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Hirschl Ahasuerus.jpg


Ahasuerus At The End Of The World

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM




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1 Spooky

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 04, 2021 08:30 AM (U2p+3)

2 Which one is Assasaurus ?

Posted by: JT at May 04, 2021 08:31 AM (arJlL)

3 She doesn't look like she's taking a nap after sex.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 04, 2021 08:31 AM (U2p+3)

4 Covid in India

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 04, 2021 08:31 AM (VVEnO)

5 Morning!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 04, 2021 08:31 AM (CjFDo)

6 I fapped

Posted by: arminius256 at May 04, 2021 08:31 AM (Dpgtk)

7 degenerate art?

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2021 08:32 AM (V13WU)

8

Did somebody say "surprise anal?"

- - the Anal of Death

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 04, 2021 08:32 AM (s2VJv)

9 Reminds me of my last ski trip...except for the angel.

Posted by: BignJames at May 04, 2021 08:32 AM (AwYPR)

10 The crows are ominous.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 04, 2021 08:32 AM (U2p+3)

11 asses UP!

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 04, 2021 08:32 AM (sJHOI)

12 Is that some sort of early hang glider that thing has? And who knew a shapely booty was what awaited you at the end of the world?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at May 04, 2021 08:33 AM (1EzGC)

13 Huh. That is...

Posted by: Charlton Hestoon at May 04, 2021 08:33 AM (lmikk)

14 Great timing. Finally get naked chicks, and it's the end of the world.

Posted by: red speck at May 04, 2021 08:33 AM (gS3OW)

15 So you get an ass banging at the end of the world??

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 08:33 AM (yrol0)

16 She's dead, Jim.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 04, 2021 08:33 AM (U2p+3)

17 15 So you get an ass banging at the end of the world??
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 08:33 AM (yrol0)



"End" of the world, indeed...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 04, 2021 08:33 AM (s2VJv)

18 i don't get it - why Xerxes?

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2021 08:34 AM (V13WU)

19 The end of the world is a chicks butt? Could be worse.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 08:34 AM (0UNjH)

20 It reminds me of the style of that one painting of the knight kneeling before a Princess/Queen.

Posted by: Charlton Hestoon at May 04, 2021 08:34 AM (lmikk)

21 Old guy has some pretty serious kyphosis going on there.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 04, 2021 08:34 AM (U2p+3)

22 *where is Kris ?....

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2021 08:34 AM (V13WU)

23 No pale horse.

Not art.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 08:35 AM (LvTSG)

24 There is a whole lot going on in this one. I really like this. I want it - almost to the point of coveting it for my own personal ownership so that others can't even see it - but I also don't want to hang it anywhere in my house.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 04, 2021 08:35 AM (Jsjd7)

25 Wow.

Posted by: Ziba at May 04, 2021 08:35 AM (S1hrL)

26 19 The end of the world is a chicks butt? Could be worse.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 08:34 AM (0UNjH)

The 'End' of the World- get it?!

Posted by: Charlton Hestoon at May 04, 2021 08:35 AM (lmikk)

27 Great timing. Finally get naked chicks, and it's the end of the world.
Posted by: red speck

LOL !!!

Posted by: JT at May 04, 2021 08:35 AM (arJlL)

28 end of her world at least

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 04, 2021 08:35 AM (sJHOI)

29 I know what the Morons are focussed on, but my attention is on the Angel.

Go get 'em Angie!!

Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2021 08:35 AM (DJFLF)

30 Well, the man certainly liked to draw tits and asses!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 04, 2021 08:36 AM (CjFDo)

31 It is interesting the way the lines flow zig-zag to draw the eye across and down.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 08:36 AM (0UNjH)

32 A Hungarian Jew. 1860-1933. Damn, that is a rough period to have your twilight years going on. Died in Rome.

Posted by: Charlton Hestoon at May 04, 2021 08:36 AM (lmikk)

33 That chick has some really bad gas. What did she have for supper last night?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 04, 2021 08:36 AM (HaL55)

34 I would hang. It's beautiful.

Posted by: Ziba at May 04, 2021 08:36 AM (S1hrL)

35 Uriah Heep's album cover from 1973?

Posted by: dantesed at May 04, 2021 08:37 AM (88xKn)

36 Ominous but I'd have it. Not sure where'd it'd hang but I like it.

Posted by: IP at May 04, 2021 08:37 AM (pWrfh)

37 I like it. Don't know what it means yet, but it sure seems to have a lot of meaning. I think I'll hang it in the kids' room.

Mostly, though, I like the colors. That's how fancy I am.

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2021 08:37 AM (KfC1e)

38 I don't get it. Seems arbitrary.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 04, 2021 08:37 AM (o2MD2)

39 /Off sock.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 08:37 AM (lmikk)

40 There's one of our people laying face down ass up at a future school board or city council meeting. The left is represented by the old dude, skeleton and crows. The angel is watching from above in exasperation saying see I told you so, what the hell were you guys thinking?

Posted by: JROD at May 04, 2021 08:38 AM (0jZnq)

41 33 That chick has some really bad gas. What did she have for supper last night?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 04, 2021 08:36 AM (HaL55)

Mexican She got tres and cinco confused.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 08:38 AM (yrol0)

42 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: SMOD at May 04, 2021 08:38 AM (RHGPo)

43 And who knew a shapely booty was what awaited you at the end of the world?
_________

A lot of terrorists have been counting on it. Counting up to 72, IIRC.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at May 04, 2021 08:38 AM (k4dH2)

44 34 I would hang. It's beautiful.
Posted by: Ziba at May 04, 2021 08:36 AM (S1hrL)

It is. Very bright and crisp. Honestly, I mistook it for a much more modern painting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 08:39 AM (lmikk)

45 Well, this is a nice little pick-me-up.

Not really.

Posted by: bluebell at May 04, 2021 08:39 AM (wyw4S)

46 There is a whole lot going on in this one. I really like this. I want it - almost to the point of coveting it for my own personal ownership so that others can't even see it - but I also don't want to hang it anywhere in my house.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 04, 2021 08:35 AM (Jsjd7)

ok, ok, ok. there is precedent. You hide this one behind a Norman Rockwell or something. Then when your guest leave you press a button or a lever disguised as an ashtray, and voila ! Enjoy the bum up with crows.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2021 08:39 AM (V13WU)

47 The end of the world is a chicks butt? Could be worse.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy,


****

A Moron at the End of the World - a limerick

The end of the world!! This is it.
Everything's going to shit
The demon Gilgamesh!
Ravens peck at my flesh
But hey! I just glimpsed a tit!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 04, 2021 08:39 AM (Fc5rx)

48 Painting this on the side of your van might draw... questions.
It's compelling but the angel is indeed interesting.

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at May 04, 2021 08:39 AM (4Oe2V)

49 This Adolph H. guy has some talent.

I wonder if he paints houses.

Posted by: Diesel Jones at May 04, 2021 08:39 AM (Vu7A1)

50 Which one is Assasaurus ?
Posted by: JT at May 04, 2021 08:31 AM (arJlL)


I assume the hunched over codger with a cane.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 04, 2021 08:39 AM (y7DUB)

51 47 A Moron at the End of the World - a limerick

The end of the world!! This is it.
Everything's going to shit
The demon Gilgamesh!
Ravens peck at my flesh
But hey! I just glimpsed a tit!
Posted by: Muldoon at May 04, 2021 08:39 AM (Fc5rx)

===========

*waves seductively*
-Helen Thomas

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 08:40 AM (LvTSG)

52 Reminds me of my Saturday...

Posted by: H Badger at May 04, 2021 08:40 AM (n/0Nw)

53 Thanks for doing these CBD. You are much better at finding new stuff (stuff I have not seen) than I am.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 08:40 AM (lmikk)

54 The gal is the average citizen about to get fucked.
The old guy is Uncle Joe.
The skeleton is what is left of our Republic.
The angel is PDT.
Quote the raven, nevermore.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 08:40 AM (yrol0)

55 It is lime he had this great vision of a struggle between Ahasuerus and death, but the producers who were funding the project were like, "It needs a naked chick" "It needs an ice world setting" "What if there was an angel?" "Crows! It has to have crows!"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 08:40 AM (0UNjH)

56 My mom had wandering Jews all over the living room in macrame' baskets. She'd have not liked this one. Not that she was a prude, but the End of Days depictions made her nervous.

Posted by: IP at May 04, 2021 08:40 AM (pWrfh)

57 Her ass is up at the end of the world?

Posted by: Bert G at May 04, 2021 08:41 AM (sAW0o)

58 I like blue ahasuerus and I cannot lie.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 04, 2021 08:41 AM (DoV/l)

59 Who saw Wondering Jews open for the Rolling Stones ?

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2021 08:41 AM (V13WU)

60 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 04, 2021 08:41 AM (Zz0t1)

61 A unused Dio album cover?

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 04, 2021 08:41 AM (A+wzB)

62 We've got BUSH!!!!

Posted by: Booger at May 04, 2021 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

63 This is a level of shitfaced I have not been. yet.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 04, 2021 08:42 AM (DoV/l)

64 49 This Adolph H. guy has some talent.

I wonder if he paints houses.
Posted by: Diesel Jones at May 04, 2021 08:39 AM (Vu7A1)

He's been dead for 90 years, so...

According to his wiki, he did a lot of scenes of mythology as well as Roman Historical scenes.

A lot of his major works are lost. Figures.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 08:42 AM (lmikk)

65 It looks like Death is actually sort of helping the old guy along.

Posted by: TexasDan at May 04, 2021 08:42 AM (ohOLP)

66 So who is Ahasuerus?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 04, 2021 08:42 AM (dfRN6)

67 A unused Dio album cover?
Posted by: Puddleglum at May 04, 2021 08:41 AM (A+wzB)


HA! Well played....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at May 04, 2021 08:42 AM (Zz0t1)

68 I'd really, really like to meet this artiste's drug dealer. He's got the good stuff.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 04, 2021 08:43 AM (HaL55)

69 A lot to consider.

Posted by: scottst at May 04, 2021 08:43 AM (/QQch)

70 Good artist!

Posted by: Bladder Full Of Hot gp at May 04, 2021 08:43 AM (qpX6U)

71 100 comment rule. [CBD]

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 04, 2021 08:43 AM (y7DUB)

72 This would make a good D&D rule book cover.

Unexpected Anal Encounters - 7th ed.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 04, 2021 08:44 AM (DoV/l)

73 I was banged under a wondering Jew

Posted by: Lee Marvin at May 04, 2021 08:44 AM (yrol0)

74 66 So who is Ahasuerus?

Esther's husband

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 04, 2021 08:44 AM (Bmy3R)

75 So Adolf thinks a little show and ice is the end of the world? Looks like last winter to me.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 04, 2021 08:44 AM (o2MD2)

76 Face down, butt up. Somehow appropriate.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 08:44 AM (OCTRt)

77 Ahasuerus is a name applied in the Hebrew Bible to three rulers and to a Babylonian official (or Median king) in the Book of Tobit.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 08:44 AM (lmikk)

78 Wiki: "The largest collection of the work of Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl in the United States is held by the Jack Daulton Collection in Los Altos Hills, California."

Odd how and where some things end up ain't it?

Posted by: IP at May 04, 2021 08:44 AM (pWrfh)

79 It looks like Death is actually sort of helping the old guy along.

==


what you cannot tell , and that has to do with angle and choice of palette, is the old guy yelling : " I'm not dead yet !"

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2021 08:44 AM (V13WU)

80 Well cbd can vaporize a comment, but you have immortalized it in your own.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 08:45 AM (0UNjH)

81 The world ending in ice is much worse than CAGW.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 04, 2021 08:45 AM (UHVv4)

82 It would appear the end of the world does not involve global warming. Better if the naked chick is actually alive, but that's art.

Posted by: Carpe Manana at May 04, 2021 08:45 AM (PbH71)

83 This would make a good D&D rule book cover.

Unexpected Anal Encounters - 7th ed.
Posted by: banana Dream


Quick! Play the Aggravated Otter card!!

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 08:46 AM (OCTRt)

84 75 So Adolf thinks a little show and ice is the end of the world? Looks like last winter to me.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 04, 2021 08:44 AM (o2MD2)

If I had to guess, the dead lady is the world. The Old man is Humanity. Death is Death. The Angel is watching the end- probably Gabriel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 08:46 AM (lmikk)

85 Death is urging the old guy to probe her anus with his walking stick. " C'mon, it'll be fun!"

Posted by: Donger at May 04, 2021 08:46 AM (JbV5A)

86 Face down, ass up, that's the way we like to...

Posted by: 2 Live Crew at May 04, 2021 08:46 AM (mZUr4)

87 Old guy has some pretty serious kyphosis going on there.
Posted by: nurse ratched


*****

I had a hunch someone was going to mention that!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 04, 2021 08:46 AM (Fc5rx)

88 Looks like the paperback cover to -

"Conan and the Final Squeakhole"

Posted by: naturalfake at May 04, 2021 08:46 AM (dWwl8)

89 Are we sure this isn't an early Bob Ross?

Posted by: Weasel at May 04, 2021 08:47 AM (MVjcR)

90 It looks like Death is actually sort of helping the old guy along.



So Death is Gov Cuomo?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 08:47 AM (OCTRt)

91 Well, Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl can certainly project a depressing end. The Wandering Jew at the end of eternity, the skeleton companion, nothing green or growing, crows as the harbinger, and one final point of beauty, wasted. The crystaline lines against the blotched blue/black background is intensely stark.

This artist is interesting. I'll have to learn more about him. Thanks for this one, CBD

Posted by: JTB at May 04, 2021 08:47 AM (7EjX1)

92 Well, the only redeeming thing-for some of the men at least-was the nude woman with her backside up in the air.

I find the picture creepy and depressing-nude girl aside- although she looks like she's about to die.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2021 08:47 AM (k39e/)

93 89 Are we sure this isn't an early Bob Ross?
Posted by: Weasel at May 04, 2021 08:47 AM (MVjcR)

No happy trees. Also, not much green except in the ice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 08:47 AM (lmikk)

94 #24 You could always invite people over to view it, Joe Mannix, then kill them to have the best of both worlds -- covetousness and pride!

Posted by: andycanuck at May 04, 2021 08:48 AM (UHVv4)

95 The angel is holding a palm branch which usually symbolizes martyrdom. Ahasuerus was the husband of Esther from the Bible. I can't tell what's going on in the extreme bottom left corner. An overturned potted plant of some kind. It's clearly associated with the woman. The woman is an allegorical figure? A muse? Earth herself (cus of the plant)? Life?

Posted by: Kris at May 04, 2021 08:48 AM (OyyDO)

96 And is the glowing figure in the back supposed to be an angel?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2021 08:48 AM (k39e/)

97 Those ain't crows. Ravens.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 04, 2021 08:48 AM (o2MD2)

98 #24 You could always invite people over to view it, Joe Mannix, then kill them to have the best of both worlds -- covetousness and pride!
Posted by: andycanuck at May 04, 2021 08:48 AM (UHVv4)
++++
And murder, of course. Three deadlies all with one sequence of actions.

Salvation is assured...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 04, 2021 08:48 AM (Jsjd7)

99 The nude girl be like, "just get it over with..."

Posted by: Donger at May 04, 2021 08:49 AM (JbV5A)

100 Kittuh freaked out and is out of here!

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 04, 2021 08:49 AM (A+wzB)

101 Speaking of kyphosis, from the archives:

Intuition - a limerick

Quasimodo got his knickers in a bunch
While asking Esmeralda out to lunch
She seemed to not respect him
And was ready to reject him
Though I'm sure that he already had a hunch!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 04, 2021 08:49 AM (Fc5rx)

102 66 So who is Ahasuerus?

.....

Xerxes.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 04, 2021 08:49 AM (YA914)

103 Quoth the raven: "Hey - Nice ass!"

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 04, 2021 08:49 AM (Bmy3R)

104 96 And is the glowing figure in the back supposed to be an angel?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2021 08:48 AM (k39e/)

Halo and wings? Angel.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 08:50 AM (lmikk)

105 Are we sure this isn't an early Bob Ross?
Posted by: Weasel at May 04, 2021 08:47 AM (MVjcR)

No happy trees. Also, not much green except in the ice.
Posted by: Aetius451AD


Bob Ross - The Really Early Years

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 08:50 AM (OCTRt)

106 I find the picture creepy and depressing

That's how my mom felt about the EoD stuff. It gave her the ebbie jeebies.

Posted by: IP at May 04, 2021 08:50 AM (pWrfh)

107 Nevermore

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 08:50 AM (0UNjH)

108 she really didn't mind the cold

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 04, 2021 08:50 AM (sJHOI)

109 103 Quoth the raven: "Hey - Nice ass!"
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 04, 2021 08:49 AM (Bmy3R)

I'll admit, I laughed.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 08:50 AM (lmikk)

110 According to wiki, Ahasuerus was THE wandering jew, and was cursed to do so until the end of the world as punishment for laughing at the crucifixion. So there's the painting title explanation.

Posted by: banana Dream at May 04, 2021 08:51 AM (DoV/l)

111 Very interesting painting. I like his works.

He is not in a lot of art galleries, according to Wiki. That Wiki article is so devoid of detail. He seems to have had talent, but not talent that was appreciated by the trend-setters.

Given the times, I prefer his approach to Gustav Klimt's style.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 04, 2021 08:51 AM (u82oZ)

112 She does have a nice buttocks

Posted by: Donger at May 04, 2021 08:52 AM (JbV5A)

113 Is the naked girl Queen Esther?

Posted by: Northernlurker, surgite at May 04, 2021 08:52 AM (cSyAR)

114 That's how my mom felt about the EoD stuff. It gave her the ebbie jeebies.
Posted by: IP at May 04, 2021 08:50 AM (pWrfh)

What does EoD stand for?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2021 08:52 AM (k39e/)

115 I had a hunch someone was going to mention that!
Posted by: Muldoon at May 04, 2021 08:46 AM (Fc5rx)

Still chuckling at that one!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 04, 2021 08:52 AM (Bmy3R)

116 The largest collection of the work of Adolf Hiremy-Hirschl in the United States is held by the Jack Daulton Collection in Los Altos Hills

I looked him up. He is so Los Altos Hills. Quite the story on him on wikipedia.

Posted by: t-bird at May 04, 2021 08:52 AM (z36Kd)

117 It's a concept painting for Star Trek VI. The chick as an object lesson for new prisoners.

Posted by: Kris at May 04, 2021 08:53 AM (OyyDO)

118 The FBI continued collecting "intel" from Steele during Trump's presidency. It didn't end with the dossier. Were they still paying him?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 08:53 AM (0UNjH)

119 What does EoD stand for?

End of Days.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 04, 2021 08:53 AM (o2MD2)

120 Looks like an album cover.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at May 04, 2021 08:53 AM (v2uEC)

121 106 I find the picture creepy and depressing

That's how my mom felt about the EoD stuff. It gave her the ebbie jeebies.
Posted by: IP at May 04, 2021 08:50 AM (pWrfh)

Yeah, but the End is one of the more often done works- especially by artists in the twilight of their lives.

And The Last Judgement is even more depressing. I always found the juxtaposition between the Last Judgement and the Sistine Ceiling to be profound. Hope and Despair- all in the same room.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 08:53 AM (lmikk)

122 So, my pastor (an RC priest) preached about the evils of the Death Penalty. I told him that the chapter on the Fifth Commandment in the Catechism of the Council of Trent has a really good explanation.

It seems that the Left wants to get rid of the concept of a "lawful killing."

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at May 04, 2021 08:53 AM (xopIz)

123 God and Satan judge a chick.

Posted by: sven at May 04, 2021 08:53 AM (Lzpvj)

124 110 According to wiki, Ahasuerus was THE wandering jew, and was cursed to do so until the end of the world as punishment for laughing at the crucifixion. So there's the painting title explanation.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 04, 2021 08:51 AM (DoV/l)

I did not know that story. Thanks.

Posted by: Kris at May 04, 2021 08:53 AM (OyyDO)

125 110 According to wiki, Ahasuerus was THE wandering jew, and was cursed to do so until the end of the world as punishment for laughing at the crucifixion. So there's the painting title explanation.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 04, 2021 08:51 AM (DoV/l)

Huh, old testament God does not fool around.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 08:54 AM (lmikk)

126 122 Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at May 04, 2021 08:53 AM (xopIz)

They want to save the death penalty for you and I and infants....not felons by classical definition.

Posted by: sven at May 04, 2021 08:54 AM (Lzpvj)

127 It can be tricky distinguishing ravens and crows. Ravens tend to be larger, have an overbite (upper beak hooks over lower beak), travel alone or in small groups of 2-3, and have a diamond shaped tail.

Crows tend to be smaller in size, upper and lower beaks come to a point (equal length), hang out in larger groups and have a fan-shaped tail.

I'm guessing ravens in this picture.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 04, 2021 08:54 AM (Fc5rx)

128 Not sure what Basecamp does but I want to buy their product. The CEO said no more woke bullshit while on the clock. The employees then were all triggered and a bunch of them quit en masse. The other crime an exec commuter was saying white supremacy is nonsense.

The horror!!!!

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 04, 2021 08:55 AM (nBcht)

129 It seems that the Left wants to get rid of the concept of a "lawful killing."
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at May 04, 2021 08:53 AM (xopIz)

No. They want to get rid of Right and Wrong. Once those definitions are gone, they can get down with doing all the killing they want. Just of the 'Right' people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 08:55 AM (lmikk)

130 86 Face down, ass up, that's the way we like to...
Posted by: 2 Live Crew at May 04, 2021 08:46 AM (mZUr4)

bite the pillow

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 08:55 AM (yrol0)

131 Trying to tell ravens from crows can be murder.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 04, 2021 08:55 AM (Bmy3R)

132 Are you assuming species?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 08:56 AM (0UNjH)

133 In "A Canticle for Liebowitz", Jesus's friend Lazarus wanders the world to the end.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at May 04, 2021 08:56 AM (xopIz)

134 Grace and Beauty is dead. Humanity is being led to oblivion. Gabriel looked on and did nothing. Could have been painted today. Good choice. Good depressing choice.

Posted by: itsacookbook at May 04, 2021 08:56 AM (yPxXc)

135 "Ahasuerus At The End Of The World"

Take on me. Take me on.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 04, 2021 08:56 AM (vuisn)

136 If Trump held a rally today the FBI would arrest everybody, or worse.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at May 04, 2021 08:56 AM (IUYsF)

137 128 Not sure what Basecamp does but I want to buy their product. The CEO said no more woke bullshit while on the clock. The employees then were all triggered and a bunch of them quit en masse. The other crime an exec commuter was saying white supremacy is nonsense.

The horror!!!!

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 04, 2021 08:55 AM (nBcht)

I saw that. Something like a third of their 'work' force quit. I am betting the company just became a hell of a lot more productive.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 08:56 AM (lmikk)

138 Ahasuerus At The End Of The World


And I feel fine!

Posted by: Doof at May 04, 2021 08:57 AM (mZUr4)

139 Pixy had a writeup about basecamp a few days ago. They do HR software stuff.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 08:57 AM (0UNjH)

140 Ravens are interesting. They can imitate many sounds and can even be taught to talk. Crows mostly just peck yer eye out.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 04, 2021 08:57 AM (o2MD2)

141 131 Trying to tell ravens from crows can be murder.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 04, 2021 08:55 AM (Bmy3R)

Please stop the unkindness!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 08:57 AM (yrol0)

142 That wouldn't be a chick's ass, if Michael Stipe had his way.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 04, 2021 08:57 AM (Bmy3R)

143 More on Daulton: lots of photos of paintings on the various linked sites: http://www.thedaultoncollection.com/aboutthecollection.html

Posted by: scottst at May 04, 2021 08:57 AM (/QQch)

144 133 In "A Canticle for Liebowitz", Jesus's friend Lazarus wanders the world to the end.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at May 04, 2021 08:56 AM (xopIz)

The legend of El Cid and the Leper at the well is speculated to be Lazarus (the Leper.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 08:58 AM (lmikk)

145 Melinda Gates having a Bad Day with a parachute after an argument with Bill while at cruising altitude in the G5?

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at May 04, 2021 08:58 AM (MkuC5)

146 133 In "A Canticle for Liebowitz", Jesus's friend Lazarus wanders the world to the end.
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at May 04, 2021 08:56 AM (xopIz)

Fawn Liebowitz died in a kiln accident!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 08:58 AM (yrol0)

147 I think crows usually wear straw hats at least according to documentaries I watched as a child.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 04, 2021 08:58 AM (UHVv4)

148 Just because my beak comes to a point and I hang out in groups, does NOT mean I am not a Raven! How dare you!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 08:59 AM (0UNjH)

149 That wouldn't be a chick's ass, if Michael Stipe had his way.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 04, 2021 08:57 AM (Bmy3R)


Leonard Bernstein!

Posted by: Doof at May 04, 2021 08:59 AM (mZUr4)

150 It seems that the Left wants to get rid of the concept of a "lawful killing."
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at May 04, 2021 08:53 AM (xopIz)

No. They want to get rid of Right and Wrong. Once those definitions are gone, they can get down with doing all the killing they want. Just of the 'Right' people.
Posted by: Aetius451AD


300 million guns and a trillion rounds of ammo says it's not going to be as easy as they think.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 08:59 AM (OCTRt)

151 Scientists make alarming discovery: The Amazon has 'flipped' to become major producer of greenhouse gases

A new report on Thursday found that over the last decade the Brazilian Amazon released approximately 20 percent more carbon dioxide than it absorbed.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 04, 2021 08:59 AM (UHVv4)

152 Ravens are interesting. They can imitate many sounds and can even be taught to talk.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 04, 2021 08:57 AM (o2MD2)

Can they ride a bike? Smoke cigars? Drink liquor? Huh?

Posted by: BignJames at May 04, 2021 08:59 AM (AwYPR)

153 Anyway, after saying that to him, he stopped preaching it. He's a good guy and apparently took the correction gracefully.

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at May 04, 2021 08:59 AM (xopIz)

154 Yesterday I posted link to the Moxy hotel in Chattanooga TN, blatantly defying county mask mandate expiration and also any customers' medical exemptions to aggressively come at the public.

Today I offer their based counterpart, the Nightingale Mansion on the Isle of Wight:

https://tinyurl.com/2ya76jbw

Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2021 08:59 AM (DJFLF)

155 Gotta love a bird when a group of them is called a murder.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 04, 2021 08:59 AM (nBcht)

156 Trying to tell ravens from crows can be murder.
Posted by: Guy Smiley


***

Heh!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 04, 2021 08:59 AM (Fc5rx)

157 All works in The Daulton Collection are generally
available for exhibition loan, free of charge and, in appropriate cases,
with shipping costs covered by the collection.


Who's gonna call and borrow this one?

Posted by: IP at May 04, 2021 08:59 AM (pWrfh)

158 151 Scientists make alarming discovery: The Amazon has 'flipped' to become major producer of greenhouse gases

A new report on Thursday found that over the last decade the Brazilian Amazon released approximately 20 percent more carbon dioxide than it absorbed.
Posted by: andycanuck at May 04, 2021 08:59 AM (UHVv4)

=========

The only solution is to stop that Amazon from flowing at all.

There is no environmental issue other than global warming, so if the rest of the Amazon rainforest has to suffer, then that's just too bad.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:00 AM (LvTSG)

159 300 million guns and a trillion rounds of ammo says it's not going to be as easy as they think.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 08:59 AM (OCTRt)

The... bad part about that is: that might be the BEST outcome we can hope for.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 09:00 AM (lmikk)

160 And I thought Rothko was dark.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 04, 2021 09:00 AM (pUDQf)

161 New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman said Monday night on CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360" that Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) and Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) are "standing up for our democracy" by opposing the notion former President Donald Trump didn't lose the 2020 presidential election.

Friedman said, "When people ask me how I feel, I give an answer that sounds like English is my second language. I say to them, country not right. Country not right. Our country is not right. What Liz Cheney is doing and Mitt Romney is doing is standing up for our democracy."

Posted by: SMOD at May 04, 2021 09:00 AM (RHGPo)

162 So who is Ahasuerus?

.....

Xerxes.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 04, 2021 08:49 AM (YA914)

....

Sorry, wrong Ahasuerus.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 04, 2021 09:00 AM (YA914)

163 My pronouns are raven, riven, ravishing.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:01 AM (0UNjH)

164 >>140 Ravens are interesting. They can imitate many sounds and can even be taught to talk.


I'm still not gonna watch the NFL.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at May 04, 2021 09:01 AM (vuisn)

165 151

My fainting couch, someone get me to the fainting couch stat!!!

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 04, 2021 09:01 AM (nBcht)

166 I once knew a guy with a bird fetish.

He was a stork raven lunatic!!!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 04, 2021 09:01 AM (Fc5rx)

167 Additional information: we are a hotel for mask exempt people only.

IT MOVED!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 04, 2021 09:01 AM (Bmy3R)

168 ICE BACKS!!!

Posted by: Archer at May 04, 2021 09:02 AM (gmo/4)

169 We have a representative republic. Not a democracy. I get tired of the stupidity.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 04, 2021 09:02 AM (o2MD2)

170 95.

The cat that knocked potted plant over is out of frame.

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at May 04, 2021 09:02 AM (n/szn)

171 According to wiki, Ahasuerus was THE wandering jew, and was cursed to
do so until the end of the world as punishment for laughing at the
crucifixion. So there's the painting title explanation.

Plus, the angel is the Angel of Hope, the nekkid chick is humanity dying.
Found one place on that intarwebz thingy where you can have this image put on products such as cell phone cases, cofveve mugs and throw pillows. Oh, and beach towels, too.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 04, 2021 09:02 AM (HaL55)

172 The Isle of Wight > The Isle of Lucy

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 04, 2021 09:02 AM (Bmy3R)

173 A new report on Thursday found that over the last decade the Brazilian Amazon released approximately 20 percent more carbon dioxide than it absorbed.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 04, 2021 08:59 AM (UHVv4)



But it purchased carbon credits, so that's totes kewl

Posted by: Doof at May 04, 2021 09:03 AM (mZUr4)

174 I see an angel, Bernie Sanders with a beard, and a naked chick in the Fortress of Solitude. Oh, and some crows. Probably the racist ones from Dumbo.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 04, 2021 09:03 AM (1ISKN)

175 Apparently NR has a writeup about the loony Trump supporter belief that the election was stolen despite not having any evidence. I mean, they asked the state election officials if there was fraud, and they all said "No". What more proof to you Trumpy losers need?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:03 AM (0UNjH)

176 I saw that. Something like a third of their 'work' force quit. I am betting the company just became a hell of a lot more productive.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 08:56 AM (lmikk)
++++
Yup. They had - before the incident - 57 employees. Price's Law states - and usually holds up regardless of context, that's why it's a law - that half of the production is completed by a square root of the population.

Rounded up (because there are no partial people), the Price's Law number is 8 - so probably 8 people are responsible for half the work in the workforce.

The third that quit - about 19 people - are almost certainly in the bottom of the production distribution. Something tells me that the company will be fine. Losing a third is tough, but it is easily survivable depending on *which* third it is. I reckon that the least productive just self-selected out.

And because I violated the "no math on the blog" rule, here's an art-thread-compliant picture of Sophie Mudd:
https://is.gd/a7mKBc

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 04, 2021 09:03 AM (Jsjd7)

177 Friedman's been on Chinese payroll for a very, very long time. His version of democracy is not my version.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2021 09:03 AM (V13WU)

178 Boy, that gal is going to have a really embarrassing Walk Of Shame once she wakes up.

Posted by: johnd01 - pronouns: First/1st at May 04, 2021 09:04 AM (ukNFU)

179 The Democrat party won therefore we have a democracy. Duh. Everyonene knows that. When Republican won it was a racist, white supremacist Republic.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 04, 2021 09:04 AM (nBcht)

180 Sorry, wrong Ahasuerus.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 04, 2021 09:00 AM (YA914)

Yeah. I got the wrong guy too. There's a legend of a Jew of this name? This is not the Persian king?

Posted by: Kris at May 04, 2021 09:04 AM (OyyDO)

181 I think that the government should immediately allow any graduate to declare bankruptcy on their college loan...with 2 caveats. The student's degree is repossessed for non payment. And the student signs a 10 year do not compete clause, forbidding them to work in any field related to their degree, unless their employer makes a lump sum payment to fully pay off the loan.

Posted by: Downcast at May 04, 2021 09:04 AM (k4rYC)

182 DoD still reject Rolling Thunder!

Do it anyway!!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 09:04 AM (yrol0)

183
Ahasuerus found a girl in a ditch
End of the world but he had an itch
She was healthy and firm
He thought not of his worm
Would she make him a nice ham sammich?

Posted by: naturalfake at May 04, 2021 09:04 AM (dWwl8)

184 Sorry, wrong Ahasuerus.

I'll take "Phrases I thought I'd never hear" for 1000, Alex.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 04, 2021 09:05 AM (Bmy3R)

185 Not sure what Basecamp does but I want to buy their product. The CEO said no more woke bullshit while on the clock. The employees then were all triggered and a bunch of them quit en masse. The other crime an exec commuter was saying white supremacy is nonsense.

The horror!!!!

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 04, 2021 08:55 AM (nBcht)

I saw that. Something like a third of their 'work' force quit. I am betting the company just became a hell of a lot more productive.
Posted by: Aetius451AD


Did anyone tell the quitters that you don't get unemployment if you quit?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 09:05 AM (OCTRt)

186 And because I violated the "no math on the blog" rule, here's an art-thread-compliant picture of Sophie Mudd:
https://is.gd/a7mKBc
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 04, 2021 09:03 AM (Jsjd7)

Nice.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 09:06 AM (lmikk)

187 If I hurry, I can still bang her while she's warm...

Posted by: Old Man in the painting at May 04, 2021 09:06 AM (waRwL)

188 Did anyone tell the quitters that you don't get unemployment if you quit?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 09:05 AM (OCTRt)
++++
They'll apply for and receive it. They quit due to a hostile work environment and as a result they had no choice. The adjudication board will find in their favor.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 04, 2021 09:06 AM (Jsjd7)

189 new report on Thursday found that over the last decade the Brazilian Amazon released approximately 20 percent more carbon dioxide than it absorbed.


Let me guess... because of global warming? They put a CO2 sensor in a parking garage, then used that number to extrapolate the entire Amazon?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:06 AM (0UNjH)

190 If only this picture had Elvis in it.

It would be the perfect Black Velvet Painting.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 04, 2021 09:06 AM (dWwl8)

191 185 Did anyone tell the quitters that you don't get unemployment if you quit?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 09:05 AM (OCTRt)

========

Well, unless they tell the unemployment office that they're afraid of covid.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:06 AM (LvTSG)

192 175 Apparently NR has a writeup about the loony Trump supporter belief that the election was stolen despite not having any evidence. I mean, they asked the state election officials if there was fraud, and they all said "No". What more proof to you Trumpy losers need?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:03 AM (0UNjH)

3.1 Million Michigan mail in votes were declared illegal after the vote was certified. If just 3% of those were also frauds it would have flipped the vote to Uncle Joe.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 09:06 AM (yrol0)

193 Oh, oh. China is upset with how Burma is treating its people. I'm sure that'll work out okay.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 04, 2021 09:06 AM (UHVv4)

194 Oh Im sure the woke as fuck UI clerks will happily overlook the fact the quit and still give them money.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 04, 2021 09:06 AM (nBcht)

195 Knowing the architecture of 5G, I seriously doubt there are many if any StingRays for 5G. As a matter of fact, those in the know look to see what connection they have because most StingRays were 3G.

Posted by: SMOD at May 04, 2021 09:07 AM (RHGPo)

196 Did anyone tell the quitters that you don't get unemployment if you quit?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 09:05 AM (OCTRt)

These days I am not sure that holds. The Chinese Lung AIDS has done a number on a lot of things.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 09:07 AM (lmikk)

197 Did everyone else get the fundraiser from Lindsey vowing to fight Biden? LOL. It's all I could do to not send it back with a bag of dicks

Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:07 AM (ONvIw)

198 I had to quit because I was askeered of the covids.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:07 AM (0UNjH)

199 Posted by: itsacookbook at May 04, 2021 08:56 AM (yPxXc)

You're talking about the picture or a commentary o life currently or both?

If it's life now, no grace and beauty are not dead. You can see beauty by looking at fields of flowers or the ocean or a sunrise or sunset or any number of things I have been walking by a path by fields of bluebells. Can you not see such things by you?

Grace is seen in the kindness of others. If you're a religious believer grace is seen in the immense love of God.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2021 09:07 AM (k39e/)

200 182 DoD still reject Rolling Thunder!

Do it anyway!!
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 09:04 AM (yrol0


I'd get a fuel tanker truck, park it and fill up each bike so they can circle the capital streets over and over, revving the engines nonstop.

Of course, this would be seen as the greatest threat to democracy since some King sent soldiers or something.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 04, 2021 09:07 AM (pUDQf)

201 If only this picture had Elvis in it.

It would be the perfect Black Velvet Painting.
Posted by: naturalfake at May 04, 2021 09:06 AM (dWwl
++++
:: channels sponge ::

You asked for it.
https://youtu.be/tT4d1LQy4es

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 04, 2021 09:07 AM (Jsjd7)

202 Did anyone tell the quitters that you don't get unemployment if you quit?
Posted by: rickb223

They'll apply for and receive it. They quit due to a hostile work environment and as a result they had no choice. The adjudication board will find in their favor.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Either that OR they'll receive Covid related payments as they claim they are too afeared to go to work.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 04, 2021 09:08 AM (Rvt88)

203 1200 UK clerics join to send anti-vaxx passport letter to Prime Minister:

https://tinyurl.com/nz8yuy7h

Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2021 09:08 AM (DJFLF)

204 "Price's Law states - and usually holds up regardless of context, that's why it's a law - that half of the production is completed by a square root of the population."

This is exactly why a GENERAL STRIKE would work miracles rectifying the terminally diseased mental health of our overlords.

Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at May 04, 2021 09:08 AM (MkuC5)

205 197 Did everyone else get the fundraiser from Lindsey vowing to fight Biden? LOL. It's all I could do to not send it back with a bag of dicks
Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:07 AM (ONvIw)

You should have done that in November you prancing dandy!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 09:09 AM (lmikk)

206 IIRC, the Basecamp quitters were given severance pay.

"Go ahead and quit! Please!. We will help you."

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at May 04, 2021 09:09 AM (xopIz)

207 Of course, this would be seen as the greatest threat to democracy since some King sent soldiers or something.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 04, 2021 09:07 AM (pUDQf)

The first or second time?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 09:09 AM (yrol0)

208 203 1200 UK clerics join to send anti-vaxx passport letter to Prime Minister:

https://tinyurl.com/nz8yuy7h

Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2021 09:08 AM (DJFLF)

What level are these clerics? And why no fighters, thieves, or magic users?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 04, 2021 09:09 AM (1ISKN)

209 This is exactly why a GENERAL STRIKE would work miracles rectifying the terminally diseased mental health of our overlords.
Posted by: CZ = FNG To Remain Silent Because, FNG at May 04, 2021 09:08 AM (MkuC5)

H1B scabs would be imported by the millions

Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:09 AM (ONvIw)

210 3.1 Million Michigan mail in votes were declared illegal after the vote was certified. If just 3% of those were also frauds it would have flipped the vote to Uncle Joe.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 09:06 AM (yrol0)

Whitmer said there was no fraud. She is an elected official, therefore incapable of lying. What are you going to believe, data or an incorruptible humble public servant?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:09 AM (0UNjH)

211 206 IIRC, the Basecamp quitters were given severance pay.

"Go ahead and quit! Please!. We will help you."
Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at May 04, 2021 09:09 AM (xopIz)

========

It's an investment in the company's future that will pay tangible dividends.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:10 AM (LvTSG)

212 Apparently NR has a writeup about the loony Trump supporter belief that the election was stolen despite not having any evidence. I mean, they asked the state election officials if there was fraud, and they all said "No". What more proof to you Trumpy losers need?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:03 AM (0UNjH)


Can't these nimrods wait until the Arizona audit is done?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 04, 2021 09:10 AM (y7DUB)

213 Sorry, wrong Ahasuerus.

***

Coudn't swing a dead cat without hitting an Ahasuerus in those days.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 04, 2021 09:10 AM (Fc5rx)

214
From the link at 203:

*We feel that senior church leaders across all denominations have given an imprimatur to the dictates of the government and of the secular, unelected technocrats who appear to be running things at the moment. People are extremely frustrated with this, said Rev. Franklin*

Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2021 09:10 AM (DJFLF)

215 Can't these nimrods wait until the Arizona audit is done?
Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at May 04, 2021 09:10 AM (y7DUB)
++++
They don't need to. They - like all the other nimrods - already know the result.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 04, 2021 09:10 AM (Jsjd7)

216 208 203 1200 UK clerics join to send anti-vaxx passport letter to Prime Minister:

https://tinyurl.com/nz8yuy7h

Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2021 09:08 AM (DJFLF)

What level are these clerics? And why no fighters, thieves, or magic users?
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 04, 2021 09:09 AM (1ISKN)

Unbalanced party.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 09:10 AM (lmikk)

217 I'd get a fuel tanker truck, park it and fill up each bike so they can circle the capital streets over and over, revving the engines nonstop.

Of course, this would be seen as the greatest threat to democracy since some King sent soldiers or something.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 04, 2021 09:07 AM (pUDQf)
------------

A bunch of citizens getting a little aggravated and wandering through the capital=insurrection

Surrounding the capital with a fence and armed soldiers=totally normal.

Maybe it's just me, but, I see a huge disconnect between the two.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2021 09:10 AM (2SdPm)

218 Whitmer said there was no fraud. She is an elected official, therefore incapable of lying. What are you going to believe, data or an incorruptible humble public servant?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:09 AM (0UNjH)

ha!

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 09:10 AM (yrol0)

219 You should have done that in November you prancing dandy!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 09:09 AM (lmikk)
Now it's back to posturing and failure.

Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:11 AM (ONvIw)

220 Field Report From Penn State:

50/50 masks to no masks, almost nobody is actually wearing the mask on their face.


Much like everyone knows the election was stolen, most people know this mask nonsense is all bullshit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 04, 2021 09:11 AM (sfjR9)

221 Well, as an, ahem... "Motorcycle Enthusiast", this Rolling Thunder thing is getting a lot of attention in some circles. It would seem this admin is hell-bent on doing everything it can to piss more and more people off everyday.

Keep it up Joe, I almost want to call and thank them, and probably will if the D's continue to implode like this.

Posted by: IP at May 04, 2021 09:11 AM (pWrfh)

222 Someone threw out a question in the last thread about if the actor who played the nazi superbad glasses guy in Raiders was in any other movies. Well...I dont know that answer. But I do know that that role was designed and prepped to be played by the notoriously unstable but legendary german actor Klaus Kinsky. Legend has it that he took one look at the script and called the lucasspielberg and told them to "fuck off and stick your shit script up your ass". Or some such insulting language equally or greater.

Posted by: THE Lonebadger at May 04, 2021 09:12 AM (vYL7p)

223 Who said this : "I believe America and China are one country, two system...We are one country in a sense that our fates are tied together. America cannot rise, I don't believe, without a healthy relationship with China."

Mao ? Jiang Zemin ? Xi ? No! All wrong. That was part time NY columnist and full time mouth of Chinese propaganda in the US, Thomas Freidman !

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2021 09:12 AM (V13WU)

224 That was the principle on out C-5 crews. The bigger the crew, the fewer participants in the bag drag. 6 person crew, 5 on the bag drag. 18 person crew, 3 on the bag drag.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:12 AM (0UNjH)

225 Neither of the two bushes look happy, but hey, it's your painting ...

Posted by: zombie Bob Ross at May 04, 2021 09:12 AM (DMUuz)

226 Oh, oh. China is upset with how Burma is treating its people. I'm sure that'll work out okay.
Posted by: andycanuck at May 04, 2021 09:06 AM (UHVv4)


Kewl!

We may be about to see China's new version of their Monroe Doctrine in action.

Basically, it says that China reserves the right to land and send troops into any country where they feel their citizens have been mistreated.

and here we go....

Posted by: naturalfake at May 04, 2021 09:12 AM (dWwl8)

227 Good morning, Horde!

What a very fetching painting of the Grim Reaper.

Posted by: Ladyl at May 04, 2021 09:13 AM (hfvFU)

228 Are we sure this isn't an early Bob Ross?
Posted by: Weasel at May 04, 2021 08:47 AM


"We'll just put a pretty little butt over here, and maybe a happy little otter right here..."

Posted by: Zombie Bob Ross at May 04, 2021 09:13 AM (m+jkK)

229 222 Klaus Kinsky. Legend has it that he took one look at the script and called the lucasspielberg and told them to "fuck off and stick your shit script up your ass". Or some such insulting language equally or greater.
Posted by: THE Lonebadger at May 04, 2021 09:12 AM (vYL7p)

==========

"Sure, Klaus. Now, could you please decide what you want for lunch?"
-Werner Herzog's probable response, his hand lightly grasping a handgun

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:13 AM (LvTSG)

230 you prancing dandy!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 09:09 AM (lmikk)

I like the phrase. You don't see the word "dandy" used too often, much less the word "prancing."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 04, 2021 09:14 AM (k39e/)

231 Drinker and AZ did a livestream on 'Battle Royale.' Another movie that I have avoided because I do not need to go out of my way to see human misery. And damn, does it sound bleak.

I got the Rocketeer on Blu-Ray the other day. Such a fun movie. I felt good after watching it. I find myself wanting more of that.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 09:14 AM (lmikk)

232 They'll apply for and receive it. They quit due to a hostile work environment and as a result they had no choice. The adjudication board will find in their favor.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Either that OR they'll receive Covid related payments as they claim they are too afeared to go to work.
Posted by: Tonypete


Someone fraudulently claimed UI in my name. My work and myself both notified the Workforce Commission that it was fraudulent. But in the ensuing paperwork, the TWC says I only qualified for 13 weeks of UI.

How the fuck do people stay on it for over a year?
I have been gainfully employed legally since I was 16.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 09:14 AM (OCTRt)

233 Iranian police arrest sixteen men and women dancing at a party.

In related news a 19-year-old young woman was fined $1000 for having a gathering over the WuFlu limits in Prince Edward Island.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 04, 2021 09:14 AM (UHVv4)

234 Oh, oh. China is upset with how Burma is treating its people. I'm sure that'll work out okay.
Posted by: andycanuck at May 04, 2021 09:06 AM (UHVv4)

Kewl!

We may be about to see China's new version of their Monroe Doctrine in action.

Basically, it says that China reserves the right to land and send troops into any country where they feel their citizens have been mistreated.

and here we go....
Posted by: naturalfake at May 04, 2021 09:12 AM (dWwl

There's a lot of crap in the school I work at about Asian American/Pacific Islander mistreatment (snort)

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 04, 2021 09:14 AM (sJHOI)

235 Until 1975, the United States of America was nothing I tell you nothing, but then, lucky for us, China came along, was very kind to us losers, and now we can finaly rise, with the help of China!

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2021 09:15 AM (V13WU)

236 What a very fetching painting of the Grim Reaper.
Posted by: Ladyl at May 04, 2021 09:13 AM (hfvFU)
------------

Yeah, no, that's actually a representation of a father giving warning of what will happen, should some young man get the wrong idea and sully the virtue of his daughter.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2021 09:15 AM (2SdPm)

237 Now it's back to posturing and failure.
Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:11 AM (ONvIw)

Exactly. Now that he does not actually have to possibly put himself in fucking danger.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 09:15 AM (lmikk)

238 Basically, it says that China reserves the right to land and send troops into any country where they feel their citizens have been mistreated.

and here we go....
Posted by: naturalfake at May 04, 2021 09:12 AM (dWwl

Like all the "anti-Asian" stuff here? Violence by another minority and schools not relying on fake scores?

Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:15 AM (ONvIw)

239 231 Drinker and AZ did a livestream on 'Battle Royale.' Another movie that I have avoided because I do not need to go out of my way to see human misery. And damn, does it sound bleak.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 09:14 AM (lmikk)

=========

That movie exploded on the scene when I was a regular reader at Ain't It Cool News, and Harry Knowles talked it up so very much. I eventually got my hands on it, excited as could be, and I ended up pretty much just outright hating it.

I tried watching it again a few years ago, and I couldn't get more than 30 minutes into it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:15 AM (LvTSG)

240 you prancing dandy!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 09:09 AM (lmikk)

I like the phrase. You don't see the word "dandy" used too often, much less the word "prancing."
Posted by: FenelonSpoke


You never see "sashaying fop" except for here at the HQ.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 09:15 AM (OCTRt)

241 175 Apparently NR has a writeup about the loony Trump supporter belief that the election was stolen despite not having any evidence. I mean, they asked the state election officials if there was fraud, and they all said "No". What more proof to you Trumpy losers need?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy,



The local Fox affiliate in DC loves using 'without evidence' and 'unproven claims' when referring to the last election. That only proves it's the exact opposite. Well done, journalism. I now just assume you are lying and believe the exact opposite of what you are saying. Nice job, guys.

Posted by: Puddleglum at May 04, 2021 09:15 AM (A+wzB)

242 So the new death tax also includes a Step Up on valuation with a 43% Cap Gains tax.

Example:
Dad borrows $2 Mil to buy an 8 apartment townhome. 20 years latter it is worth $4 Mil. So he dies. Heirs now owe 1) 40% death tax on anything over $1 M (currently is is $11 Mil). So 40% of $3 M. is $1.2. 2)Then owes 43% of Step Up. So that is another $1.6 Mil.

This is going to get very very nasty if it passes.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 09:16 AM (yrol0)

243 "Sure, Klaus. Now, could you please decide what you want for lunch?"
-Werner Herzog's probable response, his hand lightly grasping a handgun
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare

Knowing the nature of their relationship, that dialogue probably happened.

Posted by: THE Lonebadger at May 04, 2021 09:16 AM (vYL7p)

244 Freidman is such a good little Chinese apparatchic.

Posted by: runner at May 04, 2021 09:16 AM (V13WU)

245 I tried watching it again a few years ago, and I couldn't get more than 30 minutes into it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:15 AM (LvTSG)

Badly done? Or just misery porn?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 09:16 AM (lmikk)

246 222 Someone threw out a question in the last thread about if the actor who played the nazi superbad glasses guy in Raiders was in any other movies. Well...I dont know that answer. But I do know that that role was designed and prepped to be played by the notoriously unstable but legendary german actor Klaus Kinsky. Legend has it that he took one look at the script and called the lucasspielberg and told them to "fuck off and stick your shit script up your ass". Or some such insulting language equally or greater.
Posted by: THE Lonebadger at May 04, 2021 09:12 AM (vYL7p)

The only other thing I've ever seen him in was in "The Sign of Four" starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes. That actor played the Sholto twins. That's it.

Posted by: Kris at May 04, 2021 09:17 AM (OyyDO)

247 Iranian police arrest sixteen men and women dancing at a party.

Posted by: andycanuck


When did Baylor University hire Iranian police?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 09:17 AM (OCTRt)

248 I am going to go out on a limb and say that the AZ audit will not find enough fraud to change the result of the election it will not be allowed to find any different. Oh, well, see there was fraud, you were right, but not enough to change anything. The audit was legit, now go home, shut up, and vote harder next time.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:17 AM (0UNjH)

249
Exactly. Now that he does not actually have to possibly put himself in fucking danger.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 09:15 AM (lmikk)

Sweet is war to them that know it not.

Apparently the Constitution was not the "hill to die on".

Fuck the GOP.

I think it's funny that McCarthy is roomies with Frank Luntz.

Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:17 AM (ONvIw)

250 You never see "sashaying fop" except for here at the HQ.
Posted by: rickb223

"flounce" gets tossed about here as well now and then.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 04, 2021 09:18 AM (Rvt88)

251 This painting is a collision between Game of Thrones and Sons of Anarchy

Posted by: Doof at May 04, 2021 09:18 AM (mZUr4)

252 245 I tried watching it again a few years ago, and I couldn't get more than 30 minutes into it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:15 AM (LvTSG)
Badly done? Or just misery porn?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 09:16 AM (lmikk)

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I think it's just really poorly made and written.

In a world where roving gangs of delinquent youth murder and rape with impunity, the authorities grab...a classroom of children who aren't on the streets doing such things to send to an island for a murder competition. Wha...? And then the characters are all so thin, turning the rest of the movie into just a series of "brutal" (poorly enhanced with CGI blood spurts) kills. We follow a couple of kids for a good chunk, but they're barely characters and they don't matter anyway because we don't even find out for sure who won the thing.

The Hunger Games, while far from perfect, did the idea far better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:19 AM (LvTSG)

253 Not art, whatever it is.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 04, 2021 09:19 AM (mZOHK)

254 Yeah. I got the wrong guy too. There's a legend of a Jew of this name? This is not the Persian king?
Posted by: Kris at May 04, 2021 09:04 AM (OyyDO)


Apparently 'Ahasuerus' was a derogatory name referencing that Ahasuerus used by medieval Jews to describe a fool.

Kind of like calling someone a Karen.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 04, 2021 09:19 AM (YA914)

255 248 I am going to go out on a limb and say that the AZ audit will not find enough fraud to change the result of the election it will not be allowed to find any different. Oh, well, see there was fraud, you were right, but not enough to change anything. The audit was legit, now go home, shut up, and vote harder next time.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:17 AM (0UNjH)

==========

It's like you've been paying attention.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:19 AM (LvTSG)

256 When did Baylor University hire Iranian police?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 09:17 AM (OCTRt)

Jerusalem on the Brazos.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 09:19 AM (yrol0)

257 So BLM is going to riot in AZ to stop the audit?

Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:19 AM (ONvIw)

258 The only other thing I've ever seen him in was in "The Sign of Four" starring Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes. That actor played the Sholto twins. That's it.
Posted by: Kris at May 04, 2021 09:17 AM (OyyDO)

I know I have seen him in something else.

*off to IMDB*

Ronald Lacey.

Buckaroo Bonzai
Red Sonja
Firefox

Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 09:19 AM (lmikk)

259 Wait, I take that back. It is a bit necrophilial and fetishistic, but it is in fact art.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 04, 2021 09:19 AM (mZOHK)

260 Heirs now owe 1) 40% death tax on anything over $1 M (currently is is $11 Mil). So 40% of $3 M. is $1.2. 2)Then owes 43% of Step Up. So that is another $1.6 Mil.


This is designed to kill family farms.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:20 AM (0UNjH)

261 The problem the leftards have about the election is that we are ass deep in evidence, and no amount of screaming and sneering is changing that fact.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at May 04, 2021 09:20 AM (o2MD2)

262 This is going to get very very nasty if it passes.

A farm ground auction here in Iowa last month had one 250+ acre sale go for over 18K and acre, and 9-13K is pretty normal. Yea, farmers may have the net worth but it isn't like cash in the closet liquid. Land is more of a tool than a hard asset if you ask me.

Given that it's generally passed down to the next generation too? Nasty? It's gonna be beyond nasty.

Posted by: IP at May 04, 2021 09:21 AM (pWrfh)

263 One of the
talking head shows last night (I forget which one) had two
immunologists on and they indicate that it is now known that the herd
immunity level for COVID is around 77%

Posted by: SMOD at May 04, 2021 09:21 AM (RHGPo)

264 >>> Ahasuerus

Gesundheit.

Posted by: m at May 04, 2021 09:21 AM (SJbY/)

265 Apparently 'Ahasuerus' was a derogatory name referencing that Ahasuerus used by medieval Jews to describe a fool.

Kind of like calling someone a Karen.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 04, 2021 09:19 AM (YA914)

But wasnt he a hero that saved the Jews for his Queen Ester?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 09:21 AM (yrol0)

266 Badly done? Or just misery porn?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 04, 2021 09:16 AM (lmikk)


It's well done for a cheap cation/violence movie but it's pretty much just about seeing young men and women just entering adulthood,

murder each other for hazy societal reason.

Very nihilistic. A feel bad movie if that's what you're in the mood for. "Hunger Games" stole the concept and gave it a happy ending.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 04, 2021 09:21 AM (dWwl8)

267 242 So the new death tax also includes a Step Up on valuation with a 43% Cap Gains tax.

Example:
Dad borrows $2 Mil to buy an 8 apartment townhome. 20 years latter it is worth $4 Mil. So he dies. Heirs now owe 1) 40% death tax on anything over $1 M (currently is is $11 Mil). So 40% of $3 M. is $1.2. 2)Then owes 43% of Step Up. So that is another $1.6 Mil.

This is going to get very very nasty if it passes.
Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 09:16 AM (yrol0

Also included is the free tax accountant that is given to all rich political donors so they won't be bothered with paying the death tax.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 04, 2021 09:21 AM (pUDQf)

268 There is no fraud you Deplorables!!!

Ok fine there is a little fraud but so what.

Now please send $200
ASAP so that Liz, Mott and Mitch can fight the radical liberal Pelosi agenda.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 04, 2021 09:21 AM (nBcht)

269 Heirs now owe 1) 40% death tax on anything over $1 M (currently is is
$11 Mil). So 40% of $3 M. is $1.2. 2)Then owes 43% of Step Up. So that
is another $1.6 Mil.





This is designed to kill family farms.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:20 AM (0UNjH)

Well, that's OK. I'll just gift it all to my kids before I die.

Posted by: King Lear at May 04, 2021 09:22 AM (mZOHK)

270 Given that it's generally passed down to the next generation too? Nasty? It's gonna be beyond nasty.
Posted by: IP at May 04, 2021 09:21 AM (pWrfh)

The kulaks will work for the state and send their harvest to the hungry cities.

Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:22 AM (ONvIw)

271 Given that it's generally passed down to the next generation too? Nasty? It's gonna be beyond nasty.
Posted by: IP at May 04, 2021 09:21 AM (pWrfh)

Cargill and ADM are very happy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:22 AM (0UNjH)

272 There is no fraud you Deplorables!!!

Ok fine there is a little fraud but so what.



It wasn't FRAUD fraud.

Posted by: Whoopi G at May 04, 2021 09:23 AM (mZUr4)

273 But wasnt he a hero that saved the Jews for his Queen Ester?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 09:21 AM (yrol0)

No, he was actually a drunk and a fool. Mordechai is the good guy.

Posted by: King Lear at May 04, 2021 09:23 AM (mZOHK)

274 Well, that's OK. I'll just gift it all to my kids before I die.
Posted by: King Lear at May 04, 2021 09:22 AM (mZOHK

You think so? How long is the look back?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:23 AM (0UNjH)

275 Fighting to the matt for heirs of $4M townhomes is not exactly a winning political agenda.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at May 04, 2021 09:24 AM (nBcht)

276 MI has 10 million people, and maybe 6 mil registered to vote. That 3 mil mail ins would be half of all cast, if all 6 voted.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at May 04, 2021 09:24 AM (IUYsF)

277 I have two Herzog-Kinski's in my collection - "Nosferatu The Vampyre" and "Aguirre-The Wrath of God"

Both are outstanding. I really should explore more.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 04, 2021 09:24 AM (Bmy3R)

278 Off, Off, Bardic Sock

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 04, 2021 09:24 AM (mZOHK)

279 A farm ground auction here in Iowa last month had one 250+ acre sale go for over 18K and acre, and 9-13K is pretty normal. Yea, farmers may have the net worth but it isn't like cash in the closet liquid. Land is more of a tool than a hard asset if you ask me.

Given that it's generally passed down to the next generation too? Nasty? It's gonna be beyond nasty.
Posted by: IP


From what I saw in Louisiana, kids are bailing from family farms in droves. They don't give a shit about the land. They want to live in the big city instead of nowhere.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 09:24 AM (OCTRt)

280 277 I have two Herzog-Kinski's in my collection - "Nosferatu The Vampyre" and "Aguirre-The Wrath of God"

Both are outstanding. I really should explore more.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 04, 2021 09:24 AM (Bmy3R)

=========

Both directed by Herzog, by the way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:25 AM (LvTSG)

281 Heirs now owe 1) 40% death tax on anything over $1 M (currently is is $11 Mil). So 40% of $3 M. is $1.2. 2)Then owes 43% of Step Up. So that is another $1.6 Mil.


This is designed to kill family farms.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:20 AM (0UNjH)
-------------

It will also kill the children of middle income earners, too. It isn't that hard, what with investments, owning a house, etc.. to have an estate worth in excess of 1 million dollars.

If this comes to pass, it's very regressive, because it completely ignore the inflation that has happened over the last 20 years.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2021 09:25 AM (2SdPm)

282
You think so? How long is the look back?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:23 AM (0UNjH)

I'll just get Regan's Accountant to look into it. I trust her.

Posted by: King Lear at May 04, 2021 09:25 AM (mZOHK)

283 Well, that's OK. I'll just gift it all to my kids before I die.
Posted by: King Lear at May 04, 2021 09:22 AM (mZOHK

You think so? How long is the look back?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy


Don't gift it. Set up a trust.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 09:26 AM (OCTRt)

284 Starship SN15 Flight Test with bad commentary:

youtube.com/watch?v=diEdOGhC8p0

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 04, 2021 09:26 AM (pAjZN)

285 Both directed by Herzog, by the way.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:25 AM (LvTSG)

And Popol Vuh did the stunning soundtracks for both.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 04, 2021 09:26 AM (Bmy3R)

286 Cargill and ADM are very happy.

and that kindly gentleman farmer by the name of Bill Gates WAS happy. (I think his soon to be ex might be getting happier.)

Posted by: IP at May 04, 2021 09:26 AM (pWrfh)

287 But wasnt he a hero that saved the Jews for his Queen Esther?

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 04, 2021 09:21 AM (yrol0)

.....

Well, given that he was fooled by Hamam into signing the edict to allow the execution of the Jews without recompense, before being later convinced by Esther to sign a separate edict to allow Jews to defend themselves, he isn't really viewed as a hero.

Mordecai and Esther, who strategized to establish Esther as the Queen and save the Jews are more of heroes, Ahasuerus is more of the easily manipulated King.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at May 04, 2021 09:26 AM (YA914)

288 It's the end of the world as we know it

It's the end of the world as we know it

It's the end of the world as we know it

And there's a naked chick

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Serving all Americans, even the Neanderthals. at May 04, 2021 09:27 AM (SchxB)

289 If this comes to pass, it's very regressive, because it completely ignore the inflation that has happened over the last 20 years.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2021 09:25 AM (2SdPm)
++++
Of course. Regression is the goal.

The real problem for totalitarians (hell, with dictators in general) is independence. Independence has to be destroyed. A man with capital makes a lousy serf. No one can be permitted to own modest amounts of capital. You can own a shit-ton of it, or none. If you're in the former group, you'll survive this even if you have to pay (which is unlikely). If you're in the latter group, this doesn't matter. If you're in the vast middle that exists today, you'll be moved into the latter group.

Enjoy your serfdom, proles.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 04, 2021 09:28 AM (Jsjd7)

290 That's fine. The high earning assholes who voted for Biden deserve to get it good and hard.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:28 AM (0UNjH)

291 I can't figure out what's happening with her legs.

Posted by: m at May 04, 2021 09:28 AM (SJbY/)

292 290 That's fine. The high earning assholes who voted for Biden deserve to get it good and hard.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy, not a DHS informant at May 04, 2021 09:28 AM (0UNjH)

===========

And those who didn't vote for Biden?

May they end up doing more than voting over the next couple of years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:29 AM (LvTSG)

293 Juniur-ette got sent home from high school because of a bomb threat. Stupid school won't update their website so I can't link it.

Posted by: BifBewalski - at May 04, 2021 09:30 AM (UFGWE)

294 Yeah, a million will hit alot of homeowners' estates in major centres too.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 04, 2021 09:30 AM (UHVv4)

295 It isn't that hard, what with investments, owning a house, etc.. to have an estate worth in excess of 1 million dollars.

semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2021 09:25 AM (2SdPm)

This is true....w/a decent job and responsible behavior.

Posted by: BignJames at May 04, 2021 09:30 AM (AwYPR)

296 kids are bailing from family farms in droves.

No around here. If you want a couple 4-5 acres in the country, good luck. Bring 20% down, pay a minimum of 10% over asking price, and be ready to close by the weeks end or you won't get it.

People are strait up leaving ****holes like Des Moines, Iowa City, all the other bigger (and relatively liberal) parts of the state for conservative small towns.

Posted by: IP at May 04, 2021 09:30 AM (pWrfh)

297 The Biden death tax should be our Tea Party (the real one) moment.

Posted by: Only Context at May 04, 2021 09:30 AM (QZ/dC)

298 Except for the final monkeys on the raft scene (monkeys!!!0 -

I was bored silly by "Aguirre-The Wrath of God".

Tho I saw it in college...so I might give it another whirl if it comes on streaming for free.

As it stands, I really think "ATWoG" could have been substantially improved by Aguirre having -

a funny orangutan sidekick who punched out people.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 04, 2021 09:30 AM (dWwl8)

299 Can't have those pesky farmers making non-GMO foodstuff and those farty cattle for steaks and burgers.

Let the Smart People in government produce all the food!

We could call it..we need a name here Bob. Soy..soy something.

By the by, Bob, do you have that fifty bucks i lent you last week??

WAIT! I got it. Soylent!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 04, 2021 09:30 AM (pUDQf)

300 So the new death tax also includes a Step Up on valuation with a 43% Cap Gains tax.

The guys that do living trusts are going to have field day.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Serving all Americans, even the Neanderthals. at May 04, 2021 09:30 AM (SchxB)

301 And this Tucker report on McCarthy should be a BFD. If it isn't , we learn a lot.

Posted by: Only Context at May 04, 2021 09:31 AM (QZ/dC)

302 301 And this Tucker report on McCarthy should be a BFD. If it isn't , we learn a lot.
Posted by: Only Context at May 04, 2021 09:31 AM (QZ/dC)

Him and Luntz?

Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:31 AM (ONvIw)

303 302 301 And this Tucker report on McCarthy should be a BFD. If it isn't , we learn a lot.
Posted by: Only Context at May 04, 2021 09:31 AM (QZ/dC)

Him and Luntz?
Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:31 AM (ONvIw


Bosom buddies

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 04, 2021 09:32 AM (pUDQf)

304 It's a mash up:

Lois Lane escaping the Fortress of Solitude

Only to be attacked by Dementors from Azkahbahn

Only to be set upon by the Archangel from Constantine

How'd I do???

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 04, 2021 09:32 AM (BgMrQ)

305 From what I saw in Louisiana, kids are bailing from family farms in
droves. They don't give a shit about the land. They want to live in the
big city instead of nowhere.


If they ever mature, they'll reverse that thinking and haul ass back to nowhere where it's safer.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 04, 2021 09:32 AM (HaL55)

306 "Did everyone else get the fundraiser from Lindsey vowing to fight Biden? LOL. It's all I could do to not send it back with a bag of dicks
Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:07 AM (ONvIw)"

I did. Tore up the phony "matching checks" and returned them with a note advising Sen. Graham that he's a little too late. I did not put my own stamp on the envelope either.

Posted by: Tuna at May 04, 2021 09:32 AM (gLRfa)

307 304 It's a mash up:
Lois Lane escaping the Fortress of Solitude
Only to be attacked by Dementors from Azkahbahn
Only to be set upon by the Archangel from Constantine

How'd I do???
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 04, 2021 09:32 AM (BgMrQ)

==========

Which is a long way of saying Happy corporate product Star Wars Day everyone!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:33 AM (LvTSG)

308 Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Monday that he expected no Republicans would support President Biden's sweeping infrastructure package, indicating GOP lawmakers are open to a roughly $600 billion bill.

"I think it's worth talking about but I don't think there will be any Republican support -- none, zero -- for the $4.1 trillion grab bag which has infrastructure in it but a whole lot of other stuff," McConnell said in a press conference in Kentucky.

Posted by: SMOD at May 04, 2021 09:33 AM (RHGPo)

309 Luntz and McCarthy shacking up (non sexually) is a disgrace.

Posted by: Only Context at May 04, 2021 09:33 AM (QZ/dC)

310
I did. Tore up the phony "matching checks" and returned them with a note advising Sen. Graham that he's a little too late. I did not put my own stamp on the envelope either.
Posted by: Tuna at May 04, 2021 09:32 AM (gLRfa)

Me neither. It's either monopoly money or a bag of paper dicks

Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:33 AM (ONvIw)

311

Xuxa > Xerxes

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 04, 2021 09:33 AM (s2VJv)

312 For added fun, think about the "family farms" re-valued by Ethanol chicanery.

Posted by: klaftern at May 04, 2021 09:34 AM (RuIsu)

313 It's a mash up:



Lois Lane escaping the Fortress of Solitude

Only to be attacked by Dementors from Azkahbahn

Only to be set upon by the Archangel from Constantine

How'd I do???Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 04, 2021 09:32
Not bad, but she somehow has to end up wagging her naked ass at the Archangel.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 04, 2021 09:35 AM (mZOHK)

314 From what I saw in Louisiana, kids are bailing from family farms in droves. They don't give a shit about the land. They want to live in the big city instead of nowhere.
Posted by: rickb223

I had the 150 acre family farm (Berks Cty, PA) with beautiful and well maintained barns and out buildings. A gorgeous old stone home.

None of my kids or my sibs or cousins kids wanted it even at a fire sale price. Rather live in Philly, Minneapolis, Dallas, etc., etc. So sad.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 04, 2021 09:35 AM (Rvt88)

315 You know, I have a great affinity for WWI movies, but is another remake of All Quiet on the Western Front really the way to go?

https://tinyurl.com/zwdprbwa

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:36 AM (LvTSG)

316 Yesterday I posted this link to Italians crashing a police curfew line in Bologna. I went back today to try and hear what the people were saying...guy at 1:34 is shouting over his shoulder to the cops:

"find another line of work, go work in a factory, it's better"

https://tinyurl.com/keah9nkc

Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2021 09:36 AM (DJFLF)

317 Unnnnnnnnhhhhhhh ... wut ... !?

Posted by: Dr_No at May 04, 2021 09:36 AM (mu5GU)

318 Sorry, but Turtle is not upset with the wasteful spending on Marxist bullshit. It's all theatre. He will pass a version for twice the amount as long as he can claim some victory, like removing funding for vending machines at the Marxist recruitment buildings.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 04, 2021 09:37 AM (pUDQf)

319 here's an art-thread-compliant picture of Sophie Mudd:
https://is.gd/a7mKBc
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 04, 2021 09:03 AM


She must be a new Mudd's Woman.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 04, 2021 09:37 AM (DMUuz)

320 316 Yesterday I posted this link to Italians crashing a police curfew line in Bologna. I went back today to try and hear what the people were saying...guy at 1:34 is shouting over his shoulder to the cops:

"find another line of work, go work in a factory, it's better"

https://tinyurl.com/keah9nkc
Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2021 09:36 AM (DJFLF)

========

Don't be a cop. The people are growing to hate you rather universally, and the ruling classes see you as nothing more than pawns, happily sacrificed if it so fits their mood.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:37 AM (LvTSG)

321 From what I saw in Louisiana, kids are bailing from family farms in
droves. They don't give a shit about the land. They want to live in the
big city instead of nowhere.


That's a worldwide phenom though.

In Japan, it's allowed the Chinese (who else?) to buy tons of farming land in strategic areas no less. But, they're paying top dollar.

Here in the US I guess it's both Gates and the Chinese that will benefit.

Food production is or at least should be a national security area but it ain't.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 04, 2021 09:38 AM (dWwl8)

322 Lebron being mocked for faking injury in a game...
https://twitter.com/RubinReport/status/ 1389335784595935232

Posted by: andycanuck at May 04, 2021 09:38 AM (UHVv4)

323 This is just adorbs...Black TikTok star calls out Alyssa Milano as White Supremacist:

https://tinyurl.com/arhce5bn

Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2021 09:38 AM (DJFLF)

324 Haha. I just found out that one of the 4 soldiers that was killed at Fort McHenry in the Battle of Baltimore was an escaped slave named Frederick Hall who had enlisted in the U.S. Army. A cannon ball blew off his leg and he died 2 months later. That star spangled banner was written about the Battle of Baltimore.

So all those assholes who knelt during the national anthem were disrespecting the sacrifice of a black man who had escaped slavery.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 04, 2021 09:39 AM (xfb67)

325 >>So the new death tax also includes a Step Up on valuation with a 43% Cap Gains tax.



Meanwhile, Biden's ill gotten fortune is safely locked away in a Trust for his fucked up progeny.

Posted by: garrett at May 04, 2021 09:39 AM (olKp+)

326
There's a lot of crap in the school I work at about Asian American/Pacific Islander mistreatment (snort)


It's their month, donchano?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 04, 2021 09:40 AM (avEKX)

327 325 >>So the new death tax also includes a Step Up on valuation with a 43% Cap Gains tax.



Meanwhile, Biden's ill gotten fortune is safely locked away in a Trust for his fucked up progeny.
Posted by: garrett at May 04, 2021 09:39 AM (olKp+)

=========

It helps when you don't actually produce anything in order to accumulate wealth.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:40 AM (LvTSG)

328 >>Lebron being mocked for faking injury in a game...


Punk Ass Bitch

Posted by: garrett at May 04, 2021 09:40 AM (olKp+)

329 It's their month, donchano?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 04, 2021 09:40 AM (avEKX)

Izzit? Hard to keep up.

Posted by: BignJames at May 04, 2021 09:41 AM (AwYPR)

330 So all those assholes who knelt during the national
anthem were disrespecting the sacrifice of a black man who had escaped
slavery.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 04, 2021 09:39 AM (xfb67)

Disrespecting a shitload more than that IMHO, but whatever. I have long considered pro sports to be corporate crap played mostly populated by the professionally ignorant, but that's just me.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 04, 2021 09:41 AM (mZOHK)

331 Unmasked giants meeting with frail mini-people.

https://tinyurl.com/wt3arzd8

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 04, 2021 09:41 AM (AHq56)

332 So the new death tax also includes a Step Up on valuation with a 43% Cap Gains tax.



Meanwhile, Biden's ill gotten fortune is safely locked away in a Trust Hunter's nose for his fucked up progeny.
Posted by: garrett



Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 09:41 AM (OCTRt)

333 Don't be a cop. The people are growing to hate you rather universally, and the ruling classes see you as nothing more than pawns, happily sacrificed if it so fits their mood.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:37 AM (LvTSG)


Italian police union has sent a letter to the country's "leaders", informing them that vaccine mandates for emergency personnel are unconstitutional.

So the Italian cops at least are not balls to the wall enforcing all these mandates, like the Belgian police who are water cannoning lockdown protesters, or Irish police who are removing children from the home of a citizen who dared film the cops breaking up a Catholic mass and arresting the priest, and the Germans who are just doing what germans traditionally do.

Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2021 09:42 AM (DJFLF)

334 333 the Germans who are just doing what germans traditionally do.
Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2021 09:42 AM (DJFLF)

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Getting drunk?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:43 AM (LvTSG)

335 Books will be written on how China was able to take all the world's production and then use that as leverage to buy every politician in every country.

It's amazing that the world now seems to bow to a country that follows the teachings of the world's most barbaric leader ever.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 04, 2021 09:43 AM (pUDQf)

336 Germans who are just doing what germans traditionally do

Side-eyeing other countries?

Posted by: IP at May 04, 2021 09:43 AM (pWrfh)

337 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Not sure I'd hang it, but would spend a long time looking at it.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2021 09:43 AM (axyOa)

338 "is another remake of All Quiet on the Western Front really the way to go?
"
.Will it be a musical?

Posted by: John Boy at May 04, 2021 09:43 AM (Tnijr)

339 That star spangled banner was written about the Battle of Baltimore.

-
Wait. We wanted to keep Baltimore?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 04, 2021 09:44 AM (VVEnO)

340 the Germans who are just doing what germans traditionally do.
Posted by: kallisto

Getting drunk?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Invading neighbors?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 09:44 AM (OCTRt)

341 Those seem to be Norse ravens, Huginn and Muninn.

The fair maiden will be fine. she the Angel off to the left?

Posted by: MachiasPrivateer at May 04, 2021 09:44 AM (EMi53)

342 and the Germans who are just doing what germans traditionally do.

Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2021 09:42 AM (DJFLF)

Make disturbingly twisted porn?

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at May 04, 2021 09:44 AM (xfb67)

343 Getting drunk?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:43 AM (LvTSG)

Marching.

Posted by: BignJames at May 04, 2021 09:44 AM (AwYPR)

344 338 "is another remake of All Quiet on the Western Front really the way to go?
"
.Will it be a musical?
Posted by: John Boy at May 04, 2021 09:43 AM (Tnijr)

========

That'd be different. It's being filmed in German, at least.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:44 AM (LvTSG)

345 the Germans who are just doing what germans traditionally do.
Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2021 09:42 AM (DJFLF)

===========

Getting drunk?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:43 AM (LvTSG)


And then goose-stepping.

Don't forget the goose-stepping!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 04, 2021 09:44 AM (dWwl8)

346 I like haunches.

Posted by: Man Who Likes Haunches at May 04, 2021 09:44 AM (8SSHh)

347 345 And then goose-stepping.

Don't forget the goose-stepping!
Posted by: naturalfake at May 04, 2021 09:44 AM (dWwl

========

Goose step's the new step today.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:44 AM (LvTSG)

348 According to wiki, Ahasuerus was THE wandering jew, and was cursed to do so until the end of the world as punishment for laughing at the crucifixion. So there's the painting title explanation.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 04, 2021 08:51 AM (DoV/l)


But what's his position on putting maple syrup on French toast?

Posted by: Ian S. at May 04, 2021 09:44 AM (ZGrMX)

349 Those seem to be Norse ravens,



Heckleson & Jeckleson?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 09:45 AM (OCTRt)

350 It's amazing that the world now seems to bow to a country that follows the teachings of the world's most barbaric leader ever.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 04, 2021 09:43 AM (pUDQf)

Our pols all aspire to be barbaric dictators.

Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:45 AM (ONvIw)

351 "is another remake of All Quiet on the Western Front really the way to go?
"
.Will it be a musical?

-
Boom boom he shot me down
Boom boom I hit the ground

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 04, 2021 09:45 AM (VVEnO)

352 122
So, my pastor (an RC priest) preached about the evils of the Death Penalty. I told him that the chapter on the Fifth Commandment in the Catechism of the Council of Trent has a really good explanation.

It seems that the Left wants to get rid of the concept of a "lawful killing."
======
I think this began with the King James translation, where they changed the Commandment from "thou shalt not murder" to "thou shalt not kill".
But I'm just a lapsed cath so what would I know about the bible.

Posted by: From that time at May 04, 2021 09:45 AM (1VbWy)

353 Books will be written on how China was able to take all the world's
production and then use that as leverage to buy every politician in
every country.
It's amazing that the world now seems to bow to a country that follows the teachings of the world's most barbaric leader ever.


1. I despise weakness.
2. WASTF

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 04, 2021 09:45 AM (HaL55)

354 and the Germans who are just doing what germans traditionally do.

Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2021 09:42 AM


Overengineering cars?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 04, 2021 09:46 AM (m+jkK)

355 Getting drunk?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison


Invading neighbors?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 04, 2021 09:44 AM (OCTRt)


Oktoberfesting!

Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2021 09:46 AM (DJFLF)

356 ...Germans...
-------------------------
Putting in living-rooms??

Posted by: andycanuck at May 04, 2021 09:46 AM (UHVv4)

357 It's amazing that the world now seems to bow to a country that follows the teachings of the world's most barbaric leader ever.

As OBL said, people will follow the strong horse, not the weak, decadent one.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 04, 2021 09:47 AM (ZGrMX)

358 But what's his position on putting maple syrup on French toast?

Celiac prevented him from opining. But he carried a crossbow in his early years.

Posted by: IP at May 04, 2021 09:47 AM (pWrfh)

359 *waves seductively*
-Helen Thomas
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 08:40 AM (LvTSG)


I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2021 09:47 AM (axyOa)

360 "is another remake of All Quiet on the Western Front really the way to go?
"
.Will it be a musical?
Posted by: John Boy at May 04, 2021 09:43 AM (Tnijr)

========

That'd be different. It's being filmed in German, at least.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:44 AM (LvTSG)


Hopefully, this one will tell the true story of how all the trannies and Black women and gays and Asians and Pacific Islanders suffered the most in that terrible war.

On both sides.

Posted by: naturalfake at May 04, 2021 09:49 AM (dWwl8)

361 293 Juniur-ette got sent home from high school because of a bomb threat.
Stupid school won't update their website so I can't link it.

i got sent home from school because of a bomb threat a few times in 1st and 2nd grade and i turned out ok. this was in munich in the run-up to the '72 olympics.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at May 04, 2021 09:49 AM (v3pYe)

362 If covid hasn't taught the democracies of the world that their elected officials are aspiring dictators, nothing will.

Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:49 AM (ONvIw)

363 If covid hasn't taught the democracies of the world that their elected officials are aspiring dictators, nothing will.
Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:49 AM (ONvIw)
+++
FIFY (simplification)

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 04, 2021 09:50 AM (Jsjd7)

364 Damn it Nurse. Your woodpeckers are back!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2021 09:50 AM (axyOa)

365 355 Oktoberfesting!
not socially distanced enough. cancelled!

Posted by: Frau Merkel at May 04, 2021 09:50 AM (v3pYe)

366 Wow. Thunder just rolled. Distant, but big. The thunderclap beginning to end was about 20 seconds. Crazy.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 04, 2021 09:51 AM (Jsjd7)

367
But what's his position on putting maple syrup on French toast?
Posted by: Ian S.


He frequented Waffle House restaurants, so draw your own conclusion.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 04, 2021 09:51 AM (avEKX)

368 Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 04, 2021 09:45 AM (HaL55)

Interesting to me that we in the US are still obsessed with slavery that formally ended in the US after a deadly war, even to the point of offering reparations to people that were never slaves or even have a genealogical link to a former slave, but our "leaders" have NO problem with the Chinese enslavement/murder of large swaths of their population as long as the graft continues to flow!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 04, 2021 09:51 AM (hOUT3)

369 Which is a long way of saying Happy corporate product Star Wars Day everyone!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a Lynchian nightmare at May 04, 2021 09:33 AM (LvTSG)

...and a happy Quatro de Cinco to you too!

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 04, 2021 09:52 AM (BgMrQ)

370 Example #4038 that bad things are coming soon:

After a man films and publishes the Irish police state forcing the shutdown of a Catholic mass, the same Irish police state shows up at his house the next day at 3AM and takes away his kids.


Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 04, 2021 09:52 AM (pUDQf)

371 366 Wow. Thunder just rolled. Distant, but big. The thunderclap beginning to end was about 20 seconds. Crazy.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 04, 2021 09:51 AM (Jsjd7)


ooh! now your weather matches today's painting

Posted by: kallisto at May 04, 2021 09:53 AM (DJFLF)

372
...our "leaders" have NO problem with the Chinese enslavement/murder of large swaths of their population as long as the graft continues to flow!
Posted by: Commissar HrothgarQ


They give GREAT shoe!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 04, 2021 09:53 AM (avEKX)

373 363 If covid hasn't taught the democracies of the world that their selected officials are aspiring dictators, nothing will.
Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:49 AM (ONvIw)
+++
FIFY (simplification)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 04, 2021 09:50 AM (Jsjd7)


FIXT

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 04, 2021 09:54 AM (hOUT3)

374 The thunderclap beginning to end was about 20 seconds.

I'm on it...

Posted by: Garth Brookes at May 04, 2021 09:54 AM (pWrfh)

375 Dope painting.

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 04, 2021 09:55 AM (ej3be)

376 I'm on it...
Posted by: Garth Brookes at May 04, 2021 09:54 AM (pWrfh)
------------

Yeah, and that's why you wound up writing a big check to the ex wife.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing at May 04, 2021 09:55 AM (2SdPm)

377 So, my pastor (an RC priest) preached about the evils of the Death Penalty

-
We don't need the death penalty because we can just imprison them for life.

"California planning early release for 76,000 prison inmates, including violent and repeat felons"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 04, 2021 09:55 AM (VVEnO)

378 Interesting to me that we in the US are still
obsessed with slavery that formally ended in the US after a deadly war,
even to the point of offering reparations to people that were never
slaves or even have a genealogical link to a former slave, but our
"leaders" have NO problem with the Chinese enslavement/murder of large
swaths of their population as long as the graft continues to flow!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 04, 2021 09:51 AM (hOUT3)

Typical anti-asian hate. White supremacy is at the bottom of the Uighur genocide, and always has been.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 04, 2021 09:55 AM (mZOHK)

379 Someone threw out a question in the last thread about if the actor who played the nazi superbad glasses guy in Raiders was in any other movies. Well...I dont know that answer.

The late Ronald Lacey. He was in many movies, including The Fearless Vampire Killers, How I Won the War, Yellowbeard, Buckaroo Banzai, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and so on. He also did a lot of UK telly, including, as Kris noted, the Jeremy Brett Sign of Four and a 1983 Hound of the Baskervilles. He died in 1991 from liver cancer.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 04, 2021 09:56 AM (2JVJo)

380
Interesting to me that we in the US are still obsessed with slavery that formally ended in the US after a deadly war, even to the point of offering reparations to people that were never slaves or even have a genealogical link to a former slave, but our "leaders" have NO problem with the Chinese enslavement/murder of large swaths of their population as long as the graft continues to flow!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 04, 2021 09:51 AM (hOUT3)

We're obsessed by WWII and nazis, even though few of us remember or were even alive during that period. You'd think neither war ended, and this is the point, to separate the citizenry into good and bad.

Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:57 AM (ONvIw)

381 The thunderclap beginning to end was about 20 seconds.

-
So it was more a thunderapplause.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 04, 2021 09:57 AM (VVEnO)

382 Example #4038 that bad things are coming soon:
After a man films and publishes the Irish police state forcing the shutdown of a Catholic mass, the same Irish police state shows up at his house the next day at 3AM and takes away his kids.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 04, 2021 09:52 AM (pUDQf)


That will teach those Irish Catholics to recognize the true religion of the State über alles!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 04, 2021 09:57 AM (hOUT3)

383 We don't need the death penalty because we can just imprison them for life.

"California planning early release for 76,000 prison inmates, including violent and repeat felons"
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 04, 2021 09:55 AM (VVEnO)


And assuming that only half of these criminals get a gun, (as that's what they'll do) that's about three Divisions of infantry turned loose on the population.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 04, 2021 09:57 AM (axyOa)

384 Group of Ontario police officers launches charter challenge of pandemic restrictions

A group of 19 Ontario police officers has launched a constitutional challenge against the provincial and federal governments and several police chiefs, claiming that enforcing sweeping pandemic health restrictions puts them at odds with their oath to uphold the charter.

Fifteen active and four retired members of law enforcement agencies -- including the Toronto Police Service, York Regional Police Service, Ottawa Police Service, Niagara Regional Police Service, Hamilton Police Service and the RCMP -- are behind the civil action.

It was filed in the Superior Court of Justice against the premier, the attorneys general of Canada and Ontario, as well as five police chiefs.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 04, 2021 09:58 AM (UHVv4)

385 to separate the citizenry into good and bad.

Yea, but that struggle is as old as civilization itself.

Posted by: IP at May 04, 2021 09:58 AM (pWrfh)

386 Interesting to me that we in the US are still obsessed with slavery that
formally ended in the US after a deadly war, even to the point of
offering reparations to people that were never slaves or even have a
genealogical link to a former slave, but our "leaders" have NO problem
with the Chinese enslavement/murder of large swaths of their population
as long as the graft continues to flow!


Those people wouldn't know what a Principle was if it bit them on the leg. They love money more than other people and are absolutely incapable of even enough intellectual imagination to put themselves in someone else's place to think how they'd feel if somebody did it to them. Or they can, but they love inflicting needless pain and suffering on others, which is sick.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at May 04, 2021 09:59 AM (HaL55)

387 When I see these police coming to peoples houses videos I realize I have too many windows. I need a place like that one in Josey Wales.

Posted by: Only Context at May 04, 2021 09:59 AM (rjGUv)

388 to separate the citizenry into good and bad.

-
And the ugly. Don't forget the ugly!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at May 04, 2021 10:00 AM (VVEnO)

389 You'd think neither war ended, and this is the point, to separate the citizenry into good and bad.
Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 09:57 AM (ONvIw)


For efficiency, the State shall do the assignments, comrade citizen!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at May 04, 2021 10:00 AM (hOUT3)

390 Monkey is up.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 04, 2021 10:00 AM (kTF2Z)

391 NOOD APE

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 04, 2021 10:01 AM (Jsjd7)

392 Crows tend to be smaller in size, upper and lower beaks come to a point (equal length), hang out in larger groups and have a fan-shaped tail.

I'm guessing ravens in this picture.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 04, 2021 08:54 AM (Fc5rx)

The ravens up in the north country here are very big. Also wicked smart. They have a huge variety of vocalizations. I don't know if it can be called language, but they definitely have signals.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 04, 2021 10:01 AM (kQcVW)

393 Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 04, 2021 09:52 AM (pUDQf)

Gotta link to that my dude?

Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 04, 2021 10:01 AM (ej3be)

394 385 to separate the citizenry into good and bad.

Yea, but that struggle is as old as civilization itself.
Posted by: IP at May 04, 2021 09:58 AM (pWrfh)

But we must revive demons in order to do this now. We cannot point to reasons to hate Trump voters, so we'll brand them nazis, and no one will argue. Hence Liz Cheney. But libs already think they've saved the world by stopping Hitler, and "doing it right this time"...and yes I've actually heard this.

Posted by: CN at May 04, 2021 10:02 AM (ONvIw)

395 280 277 I have two Herzog-Kinski's in my collection - "Nosferatu The Vampyre" and "Aguirre-The Wrath of God"

Both are outstanding. I really should explore more.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at May 04, 2021 09:24 AM (Bmy3R)

I cant get enough of the Herzog/Kinsky films. On Tubi I noticed that "My Best Fiend" was available. Just fantastic. Fan'f'n-tastic

Posted by: THE Lonebadger at May 04, 2021 10:02 AM (vYL7p)

396 393 Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 04, 2021 09:52 AM (pUDQf)

Gotta link to that my dude?
Posted by: thathalfrican - The One at May 04, 2021 10:01 AM (ej3be


https://tinyurl.com/pz5x4p6a

Posted by: AlaBAMA at May 04, 2021 10:07 AM (pUDQf)

397 the irish thing is disturbing....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 04, 2021 10:08 AM (CqHIp)

398 In related news a 19-year-old young woman was fined $1000 for having a gathering over the WuFlu limits in Prince Edward Island.
Posted by: andycanuck at May 04, 2021 09:14 AM (UHVv4)

Sheds single tear.

Posted by: Bud the Spud at May 04, 2021 10:21 AM (kQcVW)

399 My favorite story about Herzog is the fact that someone shot him but it didn't stop him or anything, he just kept on Herzogging.

(Or maybe when he had to tell some primitive tribal leader "No, we can't kill Klaus, we need him to finish the movie...")

Wasn't Klaus also in Dr. Zhivago?

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at May 04, 2021 10:24 AM (Clxcy)

400 End-of-the-world ass is especially poignant.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess - #SuperStraight at May 04, 2021 10:45 AM (Mzdiz)

401 Wasn't Klaus also in Dr. Zhivago?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at May 04, 2021 10:24 AM (Clxcy)

Yes, as a prisoner in the boxcar, as Family Zhivago traveled to Yuriatin.

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at May 04, 2021 10:46 AM (BgMrQ)

402 serious kyphosis going on there.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Wow. Synchronicity.

My daughter was diagnosed with this yesterday. After he main doctor has been inspecting her back for 15 years. Do you deal with incompetent doctors Nurse? Cause my kids doctor is a doozy.

Posted by: Loki, looking to water the Tree of Liberty at May 04, 2021 12:07 PM (KqiMr)

403 Dead thread, but -- but -- but.If you go and look up this painting, other views show the absolute whole thing. In the bottom left corner is an emblem, with an ornate letter "G".

Now WHAT do you suppose that G could stand for...
Queen Esther is known as "The Mason's Lady."

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at May 04, 2021 01:39 PM (zMFmR)

404 Been there, done that. Meh... there is always tomorrow. Until there isn't. Glad to have found God though. It is easy to live without God. It is very hard to die without Him. The fifth or sixth time will be the charm? I keep saying that, though.

Posted by: Doom at May 04, 2021 07:30 PM (Cvp6z)

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