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Nurse Reading To A Little Girl
Mary Cassatt

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 Little girl wants to be inside playing video games.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at August 07, 2020 09:31 AM (8EdY0)

2 sponge!

Posted by: Bete at August 07, 2020 09:31 AM (Ojki1)

3 Nice!

Posted by: FriscoJim at August 07, 2020 09:31 AM (+56GQ)

4 the little girl looks like she'd rather be chasing toads down by the brook.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing
at August 07, 2020 09:31 AM (WEBkv)

5 "I'll check you for ticks when I finish this chapter."

Posted by: BignJames at August 07, 2020 09:31 AM (X/Pw5)

6 literary

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 07, 2020 09:31 AM (UWqZJ)

7 She gotta bee onna her head!

Posted by: Furio at August 07, 2020 09:32 AM (FtO5h)

8 She being read the book "A girl's place is as a headrest for this book".

Surprisingly big book for such a short subject.

Posted by: Bete at August 07, 2020 09:32 AM (Ojki1)

9 "When I grow up, I wanna be Hillary!

Posted by: Subtitles provided by the American Library Association at August 07, 2020 09:33 AM (PiwSw)

10 "If this bitch says Proletariat one more time...."

- The Little Girl

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2020 09:33 AM (6FeV1)

11 Must be a boring story.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2020 09:33 AM (wiXsO)

12 This is our fifth and final installment for Literal Titles Week at the AOSHQ art thread. We hope you've enjoyed our theme.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 09:33 AM (NWiLs)

13 Sniper is on watch for Epstein.

Posted by: Bete at August 07, 2020 09:33 AM (Ojki1)

14 The book is "Those Pictures on my Computer Were for Research Purposes", by P Krugman.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 07, 2020 09:33 AM (HmZuC)

15 Girl doesn't look too happy about her head being used as a bookrest.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 09:33 AM (NWiLs)

16 Must be a really boring book based on the look on the girls face.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2020 09:33 AM (JUOKG)

17
"Fifty Shades of Grey, again? Could you read something else, like Leviticus or something?"

Posted by: AltonJackson
If you can protest in person
You can vote in person
(& bring your ID)
at August 07, 2020 09:34 AM (3rKlD)

18 The book's one of those bodice-rippers.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 09:34 AM (NWiLs)

19 Thinking to herself that having the power to use her mind to kill people would be cool

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at August 07, 2020 09:34 AM (x/sA1)

20 This was before kids had crooked necks because of cell phones.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 07, 2020 09:34 AM (xfb67)

21 nurse's scrubs were waaaaaay less functional back in the day....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2020 09:34 AM (6FeV1)

22 The little girl has heard it all before. She's looking to do something more exciting.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at August 07, 2020 09:34 AM (uyKdz)

23 Little girl has resting bored face.

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2020 09:34 AM (88xKn)

24 Girl's like a distaff Fred Savage in The Princess Bride. "I'm telling you, you're messing up the story! Now read it right!"

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 07, 2020 09:35 AM (FtO5h)

25 If she had a flat head the nurse could rest her beer there too.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 09:35 AM (ZLI7S)

26 "When I grow up, I want to dismantle cisgendered norms and smash the patriarchy!"

Posted by: Subtitles provided by the Modern Language Association at August 07, 2020 09:35 AM (PiwSw)

27 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 07, 2020 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

28 What an ugly photograph.

Posted by: garrett at August 07, 2020 09:35 AM (GBeE8)

29 coulda been a contencer

Posted by: Boomers remember stuff at August 07, 2020 09:35 AM (vI+F1)

30 Nice color, it's refreshing. Have you all noticed how dark everything on tv and film has gotten the last few years? Yeah, I know, signs of the times, but that alone is a big reason I don't want to look at any of it. To me, the pinks here just exude calm and warmth.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 09:35 AM (V2Yro)

31 Little girl doesn't like the story.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 07, 2020 09:35 AM (Zz0t1)

32
Mom: "Chapter 3, Summary of the Invention: The invention is a process for making polyethylene. The process comprises polymerizing ethylene in the presence of a catalyst system comprising an activator and a supported organometallic complex. The complex, which has "open architecture," includes a Group 4 to 6 transition metal and a bridged indenoindolyl ligand. We surprisingly found that modifying the open architecture complex to incorporate a C6-C20 hydrocarbyl amido group enables the production of polyethylene having improved flow and good rheological properties while maintaining high catalyst activity..."

Kid: zzzzzzzz

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2020 09:36 AM (mht8P)

33 it's actually a Chilton's manual for an 1857 horse buggy.

Girl's just trying to visualize a trunyon while she listens.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2020 09:36 AM (6FeV1)

34 She'd rather be frolicking in the sun.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 07, 2020 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

35 If she had a flat head the nurse could rest her beer there too.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 09:35 AM (ZLI7S)


And an ashtray

Posted by: Jizzlahne Maxwell at August 07, 2020 09:37 AM (LNhVD)

36 They both look like they'd rather be someplace else.

Morning!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 07, 2020 09:38 AM (CjFDo)

37 Nurse?

Where is the white gown? That little hat?

FAKE. NEWS.

Posted by: blaster at August 07, 2020 09:38 AM (ZfRYq)

38 Have we had Mary Cassatt on the Art thread before?

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2020 09:38 AM (88xKn)

39 "Mommy, is the pandemic over yet? I'm so boooooored! I want to go play with Louis and Charlotte and. . ."

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2020 09:38 AM (bDqIh)

40 Verry interesting

Posted by: Sgt. Schultz, art observer at August 07, 2020 09:38 AM (gtNWf)

41 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang...little girl is dreaming of the day she can blow this popsicle stand and go off to college and party like there's no tomorrow.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2020 09:38 AM (axyOa)

42 Little girl wants to be anywhere but in that chair.

Posted by: Boots at August 07, 2020 09:38 AM (oGBso)

43
Her brother, Alexander Cassatt, was president of the Pennsylvania Railroad and was the driving force for the construction of Pennsylvania Station in New York.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2020 09:39 AM (mht8P)

44 Kid doesn't look happy. Mom must be reading from Crime and Punishment or one of those other looong Russian novels.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 07, 2020 09:39 AM (rpbg1)

45 Mary Cassatt's painting are nice.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2020 09:39 AM (bDqIh)

46 kid is booored

Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar supremacist at August 07, 2020 09:40 AM (J8nVw)

47 Nice painting

Posted by: Archer at August 07, 2020 09:40 AM (gmo/4)

48 You non-nooders.

Shame.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 09:40 AM (CD5Uk)

49 "Skip to the good parts, Mom!"

Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 07, 2020 09:40 AM (iTXRQ)

50 Little girl: Behold the field where I grow my fcuks....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2020 09:40 AM (ejd/p)

51 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at August 07, 2020 09:40 AM (SUelH)

52 Lovely relaxing painting, just what I needed today!

Best part, I can even tell there are humans in the picture

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at August 07, 2020 09:41 AM (eTZoJ)

53 Mixed feelings. I love the color and arrangement of the work, but neither subject looks like they're making an effort. The artist could have encouraged the child to look a little more pleasant, and the nurse appears to be reading silently and not to the child at all.

Posted by: CN at August 07, 2020 09:41 AM (ONvIw)

54 it's actually a Chilton's manual for an 1857 horse buggy.

Girl's just trying to visualize a trunyon while she listens.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2020 09:36 AM (6FeV1)


This actually made me giggle....having used Chilton's manuals in the past.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 07, 2020 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

55 That kid is a nose picker. I can spot a nose picker from twenty paces.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 09:41 AM (CD5Uk)

56 There's enough White Privilege alone in this painting to warrant a cancelling.

Posted by: A Scold of Karens at August 07, 2020 09:41 AM (FtO5h)

57 Not bad for a water color.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 07, 2020 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

58 Nice color, it's refreshing. Have you all noticed how dark everything on tv and film has gotten the last few years? Yeah, I know, signs of the times, but that alone is a big reason I don't want to look at any of it. To me, the pinks here just exude calm and warmth.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020


*
*

Dim and grimy-looking. Compare the original 1969 True Grit in dazzling color with the remake with Jeff Bridges. The latter looks washed out and tired.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 07, 2020 09:41 AM (rpbg1)

59 Little girl is thinking "Just another half-hour, them Mr. Paolo will stop by and Mommy will sent me over to the neighbors to play."

Posted by: Carpe Manana at August 07, 2020 09:42 AM (PbH71)

60 When I grow up, I wanna be a boy!

Posted by: Subtitles provided by the American Pediatric Association at August 07, 2020 09:42 AM (PiwSw)

61 That nurse doesn't look like the nurse who will restore your puck.


Nope, definitely not the nurse who likes to...


Posted by: Archer at August 07, 2020 09:42 AM (gmo/4)

62 "When will mummy be home?"
"I don't know dear."
"But she's been gone for eleven days!"
"I'm sorry, dear, I truly don't know."

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 09:42 AM (NWiLs)

63 Girl doesn't look too happy about her head being used as a bookrest.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 09:33 AM (NWiLs)


It'll leave a dent for a while.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 07, 2020 09:42 AM (Zz0t1)

64 51 How long will it be until Karen demands that we retroactively add masks to old paintings
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at August 07, 2020 09:40 AM (SUelH)


Poor Mona.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 09:42 AM (CD5Uk)

65 Nurse?

Where is the white gown? That little hat?

FAKE. NEWS.
Posted by: blaster


Where are the seamed thigh highs? The 6 inch black patent leather pumps?

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2020 09:42 AM (YxTUV)

66 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: CN at August 07, 2020 09:42 AM (ONvIw)

67 trees therefore art

Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 07, 2020 09:42 AM (luzVb)

68 Surprisingly big book for such a short subject.

*************

Studying For The Nursing Bored Exam - a limerick

A spoiled little girl named Jane Gershon
Enjoys books, but wastes no exertion
But today she is vexed
'Cause the nurse chose the text:
"The Finer Points of Catheter Insertion"

Posted by: Muldoon at August 07, 2020 09:42 AM (Fc5rx)

69 Oops -- the title is Nurse Reading to a Little Girl, not "Mother."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 07, 2020 09:43 AM (rpbg1)

70 I like the rather idealized Impressionistic background. It's peaceful and portrayed with gentle, restful colors. The two figures stand out against the background with a bit more detail and contrasting colors. A lovely, quiet, peaceful scene.

But the expression and posture of the bored little girl is freaking hilarious. The nurse is content to read whatever drivel she regards as 'proper' for a little girl. The girl wants to play, look for stuff in the stream, maybe get dirty as she explores the woods and water.

Make me wonder if this is something Mary Cassatt went through growing up.

Thanks, CBD. Nothing like ending the week's art thread with a smile.

Posted by: JTB at August 07, 2020 09:43 AM (7EjX1)

71 69 Oops -- the title is Nurse Reading to a Little Girl, not "Mother."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 07, 2020 09:43 AM (rpbg1)

Mother do you think they'll try to break my balls?
Ooooo-ah
Mother should I build the wall?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 09:43 AM (NWiLs)

72
Where are the seamed thigh highs? The 6 inch black patent leather pumps?
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2020 09:42 AM (YxTUV


It's always about the sponge baths with you.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 09:43 AM (CD5Uk)

73 Where are the seamed thigh highs? The 6 inch black patent leather pumps?
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2020 09:42 AM (YxTUV)

I'll be in my bunk...

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 07, 2020 09:44 AM (FtO5h)

74 That nurse doesn't look like the nurse who will restore your puck.


Nope, definitely not the nurse who likes to...


Posted by: Archer



When that little girl goes to bed, the hair comes down and the freak turns on.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2020 09:44 AM (YxTUV)

75 Little girl looks bored. Doesn't know how good she has it.

And I like nurse's necklace/choker thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2020 09:44 AM (hYcqw)

76

It's always about the sponge baths with you.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 09:43 AM (CD5Uk)


Leave me outta this.

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 07, 2020 09:44 AM (Zz0t1)

77 Wot's for tea, mum?

Heintz. Baked. Beans.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 07, 2020 09:44 AM (FtO5h)

78 Nurse (reading aloud): "The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea. . . maybe. . . but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea."

Girl: "I thought you said I couldn't go fishing today. . . ?"

Nurse: *sigh*

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2020 09:45 AM (bDqIh)

79 Have we had Mary Cassatt on the Art thread before?

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2020 09:38 AM (88xKn)

Of course! I'm not a savage.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 07, 2020 09:45 AM (xT2tT)

80 Nurse: "It was a dark and stormy night..."

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at August 07, 2020 09:46 AM (eTZoJ)

81 I am.

Posted by: Fred Savage at August 07, 2020 09:46 AM (FtO5h)

82 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 07, 2020 09:47 AM (HmZuC)

83 And I like nurse's necklace/choker thing.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2020 09:44 AM (hYcqw)


Word. Chokers are easily the sexiest thing ever invented for women's attire.

Of course, that also makes us misogynists, apparently.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 09:47 AM (CD5Uk)

84 Only flaw in painting is too much pink. Sets a jarring note. And the ginger girl is clearly not paying attention. Plotting the theft of souls, probably.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2020 09:47 AM (TP0dG)

85 Of course, that also makes us misogynists, apparently.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 09:47 AM (CD5Uk)


Choker? I don't even know 'er!

Posted by: Subtitles provided by Just the Punchline at August 07, 2020 09:48 AM (PiwSw)

86 She's reading The Little Golden Book of Differential Equations.

I'd make the same face if I was that girl!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 07, 2020 09:48 AM (wtvvX)

87 This was before television.

You wouldn't understand.

Posted by: eleven at August 07, 2020 09:48 AM (XTyi0)

88 Nurse: Now listen carefully dear, these are the ingredients for the perfect Harvey Wallbanger.

Girl: After this, can we do Singapore Slings again? Huh? Can we???!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2020 09:48 AM (axyOa)

89 Kid looks like trouble.

Posted by: eleven at August 07, 2020 09:48 AM (XTyi0)

90 Word. Chokers are easily the sexiest thing ever invented for women's attire.

Of course, that also makes us misogynists, apparently.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 09:47 AM (CD5Uk)

Choker necklaces are stupid hot. I can't really explain why, but they just are.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 09:49 AM (NWiLs)

91

C'mon, Let's Get Reel (to Reel) - a limerick

The trials of noble Nurse Porter
Reading a book made-to-order
Nowadays we'd say "Look,
Just plop an audio book
In your Mary Cassatt tape recorder!"

Posted by: Muldoon at August 07, 2020 09:49 AM (Fc5rx)

92 She's reading The Little Golden Book of Differential Equations.

I'd make the same face if I was that girl!
Posted by: Tex Lovera at August 07, 2020


*
*

The nurse is reading from The Pearl. Kid doesn't understand what "spending" means.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 07, 2020 09:49 AM (rpbg1)

93 Painting looks like high summer but both gals look cool and comfortable (and bored).

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at August 07, 2020 09:49 AM (IAtY2)

94 Nurse: Bethany quivered under Ronald's tough, persistent yet gentle hands. As his wondrous tools of corporeal discovery drifted upward toward the humid hillocks of her engorged breasts as yet still restrained beneath her damp blouse ...

Young girl: :: YAWN ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2020 09:49 AM (hYcqw)

95 Nurse (reading aloud):



"Dear Penthouse Forums,

...."

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2020 09:49 AM (YxTUV)

96 She wore a pearl choker....

Posted by: ZZ Tophat at August 07, 2020 09:50 AM (wtvvX)

97 She parks the spine of the book in the little girl's part. No wonder she looks pissed.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 07, 2020 09:50 AM (oVJmc)

98 Word. Chokers are easily the sexiest thing ever invented for women's attire.

Of course, that also makes us misogynists, apparently.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 09:47 AM (CD5Uk)
+++++++++++
Abso-freaking-lutely. I have no explanation for it, but there it is. Insanely sexy. And if that makes me some kind of knuckle-dragging regressive, then so be it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2020 09:50 AM (hYcqw)

99
Choker necklaces are stupid hot. I can't really explain why, but they just are.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 09:49 AM (NWiLs


This guy gets it. Hard to explain. Just is.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 09:50 AM (CD5Uk)

100
Word. Chokers are easily the sexiest thing ever invented for women's attire.

Of course, that also makes us misogynists, apparently.

Posted by: AlaBAMA



Plus the ever popular "sultry come hither" look.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2020 09:51 AM (axyOa)

101 Now I'm looking at it as the nurse is actually balancing the book on the girl's head. On top of reading silently.

No wonder the girl's miffed. She's really getting dissed.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 07, 2020 09:51 AM (FtO5h)

102 Nurse: Bethany quivered under Ronald's tough, persistent yet gentle hands. As his wondrous tools of corporeal discovery drifted upward toward the humid hillocks of her engorged breasts as yet still restrained beneath her damp blouse ...

Young girl: :: YAWN ::
Posted by: Joe Mannix



Moist. You forgot to use the word "moist".
Because you just know, someone who will read that, hates that word.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2020 09:51 AM (YxTUV)

103 BTW, Mary Cassatt did one of my favorite Impressionistic paintings: "Lilacs in a Window".

She also did some nice portraits in pastels. Not as good as Degas, perhaps, but effective.

Posted by: JTB at August 07, 2020 09:52 AM (7EjX1)

104 Test

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 09:52 AM (ZVFID)

105 Nice nurse. Pissy kid. I've had enough of pissy kids lately, thanks. Would not hang.

Posted by: creeper at August 07, 2020 09:52 AM (XxJt1)

106 I know it's early for a OT post, but has anyone mentioned that the reason Biden hasn't named a VP candidate yet is because when they all go talk to Ole Joe they find out first hand that the guy has the brains of rotting eggplant and simply withdraw? Could it be attaching your name as a the Veep to him would be career death once it comes out that he is literally more vegetable than animal?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 07, 2020 09:52 AM (IqXvw)

107 Subtitle: Head Rest

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 07, 2020 09:52 AM (HaL55)

108 She also did some nice portraits in pastels. Not as good as Degas, perhaps, but effective.
Posted by: JTB at August 07, 2020 09:52 AM (7EjX1)

What happens in Degas, stays in Degas.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 09:52 AM (NWiLs)

109 Word. Chokers are easily the sexiest thing ever invented for women's attire.

Of course, that also makes us misogynists, apparently.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 09:47 AM (CD5Uk)
+++++++++++
Abso-freaking-lutely. I have no explanation for it, but there it is.
------
Tatiana Romanova wearing only a black neck ribbon. 'Nuff said.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Iranian Navy test dummy at August 07, 2020 09:52 AM (UAMe5)

110 We need to get KDABear to do a choker series.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 09:52 AM (CD5Uk)

111 Broken Brain Biden making lemonade out of lemons.

Biden: Illegal Immigration "Enriching" America, Pandemic An Opportunity For Amnesty

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 07, 2020 09:52 AM (+y/Ru)

112 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2020 09:50 AM (hYcqw)

Yes, when you see a lovely young lady, the second thing you check out is if she is wearing a choker!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at August 07, 2020 09:52 AM (eTZoJ)

113 Nurse (continues reading aloud): "It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them."

Girl: *zzzzzzzzzz*

Nurse: *smiles, flips page to the juicy parts of the story*

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2020 09:53 AM (bDqIh)

114 78 discovery drifted upward toward the humid hillocks of her engorged breasts

LOL! Your alliteration game is on point!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 07, 2020 09:53 AM (FtO5h)

115 Damn all my previous posts are gone. Some of my best work too.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 09:53 AM (ZVFID)

116 Tatiana Romanova wearing only a black neck ribbon. 'Nuff said.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Iranian Navy test dummy at August 07, 2020 09:52 AM (UAMe5)
+++++++++++++
Yeah, that does the trick. SFW.
https://tinyurl.com/y36wchqg

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2020 09:54 AM (hYcqw)

117 Economy adds 1.76 million new jobs last month beating estimates of 1.48, unemployment drops to 10.2%

Unexpectedly.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 09:54 AM (ZLI7S)

118 110 We need to get KDABear to do a choker series.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 09:52 AM (CD5Uk)

We'll all be in our bunks.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 09:54 AM (NWiLs)

119 Ann Althouse just wrote, quite flatly, that Biden is in cognitive decline before comparing his campaign to HW's re-election campaign of 92.

I really don't think Biden's playing well with some traditional Democratic voting blocks.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 07, 2020 09:54 AM (UWqZJ)

120 116 Tatiana Romanova wearing only a black neck ribbon. 'Nuff said.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Iranian Navy test dummy at August 07, 2020 09:52 AM (UAMe5)
+++++++++++++
Yeah, that does the trick. SFW.
https://tinyurl.com/y36wchqg
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2020 09:54 AM (hYcqw)

I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 09:55 AM (NWiLs)

121 Cuthbert the Witless

He hasn't named Nikki Minaj yet, cause Nikki won't stand still long enough for him to get a sniff.

Posted by: JT at August 07, 2020 09:55 AM (arJlL)

122 >>I really don't think Biden's playing well with some traditional Democratic voting blocks.

No way.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 09:55 AM (ZLI7S)

123 Ankle Bracelets > Chokers

IMHO of course

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 09:55 AM (ZVFID)

124 Late start running down JJ's nooz and the comments.

That little girl's got trouble on her mind.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 07, 2020 09:55 AM (dfRN6)

125 117 Economy adds 1.76 million new jobs last month beating estimates of 1.48, unemployment drops to 10.2%

Unexpectedly.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 09:54 AM (ZLI7S)

=========

I remember analysis of the 2012 election that said that people who voted on the economy ended up trending towards Obama because the perception of the economy was that it was improving, not that it was necessarily good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 07, 2020 09:55 AM (UWqZJ)

126 @116 That's actually a strip of 16mm movie film, isn't it?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 07, 2020 09:56 AM (8IOEj)

127 117 Economy adds 1.76 million new jobs last month beating estimates of 1.48, unemployment drops to 10.2%

Unexpectedly.

America. F*ck yeah. Even bloody and bowed, and locked down and muzzled, this is the U-S-fvcking-A! . The fact that this nation not only still stands after 6 months of this, but is somehow, some way recovering is the only source of hope I have left.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 07, 2020 09:56 AM (FtO5h)

128
Ann Althouse just wrote, quite flatly, that Biden is in cognitive decline before comparing his campaign to HW's re-election campaign of 92.

--------

She'll still vote for him.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2020 09:56 AM (mht8P)

129 117
Economy adds 1.76 million new jobs last month beating estimates of 1.48, unemployment drops to 10.2%



Unexpectedly.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 09:54 AM (ZLI7S)

Have you heard of my Second Wave Plan. The curves will be flattened.


Posted by: The Good Dr Fauxi Stroking His Chin at August 07, 2020 09:56 AM (IqXvw)

130 @116 That's actually a strip of 16mm movie film, isn't it?
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 07, 2020 09:56 AM (8IOEj)
+++++++++++
Looks that way.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2020 09:56 AM (hYcqw)

131 Economy adds 1.76 million new jobs last month beating estimates of 1.48, unemployment drops to 10.2%

They're all McJobs! Nobody can afford $27,000 stainless steel refrigerators or $18 a pint ice cream on that!

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 09:57 AM (NWiLs)

132 I always hated Phil Collins. These two beg to differ.

https://bit.ly/2DFQH5S

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 07, 2020 09:57 AM (+y/Ru)

133 >>I remember analysis of the 2012 election that said that people who voted on the economy ended up trending towards Obama because the perception of the economy was that it was improving, not that it was necessarily good.

Imagine how good he economy would be doing if Democrats weren't fighting to keep it locked down.

Going to be increased pressure on them until Nov 3rd to open up.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 09:57 AM (ZLI7S)

134 128
Ann Althouse just wrote, quite flatly, that Biden is in cognitive decline before comparing his campaign to HW's re-election campaign of 92.

--------

She'll still vote for him.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2020 09:56 AM (mht8P)

========

I really don't think she will.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 07, 2020 09:58 AM (UWqZJ)

135 unemployment drops to 10.2%

Unexpectedly.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 09:54 AM (ZLI7S)

And it would be closer to 2.2%, were it not for the insane panic reaction to the WuFlu.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2020 09:58 AM (TP0dG)

136 111
Broken Brain Biden making lemonade out of lemons.



Biden: Illegal Immigration "Enriching" America, Pandemic An Opportunity For Amnesty

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 07, 2020 09:52 AM (+y/Ru)


Here is the problem with Biden, you can't tell the real quotes apart from the Babylon Bee fake quotes anymore.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 07, 2020 09:58 AM (IqXvw)

137 I always hated Phil Collins. These two beg to differ.

https://bit.ly/2DFQH5S
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 07, 2020 09:57 AM (+y/Ru)
++++++++++++
I was hoping for sexy groupies. Expectations status: subverted.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2020 09:58 AM (hYcqw)

138
Word. Chokers are easily the sexiest thing ever invented for women's attire.


Gold ankle chain.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 07, 2020 09:58 AM (luzVb)

139 @113 Lady Loverley's Chatter!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 07, 2020 09:59 AM (8IOEj)

140 The Good Dr Fauxi Stroking His Chin

HEY !

THAT'S not his CHIN !

Posted by: JT at August 07, 2020 09:59 AM (arJlL)

141 Amnesty is enriching someone. Just not american workers.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 09:59 AM (CD5Uk)

142 132 I always hated Phil Collins. These two beg to differ.

https://bit.ly/2DFQH5S
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 07, 2020 09:57 AM (+y/Ru)

Phil Collins or no, I always enjoy these kinds of videos where kids or even adults are blown away by music I grew up with, or by genres (like metal) they've never heard before.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 09:59 AM (NWiLs)

143 Tatiana Romanova wearing only a black neck ribbon. 'Nuff said.

Yummy.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 07, 2020 10:00 AM (HaL55)

144 For a while in the 70s, Phil Collins was pretty damn cool.

Not only drumming for and then fronting a leading stadium-rock band but simultaneously playing in a really cool jazz fusion group, Brand X, while side-gigging with the likes of Brian Eno - and if Eno had you in his Rolodex in the 70s you were automatically cool...well, it was all downhill after 1980 but he had a good run of coolness.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 07, 2020 10:00 AM (FtO5h)

145 Ankle Bracelets > Chokers

Belly chain.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 07, 2020 10:00 AM (luzVb)

146 51 How long will it be until Karen demands that we retroactively add masks to old paintings
Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at August 07, 2020 09:40 AM (SUelH)

I think that there will be many calls to alter paintings, and if not destroy them. If you can tear down statues of real people, why not burn paintings of anonymous ones.

Whenever you see a television show or a play, where the identities of the characters are changed (especially real people like Hamilton) in opposition to the reality of the time, you are seeing a destruction of history.

McCarter in Princeton loves to do this. They made Marcus Antonius black, and love to recast main characters as Asian or black.

So I am a bit surprised they're not vandalizing paintings. It would be so permanent.

Posted by: CN at August 07, 2020 10:00 AM (ONvIw)

147 145 Ankle Bracelets > Chokers

Belly chain.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 07, 2020 10:00 AM (luzVb)

========

"The mumu."
-Hillary Clinton

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 07, 2020 10:00 AM (UWqZJ)

148 @116 That's actually a strip of 16mm movie film, isn't it?
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at August 07, 2020 09:56 AM (8IOEj)

I don't see any sprocket holes.









Bed sheet gets in the way.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2020 10:01 AM (TP0dG)

149 Word. Chokers are easily the sexiest thing ever invented for women's attire.


not even close to a man's wifebeater

Posted by: REDACTED at August 07, 2020 10:01 AM (O+AcM)

150
"The mumu."
-Hillary Clinton
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 07, 2020 10:00 AM (UWqZJ)


***side-eye***

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 10:01 AM (CD5Uk)

151 Belly chain.
Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 07, 2020 10:00 AM (luzVb)

Shackles and a ball gag.

Whoops, did I say that out loud?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:01 AM (NWiLs)

152 MuMu land! MuMu land! All bound for MuMu land!

Posted by: The KLF featuring Tammy Wynette at August 07, 2020 10:01 AM (FtO5h)

153 Ankle Bracelets > Chokers >>>>>>>>>>> navel piercings

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Iranian Navy test dummy at August 07, 2020 10:01 AM (UAMe5)

154 Broken Brain Biden making lemonade out of lemons.





Biden: Illegal Immigration "Enriching" America, Pandemic An Opportunity For Amnesty


Not all yellow liquid is lemonade. Just sayin'...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 07, 2020 10:02 AM (HaL55)

155 141 Amnesty is enriching someone. Just not american workers.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 09:59 AM (CD5Uk)

Mike Lee is working hard to do this. I wonder why he's considered so "conservative", when he's nothing but a big globalist donk at heart. Thank God he is not on the USSC

Posted by: CN at August 07, 2020 10:02 AM (ONvIw)

156 >>I always hated Phil Collins. These two beg to differ.

I was waiting for the dayyyum when the drums hit.

Not disappointed.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 10:02 AM (ZLI7S)

157 I'll imitate Monty doom and say I like the apparent employment recovery but I don't like why we got in a position to have to have a recovery. I also don't like adding 7 trillion to the debt . And almost zero interest rate. Other than that we're golden.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:02 AM (ZVFID)

158 not even close to a man's wifebeater
Posted by: REDACTED at August 07, 2020 10:01 AM (O+AcM)

A real man doesn't outsource his wifebeating, he does it himself.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:02 AM (NWiLs)

159 MuMu land! MuMu land! All bound for MuMu land!

************

Posted by: MIRROR UNIVERSE MARK UDALL

Posted by: Muldoon at August 07, 2020 10:03 AM (Fc5rx)

160 A real man doesn't outsource his wifebeating, he does it himself.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:02 AM (NWiLs)

I bow to your self awareness

Posted by: REDACTED at August 07, 2020 10:03 AM (O+AcM)

161 134 128
Ann Althouse just wrote, quite flatly, that Biden is in cognitive decline before comparing his campaign to HW's re-election campaign of 92.

--------

She'll still vote for him.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2020 09:56 AM (mht8P)

========

I really don't think she will.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 07, 2020 09:58 AM (UWqZJ)
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They way AA will justify her vote for Biden: Joe Biden says he's not in cognitive decline so I am going to vote for him so he can prove that he is not.

Posted by: WisRich at August 07, 2020 10:04 AM (G0vdT)

162 Phil Colins reminds me of Against All Odds song which reminds me of Rachel Ward. For that I'm grateful for Phil Colins.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:05 AM (ZVFID)

163 Phil Collins is still cool. Phil Collins will always be cool.


Anonysaurus Wrecks, thanks for the video link. Maybe there's hope.

Posted by: creeper at August 07, 2020 10:05 AM (XxJt1)

164 A young Greta Thunberg contemplating her future.

Posted by: The Barrell at August 07, 2020 10:05 AM (ukNFU)

165 Ankle Bracelets > Chokers
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What does it say about me that I pictured an ankle monitor, then realized that might not be what you meant?

Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at August 07, 2020 10:05 AM (ZI4/t)

166 Collins had loads of talent. Great body of work, as long as you don't count soo soo soodio

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 10:06 AM (CD5Uk)

167 Tucker's show last night was incisive and terrifying.

He said exactly what I have been trying to say: in 7 months America has been transformed. Every Constitutional right has been trampled/threatened/ and smashed. We are in the process of becoming a mirror image of Communist China.


He played a clip of Fauxi complaining early on that "in America we could never implement such Draconian measures to fight the virus". Looks like that worked out for him.




Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 07, 2020 10:06 AM (luzVb)

168 Interesting fact. Phil Colins is an expert on all things related to The Alamo.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM (ZVFID)

169 What does it say about me that I pictured an ankle monitor, then realized that might not be what you meant?
Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at August 07, 2020 10:05 AM (ZI4/t)

You've got a thing for bad girls?

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM (NWiLs)

170 What does it say about me that I pictured an ankle monitor, then realized that might not be what you meant?
Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at August 07, 2020 10:05 AM (ZI4/t)
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Ankle monitors might be considered sexy, in certain demographics.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Iranian Navy test dummy at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM (UAMe5)

171 What does it say about me that I pictured an ankle monitor, then realized that might not be what you meant?
Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at August 07, 2020 10:05 AM (ZI4/t)
++++++++++++
That you think there's something to be said for a dame who's rough and tough?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM (hYcqw)

172 Morning Horde. What fresh hell?

Posted by: BCochran1981 - Math Is Math at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM (9CkBG)

173 Early Genesis stuff, Phil was good.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM (LNhVD)

174 166 Collins had loads of talent. Great body of work, as long as you don't count soo soo soodio

Good God, I hated that song so much.

Posted by: dantesed at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM (88xKn)

175 Great body of work, as long as you don't count soo soo soodio
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 10:06 AM (CD5Uk)

That was a stinker, wasn't it? And the Top 40 stations played the hell out of it, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM (TP0dG)

176 Insom and Cap, we appear to be on the same page. Hashtag hordemind.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2020 10:08 AM (hYcqw)

177 Shackles and a ball gag.
Whoops, did I say that out loud?
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:01 AM (NWiLs)


A man can dream!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at August 07, 2020 10:08 AM (eTZoJ)

178 I bow to your self awareness
Posted by: REDACTED at August 07, 2020 10:03 AM (O+AcM)

I've got way too much of that...

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:08 AM (NWiLs)

179 135
unemployment drops to 10.2%



Unexpectedly.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 09:54 AM (ZLI7S)



And it would be closer to 2.2%, were it not for the insane panic reaction to the WuFlu.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2020 09:58 AM (TP0dG)

A question I have on the unemployment rate is this: what is the TRUE unemployment rate?? How many of these people were furloughed? When furloughed, you still have a job, you just aren't working and not getting paid. Yet you still file for unemployment. And you are factored into the published unemployment numbers.I'm curious how many of the unemployed fall into the furloughed category. Is it a significant amount? Factoring them out, would the unemployment rate be more like 5%

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 07, 2020 10:08 AM (N39Ws)

180
The kid is sizing up a tree full of starlings that she'd be plugging away at were it not for being in the grasp of this prissy nurse.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 07, 2020 10:08 AM (pNxlR)

181 Interesting fact. Phil Colins is an expert on all things related to The Alamo.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM (ZVFID)

Mee too!

Posted by: Ozzy, pissing on the back wall at August 07, 2020 10:08 AM (LNhVD)

182 That was a stinker, wasn't it? And the Top 40 stations played the hell out of it, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM (TP0dG)
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Use "Solsbury Hill" as a palate cleanser.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Iranian Navy test dummy at August 07, 2020 10:09 AM (UAMe5)

183 Who was the chick who sang duet with Colins on separate lives?

Loved her raspy voice

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 10:09 AM (CD5Uk)

184 I'll imitate Monty doom and say I like the apparent
employment recovery but I don't like why we got in a position to have to
have a recovery. I also don't like adding 7 trillion to the debt .
And almost zero interest rate. Other than that we're golden.


Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:02 AM

---

The EU and Japan are whispering about going to negative interest rates after they open back up to help the recovery.


It's literally all a big joke now. Not a single Country in the World has any intention of paying off any debt. Heck some Countries don't even pay the interest on their debt any longer.


Eventually it's all gong to catch up with us and there will hopefully be a short but extremely painful reset.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2020 10:09 AM (JUOKG)

185 176 Insom and Cap, we appear to be on the same page. Hashtag hordemind.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2020 10:08 AM (hYcqw)

It's real and it's spectacular.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:09 AM (NWiLs)

186 Love the colors.

Would hang!

Posted by: browndog at August 07, 2020 10:09 AM (BgMrQ)

187 Early Genesis stuff, Phil was good.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM (LNhVD)


Agreed.

https://youtu.be/_61hzuGGJX0

Posted by: Sponge - China is Asshoe! at August 07, 2020 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)

188 166 Collins had loads of talent. Great body of work, as long as you don't count soo soo soodio

"A Groovy Kind of Love" says hold my beer.

Posted by: The KLF featuring Tammy Wynette at August 07, 2020 10:10 AM (FtO5h)

189 Listen, and understand.
That terminatrix is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity. Or remorse. Or fear.
And it absolutely will not stop. Ever. Until you are dead.

Posted by: Reese at August 07, 2020 10:10 AM (A2PBg)

190
I'll imitate Monty doom and say I like the apparent

employment recovery but I don't like why we got in a position to have to

have a recovery. I also don't like adding 7 trillion to the debt .

And almost zero interest rate. Other than that we're golden.


China has 100% employment.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 07, 2020 10:10 AM (luzVb)

191 1.763M new jobs in July. What is the CNBC headline? 1.7M jobs added in July. Rounded down not up. But remember there is no such thing as msm bias it is all in our imagination.

Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 10:10 AM (ltwXF)

192 Insom and Cap, we appear to be on the same page. Hashtag hordemind.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2020 10:08 AM (hYcqw)

It's real and it's spectacular.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:09 AM (NWiLs)
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Woot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Iranian Navy test dummy at August 07, 2020 10:11 AM (UAMe5)

193 A question I have on the unemployment rate is this: what is the TRUE unemployment rate?? How many of these people were furloughed? When furloughed, you still have a job, you just aren't working and not getting paid. Yet you still file for unemployment. And you are factored into the published unemployment numbers.I'm curious how many of the unemployed fall into the furloughed category. Is it a significant amount? Factoring them out, would the unemployment rate be more like 5%
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 07, 2020 10:08 AM (N39Ws)

And what about all the employees who are getting paid, but are not working? Looking at you, teachers. There is a piss-pot full of wages being paid to non-producers. Effectively, teachers are nearly all on welfare, right now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2020 10:11 AM (TP0dG)

194 Isn't this painting "Auguste Reading to her Daughter"?

Posted by: CN at August 07, 2020 10:11 AM (ONvIw)

195 So I am a bit surprised they're not vandalizing paintings. It would be so permanent.
Posted by: CN at August 07, 2020 10:00 AM (ONvIw)


Ultimate Karen movie: "Equilbrium"

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2020 10:11 AM (PiwSw)

196 172 Morning Horde. What fresh hell?
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Math Is Math at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM (9CkBG)

No fresh hell today. The supply lines have been disrupted due to COVID, so we've only got

*rummages around in fridge*

some foil-wrapped hell that's been in here for God knows how long.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:11 AM (NWiLs)

197 "Duke" by Genesis has some great songs. I liked solo Phil Collins growing up. You did get the impression that Phil Collins really really loved him some Phil Collins though.

Posted by: jhawk90 at August 07, 2020 10:12 AM (/ZYFC)

198 69 Oops -- the title is Nurse Reading to a Little Girl, not "Mother."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 07, 2020 09:43 AM (rpbg1)

Clothes seem to expensive for a nurse. It's a mom and child.

Posted by: CN at August 07, 2020 10:12 AM (ONvIw)

199 181 Interesting fact. Phil Colins is an expert on all things related to The Alamo.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM (ZVFID)

Mee too!
Posted by: Ozzy, pissing on the back wall at August 07, 2020 10:08 AM (LNhVD)
======

Back in the early 80's, Ozzy was playing the San Antonio Convention Center the same night we went to see a production of Mozart's Don Giovani next door. The two venues shared the same parking. It was....interesting.

Plus, a bat got loose in the opera house during the production. Many "that's the one that got away" jokes were made.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 07, 2020 10:12 AM (dfRN6)

200 *rummages around in fridge*

some foil-wrapped hell that's been in here for God knows how long.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:11 AM (NWiLs)

shoulda' put it in the freezer.

Posted by: BignJames at August 07, 2020 10:12 AM (X/Pw5)

201 Interesting fact. Phil Colins is an expert on all things related to The Alamo.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM (ZVFID)

Mee too!
Posted by: Ozzy, pissing on the back wall at August 07, 2020 10:08 AM (LNhVD)

Actually that's how I found out. Ozzy had a show with his son Jack where they traveled across America . One episode had them going back to San Antonio to find out what really happened . According to the police report , Ozzy apparently relieved himself on the sidewalk across from the Alamo and not on the Alamo. San Antonio officially lifted his ban. Anyway they had solicited Phil Colins help in finding out who they could talk to in San Antonio for their visit.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:13 AM (ZVFID)

202 It's literally all a big joke now. Not a single Country in the World has any intention of paying off any debt. Heck some Countries don't even pay the interest on their debt any longer.

Eventually it's all gong to catch up with us and there will hopefully be a short but extremely painful reset.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2020 10:09 AM (JUOKG)

Fiat currency is what happens when a lot of really clever people decide that they really can make money go on trees. It works - sort of - for a while, until the unintended, unimagined side effects build up to critical mass.

Once politicians fully realize that there's no cap on spending, the money printers run 24/7, and hyperinflation follows.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 07, 2020 10:13 AM (8FZ/M)

203 I love the smell of fresh hell in the morning. It smells like victory.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 07, 2020 10:13 AM (+y/Ru)

204 The $600 weekly federal pay is why there are millions of unemployed right now. Get rid of it and you will see 10m jobs created the next month. Until then millions will sit at home watching Netflix and earning more than their jobs pay.

Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 10:13 AM (ltwXF)

205 *rummages around in fridge*

some foil-wrapped hell that's been in here for God knows how long.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:11 AM (NWiLs)

I took some to the dump yesterday. It was getting moldy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2020 10:13 AM (TP0dG)

206 shoulda' put it in the freezer.
Posted by: BignJames at August 07, 2020 10:12 AM (X/Pw5)

Yeah, yeah. I just forgot all about it.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:13 AM (NWiLs)

207 Morning Horde. What fresh hell?
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Math Is Math at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM (9CkBG)

No fresh hell today. The supply lines have been disrupted due to COVID, so we've only got

*rummages around in fridge*

some foil-wrapped hell that's been in here for God knows how long.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:11 AM (NWiLs)
------
I'm really, really tired of fresh hell. Could go for some fresh heck right about now.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Iranian Navy test dummy at August 07, 2020 10:14 AM (UAMe5)

208 Absolutely love the Gabriel Genesis but one of my top-5 Genesis albums is the Phil-led A Trick of the Tail, which I've adored since I was a teen. Whole album is nothing but win.

Duke is very solid too if you skip a few tracks down the back stretch. That album was just way too long but with some deft editing it's as agood as any of their best.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 07, 2020 10:14 AM (FtO5h)

209 Foil-Wrapped Hell was Ace Frehley's least-known solo project.
Huge in Japan.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 07, 2020 10:14 AM (luzVb)

210 Ankle bracelets > cankle bracelets.

Posted by: PabloD at August 07, 2020 10:14 AM (kcmgW)

211 204 The $600 weekly federal pay is why there are millions of unemployed right now. Get rid of it and you will see 10m jobs created the next month. Until then millions will sit at home watching Netflix and earning more than their jobs pay.
Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 10:13 AM (ltwXF)

=========

It stopped existing at the beginning of this month.

Congress can't agree on an extension. Republicans want to lower the amount to $200 and Democrats want to keep it at $600.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 07, 2020 10:14 AM (UWqZJ)

212 Interesting fact. Phil Colins is an expert on all things related to The Alamo.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM


IIRC, he has the largest private collection of Alamo artifacts in the world

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 07, 2020 10:14 AM (3rKlD)

213
*rummages around in fridge*

some foil-wrapped hell that's been in here for God knows how long.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:11 AM (NWiLs)

are you implying that our Hell has frozen over?

Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar supremacist at August 07, 2020 10:15 AM (J8nVw)

214
Once politicians fully realize that there's no cap on spending, the money printers run 24/7, and hyperinflation follows.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 07, 2020 10:13 AM (8FZ/M)


Was talking to my pops about this last weekend. It's as if they all know it's over and don't care. Everyone is just ignoring inflation. Like if we don't mention it, it will never happen.

No one intends to ever pay off a debt. They will probably all agree to wipe each other's debts and get back to printing.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 10:15 AM (CD5Uk)

215 I love Mary Cassatt! I have a large coffee table book of her work. Lovely colors!

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 07, 2020 10:15 AM (qe5CM)

216 IIRC, he has the largest private collection of Alamo artifacts in the world
Posted by: AltonJackson

I believe they had mentioned that too.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:16 AM (ZVFID)

217 211

McConnell said he is onboard with keeping it at $600. And like all temporary welfare programs it will most likely never end. Technically it ended July 31 but you know very well it will be paid back retroactively.

Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 10:16 AM (ltwXF)

218 212
Interesting fact. Phil Colins is an expert on all things related to The Alamo.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM

IIRC, he has the largest private collection of Alamo artifacts in the world
Posted by: AltonJackson
If you can protest in person
You can vote in person
(& bring your ID)
at August 07, 2020 10:14 AM (3rKlD)

It's now 'had'. He donated it all to the state of Texas.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 07, 2020 10:16 AM (6xA3t)

219 I shall muse her dark hair and walk on dress.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 07, 2020 10:17 AM (pB6Gt)

220 >>Biden: Illegal Immigration "Enriching" America, Pandemic An Opportunity For Amnesty



"Alright alright alright!! How quickly can we make this go viral with all of Ye's followers?!"

-- Kanye West's campaign manager

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2020 10:17 AM (bDqIh)

221 In a twist of irony, the only debt the US Gov cares about is the debt you own them.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 10:17 AM (CD5Uk)

222 I love Mary Cassatt! I have a large coffee table book of her work. Lovely colors!

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 07, 2020 10:15 AM (qe5CM)

How do you feel about Mary Mallon?

Posted by: BignJames at August 07, 2020 10:17 AM (X/Pw5)

223 And what about all the employees who are getting paid, but are not working? Looking at you, teachers. There is a piss-pot full of wages being paid to non-producers. Effectively, teachers are nearly all on welfare, right now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2020 10:11 AM (TP0dG)


There are a helluva lot of government employees (at local , state, and federal levels) being paid by the tax-payers and doing even less than normal than when they showed up for "work".

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at August 07, 2020 10:17 AM (eTZoJ)

224 This is Nurse Reading to a Little Girl

https://tinyurl.com/y6juqw6p

Posted by: CN at August 07, 2020 10:17 AM (ONvIw)

225 Heh, Babylon Bee is on a roll:


Biden Campaign Cancels Trip Upstairs

Posted by: WisRich at August 07, 2020 10:18 AM (G0vdT)

226 If Frehley's first solo album hadn't been released as part of that ridiculous 4-simultaneous-solo-albums over-hype, it would be considered a stone cold classic of 70s hard rock today. Frehley's Comet was solid, and he's had some good solo albums (and some bad ones.) He's a bloated mess these days, and I still like him. He's Frehley. He just rocks no matter what.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 07, 2020 10:18 AM (FtO5h)

227 John Roberts' face has that same smug smirk as James Comey's. You talk about punchable faces...

Posted by: creeper at August 07, 2020 10:19 AM (XxJt1)

228 Phil Collins has now donated a significant part of his collection to the Alamo Museum, including a rifle documented to have belonged to Davy Crockett, and one of Jim Bowie's personal knives.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 10:19 AM (Kpl3J)

229 224 This is Nurse Reading to a Little Girl

https://tinyurl.com/y6juqw6p
Posted by: CN at August 07, 2020 10:17 AM (ONvIw)

You're right. This painting is Auguste Reading to Her Daughter. Still in keeping with Literal Title Week, though.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:19 AM (NWiLs)

230 No one intends to ever pay off a debt. They will probably all agree to wipe each other's debts and get back to printing.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 10:15 AM (CD5Uk)

Probably. Remember also Jefferson's warning about bankers, interest, and debt. This is a means of impoverishing regular people, and sucking all of the wealth into their social strata.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 07, 2020 10:19 AM (8FZ/M)

231 What does it say about me that I pictured an ankle monitor, then realized that might not be what you meant?
Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at August 07, 2020 10:05 AM (ZI4/t)


That you think like I do.

And her name is Shasta, and she is your world.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 07, 2020 10:20 AM (WyVLE)

232 Saw Genesis in the Astrodome around 1992 or so. I was a casual Genesis listener but that show was one for the ages. They would keep returning to the Home by the Sea rhythm to thread songs together. Also one of the better sounding concerts for the 'dome.

I recall a Rolling Stones, ZZTop and Fabulous Thunderbirds show there and the TBirds were the best part of the whole thing.

Posted by: DanMan at August 07, 2020 10:20 AM (XTiHL)

233 You're right. This painting is Auguste Reading to Her Daughter. Still in keeping with Literal Title Week, though.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:19 AM (NWiLs)

Yep

Posted by: CN at August 07, 2020 10:20 AM (ONvIw)

234 >>John Roberts' face has that same smug smirk as James Comey's. You talk about punchable faces...

I wonder how smug Comey is looking today after Yates threw him under the bus then did wheelies on him.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 10:20 AM (ZLI7S)

235 Genesis live album 'Seconds Out' is outstanding. It's post PG. It is possible to enjoy both Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins solo efforts. I do.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 07, 2020 10:20 AM (MVR7y)

236
Interesting fact. Phil Colins is an expert on all things related to The Alamo.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM (ZVFID)








He once had the largest collection of Alamo artifacts and documents in private hands (spending a LOT of his music money acquiring them), and a few years ago donated the vast majority of it to the Alamo museum.

That goes a long ways towards putting Collins on the Cool Guy List, and even excuses soo soo soodio.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2020 10:20 AM (EGyGV)

237 32
Mom: "Chapter 3, Summary of the Invention: The invention is a process for making polyethylene. The process comprises polymerizing ethylene in the presence of a catalyst system comprising an activator and a supported organometallic complex. The complex, which has "open architecture," includes a Group 4 to 6 transition metal and a bridged indenoindolyl ligand. We surprisingly found that modifying the open architecture complex to incorporate a C6-C20 hydrocarbyl amido group enables the production of polyethylene having improved flow and good rheological properties while maintaining high catalyst activity..."

Kid: zzzzzzzz
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2020 09:36 AM (mht8P)


Not only did I understand that, but I enjoyed.

*signing out to shoot myself*

Posted by: Michael the Texan at August 07, 2020 10:20 AM (9IdCK)

238 This painting is Auguste Reading to Her Daughter.

The painting identifies as Nurse Reading to A Little Girl.

Racists.

Posted by: deplorable unperson - Kanye 2020 at August 07, 2020 10:21 AM (luzVb)

239 IIRC, he has the largest private collection of Alamo artifacts in the world

Posted by: AltonJackson



I believe they had mentioned that too.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:16 AM (ZVFID)

This is the first I have heard of this. I would not have put that together in a million years. I guess some people really are multifaceted. I was talking Phil Collins with some randos recently and they had no idea he ever sang with a famous band. Well I didn't know he was a serious collector of Alamo antiquities. The stuff you learn here.

Posted by: Quint at August 07, 2020 10:22 AM (o1Bgo)

240 The sexiest thing a woman can wear is a smile !

Posted by: JT at August 07, 2020 10:22 AM (arJlL)

241 This painting is Auguste Reading to Her Daughter. Still in keeping with Literal Title Week, though.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo

Her outfit seemed a little too fashionable to be that of a nursemaid.

Was she a governess or a member of the family?

Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar supremacist at August 07, 2020 10:22 AM (J8nVw)

242 It's now 'had'. He donated it all to the state of Texas.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 07, 2020 10:16 AM


good on him, I shall grant him slack (with the exception of that "soodio" crap, for that there can be no reprieve)

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 07, 2020 10:23 AM (3rKlD)

243 No one intends to ever pay off a debt. They will probably all agree to wipe each other's debts and get back to printing.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 10:15 AM (CD5Uk)

I remember a lot of people jumping on SJWest a month or two ago when he was advising maxing out every credit card you had and buying real property with it. If you're headed into a true hyperinflationary period, that's about the best strategy there is.

if no one has to pay back debts, you don't have to either.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 10:23 AM (Kpl3J)

244 Here's an exciting chapter on accounting for capital versus operating leases under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles!

Posted by: Count de Monet at August 07, 2020 10:23 AM (q1Pj5)

245 oh, her DAUGHTER
duh

Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar supremacist at August 07, 2020 10:23 AM (J8nVw)

246 Kid: zzzzzzzz
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 07, 2020 09:36 AM (mht8P)

Not only did I understand that, but I enjoyed.

*signing out to shoot myself*

Posted by: Michael the Texan


***

Lost me at indenoindolyl ligand.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 07, 2020 10:23 AM (axyOa)

247 >>Honestly, we can't stop watching this video of two teens discovering how kick-a*s Phil Collins really is.


Because today's music suuuuucks. Most of it, the stuff that the music industry is trying to sell us.

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2020 10:24 AM (bDqIh)

248 240
The sexiest thing a woman can wear is a smile !

Posted by: JT at August 07, 2020 10:22 AM (arJlL)

Absolutely. And it'll knock ten years off her age. I think that's why lib women look old and dried up at thirty.

Posted by: creeper at August 07, 2020 10:24 AM (XxJt1)

249 241 This painting is Auguste Reading to Her Daughter. Still in keeping with Literal Title Week, though.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo

Her outfit seemed a little too fashionable to be that of a nursemaid.

Was she a governess or a member of the family?
Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar supremacist at August 07, 2020 10:22 AM (J8nVw)

Hell if I know. I just hovered my cursor over the picture after CN linked the actual "Nurse Reading To A Little Girl" painting.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:24 AM (NWiLs)

250 Posted by: AltonJackson at August 07, 2020 10:23 AM (3rKlD)

Get the hint?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 07, 2020 10:24 AM (xT2tT)

251 Before and After photos of Beirut harbor and environs. From the BBC.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53680772

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2020 10:24 AM (JZHB6)

252 Fun Fact: Phil Collins bares a remarkable likeness to the late, lamented, Douglas Adams.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 07, 2020 10:24 AM (dfRN6)

253 I wonder how smug Comey is looking today after Yates threw him under the bus then did wheelies on him.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 10:20 AM (ZLI7S)


Do you think Comey, Brennan, and/or Clapper will ever face serious consequences (a la GEN Flynn)?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at August 07, 2020 10:24 AM (eTZoJ)

254 Absolutely. And it'll knock ten years off her age. I think that's why lib women look old and dried up at thirty.
Posted by: creeper at August 07, 2020 10:24 AM (XxJt1)

All the scowling and screaming takes a toll on the face.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 07, 2020 10:25 AM (8FZ/M)

255 Cassat's works makes my eyes happy.

The colors of this one are beautiful.

Posted by: Flyover at August 07, 2020 10:25 AM (Rbu5d)

256 >>The sexiest thing a woman can wear is a smile !

The sexiest thing a woman ca wear is me. At least from where I'm sitting.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 10:25 AM (ZLI7S)

257 Absolutely. And it'll knock ten years off her age. I think that's why lib women look old and dried up at thirty.
Posted by: creeper at August 07, 2020 10:24 AM (XxJt1)

The 24/7 screaming and seething hatred ages them prematurely as well.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:25 AM (NWiLs)

258 You can tell the girl has great affection for the woman even though she looks bored. She's bored yet very comfortable.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:25 AM (ZVFID)

259 243 No one intends to ever pay off a debt. They will probably all agree to wipe each other's debts and get back to printing.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 10:15 AM (CD5Uk)

I remember a lot of people jumping on SJWest a month or two ago when he was advising maxing out every credit card you had and buying real property with it. If you're headed into a true hyperinflationary period, that's about the best strategy there is.

if no one has to pay back debts, you don't have to either.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 10:23 AM (Kpl3J)

I don't think we're entering hyperinflation just yet. We should see some stronger inflation because of reduced productivity, and the dollar has depreciated against foreign currencies, but there doesn't appear to be the symptoms of a loss of confidence yet.

Posted by: Someguy at August 07, 2020 10:25 AM (Zm+LZ)

260
Phil Collins Alamo collection donation announcement, from 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-bxIodC8IM

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 07, 2020 10:26 AM (EGyGV)

261 IIRC there's a chapter in American Psycho that's just a critique of Phil Collins latest album.

Bret Easton Ellis is an interesting guy.

Posted by: MJ at August 07, 2020 10:26 AM (gAMkn)

262 Once politicians fully realize that there's no cap on spending, the money printers run 24/7, and hyperinflation follows.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 07, 2020 10:13 AM (8FZ/M)





Was talking to my pops about this last weekend. It's as if they all
know it's over and don't care. Everyone is just ignoring inflation. Like
if we don't mention it, it will never happen.



No one intends to ever pay off a debt. They will probably all agree to wipe each other's debts and get back to printing.



Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 07, 2020 10:15 AM

---

It's already happening. It's just not visible to most people yet.


Go to APMEX and look at the price of buying a silver dollar. American Silver Eagles are going for $39.82 each in bulk. The spot price for silver is $22.75.

I have been buying silver from them for well over a decade and that is literally insane. In the past their prices were never more than 2 or 3 dollars over silver spot. Not is is $18.00 over spot.


They and other dealers are nearing double the spot price for silver and people are paying it.

I quit buying silver when this all started. I used to buy 20 American Eagles every other month or so from them. But now what I paid around $400 for last winter is running over $800 now.


It's gonna get worse.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2020 10:26 AM (JUOKG)

263 The guy that started 'Quik Copy' built an Alamo replica in NW Houston that was very authentic and loaded with period pieces. It was serving as a business retreat/hotel/conference destination when I went to it. I had no idea it was there and it was less than a mile off 290 and Telge or Huffmeister I think.

Posted by: DanMan at August 07, 2020 10:26 AM (XTiHL)

264 Do you think Comey, Brennan, and/or Clapper will ever face serious consequences (a la GEN Flynn)?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at August 07, 2020 10:24 AM (eTZoJ)
-----
Given that Gen. Flynn is facing serious consequnces for doing nothing wrong, no.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Iranian Navy test dummy at August 07, 2020 10:27 AM (UAMe5)

265 Speaking of Phil, In the Air Tonight is a classic, IMO. Haunting as hell.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 07, 2020 10:27 AM (EgshT)

266 I did know some Brits who decked their entire house out in a Southwest motif. I wanted to talk Attleborough and they wanted to talk Albuquerque.

Posted by: Quint at August 07, 2020 10:27 AM (o1Bgo)

267 I remember a lot of people jumping on SJWest a month or two ago when he was advising maxing out every credit card you had and buying real property with it. If you're headed into a true hyperinflationary period, that's about the best strategy there is.

if no one has to pay back debts, you don't have to either.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 10:23 AM (Kpl3J)

YUUUGE difference between intergovernmental debt and private debt. Governments can get away with not paying the bills - you, however, can't. The only thing that will allow you to keep that property for a bit longer would be the giant backlog of foreclosure suits by the lending institutions against all the people who did what jwest recommended.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:27 AM (NWiLs)

268
Get the hint?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at August 07, 2020 10:24 AM


got it

it took me a second

so that is verbotten going forward?

wilco

Posted by: AltonJackson
If you can protest in person
You can vote in person
(& bring your ID)
at August 07, 2020 10:28 AM (3rKlD)

269
*booooooring*

Posted by: Little Girl at August 07, 2020 10:28 AM (l0Lgi)

270
fixed

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 07, 2020 10:28 AM (3rKlD)

271 Posted by: Anna Puma at August 07, 2020 10:24 AM (JZHB6)

Thanks Anna, great overview!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at August 07, 2020 10:28 AM (eTZoJ)

272 >>Do you think Comey, Brennan, and/or Clapper will ever face serious consequences (a la GEN Flynn)?

I think Brennan and Comey are in trouble, not so sure about Clapper although this reputation will take a hit no matter what. I think the plan all along was to hang this on Comey but I bet he took some steps to make sure he didn't hang alone.

We all know they committed crimes but that doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what you know, it matters what can be proved in court.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 10:28 AM (ZLI7S)

273 All nations are inflating their fiat currencies ... but MMT is the next (logical?) step. And indeed, why would a nation pay interest on debt, instead of just printing?


One problem is indeed, politicians will buy more elections than ever, via playing Santa Claus. But depending on how the money is thrown around, it is conceivable they could control inflation.


Another problem is like with that $600/week to be unemployed ... why work?


There are a host of potential global issues with unlimited government printing, but it is true that a government can print, so it is not like a household budget that has to balance. But the "magic money wand" must be used with discretion ... and considering the criminals running DC, what are the odds it is instead used to empower 'a New World Order' run by them?


idk ... but Western nations must retain military control, and our current debt is perhaps as big a threat as China, unless we print our way out (which we have been doing, but paying interest on the unlimited debt can't continue, so MMT to the rescue?)

Posted by: illiniwek at August 07, 2020 10:29 AM (Cus5s)

274 Go to APMEX and look at the price of buying a silver dollar. American Silver Eagles are going for $39.82 each in bulk. The spot price for silver is $22.75.

I have been buying silver from them for well over a decade and that is literally insane. In the past their prices were never more than 2 or 3 dollars over silver spot. Not is is $18.00 over spot.


They and other dealers are nearing double the spot price for silver and people are paying it.

I quit buying silver when this all started. I used to buy 20 American Eagles every other month or so from them. But now what I paid around $400 for last winter is running over $800 now.


It's gonna get worse.
Posted by: Mr. Scott




And they instituted a $299.00 minimum buy.
I used to by two silver rounds a payday.

Pissed off a lot of customers, it did.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2020 10:29 AM (YxTUV)

275 I spotted the gamekeeper in the woods.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2020 10:29 AM (l0Lgi)

276 Here I just proclaimed the virtues of my '16 Buick . . . and today it won't start. Almost certainly it's the battery, which is over 4 years old. I wish the car would *tell* you that the battery is getting low, or would display some hesitation in starting, so you could replace it *before* you have trouble.

AAA is on the way, though, and if they can't replace the battery on the spot, my regular mechanic can. It'll be an all-morning issue, but not as disastrous as it could be.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 07, 2020 10:29 AM (rpbg1)

277 Speaking of Phil, In the Air Tonight is a classic, IMO. Haunting as hell.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 07, 2020 10:27 AM (EgshT)

Again.

Rachel Ward

Actually I think she had an ankle bracelet on in that movie.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:30 AM (ZVFID)

278 No fresh hell today. The supply lines have been disrupted due to COVID, so we've only got



*rummages around in fridge*



some foil-wrapped hell that's been in here for God knows how long.


Plus I slept in this morning. I'll take some stale, moldy hell any day. That would mean the daily supply is dwindling.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 07, 2020 10:30 AM (HaL55)

279 I am fully understanding how the following could be seen as off topic. But that Werner Herzog bit in the sidebar...so friggin great that I had to listen again.

Posted by: THE Lonebadger at August 07, 2020 10:30 AM (vYL7p)

280 Because today's music suuuuucks. Most of it, the stuff that the music industry is trying to sell us.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2020 10:24 AM (bDqIh)

The music industry has been pushing in the direction of where we are now for decades, and has finally arrived at their destination. When the "artist" no longer has to have any talent beyond a sparse level of basic skill possessed by roughly 90% of the population, the record company holds all the cards and can call all the shots.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 07, 2020 10:30 AM (8FZ/M)

281 >>This is the first I have heard of this. I would not have put that together in a million years. I guess some people really are multifaceted. I was talking Phil Collins with some randos recently and they had no idea he ever sang with a famous band. Well I didn't know he was a serious collector of Alamo antiquities. The stuff you learn here.


More trivia: You know who has a huge collection of photos from 9/11, including the famous one of the person jumping to their death? Elton John.

Among his collection are 2000 photos from 9/11, "the most horrible subject matter, but the most moving photography. We get them out every year. Beautiful photographs, but they're too raw to show."

At the end of the audio guide, John takes a moment to reflect.

"We live in turbulent times, probably the most turbulent of my life," he says. "With photos, you get a sense of what's happening and outrage."

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2020 10:30 AM (bDqIh)

282 Ball-gag, shackles, whip... Sussudio on the box...

Posted by: klaftern at August 07, 2020 10:30 AM (RuIsu)

283 Again. Rachel Ward


Oh, well. Day late, a dollar short.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 07, 2020 10:31 AM (EgshT)

284 Todays music sucks compared to when I was young.
- everyone who has ever lived

Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 10:32 AM (ltwXF)

285 Speaking of Phil, In the Air Tonight is a classic, IMO. Haunting as hell.
Posted by: Notorious BFD



Used perfectly in the pilot of "Miami Vice".

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 07, 2020 10:32 AM (MVR7y)

286 Morning Horde. What fresh hell?
Posted by: BCochran1981 - Math Is Math at August 07, 2020 10:07 AM (9CkBG)

No fresh hell today. The supply lines have been disrupted due to COVID, so we've only got

*rummages around in fridge*

some foil-wrapped hell that's been in here for God knows how long.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:11 AM


And a couple of withered carrots.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2020 10:32 AM (ejd/p)

287 Given that Gen. Flynn is facing serious consequnces for doing nothing wrong, no.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Iranian Navy test dummy at August 07, 2020 10:27 AM (UAMe5)

Bad wording on my part; however, Flynn may be innocent as an angel but the PROCESS has been devastating.
I doubt that the bad guys will ever see a similar process played out much less actual retribution!
But Jack is so positive, I was seriously interesting in his or anyone else's take.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at August 07, 2020 10:33 AM (eTZoJ)

288 It's worth noting that gold is only about 15% higher than its previous high about ten years ago. Gold and silver aren't really proxies for inflation but tend to climb dramatically during recessions.

Posted by: Someguy at August 07, 2020 10:33 AM (Zm+LZ)

289 You can wipe off your chin, I know where you've been...

Posted by: klaftern at August 07, 2020 10:33 AM (RuIsu)

290 Hyperinflation will destroy my hard work to obtain the cash savings I have. Too late to do anything about it since the price of silver and gold now is too risky to buy. Looking to buy land but that just adds another tax bill.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:33 AM (ZVFID)

291 Todays music sucks compared to when I was young.

- everyone who has ever lived

Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 10:32 AM (ltwXF)

but then the 2000s happened and they were actually right.

Posted by: Quint at August 07, 2020 10:34 AM (o1Bgo)

292 The spot price for silver is $22.75.
--------

*considers the family silver buried in the backyard when Sherman's thugs/looters marched through*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2020 10:34 AM (l0Lgi)

293 I quit buying silver when this all started. I used
to buy 20 American Eagles every other month or so from them. But now
what I paid around $400 for last winter is running over $800 now.





It's gonna get worse.

Posted by: Mr. Scott









And they instituted a $299.00 minimum buy.

I used to by two silver rounds a payday.



Pissed off a lot of customers, it did.


Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2020 10:29 AM

---

And they upped their credit card/paypal premium to over $2.00 per coin now.

Like I said, I am done buying silver until this mess sorts itself out.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2020 10:34 AM (JUOKG)

294 Used perfectly in the pilot of "Miami Vice".

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 07, 2020 10:32 AM (MVR7y)


Yes, I can still recall seeing that the first time it appeared!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at August 07, 2020 10:34 AM (eTZoJ)

295 if Latinos are more diverse, I wish they had better country, western and murder murder cartel music.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 07, 2020 10:35 AM (pB6Gt)

296 There are no jobs available. The economy was officially wrecked after the 1999-2001 tech bubble. The policies of shipping manufacturing jobs overseas, importing 10s of millions legal and illegal immigrants, plus wages not increasing leading to both parents having to work so women in the workforce have all led to a lack of jobs.

The 600 dollars a week is a drop in the bucket compared to the 10s of trillions given away to bailout multinational companies, billionaires, and banks plus propping up the detached from reality stock market. Socialism has been here for decades, it's been going to multimillionaires and billionaires and immigrants (both legal and illegal).

Posted by: Maskhole at August 07, 2020 10:35 AM (HJY+O)

297 And that little girl was not Kamala Harris.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at August 07, 2020 10:35 AM (unn44)

298 Again. Rachel Ward


Oh, well. Day late, a dollar short.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 07, 2020 10:31 AM (EgshT)

You weren't late. I was just repeating that the song will always remind me of her. I agree with you about the song.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:36 AM (ZVFID)

299 144 For a while in the 70s, Phil Collins was pretty damn cool.

Not only drumming for and then fronting a leading stadium-rock band but simultaneously playing in a really cool jazz fusion group, Brand X, while side-gigging with the likes of Brian Eno - and if Eno had you in his Rolodex in the 70s you were automatically cool...well, it was all downhill after 1980 but he had a good run of coolness.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 07, 2020 10:00 AM (FtO5h)


Phil Collins after 1980 horrified me. Still, he was very cool and I respect him. He did a lot of great work.

Posted by: Michael the Texan at August 07, 2020 10:36 AM (9IdCK)

300 And a couple of withered carrots.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 07, 2020 10:32 AM (ejd/p)

with a barely recognizable chili coating!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar -YOU are all in this together!- at August 07, 2020 10:36 AM (eTZoJ)

301 Todays music sucks compared to when I was young.

- everyone who has ever lived

Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 10:32 AM (ltwXF)

but then the 2000s happened and they were actually right.
Posted by: Quint at August 07, 2020 10:34 AM (o1Bgo)
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"I'm about to do to you what Limp Bizkit did to music in the '90s."
--Deadpool

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Iranian Navy test dummy at August 07, 2020 10:36 AM (UAMe5)

302 301 "I'm about to do to you what Limp Bizkit did to music in the '90s."
--Deadpool
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Iranian Navy test dummy at August 07, 2020 10:36 AM (UAMe5)

=========

"I've had it with all this Nickelback hating!"
-Also Deadpool

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 07, 2020 10:37 AM (UWqZJ)

303 As this is a smart military blog and we're over one hundred comments: I'm told that V Corps Forward will be located in Krakow with the formal ceremony later this month.

Posted by: Bert G at August 07, 2020 10:37 AM (OMsf+)

304 142 132 I always hated Phil Collins. These two beg to differ.

https://bit.ly/2DFQH5S
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 07, 2020 09:57 AM (+y/Ru)

Phil Collins or no, I always enjoy these kinds of videos where kids or even adults are blown away by music I grew up with, or by genres (like metal) they've never heard before.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 09:59 AM

For a real treat, go to Youtube and search for first-time reactions to the Carpenters.

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 07, 2020 10:38 AM (qe5CM)

305 > I always hated Phil Collins. These two beg to differ.

Collins should have just shut up and drummed.

His vocals are highly annoying to me.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at August 07, 2020 10:38 AM (unn44)

306 YUUUGE difference between intergovernmental debt and private debt. Governments can get away with not paying the bills - you, however, can't. The only thing that will allow you to keep that property for a bit longer would be the giant backlog of foreclosure suits by the lending institutions against all the people who did what jwest recommended.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 07, 2020 10:27 AM (NWiLs)

It all depends on what stage the hyperinflation is in, you're right that it's still too early to play that game. You've got to wait until some of the signs of an actual hyperinflation start to kick in, like a stock market that begins to soar in a way that has no relation to the real economy, simply because it's a very liquid place for the largest players to store their excess cash.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 10:38 AM (Kpl3J)

307 music is like SNL. Whatever was playing on the radio when you were in HS is the best ever.

Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 10:38 AM (ltwXF)

308 Hyperinflation will destroy my hard work to obtain the cash savings I have. Too late to do anything about it since the price of silver and gold now is too risky to buy. Looking to buy land but that just adds another tax bill.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:33 AM (ZVFID)

You might lose some value by buying high, but holding onto paper is an even worse option. It may not zero out today, tomorrow, or next year, but it absolutely will at some point. What cannot go on forever never does, and the endless printing shenanigans always end up in Zimbabwe/Venezuela territory.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 07, 2020 10:38 AM (8FZ/M)

309 How do you feel about Mary Mallon?
Posted by: BignJames at August 07, 2020 10:17 AM

Typhoid Mary? Not a fan.

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 07, 2020 10:39 AM (qe5CM)

310 Collins should have just shut up and drummed.

His vocals are highly annoying to me.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at August 07, 2020 10:38 AM (unn44)

I'll bet your one of those haters who never liked Rush, either. Just like my wife.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 10:39 AM (Kpl3J)

311 buy us postage "forever" stamps. I always say I don't give investment advice, as it will always burn you even if you get it right. Anyway, I have never seen the cost of a "forever" stamp do anything but go up over time.

* I have no idea what the legalities are in regards to selling stamps as an individual. I can't see why you couldn't sell your own property but who knows in this world. And yes, I guess stamps will go down one day when we give up on the post office. But the post master general will have something to say about that.

Posted by: Quint at August 07, 2020 10:39 AM (o1Bgo)

312
Collins should have just shut up and drummed.

His vocals are highly annoying to me.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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I agree, and I'm a taxpaying citizen.

Posted by: Neil Young at August 07, 2020 10:39 AM (CTJwJ)

313 290 Hyperinflation will destroy my hard work to obtain the cash savings I have. Too late to do anything about it since the price of silver and gold now is too risky to buy. Looking to buy land but that just adds another tax bill.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:33 AM (ZVFID)

Stocks are relatively resilient to inflation, even hyperinflation. In the first year of Venezuela's ongoing collapse, their stock market only lost 20% in real terms when using the black market exchange rate(meaning it went up massively in nominal terms but not quite as much as the currency depreciated in value).

You can also invest in real estate through an ETF, which avoids much of the hassle while throwing off cash. A dividend oriented fund I think is largely a good position to be in right now, many companies are still depressed in price while the run-up in the indexes has been driven mostly by tech. Compare VYM to the S&P 500, and you can see that the increasingly tech-heavy S&P 500 has already recovered to its pre-Covid high whereas the dividend fund has not. You'd miss out on potentially a couple years of tech bubble but it's a solid place to be.

Posted by: Someguy at August 07, 2020 10:40 AM (Zm+LZ)

314 >>Bad wording on my part; however, Flynn may be innocent as an angel but the PROCESS has been devastating.

Flynn's charges weren't just corrupt, the process has been corrupt as well. His first attorneys actually worked against him and the prosecution got away with lying and hiding evidence.

No, I don't expect anyone of the plotters to face that kind of justice and as much as part of me wants to see them suffer I really don't want our justice system to continue down the road of corruption. That way lies doom for all of us.

Mostly I want the whole dirty scheme to be exposed to the entire world in a way that can't be debated and overlooked. I want them all exposed and ruined and I want the web of traitors that enabled it, both domestically and around the world, destroyed so it can't happen again. Globalism must die.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 10:40 AM (ZLI7S)

315 music is like SNL. Whatever was playing on the radio when you were in HS is the best ever.
Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020


*
*

In my case it was the early to late '70s, my college years and the years just after, until 1979. The stuff from the late '60s through 1970, my high school years, is okay, but there was too much psychedelic stuff for my taste.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 07, 2020 10:40 AM (rpbg1)

316 Posted by: Someguy at August 07, 2020 10:40 AM (Zm+LZ)

Thanks.

Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:41 AM (ZVFID)

317 302- "I've had it with all this Nickelback hating!"
-Also Deadpool
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 07, 2020 10:37 AM

I have to admit, I've never seen a "first-time-hearing" of Nickelback!

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 07, 2020 10:41 AM (qe5CM)

318 Long term cash is never a good idea.

Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 10:41 AM (ltwXF)

319

Giselle grooms her next victim...

Posted by: Pendulating Richard at August 07, 2020 10:41 AM (d6DSt)

320 > I'll bet your one of those haters who never liked Rush, either. Just like my wife.

Nah, Rush is great.

I even like Bob Dylan and Neil Young.

Something about Collins just grates on my ear.


Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at August 07, 2020 10:42 AM (unn44)

321 music is like SNL. Whatever was playing on the radio when you were in HS is the best ever.

Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 10:38 AM (ltwXF)

that is fair, same with movies. But there are countless millenials on youtube reacting to 70s and 80s stuff and they are shocked by the quality. Not every time is equal. There is a reason there was a middle ages, dark ages, and Renaissance.

Posted by: Quint at August 07, 2020 10:42 AM (o1Bgo)

322 >>Todays music sucks compared to when I was young.

- everyone who has ever lived



No one in 2038: https://tinyurl.com/y69zc84n

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2020 10:42 AM (bDqIh)

323 Collins should have just shut up and drummed.



His vocals are highly annoying to me.


I was surprised at how similar his voice sounded to PG's at the time.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 07, 2020 10:42 AM (HaL55)

324 307 music is like SNL. Whatever was playing on the radio when you were in HS is the best ever.
Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 10:38 AM (ltwXF)

But 70's SNL really WAS the best ever! (with a nod to the Phil Hartman/Jon Lovitz era)

and "music" for the mass market has been dead for 20 years at least, as the business was taken over by prancers and dancers and all of the actual musicians have been driven out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 10:42 AM (Kpl3J)

325 308 Hyperinflation will destroy my hard work to obtain the cash savings I have. Too late to do anything about it since the price of silver and gold now is too risky to buy. Looking to buy land but that just adds another tax bill.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at August 07, 2020 10:33 AM (ZVFID)

You might lose some value by buying high, but holding onto paper is an even worse option. It may not zero out today, tomorrow, or next year, but it absolutely will at some point. What cannot go on forever never does, and the endless printing shenanigans always end up in Zimbabwe/Venezuela territory.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 07, 2020 10:38 AM (8FZ/M)

Unless the hyperinflation begins shortly, anyone buying in now is more likely to see a substantial decline in price after the substantial surge, just like what happened with the prior recession. Gold is a non-productive asset and not a very good inflation hedge, it reacts more to economic shocks.

Posted by: Someguy at August 07, 2020 10:42 AM (Zm+LZ)

326 *considers the family silver buried in the backyard when Sherman's thugs/looters marched through*

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2020 10:34 AM (l0Lgi)

Stoneman's merry misfits?

Posted by: BignJames at August 07, 2020 10:42 AM (X/Pw5)

327 "Gold and silver aren't really proxies for inflation but tend to climb dramatically during recessions." Posted by: Someguy


MMT (modern monetary theory, government prints without selling bonds) is a new game. QE was the new game starting with Obama, and zero interest rates went to negative rates. It is a form of government socialism in one sense ...

Posted by: illiniwek at August 07, 2020 10:43 AM (Cus5s)

328 > No one intends to ever pay off a debt.

Or, at least, pay it back with highly-inflated money.


If (dollar tomorrow) is only worth (0.01 * dollar today), then, boom, 99% of your debt has been wiped out.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at August 07, 2020 10:44 AM (unn44)

329 No, I don't expect anyone of the plotters to face that kind of justice and as much as part of me wants to see them suffer I really don't want our justice system to continue down the road of corruption. That way lies doom for all of us.

Mostly I want the whole dirty scheme to be exposed to the entire world in a way that can't be debated and overlooked. I want them all exposed and ruined and I want the web of traitors that enabled it, both domestically and around the world, destroyed so it can't happen again. Globalism must die.
Posted by: JackStraw



I want the same justice for the plotters that ALL unsuccessful coup plotters receive.

Death. Same as in Central and South America, Africa, Asia, etc.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2020 10:44 AM (YxTUV)

330 You might lose some value by buying high, but holding onto paper is an even worse option. It may not zero out today, tomorrow, or next year, but it absolutely will at some point. What cannot go on forever never does, and the endless printing shenanigans always end up in Zimbabwe/Venezuela territory.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 07, 2020 10:38 AM (8FZ/M)


This is why my husband now takes a more positive view of buying gold jewelry at an estate liquidator for below scrap value. Some dealers, the one I know, is sentimental about artisans and would prefer to sell a piece intact for less as long as he makes some profit.

The market is weird right now.

Posted by: CN at August 07, 2020 10:44 AM (ONvIw)

331 Nah, Rush is great.

I even like Bob Dylan and Neil Young.

Something about Collins just grates on my ear.


I can't stand Phil Collins, but I would listen to him for a month of Sundays before I ever listened to Rush or Young.

Dylan I can take or leave.

Don't get me started on Springsteen and his idiotic cult.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 07, 2020 10:45 AM (2JVJo)

332 Wet, cool, blustery day here. Big puddles in the yard. Dog did not want to go out, but the mohammed has to get dropped sometime.

I think I will pull on some sweat pants and do chores in the house.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 07, 2020 10:45 AM (lEwms)

333 Im not sure what is even popular music wise today. I stream on Prime and Pandora and they both have learned what I like. Most of the time I have no idea who the artist is.

Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 10:46 AM (ltwXF)

334 >>Don't get me started on Springsteen and his idiotic cult.


Word

Posted by: Lizzy at August 07, 2020 10:46 AM (bDqIh)

335 >>I want the same justice for the plotters that ALL unsuccessful coup plotters receive.

>>Death. Same as in Central and South America, Africa, Asia, etc.

I've been to Central and South America, Africa, Asia and beyond. I don't want to live there.

I'll take the US being the US again.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 10:46 AM (ZLI7S)

336 I see silver spot at $27.82 - and that's down 0.66 from yesterday? That is absolutely nuts - it was under 15 last time I bought earlier this year.

Posted by: jhawk90 at August 07, 2020 10:46 AM (/ZYFC)

337 Here's the thing about a currency collapse. Society collapses shortly after.

Guns n ammo would be far more valuable than gold or silver.

There will be very few proper exchanges during the chaos.

Posted by: Ha at August 07, 2020 10:46 AM (vyFCs)

338 I sometimes think that artistically, us being able to live through the 70's, 80's, and 90's was a treat equal to the Golden Age of Elizabeth 1. They got to see the first runs of Shakespeare, countless other plays and writings, an explosion of music and wealth and confidence. Not long after came decades of puritanism and repression and civil war, and then a couple centuries of extremely boring conformity enforced from on high, where "art" was restricted to Paintings of Horses and overweight country squires.

Ain't that the way it always goes? You don't know what you've got til it's gone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 10:47 AM (Kpl3J)

339 Hate Fauci?

Dr Simone Gold - Discusses the Politicization of Hydroxychloroquine - Part 1

Dr. Simone Gold and Dr. Dan Wohlgelernter discuss the demonization and politicization of Hydroxychloroquine. Studies set up to fail, murder investigations, and more!
This is an older interview from June 18th that was posted yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpyW_SuEyh0

Posted by: Braenyard at August 07, 2020 10:47 AM (2VlcY)

340 Investment advice: seize the art from enemies of the state, "lose" it for a couple of decades, then quietly sell to the noveau riche

Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar supremacist at August 07, 2020 10:47 AM (J8nVw)

341 315- In my case it was the early to late '70s, my college years and the years just after, until 1979. The stuff from the late '60s through 1970, my high school years, is okay, but there was too much psychedelic stuff for my taste.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 07, 2020 10:40 AM

1968 and 1972 were two of my favorite stand-alone music years and then I pretty much loved the entire period of 1974-1982, since the music of every genre (rock, pop, disco, etc) was great. But those were my high school and college years. I think it also matters that those are the years of your life that you tend to listen to music the most.

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 07, 2020 10:48 AM (qe5CM)

342 Don't get me started on Springsteen and his idiotic cult.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 07, 2020 10:45 AM (2JVJo)

I did buy a GH cd some years back...he's written some pretty decent tunes...performance? meh.

Posted by: BignJames at August 07, 2020 10:48 AM (X/Pw5)

343 337 Here's the thing about a currency collapse. Society collapses shortly after.

Guns n ammo would be far more valuable than gold or silver.

There will be very few proper exchanges during the chaos.
Posted by: Ha at August 07, 2020 10:46 AM (vyFCs)

Gold has some use for fleeing to other countries. A lot less if you stick around.

Remember people that if gold's price increases, margins for mining gold improve and so more will be produced. Unless there is a commensurate increase in the cost of producing gold(which as of yet we haven't seen a similar rise in the cost of labor etc.)

Posted by: Someguy at August 07, 2020 10:48 AM (Zm+LZ)

344 Studies set up to fail, murder investigations, and more!
This is an older interview from June 18th that was posted yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpyW_SuEyh0
Posted by: Braenyard at August 07, 2020 10:47 AM (2VlcY)



Didier Roualt did say that the US would set up the studies based on administering the drug at a point where the the virus was nearly unstoppable, so that it could no longer help.

Posted by: CN at August 07, 2020 10:49 AM (ONvIw)

345 New oath of office.

Support the Constitution or hang.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 07, 2020 10:49 AM (pB6Gt)

346 just for discussion. I think the action in Smith and Wesson is pretty interesting. It shows why the markets have buyers and sellers. The argument for Smith and Wesson is pretty obvious, people are scared they are going to lose their rights and others are scared they are going to lose a lot more than that.

But we have an election in three months. If Biden wins, what happens to gun stocks? An argument can be made they will be in real trouble. If Trump wins, then what happens? History shows that demand will drop because the 2a will be safe. Yet the stock keeps rising.

My point is this stuff can be risky to say the least. A stock goes up over fear, but what happens when the feared outcome happens?

i have no clue to be honest. My guess is things won't change that much structurally simply because that has been the case in the past. People have been saying Pillip Morris is doomed and certainly going to get sued out of existence for at least 40 years.

I only mention it because the Smith and Wesson stock run up is so interesting and has so many competing factors. The one that stands out to me is the election in three months.

Posted by: Quint at August 07, 2020 10:50 AM (o1Bgo)

347 I'll take the US being the US again.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 10:46 AM (ZLI7S)

I don't see how the US can ever be "The US" again. I just want our side to be in control of whatever comes out of this.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 10:50 AM (Kpl3J)

348 Dr. Simone Gold and Dr. Dan Wohlgelernter discuss the demonization and
politicization of Hydroxychloroquine. Studies set up to fail, murder
investigations, and more!



As I understand it, to do a fast track vaccine without proper clinical trials, there CANNOT be an alternative treatment. So HCQ/ zinc must be discredited. A friend of mind manages drug trials, and she has admitted that people will die from any COVID vaccine because... that's how it works.



Posted by: shibumi, living in Clown World at August 07, 2020 10:50 AM (ZCiJZ)

349 Is YT down? Trying to get the full Collins song but it (and everything else) refuses to load. "An error occurred. Please try again later."


One of these days it's all gonna go dark.

Posted by: creeper at August 07, 2020 10:50 AM (XxJt1)

350 I saw Overweight Country Squires open for Fats Domino in 1978.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Iranian Navy test dummy at August 07, 2020 10:51 AM (UAMe5)

351 Love Mary Cassatt. Never seen that painting before

Posted by: Tuna at August 07, 2020 10:51 AM (gLRfa)

352 Gold has some use for fleeing to other countries. A lot less if you stick around.

..


If the US collapses there won't be an overseas safe haven.

Posted by: Ha at August 07, 2020 10:51 AM (vyFCs)

353 Michael the Texan

It's all about the modified zeolite framework and the Molybdenum - Vanadium - Tantalum catalyst.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at August 07, 2020 10:51 AM (u82oZ)

354 Is YT down? Trying to get the full Collins song but it (and everything else) refuses to load. "An error occurred. Please try again later."


One of these days it's all gonna go dark.
Posted by: creeper at August 07, 2020 10:50 AM (XxJt1)
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Nope - I just had "Turn It On Again" playing thanks to this fine thread.

Posted by: jhawk90 at August 07, 2020 10:52 AM (/ZYFC)

355 It's worth noting that gold is only about 15% higher
than its previous high about ten years ago. Gold and silver aren't
really proxies for inflation but tend to climb dramatically during
recessions.


Posted by: Someguy at August 07, 2020 10:33 AM

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Don't forget 10 years of real inflation* at about 3-4% per year adds another 30-40% to that spot price.

*Real inflation, not the rate the Fed uses to adjust Social Security checks.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2020 10:52 AM (JUOKG)

356 333 Im not sure what is even popular music wise today. I stream on Prime and Pandora and they both have learned what I like. Most of the time I have no idea who the artist is.
Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 10:46 AM

The new Harry Styles cd is pretty brilliant.

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 07, 2020 10:52 AM (qe5CM)

357 For every Drake, there is a Built to Spill.

Good music is always out there, you just gotta find it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2020 10:53 AM (/EuRN)

358 329 No, I don't expect anyone of the plotters to face that kind of justice and as much as part of me wants to see them suffer I really don't want our justice system to continue down the road of corruption. That way lies doom for all of us.

Mostly I want the whole dirty scheme to be exposed to the entire world in a way that can't be debated and overlooked. I want them all exposed and ruined and I want the web of traitors that enabled it, both domestically and around the world, destroyed so it can't happen again. Globalism must die.
Posted by: JackStraw
............................


I want the same justice for the plotters that ALL unsuccessful coup plotters receive.

Death. Same as in Central and South America, Africa, Asia, etc.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2020 10:44 AM (YxTUV)
..............................


That has never resulted in a healthy long term resolution.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 07, 2020 10:53 AM (2VlcY)

359 355 It's worth noting that gold is only about 15% higher
than its previous high about ten years ago. Gold and silver aren't
really proxies for inflation but tend to climb dramatically during
recessions.


Posted by: Someguy at August 07, 2020 10:33 AM

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Don't forget 10 years of real inflation* at about 3-4% per year adds another 30-40% to that spot price.

*Real inflation, not the rate the Fed uses to adjust Social Security checks.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2020 10:52 AM (JUOKG)

Meaning gold hasn't kept up with inflation if a person bought in at that prior high. Gold doesn't automatically increase in price with CPI any more than any other commodity does.

Posted by: Someguy at August 07, 2020 10:54 AM (Zm+LZ)

360 The States are supposed to be United....

not Homogenized.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2020 10:54 AM (/EuRN)

361 Bitcoin over $11,000?

Hope internet don't break.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 07, 2020 10:54 AM (pB6Gt)

362 as the business was taken over by prancers and dancers and ...
Posted by: Tom Servo
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You left out, 'yodelers and warblers'.

Posted by: Neil Young at August 07, 2020 10:54 AM (9Fwwf)

363 Make them pariahs to the world.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 07, 2020 10:54 AM (2VlcY)

364 If the US collapses there won't be an overseas safe haven.
Posted by: Ha at August 07, 2020 10:51 AM (vyFCs)

I agree, but with metal you do have the chance it will regain value, I don't see that with online balance sheets or paper.

Posted by: CN at August 07, 2020 10:54 AM (ONvIw)

365 >>I don't see how the US can ever be "The US" again. I just want our side to be in control of whatever comes out of this.

This is hardly the worst period of unrest we have been through as a country. Not even the worst in the last 50 years.

Not saying we will ever go back to the days of Leave it to Beaver but things always change. I want us to go back to the rule of law and order, I want our schools fixed, I want our culture to be less polluted and more cohesive on at least the big issues.

We have a long way to go but I wouldn't even bother voting for Trump or anyone else this fall if I thought all was lost. Not sure why anyone would.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 10:55 AM (ZLI7S)

366 Oops /Young

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2020 10:55 AM (9Fwwf)

367 as the business was taken over by prancers and dancers and ...
Posted by: Tom Servo
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You left out, 'yodelers and warblers'.
Posted by: Neil Young at August 07, 2020 10:54 AM (9Fwwf)
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Better than hoarders and wreckers.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Iranian Navy test dummy at August 07, 2020 10:55 AM (UAMe5)

368 Meaning gold hasn't kept up with inflation if a
person bought in at that prior high. Gold doesn't automatically increase
in price with CPI any more than any other commodity does.


Posted by: Someguy at August 07, 2020 10:54 AM---

Correct. For whatever reason gold seems to be doing poorly compared to silver prices.


I suspect but I don't know for certain what is driving the silver panic is tons of smaller buyers wanting a safe alternative to cash.


If I knew this was coming earlier I would have converted my savings into silver in a New York minute. But I saw it happening too late.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2020 10:56 AM (JUOKG)

369 > I saw Overweight Country Squires open for Fats Domino in 1978.

My family had an Overweight Country Squire when I was a kid.

400 cubic inches of Ford horsepower (basically it was a stroked 351 Cleveland).

Could hold about 50 kids.

Nice vehicle. I wish I still had it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at August 07, 2020 10:57 AM (unn44)

370 Here an example of inflation. I painted an entire house 3 years ago. The paint I used cost $37 a gallon. This summer I painted some rooms in a new home. Using the same paint. Cost was $39 a gallon.

That is les than 1% annual.

Everyone focuses on how much is a gallon of milk or eggs to gauge inflation. Milk is up 20% so ZOMG hyperinflation. But there are millions of other things people buy besides milk or eggs.

Real inflation has been hovering in the 1-3% for years.

Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 10:57 AM (ltwXF)

371 I sometimes think that artistically, us being able to live through the
70's, 80's, and 90's was a treat equal to the Golden Age of Elizabeth 1. . .Ain't that the way it always goes? You don't know what you've got til it's gone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 10:47 AM


We agree.

Posted by: Cinderella at August 07, 2020 10:57 AM (OMsf+)

372 Snap Chat adds Voter Registration App.
The Left is doing everything they Can to steal this election.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 07, 2020 10:58 AM (wiXsO)

373 Malnourishment in wartime and post-war Limeyland fostered a certain kind of voice. Among other things.

Posted by: klaftern at August 07, 2020 10:58 AM (RuIsu)

374 Could hold about 50 kids.

Nice vehicle. I wish I still had it.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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*flashback*

Heh. Carpooling when I was a kid. I'd forgotten about it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2020 10:59 AM (CTJwJ)

375 Mostly I want the whole dirty scheme to be exposed to the entire world in a way that can't be debated and overlooked. I want them all exposed and ruined and I want the web of traitors that enabled it, both domestically and around the world, destroyed so it can't happen again. Globalism must die.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 10:40 AM (ZLI7S)

The first thing that globalized was rings of governmental corruption, which now have no borders. Thanks to it, there now exists an incipient global aristocracy, nearly untouchable by law, which draws its sustenance by parasitizing the remnants of the Middle Class.

This is intolerable and cannot be allowed to continue.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 07, 2020 10:59 AM (8FZ/M)

376 One time they paid you to take free oil.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 07, 2020 10:59 AM (pB6Gt)

377 371 I sometimes think that artistically, us being able to live through the
70's, 80's, and 90's was a treat equal to the Golden Age of Elizabeth 1. . .Ain't that the way it always goes? You don't know what you've got til it's gone.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 10:47 AM

We agree.
Posted by: Cinderella at August 07, 2020 10:57 AM (OMsf+)

what's that?

I couldn't hear you over the sound of this Aqua-Net can disgorging it's contents....


*psssssshshhhhshshsht*

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2020 10:59 AM (/EuRN)

378 I've written a few times about my ex-hippie relatives in Portland, who as recently as a month ago were still of the opinion that what was going on downtown was just a few kids acting out because they were bored, and it was all of no consequence.

So I don't bother them, but was amused to see their latest messages. They still won't admit anything's wrong in Portland; in fact they won't talk about it all. They've suddenly decided to go rent a lodge on the banks of the Columbia River for a month, and after that they're going to go stay at a friends condo in Vancouver, BC, for another month.

Well there you have the upper class liberal response to urban violence. At least the pictures they're taking are very nice.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 10:59 AM (Kpl3J)

379 John Roberts is an abomination to our Supreme Court.

We need numerous new justices to ensure his subversion of our Constitution and bowing to his political masters in the Democrat Party is overruled.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 07, 2020 10:59 AM (VpIIl)

380 I agree, but with metal you do have the chance it will regain value, I don't see that with online balance sheets or paper.

Posted by: CN at August 07, 2020 10:54 AM 

If society falls we will likely see a long period of barter system.

Until it is reorganized and a new currency is in place.

So many scenarios and a lot of conjecture.

I'm loading up on the basics. Guns, ammo, freeze dried food, bottled water, machetes, and yes cash FWIW.


Posted by: Ha at August 07, 2020 10:59 AM (vyFCs)

381 https://bit.ly/3gDA3SX
*********
But AG Barr is a RINOe

Posted by: Ghost Of Qassem Soleimani at August 07, 2020 11:00 AM (mrA4z)

382 Pariah Carey would be a great punk band name

Posted by: josephistan at August 07, 2020 11:00 AM (Izzlo)

383 This is intolerable and cannot be allowed to continue.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 07, 2020 10:59 AM (8FZ/M)

Cretins sans frontieres

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2020 11:00 AM (/EuRN)

384 378 So I don't bother them, but was amused to see their latest messages. They still won't admit anything's wrong in Portland; in fact they won't talk about it all. They've suddenly decided to go rent a lodge on the banks of the Columbia River for a month, and after that they're going to go stay at a friends condo in Vancouver, BC, for another month.

Well there you have the upper class liberal response to urban violence. At least the pictures they're taking are very nice.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 10:59 AM (Kpl3J)

=======

Probably too much to hope for that they forgot to fill out their census form before the bug out for a couple of months.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 07, 2020 11:00 AM (UWqZJ)

385 I have a bag of silver fifty-cent pieces mr. creeper left me. It must weigh twenty pounds. He said one day it would come in handy.

Posted by: creeper at August 07, 2020 11:01 AM (XxJt1)

386 That has never resulted in a healthy long term resolution.
Posted by: Braenyard



Guaranteed there was little to zero recidivism amongst the failed coup plotters.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2020 11:01 AM (YxTUV)

387 Here an example of inflation. I painted an entire
house 3 years ago. The paint I used cost $37 a gallon. This summer I
painted some rooms in a new home. Using the same paint. Cost was $39 a
gallon.



That is les than 1% annual.



Everyone focuses on how much is a gallon of milk or eggs to gauge
inflation. Milk is up 20% so ZOMG hyperinflation. But there are millions
of other things people buy besides milk or eggs.



Real inflation has been hovering in the 1-3% for years.


Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 10:57 AM


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Inflation is anything anyone wants to make it actually.

Brisket used to be $1.99 a pound. I can't touch it for less than $4.99 a pound around here. More than a 100% increase in less than a year.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2020 11:01 AM (JUOKG)

388 We have a long way to go but I wouldn't even bother voting for Trump or anyone else this fall if I thought all was lost. Not sure why anyone would.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 10:55 AM (ZLI7S)

I'm not entirely certain it's all lost, so I keep voting until I am. There's still a few paths to victory left.

Most plausible is "Winner by default", where the Democratic Party dissolves into factional squabbling following a Trump win and doesn't recoalesce into an effective whole lot a decade.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 07, 2020 11:03 AM (8FZ/M)

389 Late to the thread, related to the painting... I saw a painting recently by Mary Cassatt, a mother and baby. It was noted that Mary never had children of her own, and so the dynamic between mother and child was off somehow.

I kinda think the same thing here. It's an artificial relationship between these two, actions that are not likely to be found in real mother/daughter contact.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 07, 2020 11:03 AM (hku12)

390 Inflation is anything anyone wants to make it actually.

Brisket used to be $1.99 a pound. I can't touch it for less than $4.99 a pound around here. More than a 100% increase in less than a year.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2020 11:01 AM (JUOKG)

Food had inflated like crazy in recent years.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 07, 2020 11:04 AM (8FZ/M)

391 Mr Rump could screw up even, historically low inflation. What doesn't he always eventually screw up?

Posted by: Mr Rump at August 07, 2020 11:04 AM (mP5Cu)

392 RIP Brent Scowcroft

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at August 07, 2020 11:04 AM (flINI)

393 Brisket used to be $1.99 a pound. I can't touch it for less than $4.99 a pound around here. More than a 100% increase in less than a year.
Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2020 11:01 AM (JUOKG)
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I think that's more to do with a) the drowning of lots of calves in the flooding last year and b) the disruption of the slaughterhouse pipeline d/t ill-advised shutdowns this year.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Iranian Navy test dummy at August 07, 2020 11:04 AM (UAMe5)

394 *has. I can't type today.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 07, 2020 11:04 AM (8FZ/M)

395 387

Sure there are many examples like that. But what % of your spending is brisket? That is a component tht few people consider. I can buy a laptop today for $500 with more power than a $1000 laptop form 3 years ago. Or a 60 inch 4K tv for less than 1/2 what it cost 5 years ago. That is a lot of negative inflation that more than makes up for the brisket.

Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 11:04 AM (ltwXF)

396 We have a long way to go but I wouldn't even bother voting for Trump or anyone else this fall if I thought all was lost. Not sure why anyone would.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 10:55 AM (ZLI7S)

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Not sure why anyone would think all is lost.

Posted by: SH at August 07, 2020 11:04 AM (4G4h7)

397 > Everyone focuses on how much is a gallon of milk or eggs to gauge inflation.

People put off painting their houses when times are hard.

They don't stop eating.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at August 07, 2020 11:04 AM (unn44)

398 Zombie Recidivists!

Posted by: klaftern at August 07, 2020 11:04 AM (RuIsu)

399 When the US Civil War started. You had two sides that had the same ethnic backgrounds. They had the same religious beliefs. They had the same belief that the USA was ordained by God to be the exceptional country. They had the same pride in the Founders, they had the same stories and fables. Yet they tore each other apart in a scale that is unprecedented in this nation.

One thing that might save us in a weird way is the disunity. The one thing those that fought for the USA held close was the belief this nation should never be torn apart. Today, people on both sides have little idea what Union means. If the right states on either side left now, many if not most would say see ya.

Posted by: Quint at August 07, 2020 11:04 AM (o1Bgo)

400 They've suddenly decided to go rent a lodge on the banks of the Columbia River for a month, and after that they're going to go stay at a friends condo in Vancouver, BC, for another month.

Well there you have the upper class liberal response to urban violence. At least the pictures they're taking are very nice.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 10:59 AM

You must be constantly amused by the cognitive dissonance there- still thinking like hippies while living an upper class lifestyle.

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 07, 2020 11:05 AM (qe5CM)

401 Biden basically repeated the black/latino thing again:


https://twitter.com/i/status/1291481278152355841

Also, about 58 seconds in, Biden seems to grow about two inches, like someone pumped his booster seat up or something.

Posted by: irright at August 07, 2020 11:05 AM (pMGkg)

402 The NFL and NBA farm teams are just as fucking ignorant as Goodell and Silver

https://tinyurl.com/y4s5g8or

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 07, 2020 11:05 AM (y7DUB)

403 Sure there are many examples like that. But what % of your spending is brisket? That is a component tht few people consider. I can buy a laptop today for $500 with more power than a $1000 laptop form 3 years ago. Or a 60 inch 4K tv for less than 1/2 what it cost 5 years ago. That is a lot of negative inflation that more than makes up for the brisket.


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Brisket and milk are much more regulated than TVs and laptops.

Posted by: SH at August 07, 2020 11:05 AM (4G4h7)

404 You don't know what you've got til it's gone.

Posted by: Tom Servo
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Funny you should say that. Watching the slow, and now very abrupt takeover and despoilation of our town, Iris DeMent's 'Our Town' is stuck in my head. I wish it wasn't.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2020 11:05 AM (pbStR)

405 381 https://bit.ly/3gDA3SX
*********
But AG Barr is a RINOe
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GREAT video!

Posted by: BunkerInTheBurbs at August 07, 2020 11:06 AM (ZI4/t)

406 Sure there are many examples like that. But what % of your spending is brisket? That is a component tht few people consider. I can buy a laptop today for $500 with more power than a $1000 laptop form 3 years ago. Or a 60 inch 4K tv for less than 1/2 what it cost 5 years ago. That is a lot of negative inflation that more than makes up for the brisket.
Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 11:04 AM (ltwXF)

You can't eat or live in a TV.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 07, 2020 11:06 AM (8FZ/M)

407 Heck, I would have sworn me just dipping my toe into this thread would trigger a new one...

Posted by: BurtTC at August 07, 2020 11:06 AM (hku12)

408

Do you have ANY idea how difficult it is to get a 60" TV up your bum?

Posted by: Peter Buttplug at August 07, 2020 11:06 AM (d6DSt)

409 You can't eat or live in a TV.
Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 07, 2020 11:06 AM (8FZ/M)

*raises eyebrow*

Posted by: Max Headroom at August 07, 2020 11:06 AM (/EuRN)

410 You might want to remind your Portland peeps that Canada is not allowing Yanks into the country. The border is still closed except to essential people. I doubt hanging out in a condo is considered essential.

Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 11:07 AM (ltwXF)

411 > I couldn't hear you over the sound of this Aqua-Net can disgorging it's contents....

Aqua-Net has made a comeback recently.

Seems it's just the ticket for getting 3D prints to adhere to the print bed.

The company has to be happy to see that. They've gone through some lean years... if Motley Crue had ever stopped touring, it would've been all over for them.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at August 07, 2020 11:07 AM (unn44)

412 Nurse (reading): Fanny Hill: I saw, with wonder and surprise, not the play-thing of a boy nor the weapon of a man, but a positive maypole that would have done credit to a young giant...

Posted by: pincorrect at August 07, 2020 11:08 AM (3LmBI)

413 Iris DeMent's 'Our Town' is stuck in my head. I wish it wasn't.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2020 11:05 AM (pbStR)


Having that Debbie Downer stuck in people's heads would overwhelm the suicide hotlines.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 07, 2020 11:08 AM (y7DUB)

414 Ever notice that inflation hits the things you absolutely have to have the hardest? Odd, that.

Posted by: creeper at August 07, 2020 11:08 AM (XxJt1)

415 Funny you should say that. Watching the slow, and now very abrupt takeover and despoilation of our town, Iris DeMent's 'Our Town' is stuck in my head. I wish it wasn't.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2020 11:05 AM (pbStR)
++++++++++++
That is a very sad song. Gets me every time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 07, 2020 11:08 AM (hYcqw)

416 399- One thing that might save us in a weird way is the disunity. The one thing those that fought for the USA held close was the belief this nation should never be torn apart. Today, people on both sides have little idea what Union means. If the right states on either side left now, many if not most would say see ya.
Posted by: Quint at August 07, 2020 11:04 AM

*winks at California, Oregon and Washington

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 07, 2020 11:08 AM (qe5CM)

417 Aqua-Net has made a comeback recently.

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Whatever happened to the Ozone layer?

Posted by: SH at August 07, 2020 11:08 AM (4G4h7)

418 We have a long way to go but I wouldn't even bother voting for Trump or anyone else this fall if I thought all was lost. Not sure why anyone would.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 10:55 AM (ZLI7S)

Because even when everything is lost, there's always a chance for Revenge.

okay I know we're not at that state. But this is why some people don't quit fighting even when their side has clearly lost. (except for the modern Italians, if they see their side is losing, they throw down and say "ah fahgeddaboudit")

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 11:09 AM (Kpl3J)

419 The NFL and NBA farm teams are just as fucking ignorant as Goodell and Silver

https://tinyurl.com/y4s5g8or
Posted by: Captain Hate at August 07, 2020 11:05 AM (y7DUB)


I'm so beyond caring about sportsball these days, but I guess I'm still holding onto some contempt and resentment, so...

There are a LOT more people, I think, who maintain the "Go State!" attitude, it's probably going to be a lot harder for them to break the addiction.

It takes a lot of effort to maintain that level of denial though. It would be good for the body and soul to let it go.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 07, 2020 11:09 AM (hku12)

420 > Do you have ANY idea how difficult it is to get a 60" TV up your bum?

I remember the Eddie Murphy "Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood" bit where he pointed out that a steak and a turkey fill approximately the same nutritional needs, but the steak was a lot easier to fit under your coat.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at August 07, 2020 11:09 AM (unn44)

421 Gold is something you buy after you've bought every thing else you may need.

Unless you are on the very high end of the food chain
cans of food (tuna, chili, dinty moore, etc), toilet paper, hard alcohol, etc will be much better barter items.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 07, 2020 11:09 AM (2VlcY)

422 No you cant eat a tv. But that is irrelevant. Inflation is based on a basket of goods and services. Some items in that basket go up in price some go down.

Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 11:09 AM (ltwXF)

423 I declare free money for everyone. Inflation and deficits only matter under a dem president.

Posted by: Mr Rump at August 07, 2020 11:09 AM (mP5Cu)

424 417 Aqua-Net has made a comeback recently.

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Whatever happened to the Ozone layer?
Posted by: SH at August 07, 2020 11:08 AM (4G4h7)

Dan Balan got too big for his britches.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2020 11:09 AM (/EuRN)

425 Sure there are many examples like that. But what %
of your spending is brisket? That is a component tht few people
consider. I can buy a laptop today for $500 with more power than a $1000
laptop form 3 years ago. Or a 60 inch 4K tv for less than 1/2 what it
cost 5 years ago. That is a lot of negative inflation that more than
makes up for the brisket.


Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 11:04 AM

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The point is, I don't buy a laptop, TV or house paint everyday. Real inflation is tied to what people have to buy, hence the brisket example.

Posted by: Mr. Scott (Formerly GWS) at August 07, 2020 11:10 AM (JUOKG)

426 Lol, trolls worry about inflation while their loons in Congress want to blow $3.4 trillion in printed money.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 07, 2020 11:10 AM (xfb67)

427 > *winks at California, Oregon and Washington

More precisely, the blue cities in those states.

It's easy to wind up a communist who's spouting secession by asking him if the rural areas get a choice about leaving the United States, and if not, why not.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at August 07, 2020 11:10 AM (unn44)

428 One thing that might save us in a weird way is the disunity. The one thing those that fought for the USA held close was the belief this nation should never be torn apart. Today, people on both sides have little idea what Union means. If the right states on either side left now, many if not most would say see ya.
Posted by: Quint at August 07, 2020 11:04 AM

Good point, and I would wager that most young people when the hear the word "Union', think it means a workers's "union."

Posted by: JoeF. at August 07, 2020 11:10 AM (gtdYu)

429 The official inflation numbers exclude "volatiles" like food, fuel (autocucumber tried to turn that into "girl"), and housing.

That's where most of the inflation has been. In the city I live in, the cost of housing has nearly doubled over the last 7 years. Gasoline is cheap (for now), but the others never drop in price.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 07, 2020 11:11 AM (8FZ/M)

430 There are a LOT more people, I think, who maintain the "Go State!" attitude, it's probably going to be a lot harder for them to break the addiction.


---------


Breaking that addiction would go a long way to killing support for higher ed in this country. So carry on NCAA.

Posted by: SH at August 07, 2020 11:11 AM (4G4h7)

431 414 Ever notice that inflation hits the things you absolutely have to have the hardest? Odd, that.
Posted by: creeper at August 07, 2020 11:08 AM (XxJt1)


Val-U-Rite vodka, still $4.99 a gallon.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 07, 2020 11:11 AM (hku12)

432 *winks at California, Oregon and Washington
Posted by: Moonbeam at August 07, 2020 11:08 AM (qe5CM)

I dont want those states gone. I want every single Democrat in them dead by execution.

Posted by: BifBewalski at August 07, 2020 11:11 AM (EqsGJ)

433 > Unless you are on the very high end of the food chain
cans of food (tuna, chili, dinty moore, etc), toilet paper, hard alcohol, etc will be much better barter items.


Guns and ammo first.

Otherwise someone with guns and ammo will take your tuna cache away from you.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at August 07, 2020 11:12 AM (unn44)

434 If Trump gets re-elected, he'll make China pay for the pandemic. I have no doubt about that.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 07, 2020 11:12 AM (gtdYu)

435 410 You might want to remind your Portland peeps that Canada is not allowing Yanks into the country. The border is still closed except to essential people. I doubt hanging out in a condo is considered essential.
Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 11:07 AM (ltwXF)

don't you understand how government works yet? If you know the right people and have the right friends, you can do anything you want. Even across borders.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 11:12 AM (Kpl3J)

436 425

You dont buy a tv every day but the cost of a tv spread out over several years of use of that tv counts in the inflation calculation. So yes you are in essence buying one very day as well as cars, laptops, paint, etc.

Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 11:12 AM (ltwXF)

437 Maybe the dims will quite pleasantly be USSR ed. Suddenly pufff.

Posted by: humphreyrobot at August 07, 2020 11:12 AM (pB6Gt)

438 Spin like a tornado, Joe!

Scarborough: "Biden made that argument inartfully, he didn't need to include the African-American community in the discussion, but he does seem to recognize the Latino community is not one giant monolithic community."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 07, 2020 11:12 AM (+y/Ru)

439 424
417 Aqua-Net has made a comeback recently.



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Also makes a decent propellant for spud guns

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 07, 2020 11:13 AM (N39Ws)

440 one of the roofers I'd talked to said roofing prices typically increase 6% annually but with wuflu they jumped 10%

Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar supremacist at August 07, 2020 11:13 AM (J8nVw)

441 "One day, Ricky the magic Pixie went to visit Daisy Bumble in her tumbledown cottage. He found her in the bedroom.
Roughly he gabbed her heavy shoulders, pulling her down on to the bed, and ripping off her..."

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik: we can haz purge now? at August 07, 2020 11:13 AM (DTX3h)

442 414 Ever notice that inflation hits the things you absolutely have to have the hardest? Odd, that.
Posted by: creeper at August 07, 2020 11:08 AM (XxJt1)

Prices are driven by supply and demand. Measures of inflation are just an attempt to express an overall price increase in goods people use.

Posted by: Someguy at August 07, 2020 11:13 AM (Zm+LZ)

443 438 Spin like a tornado, Joe!

Scarborough: "Biden made that argument inartfully, he didn't need to include the African-American community in the discussion, but he does seem to recognize the Latino community is not one giant monolithic community."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 07, 2020 11:12 AM (+y/Ru

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40% of them voted for Trump.

Please, keep calling them racists.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, running from a biplane in a cornfield at August 07, 2020 11:13 AM (UWqZJ)

444 Lol, trolls worry about inflation while their loons in Congress want to blow $3.4 trillion in printed money.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 07, 2020 11:10 AM (xfb67)


At this point I just laugh at the Monopoly money attitude of this country.

We're really not far from Weimar Republic money.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 07, 2020 11:13 AM (hku12)

445 Future feminist lit-crit professor, in a pink dress.

Posted by: gp at August 07, 2020 11:13 AM (qpX6U)

446 The gorilla is here ... noooooooooooooooood!

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at August 07, 2020 11:13 AM (8EdY0)

447 you could get a 2 liter Coke for 99 cents only a few years ago. Now you will pay over $2 for a single 20 oz bottle. A carton of cigs was $20 a few decades ago now they are three times as high. Real inflation matters.

It doesn't matter too much to me if some rando can store 100 selfies or 1000 selfies for the same price.

I remember when a can of dip was 75 cents. It is now $5 in low tax states. On the left coast, it is $10 or more I hear. In Canada is is $30.

Posted by: Quint at August 07, 2020 11:13 AM (o1Bgo)

448 Posted by: BifBewalski at August 07, 2020 11:11 AM (EqsGJ)

While I can appreciate the sentiment, you may wanna take a bit of stank off that high heater, there, brother....

pretty firmly in *types**deletes* territory.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 07, 2020 11:13 AM (/EuRN)

449 Ok, there it is. Just took a few more comments, but I finally got y'all a new post.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 07, 2020 11:14 AM (hku12)

450 Val-U-Rite vodka, still $4.99 a gallon.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 07, 2020 11:11 AM (hku12)

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It's even cheaper when you buy the five gallon bucket.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 07, 2020 11:14 AM (JUV3F)

451 441 "One day, Ricky the magic Pixie went to visit Daisy Bumble in her tumbledown cottage. He found her in the bedroom.
Roughly he gabbed her heavy shoulders, pulling her down on to the bed, and ripping off her..."

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik: we can haz purge now? at August 07, 2020 11:13 AM (DTX3h)
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"With a MELON?"

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at August 07, 2020 11:14 AM (dfRN6)

452 Nood

Posted by: rickb223 at August 07, 2020 11:14 AM (YxTUV)

453 Noodus simianus major

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 07, 2020 11:15 AM (rpbg1)

454 There are a LOT more people, I think, who maintain the "Go State!" attitude, it's probably going to be a lot harder for them to break the addiction.

It takes a lot of effort to maintain that level of denial though. It would be good for the body and soul to let it go.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 07, 2020 11:09 AM (hku12)


I'm sure you're right but I'm holding out for the sjws to decide that the schools used students as coolie labor to hector alumni to part with their disposable income as violations of something or other.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 07, 2020 11:15 AM (y7DUB)

455 Title of the nurse's book: Amber....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 07, 2020 11:15 AM (0jfkF)

456 but he does seem to recognize the Latino community is not one giant monolithic community.


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"Seems"

Not as good a defense as Scarborough thinks it is.

Posted by: SH at August 07, 2020 11:15 AM (4G4h7)

457 > "One day, Ricky the magic Pixie went to visit Daisy Bumble in her tumbledown cottage. He found her in the bedroom.
Roughly he gabbed her heavy shoulders, pulling her down on to the bed, and ripping off her..."

Daisy exclaimed "Holy shit, Ricky! Everyone told me you were gay!"

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at August 07, 2020 11:15 AM (unn44)

458 438 Spin like a tornado, Joe!


==
if Biden s POTUS, there'll be a new class of media priests interpreting the true meaning of his blabberings.

Like they did for mad oracles in ancient days

Posted by: vmom 2020 grammar supremacist at August 07, 2020 11:15 AM (J8nVw)

459 the old line about Gold was an ounce could buy you a really nice tailored suit. That is supposed to be a constant and it has held up over a couple of hundred years. Sure it is not always the case as we know the gold price can swing wildly over a few years.

Posted by: Quint at August 07, 2020 11:15 AM (o1Bgo)

460 Nurse: Meep, meep hamsterfuckers!!!
Child: Did you get willowed nurse?

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 07, 2020 11:16 AM (k/TB6)

461 Say you buy $500 of brisket every year and buy a $1500 laptop every 3 years. You buy brijsetveve week so you are constantly reminded of the cost of brisket. You buy a laptop every 3 years so you dont really remember what the last one cost or that the new one has 100% more power for less money.

This is a simple example but that is a true inflation measure. But because brisket goes up in price and laptops fall in price people think inflation is going up because it is in your face every week.

Posted by: Asshoes at August 07, 2020 11:16 AM (ltwXF)

462 >Heck, I would have sworn me just dipping my toe into this thread would trigger a new one...
Posted by: BurtTC


watch this:


COMMENT!

Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 07, 2020 11:16 AM (iTXRQ)

463 418

okay I know we're not at that state. But this is why some people don't quit fighting even when their side has clearly lost. (except for the modern Italians, if they see their side is losing, they throw down and say "ah fahgeddaboudit")

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 11:09 AM

Quintus: People should know when they are conquered.

Maximus: Would you, Quintus? Would I?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 07, 2020 11:17 AM (Do5/p)

464 Posted by: Mr Rump at August 07, 2020 11:09 AM (mP5Cu)

It's so fucking hard to get good help these days...

Posted by: George $oro$ at August 07, 2020 11:20 AM (zXEy/)

465 More precisely, the blue cities in those states.

It's easy to wind up a communist who's spouting secession by asking him if the rural areas get a choice about leaving the United States, and if not, why not.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia (kneels to no one on this Earth) at August 07, 2020 11:10 AM

It is interesting that each one of those states have movements to move their eastern parts to the adjacent states. In California, I believe it's a north-south bifurcation effort.

Posted by: Moonbeam at August 07, 2020 11:20 AM (qe5CM)

466 Monkey nood.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 07, 2020 11:22 AM (PiwSw)

467 It's even cheaper when you buy the five gallon bucket.
Posted by: Cicero
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I like the 'Growler' concept. You take your own jug down to the seller's shop and tank up, cheap.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 07, 2020 11:22 AM (l0Lgi)

468 459 the old line about Gold was an ounce could buy you a really nice tailored suit. That is supposed to be a constant and it has held up over a couple of hundred years. Sure it is not always the case as we know the gold price can swing wildly over a few years.
Posted by: Quint at August 07, 2020 11:15 AM (o1Bgo)
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I heard that old line from Glenn Beck when he was on FOX. And before I knew he was crazy.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 07, 2020 11:24 AM (2VlcY)

469 We all know I love me some Jeebus, far more than sleepy Joe. LOLs

Posted by: Mr Rump at August 07, 2020 11:24 AM (mP5Cu)

470 Obama's fault.

Posted by: Mr Rump at August 07, 2020 11:25 AM (mP5Cu)

471 No you cant eat a tv. But that is irrelevant. Inflation is based on a
basket of goods and services. Some items in that basket go up in price
some go down.


Horseshit. The "basket of goods" used by the government is designed to hide inflation as much as possible. Electronics go down in price because of Moore's Law, but that is fast reaching it's physical limits. When electronics go up, as they will in the next few years, the real amount of inflation will start to become apparent. By the way without inflation the price of electronics goods would have declined much more steeply than it has.

Posted by: An Observation at August 07, 2020 11:36 AM (vcPVI)

472 471 No you cant eat a tv. But that is irrelevant. Inflation is based on a
basket of goods and services. Some items in that basket go up in price
some go down.

Horseshit. The "basket of goods" used by the government is designed to hide inflation as much as possible. Electronics go down in price because of Moore's Law, but that is fast reaching it's physical limits. When electronics go up, as they will in the next few years, the real amount of inflation will start to become apparent. By the way without inflation the price of electronics goods would have declined much more steeply than it has.
Posted by: An Observation at August 07, 2020 11:36 AM


Reminds of a particular commenter that would always attempt to make this rather crap argument about how electronics prove that inflation is great while of course you can't include groceries. Always bullshit and always argued by a prick.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 07, 2020 11:43 AM (u/HW3)

473 347 I'll take the US being the US again.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 07, 2020 10:46 AM (ZLI7S)

I don't see how the US can ever be "The US" again. I just want our side to be in control of whatever comes out of this.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 07, 2020 10:50 AM (Kpl3J)

We need a Christian Revival. A large scale Reformation in Christianity in America that focuses on Christ rather than politics and Marxism.

Posted by: Maskhole at August 07, 2020 11:51 AM (HJY+O)

474 We need a Christian Revival. A large scale Reformation in Christianity in America that focuses on Christ rather than politics and Marxism.
Posted by: Maskhole at August 07, 2020 11:51 AM (HJY+O)


It's beginning but it's seen as a realignment.
Jews are moving back to Orthodox, Christians are moving to Evangelical away from the now Social Justice, heretofore traditional denominations.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 07, 2020 11:56 AM (2VlcY)

475 469..."We all know I love me some Jeebus..."


Actually Trump has been the strongest defender of religious freedom in my lifetime. Where was Joe Bidet's full throated support of the Little Sisters of the Poor the entire time they were battling Obama's oppressive anti-religious freedom policy?

Trump has been strong in articulating his support for their cause, and they eventually prevailed, with no comment of congratulations from V.P. Fingerbang.

Posted by: kallisto at August 07, 2020 02:26 PM (DJFLF)

476 Bored bored bored i want to go on a Picnic

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 07, 2020 03:51 PM (FLiOE)

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