guilt


This is one thing that drives me nuts. You hear people talking about all kinds of “justice” these days. “Social” justice. “Racial” justice. “Critical” justice. Pick your poison. The thing is (and yes, I do realize that this is intentional), adding any type of adjective to the word justice completely inverts the meaning of the word. Justice can only be obtained for specific actions committed by individuals (or groups of individuals for actions undertaken jointly-actions committed by the individuals involved. If CBD, OM, and MisHum formed a gang and started killing people, you could bring them jointly to justice for their actions. You could NOT obtain any type of “justice” against The Moron Horde, or even against the COBS as a whole). Otherwise there is nothing just about it.


Tonight's ONT brought to you by ice:

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Posted by: WeirdDave at 09:38 PM




Comments

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1 This one better not disappear. This is one of my best comments.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 09:39 PM (wPVhA)

2 Hey

Posted by: Bruce at July 31, 2020 09:39 PM (vd8XM)

3 first!!

Posted by: harley at July 31, 2020 09:39 PM (bg4qY)

4 damnit!!

Posted by: harley at July 31, 2020 09:40 PM (bg4qY)

5 Ahoy, ſodomites & ſodomettes!

Posted by: Zettai at July 31, 2020 09:40 PM (5bF1m)

6 Deja vu

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 31, 2020 09:40 PM (yQpMk)

7 Back again.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2020 09:40 PM (6WCwE)

8 coulda been a contender

Posted by: boomers remember stuff at July 31, 2020 09:41 PM (+U5Yr)

9 Early!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2020 09:41 PM (axyOa)

10 All hail, Cicero Teh Insufferable!

Posted by: Zettai at July 31, 2020 09:42 PM (5bF1m)

11 Generic Moron salutation

Clever meme reference

Silly self-deprecating remark

Points to something else

Some idiotic closing line

smiley

Posted by: mindful webworker
clik4 epidemic articles
at July 31, 2020 09:42 PM (Sr48m)

12 Nice barrel discipline there, comrade.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 09:42 PM (HaL55)

13 Not first, probably will be last
Goodnight horde

Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2020 09:42 PM (6f16T)

14 *
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*




[INSERT CLEVER BON MOT HERE]

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 09:43 PM (wPVhA)

15 Yahoo Ministry of Truth - deaths could hit 182k by Aug 22... gentlemen, we have a goal.

Posted by: A dude in MI at July 31, 2020 09:43 PM (4X5xS)

16 Sponge has been sent to live with the nice men in white coats. We'll be safe now!

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 09:44 PM (L2ZTs)

17 Thank goodness, it's the end of the week.

I think EVERYONE in the world is on edge. No vacations, no stability, everything is up in the air.

People aren't meant to live like this.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 09:44 PM (SRRAx)

18 [INSERT CLEVER BON MOT HERE]
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 09:43 PM (wPVhA)


[WITTY REPLY]

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2020 09:44 PM (zr5Kq)

19 night skip

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2020 09:44 PM (zr5Kq)

20 Stoner.... he he he.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 31, 2020 09:44 PM (3H9h1)

21 How To Spot a Commie video was good.

Posted by: hogmartin at July 31, 2020 09:45 PM (t+qrx)

22 Kalashnikov's mug is unmistakable.

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2020 09:45 PM (zr5Kq)

23
Willowed:

907 Sponge finally gets an actual, real live, honest first and the post mysteriously disappears.

The Matrix is trying to reset.

Probably best if you don't go to sleep tonight. Tomorrow you'll wake up with vague memories of some sort of plague, Donald J Trump was president, murder hornets and whatnot.

No one will believe you.
Posted by: Just Lily at July 31, 2020 09:40 PM (rw1l7)

Posted by: Just Lily at July 31, 2020 09:45 PM (rw1l7)

24 17 Thank goodness, it's the end of the week.

I think EVERYONE in the world is on edge. No vacations, no stability, everything is up in the air.

People aren't meant to live like this.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 09:44 PM (SRRAx)

No they aren't.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 09:45 PM (NWiLs)

25 The ice cartoon is funny because it's true.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 31, 2020 09:45 PM (yQpMk)

26 [INSERT CLEVER BON MOT HERE]
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 09:43 PM (wPVhA)


[WITTY REPLY]
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2020 09:44 PM (zr5Kq)


[ATTEMPT TO BOOTSTRAP INTO ONGOING CONVERSATION]

Posted by: hogmartin at July 31, 2020 09:45 PM (t+qrx)

27 PRO TIP: Retorts are always funnier than replies.

Retort. Heh.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 09:46 PM (wPVhA)

28 [INSERT CLEVER BON MOT HERE]
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 09:43 PM (wPVhA)


[WITTY REPLY]

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2020 09:44 PM (zr5Kq)



[EXPLANATION OF WHY THIS IS FUNNY]

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at July 31, 2020 09:47 PM (yQpMk)

29 I think EVERYONE in the world is on edge. No vacations, no stability, everything is up in the air.

People aren't meant to live like this.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas

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I think us normies just have to go for it. We been on vacation for over two weeks. The normal population here at the island is down, at a minimum, by 50% (no matter what the Chamber of Commerce says). But, for the folks that are here, things seem to be pretty much normal.

Because we chose to live it that way.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2020 09:48 PM (6WCwE)

30 22 Kalashnikov's mug is unmistakable.
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2020 09:45 PM (zr5Kq)

He wrote his name on it in Sharpie.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 09:48 PM (NWiLs)

31 [INSERT CLEVER BON MOT HERE]
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 09:43 PM (wPVhA)


[WITTY REPLY]

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2020 09:44 PM (zr5Kq)

[ATTEMPT TO BOOTSTRAP INTO ONGOING CONVERSATION]
Posted by: hogmartin at July 31, 2020 09:45 PM (t+qrx)

[EXPLANATION OF WHY THIS IS FUNNY]
Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at July 31, 2020 09:47 PM (yQpMk)



[AWESOME LYMRIC]

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2020 09:49 PM (zr5Kq)

32 The kid with the board. that was me. until that one day I went full-on Ralphie on my own personal Scut Farkas. very moving clip. the boy will remember that moment forever.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at July 31, 2020 09:49 PM (x8Wzq)

33 People aren't meant to live like this.

I've been saying this for weeks now. Falls on deaf ears.

Posted by: Jewells45 at July 31, 2020 09:50 PM (dUJdY)

34
I hate me...

that was supposed to be [AWESOME LIMERICK]

LIKE F'ING LIMERICK IRELAND


[SAD FACE]

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2020 09:51 PM (zr5Kq)

35 And here it is time for bed. Magandang gabi.

Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2020 09:51 PM (XhWtx)

36 [INSERT CLEVER BON MOT HERE]

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 09:43 PM (wPVhA)





[WITTY REPLY]



Posted by: runner at July 31, 2020 09:44 PM (zr5Kq)



[ATTEMPT TO BOOTSTRAP INTO ONGOING CONVERSATION]

Posted by: hogmartin at July 31, 2020 09:45 PM (t+qrx)



[EXPLANATION OF WHY THIS IS FUNNY]

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at July 31, 2020 09:47 PM (yQpMk)







[AWESOME LYMRIC]


[#WASTF]

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 09:51 PM (HaL55)

37 Who is this Sponge you speak of?
No Sponge around here.-Men in black suits

Posted by: Case at July 31, 2020 09:51 PM (frO9V)

38 People aren't meant to live like this.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas

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Also, the masks kill the little friendly interactions that used to occur many times a day. It's almost like it was planned to wipe out social cohesion, isn't it?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 09:52 PM (wPVhA)

39 Living in isolation is not normal, healthy or desirable. I should know.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 09:52 PM (NWiLs)

40 [INSERT CLEVER BON MOT HERE]

Posted by: Amy Schumer at July 31, 2020 09:52 PM (AiZBA)

41 17...
People aren't meant to live like this.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 09:44 PM (SRRAx)

Russians did in the Soviet Union for 70 years...

Posted by: Flyover at July 31, 2020 09:52 PM (Rbu5d)

42 WHY ALL THE SHOUTING??!!

My ears are delicate.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at July 31, 2020 09:53 PM (x8Wzq)

43 28 [INSERT CLEVER BON MOT HERE]
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 09:43 PM (wPVhA)


[WITTY REPLY]

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2020 09:44 PM (zr5Kq)


[EXPLANATION OF WHY THIS IS FUNNY]
Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER


goddamn big ben is getting pissy!

Posted by: harley at July 31, 2020 09:53 PM (bg4qY)

44 33 People aren't meant to live like this.

I've been saying this for weeks now. Falls on deaf ears.
Posted by: Jewells45 at July 31, 2020 09:50 PM (dUJdY)

EH? HUH? WHAT'S THAT YA SAY?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 09:53 PM (NWiLs)

45 [ LACEWIGS SPAM ]

Posted by: GT 5.0 at July 31, 2020 09:53 PM (w8H5u)

46 18 [INSERT CLEVER BON MOT HERE]
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 09:43 PM (wPVhA)


[WITTY REPLY]
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2020 09:44 PM (zr5Kq)

...

[WRY REPETITION OF JOKE UNDER GUISE OF HELPFUL EXPLANATION]

Posted by: BEN ROTHLESBERGER at July 31, 2020 09:53 PM (yL25O)

47 High Time is a nice song.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 31, 2020 09:54 PM (fU1ci)

48 Insomniac - How are you doing in regard to the governors storm edict. 7 days worth of food and water?

Posted by: Panhandler at July 31, 2020 09:54 PM (S/rwf)

49 [EXPLANATION OF WHY THIS IS FUNNY]
Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER


Heh

Posted by: mindful webworker
clik4 epidemic articles
at July 31, 2020 09:54 PM (Sr48m)

50 I would have been first but I read the content. Rookie mistake.
Evening roonz and roonettez! I am currently ensconced at a hostelry in Huntingdon PA which I shall use as my base of operations this weekend as I do volunteer work at the East Broad Top Railroad.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 31, 2020 09:54 PM (m4FCY)

51 Russians did in the Soviet Union for 70 years...
Posted by: Flyover at July 31, 2020 09:52 PM (Rbu5d)

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They had state-subsidized vodka.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 09:54 PM (wPVhA)

52 Ummmm, somewhere in the 70s..

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 31, 2020 09:54 PM (VcFUs)

53 We will now return to our previously cancelled programming.

Posted by: Miklos, controlling the vertical for now at July 31, 2020 09:54 PM (QzkSJ)

54 Have you heard my new theory on butt plugs keeping anal covid gas from escaping in public? The simpering dDr Bricks thinks they look cute decorated as your favorite animal tail. Hers is the beaver tail Me? I a fan of the peacock. Hashtag save your gramma plug it in public.

Posted by: The Mischievous Dr Fauxi at July 31, 2020 09:55 PM (9dzlp)

55 Thank goodness, it's the end of the week.

I think EVERYONE in the world is on edge. No vacations, no stability, everything is up in the air.

People aren't meant to live like this.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 09:44 PM




The world-famous Sturgis Motorcycle Rally is still on this year, 07-16 AUG 20!

South Dakota...

Kristi Noem...

sturgismotorcyclerally.com

Posted by: Zettai at July 31, 2020 09:55 PM (5bF1m)

56 Lil dude garbage colllecter was my downfall.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 31, 2020 09:55 PM (VcFUs)

57 [BOOB PICS]

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2020 09:55 PM (zr5Kq)

58 I talked to a customer tonight that said she is canning like crazy because she thinks things may go bad around the election. She's up in a rural area and really hasn't been able to get out and shop much.

Posted by: notsothoreau at July 31, 2020 09:55 PM (JKNZq)

59 48 Insomniac - How are you doing in regard to the governors storm edict. 7 days worth of food and water?
Posted by: Panhandler at July 31, 2020 09:54 PM (S/rwf)

Must have missed that one. I'm not remotely concerned. It's barely a category 1.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 09:56 PM (NWiLs)

60 [COPY PASTE ENTIRE THREAD]

Posted by: tonight's barrel candidate at July 31, 2020 09:56 PM (yL25O)

61 People aren't meant to live like this.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas

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Also, the masks kill the little friendly interactions that used to occur many times a day. It's almost like it was planned to wipe out social cohesion, isn't it?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 09:52 PM (wPVhA)


This guy gets it:

http://americandigest.org/behind-the-mask-listen-closely-there-will-be-a-test/

Posted by: Amy Schumer at July 31, 2020 09:56 PM (AiZBA)

62 They had state-subsidized vodka.
Posted by: Cicero


You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Miklos, who remembers Stoli for 88 cents US at July 31, 2020 09:56 PM (QzkSJ)

63 Living the good life.

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 31, 2020 09:56 PM (fU1ci)

64 Thirst!

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at July 31, 2020 09:56 PM (4lVEh)

65 Who won tonight's struggle session between the Mavs and the Sonics?

Posted by: The Mischievous Dr Fauxi at July 31, 2020 09:56 PM (9dzlp)

66 WHY ALL THE SHOUTING??!!

.....

WHY NOT? I THINK IT'S A CAPITAL IDEA!

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 31, 2020 09:57 PM (18O9K)

67 Living in isolation is not normal, healthy or desirable. I should know.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 09:52 PM (NWiLs)

In all seriousness, I do not like how I am reacting with my daily life now.

I am angry.

I am suspicious.

I am defensive.

I avoid eye contact, but am still situationally aware.

I do not like this.

At all.

The fucking Left seems to be winning.

Dear Lord, give me strength.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at July 31, 2020 09:57 PM (x8Wzq)

68 sticky sock off

Posted by: DR.WTF at July 31, 2020 09:57 PM (AiZBA)

69 No vacations, no stability, everything is up in the air.

People aren't meant to live like this.

I havent had this much saved up vacation since my life without parole assignment to nuke duty on the Fulda Gap.


Posted by: BifBewalski at July 31, 2020 09:57 PM (VcFUs)

70 60 [COPY PASTE ENTIRE THREAD]
Posted by: tonight's barrel candidate at July 31, 2020 09:56 PM (yL25O)



[HILARIOUS COMMENT ABOUT GOING TO THE BARREL]

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 09:57 PM (wPVhA)

71 "You can not have a successful Marxist state with a strong middle class, so the middle class must be destroyed. "


This is why they are using COVID lockdowns to melt the economy.

Posted by: G. Gnome, Pickled Watermelon Rind Raider at July 31, 2020 09:57 PM (OQcPl)

72 Happy to report that the Tucker Carlson show got more views than the NBA opening game

Posted by: artemis at July 31, 2020 09:57 PM (AwPyG)

73 If we're doing twitter rants, here's one I think the horde would like about SCOMF.

https://twitter.com/montaga/status/1288939892924243968

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 31, 2020 09:57 PM (LWu6U)

74 Also, the masks kill the little friendly interactions that used to occur many times a day.

Yes! This a thousand times!! I miss that so much.

Posted by: Jewells45 at July 31, 2020 09:58 PM (dUJdY)

75 Feels like America is about to blow it's top off

Posted by: jsg at July 31, 2020 09:58 PM (xnChM)

76 I was going to drive the Baja up for the weekend, but after spending a couple of C notes on it the air conditioning still isn't working right, so the Mustang got the call. It's been a while since I took it on a road trip, so it was a good choice. The top was down from Raleigh to Richmond VA and then it started to rain, so I pulled over underneath a bridge and put the top back up. When I got into PA the weather had cleared enough to put the top back down again. All in all a pretty enjoyable trip.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 31, 2020 09:58 PM (m4FCY)

77 @71
Remember the old adage that there has never been a war between two countries with McDonalds? Because you wouldn't have McDonalds without a strong middle class.

Posted by: artemis at July 31, 2020 09:58 PM (AwPyG)

78 EH? HUH? WHAT'S THAT YA SAY?
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus

https://tinyurl.com/y3uzx8ot

Posted by: Helpful Miklos at July 31, 2020 09:59 PM (QzkSJ)

79 The RLUIPA legislation is tearing the shit out of local land zoning as well.

Posted by: BluesFish at July 31, 2020 09:59 PM (WQZ1O)

80 good evening all

Posted by: wing at July 31, 2020 09:59 PM (JFzNN)

81
[COPY PASTE ENTIRE THREAD]

Posted by: tonight's barrel candidate at July 31, 2020 09:56 PM (yL25O)

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[SURPRISE OTTER ANAL]

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at July 31, 2020 09:59 PM (4lVEh)

82 that cartoon shows why we need to get rid of ICE. Ocasio said so!

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 31, 2020 10:00 PM (4a9Vv)

83 good evening all
Posted by: wing at July 31, 2020 09:59 PM (JFzNN)

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Don't force YOUR reality on ME, fascist.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 10:00 PM (wPVhA)

84 How to spot a Communist:


Funny but accurate video


I suspect this gal would agree with me:


Awesome video

Posted by: TheQuietMan at July 31, 2020 10:01 PM (mMGWD)

85 Fuck the NFL.

Fuck the NBA.

Fuck MLB.

Someone needs to tell these assholes that nobody kneels except in subservience.

Like slaves to a Master.

So let them kneel, like the slaves that they are.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:01 PM (SRRAx)

86 Last time I drove the Wrangler, but the knobby tires and soft top does not make that vehicle a pleasant companion for interstate travel. The pony really enjoys the mountain roads, too, so she was able to stretch her wheels out a bit.

Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at July 31, 2020 10:01 PM (m4FCY)

87 Dont bother smiling under your mask. No one can see it. I have my buddy Joe at NIMH doing a study of surpressed happyness. Care to join the study?

Posted by: The Mischievous Dr Fauxi at July 31, 2020 10:01 PM (9dzlp)

88 GOOD EVENING WING

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2020 10:02 PM (zr5Kq)

89 Selective targeting...it works to stomp out insurrection.
They are waging a war, with little consequence. When the consequence comes, there can be NO mercy or pity!

Posted by: XPD at July 31, 2020 10:02 PM (ej32T)

90 they keep trying to pass bills here in #Failifornia that would pretty much do the same thing to most suburbs, as well as taking zoning away from local government...

to address the "housing crisis" you see...


Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at July 31, 2020 10:02 PM (4lVEh)

91 (And if you know anything about me, you know that it has taken over 50 years for me to say the word "Fuck", so the rest of the world had better watch out)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:03 PM (SRRAx)

92 to address the "housing crisis" you see...


Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at July 31, 2020 10:02 PM (4lVEh)

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Isn't it cool how government always needs to increase its power to address the problems created by government?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 10:04 PM (wPVhA)

93 ONT means it's past my bedtime. 'Night, y'all.

Posted by: Weasel at July 31, 2020 10:04 PM (MVjcR)

94 58 I talked to a customer tonight that said she is canning like crazy because she thinks things may go bad around the election. She's up in a rural area and really hasn't been able to get out and shop much.
Posted by: notsothoreau
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i bought 1/2 a cow

Posted by: harley at July 31, 2020 10:04 PM (bg4qY)

95 91 (And if you know anything about me, you know that it has taken over 50 years for me to say the word "Fuck", so the rest of the world had better watch out)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:03 PM (SRRAx)

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It was worth the wait. Now say it like you really mean it.

Again...

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 10:05 PM (wPVhA)

96 94 58 I talked to a customer tonight that said she is canning like crazy because she thinks things may go bad around the election. She's up in a rural area and really hasn't been able to get out and shop much.
Posted by: notsothoreau
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i bought 1/2 a cow
Posted by: harley at July 31, 2020 10:04 PM (bg4qY)

Front half or back half?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 10:05 PM (NWiLs)

97 Here's something I've puzzled over:

Why is the Brionna Taylor case a BLM thing?
It should be a strict matter of police incompetence, but since she happened to be black it's a racial thing?

Posted by: logprof at July 31, 2020 10:05 PM (oZuI0)

98 (And if you know anything about me, you know that it has taken over 50 years for me to say the word "Fuck", so the rest of the world had better watch out)

I've met you and I can say with 100% certainty that you are correct.

Posted by: Jewells45 at July 31, 2020 10:05 PM (dUJdY)

99 i bought 1/2 a cow
Posted by: harley at July 31, 2020 10:04 PM (bg4qY)

Front half or back half?
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 10:05 PM (NWiLs)

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Maybe it's syndicated.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 10:06 PM (wPVhA)

100 I bought guns so I could steal canned goods and 1/2 a cow once the burning times begin.

Posted by: jsg at July 31, 2020 10:06 PM (xnChM)

101
Remember the old adage that there has never been a war between two countries with McDonalds? Because you wouldn't have McDonalds without a strong middle class.
Posted by: artemis

=======

Well, China has McDonalds.... although only the upper class can afford it.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 10:06 PM (G51Gf)

102 Kristi Noem. Remember back when she had the bed-head hairdo? Hot.

Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at July 31, 2020 10:07 PM (ugtsu)

103 The Go-Go's, whom I love with the love of an 18 year old freshman in college in 1981, just came out with a new single called Club Zero.

This line of prose was heard amidst the melifilous lyrical magic:

"Zero fucks given!"

Already an earworm.

Fuck me, I am old.

Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick at July 31, 2020 10:07 PM (1YlHz)

104 87 Dont bother smiling under your mask. No one can see it. I have my buddy Joe at NIMH doing a study of surpressed happyness. Care to join the study?
Posted by: The Mischievous Dr Fauxi


I didnt realize how much i pretended to like people until i didnt have to pretend to have a happy face anymore. I must admit im gonna miss not having to pretend to be happy to see people when we get to take the damned masks off at work.

I phucking hate polite society. I phucking hate having to pretend to be non-feral to dumb shites i'd rather decapitate for being dumb shites. And i especially hate having to pretend to be 'tame' around the dumbass normies.

Deep breath.

Well bless your heart.

Want some iced sweet tea?

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 31, 2020 10:07 PM (VcFUs)

105 99 i bought 1/2 a cow
Posted by: harley at July 31, 2020 10:04 PM (bg4qY)

Front half or back half?
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 10:05 PM (NWiLs)

---------

Maybe it's syndicated.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)


middle plus the anus

Posted by: harley at July 31, 2020 10:07 PM (bg4qY)

106 I am resupplied and rolling like a juggernaut

Posted by: DB- just DB. Bird= the word at July 31, 2020 10:07 PM (iTXRQ)

107 Good evening, Horde.

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 10:08 PM (TdMsT)

108 So my county in Georgia just doubled down on the mask crap. Background, so Governor says no mask is required then my mayor, a big up and coming lefty, said nope we're not listening masks are still required. And now my county, also run by a lefty, has just put into effect a law that you can't even be outside alone without a mask.


You must exercise alone with a mask. The only time any human being can be without a mask is if they have a medical condition or be a school student in a county sanctioned event. I don't even see an allowance for being in a car.


As things wind down it's only getting crazier.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 31, 2020 10:08 PM (l6b3d)

109
Harris County Teen Gauleiter Lina Hidalgo says schools should be closed until September 8th and maybe longer. It's just as dangerous now as it was in March, she says.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2020 10:08 PM (mht8P)

110 Yahoo Ministry of Truth - deaths could hit 182k by Aug 22... gentlemen, we have a goal.

Posted by: A dude in MI




The real number is probably as low as 35K.

Every number we are told is a lie.

Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick at July 31, 2020 10:08 PM (1YlHz)

111 Nice ONT.

Posted by: eastofsuez at July 31, 2020 10:09 PM (U2zca)

112 you bought half a cow?

I married one. Ha ha

Posted by: Bill Clinton at July 31, 2020 10:09 PM (4a9Vv)

113 So We Beat On


Better that than, well, you know...


And that gets the obvious joke out of the way.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 31, 2020 10:09 PM (SchxB)

114 This Fauci POS needs a lynching.

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at July 31, 2020 10:09 PM (CLteG)

115
Someone needs to tell these assholes that nobody kneels except in subservience.

Like slaves to a Master.

So let them kneel, like the slaves that they are.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:01 PM (SRRAx)


{{{Teresa}}}

How right you are.

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 10:10 PM (TdMsT)

116 25 The ice cartoon is funny because it's true.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 31, 2020 09:45 PM (yQpMk)
---------------------------
Yes. I knew it.
I just KNEW they were plotting against us.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 31, 2020 10:10 PM (M/9m0)

117 (And if you know anything about me, you know that it has taken over 50 years for me to say the word "Fuck", so the rest of the world had better watch out)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:03 PM (SRRAx)


...only she didn't say "fudge".

Posted by: hogmartin at July 31, 2020 10:10 PM (t+qrx)

118 Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick at July 31, 2020 10:07 PM (1YlHz)

--I'll have to look that up.

Posted by: logprof at July 31, 2020 10:10 PM (oZuI0)

119 «««Ladyl!¸¸¸

Posted by: Zettai at July 31, 2020 10:10 PM (5bF1m)

120
If schools aren't going to reopen what the hell are we paying school taxes for?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2020 10:10 PM (mht8P)

121 Good evening Weird Dave and all hordelings!

Dave, you said "What a woman!" about Gladys Ingle. Don't you mean "What an individual who had a cervix!"????

Posted by: Doof at July 31, 2020 10:11 PM (mZUr4)

122 Bugger me dead...

Posted by: Zettai at July 31, 2020 10:11 PM (5bF1m)

123 .....ffffffffuuuuuuuuuddddge

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at July 31, 2020 10:11 PM (x8Wzq)

124 @101
Yeah, I think it was disproved pretty quickly. But the idea is interesting.

Posted by: artemis at July 31, 2020 10:11 PM (AwPyG)

125 That Calgary gal needs to cut back on the cannabis infused maple syrup.

And poor Vin Diesel is so desperate to get laid that he's hitting on strangers on the internet. Sad, rich bastard can't even get a woman in a pickup bar.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 31, 2020 10:11 PM (+lVUW)

126 Dear {{{Zettai}}}.

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 10:11 PM (TdMsT)

127 »»»

Posted by: Zettai at July 31, 2020 10:12 PM (5bF1m)

128 Logprof, ha

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 31, 2020 10:12 PM (fU1ci)

129 Bugger me dead...

Careful, Shep might hear you.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 31, 2020 10:12 PM (SchxB)

130 So let them kneel, like the slaves that they are.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

Do you, perhaps, have a periodical that one could subscribe to?

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 31, 2020 10:12 PM (VcFUs)

131 FUCK THE NFL
FUCK THE NBA
FUCK MLB
LEARN TO SKATE MOTHERFUCKERS

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at July 31, 2020 10:12 PM (CLteG)

132 It's just as dangerous now as it was in March, she says.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2020 10:08 PM (mht8P)


*shrug*

Could be. Who knows? She doesn't.

Posted by: hogmartin at July 31, 2020 10:13 PM (t+qrx)

133 It feels like we're the collateral damage in a game of chicken between the administration and the dems. I'd be a lot more patient if I had any clue who was going to win.

Posted by: artemis at July 31, 2020 10:13 PM (AwPyG)

134 Those icecubes have seen Braveheart AND 300.

>Please let this be a cautionary tail to NEVER have your drugs in the family fridge.

Well there's a thing.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at July 31, 2020 10:14 PM (LxTcq)

135 I heard the NHL is the only major sports thing that hasn't bent a knee to the current unpleasantness

Posted by: DB- just DB. Bird= the word at July 31, 2020 10:14 PM (iTXRQ)

136 if a guy gets drunk, gets on his motorcycle and hits a phone pole at 60 mph... it's a covid19 related death, because he tested positive so the covid might have had something to do with the accident.

could just as well blame it on the Black guys standing on the corner discussing the ball game. same logic.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 31, 2020 10:14 PM (4a9Vv)

137 120
If schools aren't going to reopen what the hell are we paying school taxes for?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2020 10:10 PM (mht8P)

taxes? Sounds like your privilege is showing, comrade
Those 'free' breakfast,lunch,dinner snacks for 13 years aint gonna pay for themselves!

Posted by: A dude in MI at July 31, 2020 10:15 PM (SxBH1)

138 Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick at July 31, 2020 10:07 PM (1YlHz)

--I'll have to look that up.

Posted by: logprof




https://youtu.be/dL_ZxNpPejE

Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick at July 31, 2020 10:15 PM (1YlHz)

139 I spent yesterday and last night in the hospital, after my second bout with ischemic colitis. The most painful thing I've ever head. They can't figure out why it is happening, other than low blood pressure and working out in the heat. My blood pressure in the hospital was 100/46. I don't know what this means for my summer program.

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 10:15 PM (TdMsT)

140
So let them kneel, like the slaves that they are.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:01 PM (SRRAx)


China says "kneel" and down they go.

Posted by: Russkilitlover at July 31, 2020 10:15 PM (99Nt9)

141 could just as well blame it on the Black guys standing on the corner discussing the ball game. same logic.
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 31, 2020 10:14 PM (4a9Vv)


LOL she said "logic" -- The left.

Posted by: DR.WTF at July 31, 2020 10:16 PM (AiZBA)

142 FUCK THE NFL
FUCK THE NBA
FUCK MLB
LEARN TO SKATE MOTHERFUCKERS
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth


#bringbacktonyaharding

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 10:16 PM (L2ZTs)

143 72 Happy to report that the Tucker Carlson show got more views than the NBA opening game
Posted by: artemis at July 31, 2020 09:57 PM (AwPyG)
-------------------------------
Good news, for once!

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 31, 2020 10:16 PM (M/9m0)

144 Los angeles metro busses now sport "metro is in solidairtitty with BLM blah blah" black square stickers next to the door. Got most of THAT shit peeled the bell right off.

Posted by: getting the banned back together, on drugs too at July 31, 2020 10:16 PM (Dwusl)

145 I am torn on the zoning issue. I live in Japan, and here there is very little zoning regulation. (mostly height and noise.) It is all mixed up and you can do whatever the f. you like with your property. Of course, this only works in Japan because they have a strong social structure and people respect their communities. This is only true because there is very low immigration.

So I see zoning restrictions as a bandaid on the real problem - crime, broken families, broken communities, and incompetent and corrupt government.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 31, 2020 10:16 PM (LWu6U)

146 In the past I've never been too het up about boycotting All The Sports.

But shit. They've all gone full-on retard.

Eh.

I'll continue to hike in the hills and beat the shit out of my Everlast Brand heavy bag.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at July 31, 2020 10:16 PM (x8Wzq)

147 135 I heard the NHL is the only major sports thing that hasn't bent a knee to the current unpleasantness
Posted by: DB- just DB. Bird= the word at July 31, 2020 10:14 PM (iTXRQ)

=============
No kneeling - but some of the forced "unity" stuff is getting attention. Hope it stays minimal at worst.

Posted by: Doof at July 31, 2020 10:17 PM (mZUr4)

148 Regarding the Zohar's overturned death sentence, I guess "simp" means "sympathetic wimp", right?

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 31, 2020 10:17 PM (2RBkF)

149 i bought 1/2 a cow

I did too. And a 1/2 a pig. Next I'm gonna buy 1/2 a chicken.

Gonna be a bitch to move all that meat, but I've figured out how.

Posted by: Weirddave at July 31, 2020 10:17 PM (CTvSA)

150 I shared earlier but, I enjoyed the video posted here earlier today of Jim Jordan toasting Dr. Fauci to a nice healthy crisp.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 10:18 PM (L2ZTs)

151 Fuck BLM.

Fuck Joe Biden.

Fuck Barack Obama.

Fuck Nancy Pelosi.

Fuck Chuck Schumer.

Fuck Jerry Nadler, that fat fuck.

Fuck Adam Schiff.

Fuck James Comey.

Fuck Peter Stroczk.

Fuck John Brennan.

Fuck James Clapper.

Fuck Robert Mueller.

Fuck Andrew McCabe.

Fuck Christopher Steele.

Fuck Hilary Clinton.

Fuck Sidney Blumenthal.

Fuck Rod Rosenstein.

Fuck all of the fucks who don't love this country.

Fuck them all to Hell.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:18 PM (SRRAx)

152 And what about that speck of gnat in your drink?

Do you pour your whole drink out, or try to drunk around the gnat which perniciously keeps gravitating towards your mouth no matter how you try to tilt your glass?


I axe ya.

Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 10:18 PM (XTyi0)

153 https://youtu.be/dL_ZxNpPejE
Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick at July 31, 2020 10:15 PM (1YlHz)

--Listening now . . .

Posted by: logprof at July 31, 2020 10:19 PM (oZuI0)

154 i bought 1/2 a cow

I did too. And a 1/2 a pig. Next I'm gonna buy 1/2 a chicken.

Gonna be a bitch to move all that meat, but I've figured out how.
Posted by: Weirddave


Hordies really know how to hang their meat!

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 10:19 PM (L2ZTs)

155 As things wind down it's only getting crazier.
Posted by: banana Dream


I thought that Kemp suspended all of the city/county mask requirements in GA on 7/15?

Posted by: G. Gnome, Pickled Watermelon Rind Raider at July 31, 2020 10:19 PM (OQcPl)

156 Last!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 31, 2020 10:19 PM (CjFDo)

157 i bought 1/2 a cow

I did too. And a 1/2 a pig. Next I'm gonna buy 1/2 a chicken.

Gonna be a bitch to move all that meat, but I've figured out how.
Posted by: Weirddave at July 31, 2020 10:17 PM (CTvSA)


I know an old lady who swallowed a cow.

Posted by: DR.WTF at July 31, 2020 10:19 PM (AiZBA)

158 Have a good night, folks.

I'm gonna go watch Sin City.

God bless y'all.

Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick at July 31, 2020 10:19 PM (1YlHz)

159 Yesss!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 31, 2020 10:19 PM (CjFDo)

160 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:18 PM (SRRAx)

---------

I think this qualifies as a manifesto.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 10:19 PM (wPVhA)

161 re 145: as per the great Prof Sowell, I understand many places in Texas have almost no zoning regulations, which might be why housing costs a lot less there than a lot of other places.

which is why people move there from Cal and still vote Dem.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 31, 2020 10:20 PM (4a9Vv)

162 @110

As has been said, the only legitimate COVID death would be a positive RNA viral test for the specific fragments and antibodies accompanied by a Pneumonia.


Anything else is bullshit and number jacking.


This is all bullshit.

And it has been from jump street.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 31, 2020 10:20 PM (UUc9n)

163 > i bought 1/2 a cow

I did too. And a 1/2 a pig. Next I'm gonna buy 1/2 a chicken.

Gonna be a bitch to move all that meat, but I've figured out how.
Posted by: Weirddave at July 31, 2020 10:17 PM (CTvSA)


Suture the whole mess together and let the meat do the walking.

Posted by: hogmartin at July 31, 2020 10:20 PM (t+qrx)

164 121 No

Posted by: Weirddave at July 31, 2020 10:20 PM (CTvSA)

165 . . . . . .


Fuck all of the fucks who don't love this country.

Fuck them all to Hell.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas

---

Good to see you are trying to make up for lost time!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 31, 2020 10:20 PM (6WCwE)

166 Teresa, no Fauci or CNN? :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 10:20 PM (L2ZTs)

167 You all really need to check out that twitter rant I posted above (NSFW), it is a hoot.


Thanks for the ONT WD, Looks like the frogs were eating cannabutter tonight. (what is cannabutter. Or rather, WHY is cannabutter.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 31, 2020 10:20 PM (LWu6U)

168 Hordies really know how to hang their meat!
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 10:19 PM (L2ZTs)

How can you have any pudding if you don't hang yer meat?!

Posted by: Misheard Floyd Lyrics at July 31, 2020 10:20 PM (SxBH1)

169 142 FUCK THE NFL
FUCK THE NBA
FUCK MLB
LEARN TO SKATE MOTHERFUCKERS
Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth

#bringbacktonyaharding
Posted by: qdpsteve
====
us portlanders know how to party

Posted by: harley at July 31, 2020 10:20 PM (bg4qY)

170 Strong social culture? What does this mean? Sounds really elitist/racist

Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 31, 2020 10:20 PM (fU1ci)

171
Love the Great Gatsby quote as the title, WD!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 31, 2020 10:21 PM (pNxlR)

172 Stoner was a legit gun designer. Not a John Moses Browning, mind you, but legit. Kalashnikov, not so much. His gun, if it really was his, is a mish-mash of stg 44, M1 garand, and the safety from an old remington model 8.

That said, the russkies knew how to design a rifle cartridge. Look at the 7.62x54R, which is still in use in machineguns. Why? The case is tapered, which aids feeding and extraction, and it is rimmed, which also aids extraction, especially in a belt fed weapon

Likewise, the 7.62x39 and 5.45x39 cases are tapered, which again assists functioning. It doesn't add accuracy, but inch of bad guy is generally good enough.

Posted by: eastofsuez at July 31, 2020 10:21 PM (U2zca)

173 How many Democrat governors do think will punish their states for going red on Election Day by ordering full blown lockdowns?

Sounds like a great excuse for PDT to move all the Social Security offices out of these states.

Posted by: PDT at July 31, 2020 10:21 PM (zEH23)

174 Teresa, no Fauci or CNN? :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 10:20 PM (L2ZTs)


We're gonna need a bigger blog.

Posted by: DR.WTF at July 31, 2020 10:21 PM (AiZBA)

175 next thing you know, Teresa shows her manhood by putting carrots in chili

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at July 31, 2020 10:21 PM (4a9Vv)

176 Ladyl, I'm not sure what that is and would prefer not to, but... take it easy and be well, OK?

Posted by: hogmartin at July 31, 2020 10:22 PM (t+qrx)

177 Is this Katelyn George chick a hottie? Do you have her contact information? I want to sign her up for my series of anti-Coronavirus injections.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2020 10:22 PM (dG6Ya)

178 Ordered some fresh ammo for the Go cans. Plus, found a couple cases of .22.

Posted by: My dog has no nose! at July 31, 2020 10:22 PM (UzOYI)

179 I don't know what this means for my summer program.
Posted by: Ladyl-

Geebus! Take care of yourself!

100/46 is not healthy. Please take it easy and dont push yourself.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 31, 2020 10:23 PM (VcFUs)

180 I spent yesterday and last night in the hospital,
after my second bout with ischemic colitis. The most painful thing I've
ever head. They can't figure out why it is happening, other than low
blood pressure and working out in the heat...............

Dehydration can cause an awful lot of bad crap..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 31, 2020 10:23 PM (CjFDo)

181 Don't halve a cow, man.

Posted by: Bart Simpson at July 31, 2020 10:23 PM (l3+k2)

182 WORD FOR WORD REPETITION OF THE SAME JOKE

Posted by: Amy Schumer at July 31, 2020 10:23 PM (2RBkF)

183 Teresa, no Fauci or CNN? :-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 10:20 PM (L2ZTs)


Gimme a minute, I need to catch my breath.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:23 PM (SRRAx)

184 176 Ladyl, I'm not sure what that is and would prefer not to, but... take it easy and be well, OK?
Posted by: hogmartin at July 31, 2020 10:22 PM (t+q


Thanks, Hogmartin. I don't know what it is, either. Just insane pain.

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 10:23 PM (TdMsT)

185 Weirddave, your housing experience is very similar to mine. My previous home was in a neighborhood of well kept smallish homes, mostly blue collar people lived there. A welfare mom with 3 daughters got a house through some government program. This was not a woman who was working poor. She was, flat out, too lazy to work. Within a few years the house turned into a smelly dump. I'm not kidding. You could smell it when you walked by. She was kicked out.

It was sold to a handyman/contractor/realtor. He did a ton of work on it, and made it look like new. It was sold to a young family with one child. You know, a family where the parents work. Homes, especially older homes, need work right along. People who are dysfunctional are unlikely to keep them up.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 31, 2020 10:24 PM (+lVUW)

186 Funny pic up top. The Yank has the AK, the Ruskie the M16?

Posted by: davidt at July 31, 2020 10:25 PM (l3+k2)

187 172

Likewise, the 7.62x39 and 5.45x39 cases are tapered, which again
assists functioning. It doesn't add accuracy, but inch of bad guy is
generally good enough.

Posted by: eastofsuez at July 31, 2020 10:21 PM (U2zca)


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

The 5.45x39 is a highly underrated round. I had a -74 for a few years, kind of wish I'd kept it.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 31, 2020 10:25 PM (+3rQF)

188 Thanks, Hogmartin. I don't know what it is, either. Just insane pain.
Posted by: Ladyl



Sorry to hear that Ladyl.

Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 10:25 PM (XTyi0)

189 Casual Friday ONT Compliance Pics

https://tinyurl.com/y3aqu66v

https://tinyurl.com/y4zaqjap

https://tinyurl.com/y39dyojb

https://tinyurl.com/y48lk8or

https://tinyurl.com/y2te3gqm

Posted by: kbdabear at July 31, 2020 10:25 PM (qAR6u)

190 151...
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:18 PM (SRRAx)

You forgot Antifa, dear.

Posted by: Flyover at July 31, 2020 10:26 PM (Rbu5d)

191 Like the GoGos song, very tuneful, very '80s.

Ah, to be, uh, 11 again.

Posted by: logprof at July 31, 2020 10:26 PM (oZuI0)

192 James Lebron lives in at least one yuge multi-million dollar house.

I am a white man living in an-almost-paid-off double-wide mobile home. yes!

*full-on Joe Pesci voice*

Tell me, James. Just how am I dragging you down?

Seriously. How the fuck am I dragging you down?

Look at you, yelling at white homeless people from your second-favorite Bentley as you drive to your air-conditioned gym.

Fuck you James Lebron!

fuck you!

Gawdamn fucking fuck!

Shit!

I need to go sit on my front deck with a beer.

*eye twitch*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at July 31, 2020 10:27 PM (x8Wzq)

193 How many Democrat governors do think will punish their states for going red on Election Day by ordering full blown lockdowns?



"The people have spoken and now they must be punished."

Posted by: Ed Koch as recalled by Miklos at July 31, 2020 10:27 PM (QzkSJ)

194 Kalashnikov, not so much.
Posted by: eastofsuez

Thank you. And I hate to pass on an opportunity to rant about the AK being a marxist commie gun. It was designed to be mass produced in a state factory and passed out to pheasants for purposes of revolution. It has (orignally) a lot of stampings which are best mass producted. It prioritizes low maintenance, low accuracy, low cost, and high reliability.

And once the state produces millions and pass them out and have a revolution, they start shipping them to neighbors. It is no coincidence that most shit-hole revolutionaries are armed with this WMD commie POS scourge on humanity.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 31, 2020 10:27 PM (LWu6U)

195 So, Antifa handed the Democratic politicians in Oregon a victory by failing to show up at the Federal courthouse last night, as Oregon state police started assuming responsibility for keeping the courthouse secure. (Interesting that Antifa is so centrally directed, isn't it?)

The politicians triumphally announced that last night's lack of violence shows that all the prior violence is Trump's fault, and once the Feds are no longer visible, violence ceases.

Two problems with this continuing:

First, Antifa hates the cops - all cops.

As one Antifa Twitter account put it:

F*ck the Feds, f*ck the Oregon State pigs, and f*ck the PPB.
Portland won't give up until we abolish them all.


Second, Antifa knows that they won't get the huge crowds without rioting. Rioting is a low-risk way of feeling that you are a noble member of The Resistance, and get an exciting endorphin rush along with your friends. Just standing around listening to boring political lectures doesn't do that.

So, we'll see how long the peace lasts.

And a Portland Antifa supporter demonstrates his ignorance of environmental contamination, or basic chemistry:

What if a couple blocks of downtown Portland becomes sort of a no-go zone Chernobyl for a few decades because research shows that everything near the justice center is officially unsafe for living working or breathing after two months of chemical assault

These people are really full of themselves.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 31, 2020 10:27 PM (I2/tG)

196 *obviously not pheasants.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 31, 2020 10:28 PM (LWu6U)

197 More Casual Friday ONT Compliance Pics

https://tinyurl.com/y2bqa8vo

https://tinyurl.com/y388u8l2

https://tinyurl.com/y3bysq47

https://tinyurl.com/yy2tek3b

https://tinyurl.com/y5g7utpw

Posted by: kbdabear at July 31, 2020 10:28 PM (qAR6u)

198 Fuck Fauci.

Fuck the CDC.

Fuck the WHO.

Fuck CNN.

Fuck MSNBC.

Fuck the New York Times.

Fuck the Washington Post.

Fuck the UN.

Fuck COVID-19.

Fuck all the liberal, Marxist fucks.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:28 PM (SRRAx)

199 And what about that speck of gnat in your drink?

Do you pour your whole drink out, or try to drunk around the gnat which perniciously keeps gravitating towards your mouth no matter how you try to tilt your glass?


I axe ya.

Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 10:18 PM



This very morning, as I was about to take that first sip of covfefe, something small and tan-coloured fell out of my nose and into my mug...

It floated there for a moment as I pondered whether to ignore it and drink up, get a fresh cup, or try and hook it out with a finger tip...

Then it sank to the bottom... I was tempted to ignore it and just not drink that last gulp, but then I wondered if the thing would stay at the bottom of the cup or dissolve...

I got a another cup!

Posted by: Zettai at July 31, 2020 10:28 PM (5bF1m)

200 This is insane, watching FOX, apparently a judge has ordered the Portland PD to not record rioters!!!!


How the hell is that even possibly legal?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 31, 2020 10:28 PM (UUc9n)

201 One more time on my testing, sorry folks.

Posted by: Saber Alter at July 31, 2020 10:28 PM (Je4FJ)

202 Teresa, do you take requests? I have a few personal ex-friends I'd like you to add to your list. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 10:29 PM (L2ZTs)

203 173 How many Democrat governors do think will punish their states for going red on Election Day by ordering full blown lockdowns?

Sounds like a great excuse for PDT to move all the Social Security offices out of these states.
Posted by: PDT at July 31, 2020 10:21 PM (zEH23)

Our governor Holcombe [spit] is purportedly a Republican, and issued a mandatory mask order for public spaces.

Posted by: Flyover at July 31, 2020 10:30 PM (Rbu5d)

204 This is insane, watching FOX, apparently a judge has ordered the Portland PD to not record rioters!!!!


How the hell is that even possibly legal?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 31, 2020 10:28 PM (UUc9n)

It ain't. But,,,

*pisses on legal precedent*

Posted by: Pug Mahon, of the Butte Mahons at July 31, 2020 10:30 PM (x8Wzq)

205 It is no coincidence that most shit-hole revolutionaries are armed with this WMD commie POS scourge on humanity.

AK's are on the flags of Mozambique and Hezbollah.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 31, 2020 10:30 PM (I2/tG)

206 TikTok is officially cancelled.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 31, 2020 10:30 PM (sGotD)

207 Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:28 PM (SRRAx)

--Hello, none of the Squaw Squad in there????

Posted by: logprof at July 31, 2020 10:30 PM (oZuI0)

208 190 151...
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:18 PM (SRRAx)

You forgot Antifa, dear.
Posted by: Flyover at July 31, 2020 10:26 PM (Rbu5d)


Fuck you!

(Sorry, got carried away there)
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.
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Fuck Antifa, too.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:31 PM (SRRAx)

209 91 (And if you know anything about me, you know that it has taken over 50 years for me to say the word "Fuck", so the rest of the world had better watch out)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:03 PM (SRRAx)

I still haven't said it.

Can't bring myself to say it.

But yesterday when that scarf wearing Dr. Twit was on all bubbly and vacant talking like a middle school girl about face masks and "We think they can block this, and we think they can stop that. And you can decorate them!11!!"

I said to the TV. "Sideways, lady, with a flaming, barbwire wrapped pineapple."

I'm glad hubby wasn't home to hear it.

Posted by: Just Lily at July 31, 2020 10:31 PM (rw1l7)

210 IIRC, cannabis/THC is oil soluble (why traces stay in the body so long- gets trapped in fat deposits.) A fat wash of pot would probably be a pretty good transfer.

Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2020 10:31 PM (cI3Q7)

211 And what about that speck of gnat in your drink?

Do you pour your whole drink out, or try to drunk around the gnat which perniciously keeps gravitating towards your mouth no matter how you try to tilt your glass?


I axe ya.

Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 10:18 PM (XTyi0)



It's bonus protein.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 31, 2020 10:31 PM (yQpMk)

212 Ice Ice Baby

Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 31, 2020 10:31 PM (2RBkF)

213
Fuck all the liberal, Marxist fucks.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:28 PM (SRRAx)



You are doing a fantastic job.

Keep going.

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 10:31 PM (TdMsT)

214 Teresa, no Fauci or CNN? :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 10:20 PM (L2ZTs)



We're gonna need a bigger blog.

Posted by: DR.WTF at July 31, 2020 10:21 PM (AiZBA)


Fauci needs to be pressed into nadler's ass and fired into the sun. That alone saves a ton of room.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 31, 2020 10:32 PM (9Om/r)

215 (all that said, from an engineering standpoint, it is a nice gun.) I also stand in support of all gun ownership, including commie guns.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 31, 2020 10:32 PM (LWu6U)

216 IrishEi, really??? How so???

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 10:32 PM (L2ZTs)

217 TikTok is officially cancelled.
Posted by: IrishEi


Ok! Is that good?

Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 10:32 PM (XTyi0)

218 Story in the WSJ that Microsoft is about to acquire TikTok.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 10:34 PM (L2ZTs)

219 This is insane, watching FOX, apparently a judge has ordered the Portland PD to not record rioters!!!!

It makes the rioters look bad, after all.

Only pro-Antifa "journalists" should be allowed to release video of the riots, after it has been suitably sanitized, of course.

A simple solution is for the police to simply embed some journalists behind their lines to independently record video. The cops don't control the footage, and they could argue that since journalists who aren't pro-Antifa are beaten at the riots, it is a way for non-Antifa journalists to be present that would be impossible otherwise.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 31, 2020 10:34 PM (I2/tG)

220 And what about that speck of gnat in your drink?

Do you pour your whole drink out, or try to drunk around the gnat which perniciously keeps gravitating towards your mouth no matter how you try to tilt your glass?


I axe ya.

Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 10:18 PM (XTyi0)


It's bonus protein.
Posted by: Grump928(C)


This is one where we agree.

How can I justify pouring out an adult beverage for a gnat? What can it hurt?

Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 10:34 PM (XTyi0)

221 I found out today there was a BLM protest in our little county a couple weeks ago. Word got out on Facebook they were headed to the Veterans Cemetery outside the county seat to tear down the flag and smash some headstones, then go to an older cemetery nearby and do the same to some Confederate graves. About a hundred or so local rednecks showed up to protect both places, and our sheriff tracked down the yahoos, gave them a ride out of there, and told them in no uncertain terms not to try it again.

And the best part was, the "marchers" turned out to be two black guys and three fat white women from two counties over. Figures.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 31, 2020 10:34 PM (Vgw1E)

222 Okay, so a bunch of overpaid athletes kneel during the national anthem. Whose lives are improved by this? Low income black people in Baltimore are better off because of this?

Also, on the list of activities that do not better anyone's life: wearing colored ribbons, knocking down statues of whoever, getting rid of confederate flags, rioting, and encouraging celebrities to think that their opinions are worth listening to.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 31, 2020 10:34 PM (+lVUW)

223 Stoner was a legit gun designer. Not a John Moses Browning, mind you, but legit. Kalashnikov, not so much. His gun, if it really was his, is a mish-mash of stg 44, M1 garand, and the safety from an old remington model 8.

That said, the russkies knew how to design a rifle cartridge. Look at the 7.62x54R, which is still in use in machineguns. Why? The case is tapered, which aids feeding and extraction, and it is rimmed, which also aids extraction, especially in a belt fed weapon

Likewise, the 7.62x39 and 5.45x39 cases are tapered, which again assists functioning. It doesn't add accuracy, but inch of bad guy is generally good enough.
Posted by: eastofsuez at July 31, 2020 10:21 PM (U2zca)

Regardless, it is one hell of an historic photo.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2020 10:35 PM (dG6Ya)

224 200 This is insane, watching FOX, apparently a judge has ordered the Portland PD to not record rioters!!!!
==========

Its time to just ignore these commie judges. What are they going to do? Portland PD should do what they want.

Posted by: Pliney at July 31, 2020 10:35 PM (nzKWW)

225
Thank you. And I hate to pass on an opportunity to rant about the AK being a marxist commie gun. It was designed to be mass produced in a state factory and passed out to pheasants for purposes of revolution. It has (orignally) a lot of stampings which are best mass producted. It prioritizes low maintenance, low accuracy, low cost, and high reliability.

And once the state produces millions and pass them out and have a revolution, they start shipping them to neighbors. It is no coincidence that most shit-hole revolutionaries are armed with this WMD commie POS scourge on humanity.


All true, and yet by the metric of fulfilling its designed purpose, it is undoubtedly the best gun in history. Beat it, burn it, bury it, run it over with a tank, and illiterate peasants can still use it to kill a lot of highly trained western soldiers.

I'm not an AK fanboi, far from it, but give the devil his due.

Posted by: Weirddave at July 31, 2020 10:35 PM (CTvSA)

226 as cases rise...'experts' eye air conditioning....SHUT IT DOWN, the AC is killing you!!!

Get FkD!

Posted by: A dude in MI at July 31, 2020 10:35 PM (SxBH1)

227 {{{Ladyl }}}

Glad you are here and still able to comment!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 31, 2020 10:35 PM (VrS9o)

228 Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok, as US considers banning the app (link to Wall Street Journal)

https://tinyurl.com/y3v3fbsl

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 10:36 PM (L2ZTs)

229 100/46 is not healthy. Please take it easy and dont push yourself.

That's B'Gal's average BP. But she has pulmonary hypertension, so you're right. You should see the nurses and their second take when they measure it.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 10:36 PM (HaL55)

230
Our governor Holcombe [spit] is purportedly a Republican, and issued a mandatory mask order for public spaces.
Posted by: Flyover


And it lasts (at least) until the end of August. His opponent says he isn't doing ENOUGH!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2020 10:37 PM (aKsyK)

231 Its time to just ignore these commie judges. What are they going to do? Portland PD should do what they want.
Posted by: Pliney at July 31, 2020 10:35 PM (nzKWW)

More importantly- who the fuck is going to stop them? Is the judge going to demand the police arrest themselves?

The stupidity, it burns.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2020 10:37 PM (cI3Q7)

232 Just FYI after my testing for AoS comments: apparently if you have CyberGhost's VPN's extension, it doesn't work with Minx. It'll filter out your comments, apparently. (Probably as spam)

CyberGhost seems to be kind of crap anyway, but there you go. Anyway.

"Okay, so a bunch of overpaid athletes kneel during the national anthem. Whose lives are improved by this? Low income black people in Baltimore are better off because of this?

Also, on the list of activities that do not better anyone's life: wearing colored ribbons, knocking down statues of whoever, getting rid of confederate flags, rioting, and encouraging celebrities to think that their opinions are worth listening to.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 31, 2020 10:34 PM (+lVUW)"

It makes the people doing it feel good or at least lessen the feelings of worthlessness from being worthless. Which is all this kind of virtue-signaling is intended to do, even if the virtue-signalers will never admit it. Everything is all about them, and any kind of good they manage to accomplish is entirely accidental.

Posted by: Saber Alter at July 31, 2020 10:38 PM (Je4FJ)

233
His opponent says he isn't doing ENOUGH!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

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Opponent is a Democrat or a (shudder) primary challenger?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 10:38 PM (G51Gf)

234 Posted by: kbdabear at July 31, 2020 10:25 PM (qAR6u)

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I'm so thankful I follow you on Twitter. Lovely photos of individuals with cervixes. Or is it cervi?

Posted by: Doof at July 31, 2020 10:38 PM (mZUr4)

235 I'm not an AK fanboi, far from it, but give the devil his due.

Several histories of the AK-47 have been written.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 31, 2020 10:38 PM (I2/tG)

236 227 {{{Ladyl }}}

Glad you are here and still able to comment!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 31, 2020 10:35 PM (VrS9o)


{{{Hrothgar}}}

Hope you had a great party today!

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 10:39 PM (TdMsT)

237 Sorry to be 33 minutes late on previous thread, and I will accept full punishment, but am I the only one who thinks that covid cases are increasing due to both increased testing AND a recent, massive volumetric importation of the virus by a truly evil person or group?

Posted by: Al Unsure at July 31, 2020 10:39 PM (Jib4S)

238 152 And what about that speck of gnat in your drink?
Do you pour your whole drink out, or try to drunk around the gnat which perniciously keeps gravitating towards your mouth no matter how you try to tilt your glass?

Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 10:18 PM (XTyi0)
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If I'm at home, I try to extract it with a spoon or a dab of paper towel. Sometimes I lose patience and end up sloppily fishing it out by hand.

If I am in the company of others, I pretend it's not there. Or rather, I try to gulp it down as quickly as possible so I can forget about it and maintain my dignity.

Yes. Dignity.
That's me.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at July 31, 2020 10:39 PM (M/9m0)

239 Anybody seen flounder recently?

Posted by: Mr. Barky at July 31, 2020 10:39 PM (Z2ITQ)

240 *obviously not pheasants.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 31, 2020 10:28 PM (LWu6U)

"He sure was", sighed the pregnant blonde.

Posted by: Just the Punchline at July 31, 2020 10:40 PM (dG6Ya)

241 230


Our governor Holcombe [spit] is purportedly a Republican, and issued a mandatory mask order for public spaces.

Posted by: Flyover



And it lasts (at least) until the end of August. His opponent says he isn't doing ENOUGH!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2020 10:37 PM (aKsyK)


I will not vote for that assclown. Nor will I vote for the Dem. I will vote 3rd party, or write in my dog. And I guarantee he extends the mask sharia until the end of the year at least.

Posted by: Mookie at July 31, 2020 10:40 PM (3vIkC)

242 239 Anybody seen flounder recently?
Posted by: Mr. Barky at July 31, 2020 10:39 PM (Z2ITQ)

He was on earlier. Something about a nail gun and an appendage.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2020 10:40 PM (cI3Q7)

243 Anybody seen flounder recently?
Posted by: Mr. Barky at July 31, 2020 10:39 PM (Z2ITQ)



Does he owe you money ?

Posted by: runner at July 31, 2020 10:40 PM (zr5Kq)

244
[INSERT CLEVER BON MOT HERE]
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 09:43 PM (wPVhA)






Huh huh huh huh huh

You said "insert".

Huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at July 31, 2020 10:40 PM (EGyGV)

245
am I the only one who thinks that covid cases are increasing due to both increased testing AND a recent, massive volumetric importation of the virus by a truly evil person or group?
Posted by: Al Unsure

========

I don't think there's been a massive importation. I just think the numbers are utterly unreliable.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 10:41 PM (G51Gf)

246
Opponent is a Democrat or a (shudder) primary challenger?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


Democrat opponent (who is an M.D.) in November.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2020 10:41 PM (aKsyK)

247 235
I'm not an AK fanboi, far from it, but give the devil his due.



Several histories of the AK-47 have been written.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 31, 2020 10:38 PM (I2/tG)


The best thing about the AK is it will not jam. Not accurate, but not jamming is a feature for sure.

Posted by: Mookie at July 31, 2020 10:41 PM (3vIkC)

248 Oh, yeah - the Granddaddy of them all:

Fuck George Soros.

May he rot in the shittiest, deepest cesspool in the darkest, hottest, lowest level of Hell.

While sitting on the most tumescent part of the barbed cock of Satan.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:42 PM (SRRAx)

249 243 Anybody seen flounder recently?
Posted by: Mr. Barky at July 31, 2020 10:39 PM (Z2ITQ)

Does he owe you money ?
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2020 10:40 PM (zr5Kq)

*casually tests edge of knife*

We could find him for ye, if'n the price was right.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2020 10:42 PM (cI3Q7)

250 Things get better in Portland:

(Federal) Judge Simon says he's considering an order that would "redefine 'journalist' as someone who is authorized by the ACLU."

So the ACLU gets to define who is and who isn't a "journalist".

Think Andy Ngo will qualify?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 31, 2020 10:42 PM (I2/tG)

251 157 i bought 1/2 a cow

I did too. And a 1/2 a pig. Next I'm gonna buy 1/2 a chicken.

Gonna be a bitch to move all that meat, but I've figured out how.
Posted by: Weirddave


My mom used to get a side of beef. They would deliver it to the house. She would throw out certain parts, the brain, kidneys, tongue, and some stuff I'm not sure what it was.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 31, 2020 10:42 PM (+lVUW)

252 May he rot in the shittiest, deepest cesspool in the darkest, hottest, lowest level of Hell.

While sitting on the most tumescent part of the barbed cock of Satan.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:42 PM (SRRAx)

I am still surprised that Israel has not closed that particular bit of Family business.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2020 10:43 PM (cI3Q7)

253 Fuck them all to Hell.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:18 PM (SRRAx)

I love you.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 31, 2020 10:43 PM (ufFY8)

254 Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody wang chung tonight....

Posted by: Mookie at July 31, 2020 10:43 PM (3vIkC)

255 Night Mookie.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2020 10:43 PM (cI3Q7)

256 Indiana has gone to hell ever since we went on Daylight Saving time.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2020 10:43 PM (aKsyK)

257 these thousands upon thousands who test 'positive' each day, how many of these are actually sick? I never see that mentioned

Posted by: A dude in MI at July 31, 2020 10:43 PM (SxBH1)

258 231 Its time to just ignore these commie judges. What are they going to do? Portland PD should do what they want.
Posted by: Pliney at July 31, 2020 10:35 PM (nzKWW)

More importantly- who the fuck is going to stop them? Is the judge going to demand the police arrest themselves?

The stupidity, it burns.
Posted by: Aetius451AD


When those traitorous phucks are scared to rule liberally...then they will be obeyed and the rule of man will subside and soft men will take charge. The wheel of time wobbles, but runs the same well worn rut.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 31, 2020 10:43 PM (VcFUs)

259 > Story in the WSJ that Microsoft is about to acquire TikTok.

I suspect they're only going to be willing to pay fire sale prices now, if that.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 10:44 PM (unn44)

260 ..Harris County Teen Gauleiter Lina Hidalgo says schools should be closed until September 8th and maybe longer. It's just as dangerous now as it was in March, she says.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2020 10:08 PM (mht8P)



Good thing then, that Texas' Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued a ruling that County and City Governments do NOT have blanket authority to close an Independent School District.

Mr. Paxton explained that the law creating such districts has actual teeth as to the INDEPENDENCE of said districts, from the political enclaves in which they function.

So, Little Miss Comandante can take her "edict", and meditate on it's similar phonic to "eat a dick."

Which might at least shut her the hell up for a moment, anyway.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 31, 2020 10:44 PM (QzJWU)

261 Okay, so a bunch of overpaid athletes kneel during the national anthem. Whose lives are improved by this? Low income black people in Baltimore are better off because of this?

Also, on the list of activities that do not better anyone's life: wearing colored ribbons, knocking down statues of whoever, getting rid of confederate flags, rioting, and encouraging celebrities to think that their opinions are worth listening to.
Posted by: nerdygirl

How about cutting illegal workers who take black jobs and driving down energy costs so the economy booms.

Posted by: Jean at July 31, 2020 10:44 PM (NuzQs)

262 That Teresa girl is making really great points here tonight!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 31, 2020 10:44 PM (VrS9o)

263 Do you pour your whole drink out, or try to drunk around the gnat which
perniciously keeps gravitating towards your mouth no matter how you try
to tilt your glass?




If he's not swimming too fast, I can get him to stick on the end of my finger and send him on his way again, airborne.
We have some critter down here that looks like a giant mosquito. I'm talking 1-1/2 inches across. Had one land in my coffee cup one morning first thing as soon as I stepped out on the back porch of stately Casa Backwardio. He drank almost half of it before I could pour him out and get another cup of the Elixir of Life.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 10:44 PM (HaL55)

264 We have had two more cases at the site where I work (all on dayshift so far.) They shut down one of the lines all day in order to clean.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2020 10:44 PM (cI3Q7)

265 230
Our governor Holcombe [spit] is purportedly a Republican, and issued a mandatory mask order for public spaces.
Posted by: Flyover

And it lasts (at least) until the end of August. His opponent says he isn't doing ENOUGH!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2020 10:37 PM (aKsyK)

[facepalm]

I regret thatI voted for him.

Posted by: Flyover at July 31, 2020 10:44 PM (Rbu5d)

266 c'mon it's not even 9 o'clock

Posted by: DB- just DB. Bird= the word at July 31, 2020 10:45 PM (iTXRQ)

267 > Russians did in the Soviet Union for 70 years...

Which is why their society is so awesomely functional now.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 10:45 PM (unn44)

268 Fuck Antifa, too.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:31 PM (SRRAx)

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Teresa - any chance you're a Game of Thrones fan? You and The Hound speak very similarly!

https://youtu.be/5g9zxduFtSM

Posted by: Doof at July 31, 2020 10:45 PM (mZUr4)

269
Opponent is a Democrat or a (shudder) primary challenger?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Democrat opponent (who is an M.D.) in November.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

=========

Thank you. I hope the R governor doesn't get into a shutdown contest with him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 10:45 PM (G51Gf)

270 Anybody seen flounder recently?
Posted by: Mr. Barky at July 31, 2020 10:39 PM (Z2ITQ)

Does he owe you money ?
Posted by: runner at July 31, 2020 10:40 PM (zr5Kq)

*casually tests edge of knife*

We could find him for ye, if'n the price was right.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2020 10:42 PM (cI3Q7)


Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this flounda' for ya, but it ain't gonna be easy.

Posted by: hogmartin at July 31, 2020 10:46 PM (t+qrx)

271 Browning, Stoner, and Kalashnikov are the Trinity, and Ian McCollum is their prophet.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 10:46 PM (unn44)

272 Backing off on zoning laws is one thing, but what really messes up a neighborhood is low income housing. Pretty much every murder in my region is committed by someone from low income housing.Of course if you are in the market for meth or heroin, low income housing is where you go to buy. So I guess if you are a junkie low income housing is a good thing.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 31, 2020 10:46 PM (+lVUW)

273 256
Indiana has gone to hell ever since we went on Daylight Saving time.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2020 10:43 PM (aKsyK)

I moved here 2-1/2 years ago. The worst thing about IN by far is the fact the state is on the wrong freaking time zone. It's a total joke.

Posted by: Mookie at July 31, 2020 10:46 PM (3vIkC)

274 Teresa has the soul of a poet.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 10:46 PM (NWiLs)

275 Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. I'll catch this flounda' for ya, but it ain't gonna be easy.
Posted by: hogmartin at July 31, 2020 10:46 PM (t+qrx)

Perfect.

*golfclap*

Well played, sir.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2020 10:46 PM (cI3Q7)

276 IrishEi, really??? How so???
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 10:32 PM (L2ZTs)
~~~~~

PDT told the reporters on AF1.

Posted by: IrishEi at July 31, 2020 10:47 PM (sGotD)

277 253
Fuck them all to Hell.



Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 10:18 PM (SRRAx)

I love you.



Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at July 31, 2020 10:43 PM (ufFY

I fucking love you too!

Posted by: Al Swearingen at July 31, 2020 10:47 PM (ufFY8)

278 Fuck George Soros.



May he rot in the shittiest, deepest cesspool in the darkest, hottest, lowest level of Hell.



While sitting on the most tumescent part of the barbed cock of Satan.


A woman after me own heart...

Well done.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 10:47 PM (HaL55)

279 Flounder was picking up his son (I think) and a kayak. Off to have fun.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 31, 2020 10:47 PM (YynYJ)

280 The best thing about the AK is it will not jam. Not accurate, but not jamming is a feature for sure.
Posted by: Mookie

It can jam

Posted by: Jean at July 31, 2020 10:47 PM (NuzQs)

281 > It's just as dangerous now as it was in March, she says.

Funny how the actual number (which are overinflated in the bargain) say different:


https//tinyurl.com/wu-flu-deaths

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 10:48 PM (unn44)

282 255
Night Mookie.



Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2020 10:43 PM (cI3Q7)


Face like Spock, inquisitively....

Posted by: Mookie at July 31, 2020 10:49 PM (3vIkC)

283
I moved here 2-1/2 years ago. The worst thing about IN by far is the fact the state is on the wrong freaking time zone. It's a total joke.
Posted by: Mookie


Indianapolis has a bad case of New York City envy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2020 10:49 PM (aKsyK)

284 And then Hogmartin left, started up his hog, sped off into the Arizona desert, and blew up a hare with a hand grenade... ;-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 10:49 PM (L2ZTs)

285 these thousands upon thousands who test 'positive' each day, how many of these are actually sick? I never see that mentioned
Posted by: A dude in MI at July 31, 2020 10:43 PM (SxBH1)

Even though these worthless chair warming bureaucrats had one job for thirty plus years, understanding epidemics, they have not presented any data in a meaningful manner, and did even bother to present fundamental rules for counting death by Covid.,
A pox on all their houses!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 31, 2020 10:50 PM (VrS9o)

286 Every gun can jam. AK's are reliable, though. They can even be accurate, if you get good ammo and an optic.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at July 31, 2020 10:50 PM (d1uFV)

287 It can jam

Posted by: Jean at July 31, 2020 10:47 PM (NuzQs)


Do tell.

Posted by: Mookie at July 31, 2020 10:50 PM (3vIkC)

288 My niece is a country girl, born and raised on a farm. Yesterday she told me she was really, finally, worried for our country. She doesn't watch any MSM and gets her information from talking to people in her community. She said she was really worried because people were reaching the tipping point. They have had just about enough of masks, black lives, kneeling and looting. It wont take much more for them to say f#$%k you all. And when they finally do this, nothing will be the same. I had to agree. Something has to give eventually.

Posted by: Megthered at July 31, 2020 10:50 PM (T38ed)

289 > Indiana has gone to hell ever since we went on Daylight Saving time.

Didn't Indiana used to have like 4 different time zones, depending on what city you were in (if any) and whether or not that part of the state observed DST?

Memory says that part of it was Eastern, observing DST (parts near cities in neighboring states on Eastern), parts on Eastern, not observing DST, parts on Central, observing DST, and parts on Central, not observing DST.

For most of the state is was moot, because corn doesn't give a shit what time the clock says.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 10:51 PM (unn44)

290 237...
covid cases are increasing due to both increased testing AND a recent, massive volumetric importation of the virus by a truly evil person or group?
Posted by: Al Unsure at July 31, 2020 10:39 PM (Jib4S)

In March, the CDC defined "case" as a person seriously ill, in the hospital.

At some time during this fiasco (and I don't remember exactly what Angelo Codavilla said), the CDC changed the definition to "positive test result."

As anyone with a brain knows, false positives are in the 40% range (Last I read). A positive test can be had if you had a little cold in the recent past, as admitted by the CDC.

All retests are counted as "new cases."

It is a scam all the way down, up, and sideways.

Posted by: Flyover at July 31, 2020 10:51 PM (Rbu5d)

291 then my mayor, a big up and coming lefty, said nope we're not listening masks are still required

a fookin MAYOR can issue orders? Fuck them!

Posted by: free tibet at July 31, 2020 10:51 PM (t9hDs)

292 My understanding is that in the recent - post HIV and high immigration driven - TB resurgence, the courts said that the state CAN NOT force those who are infected to take medication every day, or confine them in any way. (Instead they send social workers around and bribe them each day to take the damn meds.)

So this mask BS seems to be quite a turn around. Did someone find some new rights eminatin' from the penumbra again?

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 31, 2020 10:51 PM (LWu6U)

293 Teresa's got her inner Patton rolling hot. Give her 400,000 gallons of gas and she'll be in Portland in a week.

https://youtu.be/nN1oTf7Lsl0

Posted by: Numbuh Two, 2x4 Technology Operative at July 31, 2020 10:52 PM (YWBlw)

294 283


I moved here 2-1/2 years ago. The worst thing about IN by far is
the fact the state is on the wrong freaking time zone. It's a total
joke.

Posted by: Mookie



Indianapolis has a bad case of New York City envy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2020 10:49 PM (aKsyK)


Fortunately I am in Hendricks county, but I have to go to Marion county for projects. Even so, the sharia mask mandate pretty much says I will do curbside for the foreseeable future...

Posted by: Mookie at July 31, 2020 10:52 PM (3vIkC)

295 So this mask BS seems to be quite a turn around. Did someone find some new rights eminatin' from the penumbra again?
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 31, 2020 10:51 PM (LWu6U)

Surrounded by miasma.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 10:53 PM (NWiLs)

296 200 This is insane, watching FOX, apparently a judge has ordered the Portland PD to not record rioters!!!!


How the hell is that even possibly legal?
Posted by: Thomas Bender


More proof that democrats and liberals are pro criminal.

Posted by: nerdygirl at July 31, 2020 10:53 PM (+lVUW)

297 > Not accurate, but not jamming is a feature for sure.

More or less muturally incompatible. Not jamming = sloppy tolerances = inaccuracy. While that's not 100% true, it's pretty close to true.

The AK-47 is great if you have to hand them out by the thousands to illiterate opium farmers in Outer Jackoffistan who don't even clean their own asses, much grasp the concept of cleaning and maintaining a weapon.




Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 10:53 PM (unn44)

298 The people are sovereign, and we select people to represent us in our form of government. Shame on us when we do not do any due diligence when we elect these nasty communist cocksuckers.


I do not consent to be governed this way.


Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 31, 2020 10:53 PM (ufFY8)

299 LadyL, prayers.
Are you anemic?

Posted by: vmom 2020 cancel all pronouns at July 31, 2020 10:53 PM (TOyHQ)

300 You know one thing that has bothered me for around 20 years: what the hell is Quint eating during the town meeting? Potato chips? Crackers? Pieces of an apple?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2020 10:54 PM (cI3Q7)

301 Surrounded by miasma.

It's everywhere!!!

Posted by: A Scold of Karens at July 31, 2020 10:54 PM (EgshT)

302 257 these thousands upon thousands who test 'positive' each day, how many of these are actually sick? I never see that mentioned
Posted by: A dude in MI at July 31, 2020 10:43 PM (SxBH1)


Some nurses at a clinic performed an experiment. They sent in unused Covid tests. The tests came back positive.

Posted by: Emmie at July 31, 2020 10:54 PM (+ljgK)

303
PDT told the reporters on AF1.
Posted by: IrishEi

=======

But what did he mean exzactly? I know consortiums of American investors have been talking about getting a percentage of TikTok and then recoding it or whatever for an American market, but what does "canceled" mean, especially for software?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 10:54 PM (G51Gf)

304
Fortunately I am in Hendricks county

Me too

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2020 10:55 PM (aKsyK)

305 299 LadyL, prayers.
Are you anemic?
Posted by: vmom 2020 cancel all pronouns at July 31, 2020 10:53 PM (TOyHQ)

Thank you, vmom! I'm not anemic.

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 10:55 PM (TdMsT)

306 >>> I thought that Kemp suspended all of the city/county mask requirements in GA on 7/15?
Posted by: G. Gnome, Pickled Watermelon Rind Raider at July 31, 2020 10:19 PM (OQcPl)


The mayor of of Savannah refused the order based on the principle of orange man bad/ republican governor and in unity with mayor Karen Ass Spear of Atlanta.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 31, 2020 10:55 PM (l6b3d)

307 {{{Ladyl}}}

The rain held off so we could sit outside and enjoy the conversation, so it was a nice evening!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 31, 2020 10:55 PM (VrS9o)

308 > I know consortiums of American investors have been talking about getting a percentage of TikTok and then recoding it or whatever for an American market, but what does "canceled" mean, especially for software?

Tiktok relies on sending data to and from servers in China.

Trump can order traffic to those IP addresses blocked, on the grounds of national security.

And he should.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 10:56 PM (unn44)

309 Living in Bloomington was awesome back in the day- never had to change your clocks. Fuck the world.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2020 10:56 PM (cI3Q7)

310 So We Beat On, An ONT Against The Current, Borne Back Ceaselessly Into The Past

I hate "The Great Gatsby". My sophomore-year high school English teacher spent the entire semester on it, so I have never read "To Kill a Mockingbird", "The Catcher in the Rye", and a few other titles I forget.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 31, 2020 10:56 PM (d/5jB)

311 an old remington model 8

Posted by: eastofsuez at July 31, 2020 10:21 PM (U2zca)

I was at a gathering of Morons last summer and one of them brought a Remington Model 8.

He's lucky I didn't steal it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 31, 2020 10:56 PM (dLLD6)

312 307 {{{Ladyl}}}

The rain held off so we could sit outside and enjoy the conversation, so it was a nice evening!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 31, 2020 10:55 PM (VrS9o)


How's the heat and humidity there?

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 10:56 PM (TdMsT)

313 No reason, just more mid 80s wave: https://bit.ly/31a21z5

Posted by: Mookie at July 31, 2020 10:57 PM (3vIkC)

314 > I hate "The Great Gatsby".

That book would have been a lot better if everyone had died from drinking wood alcohol in the first chapter.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 10:57 PM (unn44)

315 Early on, Japan was tracing each case of the china virus, probably better than any other country. They found that most cases were either from family, or from what they call a "live house." This is a club that plays live music - so not a bar, or a theater, but a dance club.

So young adults gathering and talking loud caused most of the cases in Japan. Turns out, young kids don't spread because they don't produce enough virus, and older people don't spread - it is they young adults and it spreads when they have to scream and talk loud or sing.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 31, 2020 10:57 PM (LWu6U)

316
Surrounded by miasma.

It's everywhere!!!
Posted by: A Scold of Karens


https://youtu.be/caJcuy2BtBQ

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2020 10:58 PM (aKsyK)

317 Something has to give eventually.

Hopefully you impressed upon her the importance of never, ever voting for any Democrat, ever. Or any Republican who agrees with a Democrat. Or any local official who persists in imposing this stoopid Marxist mask mandate on us for no reason. Or allows BLM riots but not church services...

America needs a political housecleaning of biblical proportions this November.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 10:58 PM (HaL55)

318 285 these thousands upon thousands who test 'positive' each day, how many of these are actually sick? I never see that mentioned
Posted by: A dude in MI at July 31, 2020 10:43 PM (SxBH1)

Even though these worthless chair warming bureaucrats had one job for thirty plus years, understanding epidemics, they have not presented any data in a meaningful manner, and did even bother to present fundamental rules for counting death by Covid.,
A pox on all their houses!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 31, 2020 10:50 PM (VrS9o)

Don't forget all those people waiting to get tested, left without being tested, and get a letter saying they got the wuflu.

Posted by: Flyover at July 31, 2020 10:58 PM (Rbu5d)

319 >You know one thing that has bothered me for around 20 years: what the hell is Quint eating during the town meeting?


those little oyster crackers you drop into your bowl of soup or stew


Unless I'm Wrong™

Posted by: DB- just DB. Bird= the word at July 31, 2020 10:59 PM (iTXRQ)

320 Good night. Going to the range tomorrow.

Maybe willing to share how poor i am with a side arm on Master Weasel's gub thread sunday evening.

We'll see.

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 31, 2020 10:59 PM (VcFUs)

321 288 My niece is a country girl, born and raised on a farm. Yesterday she told me she was really, finally, worried for our country. She doesn't watch any MSM and gets her information from talking to people in her community. She said she was really worried because people were reaching the tipping point. They have had just about enough of masks, black lives, kneeling and looting. It wont take much more for them to say f#$%k you all. And when they finally do this, nothing will be the same. I had to agree. Something has to give eventually.
Posted by: Megthered at July 31, 2020 10:50 PM (T38ed)


Some people are just really fortunate in their family!

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 10:59 PM (TdMsT)

322 NIght BIfBewalski.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2020 11:00 PM (cI3Q7)

323 Some people are just really fortunate in their family!
Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 10:59 PM (TdMsT)

---

Yes, they are.

Posted by: SMH at July 31, 2020 11:00 PM (RU4sa)

324 good evening all
Posted by: wing at July 31, 2020 09:59

And to you and all Morons here.

It's good to know Chicago mayor Lori Lightheaded has taken down the last Columbus statue, 2 others were earlier removed.

It's nice she is addressing such important issues while shootings and the boarded up buildings indicate Chicago is a shell of its former self.

Posted by: Farmer at July 31, 2020 11:01 PM (NUe40)

325 The Great Gatsby had Karen Black and Lois Chiles.

I liked Lois Chiles.

Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 11:01 PM (XTyi0)

326 those little oyster crackers you drop into your bowl of soup or stew




How come they call them oyster crackers when they don't taste like oysters?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 11:02 PM (HaL55)

327 How's the heat and humidity there?
Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 10:56 PM (TdMsT)

During the day, it is still pretty brutal here (very high humidity) but the ultra reliable weather forecasters are saying this heat wave will break in the day or two!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 31, 2020 11:02 PM (VrS9o)

328 Mom surpises me sometime. I figured she would be sad about her church saying than no one above 60 should come to mass because of the covid. Instead, she was pissed. (Paraphrase) If they don't want me there, fine!

I love Mom.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2020 11:02 PM (cI3Q7)

329 >It's good to know Chicago mayor Lori Lightheaded has taken down the last Columbus statue, 2 others were earlier removed.

It's nice she is addressing such important issues



hey if you're too incompetent to solve big problems, 1 make up little ones, pretend they're big, and solve those
2 declare victory
3 get re-elected

Posted by: DB- just DB. Bird= the word at July 31, 2020 11:03 PM (iTXRQ)

330 YES YES YES!!
FUCK THEM ALL!!
A POX ON ALL OF THEIR HOUSES!!
DRINKS ARE ON ME!!!

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at July 31, 2020 11:03 PM (CLteG)

331
Tiktok relies on sending data to and from servers in China.

Trump can order traffic to those IP addresses blocked, on the grounds of national security.

And he should.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth)

=======

So, VPN?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 11:03 PM (G51Gf)

332 How come they call them oyster crackers when they don't taste like oysters?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 11:02 PM (HaL55)

Polly want a cracker, not a fookin' oyster.

Posted by: the Parrot at July 31, 2020 11:04 PM (dG6Ya)

333 288 My niece is a country girl, born and raised on a farm. Yesterday she
told me she was really, finally, worried for our country. She doesn't
watch any MSM and gets her information from talking to people in her
community. She said she was really worried because people were reaching
the tipping point. They have had just about enough of masks, black
lives, kneeling and looting. It wont take much more for them to say
f#$%k you all. And when they finally do this, nothing will be the same. I
had to agree. Something has to give eventually.

Posted by: Megthered at July 31, 2020 10:50 PM (T38ed)



Is your niece single?

Posted by: Mookie at July 31, 2020 11:04 PM (3vIkC)

334 Don't forget all those people waiting to get tested, left without being tested, and get a letter saying they got the wuflu.

Posted by: Flyover at July 31, 2020 10:58 PM (Rbu5d)

IIRC, some African ruler had goats and fruit tested and the results came back positive!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 31, 2020 11:05 PM (VrS9o)

335 Trump can order traffic to those IP addresses blocked, on the grounds of national security.

And he should.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia

I would favor cutting all air traffic permanently and cutting all internet traffic and mail to china.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 31, 2020 11:05 PM (LWu6U)

336 I'm here.

My house officially closed today. Finally completely done in Massachusetts.
All the boxes are unpacked, car garaged, walked the neighborhood and hit Trader Joe's. Life is good.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 31, 2020 11:05 PM (sd8p8)

337 Tiktok relies on sending data to and from servers in China.

Trump can order traffic to those IP addresses blocked, on the grounds of national security.

And he should.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth)

=======

So, VPN?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 11:03 PM (G51Gf)

Tiktok was a clockwork man in one of the later Oz books.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2020 11:06 PM (dG6Ya)

338 Yay Sharon.

Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 11:06 PM (XTyi0)

339
hey if you're too incompetent to solve big problems, 1 make up little ones, pretend they're big, and solve those
2 declare victory
3 get re-elected
Posted by: DB- just DB

=======

seriously, how BAD are Republican candidates in Chicago that the locals can't bring themselves to cast that vote? Do they have six heads, are they threatening to put y'all back in chains, do they stutter?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 11:06 PM (G51Gf)

340 IIRC, some African ruler had goats and fruit tested and the results came back positive!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 31, 2020 11:05 PM (VrS9o)

Curiously enough, they also tested positive for HIV.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2020 11:07 PM (dG6Ya)

341
I'm here.

My house officially closed today. Finally completely done in Massachusetts.
All the boxes are unpacked, car garaged, walked the neighborhood and hit Trader Joe's. Life is good.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

========

Sounds good. Are you the one who's heading to Sedona?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 11:08 PM (G51Gf)

342 India banned TikTok as well. https://tinyurl.com/ybuvpyff

Posted by: Bert G, new podisode at July 31, 2020 11:08 PM (OMsf+)

343 Curiously enough, they also tested positive for HIV.

And they're all pregnant, too.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 11:08 PM (HaL55)

344 > seriously, how BAD are Republican candidates in Chicago that the locals can't bring themselves to cast that vote?

Chicago Republicans are like the Washington Generals with respect to the Harlem Globetrotters. They are there to lose.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:09 PM (unn44)

345 Thanks, eleven.
I felt very righteous going to Trader Joe's after,they told the SJW's to lolgf.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 31, 2020 11:09 PM (sd8p8)

346 Link to Variety...

Ellen DeGeneres sends emotional apology to staff; Executive producer Ed Glavin expected to depart

https://tinyurl.com/y2vh8qyr

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 11:09 PM (L2ZTs)

347 Sharon, what state are you in now?

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 11:10 PM (L2ZTs)

348 hmmm, don't care about celebs and their issues.

Sorry.

Posted by: SMH at July 31, 2020 11:10 PM (RU4sa)

349 > So, VPN?

VPN won't do it.

You could probably get round it with Tor or some other kind of onion router, but your typical TikTok denizen isn't going to be able to set that up.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:10 PM (unn44)

350
Chicago Republicans are like the Washington Generals with respect to the Harlem Globetrotters. They are there to lose.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth)

=======

We really need to stop federal funding to these sink-holes. There must be a way.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 11:10 PM (G51Gf)

351 SMH, I can understand.

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 11:10 PM (L2ZTs)

352

I hate "The Great Gatsby". My sophomore-year high school English teacher spent the entire semester on it, so I have never read "To Kill a Mockingbird", "The Catcher in the Rye", and a few other titles I forget.


Take it east Chuck. Just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

Posted by: Weirddave at July 31, 2020 11:11 PM (CTvSA)

353 Not Sedona, although I have been there. I'm now in Bethesda.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 31, 2020 11:11 PM (sd8p8)

354 >seriously, how BAD are Republican candidates in Chicago that the locals can't bring themselves to cast that vote? ....
Posted by: Blonde Morticia


well I don't think very highly of Repubs in general, but I gotta believe the voters have just been trained over generations to vote D

Posted by: DB- just DB. Bird= the word at July 31, 2020 11:11 PM (iTXRQ)

355 Congratulations, Sharon!

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 11:11 PM (TdMsT)

356 Damn. Canadian girls will kick your ass. I've been married to four of them!

Posted by: Thomas LaBelle at July 31, 2020 11:11 PM (5q4vV)

357 Thanks, eleven.
I felt very righteous going to Trader Joe's after,they told the SJW's to lolgf.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)


I know selling a house can be quite stressful. An incredible release when it happens.

If you drink, cheers, if you don't eat a pie or something.

Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 11:12 PM (XTyi0)

358 Sharon, in Maryland?? I didn't know that state was better than MA, but glad for your move. :-)

Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 11:12 PM (L2ZTs)

359 Not yet. Not yet.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 31, 2020 11:12 PM (l9m7l)

360 > We really need to stop federal funding to these sink-holes. There must be a way.

There's always the "big club" that was used to force the states to adopt the 55 mph speed limit and raise the drinking age to 21. "Adopt these laws or lose all federal funding."

But to do that, we need both houses of Congress and the Presidency. A RELIABLE majority on the Supreme Court would also be useful.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:13 PM (unn44)

361 hmmm, don't care about celebs and their issues.

Sorry.
Posted by: SMH


Honestly they're like ghosts to me. Like they aren't even real.

Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 11:13 PM (XTyi0)

362
Tiktok was a clockwork man in one of the later Oz books.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Mr. Machine

https://youtu.be/8WHQI5iKYfM

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2020 11:13 PM (aKsyK)

363 I've pretty much always lived in suburbia and always on big lots. Last house had over an acre and lived next to a,farm. Wasn't sure how I would take to a city and I've only been here a couple,of days, but really enjoying it.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 31, 2020 11:14 PM (sd8p8)

364 seriously, how BAD are Republican candidates in
Chicago that the locals can't bring themselves to cast that vote? Do
they have six heads, are they threatening to put y'all back in chains,
do they stutter?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia
............
It has nothing to do with GOP candidates..
It is just a given that you vote Democrat.
Even the very conservative policemen and firemen living in the outskirts of the city vote Dem. You just do.
It is the "machine". Each ward has precincts, and each precinct has precinct captains. Those captains make sure your garbage is picked up, and whatever other gripe you have is taken care of. They visit all houses door to door.
It is (or was, at least) a well oiled machine. I have not lived in the city for years, so it may have changed, but I doubt it.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 31, 2020 11:14 PM (CjFDo)

365 You know one thing that has bothered me for around 20 years: what the hell is Quint eating during the town meeting? Potato chips? Crackers? Pieces of an apple?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2020 10:54 PM (cI3Q7)

IIRC it's an apple, isn't he slicing off little chunks with a pocket knife?

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 31, 2020 11:15 PM (oAY8z)

366 Yeah, I think there was a rash of books that the English lit departments just loved - Gatsby, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad,....

I hated all of them. I mean, I despised every book I ever had to read for English class. Oh, and the poetry - EE CUMMINGS, that nut who killed herself,... all of them.

And yet, I like reading, and I like poetry. Just not that namby pamby crap.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 31, 2020 11:15 PM (LWu6U)

367 Eleven, I ate half a pint of ice cream. Haven't hit the wine store yet.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 31, 2020 11:15 PM (sd8p8)

368 We really need to stop federal funding to these sink-holes. There must be a way.

President Boy would tell them if there were any sanctuary cities in the state or they refused to cooperate with ICE, then no federal money for you! Also, if they don't teach American History and civics, no money. Same for actual economics and proper Englais.

The feds can hold states hostage unless they establish those illegal drunk driving roadblocks, why can't they do something that's good for a change?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 11:15 PM (HaL55)

369 >But to do that, we need both houses of Congress and the Presidency. A RELIABLE majority on the Supreme Court would also be useful.


I no longer have faith that politicians or judges will do the right thing-

everything is decided along the lines of emotions, and currying media favor

Posted by: DB- just DB. Bird= the word at July 31, 2020 11:15 PM (iTXRQ)

370 125 That Calgary gal needs to cut back on the cannabis infused maple syrup.

And poor Vin Diesel is so desperate to get laid that he's hitting on strangers on the internet. Sad, rich bastard can't even get a woman in a pickup bar.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 31, 2020 10:11 PM (+lVUW)

...pretty sure anyone whose paid any attention to Vin Diesel knows it isn't women he's trying to pick up in a bar...

Posted by: Bete at July 31, 2020 11:15 PM (Ojki1)

371 Ideally, we'd force communist shitholes like Illinois to allow federal election overseers to ensure that voting was carried out in a fair and legal manner, just like we did with some of the Southern states after the Civil Rights Act was passed.


Which reminds me: I've got an absentee primary ballot here for which I need to figure out who to vote against.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:15 PM (unn44)

372 Thanks all, my niece is an amazing woman. She is married to my nephew and truly saved him. He was floundering in the big city and came home for a visit, met her, and never went back. She is an enthusiastic hunter and fisherman, learned taxidermy from her grandfather and would never, ever vote Democrat. She is well loved in her community but she knows the trend America is taking is not going to lead anywhere good.

Posted by: Megthered at July 31, 2020 11:16 PM (dYQ/7)

373 TJ's must be a suburbia/city thing.

Must be why I never heard of it until recently.

Going to St. Louis or whatever closest big city has one doesn't inspire me to frequent one.

Good on 'em, I guess, but I wouldn't be surprised if they reverse course in the future.

Posted by: SMH at July 31, 2020 11:17 PM (RU4sa)

374
372 Thanks all, my niece is an amazing woman. She is married to my nephew and truly saved him. He was floundering in the big city and came home for a visit, met her, and never went back. She is an enthusiastic hunter and fisherman, learned taxidermy from her grandfather and would never, ever vote Democrat. She is well loved in her community but she knows the trend America is taking is not going to lead anywhere good.
Posted by: Megthered at July 31, 2020 11:16 PM (dYQ/7)


We need to find a way to clone her.

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 11:17 PM (TdMsT)

375 Ah, to be, uh, 11 again.

Posted by: logprof



I've had a crush on Gina Schock, the drummer, since I first laid eyes on her when I was 18. It's funny the things you remember about the times when you were just a dumb kid starting college, terrified of the world.

Life has been a series of survived disasters, with a lot of good thrown in, enough that I can say it was worth it.

Going back and listening to the old tunes and then having those same people still rocking 4 decades later puts a grin on my face. Silly old man, I.

Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick at July 31, 2020 11:17 PM (1YlHz)

376
There's always the "big club" that was used to force the states to adopt the 55 mph speed limit and raise the drinking age to 21. "Adopt these laws or lose all federal funding."

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth)

========

That's a loooong wish list for me.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 11:18 PM (G51Gf)

377 just had some chocolate "edibles" I brought back from my last trip to Colorado. I'm mellow.

Posted by: Chico Escuela: Vidas Negras Cuentan at July 31, 2020 11:18 PM (IL6Hc)

378
Well, well. Story on the news about the 2019 Harding Street Raid. Two people were shot to death by Houston police in a no-knock raid on a warrant based on falsified information.

The dead pair were a white man and a white woman. Number of riots: zero.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2020 11:19 PM (mht8P)

379 Fauxcahontas trying to look serious while Plugs rambles incoherently:

https://tinyurl.com/plugs-faucahontas

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:19 PM (unn44)

380 366 Yeah, I think there was a rash of books that the English lit departments just loved - Gatsby, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad,....

I hated all of them. I mean, I despised every book I ever had to read for English class. Oh, and the poetry - EE CUMMINGS, that nut who killed herself,... all of them.

And yet, I like reading, and I like poetry. Just not that namby pamby crap.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 31, 2020 11:15 PM (LWu6U)

And the most depressing of all: Steinbeck.

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 11:19 PM (TdMsT)

381 I know politically Md is pretty similar to Ma, but Bethesda has an interesting vibe. Reminds me a little of a European city. There are pedestrian areas, big park area, huge farmer's market on Sunday. Lots of small shops and restaurants. People have gone out of their way to be nice to a newcomer.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 31, 2020 11:20 PM (sd8p8)

382 > That's a loooong wish list for me.

Oh, yeah.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:20 PM (unn44)

383 Take it east Chuck. Just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
Posted by: Weirddave at July 31, 2020 11:11 PM


East Egg or West Egg?

I know it's stupid, but my reaction to anything Gatsby is like Steve Martin hearing "cleaning woman" in "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid"

Posted by: Chuck C at July 31, 2020 11:20 PM (d/5jB)

384
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 31, 2020 11:14 PM (CjFDo)

========

That's depressing. It's truly not American.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 11:22 PM (G51Gf)

385 > Oh, and the poetry - EE CUMMINGS, that nut who killed herself,... all of them.

Resolved: the last American poet worth reading was Vachel Lindsay.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:22 PM (unn44)

386 >>> I thought that Kemp suspended all of the city/county mask requirements in GA on 7/15?
Posted by: G. Gnome, Pickled Watermelon Rind Raider at July 31, 2020 10:19 PM (OQcPl)


The mayor of of Savannah refused the order based on the principle of orange man bad/ republican governor and in unity with mayor Karen Ass Spear of Atlanta.



Fuck them.



Defy.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 31, 2020 11:22 PM (luzVb)

387 336 I'm here.

My house officially closed today. Finally completely done in Massachusetts.
All the boxes are unpacked, car garaged, walked the neighborhood and hit Trader Joe's. Life is good.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 31, 2020 11:05 PM (sd8p

Congratulations!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 11:22 PM (NWiLs)

388 Can't buy alcohol in bars in Ohio after 10 pm now. Because you know the coronavirus is much more active between 10pm - 2 am and is a mean drunk.

Fucking dumbass DeWine.

Posted by: buzzion at July 31, 2020 11:23 PM (vMCab)

389 > That's depressing. It's truly not American.

Chicago is basically collection of feudal baronies, with the outward trappings of democracy, just as Russia is a czarist state, despite Putin not using the title, and China is an empire, despite Xi not using the title.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:23 PM (unn44)

390 have never read The Great Gatsby-
but I did finally see a move called "The Princess Bride" that everybody talks about and makes reference to

Posted by: DB- just DB. Bird= the word at July 31, 2020 11:24 PM (iTXRQ)

391
Fauxcahontas trying to look serious while Plugs rambles incoherently:

https://tinyurl.com/plugs-faucahontas

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth)

=======

She winces, like "I lost to this?"

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 11:24 PM (G51Gf)

392 Thanks Insom.

Haven't been around much getting settled in. How are you?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 31, 2020 11:24 PM (sd8p8)

393 My house officially closed today. Finally completely done in Massachusetts.

All the boxes are unpacked, car garaged, walked the neighborhood and hit Trader Joe's. Life is good.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)


Congratulations! Hope you enjoy your new space.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 31, 2020 11:24 PM (SchxB)

394 388 Can't buy alcohol in bars in Ohio after 10 pm now. Because you know the coronavirus is much more active between 10pm - 2 am and is a mean drunk.

Fucking dumbass DeWine.
Posted by: buzzion at July 31, 2020 11:23 PM (vMCab)


When the hell did this happen?

Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 11:24 PM (TdMsT)

395 347 Sharon, what state are you in now?
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 11:10 PM (L2ZTs)

Offhand, I'd say one of relief.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 11:25 PM (NWiLs)

396 > She winces, like "I lost to this?"

Yeah, you can almost feel the effort she's having to put out to keep from tearing off her mic and storming off the set.

She's gotta know the Dems are doomed.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:25 PM (unn44)

397 310 I hate "The Great Gatsby". My sophomore-year high school English teacher spent the entire semester on it, so I have never read "To Kill a Mockingbird", "The Catcher in the Rye", and a few other titles I forget.
Posted by: Chuck C at July 31, 2020 10:56 PM (d/5jB)


The "Gatsby" writer has a gift, but the whole book is pretentious and elite-worshipping and boring. Never read "Mockingbird," but "Catcher in the Rye" is best avoided. It's about a neurotic soy boy. I hated him through the entire book, which I don't think was the author's intent.

Posted by: Splunge at July 31, 2020 11:25 PM (dOV9E)

398
I just remembered that Elizabeth Warren even ran for prez. The pre-corona times are fading into the mist.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 11:25 PM (G51Gf)

399 https://www.outkick.com/video-jonathan-isaac-explains-why-he-stood-for-national-anthem/

--Great story.

Posted by: logprof at July 31, 2020 11:26 PM (oZuI0)

400 >Can't buy alcohol in bars in Ohio after 10 pm now. Because you know the coronavirus is much more active between 10pm - 2 am and is a mean drunk.

CO gov Jared Penis ordered CO bars to close at 10 as well


the virus comes out at night, you know

Posted by: DB- just DB. Bird= the word at July 31, 2020 11:26 PM (iTXRQ)

401 That's depressing. It's truly not American.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 11:22 PM (G51Gf)

---

This is now a socialist nation with pockets of America.

Posted by: SMH at July 31, 2020 11:26 PM (RU4sa)

402 Going back and listening to the old tunes and then having those same
people still rocking 4 decades later puts a grin on my face. Silly old
man, I.


Same here. The Stones, The Who, Macca, Yes (although they're just a shadow of their past these days), King Crimson especially, Uncle Ted, Kansas...

Yeah old farts!

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 11:26 PM (HaL55)

403 339


seriously, how BAD are Republican candidates in Chicago that the
locals can't bring themselves to cast that vote? Do they have six heads,
are they threatening to put y'all back in chains, do they stutter?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 11:06 PM (G51Gf)


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

This is why I believe that in many if not most urban areas, votes aren't cast, but manufactured. No group of people anywhere is that like-minded.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 31, 2020 11:26 PM (+3rQF)

404 Mis. Hum.,

I had to return for this. Nice cover. Adds to tje gi ger versus mary ann debate.

https://youtu.be/K4MKQMTHplI

Posted by: BifBewalski at July 31, 2020 11:27 PM (VcFUs)

405 have never read The Great Gatsby-
but I did finally see a move called "The Princess Bride" that everybody talks about and makes reference to
Posted by: DB- just DB


Welcome to planet Earth. We have dolphins.

Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 11:27 PM (XTyi0)

406 ..Well, well. Story on the news about the 2019 Harding Street Raid. Two people were shot to death by Houston police in a no-knock raid on a warrant based on falsified information.

The dead pair were a white man and a white woman. Number of riots: zero.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 31, 2020 11:19 PM (mht8P)



And their little dog, too.

No, not spoofing Oz.

The cops shot their dog in the raid, and killed it.

The cops also "seeded" the false intel with a neighbor, who just happened to be a bint with whom the Lead Cop on the raid had been adulterizing.

I'm pretty Pro-Cop, being a former one myself.

But this team was dirty, and had been dirty for a very, very long time. Something like 3,500 cases are being called back up and declared innocent, as any testimony from these officers is now about as discredited as Hillary's 2016 election chances.

I want to see them burn, and I want to see it be a very public spectacle when they do.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at July 31, 2020 11:27 PM (QzJWU)

407 380 And the most depressing of all: Steinbeck.
Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 11:19 PM (TdMsT)


Steinbeck is like what you would have to read if the commies took over. I read two of them, was bored out of my skull, and later had a shock of recognition when I had to read "Cement" for a Russian history class. It's a leaden classic of Commie propaganda, a horrible read. But reminiscent of Steinbeck.

Joseph Conrad is kinda awesome, though.

Posted by: Splunge at July 31, 2020 11:28 PM (dOV9E)

408 'sup Jim.

Posted by: SMH at July 31, 2020 11:28 PM (RU4sa)

409 am I the only one who thinks that covid cases are increasing due to both increased testing AND a recent, massive volumetric importation of the virus by a truly evil person or group?
Posted by: Al Unsure

========

I don't think there's been a massive importation. I just think the numbers are utterly unreliable.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia



SARS-Cov-2 arrived in the US around November 1, 2019, 6 weeks before anyone in the US had even heard about it. The entire population was exposed in the 5 months up to March 2020 when we started testing. We are testing a yuge number of people daily now.

The infection rate is about 30% of exposed people. So if the entire population is tested we'll end up with 100M positive results. Which of course doesn't mean "cases" like they are telling us it means now. Just means antibodies, which means you had it and are over it.

Death rate is about the same as the seasonal flu. So by the end of the year they'll be claiming 500K dead from it because of all the utterly fraudulent reporting we are all aware of.

The actual number of deaths will be about 150K. All directly attributable to the ChiComs, who knew about it in March of 2019 and hid it until January 2020.

Fuck all Commies.

Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick at July 31, 2020 11:29 PM (1YlHz)

410 So all bars close in Ohio at 10 pm.by order of the governor? How is that legal? Oh, right, dewine is a wanna be dem. There should be lawsuits in every county, in every state. Clog the court with them. Fight back somehow? I just don't understand the sheeple mentality.

Posted by: Megthered at July 31, 2020 11:29 PM (T38ed)

411 Resolved: the last American poet worth reading was Vachel Lindsay.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:22 PM (unn44)

Ogden Nash?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2020 11:30 PM (dG6Ya)

412 the virus comes out at night, you know

Posted by: DB- just DB. Bird= the word at July 31, 2020 11:26 PM (iTXRQ)


The freaks come out at night, the freaks come out at night....

Posted by: Mookie at July 31, 2020 11:31 PM (3vIkC)

413 The Grapes of Wrath has Pappy Gubmint in a white hat and a white suit promisin fairnass and justice for all.

Now how kin that be at all wrong?

Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 11:31 PM (XTyi0)

414 Joseph Conrad is kinda awesome, though.

We read his Youth in kollidge English lit. I was the only one in class who liked it. I should prolly reread it some time.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 11:31 PM (HaL55)

415 >So all bars close in Ohio at 10 pm.by order of the governor? How is that legal?



'emergency powers'

check your local listings

Posted by: DB- just DB. Bird= the word at July 31, 2020 11:31 PM (iTXRQ)

416 I nominate Theresa in Ft. Worth for a regular weekend thread!

Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick at July 31, 2020 11:31 PM (1YlHz)

417 god DAMN will no one free me from this bitch?

I need an attorney. A really really good one.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 31, 2020 11:31 PM (luzVb)

418 394 388 Can't buy alcohol in bars in Ohio after 10 pm now. Because you know the coronavirus is much more active between 10pm - 2 am and is a mean drunk.

Fucking dumbass DeWine.
Posted by: buzzion at July 31, 2020 11:23 PM (vMCab)


When the hell did this happen?
Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask! at July 31, 2020 11:24 PM (TdMsT)


Looks like yesterday. In effect today.

Posted by: buzzion at July 31, 2020 11:33 PM (vMCab)

419 392 Thanks Insom.

Haven't been around much getting settled in. How are you?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 31, 2020 11:24 PM (sd8p

Oh, hanging in. It's been an interesting couple of weeks, shall we say. Starting to plan my own move as well. Lack of in-person human contact is really getting to me lately, as it seems to be doing to a lot of people.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 11:33 PM (NWiLs)

420 Welcome to planet Earth. We have dolphins.

Not for long.


"Goodbye and thanks for all the fish."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 11:33 PM (HaL55)

421 emergency powers are dictatorial powers

Posted by: DB- just DB. Bird= the word at July 31, 2020 11:33 PM (iTXRQ)

422 A local gun shop/indoor range has a sign on the door: "Wearing a mask in this facility may be hazardous to your health." America ain't dead yet.

Posted by: Numbuh Two, 2x4 Technology Operative at July 31, 2020 11:33 PM (YWBlw)

423 Welcome to planet Earth. We have dolphins.
Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 11:27 PM


Not anymore.

Posted by: Arthur Dent at July 31, 2020 11:35 PM (d/5jB)

424 the virus comes out at night, you know
Posted by: DB- just DB. Bird= the word at July 31, 2020 11:26 PM (iTXRQ)

Mostly.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 11:35 PM (NWiLs)

425 > Ogden Nash?

Okay, he was good.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:36 PM (unn44)

426 There are lots of cases but fewer hospitalizations and fewer deaths. Isn't that what is necessary for herd immunity? Apparently Sweden which didn'tlock down had 5 deaths in the past week. I heard that schools are back in session in Europe.All I could think about after I watched the video of the little karate boy was that was what kids need. This isolation must be horrible for children wspecially if they don;t have siblings or single parent families where the parent has to work. There seems to be no compassion for poor children who do not have the tools or the structure to learn at home. What happened to the It Takes a Village busybodies who said we had to feed poor kids three meals a day and do after school day care because their home life was insufficient for a healthy life style.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 31, 2020 11:36 PM (sd8p8)

427 417 god DAMN will no one free me from this bitch?

I need an attorney. A really really good one.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 31, 2020 11:31 PM (luzVb)

Divorce lawyer?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 11:36 PM (NWiLs)

428 > America ain't dead yet.

No, it isn't. Look at what happened to BLM/Antifa the other night when they tried to go into Springfield.

Look what's happened to them every time they've tried to expand beyond their leftist shitholes.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:37 PM (unn44)

429 "mayor Karen Ass Spear of Atlanta"

LOeffinL

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 31, 2020 11:37 PM (kzWpe)

430 425 > Ogden Nash?

Okay, he was good.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:36 PM (unn44)

One of my favorites as a kid.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 11:37 PM (NWiLs)

431
Resolved: the last American poet worth reading was

Muldoon

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2020 11:38 PM (aKsyK)

432 42

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 11:38 PM (HaL55)

433 EE CUMMINGS, that nut who killed herself,... all of them.

And yet, I like reading, and I like poetry. Just not that namby pamby crap.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 31, 2020 11:15 PM

I like some of ee cummings (ha!) but Frost, Wordsworth, Yeats, and the others my grandparents read are better.

Dana Goia is a poet and essayist whom I like. Same with Carl Phillips, who wrote a great essay telling people to stop reading things into poetry based on the author's sex, race, etc.

But I had no idea how horrible modern poetry was until I subscribed to Poetry magazine. Some poet used her medical chart as a poem...

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 31, 2020 11:38 PM (/+bwe)

434 Look what's happened to them every time they've tried to expand beyond their leftist shitholes.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:37 PM (unn44)

--It's as if America is developing BLM/Antifa antibodies.

Posted by: logprof at July 31, 2020 11:38 PM (oZuI0)

435 This is why I believe that in many if not most urban areas, votes aren't cast, but manufactured. No group of people anywhere is that like-minded.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 31, 2020 11:26 PM (+3rQF)

Have you never been out shopping on the first of the month when the EBT cards are reloaded?

Posted by: Sjg at July 31, 2020 11:39 PM (gDSJf)

436 425 > Ogden Nash?
Okay, he was good.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:36 PM (unn44)


Browsing at a store that blows out discarded library books for cheap, I came across a set of little hardcovers of Ogden Nash. I pull one out from time to time when I need cheering up, and they never fail to do that. There's a wonderful one that goes on at length about a woman who constantly goes on fad diets. I only remember the final line:

Whenever she's on it, there's no living with her

Posted by: Splunge at July 31, 2020 11:39 PM (dOV9E)

437 withholding federal funding to states? Cant be done, interstate commerce claws, or something

Posted by: Judge Whamalamadingdong at July 31, 2020 11:39 PM (SxBH1)

438 Proving again that the masks are useless dickhead DeWine's justification for the new 10 pm rule is because they're blaming increases on bars being open in Toledo Cleveland and Columbus. But all of those of mask mandates so how can the bars be increasing if the mask mandates are in effect!

Fucking idiots.

Posted by: buzzion at July 31, 2020 11:39 PM (vMCab)

439 ..'sup Jim.

Posted by: SMH at July 31, 2020 11:28 PM (RU4sa)



I'm just here, letting the bourbon and aspirin do their thing. Been bustin' ass out in the Texas Gulf Coast Sun.

I'd say I'm somewhere between Medium Rare and Medium, anyway.

Can't soak on the neighbor's hot tub, either. Lest CBD learn of it and serve me to Cannibal Bob as his latest sous vide effort.

..A local gun shop/indoor range has a sign on the door: "Wearing a mask in this facility may be hazardous to your health." America ain't dead yet.

Posted by: Numbuh Two, 2x4 Technology Operative at July 31, 2020 11:33 PM (YWBlw)



3rd Coast Guns in San Leon, TX has a similar sign posted. But it says: "Please don't wear a mask, here. This is a Gun Store and we're likely to shoot anyone wearing a mask." I should get a pic of that sign for Weasel.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX


Posted by: Jim at July 31, 2020 11:39 PM (QzJWU)

440 And then Hogmartin left, started up his hog, sped off into the Arizona desert, and blew up a hare with a hand grenade... ;-)
Posted by: qdpsteve at July 31, 2020 10:49 PM (L2ZTs)


I feared you have unleashed him, qdpsteve ...

Posted by: Adriane the True Crime Critic ... at July 31, 2020 11:39 PM (LPnfS)

441 "So we beat on"? Is that Micheal Jackson or Billy Squier?

Posted by: Mookie at July 31, 2020 11:39 PM (3vIkC)

442 441 "So we beat on"? Is that Micheal Jackson or Billy Squier?
Posted by: Mookie at July 31, 2020 11:39 PM (3vIkC)


Carlos Danger

Posted by: Splunge at July 31, 2020 11:40 PM (dOV9E)

443 No, it isn't. Look at what happened to BLM/Antifa the other night when they tried to go into Springfield.

The locals #Resisted, did they? Good.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 11:40 PM (HaL55)

444 Tomorrow should be fun. I'm doing a basic handgun class for a dozen or so elementary and high school teachers, part of "National Train a Teacher Day."

I'm always very careful to keep politics out of classes, but I have to admit that I'm really anxious to overhear some of the "break time talk" from this group.
National Train a Teacher Day website:
https://preview.tinyurl.com/y6xxva4t

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 31, 2020 11:40 PM (+3rQF)

445 416 I nominate Theresa in Ft. Worth for a regular weekend thread!
Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick at July 31, 2020 11:31 PM (1YlHz)


Listen, Fat - you wanna stay on my good side, you will kindly remember that there ain't no "H" in my first name......

(I have a reputation to maintain, now)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 11:41 PM (SRRAx)

446 Oh, and the poetry - EE CUMMINGS, that nut who killed herself



ISWYDT

Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick at July 31, 2020 11:41 PM (1YlHz)

447 withholding federal funding to states? Cant be done, interstate commerce claws, or something

Unless it's for something important, like raising the drinking age.

Remember that a GOP-e did that one.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 31, 2020 11:41 PM (I2/tG)

448 John Prine was a good poet.

Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 11:41 PM (XTyi0)

449 Carlos Danger

Posted by: Splunge at July 31, 2020 11:40 PM (dOV9E)

Weiner sticks it out!! (Actual NY Post headline...)

Posted by: Mookie at July 31, 2020 11:42 PM (3vIkC)

450 Have you never been out shopping on the first of the month when the EBT cards are reloaded?

Thought that states distributed rloading dates throughout the month to avoid just that? So thugs wouldnt wait for grammy on the first.

Posted by: getting the banned back together at July 31, 2020 11:43 PM (TiXx/)

451 > --It's as if America is developing BLM/Antifa antibodies.

I've had a theory about that for a long time, which I might try to work out if I were still in academia.

1) Every new communication technology leads to massive societal upheaval.
2) After a while people get used to the new comms, and it doesn't have the same effect.

Printing press? Reformation. Hundred Years' War. All that.
Telegraph? Revolutions of the mid-1800s.
Radio? Hitler. FDR. Churchill.
Television? JFK. The '60s in general.
Internet? Gaylord. Trump.

If an academic wants to take this and run with it, feel free. Just be sure to cite "Rodrigo Borgia on Ace of Spades HQ". Heh.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:43 PM (unn44)

452 Resolved: the last American poet worth reading was

Muldoon
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2020 11:38 PM (aKsyK)


Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I'd vote yes!
What about you?

Posted by: Adriane the True Crime Critic ... at July 31, 2020 11:43 PM (LPnfS)

453
Fuck all Commies.
Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick

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Nice summary, thanks. My workplace is full of Panic Patties. One of them -- a healthy 20-something -- refused to train me on her task because she's terrified of The Doomsday Bug.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 11:43 PM (G51Gf)

454 > The locals #Resisted, did they? Good.

And how. The communists were begging for police protection so they could leave.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:44 PM (unn44)

455 Oh, hanging in. It's been an interesting couple of
weeks, shall we say. Starting to plan my own move as well. Lack of
in-person human contact is really getting to me lately, as it seems to
be doing to a lot of people.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 11:33 PM (NWiLs)
Surprisingly, moving from a single family home to a high rise apartment building has helped that somewhat. You are constantly having to interact with people. There's a pool and a gym. Not that I've met any residents yet, but I talk to the lifeguard and the woman at teh desk. They ask about my day. The guy at the parking garage did me a solid today by putting the transponder on my car early and saved me 5 days of parking fees. Had me pull up a chair while he went to work. It seems like little things but when they closed my gym at home and none of my so called friends were willing to leave theri house even to walk in t hepark, it was very lonesome.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 31, 2020 11:44 PM (sd8p8)

456 The locals #Resisted, did they? Good.

Antifa can't even go into the suburbs of Portland, where 70% of the Portland metro lives.

It's important not to overstate how much power Antifa has - they can only operate in deep blue places where the elected officials and district attorneys are allied with them.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 31, 2020 11:44 PM (I2/tG)

457 Lack of in-person human contact is really getting to me lately, as it seems to be doing to a lot of people.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 11:33 PM (NWiLs)

I know I feel it (isolation) myself, and I think the general tenor of the comments here Sure seems to de tending to be far more negative than I remember as the norm !

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 31, 2020 11:44 PM (VrS9o)

458 Listen, Fat - you wanna stay on my good side, you will kindly remember that there ain't no "H" in my first name......
(I have a reputation to maintain, now)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

Why do I envision you busting the bottom off a whiskey bottle and waving it menacingly when you say that?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at July 31, 2020 11:45 PM (kzWpe)

459 Our governor Holcombe [spit] is purportedly a Republican, and issued a mandatory mask order for public spaces.
Posted by: Flyover

That stupid Fuck needs to be clubbed like a baby seal. I will never vote for him again.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 31, 2020 11:45 PM (Vxu+H)

460 Oh, and the poetry - EE CUMMINGS, that nut who killed herself



ISWYDT
Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick at July 31, 2020 11:41 PM (1YlHz)

Was ee cummings a male or a female? Regardless, would be a good Pronstar name.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2020 11:46 PM (dG6Ya)

461 >>> Fuck them. Defy. Posted by: deplorable unperson - refuse to accept the Mask of the Beast at July 31, 2020 11:22 PM (luzVb)


The law already carries a $500 fine per day if you're caught without your muzzle. This week the mayor deputized a hoard of Karen's to walk around handing out fines to peasants spotted without their obedience training muzzle.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 31, 2020 11:46 PM (l6b3d)

462 Surprisingly, moving from a single family home to a high rise apartment building has helped that somewhat. You are constantly having to interact with people. There's a pool and a gym. Not that I've met any residents yet, but I talk to the lifeguard and the woman at teh desk. They ask about my day. The guy at the parking garage did me a solid today by putting the transponder on my car early and saved me 5 days of parking fees. Had me pull up a chair while he went to work. It seems like little things but when they closed my gym at home and none of my so called friends were willing to leave theri house even to walk in t hepark, it was very lonesome.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 31, 2020 11:44 PM (sd8p

They don't seem so little one they've been taken away for awhile. Sorry your friends pulled away. That sucks.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 11:47 PM (NWiLs)

463 Yeah old farts!

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel



I get a real kick out of these college student music reaction channels on UToob. Raised on rap and other shit music and then it's like . . .

What's this? Highway to Hell by AC/DC?

Flirtin' With Disaster by Molly Hatchet?

Rush . . . Boston . . . Aerosmith . . . Deep Purple, etc., etc.

They are hilarious. It's like the first time they've actually been moved by music.

Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick at July 31, 2020 11:47 PM (1YlHz)

464 There once was a girl from Fort Worth

Whose name was not spelled with an H

...yadda yadda...

Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 11:47 PM (XTyi0)

465 hat nut who killed herself

Sylvia Plath, iirc ...

Posted by: Adriane the True Crime Critic ... at July 31, 2020 11:47 PM (LPnfS)

466 Well relief here. I couldn't contact Slap but a friend did.

He is out of the hospital and doing better. Yay!

Prayers up from here for a good guy.

Posted by: Farmer at July 31, 2020 11:47 PM (NUe40)

467 And how. The communists were begging for police protection so they could leave.

Heh. That's great. Is there a link anywhere to watch the festivities? JJ's MR, mayhaps?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 11:47 PM (HaL55)

468 > Was ee cummings a male or a female? Regardless, would be a good Pronstar name.

EE would be a pretty big bra cup size, to be sure.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:47 PM (unn44)

469 Thought that states distributed reloading dates throughout the month to avoid just that?

Oregon reloads EBT cards on the first nine days of the month, based on the last digit of your social security number (numbers ending in 0 or 1 are both reloaded on the first day of the month).

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 31, 2020 11:48 PM (I2/tG)

470 Thought that states distributed rloading dates throughout the month to avoid just that? So thugs wouldnt wait for grammy on the first.
Posted by: getting the banned back together at July 31, 2020 11:43 PM (TiXx/)

Think they are, but usually only spread over the first ten days of the month.

Posted by: Sjg at July 31, 2020 11:48 PM (gDSJf)

471 I know I feel it (isolation) myself, and I think the general tenor of the comments here Sure seems to de tending to be far more negative than I remember as the norm !
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 31, 2020 11:44 PM (VrS9o)

It's definitely having its intended effect.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 11:48 PM (NWiLs)

472 I thrive on avoiding people. I am an antisocial kind of mayhem.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 31, 2020 11:48 PM (Vxu+H)

473 Is ee cummings in the public domain yet? I'd like to capitalize on that if I can.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 31, 2020 11:49 PM (SchxB)

474 > Is there a link anywhere to watch the festivities?

Searching for #springfield on Twatter should bring some up

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:49 PM (unn44)

475 465 hat nut who killed herself

Sylvia Plath, iirc ...
Posted by: Adriane the True Crime Critic ... at July 31, 2020 11:47 PM (LPnfS)

--I thought she was more about the prose than the poems.

Posted by: logprof at July 31, 2020 11:49 PM (oZuI0)

476 EE would be a pretty big bra cup size, to be sure.


More than a mouthful is a waste.

Posted by: eleven at July 31, 2020 11:49 PM (XTyi0)

477 Great news about Slap!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at July 31, 2020 11:49 PM (SRRAx)

478 466 Well relief here. I couldn't contact Slap but a friend did.

He is out of the hospital and doing better. Yay!

Prayers up from here for a good guy.
Posted by: Farmer at July 31, 2020 11:47 PM (NUe40)

Hadn't heard he was back in the hospital. Damn. Glad he's out, though.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 11:49 PM (NWiLs)

479 Heh. That's great. Is there a link anywhere to watch the festivities? JJ's MR, mayhaps?

Ian Miles Cheong's Twitter account has the highlights.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 31, 2020 11:49 PM (I2/tG)

480 I hate "The Great Gatsby". My sophomore-year high school English teacher spent the entire semester on it, so I have never read "To Kill a Mockingbird", "The Catcher in the Rye", and a few other titles I forget.
Posted by: Chuck C at July 31, 2020 10:56 PM

I read "The Great Gatsby" as an adult and liked it.

I think most people who like "To Kill a Mockingbird" watched the movie and didn't read the book. There's a lot more in it.

I particularly liked a scene with a proto-Moron: an old white man who married a black woman and sits with blacks at public events. No one hassles him because he's drunk, but the protagonist finds out that he's drinking lemonade out of a sack. He just wants to have a good time with his friends and in-laws without being hassled by his "betters."

Posted by: NaughtyPine at July 31, 2020 11:49 PM (/+bwe)

481 > He is out of the hospital and doing better. Yay!

Good!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:50 PM (unn44)

482 Well relief here. I couldn't contact Slap but a friend did.



He is out of the hospital and doing better. Yay!



Prayers up from here for a good guy.


That is great news. He's been missed.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 11:51 PM (HaL55)

483 Listen, Fat - you wanna stay on my good side, you will kindly remember that there ain't no "H" in my first name......

(I have a reputation to maintain, now)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas



Heh. My apologies, Your Magnificence.

Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick at July 31, 2020 11:52 PM (1YlHz)

484 I think we're all a little depressed because things should be getting looser and instead these ridiculous mask mandates are making it harder. We should be done with this. I am so very tired of the mask theater and especially the social distancing. When I was at TJ's today, at one point there were 4 people in the aisle so I left my cart and walked down to get the one item I wanted. Some Karen said something about social distancing and everyone just ignored her.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 31, 2020 11:52 PM (sd8p8)

485 There once was a girl from Fort Worth
Of whom, you should give wide berth,
If you spell her name wrong,
She'll leap at you with a sprong,
Otherwise, her sweetness has no dearth ...

Posted by: Adriane the True Crime Critic ... at July 31, 2020 11:52 PM (LPnfS)

486 Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo

Discouraging the Horde is a non-trivial feat of propaganda!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at July 31, 2020 11:53 PM (VrS9o)

487
Can't buy alcohol in bars in Ohio after 10 pm now. Because you know the coronavirus is much more active between 10pm - 2 am and is a mean drunk.

Fucking dumbass DeWine.
Posted by: buzzion

======

So let's welcome the New Roaring 20s. Speakeasys, no-mask parties, hole-in-the-wall joints, passwords.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 11:53 PM (G51Gf)

488 Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at July 31, 2020 11:53 PM (jK8Z7)

489 Sylvia Plath, iirc ...
Posted by: Adriane the True Crime Critic ... at July 31, 2020 11:47 PM (LPnfS)

Plath? Sounds like you'd find it at Home Depot. combined plaster and lath. Just staple it to the studs, and hose it down with water: instant plaster wall.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2020 11:53 PM (dG6Ya)

490 Some Karen said something about social distancing and everyone just ignored her.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 31, 2020 11:52 PM (sd8p

---------

Just when you need a tire iron, there isn't one around.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 11:53 PM (wPVhA)

491 473 Is ee cummings in the public domain yet? I'd like to capitalize on that if I can.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 31, 2020 11:49 PM (SchxB)



We've made a mint off public domain shit!

No royalties, bitchez!!!!!!!!

P.S. You can't touch *our* shit.Toads will rule the earth before *that* becomes public domain!

Posted by: The Big Rat at July 31, 2020 11:53 PM (oZuI0)

492 > Is ee cummings in the public domain yet? I'd like to capitalize on that if I can.

Only his stuff published before 1925.

Check Project Gutenberg. They're pretty good about getting stuff up as soon as it becomes legal to do so.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at July 31, 2020 11:53 PM (unn44)

493 f individuals with cervixes. Or is it cervi?


*********

Cervices

Posted by: Muldoon at July 31, 2020 11:54 PM (Fc5rx)

494 hole-in-the-wall joints
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 11:53 PM (G51Gf)


I think those are up in Canada ...

Posted by: Adriane the True Crime Critic ... at July 31, 2020 11:54 PM (LPnfS)

495 491 473 Is ee cummings in the public domain yet? I'd like to capitalize on that if I can.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at July 31, 2020 11:49 PM (SchxB)

It's only distinctive when not capitalized.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 11:54 PM (NWiLs)

496 So let's welcome the New Roaring 20s. Speakeasys, no-mask parties, hole-in-the-wall joints, passwords.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 11:53 PM (G51Gf)

---------

Sounds like where I get my hair cut.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 11:54 PM (wPVhA)

497
Well, off to bed. I need to catch a few hours' sleep before I do the swing shift. Maybe catch y'all in the chess thread.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 11:54 PM (G51Gf)

498 Some Karen said something about social distancing and everyone just ignored her.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 31, 2020 11:52 PM (sd8p

You know, the Karens all quack about "social distancing", but it has occurred to me that we here, on the ONT are, and have been for some time, practicing "distal socializing".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2020 11:55 PM (dG6Ya)

499 Nice summary, thanks. My workplace is full of Panic Patties. One of them -- a healthy 20-something -- refused to train me on her task because she's terrified of The Doomsday Bug.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia



I was in a long line at the bank today in LA and the swarthily-hued security guard and I got to chatting about The Yellow Peril. He had the exact same opinions of it all that I did and had even watched Fauci testify earlier in the day.

And then we started talking about the Flynn case and it was hilarious. The rest of the people in the bank were staring at us as we talked about all the things about the case they'd never heard before. A lot of wide eyes and jaws on the floor.

There is hope.

Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick at July 31, 2020 11:56 PM (1YlHz)

500 Cervices
Posted by: Muldoon at July 31, 2020 11:54 PM (Fc5rx)

-------

I used to like Dos Equis Cervices but I can't stand it now.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 11:57 PM (wPVhA)

501 Searching for #springfield on Twatter should bring some up




Found a couple of twats. That was all kinds of awesome. Just think how much death and destruction wouldn't have happened elsewhere if the city fathers and mothers simply had the will to uphold the law.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at July 31, 2020 11:58 PM (HaL55)

502 hole in the wall joints?
I think I misinterpreted that.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 31, 2020 11:59 PM (sd8p8)

503 Dos Equis Cervices?

Posted by: The Most Interested Man in the World at July 31, 2020 11:59 PM (QzkSJ)

504 hole-in-the-wall joints
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 31, 2020 11:53 PM (G51Gf)

Careful, that doesn't necessarily mean the same thing these days.

Posted by: Sjg at July 31, 2020 11:59 PM (gDSJf)

505 On the deck this evening watching clouds and honest to gosh saw a cloud that looked just like President Trump. Had the scalp weasel, the squinty eyes and the jutting chin. I did a double take, then called Missus M to see. It shifted before I could get my camera out.

An omen?

Posted by: Muldoon at August 01, 2020 12:00 AM (Fc5rx)

506 Otherwise, her sweetness has no dearth ...
Posted by: Adriane the True Crime Critic


Was that Ima or Ura Hogg?

Posted by: Inquiring Miklosian Minds at August 01, 2020 12:01 AM (QzkSJ)

507 That was all kinds of awesome.

They even found a black person to arrest, which is amazing, given the demographics of Oregon outside the Portland metro area.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 01, 2020 12:01 AM (I2/tG)

508 Cancel tiktok?
But what about all the dancing nurses?

Posted by: vmom 2020 at August 01, 2020 12:02 AM (TOyHQ)

509 The plural of cervix actually is cervices. Would I make a joke here?

Posted by: Muldoon at August 01, 2020 12:03 AM (Fc5rx)

510 Well relief here. I couldn't contact Slap but a friend did.



He is out of the hospital and doing better. Yay!



Trump should invoke the Military Production Act to get Slapweasel Industries back to full capacity!

Posted by: Miklos, happy Slapweasel Industries repeat customer at August 01, 2020 12:03 AM (QzkSJ)

511 509 The plural of cervix actually is cervices. Would I make a joke here?
Posted by: Muldoon at August 01, 2020 12:03 AM (Fc5rx)

Cervix, wasn't he like a Viking dude in a Comic strip back in the olden days?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 12:04 AM (NgKpN)

512 Cervices
Posted by: Muldoon


So.

A biological "person with a cervix" would be a Cervetrix

Posted by: Miklos, change my mind at August 01, 2020 12:04 AM (QzkSJ)

513 508 Cancel tiktok?
But what about all the dancing nurses?
Posted by: vmom 2020 at August 01, 2020 12:02 AM (TOyHQ)

Tell them to either start taking care of patients?

or go to their new job at the Nudey Bar?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 12:05 AM (NgKpN)

514 1 This one better not disappear. This is one of my best comments.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 09:39 PM (wPVhA)

Sucess! Congratulations! Best opening ive seen to an ONT today!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 12:05 AM (IDhUW)

515 Lack of in-person human contact is really getting to me lately, as it seems to be doing to a lot of people.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at July 31, 2020 11:3

It's been strange in my neighborhood. We distance, but everyone stops to talk when they can.
Many young couples bought places in the last three years. They are very nice.

Heck, even themiddle-school boys who commandeered grandpa's golf cart were waving and not running me over.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at August 01, 2020 12:06 AM (/+bwe)

516 Okay.

Just thought I would peek in to see what y'all are talking about.

Carry on carrying on.

Endeavour to persevere!


When researching cervices do NOT look up bifid uterus.

Posted by: Muldoon at August 01, 2020 12:06 AM (Fc5rx)

517 511

Cervix, wasn't he like a Viking dude in a Comic strip back in the olden days?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 12:04 AM (NgKpN)


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

I think Cervix was under Hagar the Whore-ible.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at August 01, 2020 12:07 AM (+3rQF)

518 "hole-in-the-wall joints"

Let me be perfectly clear. Those are my second favorite kind of joints. Uhh, maybe my most favorite.

Posted by: Drink Like Jug Eared Choom Gang Barky Fuckstick at August 01, 2020 12:07 AM (kzWpe)

519 I was in a long line at the bank today in LA and the swarthily-hued security guard and I got to chatting about The Yellow Peril. He had the exact same opinions of it all that I did and had even watched Fauci testify earlier in the day.

And then we started talking about the Flynn case and it was hilarious. The rest of the people in the bank were staring at us as we talked about all the things about the case they'd never heard before. A lot of wide eyes and jaws on the floor.

There is hope.
Posted by: Sharkman AKA ShitBrick at July 31, 2020 11:56 PM (1YlHz)

THIS X 1000.

But if WE don't speak out in public, others will stay silent, even though they agree with us.

I live in Calif. Its astounding how many people, agree with things the horde thinks.

yet will never admit them in public, UNLESS YOU BRING THEM UP FIRST!

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 12:08 AM (NgKpN)

520 When researching cervices do NOT look up bifid uterus.


I saw Bifid Uterus open for Fistula in Ouagadougou in '92.

Posted by: Miklos, possibly mistaken at August 01, 2020 12:08 AM (QzkSJ)

521 They even found a black person to arrest, which is amazing, given the demographics of Oregon outside the Portland metro area.

Wow. Did see the guy deck a panty-fa kid at that intersection last week who was blocking traffic. "Get the fuck out of my neighborhood!" I think that was in that area too.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 01, 2020 12:09 AM (HaL55)

522 Cervices are fishy dishes
Or was that Cerviche

Posted by: vmom 2020 at August 01, 2020 12:09 AM (TOyHQ)

523 506 Otherwise, her sweetness has no dearth ...
Posted by: Adriane the True Crime Critic

Was that Ima or Ura Hogg?
Posted by: Inquiring Miklosian Minds at August 01, 2020 12:01 AM (QzkSJ)


***whacks Miklos on the nose with follow-up newspaper***

She's talking about sweet li'l ole ME, dammit!

I'm a delicate little flower of sweetness and light!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at August 01, 2020 12:09 AM (SRRAx)

524 Check out the "burrito fight" over on thedonald.win.

Woman throws drink on guy for not wearing a mask. Guy pummels her pussy boyfriend. Body cam video. It's real.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2020 12:09 AM (Rxnxe)

525 517 511

Cervix, wasn't he like a Viking dude in a Comic strip back in the olden days?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 12:04 AM (NgKpN)


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

I think Cervix was under Hagar the Whore-ible.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at August 01, 2020 12:07 AM (+3rQF)

actually had to go look...

Asterix! made Hagar look like a Momma's boy.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 12:10 AM (NgKpN)

526 "rolled-up"

Autocorrect better watch itself tonight - I'm in no mood.... :-)

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at August 01, 2020 12:10 AM (SRRAx)

527 The best thing about the AK is it will not jam. Not accurate, but not jamming is a feature for sure.

Posted by: Mookie

---
there isn't a firearm ever made that won't malfunction, one way or another, eventually.

i can think of several reasons why and AK will fail, starting with a torn case blocking the chamber.

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 12:11 AM (4lVEh)

528 I will not cervix!

Posted by: Lucifer at August 01, 2020 12:11 AM (oZuI0)

529 I'm a delicate little flower of sweetness and light!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth


Well, f*ck me.

*Initiates self-flagellation sequence*

Posted by: Miklos, this is what happens when arriving late to a thread and being lazy at August 01, 2020 12:11 AM (QzkSJ)

530 478 466 Well relief here. I couldn't contact Slap but a friend did.

He is out of the hospital and doing better. Yay!

Prayers up from here for a good guy.
Posted by: Farmer at July 31, 2020 11:47 PM (NUe40)

----
Thanks for being diligent in asking about him. Prayers up from here too. Please let him know the Horde misses him.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 12:11 AM (IDhUW)

531 Good to meet you. *bows* BackwardsBoy at your cervix.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 01, 2020 12:12 AM (HaL55)

532 *Initiates self-flagellation sequence*

He's at it again. Quick! Cover the children's eyes.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at August 01, 2020 12:12 AM (SchxB)

533 527 The best thing about the AK is it will not jam. Not accurate, but not jamming is a feature for sure.

Posted by: Mookie

---
there isn't a firearm ever made that won't malfunction, one way or another, eventually.

i can think of several reasons why and AK will fail, starting with a torn case blocking the chamber.
Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 12:11 AM (4lVEh)

AK's are low maintenance....

But, any real craftsman takes care of his tools.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 12:12 AM (NgKpN)

534 Isn't it cool how government always needs to increase its power to address the problems created by government?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2020 10:04 PM (wPVhA)


It is a mystery to me. Completely unexpected. I have no idea how that happens.

Posted by: That's DOCTOR Paul Krugman, Economist, Nobel Prize winner and destroyer of nations at August 01, 2020 12:12 AM (WyVLE)

535 Martina Navratilova held cervix many a time at Wimbledon.

Posted by: logprof at August 01, 2020 12:13 AM (oZuI0)

536 529 I'm a delicate little flower of sweetness and light!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth


Well, f*ck me.

*Initiates self-flagellation sequence*
Posted by: Miklos, this is what happens when arriving late to a thread and being lazy at August 01, 2020 12:11 AM (QzkSJ)

Yeah, but she's saying that wearing leather, and holding a whip.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 12:13 AM (NgKpN)

537 Well speaking of AKs, the shooter (good guy) in Austin turns out to be an active duty Army NCO.

Hadn't seen it mentioned here, thought I would. Don't think he's being charged.

Which means dumb assailant must have pointed his AK at him or actually fired it (I have no idea of the facts or the police's current public position on the facts, if there is one).

Posted by: rhomboid at August 01, 2020 12:13 AM (OTzUX)

538 Don't you dare criticize Tammy Duckworth!!!

She is a veteran of the armed cervix.

Posted by: logprof at August 01, 2020 12:14 AM (oZuI0)

539 He's at it again. Quick! Cover the children's eyes.
Posted by: Blanco Basura


Most excellent.

Posted by: Dr. Miklos Fauci-Birx-Gramsci at August 01, 2020 12:14 AM (QzkSJ)

540 Hello TiFW.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2020 12:14 AM (uEbPt)

541 535 Martina Navratilova held cervix many a time at Wimbledon.
Posted by: logprof at August 01, 2020 12:13 AM (oZuI0)

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The John Lewis cervices are expected to last until after the erection.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 01, 2020 12:14 AM (wPVhA)

542 As an aside, the suggestions for misspellings in the little boxy comment thing at the HQ suck ass.

Posted by: logprof at August 01, 2020 12:15 AM (oZuI0)

543 538 Don't you dare criticize Tammy Duckworth!!!

She is a veteran of the armed cervix.
Posted by: logprof at August 01, 2020 12:14 AM (oZuI0)

so, as a Veteran of the Armed services meself.

If you criticize me for criticizes Ducky, is that like crossing the streams?

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 12:15 AM (NgKpN)

544 Yeah, but she's saying that wearing leather, and holding a whip.
Posted by: Romeo13


So what are these rabbit fur lined handcuffs all about?

Posted by: Miklos, who vaguely remembers signing some kind of waiver at August 01, 2020 12:16 AM (QzkSJ)

545 I've been to the Cervix Station many times.
Always nice to run in and get a candy bar while getting gas...

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 01, 2020 12:16 AM (L2ZTs)

546 I'm stranded all alone in the gas station of love

and I have to use the self-cervix pumps

Posted by: Weird Al at August 01, 2020 12:17 AM (oZuI0)

547 But, any real craftsman takes care of his tools.
Posted by: Romeo13
------
A corollary. A poor craftsman always blames his tools.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2020 12:18 AM (1vynn)

548 If you criticize me for criticizes Ducky, is that like crossing the streams?
Posted by: Romeo13


You can tell Duckworth really has to pee by how she crosses her legs.

Posted by: Miklos, anticipating opprobrium at August 01, 2020 12:18 AM (QzkSJ)

549 Well speaking of AKs, the shooter (good guy) in Austin turns out to be an active duty Army NCO.

---

Either stationed at Ft. Hood (more likely), or down in San Antonio.

I would lovelovelove to see BLM/Antifa try to storm Ft Hood's gates trying to get to this sergeant.

Posted by: SMH at August 01, 2020 12:18 AM (RU4sa)

550 544 Yeah, but she's saying that wearing leather, and holding a whip.
Posted by: Romeo13


So what are these rabbit fur lined handcuffs all about?
Posted by: Miklos, who vaguely remembers signing some kind of waiver at August 01, 2020 12:16 AM (QzkSJ)

/tries to look innocent

You mean the ones with the matching collar?

And the leg cuffs?

Would not know...

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 12:19 AM (NgKpN)

551 Kalashnikov is fairly familiar thanks to the AK.

Tokarev, to gun nuts, for his pistol.

SKS owners *might* know the final "S" stands for Simonov.

Degtyarev is not known to most people. However, two months ago on range duty day a young Russian immigrant had a DP-28. He'd welded the receiver back together, and it was semi-auto of course. But he had the cool "pan" magazine on top (49 rounds).

The other Degtyarev item that would be cool to have/see, and I hear they exist and the ammo is even available, is one of the anti-tank rifles (PTRD).

Only things in the USSR with proper names, named after their designers or design bureau - aircraft, and small arms. Weird.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 01, 2020 12:20 AM (OTzUX)

552 544 Yeah, but she's saying that wearing leather, and holding a whip.
Posted by: Romeo13

So what are these rabbit fur lined handcuffs all about?
Posted by: Miklos, who vaguely remembers signing some kind of waiver at August 01, 2020 12:16 AM (QzkSJ)


Um....you weren't supposed to see those....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at August 01, 2020 12:20 AM (SRRAx)

553 A corollary. A poor craftsman always blames his tools.
Posted by: Mike Hammer


Craftsman had a good warranty when it was Sears.

So a poor tool couldn't really blame Craftsman.

Posted by: Shade Tree Miklos at August 01, 2020 12:21 AM (QzkSJ)

554 Does the serval cat serve up cervix?

Posted by: logprof at August 01, 2020 12:21 AM (oZuI0)

555 If you criticize me for criticizes Ducky, is that like crossing the streams?
Posted by: Romeo13


Why would you criticize Ducky? He was probably the most relatable character in Pretty In Pink.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 01, 2020 12:21 AM (L2ZTs)

556 547 But, any real craftsman takes care of his tools.
Posted by: Romeo13
------
A corollary. A poor craftsman always blames his tools.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2020 12:18 AM (1vynn)

Very very true.

I was lucky enough in my professional choices where my 'tool', was actually the human mind.

The ability to troubleshoot complex system problems.

Yes, you had to be able to turn a damn screw, to run that cable, but most of it? Stemmed on the ability to solve a complex technical Puzzle.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 12:22 AM (NgKpN)

557 Sorry to be 33 minutes late on previous thread, and I
will accept full punishment, but am I the only one who thinks that
covid cases are increasing due to both increased testing AND a recent,
massive volumetric importation of the virus by a truly evil person or
group?
Posted by: Al Unsure at July 31, 2020 10:39 PM (Jib4S)


A couple counties in Eastern Oregon went to level ONE again due to COVID.

Apparently they had 100% increases. I think that meant they went from 20 to 40.

Still no information on how this changed hospital bed availability. One of the Portland radio stations said that capacity was not a problem and was actually down.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2020 12:24 AM (WyVLE)

558 ..there isn't a firearm ever made that won't malfunction, one way or another, eventually.

i can think of several reasons why and AK will fail, starting with a torn case blocking the chamber.
Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 12:11 AM (4lVEh)

AK's are low maintenance....

But, any real craftsman takes care of his tools.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 12:12 AM (NgKpN)



Worst handgun jam I've personally seen, was a USAF S&W Model 15, .38 Special revolver.

The standard practice and qualifying round was the Winchester-Western 148 grain, hollow-base, full-wadcutter load. Normally, as high a quality of a factory round as existed in the mid 1970s market.

The Airman two lanes down from me fired off a shot, and *everyone* knew that something had gone amiss. It sounded more like a hissing fart than a gunfire report.

That revolver was locked up like a bank vault. Couldn't rotate the cylinder, cycle the action or swing-out the cylinder, at all.

Fortunately, the base's "Red Hat" contingent was there, (USAF Small Arms Specialists), and they quickly determined the cause.

The case itself had separated at the cannulure at the base of the bullet, and had traveled with the bullet, when fired, about halfway into the forcing cone.

That mess, too large in diameter and the nickel-plated brass being too strong to be swaged down the barrel, simply transformed that revolver into a 2 lb., unwieldly club.

The gun made it back to the Security Squadron Armory, along with the offending (failed) cartridge components.

They had to lock the gun into a vise with leather-padded jaws, and using a 1/4" diameter brass rod and light hammer, gently tap the logjam backwards, out of the forcing cone, and back into the cylinder.

Which they could then open as normal. But then they had to clamp the cylinder into the same vice, and use the same technique to eject the conjoined casing and slug, from the individual chamber, at long last.

No harm came to the gun. The pressures involved were too low for that.

But it goes to show.

Any gun can jam. Even a single shot.

But that's a different tale for a different time.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 01, 2020 12:24 AM (QzJWU)

559 At the zoo (animal park branch) last year they had a serval as one of the cats for the curator's talk. If I'm keeping my obscure game cats straight, that's the one with the furry curly ears (they serve a purpose of course) that has a 10-foot vertical jump (kind of like Cuban Olympic volleyball team hitter).

They jump up to knock down birds flying over. Curator said that maximum # of birdies knocked down, documented, was 12 or something. Wild stuff.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 01, 2020 12:24 AM (OTzUX)

560 Why would you criticize Ducky? He was probably the most relatable character in Pretty In Pink.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 01, 2020 12:21 AM (L2ZTs)

--

Posted by: logprof at August 01, 2020 12:24 AM (oZuI0)

561 552 544 Yeah, but she's saying that wearing leather, and holding a whip.
Posted by: Romeo13

So what are these rabbit fur lined handcuffs all about?
Posted by: Miklos, who vaguely remembers signing some kind of waiver at August 01, 2020 12:16 AM (QzkSJ)

Um....you weren't supposed to see those....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at August 01, 2020 12:20 AM (SRRAx)

LOL, or as one Woman once told me...

Those? they are for later.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 12:24 AM (NgKpN)

562 508 Cancel tiktok?
But what about all the dancing nurses?
Posted by: vmom 2020 at August 01, 2020 12:02 AM (TOyHQ)

We've moved on...to the MRI machine, STAT!

Posted by: Nurses at August 01, 2020 12:24 AM (SxBH1)

563 Why would you criticize Ducky? He was probably the most relatable character in Pretty In Pink.
Posted by: qdpsteve


He could sing AND he could dance. Culturally appropriative, but still.

Posted by: Miklos, Sweet Sixteen hat size at August 01, 2020 12:25 AM (QzkSJ)

564 logprof and Miklos, yup. Also, played by the great Jon Cryer, who I've read is considered a conservative in Hollywood.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 01, 2020 12:26 AM (L2ZTs)

565 own up, which one of you is this?

https://www.espiker.com/article/579/3/no-derrama3-una-gota

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2020 12:27 AM (WyVLE)

566 After all these years, I still think it's funny that Pretty in Pink's namesake is a song about a *really* slutty girl.

A very catchy song, but still . . .

Posted by: logprof at August 01, 2020 12:28 AM (oZuI0)

567 logprof, yup. I only recently learned that.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 01, 2020 12:29 AM (L2ZTs)

568 Yes, you had to be able to turn a damn screw, to run that cable, but most of it? Stemmed on the ability to solve a complex technical Puzzle.

Posted by: Romeo13


We rate this as HIGHLY PROBLEMATIC

Posted by: Pink-haired trans-Mikloses at August 01, 2020 12:29 AM (QzkSJ)

569 I kind of wish Jon Cryer would write an autobiography. I bet he could tell really crazy stories of backstage hijinks at Two And A Half Men.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 01, 2020 12:29 AM (L2ZTs)

570 564 logprof and Miklos, yup. Also, played by the great Jon Cryer, who I've read is considered a conservative in Hollywood.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 01, 2020 12:26 AM (L2ZTs)

--Boy, did he play the butt monkey on 2 1/2 Men and laugh all the way to the bank. Like a grown up Charlie Brown.

Posted by: logprof at August 01, 2020 12:30 AM (oZuI0)

571 logprof, also yup. I only recently realized, Jon's character on that show is basically Charlie Brown as a grown-up doctor in SoCal.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 01, 2020 12:30 AM (L2ZTs)

572 That's one hellacious revolver jam, Jim. Funny, just last night I was reading about a similar, though less dramatic (case-head separation? with part of the case jammed in the forcing cone? wow). Bullet was lodged in the cone, so cylinder as locked up. Same remedy: tapped back into cylinder.

In an incident historians and forensic experts are still examining, I had a squib load in one my earliest 38sp reloads (test rounds). Incredible, since ..... I examine each powder throw in every round of every caliber I reload, visually, to check for ballpark-correctness and avoid squibs. And test rounds - I weigh each charge, obviously to save time and know exactly what I'm shooting as I test various charges.

Lead bullet, half-way down the barrel, easily tapped out.

But the controversy and recriminations continue to this day.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 01, 2020 12:31 AM (OTzUX)

573 571 logprof, also yup. I only recently realized, Jon's character on that show is basically Charlie Brown as a grown-up doctor in SoCal.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 01, 2020 12:30 AM (L2ZTs)

--Heh, not a doctor, a chiropractor.

Posted by: logprof at August 01, 2020 12:33 AM (oZuI0)

574 logprof, oops, didn't realize. :-)

Kind of makes sense, as his character, as I recall it, was a bit spineless.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 01, 2020 12:33 AM (L2ZTs)

575 Posted by: Jim at August 01, 2020 12:24 AM (QzJWU)

Although I was an Electronics guy, I was specifically sent to a destroyer, in the Persian Gulf, to run their boarding Team.

When I got there? WORST F'n 1911's I'd ever seen. M-14s were good, 12 Gauges were OK...

But the 1911 would rattle when you shook them.

Scared the holy living crap out of me.

Luckily, back then, you could, with permission, bring personal weapons aboard use them with the CO's permission, as long as you shot standard issued ammo.

Had a shoot on the fantail right after I got there, and pulled my personal wep out, and basically embarrassed the hell out of the Gunners mates in charge of the armory.

Sadly, they didn't really know any better. They didn't even know what a good weapon Felt like.

Within a year, me an the Senior Chief Gunners Mate onboard had solved that issue.

I've found that most times, when things suck, its because those in charge, don't even know HOW to make things better.

Or that its even possible. So they don't try.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 12:34 AM (NgKpN)

576 After all these years, I still think it's funny that Pretty in Pink's namesake is a song about a *really* slutty girl.

A very catchy song, but still . . .
Posted by: logprof


The Psychedelic Furs played at my college.

I enjoyed the show, but mainly remember it because my freshman roommate puked awesomely and impressively during the show.

Then again, he always did that.

Also, he could "sing" the Star Spangled Banner with burps.

Posted by: Miklos the 80s kid at August 01, 2020 12:34 AM (QzkSJ)

577 we here, on the ONT are, and have been for some time, practicing "distal socializing".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 31, 2020 11:55 PM (dG6Ya)


Wadaya know! Me too!

Posted by: Joey "Fingers" Biden at August 01, 2020 12:34 AM (b2diN)

578 Nite all. Work beckons tomorrow.

Be well and persevere.

Posted by: Farmer at August 01, 2020 12:36 AM (NUe40)

579 'Night Farmer.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 01, 2020 12:37 AM (HaL55)

580 ..But the controversy and recriminations continue to this day.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 01, 2020 12:31 AM (OTzUX)



Many of us have either fired, or been in close proximity when a squib load goes off at the range.

It's a different report, but still, usually, a distinct "gunshot", even if a more weak or subdued sound of one such.

This one I have never heard since, and the Red Hats could also not explain.

USAF Red Hats go to every Armorer School as exists, for every man-portable weapon in the USAF inventory at that point in time.

And many of them also go to the Big Boy Schools for the many crew served and aircraft-borne weapons, all the way to the mighty GAU-8 cannon of A-10 Warthog fame.

They know their guns and gear.

They were *right there* when this one happened, and none of them had an answer for what was wrong with that one cartridge out of a box of 50 and a case of 1,000.

And if *they* didn't have a clue? Sure as hell, I don't, either. Still don't, to this day.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX


Posted by: Jim at August 01, 2020 12:38 AM (QzJWU)

581 we here, on the ONT are, and have been for some time, practicing "distal socializing".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Can't none of that MoMe cross-pollination bidnis!

Posted by: Sen. Fritz "Miklos" Hollings at August 01, 2020 12:40 AM (QzkSJ)

582 The "Joey" sock was supposed to be 'Joey "Fingers" Biden', but pixy doesn't like quotation marks in screen names, I guess.

And, I read "distal" as "digital".

So, double ultra sock fail. Off to a good start.

Evenin', Horde.

Posted by: Average Guy at August 01, 2020 12:40 AM (b2diN)

583 A corollary. A poor craftsman always blames his tools.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2020 12:18 AM (1vynn)

---
funny cartoon from my college days:

"if i had better tools, i could more adequately demonstrate my complete incompetence."

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 12:41 AM (4lVEh)

584 Triple fail.

Some nights its best to just lurk.

Posted by: Average Guy at August 01, 2020 12:42 AM (b2diN)

585 "if i had better tools, i could more adequately demonstrate my complete incompetence."
Posted by: redc1c4

*glares*

Posted by: Grievance Studies Ph.D. at August 01, 2020 12:42 AM (QzkSJ)

586 All right, time for me to tap out.

Sleep sweet, y'all, and may August be better. . . .

Posted by: logprof at August 01, 2020 12:43 AM (oZuI0)

587 Yes, you had to be able to turn a damn screw, to run that cable, but most of it? Stemmed on the ability to solve a complex technical Puzzle.

Posted by: Romeo13
-----

Here's a couple of curious things about solving complicated problems.

In the old days, when you could drink and drive, I would regularly stop at a 7-11 just down from the office and buy a cold beer to drink while making the 40 minute drive home in traffic. At least several times, after struggling over some knotty, complex problem all day, the solution would occur to me while I was driving home.

Something about moving the problem to the middle of my mind, rather than staring at it in front of me. Less concentration/distraction with the problem, and more thought about...I don't know. I never turned around and went back to the lab, but it made for a great way to start the next day.

Next, solving technical problems while taking a shower. Sounds weird, but there it is. I've found myself sort of shocked back into consciousness by the water turning cold, realizing that I've been staring into middle space contemplating some complicated solution.

Sometimes it's inspirational. I must have plotted dozens of semi-imaginary graphs using the grout lines in the shower. A couple of really inspired solutions have happened that way. Again, I think it's a matter of been removed from the immediate confrontation with the problem, some latitude that occurs when the mind is not so focused.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2020 12:44 AM (9Fwwf)

588 Posted by: Jim at August 01, 2020 12:38 AM (QzJWU)

I'm a Problem solver. Its how my mind works.

It looks for patterns, for thing to make sense.

And the Hardest lesson I ever had to learn was, that not everything will have an answer.

I WANT it too... damn it.

Hell, I'm something of a Gnostic, I think God put us here so we could understand the Universe.

But sometimes, no matte how we dig, there is no answer.

Shit just happens.

Especially when people are involved. That whole free will thing.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 12:44 AM (NgKpN)

589 Some nights its best to just lurk.
Posted by: Average Guy


Lurk lurk lurk

Lurk of Earl

Lurk lurk

Lurk of Earl

Lurk lurk

Lurk of Earl

Posted by: Miklos, Under the Boardwalk at August 01, 2020 12:46 AM (QzkSJ)

590 On the deck this evening watching clouds and honest to gosh saw a cloud that looked just like President Trump. Had the scalp weasel, the squinty eyes and the jutting chin. I did a double take, then called Missus M to see. It shifted before I could get my camera out.

An omen?
Posted by: Muldoon


You're in Colorado?

Well, whatever you are smoking, you should share.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at August 01, 2020 12:47 AM (ZCiJZ)

591 Especially when people are involved. That whole free will thing.

I've always found that expecting people to do the wrong thing at any given time has helped me avoid a lot of problems. Especially while driving.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at August 01, 2020 12:48 AM (SchxB)

592 I'm a Problem solver. Its how my mind works.

It looks for patterns, for thing to make sense.


Counseling for YOU, Young Man!

Posted by: Counsellor Karen, leave shoes and privilege at the door at August 01, 2020 12:48 AM (QzkSJ)

593 In an incident historians and forensic experts
are still examining, I had a squib load in one my earliest 38sp reloads
(test rounds). Incredible, since ..... I examine each powder throw in
every round of every caliber I reload, visually, to check for
ballpark-correctness and avoid squibs. And test rounds - I weigh each
charge, obviously to save time and know exactly what I'm shooting as I
test various charges.



Lead bullet, half-way down the barrel, easily tapped out.



But the controversy and recriminations continue to this day.



Posted by: rhomboid at August 01, 2020 12:31 AM (OTzUX)

---
bad primer would be my first guess...

as for Jim SND's jam: metallurgic fault in the case... W or W/O a too tight crimp on it.

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 12:50 AM (4lVEh)

594 An omen?
Posted by: Muldoon



FACT CHECK

Not an omen!

Portent. More like a Portent.

Posted by: Miklos Scheib, will check any fact for $9.95 at August 01, 2020 12:51 AM (QzkSJ)

595
I've always found that expecting people to do the wrong thing at any given time has helped me avoid a lot of problems. Especially while driving.
Posted by: Blanco Basura
---------

It's healthy for motorcyclists to assume that car drivers are trying to kill you.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2020 12:51 AM (DMQdU)

596 473 iswydt

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at August 01, 2020 12:52 AM (IBMDj)

597 I've always found that expecting people to do the wrong thing at any given time has helped me avoid a lot of problems. Especially while driving.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at August 01, 2020 12:48 AM (SchxB)

Sounds like you ride a motorcycle.
Scan. Identify. Predict. Decide. Execute.

Posted by: getting the banned back together at August 01, 2020 12:52 AM (HgSSu)

598 Sometimes it's inspirational. I must have plotted
dozens of semi-imaginary graphs using the grout lines in the shower. A
couple of really inspired solutions have happened that way. Again, I
think it's a matter of been removed from the immediate confrontation
with the problem, some latitude that occurs when the mind is not so
focused.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2020 12:44 AM (9Fwwf)


Shower thoughts. Something about being half asleep under warm running water makes ideas gel.
I think it is those waking dreams we get, where the brain is trying to tell us things we don't yet know, being egged on by actual thinking.

Some people need washable shower crayons.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2020 12:53 AM (WyVLE)

599
And if *they* didn't have a clue? Sure as hell, I don't, either. Still don't, to this day.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX


Posted by: Jim

No powder in the casing. Only the primer cap fired.

That happened once to a friend of mine that reloaded his own ammo.

The cap fired, and moved the bullet a little down the bore, where it jammed, because there was no powder in the shell. But the cap firing was enough to move the bullet out of the casing and a little down the bore.
And probably, the casing was a little deformed and moved.
Probably somebody stole some good rounds, and substituted them with look-alike cheap reloads.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....unfrozen caveman moron at August 01, 2020 12:54 AM (ZCiJZ)

600 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2020 12:44 AM (9Fwwf)

You have no idea how many times I have awoken, in the middle of the night, with the answer to a technical problem.

The Human mind is a pattern recognition engine. When you read a word, you don't really read the word, you recognize the pattern.

When you see a face? same... which is why sometimes you will think you see someone you recognize, who is not there... the pattern is close enough.

Our WHOLE brain works on this, conscious and SUBconscious. Which is why you get the Willies sometimes.

Why you walk into a bad neighborhood, or situation, and KNOW that something is wrong, even though your conscious mind does not recognize the problem.

Its your mind recognizing a pattern has been broken.

I realized this, early in my technical career.

And that you can use this, to solve technical problems.... using what nature gave us for survival as a tool to be a good Technician, to be able to figure out when the pattern, is not what it should be.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 12:54 AM (NgKpN)

601 It's healthy for motorcyclists to assume that car drivers are trying to kill you.

In some cases, they are.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y3pz4tr6

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com lives again at August 01, 2020 12:56 AM (SchxB)

602 585 "if i had better tools, i could more adequately demonstrate my complete incompetence."
Posted by: redc1c4

*glares*
Posted by: Grievance Studies Ph.D. at August 01, 2020 12:42 AM (QzkSJ)

*giggles*

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 12:56 AM (IDhUW)

603 Romeo 13.

The USN Chief was (and I hope remains) unique among other services senior NCOs, in that he (in his natural element) commands a closed fiefdom, in small, defined compartments aboard a ship at sea.

On blue waters and far more independent from "Command" than is the norm for bases ashore, regardless of branch of Service.

Only a USMC "Gunny" wields similar sway and instant obedience, and pray that the Old Corps never dies, but renews again and again as time goes on.

An Army Command Sargent Major, alas, by time that rank is achieved tends to be subsumed into the Politics of the Brass, as often as not.

And a USAF Senior Master or Chief Master Sargent? (E-8/E-9). Yeah, they're mostly military Deep State, for all intents and purposes.

I grew up a Navy Brat in the '60s/'70s. Westpac kid, when crew was crew, men were men and seabags reeked of diesel, cigarette smoke and stench of Dad at sea.

Enlisted in the A.F. as the Navy did not then offer a Master at Arms rating, and the A.F. had spun-off "Law Enforcement Specialist" from the usual, soul-killing, rivet counting duty of "Security Specialist".

Boy howdy, did I soon learn that the A.F. in the Carter years was a bureaucracy subsisting by imitating a Military Service.

Even their active flight Bases and Commands were decayed in those days by the bureaucratic rot.

The first Gulf War re-awakened the Warrior Spirit in many USAF layers of command. The 2nd Gulf War demonstrated the need to teach even rudimentary fighting skills to the greenest of boots.

I'm told now, it's back to the bureaucratic ways and days as relates to the non-rated, non-flying ranks.

*sigh*

And they'll pay the price in blood, again, when real Military performance is required from the cook and clerk typist, in a pinch.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 01, 2020 12:57 AM (QzJWU)

604 Muldoon, everything is an inspiration and an omen.

Actually at my worst, under extreme grinding stress, I started looking for omens in everything. I mean including things like how the phone cable coils and random strings of numbers from data entry codes.

Nowadays, I realize that I have too much vacation time to be that stressed, and I should burn some so I can survive long enough to spend my pension, but in the past I was a head case.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2020 12:57 AM (WyVLE)

605 I know it's stupid, but my reaction to anything Gatsby is like Steve Martin hearing "cleaning woman" in "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid"

My response was actually the first line of the book.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not GG fanatic, but I do remember the first and last lines.

My all time, hate it so much I wish someone would push John Knowles out of a tree book is A Separate Peace..

Posted by: Weirddave at August 01, 2020 12:58 AM (CvJaM)

606 redc, agree on Jim's incident - case failure. That can happen with any caliber in any situation, with a bad case.

I never figured out what happened in my case, but it hasn't happened again.

Only other reload failures I've had were some primers in 30 carbine that I probably mashed (small/dirty primer pockets), maybe 2 or 3, in years. Just duds.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 01, 2020 12:58 AM (OTzUX)

607 Why you walk into a bad neighborhood, or situation, and KNOW that something is wrong, even though your conscious mind does not recognize the problem.




“There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”

Posted by: The "Rev." Jesse Jackson at August 01, 2020 12:58 AM (QzkSJ)

608
Lead bullet, half-way down the barrel, easily tapped out.

At the long gone san francisco gun store across the street from the long gone Breen's bar was a photo of a lengthwise sectioned thompson semi barrel. After the first squib load stopped near the muzzle, nimrod kept pulling trigger till it would not chamber anymore - it was stuffed with slugs.

Posted by: getting the banned back together at August 01, 2020 12:59 AM (HgSSu)

609 Re Problem solving:


I found that in manufacturing, you try to catch mistakes as soon as possible. The further downstream problems go, the more expensive they get. The last thing you want is a product recall.

I always admired the engineering guys who worked at NASA. Lived next door to one who won a Snoopy Award up in Huntspatch. In the olden days they worked with some real cutting-edge technology and did amazing things with hardware we chuckle at today. Even the machinists were brilliant people.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 01, 2020 12:59 AM (HaL55)

610 but in the past I was a head case.
Posted by: Kindltot


With excellent taste in music.

Posted by: Miklos figures you got that going for ya at August 01, 2020 01:01 AM (QzkSJ)

611 if i had better tools, i could more adequately demonstrate my complete incompetence."

Posted by: redc1c4



*glares*

Posted by: Grievance Studies Ph.D. at August 01, 2020 12:42 AM (QzkSJ)
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*glare* bounces off Ft Benning installed GAF barrier and destroys your world view forever.

have a nice day, and you're welcome.

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 01:01 AM (4lVEh)

612 Why doesn't anyone ask if they've seen Charles the Simple lately. Hun?

Posted by: Charles the Simple at August 01, 2020 01:03 AM (HuH1F)

613 getting the banned back together - I've seen similar for revolvers (x-ray shots, I think). Low-pressure lead bullet rounds, Ruger revolver - just fill the barrel with lead.

Though I've always thought there must be pretty dramatically wrong effects (recoil, smoke, flash) when you're doing that. With a Thompson? Wow. If in auto, wouldn't take long.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 01, 2020 01:03 AM (OTzUX)

614
With excellent taste in music.
Posted by: Miklos figures you got that going for ya at August 01, 2020 01:01 AM (QzkSJ)


Well, except for Shonen Knife.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2020 01:03 AM (WyVLE)

615 Well, except for Shonen Knife.
Posted by: Kindltot


I like Shonen Knife.


SO THERE

Posted by: Miklos doing downtwinkles at August 01, 2020 01:05 AM (QzkSJ)

616 Goodnight all, thanks for the fun chat tonight.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 01, 2020 01:05 AM (L2ZTs)

617 A corollary. A poor craftsman always blames his tools.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2020 12:18 AM (1vynn)

I got the engine back into the poor wretched Panhard today. But it took me all day, because I decided to do something about the transaxle mounts, or really, the lack thereof. There was, effectively, one transaxle mount, a little dogbone-shaped link between the bottom of the spacer ring between the engine and the transaxle. It certainly couldn't bear weight. maybe it could limit rotation of the engine/transaxle assembly in the frame, to some extent.

The transaxle lives inside a sort of tapered box attached to the front subframe, with the axles poking through holes is the sides of the box. Towards the rear of the box, there is a large round hole, and there is a threaded bracket on the transaxle centered above that hole. Some previous genius had attached a piece of 1"by 2" steel channel section to that bracket, and the ends of that channel were bolted to brackets on the exhaust pipes.

So... I found an old rubber biscuit mount off a plate compacter, and it had 12X1.5 mm threaded holes in each side, which matched the thread on the transaxle bracket. And it was just small enough to fit through the large hole in the box member. So I cut the ends off the piece of steel channel, and drilled clearance holes for 3/8" bolts, and bolted the center hole on the channel to the bottom of the biscuit mount. I then drilled through the clearance holes on the channel up into the box member with more 3/8" holes. Turned out that I needed about 1" spacers between the bottom of the box and the channel to get the transaxle vertically centered between hitting something at the top, or hitting something at the bottom.

At the front of the transaxle, there already was pair of "ears" on the casting at about 4:00 and 8:00, complete with holes, that looked like they were intended rest on rubber mounts. Maybe for a previous version of the car? The little tie-rod thingy attached to a steel bar spanning the opening at the bottom of the frame box, and was held by two stacked rubber-biscuit mounts with through bolts and sleeves (not unlike the motor mounts on many '50's American cars). The holes for these did not align with the holes on the brackets built into the transaxle case. The rubber biscuits had been pretty well destroyed by leaked oil.

So, I took my reciprocating saw, and cut away the sections of metal containing those holes. Then I took a pair of decent used Studebaker engine mount biscuits, and cut a flat on one side of each for clearance to the sides of the box, and bolted them to the brackets on the transaxle. I then cut short pieces of 2" by 2" steel angle, and drilled holes, and bolted them to the studs on the bottom of those biscuits (which are bonded units, studs top and bottom).

Then I raised the front of the transaxle to my best estimate of its proper location, and welded the piece of steel angle to the fresh saw cuts on the frame box, and also welded in a reinforcement strap to prevent the load from hingeing on the welds. So I wound up with the transaxle in approximately its proper orientation, and secured to the frame with three stout bonded-rubber cushions.

Then, I removed the bumper and front frame outrigger from the engine, because they would get in the way, and slipped the engine into the transaxle. Everything went together pretty easily, and I ran up the nuts on all six studs and tightened them. The engine is now, at the moment, entirely supported by the transaxle and its three rubber mounts, which is exactly how VW Beetles do it, albeit in the rear. And it is solid. Very little up/down movement, next to no rotation about its axis, and a little side-to-side sway. When I install the bumper with the front engine mounts, which are bolted to the exhaust pipes (!), that side play should disappear.

I am really pleased with how it looks, and I expect it will drive a whole lot better, with less floptivity of the power train. The torque will go to the road wheels, instead of tossing the engine around.

Another day's work, and a road test should be possible.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2020 01:06 AM (JER4/)

618 Posted by: Jim at August 01, 2020 12:57 AM (QzJWU)

I grew up about 1.5 miles from a SAC base. B-52s, KC-135s, and F-105s for awhile.

This was during Viet Nam. It was normal for my friends Dads to be deployed, and bombing Viet Nam.

I moved back to that town a few years ago to take care of my Mom.

One neighbor? was a B-52 Navigator. Known him for ... damn... I'm old... 50 years.

Three doors down is a Retired AF E-9, who is even crustier than I am (yes, we get along well).

Back when I was growing up, thinking on it, the ONLY non AF family on our Block, was us. (Dad had been Navy).

Had a neighbor whose Son's I am still friends with, who crashed an SR-71. Ended all his flight time, though not his career.

Like the Navy, I still hold out hope for the Air Force.

The warrior spirit is there, but needs to be ignited.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 01:06 AM (NgKpN)

619 Goodnight all, thanks for the fun chat tonight.
Posted by: qdpsteve

Sweet earthquake-free dreams!

Posted by: Miklos , just getting started at August 01, 2020 01:07 AM (QzkSJ)

620 It's healthy for motorcyclists to assume that car drivers are trying to kill you.

I started riding at 14 and was fortunate enough to run across a great little booklet called "Safe Motorcycling." IIRC, the guys at Motorcycle magazine put it out. It had great tips like never being in gear at a stoplight just in case your clutch cable fails and you get launched into the stream of traffic.


The best piece of advice in it was, "Always ride as though you're invisible." That saved my young ass from getting killed more than once.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 01, 2020 01:07 AM (HaL55)

621 "Studebaker engine mount biscuits"


AOP should get extra points because it is possible that this is the first time in the ancient history of the English language that those words have been used in that sequence.

Posted by: Miklos, thinking AOP should copyright that at August 01, 2020 01:10 AM (QzkSJ)

622 Red Sky ay Morning I can't find the "greater than" sign on my computer "A Separate Peace."

Posted by: Charles the Simple at August 01, 2020 01:11 AM (HuH1F)

623 9 minutes of Jim Gaffigan shitting on Canada..

youtube.com/watch?v=ehZePNP_w4I

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 01, 2020 01:12 AM (ysmsf)

624 617. AOP Always interesting to read about your projects. Makes me tired just thinking of the work involved, reminds me of younger days.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at August 01, 2020 01:12 AM (IBMDj)

625 "A Separate Peace."
Posted by: Charles the Simple


It's crap.

I wrote it, and it's crap.

Posted by: John Knowles at August 01, 2020 01:13 AM (QzkSJ)

626 AOP should get extra points because it is possible that this is the first time in the ancient history of the English language that those words have been used in that sequence.
Posted by: Miklos, thinking AOP should copyright that at August 01, 2020 01:10 AM (QzkSJ)

Sounds like one of those word phrases used as passcodes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 01, 2020 01:13 AM (cI3Q7)

627 OK Hordelings, it's bedtime for Bonzo.

Don't burn the place down. Leave that for the Portland panty-fa brigade, the Mincing Manbuns.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 01, 2020 01:15 AM (HaL55)

628 Sounds like one of those word phrases used as passcodes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD


Yep.

"wretchedpanhard" is way too obvious.

Posted by: Highly Secure Miklos at August 01, 2020 01:16 AM (QzkSJ)

629 Hell, I'm something of a Gnostic, I think God put us here so we could understand the Universe.

But sometimes, no matte how we dig, there is no answer.

Shit just happens.

Especially when people are involved. That whole free will thing.
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You reminded me of one of my favorite poems, "the pulley" by george Herbert. It speaks of the gifts of God, but God withholds restful ness to draw us back to Him.

not having answers is difficult to deal with.

I think we are meant to discover how the world works and use it well. I think when for some reason the natural laws fail it is because of an intervention, or miracle if you will, of God.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:16 AM (IDhUW)

630 The ice cube cartoon is great, thanks Dave!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:18 AM (IDhUW)

631 Which one was a Separate Peace?

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 01, 2020 01:20 AM (cI3Q7)

632 i bought 1/2 a cow
Posted by: harley

So, if ya see a 2 legged cow be-bopping around, don't be alarmed.

Posted by: JT at August 01, 2020 01:20 AM (arJlL)

633 ..Like the Navy, I still hold out hope for the Air Force.

The warrior spirit is there, but needs to be ignited.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 01:06 AM (NgKpN)



The "Motto" on the front of the Air Force Seal proclaims "To Fly and to Fight".

They never turn that Seal around to the obverse side, where it says: "If You Don't Fly, You Ain't Shit"

That's the problem with the USAF. ANY one on Flight Status will be in the Upper Tier, with Pilots atop them all. Backseaters, Navigators, Tactical Officers (as in AWACS), just below.

Then Medevan Dr.s and RNs, Loadmasters, and Crew Chiefs.

More or less, that's the flying cadre, all in all, just under 2% of USAF ratings.

Everyone else is "support", and is reminded of such, constantly.

Conversely? USN Carrier with 5,500 aboard.

Regardless of Seaman Recruit swabbing the bilge, or Airedale or Bridge Officer, every swingin' dick on that ship is a SAILOR, and they all sink or swim if the ship goes down.

That lends a certain cohesion, and esprit de corps, of which the USAF has still yet to discover.

I'd send them my ideas, but again, I'm not a $250,000/yr consultant assigned over from Raytheon or such.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 01, 2020 01:20 AM (QzJWU)

634 *looks it up*

Oh Dear Lord, THAT piece of shit.


Agreed, WD.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 01, 2020 01:21 AM (cI3Q7)

635 I HATE with a virulent passion all of those fucking 'coming of age' books.

Fuck Catcher in the Rye.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 01, 2020 01:21 AM (cI3Q7)

636 Red Sky ay Morning I can't find the "greater than" sign on my computer "A Separate Peace."

Posted by: Charles the Simple at August 01, 2020 01:11 AM (HuH1F)

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try " > "

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 01:22 AM (4lVEh)

637 MACHINES FOR SALE

Posted by: Fox2! at August 01, 2020 01:23 AM (qyH+l)

638 AOP - Jeepers. Productive day.

I, uh, fixed the broken battery wire in my wireless mouse.

Also made up a jig for cutting a woodruff key slot in the flywheel of my leafblower. The flywheel nut had worked loose, the flywheel wobbled and sheared the 'key'. That's in quotes because the 'key' was actually *cast* into the aluminum flywheel. So, now I've got to cut a keyway into the tapered hole of the flywheel. Just to make it more fun, I'll have to make the key also, as I've had no luck finding the right size locally.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2020 01:24 AM (1vynn)

639 Here's one for the Hordelings on this Friday night.

My wife has never enjoyed watching things (movies/tv) more than one time. Twice at absolute max. I think repeat watching tends to be a guy thing anyway but I'm generalizing because I know some women do like it.

Anyway, over the years she has come to see the value in it. We have a few things now we have watched together multiples of times. I'm talking up into the 20's probably.

Here's my question. Why do you think it is that on each repeat viewing, more often than not we both observe the same exact things for the first time. Like if I point something out she'll say she had just noticed it, too, and vice versa. Things never seen before but only seen on that viewing. I mean the most minuscule of details, or oddest perspective on something that you might not imagine one person seeing, let alone two at the same time.

There's several possibilities, some more "rational" than others. I have my own theory on this but I want to know what you all think. Also I'm wondering if you have experienced this phenomenon with your SO.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2020 01:24 AM (fHi5F)

640 By the way has anyone seen Charles the Simple recently?

We really shouldn't let him run round the village all willynilly. Someone should keep an eye on him!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:25 AM (IDhUW)

641 "Studebaker engine mount biscuits"


AOP should get extra points because it is possible that this is the first time in the ancient history of the English language that those words have been used in that sequence.
Posted by: Miklos, thinking AOP should copyright that at August 01, 2020 01:10 AM (QzkSJ)

FWIW, they are rubber/metal bonded units. Roughly 2" in diameter, and 1.5" thick, metal disc top and bottom with a 3/8" NF stud in the center of each disc. Volvo used similar mounts, with slightly different dimensions, and so did early Mazda RX-7's.

Being metal vulcanized to rubber, they are subject to peeling apart if overloaded in tension.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2020 01:25 AM (JER4/)

642 Anyhow, there was a report from South America (Uruguay) that some Chinese made M95 masks were faulty and were a suffocation hazard.

and a Mises article on masks

https://mises.org/wire/when-it-comes-masks-there-no-settled-science

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2020 01:28 AM (WyVLE)

643 The Air Force is a company.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 01, 2020 01:28 AM (1g7ch)

644 Also made up a jig for cutting a woodruff key slot in the flywheel of my leafblower. The flywheel nut had worked loose, the flywheel wobbled and sheared the 'key'. That's in quotes because the 'key' was actually *cast* into the aluminum flywheel. So, now I've got to cut a keyway into the tapered hole of the flywheel. Just to make it more fun, I'll have to make the key also, as I've had no luck finding the right size locally.
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That sounds great! And I know most of those words but I have no idea what you said. But you said "more fun" and I'm sure that wasn't sarcasm,so enjoy.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:29 AM (IDhUW)

645 There's several possibilities, some more "rational" than others. I have my own theory on this but I want to know what you all think. Also I'm wondering if you have experienced this phenomenon with your SO.
Posted by: ... at August 01, 2020 01:24 AM (fHi5F)

Probably due to common changes on repeat viewing because you know what is coming in the story, so your mind focuses on 'new' information.

Just my thought.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 01, 2020 01:29 AM (cI3Q7)

646 That sounds great! And I know most of those words but I have no idea what you said. But you said "more fun" and I'm sure that wasn't sarcasm,so enjoy.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:29 AM (IDhUW)

Actually, that probably was more sarcasm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 01, 2020 01:31 AM (cI3Q7)

647 Here's my question. Why do you think it is that on each repeat viewing, more often than not we both observe the same exact things for the first time. Like if I point something out she'll say she had just noticed it, too, and vice versa. Things never seen before but only seen on that viewing. I mean the most minuscule of details, or oddest perspective on something that you might not imagine one person seeing, let alone two at the same time.
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I would think that something in your current life made that detail more relevant to you at this time than at other times.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:31 AM (IDhUW)

648 Actually, that probably was more sarcasm.

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lol, from me too.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:33 AM (IDhUW)

649 thinking i should just drift off for a bit, so everyone can try for 666...

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 01:33 AM (4lVEh)

650 Musk is kind of making NASA look like cowards, misers AND fools.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 01, 2020 01:34 AM (cI3Q7)

651 Red Sky ay Morning I can't find the "greater than" sign on my computer "A Separate Peace."



Posted by: Charles the Simple at August 01, 2020 01:11 AM (HuH1F)


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try " > "


Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 01:22 AM (4lVEh)

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lower right hand corner of a standard qwerty keyboard, on the comma and period keys, with use of teh "shift" key...

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 01:35 AM (4lVEh)

652 Actually, that probably was more sarcasm.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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[coughs aluminum dust]

No, no...it's great fun.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2020 01:35 AM (CTJwJ)

653 Studebaker engine mount biscuits"

Weevil proof

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:35 AM (IDhUW)

654 How have you been red?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:36 AM (IDhUW)

655 Also made up a jig for cutting a woodruff key slot in the flywheel of my leafblower. The flywheel nut had worked loose, the flywheel wobbled and sheared the 'key'. That's in quotes because the 'key' was actually *cast* into the aluminum flywheel. So, now I've got to cut a keyway into the tapered hole of the flywheel. Just to make it more fun, I'll have to make the key also, as I've had no luck finding the right size locally.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2020 01:24 AM (1vynn)

A woodruff key? Those are semicircular, and fit into a semicircular slot on the shaft, and a straight keyway cut into the hole of the mating part.

If I were faced with that problem, I would get some Briggs and Stratton flywheel keys, part number 61760 (really), and use a Dremel tool to make the keyway on the shaft, and a file to make the keyway on the flywheel.

I know that part number (it might have been superseded) because I replaced about a thousand of them when I worked for my Dad. People would hit an immovable object with the blade of their rotary mower, and the blade and crankshaft would stop, but the flywheel wouldn't. Result: sheared key, which cost fifty cents. Tecumseh used steel keys in their flywheels, and when those mowers hit an immovable object, the flywheel would split at the keyway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2020 01:37 AM (JER4/)

656 Being metal vulcanized to rubber, they are subject to peeling apart if overloaded in tension.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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[nods sagely]

Posted by: Charles Goodyear at August 01, 2020 01:37 AM (CTJwJ)

657 Anyhow, there was a report from South America
(Uruguay) that some Chinese made M95 masks were faulty and were a
suffocation hazard.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2020 01:28 AM (WyVLE)

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ChiCom Qwality Kontrol...

kinda like what you see when you buy krap at China Freight.

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 01:37 AM (4lVEh)

658 ..Studebaker engine mount biscuits"

Weevil proof

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:35 AM (IDhUW)



Don't look for them at NAPA or Standard Auto Parts.

They're in your grocery store, next to the Ritz Crackers and Need-a-Biscuits in the Snacks aisle.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 01, 2020 01:38 AM (QzJWU)

659 Studebaker engine mount biscuits"



Weevil proof

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:35 AM (IDhUW)


"Wobble proof" maybe?

My problem is trying to figure out if any of those words is the verb.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2020 01:38 AM (WyVLE)

660 Might as well go for it - I've got a bit of the devil in me tonight.....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at August 01, 2020 01:39 AM (SRRAx)

661 Almost.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at August 01, 2020 01:39 AM (SRRAx)

662 Now?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at August 01, 2020 01:40 AM (SRRAx)

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 01, 2020 01:40 AM (NWiLs)

664 We are becalmed. Happens occasionally.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 01, 2020 01:41 AM (cI3Q7)

665 Guess it's not meant to be.

Ah, well - such is life.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at August 01, 2020 01:41 AM (SRRAx)

666 Premature.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 01, 2020 01:41 AM (NWiLs)

667 Premature Deviltry. Very sad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 01, 2020 01:41 AM (cI3Q7)

668 thinking i should just drift off for a bit, so everyone can try for 666...
Posted by: redc1c4

666 might try for you

Posted by: Somewhat Secure Miklos at August 01, 2020 01:41 AM (QzkSJ)

669
Weevil proof

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:35 AM (IDhUW)

"Wobble proof" maybe?

My problem is trying to figure out if any of those words is the verb.
-----

It's like Christmas! I get to pull out one of my favorite poems and a favorite quote!

From Treasure Island, "more courage than a weevil in a biscuit"

Always liked that line.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:41 AM (IDhUW)

670 Missed it by that much!

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas at August 01, 2020 01:41 AM (SRRAx)

671 Well. That was amusing.

It's late. I'm tired. I'm going to bed. Goodnight.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 01, 2020 01:42 AM (NWiLs)

672 Don't look for them at NAPA or Standard Auto Parts.

They're in your grocery store, next to the Ritz Crackers and Need-a-Biscuits in the Snacks aisle.
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Exactly

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:42 AM (IDhUW)

673 666 Premature.
Posted by: Insomniac


BACK TO BED YOUNG MAN!

ESQUIRE OR NOT!

Posted by: Miklos, dedicated to the integrity and professionalism of the lawyers who run everything at August 01, 2020 01:43 AM (QzkSJ)

674
How have you been red?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:36 AM (IDhUW)

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abused, unloved, unwanted, ugly, old, broke, crippled, tired, and irascible...

IOW, same as always.

in a world of constant change and uncertainty, you can count on me to be unmoved by the bullshit.


Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 01:44 AM (4lVEh)

675 ...pretty sure anyone whose paid any attention to Vin Diesel knows it isn't women he's trying to pick up in a bar...
Posted by: Bete

Not a weedwhacker owner, huh ?

Posted by: JT at August 01, 2020 01:44 AM (arJlL)

676 9 minutes of Jim Gaffigan shitting on Canada..

youtube.com/watch?v=ehZePNP_w4I
Posted by: weft cut-loop


Thanks. Funny shit.

Posted by: eleven at August 01, 2020 01:45 AM (XTyi0)

677 Missed it by that much!
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth

S'okay.

You still hit body mass.

Posted by: Miklos, awarding a Smiley Face at August 01, 2020 01:45 AM (QzkSJ)

678
I'm getting disgusted with everything. Details would be too long for now, but basically my father, 92, is going out of his damned mind. Dementia of some sort, and accelerating. And it's producing mood problems. He's getting nasty as hell.

I tried to get his doctor on the case, but that was useless. I wrote a letter to him detailing the behavior and symptoms and the son of a bitch didn't even read it. And thinks nothing serious is wrong.

To see him, yesterday, it had to be a "virtual visit", via webcam. To do that, I had to enable the camera and microphone on a laptop, get it working, etc. All for nothing.

In the process of setting it up, I got to look at myself on camera. It was horrible. If I look as ugly and dumb as that, then I'm just going out in the woods and find a hollow, and just live there. Pull up some dirt and leaves and just wallow. That's where anything like ugly and frightful looking belongs.

I look at myself in the mirror, and it's not that bad. So the question is, which is the reality.... If it's the camera version, then off to the woods I go. ROFL.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 01, 2020 01:46 AM (rCwaK)

679 in a world of constant change and uncertainty, you can count on me to be unmoved by the bullshit.


Posted by: redc1c4

"upon this rock..."

Posted by: Pope Miklos I at August 01, 2020 01:46 AM (QzkSJ)

680
thinking i should just drift off for a bit, so everyone can try for 666...

Posted by: redc1c4



666 might try for you

Posted by: Somewhat Secure Miklos at August 01, 2020 01:41 AM (QzkSJ)

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not if it knows what is good for it:

i was exposed to the #ChiComCrud, and IT had to go into quarantine...

it died before the 14 day incubation period was up.


Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 01:46 AM (4lVEh)

681 ...pretty sure anyone whose paid any attention to Vin Diesel knows it isn't women he's trying to pick up in a bar...
Posted by: Bete

Not a weedwhacker owner, huh ?
Posted by: JT at August 01, 2020 01:44 AM (arJlL)

Runs on soy oil, I guess.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2020 01:47 AM (JER4/)

682 in a world of constant change and uncertainty, you can count on me to be unmoved by the bullshit.
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Glad to hear it, I believe it and that says good things about you.
And good on you for you work in your neighborhood.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:48 AM (IDhUW)

683 If I were faced with that problem, I would get some Briggs and Stratton flywheel keys, part number 61760 (really), and use a Dremel tool to make the keyway on the shaft, and a file to make the keyway on the flywheel.
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Reasonable, but several things: It's a small tapered shaft, the existing keyway is 3mm wide. To use an English measure key, it would require that the key slot width, diameter, length, and height would all have to be altered. Easier to turn a disk to size, and cut for length and height.

I will file a slot in the flywheel, but because of the taper and necessity for maintaining alignment with axis, as well as width, I just made up a couple of plates that bolt on either side of the wheel, with milled guide slots to maintain taper and depth.

Posted by: Charles Goodyear at August 01, 2020 01:48 AM (DMQdU)

684 Night Insom.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 01, 2020 01:48 AM (cI3Q7)

685 John Knowles would probably say that the objective of his novel had been achieved because I referenced the key plot point in degrading it.


I'd still push him out of the tree.

Posted by: Weirddave at August 01, 2020 01:50 AM (CvJaM)

686
it died before the 14 day incubation period was up.


Posted by: redc1c4

Planned Covidhood

Posted by: Miklos, more Catholic than Pope Miklos I at August 01, 2020 01:50 AM (QzkSJ)

687 I look at myself in the mirror, and it's not that bad. So the question is, which is the reality.... If it's the camera version, then off to the woods I go. ROFL.
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Everyone knows the camera lies. Rest easy. But not in the woods.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:51 AM (IDhUW)

688 You know, every time I refresh the page, I see that photo of Stoner and Kalashnikov, each holding the other guy's rifle, and each with a half smile on their face. Almost like both were trying to suppress a giggle.

I wonder if they sat down and had a brewski together after that photo op?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2020 01:51 AM (JER4/)

689 ..i was exposed to the #ChiComCrud, and IT had to go into quarantine...

it died before the 14 day incubation period was up.

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 01:46 AM (4lVEh)



I went to the Covid Café. They told me:

"You been heah fohty houah, you go now!"


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 01, 2020 01:52 AM (QzJWU)

690 Yeah, I think there was a rash of books that the English lit departments just loved - Gatsby, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad,....

I hated all of them. I mean, I despised every book I ever had to read for English class. Oh, and the poetry - EE CUMMINGS, that nut who killed herself,... all of them.

And yet, I like reading, and I like poetry. Just not that namby pamby crap.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 31, 2020 11:15 PM (LWu6U)

And the most depressing of all: Steinbeck.
Posted by: Ladyl--now with fake mask!

In HS we read I Never Saw a Moor (I never saw the sea, blah-blah-, somebody pissed in my tea) at the end, the teacher said "JT, what is a moor?" and I said
"I dunno, I never saw one".

THAT went over big.

Posted by: JT at August 01, 2020 01:52 AM (arJlL)

691 Publius, first, don't do cameras from below, they look up your nose
Second, get further back because if you are too close you see your nose first, and the chin because you are going from below.

then of course, you look shifty on the camera because you never look at the lens because you are looking at the screen which is showing you the wonderful view up your giant nostrils. . . . While you are cussing under your breath, so you look shifty and pissed.

Relax though. People you know don't look so much at you as register and put who they know on the image.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2020 01:53 AM (WyVLE)

692
in a world of constant change and uncertainty, you can count on me to be unmoved by the bullshit.





Posted by: redc1c4



"upon this rock..."

Posted by: Pope Miklos I at August 01, 2020 01:46 AM (QzkSJ)

---
"...i build this bar, known as the UMA* 404 Lounge."

beat you to it by a couple of decades....

*us.military.army on Usenet, back when teh Intarnets were young


Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 01:53 AM (4lVEh)

693 Everyone knows the camera lies. Rest easy. But not in the woods.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel


There's a bear in the woods.

https://tinyurl.com/yyjttkvf

Posted by: Ronald "Miklos" Reagan at August 01, 2020 01:53 AM (QzkSJ)

694 back when teh Intarnets were young


Posted by: redc1c4


Yep

Then the damn kids found out

Posted by: Old Man Miklos at August 01, 2020 01:55 AM (QzkSJ)

695 Also the camera adds five pounds.

Stop eating them.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2020 01:55 AM (WyVLE)

696 ..I wonder if they sat down and had a brewski together after that photo op?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2020 01:51 AM (JER4/)



Vodkas and Bourbons, my friend. Vodkas. and Bourbons.

Both men were Patriots and Nationalists. And the Friendship of Mutual Respect and Admiration.

They wouldn't have it any other way.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 01, 2020 01:55 AM (QzJWU)

697 You guys are mainfram, making ( stupid autocucumber) me laugh.

Way to kill the covid red!

Charles Goodyear - now I've got to go read your post just because it has key and flywheel. And I'm not going to understand it, I'm just going to slowly process the words and enjoy the words key and flywheel.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:56 AM (IDhUW)

698 OK, I need to drink a bit more often. I am relaxed and want to tell everyone that cumbia is the best evar music.

So don't mind me.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2020 01:57 AM (WyVLE)

699
It was actually coming from above. The little camera is at the top of the laptop screen. So it was looking more down than up.

When I got my father sitting in front of it before the "e-visit", he saw himself and asked, "Who it that old coot?!"

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 01, 2020 01:57 AM (rCwaK)

700 ..Charles Goodyear - now I've got to go read your post just because it has key and flywheel. And I'm not going to understand it, I'm just going to slowly process the words and enjoy the words key and flywheel.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:56 AM (IDhUW)



Most easily understood if you go look up how a boat's Outboard Motor and it's Propeller are affixed, one to another.

Once you grasp that, you'll in an instant, understand Charles the Goodyear's Challenge and Quest.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 01, 2020 01:59 AM (QzJWU)

701 Vodkas and Bourbons, my friend. Vodkas. and Bourbons.

Both men were Patriots and Nationalists. And the Friendship of Mutual Respect and Admiration.



There is a difference.

Kalashnikov retired to a modest flat. His story was largely fraudulent, but even so, he was not well compensated.

Stoner died rich, and enjoyed his life.

Posted by: Former CommieLand Miklos at August 01, 2020 02:01 AM (QzkSJ)

702 I don't even recognize the guy in my driver's license pic. It sure as hell isn't me.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2020 02:01 AM (CTJwJ)

703 Mom surpises me sometime. I figured she would be sad
about her church saying than no one above 60 should come to mass
because of the covid. Instead, she was pissed. (Paraphrase) If they
don't want me there, fine!



I love Mom.



Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2020 11:02 PM (cI3Q7)

There must be parishes somewhere near you all that do not have their collective heads up their posteriors.

Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at August 01, 2020 02:01 AM (nAiE/)

704 Publius, My dad is in assisted living now and I talk to him through the doorway to the facility. Since I go there every day the staff know me and trust we won't do those forbidden things.

they are now offering slots to sit in the parking lot under an awning with a sheet of plexiglass between with instructions about things your are not supposed to do during the interview posted on the plexiglass.

Just as homey as visiting Dad on visiting hour at the Jail.

I can imaging shouting to get through the plexiglass to dad so he can hear me.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2020 02:02 AM (WyVLE)

705 The speaker in Portland is talking about George Stinney, a 14 yr old black boy sentenced to death by all white jury and judge in 19 min. Found to be a mistrial 70 years later.

Because someone executed in 1944 is a perfectly good reason to burn down a Federal courthouse today.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 01, 2020 02:03 AM (I2/tG)

706 OK, I need to drink a bit more often. I am relaxed and want to tell everyone that cumbia is the best evar music.

So don't mind me.
Posted by: Kindltot


Grasshopper has much to learn.

It is not the Cumbia.

It is the girls who dance the Cumbia.

Posted by: Blind Dancing Monk Miklos at August 01, 2020 02:03 AM (QzkSJ)

707 Most easily understood if you go look up how a boat's Outboard Motor and it's Propeller are affixed, one to another.
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A shear pin is a different animal.

Posted by: Bill Evinrude at August 01, 2020 02:03 AM (CTJwJ)

708 There's a bear in the woods.

All the more reason for publius to stay out. Of course Russian rumors have been greatly exaggerated lately.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:03 AM (IDhUW)

709
Anyway, that camera is back to disabled in the BIOS, with electrical tape over it, as it should be.

God I hate this Millennial world of social media and cameras everywhere.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 01, 2020 02:04 AM (rCwaK)

710 Lots of people in front of the Federal courthouse in Portland.

We'll see if the peaceful protest intensifies later.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 01, 2020 02:05 AM (I2/tG)

711 ..There is a difference.

Kalashnikov retired to a modest flat. His story was largely fraudulent, but even so, he was not well compensated.

Stoner died rich, and enjoyed his life.

Posted by: Former CommieLand Miklos at August 01, 2020 02:01 AM (QzkSJ)




The "difference" being, a (more or less) Free Market System, vs. a Command and Control Centralized System, in charge of everything, including reaping (or not) the rewards of a weapon platform which revolutionized (literally and figuratively) the World.

Stoner was blessed to be One of Us.

Had Kalishnikov marketed his platform from our society?

He'd have been the Bill Gates of Intermediate Arms.

Black Rifle of Death > blue screen of death.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 01, 2020 02:06 AM (QzJWU)

712
God I hate this Millennial world of social media and cameras everywhere.
Posted by: publius
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Not seeing the problem.

Posted by: Bob, at NSA at August 01, 2020 02:07 AM (ELgVT)

713 When I got my father sitting in front of it before the "e-visit", he saw himself and asked, "Who it that old coot?!"
Posted by: publius

Heh


Old Mama remembered that Yours Truly has a birthday coming.

"How old are you?"

"Mama, if you don't remember, I sure as hell don't."

Posted by: Miklos, just waiting for those sweet Million Dollar Social Security checks at August 01, 2020 02:07 AM (QzkSJ)

714 A shear pin is a different animal.

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And as a word it just doesn't have the romance of key and flywheel.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:08 AM (IDhUW)

715 A shear pin is a different animal.
Posted by: Bill Evinrude at August 01, 2020 02:03 AM (CTJwJ)

But the Briggs and Stratton flywheel key, made of diecast pot metal, is in effect a shear pin. Intentional weak point, cheaply replaced, to protect more costly companion parts.

You could probably make the Briggs key work in your leaf blower by filing it to fit.

I am finding it a little hard to envision how a woodruff key could be cast into a flywheel.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2020 02:09 AM (JER4/)

716 Mikklos, the Dominicanas are far hotter, but bachata is, you know, bachata.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2020 02:09 AM (WyVLE)

717
A DHS officer who was in the Portland mess having to defend the federal courthouse described these vermin as "scrawny, pasty-white, booger-eating Marxist shit heads".

And he remarked he'd heard his black fellow officers called the N-word to their faces by these leftist vermin.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 01, 2020 02:09 AM (rCwaK)

718 Enjoy your drink Kindltot and thanks for bringing the cumbia to the ONT!

You can dance if you want to

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:10 AM (IDhUW)

719 ..A shear pin is a different animal.

Posted by: Bill Evinrude at August 01, 2020 02:03 AM (CTJwJ)



No, not when it's the more illuminating example of the principle in question.

Take off your engineer hat, and put on your elementary teacher's hat, and you'll get the gist of the instruction, here.



Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 01, 2020 02:11 AM (QzJWU)

720 Mikklos, the Dominicanas are far hotter, but bachata is, you know, bachata.

Posted by: Kindltot


Paz y Amistad, amigo

Posted by: Don Mikloso de Yucatan at August 01, 2020 02:11 AM (QzkSJ)

721 But the Briggs and Stratton flywheel key, made of diecast pot metal, is in effect a shear pin. Intentional weak point, cheaply replaced, to protect more costly companion parts.
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Well, AOP, you brought the romance to "shear pin"

Actually am learning a little bit tonight - thanks guys

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:13 AM (IDhUW)

722 God I hate this Millennial world of social media and cameras everywhere.

Posted by: publius



The thing I can't decide is where it ends up. 5th element, or blade runner.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2020 02:15 AM (9Om/r)

723 Speaking of shear pins, it comes to mind that Flambeau outboard motors did not use shear pins. They had a stack of alternating metal and fiber discs behind the prop, not unlike a motorcycle clutch, with enough preload on it for the motor to drive the prop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2020 02:15 AM (JER4/)

724 LOL!

Demon nominated 9th Circus hacks in black tell Stormy and Avenatti to perform impossible physical acts upon themselves:



https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2020/07/31/dem-nominated-
judges-on-the-9th-circuit-hand-president-trump-a-yuge-
win-in-the-avenatti-stormy-daniels-case/

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 02:15 AM (4lVEh)

725 The thing I can't decide is where it ends up. 5th element, or blade runner.
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I haven't watched either. Which would be your preference?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:17 AM (IDhUW)

726 You can dance if you want to
Posted by: AmericanKestrel

And You can act real rude and totally removed
And I'll act like an imbecile

Posted by: Miklos, looking for lovingly pre-owned Maypole at August 01, 2020 02:17 AM (QzkSJ)

727 /hasta la nite nite, Horde!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 01, 2020 02:17 AM (QzJWU)

728 God I hate this Millennial world of social media and cameras everywhere.


Posted by: publius



The thing I can't decide is where it ends up. 5th element, or blade runner.


Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 01, 2020 02:15 AM (9Om/r)

---
Barter Town or Clockwork Orange...

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 02:18 AM (4lVEh)

729 724 LOL!

Demon nominated 9th Circus hacks in black tell Stormy and Avenatti to perform impossible physical acts upon themselve
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Yes, this is a nice win.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:18 AM (IDhUW)

730 The protestors in Portland have formed a drum circle.

The horror.

The horror.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 01, 2020 02:20 AM (I2/tG)

731 God I hate this Millennial world of social media and cameras everywhere.

Posted by: publius


OkraCam could be a money maker

Posted by: Archer-Miklos-Daniels at August 01, 2020 02:21 AM (QzkSJ)

732 The thing I can't decide is where it ends up. 5th element, or blade runner.

----

I haven't watched either. Which would be your preference?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:17 AM (IDhUW)


I got directed to read the Unabomber Manifesto because of questions like "where do we wind up at"


Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2020 02:22 AM (WyVLE)

733
I think where this is going will be worse than any dystopian sci-fi visions of the future.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion of a Poperin Pear at August 01, 2020 02:22 AM (rCwaK)

734 The protestors in Portland have formed a drum circle.

The horror.

The horror.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 01, 2020 02:20 AM (I2/tG)

Heh. The cops should bring out an electric bass, and a yuuuge amp, and drown them out with a bass solo.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2020 02:22 AM (JER4/)

735 Barter Town or Clockwork Orange...
----
I haven't seen either of these either.

My movie of choice today was law abiding citizen. I shy away from violent movies but wanted to see it but I wanted to see some justice.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:22 AM (IDhUW)

736 I am finding it a little hard to envision how a woodruff key could be cast into a flywheel.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
----------------
Well, it's (was) just a land in the bore of the flywheel, part of the casting. I am assuming that it actually was a straight land that slid into the keyway cut in the tapered shaft. The key cut in the shaft , though semi-circular is such that the 'key' engaged the cut as the tapered bore of the flywheel was shoved on.

Obviously, a cost-saving measure, that was a bad idea. At any rate, the primary purpose is to index the magneto, rather than secure the flywheel, so, as long as everything lines up, and I torque the bejeebers out of the nut, then should be okay. A biker friend gave me a little bottle of Henkel locking compound recommended for locking tapers.

Posted by: Bob, at NSA at August 01, 2020 02:24 AM (l0Lgi)

737 Crap! /Bob

Posted by: Bob, at NSA at August 01, 2020 02:25 AM (l0Lgi)

738 Seccions had to be moved.

He Trip wired, ms thirten..pedo.

It was all over by then.

The fbeyes job is to manage crome.

and then solve it!?

Posted by: true! at August 01, 2020 02:25 AM (/zO8a)

739 Jim


Furl the well-cut jib for the nite!

Posted by: Cap'n Miklos D at August 01, 2020 02:25 AM (QzkSJ)

740 The protestors in Portland have formed a drum circle.


The horror.


The horror.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 01, 2020 02:20 AM (I2/tG)


Antifa lays down for the State Troopers it shows it is a big scam with extra brownshirts.

Next they vote for Biden and Kamela Harris after rioting for Bernie.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 01, 2020 02:27 AM (WyVLE)

741 Heh. The cops should bring out an electric bass, and a yuuuge amp, and drown them out with a bass solo.
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This idea I like a lot! I hate the noisy nasty mobs but it seems they won't shut up so we can drown them out.

I watched the Springfield protest and thought "our" side could have made more noise if we had something in common to chant/sing. Sadly public Ed has taken a lot of that from us.

Star spangled Banner, Amazing Grace, This land is your land, Dixie.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:27 AM (IDhUW)

742 Don't ever forget that,
He trip wired the pedos'.

Posted by: true! at August 01, 2020 02:28 AM (/zO8a)

743 Speaking of shear pins, it comes to mind that Flambeau outboard motors did not use shear pins. They had a stack of alternating metal and fiber discs behind the prop, not unlike a motorcycle clutch, with enough preload on it for the motor to drive the prop.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Heh. Nothing like being somewhere 'out there' with a sheared pin. "Oh...gee I'm glad I have a spare". Then, leaning out over the transom, making the fix (with only a pair of rusty pliers), and trying to... DON"T DROP THE PIN!

Posted by: Bob, at NSA at August 01, 2020 02:28 AM (pbStR)

744 I'm gonna take Bob out and shoot him....

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2020 02:29 AM (pbStR)

745 I see Bob has joined the flywheel discussion.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:29 AM (IDhUW)

746 Heh. The cops should bring out an electric bass, and a yuuuge amp, and drown them out with a bass solo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


BB King

The Thrill is Gone

Like Pineapple Face in Panama

Posted by: Miklos, thinking heads will be banged at August 01, 2020 02:29 AM (QzkSJ)

747 Silver Snoopy:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/silver-snoopy-nasa-award

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 02:30 AM (4lVEh)

748 Mike stop! Lol!!!

He's just trying to engage, we may turn him.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:30 AM (IDhUW)

749 I see Bob has joined the flywheel discussion.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel

Well, there is the main flywheel, and the secondary flywheel.

Posted by: Miklos, so proud for using inclusive languages at August 01, 2020 02:31 AM (QzkSJ)

750 Time to cash out. Nighters all.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 01, 2020 02:32 AM (CTJwJ)

751 I'm gonna take Bob out and shoot him....
Posted by: Mike Hammer


Bob's yer Uncle!

(this may or may not help)

Posted by: Uncle Joe, movin' kinda slow, at the junction at August 01, 2020 02:33 AM (QzkSJ)

752 Yeah. I am going to call it a night, too. Wind is getting up here, we may have some weather coming in.

Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 01, 2020 02:35 AM (JER4/)

753 Time to brink in the fuds.

Hope there is one last "group" of

Americans left!?

I wpuld never do ac-e any harm.

Hence no id markers.

These people are going to pay a horrible price.

for not washing ....hands.

obviously!

It's a 1st world thing!

Posted by: true! at August 01, 2020 02:36 AM (/zO8a)

754 Well, there is the main flywheel, and the secondary flywheel.
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Next you'll be telling me that there are 57 variations of flywheels.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:37 AM (IDhUW)

755 This thread has gone lame.

Don't blame me, I don't even work here!

Posted by: Moderately Morose Miklos at August 01, 2020 02:38 AM (QzkSJ)

756 Good night Mike, AOP,

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:39 AM (IDhUW)

757 Speaking of shear pins, keys, etc.....

... a sergeant came down the ranks checking our harness, static lines, and break cords, he stopped for some time in front of the new first sergeant, looked hard at him, and asked, "Don't your men like you?"

"I don't care what they don't like," he answered. "Why?"

"Because someone wrapped bailing wire from your static line to your canopy instead of silk for a break cord; you had better draw another chute from the packing bins."

-- From Currahee! by Donald R. Burgett, a very good memoir by a WWII paratrooper.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at August 01, 2020 02:39 AM (unn44)

758 Next you'll be telling me that there are 57 variations of flywheels.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel


And a lubrication sauce for each.

Posted by: Heinz 57 State Varieties at August 01, 2020 02:40 AM (QzkSJ)

759 I would think that something in your current life made that detail more relevant to you at this time than at other times.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 01:31 AM (IDhUW)

Yes! That is definitely one of the theories.

Other possible theories:

* We share a similar intellect that would tend to notice things in a certain "order".

* Selection/confirmation bias. We don't notice when we're not noticing the same stuff, and then when we do, it seems like this huge coincidence. Due to the insanity and number of these observations, this is by far the least likely in my opinion, but a certain type of person will enjoy it.

* My working theory: I believe people operate on a certain frequency (for lack of a much better term, which people in 300 years will know offhand). It's why you can talk to some people for hours and not get bored, and why you so easily "clash" with other people, and they clash with you. And why yet many others can hold absolutely no interest for you at all.

This frequency is not the end-all of human interaction, it is just one factor. Otherwise all your close friends would always love each other, too. Theory is I and wifey essentially share space on this particular plane of understanding, and on these "frequencies", there is unseen information constantly floating by for people to pick up on. Stuff we just do not comprehend about our makeup and the world yet. Stuff we can't "purposely" grab and hold. Because of this, we are literally observing the same exact slice of reality at certain times and it causes weird shit like this.

Sounds crazy, sure. But then, if you didn't have a radio or appropriate device, how could you *prove* to someone unfamiliar with the world that there were all these broadcasts going on in the air that could be "picked up", and on it people would be talking and music would be playing? Tinfoil jokes aside - this is only an analogy - but it should help make my point.

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2020 02:42 AM (fHi5F)

760 755 This thread has gone lame.

Probably some weevil got in the sheared pin and a flywheel got loose and hit the thread in the shin. Loose flywheels can cause some damage, flying as they do.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:43 AM (IDhUW)

761 Probably some weevil got in the sheared pin and a
flywheel got loose and hit the thread in the shin. Loose flywheels can
cause some damage, flying as they do.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:43 AM (IDhUW)


*nods*

It's a fud.

Posted by: Kindltot - sagely fingerning his beard at August 01, 2020 02:45 AM (WyVLE)

762 argh

Posted by: Kindltot - sagely making typos at August 01, 2020 02:45 AM (WyVLE)

763 "Because someone wrapped bailing wire from your static line to your canopy instead of silk for a break cord; you had better draw another chute from the packing bins."
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Wow

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:46 AM (IDhUW)

764 755 Never fear raimondo is here! I though the picture was old radicals like me from the 60's joining the john brown gun club in portland.

Posted by: raimondo at August 01, 2020 02:47 AM (LvaUW)

765 > Wow

A lot of people think fragging was a new thing in Vietnam, but it's been around for a long, long time.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at August 01, 2020 02:51 AM (unn44)

766 argh
Posted by: Kindltot


Well said

Posted by: Blech at August 01, 2020 02:51 AM (QzkSJ)

767 * My working theory: I believe people operate on a certain frequency (for lack of a much better term, which people in 300 years will know offhand). It's why you can talk to some people for hours and not get bored, and why you so easily "clash" with other people, and they clash with you. And why yet many others can hold absolutely no interest for you at all.
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That's interesting. It could be something like electrons, but smaller, something unseen but physical, on a purely physical scale something like what we call sexual chemistry, but intellectual. An intellectual chemistry.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:52 AM (IDhUW)

768 Meant to say it this morning during the excitement about Clinton and Epstein.

The news blackout of this, which seems to be pretty complete from what I'm seeing from observers, is a pretty good preview of what we'll see if Durham actually delivers some indictments.

Why does anyone think that merely the greatest politically-related crimes in US history, a series of de facto coup and sabotage attempts against the legitimate;y elected president, will be other than mostly ignored by the "press"?

"Oh, they couldn't, they wouldn't dare".

Really?

Very easy to see: downplayed 48 hours of coverage, suffused with "political witch-hunt!!!" idiocy, from both "journalists" and Dems. Followed by ...... whatever.

And of course this will be the less appalling and outrageous thing.

The top one will be that the entire national level Dem party will be utterly indifferent to these historic (using the word properly for once) corruptions of our institutions. And their voters? Probably 75% won't care either.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 01, 2020 02:53 AM (OTzUX)

769 John Brown's youngest son, Salomon - born after John's death in Springfield- worked and died in Portland. He was a fairly prosperous butcher, and had a horse fall on him. After a period as a bedridden paraplegic, he may have committed suicide.

I think the Portland papers reported something like he had "died suddenly after a long convalescence"

Posted by: Kindltot - sagely making typos at August 01, 2020 02:54 AM (WyVLE)

770 766 argh
Posted by: Kindltot


Well said
Posted by: Blech at August 01, 2020 02:51 AM (QzkSJ)

It's the drinking and the dancing. He now thinks he's a pirate.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:54 AM (IDhUW)

771 And now a time traveling reporter! Is there anything this man cannot do!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:57 AM (IDhUW)

772 It's the drinking and the dancing. He now thinks he's a pirate.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel


For Your drinking, dining, and dancing pleasure!

Posted by: Miklos, broadcasting live from high atop the Ace Hotel at August 01, 2020 02:58 AM (QzkSJ)

773 The protestors in Portland have formed a drum circle.

The horror.

The horror.
Posted by: The ARC of History!


Isn't that cultural appropriation?

I mean, tens of dozens of university assholes must be offended.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 01, 2020 02:59 AM (ysmsf)

774 Mornin'

(sips coffee)

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 01, 2020 03:01 AM (eujXY)

775 The news blackout of this, which seems to be pretty complete from what I'm seeing from observers, is a pretty good preview of what we'll see if Durham actually delivers some indictments.
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I share your concerns. I think the indictments would need to be rapidly processed, and sentences given. The media is a large contingent of the enemy and other than also being indicted ans sentenced should not even be part of the equation. You don't do the right thing because it's reported on, you do the right thing because it is the right thing to do.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 03:01 AM (IDhUW)

776 I mean, tens of dozens of university assholes must be offended.
Posted by: weft cut-loop


I'm not sure if I'm offended yet.

Your pronoun papers, please.

Posted by: Die Karenstaffel at August 01, 2020 03:02 AM (QzkSJ)

777 Stoner was a legit gun designer. Not a John Moses Browning, mind you, but legit. Kalashnikov, not so much. His gun, if it really was his, is a mish-mash of stg 44, M1 garand, and the safety from an old remington model 8.

Posted by: eastofsuez


I've been searching for EastOfSuez firearm design, and strangely no hits.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 01, 2020 03:03 AM (ysmsf)

778 Mornin'

(sips coffee)
Posted by: Puddleglum


A morning. Like other mornings.

She said "coffee"?

He sipped.

Posted by: Papa "Miklos" Hemingway at August 01, 2020 03:05 AM (QzkSJ)

779 Kestrel my speculation applies equally to confessions, plea deals, whatever.

No big deal.

Likely a political hit. Revenge.

"Raises questions about Barr's fitness to be AG - new impeachment effort launched"

"Rule of law imperiled" - (fill in airhead totalitarian law professor or former judge/prosecutor's name here)

There is clearly this unspoken assumption by nearly everyone, certainly at the HQ, that any action will be the political storm/scandal of the century/last century.

Which it should be.

Just two small ingredients lacking.

A press.

A live civic culture present in more than parts of the populace, and parts of one major political party.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 01, 2020 03:07 AM (OTzUX)

780 767 * My working theory: I believe people operate on a certain frequency (for lack of a much better term, which people in 300 years will know offhand). It's why you can talk to some people for hours and not get bored, and why you so easily "clash" with other people, and they clash with you. And why yet many others can hold absolutely no interest for you at all.
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That's interesting. It could be something like electrons, but smaller, something unseen but physical, on a purely physical scale something like what we call sexual chemistry, but intellectual. An intellectual chemistry.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 02:52 AM (IDhUW)

Interesting book I read a number of years ago.

Spectrum of Consciousness. Concept was that all people work at different levels of intellect.

Its a spectrum, depending on where you are at in your life, but that there ARE limits to your 'curve'.

So while you may work from 70- 90%, there are people who will never get above 50%, no matter what.

After being a Navy Nuclear Power School, the largest collection of non Educated Geniuses on Earth? I believe this theory.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 03:07 AM (NgKpN)

781 James Murdoch, son of Rupert, yesterday resigned his board position on News Corp., which owns the WSJ and Fox News, among other stuff.

Over 'editorial differences'.

His wifey is a board member of the Clinton Climate Initiative. You can guess that org's climate-economic goals.

I tell y'all this, because I'm a'wonderin' if this will mean a turn back to the right for Fox News. It has seriously strayed under the Murdoch sons.

As to James and spouse, may a flaming pineapple await your next destination. *holds up lighter, like at a concert*

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 01, 2020 03:13 AM (Z4rgH)

782 Never fear raimondo is here! I thought...

comment snipped at typo.

Posted by: raimondo at August 01, 2020 02:47 AM (LvaUW)

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we have house plants brighter than you are, ass hat.

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 03:20 AM (4lVEh)

783 There must be parishes somewhere near you all that do not have their collective heads up their posteriors.
Posted by: redbanzai the Southerner at August 01, 2020 02:01 AM (nAiE/)

Mom is... eclectic. She is a staunch Catholic, yet managed to find the most hippy dippy Catholic church in the area to go to when I was a kid and has never changed. I looked at the church, saw things I liked, then when she introduced me to art, I said, I want to go to a church like THAT.

So when I moved into Louisville proper, I took my own advice and went to the one church in Louisville that offered Latin mass at the time, St Martin of Tours. Looking online, looks like they did not close for the covid and even maintained the weekday masses.


Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 01, 2020 03:20 AM (cI3Q7)

784 They formed a drum circle?

*silence*

Get me the nuclear codes.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at August 01, 2020 03:22 AM (cI3Q7)

785 There is clearly this unspoken assumption by nearly everyone, certainly at the HQ, that any action will be the political storm/scandal of the century/last century.
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Thanks for the additional thoughts. Could half of the top level bad guys be taken out off society without some people demanding answers? If it is just a few people, I can see the evil being swept under the rug. But if it is on the large scale that I think it is at, people's disappearances will be noticed.

I want the entire FBI to be jailed or disbanded.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 03:25 AM (IDhUW)

786 Spectrum of Consciousness. Concept was that all people work at different levels of intellect.
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Very interesting, especially considering autism, etc. being overwhelmed by audio or visual or other input. Being conscious of it and sorting it all out to make sense.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 03:28 AM (IDhUW)

787 we have house plants brighter than you are, ass hat.
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And weevils with more courage!

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 03:29 AM (IDhUW)

788 Posted by: Romeo13 at August 01, 2020 03:07 AM (NgKpN)

Thanks both for hearing me out. Oddly enough I long ago shared my frequency theory with a friend who I really click with intellectually and he pretty much immediately agreed. I remember being surprised because it's a bit loopy. But he would, wouldn't he.

If the brain operates on pulses it does make a degree of sense. Imagine being in the same room with others on a strobe light, but yet others in the room see a different strobe. Two different movies of the same place.

We just have astonishingly little concept of the true nature/fabric of reality. We book flights to Mars to figure out mysteries, and yet all the mystery of the world is sitting right at our fingertips. It fascinates me but I do see everything rather askew. The key is knowing it's askew.



Posted by: ... at August 01, 2020 03:32 AM (fHi5F)

789 Thanks for the additional thoughts. Could half of
the top level bad guys be taken out off society without some people
demanding answers? If it is just a few people, I can see the evil being
swept under the rug. But if it is on the large scale that I think it is
at, people's disappearances will be noticed.



I want the entire FBI to be jailed or disbanded.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 03:25 AM (IDhUW)

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you misspelled:

"..to be put to w*rk clearing UXO'a and uncharted minefields in Third World shitholes with metal shovels and by riding pogo sticks, for life."

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 03:33 AM (4lVEh)

790 So when I moved into Louisville proper, I took my own advice and went to the one church in Louisville that offered Latin mass at the time, St Martin of Tours. Looking online, looks like they did not close for the covid and even maintained the weekday masses.
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This sounds lovely. Good for them. Hind sight being 20/20 I think we should have given gvt two weeks to figure it out and then gone back to our regular lives, especially our churches. We do claim to have an allegiance to a Greater Power than the gvt.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 03:36 AM (IDhUW)

791 out mysteries, and yet all the mystery of the world is sitting right at our fingertips. It fascinates me but I do see everything rather askew. The key is knowing it's askew.
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Thru a glass darkly

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 03:38 AM (IDhUW)

792 I want the entire FBI to be jailed or disbanded.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 03:25 AM (IDhUW)

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you misspelled:

"..to be put to w*rk clearing UXO'a and uncharted minefields in Third World shitholes with metal shovels and by riding pogo sticks, for life."

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I do thank you for that correction, sometimes my genteel upbringing gets in the way of my spelling.


Oh! And a favorite Chipmunks quote from a teacher who was going to take a less stressful job " driving nitroglycerin over shaky bridges in South America"

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 03:42 AM (IDhUW)

793 Drum circle??

Only Eric Cartman can save us now.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 01, 2020 03:46 AM (eujXY)

794 Thanks both for hearing me out. Oddly enough I long ago shared my frequency theory with a friend who I really click with intellectually and he pretty much immediately agreed. I remember being surprised because it's a bit loopy. But he would, wouldn't he.
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Thanks for bringing it up. For me it isca rare occasion to find someone to easily talk with, and it is always a joy.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 03:49 AM (IDhUW)

795 Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 03:38 AM (IDhUW)

Yeah, pretty much!!!

Posted by: ... at August 01, 2020 03:49 AM (uEbPt)

796 Drums circles and texting, maybe we are approaching our Tower of Babel

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 03:51 AM (IDhUW)

797 .. for the Gloucesters' \
Muldoon \
and for Good Harbor Beach...

Annisquam, you're a little salt river
cutting the way to have made Gloucester Isle
the private area of Wingaersheek on the main was
off-season affordable and worth the swim on
Thanksgiving...

Iambic pent is lacking
so too the mask the masking
we're all to take another
fear, omg, fearing

fear is how the distraction
is done

ps --Angelo's in Stoneham -- zazzahope they are still offering that.
I do.


Posted by: micky at August 01, 2020 03:51 AM (3byMq)

798 My son has insisted on sharing some South Park with me. I still don't know which name goes with which character, but they certainly pointed out truths in a unique way.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 03:55 AM (IDhUW)

799 I want the "No Fear" shirts of the 90s to make a comeback.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 03:57 AM (IDhUW)

800 We who were born
In country places,
Far from cities
And shifting faces,
We have a birthright
No man can sell,
And a secret joy
No man can tell.

For we are kindred
To lordly things,
The wild duck's flight
And the white owl's wings;
To pike and salmon,
To bull and horse,
The curlew's cry
And the smell of gorse.

Pride of trees,
Swiftness of streams,
Magic of frost
Have shaped our dreams:
No baser vision
Their spirit fills
Who walk by right
On the naked hills.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 04:02 AM (IDhUW)

801 I want the "No Fear" shirts of the 90s to make a comeback.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 03:57 AM (IDhUW)


'No Fear . . . ' on the front with '. . . I Believe In The 2nd Amendment' on the back, with an appropriate rifle image underneath.

It's always a good thing to trigger a lefty.

Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2020 04:09 AM (Y8PSl)

802 Here is some nice piano music for your browsing/commenting pleasure:
https://tinyurl.com/yya7pc2n
10 pieces by Ludovico Einaudi.
I recommend the Albert Hall concert he did - easy search on youtube.


Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at August 01, 2020 04:11 AM (ufFY8)

803
My son has insisted on sharing some South Park with me. I still don't know which name goes with which character, but they certainly pointed out truths in a unique way.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel


South Park is true satire: in that it attacks all views and held opinions without question.

Satire is supposed to be wild and ridiculous. In an earlier age, read 3 years ago, we'd just laugh. But here we are.

Cartman is the obnoxious fat kid. The impetus of many episodes and the driven force of all things clown-like.

Kenny is the muted gimmick that is the perpetual butt of awful accidents. It's just a gimmick that gets discarded.

Kyle and Stan are the protagonistic heroes in the whole shebang. They argue but ultimately one of them is just earnestly correct at the end of the show, like an 80's morality play.

Mr. Garrison...
Yeah, well, satire or something. It's not everyone's cup of tea, all right?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 01, 2020 04:19 AM (ysmsf)

804 What's shak'in

Oh, Cities have votes.

That's kinda tha rules folkes.

Anyway one up to change them rules?

Yeah.

Talk a lot.

The 60 and over flock.

Sad

But wait I'm not dead yet

Posted by: Tombstone Says: great guy/gal at August 01, 2020 04:27 AM (jCMs8)

805 If you all wanna just curl up in ur retirement home just say so.

I'm sure you will get no more trolls.

You can wish away the day.

That you saved a country.

Posted by: YOUR TOMBSTONE at August 01, 2020 04:29 AM (jCMs8)

806 2 weeks would have been great as a time out, but my Emperor Wolf had 90 and after that was over proclaimed himself complete ruler of all things until he decided the cris has ended.

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2020 04:36 AM (6f16T)

807 806 2 weeks would have been great as a time out, but my Emperor Wolf had 90 and after that was over proclaimed himself complete ruler of all things until he decided the cris has ended.
Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2020 04:36 AM (6f16T)

And there's that Madeleine Dean and Mary Scanlon. What a mess!

Posted by: m at August 01, 2020 04:51 AM (1bHTz)

808 Communist Chinese are big on face. That stems from having a 3 inch dick (erect). Now is the time to not only ban TikTok, which is a punch in their microscopic dicks, but lets go ahead and null route all Chinese IP's.

Posted by: Menack at August 01, 2020 04:52 AM (buTO7)

809 Yeah, well, satire or something. It's not everyone's cup of tea, all right?
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It's a good way to reach a group of people that otherwise might not get the information.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 04:52 AM (IDhUW)

810
I want the "No Fear" shirts of the 90s to make a comeback.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 03:57 AM (IDhUW)

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this.

"Second Place is the First Loser"

for one.

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 04:54 AM (4lVEh)

811 The Chinese stuff is very coordinated. They have not formally declared war, but that does seem to be their intent.

For example, I'd worked with various platforms for online mtgs, but immediately after the ChiVi hits, Zoom that I hadn't heard of is now *the platform for online mtgs?

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 05:00 AM (IDhUW)

812 To get up or not to get up?
That is the question

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2020 05:03 AM (6f16T)

813 Psalm 58:10

The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengence: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

ANd now more coffee.

Posted by: Dr. McCoy at August 01, 2020 05:06 AM (WX+x0)

814 They have not formally declared war, but that does seem to be their intent.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 05:00 AM (IDhUW)


No one, except non-state actors like ISIS and the like, declares war on anyone anymore.

But I agree with you, the release of the Wuhan Flu is an Act of War. Their actions after its release, the lies about its origins and its lethality as well as the crappy 'Made in China' masks, support my position. That we have no pharmaceutical manufacturing in this country is a crime and, as has been stated, a national security threat. In the country which introduced Tang thanks to our space program, we don't even make Vitamin C tablets here anymore.

Posted by: RickZ at August 01, 2020 05:09 AM (Y8PSl)

815 I think we should strive to be self sufficient as a country. I wish I had a background in pharmaceutical products because pharmaceutical production of all major pharmaceuticals should have been started In the US yesterday.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 05:14 AM (IDhUW)

816 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengence: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
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Not a scripture we hear quoted often. Now would be a good time to see God's vengeance.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 05:18 AM (IDhUW)

817 Posted by: YOUR TOMBSTONE at August 01, 2020 04x AM (jCMs

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my Persian cat is still smarter than you, and his ashes are resident in the other room here.

n fact, on your best day, he could have out debated your dumb ass, even if he was high on catnip.

but keep trying asshat: you might reach parakeet status one day!

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 05:19 AM (4lVEh)

818 It's most likely China knew about Covid-19 and purposely loosed it upon the world.

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2020 05:19 AM (6f16T)

819 Not a scripture we hear quoted often. Now would be a good time to see God's vengeance.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 05:18 AM (IDhUW)

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being a sinner myself, i'm not going to call fire on my position...

Posted by: redc1c4, ONT Rx tech at August 01, 2020 05:21 AM (4lVEh)

820 Miklos, hoping you were going for alliteration with your "moderately morose". Here's a wish for moments of joy in your day.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 05:22 AM (IDhUW)

821 ---
being a sinner myself, i'm not going to call fire on my position...
----
All any of us has is God's Mercy. I think legal abortion, human trafficking, and miscarriage of justice is so overwhelming evil, that I wouldn't mind being attrition to put an end to it.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 05:27 AM (IDhUW)

822
Words on the Tee shirt:
I'm gonna go with the words of my new hero Sgt Danial Perry
the first patriot to get a Pantifa Kill (Austin dirt bag garrrett)
"FUCK THAT SHIT YOU SHOOT CENTER OF MASS"
How fitting the little dirt bag was deposed by a active duty
Afgan Vet who hates domestic terrorist assholes...There truly is a God...

Posted by: beanervt at August 01, 2020 05:31 AM (pyQkH)

823 Seeing the video above of the little kid helping out the garbage men reminds me of me.

Until about 10 yo, I wanted to be a garbage man or a pastor.

I figured you only had to work one day a week.
I was thinking lazy even back then

Posted by: Bruce at August 01, 2020 05:36 AM (vd8XM)

824 Until about 10 yo, I wanted to be a garbage man or a pastor.

I figured you only had to work one day a week.
I was thinking lazy even back then
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Now I hear garbage man or pastor and think you're someone who wants to clean things up.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 05:38 AM (IDhUW)

825

I was also worried the shooting was going to cause some poor guy

to get sick with worry over the kill ,,, no way the Sargent will give

1 millisec of worry over the piece of craps demise... Go Cav...
Not sure what Cav he was with but here's the 7th march in honor

https://tinyurl.com/yxudc43z

Posted by: beanervt at August 01, 2020 05:39 AM (pyQkH)

826 Thanks for the company tonight Hordelings.

Peace.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at August 01, 2020 05:40 AM (IDhUW)

827 #Alone together

LoL

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2020 05:42 AM (6f16T)

828 As a kid use to watch guys working a jackhammer on the streets and thought that looked fun.

Have done my share of that in life, its work.

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2020 05:45 AM (6f16T)

829 Channeling my inner Steven Wright.....

I was scanning employees coming through the back entrance of our office building this afternoon in Los Angeles.

At on point, I inadvertently pointed the scanner out the door and pulled the trigger....

It read 102 degrees....

I had to quarantine the entire employee parking lot...

we are still here.....but no one will talk to me now........

Posted by: Nightwatch & Daywatch for the unknown forcible future at August 01, 2020 05:47 AM (u1WYs)

830 It's most likely China knew about Covid-19 and purposely loosed it upon the world.

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2020 05:19 AM (6f16T)

-

They absolutely did. They shut down internal travel but let those planes keep flying to the US and Europe.

The Yellow Lung AIDS might not have been manufactured and manipulated in a lab specifically as a biological weapon of war, but they 100% treated it as such after they knew what was happening.

Posted by: Charles Darwin - CDC says COVID takes 15 min for exposure - More realistic is it spreads through poo at August 01, 2020 05:47 AM (7NCzG)

831

If your in the mood for some fancy gun twirling:
Marine silent drill Platoon

https://tinyurl.com/y54b4v3v

Posted by: beanervt at August 01, 2020 05:49 AM (pyQkH)

832 Coffee is done, its a start

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2020 05:50 AM (6f16T)

833 As a kid use to watch guys working a jackhammer on the streets and thought that looked fun.

Have done my share of that in life, its work.
Posted by: Skip

I did that at times for 3 years at a summer job.
Those things weigh a ton

Posted by: Bruce at August 01, 2020 05:52 AM (vd8XM)

834 Love the old biplanes, largely because my grandfather flew a Spad in WWI. I've got the squadron insignia from his plane. Only one Iron Cross, though he always said he got two, but didn't get credit for the other. (He never mentioned whether that involved meeting Ursula Andress.)

I also have a sort of book he started to write. Full of problematic language.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 01, 2020 05:52 AM (LMs+g)

835 I was scanning employees coming through the back entrance of our office building this afternoon in Los Angeles.

-

The temperature scanning is one of my favorite parts of this whole thing. It's just another silly pacifier/rabbit's foot. Nature:


"In one recent study, researchers found that only one individual out of 147 who tested positive in a homeless shelter in Boston, Massachusetts, would have met the official criterion for testing - a fever"

https://tinyurl.com/y7nx3rzz


-

And, like the mask mandate because apparently the majority of people are too stupid to not sneeze or cough directly onto other people's faces, someone with a fever is aware of it but apparently too stupid to understand what it is or that they shouldn't be hanging out with other people.

But yes, everyone should be allowed to vote.

Posted by: Charles Darwin - CDC says COVID takes 15 min for exposure - More realistic is it spreads through poo at August 01, 2020 05:53 AM (7NCzG)

836 Bottom line: You can not have a successful Marxist state with a strong middle class, so the middle class must be destroyed
________

The ChiComs are trying to disprove that. Results later. I won't live to see it.

Posted by: Eeyore at August 01, 2020 05:54 AM (LMs+g)

837
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 01, 2020 05:55 AM (DUIap)

838 Now is a good time for all to re-read the Patriot series by James Wesley, Rawles. Might as well throw in the old classic Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven and Dr. Jerry Pournelle, too. Also One Second After by William S. Forstchen is good. And of course TWD, the how-to for the future, is expected to return to teevee this month. Remember it's never the event, it's always our reaction to the event.

Posted by: Eromero at August 01, 2020 05:59 AM (XhWtx)

839 Hopefully Krak is up

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2020 06:00 AM (6f16T)

840 Not on first try

Posted by: Skip at August 01, 2020 06:02 AM (6f16T)

841 COVID LOGIC

Protesting/Rioting......Double + GOOD

Family Gatherings,Church Services/BBq's....Double UNGOOD.


We've been had......

Posted by: Nightwatch & Daywatch for the unknown forcible future at August 01, 2020 06:04 AM (u1WYs)

842 Nood!!!

Posted by: Bruce at August 01, 2020 06:06 AM (vd8XM)

843

Church Services...Double UNGOOD.


Unless sainted by leftist media liars, political hacks and America hatters

then your allowed weeks of services and rioting (peacefully of course)

Posted by: beanervt at August 01, 2020 06:08 AM (pyQkH)

844 Typical

ad hominem, the first response of people losing the debate.

Like the Democrats for the last 4 years.

Posted by: Nightwatch & Daywatch for the unknown forcible future at August 01, 2020 06:34 AM (u1WYs)

845
The dead pair were a white man and a white woman. Number of riots: zero.


Seems like an even bigger story since the cops actually faked the case for the warrant entirely.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 01, 2020 07:32 AM (puJpj)

846 If he has his lips lovingly wrapped around Stalin's penis, like Roosevelt and Churchill and Truman, they must be Communists!!!

Posted by: Mark Matis at August 01, 2020 08:51 AM (nZJej)

847 I don't think the tire change is OSHA compliant.

Posted by: Eric at August 01, 2020 10:47 AM (CcbdU)

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The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
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Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
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