The Morning Rant

Hi, I'm back. I think.

First, thanks and a series of hat tips to Weasel, Buck Throckmorton and Misanthropic Humanitarian for filling in for me on the rant thread during my absence.

And thanks to all of you who have been praying for me and sending me their best wishes. For those of you who don't know, at the beginning of May, I lost my balance and fell on my right arm (the one with the artificial shoulder), which resulted in a massive hematoma. My forearm swelled up until it looked like Popeye's. So I had to have surgery to drain off the blood. I lost a lot of blood and my right hand suffered some nerve damage due to the swelling. Recovery took a while, but now, by the grace of God, I think I am strong enough to get back up on the AoSHQ horse.

While I was in the hospital, unable to sleep because they kept coming in pretty much every hour to do stuff that wasn't really necessary, I had lots of time to think about lots of things. And the more I thought, the more disheartened I grew about America.

Specifically, why aren't we fighting harder against the politicized pandemic?

This country was founded on the principle of telling government to f* right off. And we're not talking about some easy, consequence-free virtue signaling on social media, but rather, the government we were telling to f* right off belonged to what was arguably the most powerful country on the planet at that time. Their response was "F* us? No, f* *you* and we're sending our army over there to f* you up and what do you think about that?"

Our forefathers stepped up and put their money where their mouths were. They did not merely issue 'blistering dissents', but also blistering musket fire. George Washington didn't just run his mouth, but also guns across the Potomac. The Declaration of Independence was certainly 'stunning and brave', but so was honey-trapping the Hessian mercenaries and shooting them in the ass on Christmas night.

Because we're Americans. That's what we do.

That is, in order to back up our words, we had to fight a war.

So, along with mom and apple pie, telling government to f* right off is embedded deeply in the American DNA. And, in order to guarantee we'd always have the ability to do this, they included the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution, our founding document, so our right to tell government to f* right off could not be taken away while we weren't looking. As the America-phile British commentator Katie Hopkins tells us:

You have the fight within you. Americans are different from Brits because you are built differently, your Constitution is hard-wired into your soul. If I cut you open, somewhere inside you is a visceral understanding that your right to life and liberty and happiness is God-given, and no man has the power to take those rights away.

Only now I think we sort of gave them away ourselves.

Here is how recently history should've gone:

When the Chinese flu first hit, and the federal government issued lockdown and quarantine mandates, we should've complied for public health reasons. We didn't really know what we were dealing with, how bad it could get, people were dying, etc., so giving the government the benefit of the doubt was probably the reasonable thing to do at the time. But that didn't last long. Within about, oh, I'd say, 2-3 months, it became obvious that something was rotten in Denmark: the pandemic had become politicized, and various governments at all 3 levels were using it to criminalize dissent and harass groups the ruling classes didn't like.

That should've triggered our American DNA.

What finally did it for me was reading about John Lewis' funeral. Remember that one? Everyone was packed cheek by jowl into the memorial service and all of the social distance rules were waived. And then progressives claimed that this was justified because "racism is a public health issue". And then it got worse:

In June, 1,200 “health experts” signed a letter approving the BLM protests because, it said, “white supremacy is a lethal public health issue.” But it cautioned that “this should not be confused with a permissive stance on…protests against stay-home orders.”

Yes, you read that right, some protests are public health hazards while others are just fine. And the difference is determined purely by politics. That's when I knew all of the lockdowns and quarantine rules had nothing to do with science or public health, but had become just another politicized scam to benefit groups favored by the ruling classes at the expense of others.

If you want to raise your blood pressure, go ahead and read the open letter. It's an infuriating abuse of logic so shameless that it would make a Jesuit blush.

And God bless Trump, but he wasn't a lot of help here. I think his germaphobia prevented him from seeing the WuFlu panic for what it was, namely, another weapon in the progressives' armory to prosecute their war against normal Americans. He allowed himself to be jerked around by that malignant little homunculus Anthony Fauci whom he should've fired in February of last year. For starters. Because if there's one thing Trump didn't do enough of, it's house-cleaning.

And it might even have cost him the election. This is ex post facto speculation, but if he had kicked Fauci under the bus early on and went full steam ahead with a "no lockdowns, no symptomless quarantining, take reasonable precautions if you're in a high risk group" approach, I wonder if that would have put him above the margin of cheat. Instead, he just sat there while Democrats rewrote the election laws on the fly, even during the actual vote-counting, all in the name of covid "safety".

I guess nobody's perfect.

But neither are the rest of us. It was hard to see how many us just bent right over and took it up the chute:

A little more than a year after Governor Gavin Newsom instituted the lockdowns, nearly a third of California restaurants have closed permanently.

According to The Associated Press, California’s lockdowns have left the food industry battered and bruised in the Golden State. Prior to the pandemic, up to 76,000 eating and drinking establishments employed up to 1.8 million people. Those numbers dropped precipitously as the lockdowns continued throughout 2020 and into 2021. Though the state has eased restrictions over the past few weeks, about two-third of the industry’s employees lost their jobs at least temporarily and employment remains a quarter below what had existed prior to the pandemic.

As more and more small businesses closed, never to reopen, why were there not many protests? Why did more small business owners not band together and defy the government's lockdown edicts? Why did they not tell government to f* right off? Even after it wa obvious. I got tired of seeing photos of signs on permanently shuttered businesses saying things such as "We're now closed, but thank everyone in this community for all your support over the years." What!? That's it? You mean you're going to let some government official issue an edict that shut your business down for good and your response is 'oh well, that's the way the cookie crumbles'!? Where is the outrage? Where is the defiance? Where are the cries of "hey government, you can f* right off!", which is our our birthright as American citizens?

Have we turned into a bunch of wusses? Even the Europeans are making us look bad. This hasn't gotten a lot of coverage by the usual media outlets (who like to preen and puff themselves as "the guardians of democracy"), but there have been massive anti-lockdown protests in England, Belgium, France, and other European countries, and we're talking about hundreds of thousands of protestors. Europe! Not America! I can scarcely believe it.

So, there I was in the hospital at 3AM, thinking about all of this, and also the videos I saw of police arresting maskless protestors and other police retreating/running away from antifa/blm thugs, waiting for the next scheduled sleep interruption, and now I'm convinced that, if this were the 1930s and Biden was Hitler, half of Americans would be helping load the other half of Americans into the cattle cars, and the passengers would be thanking them for being polite about it.

Lastly, and I cannot emphasize this enough, a hospital is no place for a sick person.

Americans -- Old Vs. New:

"MAgA IS a cULt"

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AoSHQ Weekly Prayer List

Please submit any prayer requests to “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo atsign hotmail dot com.

Prayer Requests:
5/4 – Annie’s Stew thanks God for a healthy baby girl for a sweet young family she knows, and successful treatment (so far) of brain cancer for the new dad.
5/12 – G. requests prayers for his blog partner and dear friend Maggie P., who is going to have open heart surgery on 5/18.
5/18 Update – Maggie came through surgery with flying colors, and they send thanks for the prayers.
5/21 – SB’s mother was just diagnosed with cancer; they will get the full results on Wednesday. He requests prayers for her and for his father.
5/21 – gp sends thanks to God for healing Jimmy D from Covid!
5/24 – Katya, the designated driver sends an update on her cancer treatments. She has finished her 33 rounds of radiation with minimal side effects and is starting to feel great. This week she stats a chemo pill for the next 4 months. She also will continue to receive Keytruda infusion treatments every 3 weeks. As far as she knows the cancer is gone but will not know for sure until she receives the final scan. She sends her thanks for the love and prayers.
6/1 – Tonypete asks for prayers for his lifelong friend who is approaching the end stages of ALS. For a myriad of reasons, the friend could use monumental amounts of prayer and petitions for his immortal soul.

For Healing:
4/3 - My life is insanity asks for prayers for peace of mind and healing for her sister, who just learned that her breast cancer from 6 years ago has spread to her spine. She has a small tumor at the base of her neck and a fracture in her lower back. She is waiting on a treatment plan and is unsure at this time what that will bring.
5/3 Update - Her sister sends her thanks for everyone's prayers, and this medical update. They no longer see a tumor on her neck, but there is a spot on her spine, and they have determined it is a reoccurrence of her breast cancer that has spread to the bone. They also see spots on her ribs and pelvic bones. She has had a vertebroplasty, but it hasn't helped the pain. She will soon be undergoing radiation and drugs for women with metastatic breast cancer.
4/27 - Grannysaurus Rex requests prayers for healing for Michael as he undergoes experimental treatment to clean his blood in preparation for a liver transplant. His entire body is failing from an infection caused by exposure to mold. The procedure has only a 30% success rate, but it is his only chance. Please pray for wisdom for his medical team and for his family, especially his 4-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son, that God's grace surrounds and comforts them.
5/12 - Ladyl asks for urgent prayers for two year old Ronan who has suddenly developed neurological symptoms.
5/13 - Give thanks to God on behalf of OregonMuse, who is healing far more quickly from his injury than expected, and with virtually no pain. Pray that he would regain the rest of his strength, as he tires quickly, probably due to the losing so much blood.

For submission guidelines and other relevant info, please contact Annie's Stew, who is managing the prayer list. You can contact her at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com.

Romans 8:26-27:
[26] In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. [27] And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

Who Dis:

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Photo 7 (elbows!)

For the 'Ettes:

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May 3rd Who Dis: Austrian sexpot Senta Berger teamed up with the Russian-born actor Yul Brynner in an international thriller about drug trafficking, The Poppy Is Also a Flower.

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Comments

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1 Welcome back !

Posted by: It's me donna at June 02, 2021 10:08 AM (Zmnko)

2 Welcome back, sir!!! You were missed!

The lady is Merry Anders, but I don't know him. Good start!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 02, 2021 10:09 AM (/XOcP)

3 Welcome Back!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2021 10:09 AM (U7wke)

4 Welcome Back OM.

good to have you on the mend

joan collins and elvis pressley.

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 02, 2021 10:09 AM (8D42x)

5 Welcome back, OM!

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 02, 2021 10:09 AM (OssQ4)

6 If I see something, I'm not saying shit. Just putting that out there.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at June 02, 2021 10:10 AM (buTO7)

7 Yay, Gorilla Pundit!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 02, 2021 10:11 AM (2JVJo)

8 OMuse! So wonderful to have you back! I pray that you continue to heal and feel better every day.

I see you haven't lost any of your saltiness. Fantastic!

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe 2021! at June 02, 2021 10:11 AM (wyw4S)

9 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:11 AM (Zz0t1)

10 Welcome back, Kotter.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:11 AM (Zz0t1)

11 Welcome back, OM.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:11 AM (LvTSG)

12 Good to see you. That fish and fries looks good.

Posted by: huerfano at June 02, 2021 10:12 AM (DzhEB)

13 Hey OM! Welcome back! Hope everything is healing well.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 02, 2021 10:12 AM (HaL55)

14 11 Welcome back, Kotter.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:11 AM (Zz0t1)

Now I have that song in my head

Posted by: It's me donna at June 02, 2021 10:12 AM (Zmnko)

15 Yay! Great Ape is back! Hope your path to recover is full and uneventful, unless they are good events.

Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 10:12 AM (Ojki1)

16 YAY OM! Been thinking of you every single day. So glad you are on the road to recovery. We missed you!

Posted by: grammie winger at June 02, 2021 10:13 AM (45fpk)

17 But those dreams have remained and they've turned around
Who'd have thought they'd lead ya
Back here where we need ya
Yeah we tease him a lot 'cause we got him on the spot
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back, welcome back
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back

Posted by: Diesel Jones at June 02, 2021 10:13 AM (Vu7A1)

18 Good heavens! What is that sauce with the fish and fries? And that green crap?

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2021 10:14 AM (Rvt88)

19 Stick a sock in it trotsky.

Posted by: grammie winger at June 02, 2021 10:14 AM (45fpk)

20 Good to see you again, OM!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 02, 2021 10:14 AM (WGara)

21 Excellent rant OM!! Absolutely spot on. So good to have you back!

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 02, 2021 10:14 AM (nxdel)

22 Welcome back, OM. I hope your convalescence continues to progress well!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:14 AM (Jsjd7)

23 Dang at the "if you ever wondered" image.

But yeah, that.

Posted by: Moron Robbie is a bridge at June 02, 2021 10:14 AM (/i8CN)

24 WELCOME BACK!!!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021 10:15 AM (uxJPn)

25 Mmmm. Fish n Chips.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 02, 2021 10:15 AM (fLVm1)

26 Welcome Back! You are absolutely correct and are on fuego today.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 02, 2021 10:15 AM (jvt6t)

27 Fun fact - the show was originally called Kotter, but John Sebastian couldn't figure a way to gracefully use the name in the theme song, so the show's name was changed to reflect the song: Welcome Back, Kotter.

And the song proved so popular that Sebastian had to write a second verse so it could be released as a single.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 02, 2021 10:15 AM (2JVJo)

28 -- It's an infuriating abuse of logic so shameless that it would make a Jesuit blush. --

Sadly, getting a Jesuit to blush is on a par with trisecting an angle with a cucumber and a piece of string. I would cite the current pope -- the first Jesuit ever to sit on the Throne of Saint Peter -- as Exhibit #1.

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at June 02, 2021 10:15 AM (z/nZY)

29 Welcome home, OM!

Posted by: CN at June 02, 2021 10:15 AM (ONvIw)

30 As has been said, the entire Plandemic was an Op and scam from jump street and should of been apparent to anyone who isn't a complete fucking retard.

Especially being that the Plandemic was sparked up just as the impeachment boogaloo was ending..

An oldy but a goody...

Quote:
Looks like the Globalist really are willing to tank the global economy to get rid of Trump.
We are witnessing evil, spite and hate that beggars the imagination.
This is such a scam.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 28, 2020 10:12 PM (rw8je)

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2021 10:16 AM (qmgN2)

31 That "MAGA is a cult" section reminds me of this doozy that the people of San Francisco get to "enjoy:"
https://is.gd/NrSMfk

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:16 AM (Jsjd7)

32 Great to have you back!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2021 10:16 AM (axyOa)

33 >>>Where is the defiance? Where are the cries of "hey government, you can f* right off!", which is our our birthright as American citizens?

Muffled by the American press.

Posted by: m at June 02, 2021 10:16 AM (TZgEk)

34 Who Dis: No clue, I'm working off the rust. I promise to do better over the next couple of weeks.

Welcome back, OM. Glad to hear your mending phase is progressing positively.

Fish Fry on Wednesday? I'm down.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at June 02, 2021 10:16 AM (cwI4U)

35 Also, with a pair of "leggy" tags *and* an "elbows" tag, OM comes back strong!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:16 AM (Jsjd7)

36 Within about, oh, I'd say, 2-3 months, it became obvious that something was rotten in Denmark:
sooner than that. we were told the "two weeks to flatten the curve" was to allow the hospitals to get ready for a massive influx of covid patients. the hospitals didn't spend those two weeks getting ready.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 02, 2021 10:17 AM (sGtp+)

37 Welcome back and thank the Good Lord for your healing, OM!!! The cobs did an amazing job while you were healing and we are thankful you are back in the saddle to preach the truth and Good News alongside them.

Prayers up for all on the list, as well as the unspoken needs.

Posted by: Moki at June 02, 2021 10:17 AM (JrN/x)

38 trotsky was beaten to death via a hammer in Mexico City.

Fun Fact.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 02, 2021 10:17 AM (jvt6t)

39 Merry Anders' big break was playing in the TV sitcom version of How to Marry a Millionaire, I think in the Jane Russell role. The series is really only remembered by TV buffs because the role Marilyn Monroe played was taken by a lady who would become more than famous a few years later with an iconic fantasy sitcom: Barbara Eden.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 02, 2021 10:17 AM (/XOcP)

40 trotsky has become tiresome.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:17 AM (7GWft)

41
That "MAGA is a cult" section reminds me of this doozy that the people of San Francisco get to "enjoy:"
https://is.gd/NrSMfk
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:16 AM (Jsjd7)

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Yeah, I'm seriously tempted to go to SF and dump a barrel of paint thinner down the side of that building one night.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2021 10:17 AM (Uh2oA)

42
Now I have that song in my head
Posted by: It's me donna at June 02, 2021 10:12 AM (Zmnko)

I help where I can.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:17 AM (Zz0t1)

43 Because we're Americans. That's what we do.

But the past 16 months proved that there weren't enough Americans left in America.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 10:17 AM (Bmy3R)

44 "Wake up, Mr. Muse. It's time for your sleeping pill!"

Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2021 10:17 AM (m45I2)

45 Fish and chips with mushy peas at The Antelope in Poole England. Mmmm good.

Posted by: Javems at June 02, 2021 10:17 AM (5NHwY)

46 38 trotsky was beaten to death via a hammer in Mexico City.

Fun Fact.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 02, 2021 10:17 AM (jvt6t)

Fun fact: it was an ice pick.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:18 AM (7GWft)

47 That "MAGA is a cult" section reminds me of this doozy that the people of San Francisco get to "enjoy:"
https://is.gd/NrSMfk
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:16 AM (Jsjd7)

Here and I thought you were keeping your streak alive of posting bunk fodder.......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)

48 That fish looks really oil soaked.

Posted by: Totally not an Orca at June 02, 2021 10:18 AM (G2zl5)

49 luv me some fish n chips, Squire

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 02, 2021 10:18 AM (iTXRQ)

50 but there have been massive anti-lockdown protests in England, Belgium, France, and other European countries, and we're talking about hundreds of thousands of protestors. Europe! Not America! I can scarcely believe it.
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There were many and they were getting, very slowly, bigger. I attended them every weekend for a month in my former home city (the shithole previously known as Denver). We were counter-protested by Antifa and Karens, but we outnumbered the counters. They were growing.

Then the Floyd riots started. I don't think it ever would have gotten big enough to matter, but a smattering of us, at least, did try.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:18 AM (Jsjd7)

51 Mark Damon and some blonde

Posted by: CN at June 02, 2021 10:18 AM (ONvIw)

52 Having OM back and thinking of how the other cobs kept things running while he was gone gives me hope and makes me happy. I like being around Good People.

Posted by: Emmie at June 02, 2021 10:18 AM (tcsxg)

53 And yeah, killer legs on that chickie. Must be a dancer.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021 10:18 AM (uxJPn)

54 Fun fact: it was an ice pick.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:18 AM (7GWft)

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It was an ice axe. I was there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 02, 2021 10:19 AM (fLVm1)

55 OM's on the mend, and all is right with...well at this little virtual corner of the world.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: No Blood for Congress! at June 02, 2021 10:19 AM (OUMaO)

56 trotsky was beaten to death via a hammer in Mexico City.

Fun Fact.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 02, 2021

***
Which alphabet-soup Russian agency was it? MGB, NKVD? I think Ian Fleming mentioned in an early James Bond novel that the Secret Service thought SMERSH was responsible.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 02, 2021 10:19 AM (/XOcP)

57 One good thing out of all of this mess, I guess, is I have spent more time studying the bible, studying passages on the Jesus' return and such.

If you're so inclined, I highly recommend it, as there is a peace that comes with it. A comfort knowing that all of this evil crap ends. Badly, for them.

All of this evil you see today is put into perspective and you walk away assured that God has a plan, even in all of this nonsense you see. A plan like more and more people turning to God in their fear and desperation.

So take heart, keep your eyes on God and let the Big Guy work his plan. He's batting 1000%.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 02, 2021 10:19 AM (9etX0)

58
I'm familiar with all of the statist thugs in that photo, except for the black broad at top center to the left of Omar and Obama. Who's that?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2021 10:19 AM (Uh2oA)

59 oh and fsh and chips sounds fab about right now.

now, why are we in such a bind regarding protesting? i do think that part of the reason is that obama was partially successful in his fundamental transformation of the US. and it began way before him, but i think he finished it off to an extent.

but the other half is the US media. they have done a fantastic job of isolating and convincing us that we're mostly alone. think about it, other than here and a few small groups, how many people do you know that are ready and willing to do something?

hell, look at the response to jan 6th. the fed gov is in gestapo mode and our "representatives" can't be fucking bothered to do anything to even highlight it. and that's not counting the fuck nuggets on our "side" who are actively supporting the gov actions.

Pravda and the KGB are watching in awe at how effective they are...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 02, 2021 10:19 AM (8D42x)

60 "From the Desk of Donald J. Trump" has been scrubbed from the former president's website after going live about a month earlier. It "will not be returning," senior aide Jason Miller told CNBC on Wednesday.

Posted by: Rev Ike at June 02, 2021 10:19 AM (RHGPo)

61 Oh, that Jeffy Keane is definitely a Commie. Way to git 'im, Billy!

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 10:20 AM (Bmy3R)

62 Here and I thought you were keeping your streak alive of posting bunk fodder.......
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:18 AM (Zz0t1)
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First, I thought it was pretty clear that the link would be something awful.

Second, you have my apologies for the misdirect. As an act of contrition, here's a busty redhead in short shorts and tank top:
https://is.gd/eJIHTT

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:20 AM (Jsjd7)

63 Welcome back GP, I pray you your health is improving.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at June 02, 2021 10:20 AM (jN3n3)

64 Tomorrow I am driving to Michigan. Promises to be a mixed bag on masks, and also 90 degree weather.

Hoping to meetup with some Morons on Sunday.

Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2021 10:20 AM (Yoq4u)

65 Lastly, and I cannot emphasize this enough, a hospital is no place for a sick person.

Even bold is not bold enough.

Posted by: t-bird at June 02, 2021 10:20 AM (syU/E)

66 Welcome back, OM! You have had quite a ride, there. Keep on getting well!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2021 10:20 AM (d2S1U)

67 SMERSH is a great name for a secret police outfit.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 02, 2021 10:20 AM (fLVm1)

68 AntifaBook.com
@JackPosobiec
White House staff are actively discussing an exit strategy for Dr Anthony Fauci following the release of his emails yesterday, per WH official

Posted by: Rev Ike at June 02, 2021 10:20 AM (RHGPo)

69 44 "Wake up, Mr. Muse. It's time for your sleeping pill!"
Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2021 10:17 AM (m45I2)

Oh, it was worse than that: "I thought you'd never wake up. Here's your sleeping pill!"

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:20 AM (7GWft)

70 Since you posted a picture of a leggy woman, I feel justified in noting that I watched part of "The BandWagon" last night. It's a Fred Astaire movie, albeit when he was older. The movie itself didn't do much for me, at times shading into Fosse-esque modern (read epileptic fit) dance, but Cyd Charisse was absolutely gorgeous and could actually dance. Her only superior is, of course, Ginger Rogers. Astaire is just in a league of his own.

Posted by: pep at June 02, 2021 10:20 AM (v16oJ)

71 That news comparison cartoon is spot on.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:21 AM (Jsjd7)

72 Fish and Chips probably on my last meal request.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 02, 2021 10:21 AM (2DOZq)

73 Fun fact: it was an ice pick.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:18 AM (7GWft)

Whatever got the job done.....

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 02, 2021 10:21 AM (jvt6t)

74 And welcome back, OM.

Posted by: pep at June 02, 2021 10:21 AM (v16oJ)

75 And yeah, killer legs on that chickie. Must be a dancer.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021

***

Spectacular left foot. I can only speculate that the right matched.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 02, 2021 10:21 AM (/XOcP)

76 36 Within about, oh, I'd say, 2-3 months, it became obvious that something was rotten in Denmark:
sooner than that. we were told the "two weeks to flatten the curve" was to allow the hospitals to get ready for a massive influx of covid patients. the hospitals didn't spend those two weeks getting ready.
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 02, 2021 10:17 AM (sGtp+)

I wonder if hospital staff who wound up unemployed-and may still, given the $ that hospitals lost- think it was worth it.

Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 10:21 AM (Ojki1)

77 In the pictoral shrine, do my eyes deceive me or is that a picture of John McLame? I'm sure he's looking up from below and feeling pleased to have made it into that starting lineup.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at June 02, 2021 10:21 AM (cwI4U)

78 The hospitals were filled with Dancing Tik-Tok nurses and not a "wave of Covid patients."

Anyone who still didn't have a clue by then...

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 10:22 AM (Bmy3R)

79 IMPORTANT NEWS!

THERE IS AN EXTENDED CUT OF THE MAGNUM OPUS SUPER MARIO BROS! IT IS AVAILABLE FOR FREE, LEGALLY, RIGHT NOW!

https://tinyurl.com/2akaj32f

BE CALM, PEOPLE!

I SAID BE CALM!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:22 AM (LvTSG)

80 ++++
First, I thought it was pretty clear that the link would be something awful.

Second, you have my apologies for the misdirect. As an act of contrition, here's a busty redhead in short shorts and tank top:
https://is.gd/eJIHTT
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:20 AM (Jsjd7)

Well, I will accept responsibility for taking your links for granted and not reading what you wrote.........

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:22 AM (Zz0t1)

81 Second, you have my apologies for the misdirect. As an act of contrition, here's a busty redhead in short shorts and tank top:
https://is.gd/eJIHTT

Has to be fake. She looks like she's on my floor of Terman, which is a mechanical engineering building.

Posted by: t-bird at June 02, 2021 10:22 AM (1O9Sx)

82 Yay, OM is back!!

Where is that restaurant with all the photos on the wall? I need to make sure I avoid it.

Posted by: Jordan61 at June 02, 2021 10:22 AM (Ez6QX)

83 It was an ice axe. I was there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 02, 2021 10:19 AM (fLVm1)

Fact check: true.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:22 AM (7GWft)

84 40 trotsky has become tiresome.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:17 AM (7GWft)

raykon is Fauchi. Never right, never in doubt, never shuts up, and a tool that will go against the wall once the people he worships get enough power.

Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 10:22 AM (Ojki1)

85 Definitely a strong comeback. Should be read aloud on air.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at June 02, 2021 10:22 AM (OssQ4)

86 I'm glad you're back OM.

Posted by: Northern lurker at June 02, 2021 10:22 AM (cSyAR)

87 Debbie Reynolds? I can't tell who the guy is.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:23 AM (KZzsI)

88 As more and more small businesses closed, never to reopen, why were there not many protests? Why did more small business owners not band together and defy the government's lockdown edicts? Why did they not tell government to f* right off?

They got paid. Their loss of income was paid by PPP and state grants and every other sort of slush. And their rent was excused, foreclosures forbidden, eviction forbidden and the Feds paid the banks and landlords.

And so given the choice between the old normal (work hard, make money) and the new normal (sit on your fat ass, make money), people with no shame took that government cash, just like the welfare bum and EBT whore.

And it's still destroying our country, as we speak.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 02, 2021 10:23 AM (7F9te)

89 33 >>>Where is the defiance? Where are the cries of "hey government, you can f* right off!", which is our our birthright as American citizens?

Muffled by the American press.
Posted by: m at June 02, 2021 10:16 AM (TZgEk)

You're seeing more and more of this at school board meetings. The gov is having to HEAVILY promote the vaccine to get people to take it.

There are signs people are starting to push back.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2021 10:23 AM (KbCG3)

90 @JackPosobiec
White House staff are actively discussing an exit strategy for Dr Anthony Fauci following the release of his emails yesterday, per WH official

Should spend the rest of his not-very-many days rotting in a prison cell, reflecting on his monstrous crimes against humanity.

Won't, but should.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 10:23 AM (Bmy3R)

91 Where is the defiance? Where are the cries of "hey government, you can f* right off!", which is our our birthright as American citizens?

Muffled by the American press.
Posted by: m at June 02, 2021 10:16 AM (TZgEk)

And crushed by the police.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 02, 2021 10:23 AM (2JVJo)

92 68 AntifaBook.com
@JackPosobiec
White House staff are actively discussing an exit strategy for Dr Anthony Fauci following the release of his emails yesterday, per WH official
Posted by: Rev Ike at June 02, 2021 10:20 AM (RHGPo)

The wheels on the bus go round and round...

As predicted, Fauci takes the fall, all the crimes are now dealt with and we can move on to importing millions of new citizens from South America!

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 02, 2021 10:23 AM (9etX0)

93
THERE IS AN EXTENDED CUT OF THE MAGNUM OPUS SUPER MARIO BROS! IT IS AVAILABLE FOR FREE, LEGALLY, RIGHT NOW!

https://tinyurl.com/2akaj32f

BE CALM, PEOPLE!

I SAID BE CALM!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:22 AM (LvTSG)

Wait.......they made a movie about a video game?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

94 Going along with the Chinese Flu lockdowns was Trump's biggest failure .

Posted by: Just a side note at June 02, 2021 10:23 AM (2DOZq)

95 trotsky was beaten to death via a hammer in Mexico City.

Fun Fact.
Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 02, 2021 10:17 AM (jvt6t)

A mountain climber's ice axe, in fact. Standard household implement in Mexico of the 1930's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM (d2S1U)

96 I sympathize on the sleep thing, OM. My last stay (March 2020's Endocarditis fun and games) resulted in what I described at the time as a "truly epic sleep deficit". I swear, I don't know how they expect anyone to ever get better in a hospital if they won't let them get a decent night's sleep!

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: No Blood for Congress! at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM (OUMaO)

97 Welcome back, OM!

And now I'm hungry for fish and chips.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM (m+jkK)

98 As predicted, Fauci takes the fall, all the crimes are now dealt with and we can move on to importing millions of new citizens from South America!
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 02, 2021 10:23 AM (9etX0)

----------
So many aid applications to fill out!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM (fLVm1)

99 ""I'm convinced that, if this were the 1930s and Biden was Hitler, half of
Americans would be helping load the other half of Americans into the
cattle cars, and the passengers would be thanking them for being polite
about it.""
100% spot on. I always said the nazi's weren't nazi because they were german. They just happened to live there.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM (VwHCD)

100 And yeah, killer legs on that chickie. Must be a dancer.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now

See also Helen Wood/Dolly Sharp - who went on to greater fame as. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM (Rvt88)

101 And so given the choice between the old normal (work hard, make money)
and the new normal (sit on your fat ass, ~~make~~ receive someone else's money), people with no
shame took that government cash, just like the welfare bum and EBT
whore.

FIFY

Posted by: pep at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM (v16oJ)

102 66 Welcome back, OM! You have had quite a ride, there. Keep on getting well!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2021 10:20 AM (d2S1U)

The thing is, I never get sick. No colds, flu, etc. My body just keeps acquiring damage like an old car.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM (7GWft)

103 Yum, Haddock

Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM (gmo/4)

104 The two week lockdown was to prevent hospitals from running out of capacity. It was assumed that the lockdown would help prevent initial exponential spread, help us get a handle on how much hospital resource would be needed, and then augment capacity as needed through the military and private charity.

We learned after that two weeks that hospital capacity was not going to be a problem. We learned in the subsequent couple of weeks that mortality was not as bad as feared. We then learned about some therapeutic regimes that were effective (from moderate to extremely).

I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt in the very early phases, especially if the IC had good intelligence that this was a lab leak. Overreaction in that case might be justifiable at the time with the data then available. By Easter of 2020, however, it was obvious. That's my mark. Every second of this shit beyond Easter of last year has been, in essence, a war crime against the population.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:25 AM (Jsjd7)

105 Welcome back, OM; great to read you!

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:25 AM (y7DUB)

106 Wait.......they made a movie about a video game?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt

I know, right? Next you'll tell me they made some based on comic books...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: No Blood for Congress! at June 02, 2021 10:25 AM (OUMaO)

107 For those of you who don't know, at the beginning of May, I lost my balance and fell on my right arm (the one with the artificial shoulder), which resulted in a massive hematoma.

OM, you don't have to be so modest. We know you were injured in an orphanage fire saving cirrun by pulling them out of the flames.

(Seriously, glad you are ok)

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2021 10:25 AM (Aivl/)

108 Wait.......they made a movie about a video game?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

next they'll be making movies based on comic books!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021 10:25 AM (uxJPn)

109 Welcome back, OM! And you are right on everything you said, but didn't we say from the start that all this plague was only part of the effort to un-do the will of the people/ In other words get rid of a duly elected President, Donald Trump? And in addition to ensure the 2020 elections were stolen right in front of us? And any protests were answered by murdering Ashli Babbitt in cold blood? Didn't we always say any government that could make you wear a mask could make you wear a yellow star? War, damnit!

Posted by: Eromero at June 02, 2021 10:25 AM (0OP+5)

110 The thing is, nothing really changed for me. I had to put on a mask to go into the bank (????) but that's it. I work at home, don't go out much, and don't go visiting people, so it was just... like usual for me.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:25 AM (KZzsI)

111 i lie

Posted by: liar at June 02, 2021 10:25 AM (o7ZVM)

112 OregonMuse, welcome back. Glad to hear you're on the mend.

OM, every American you know has been subjected to a brutal, effective psyop for a year and a half.

CV19 trauma-based mind control has harmed everyone and destroyed some.

*** But the momentum is now against the control freaks and Great Reset maniacs. ***

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 02, 2021 10:25 AM (Hwak8)

113 Yeah, I'm seriously tempted to go to SF and dump a barrel of paint thinner down the side of that building one night.

Graffiti - "Big Sister Is Watching You"

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 02, 2021 10:25 AM (U7wke)

114 A mountain climber's ice axe, in fact. Standard household implement in Mexico of the 1930's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM (d2S1U)

---------

Its how they crush ice for the Margaritas.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 02, 2021 10:25 AM (fLVm1)

115 Horde mind...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021 10:26 AM (uxJPn)

116 I know, right? Next you'll tell me they made some based on comic books...

All I know is they will NEVER make any movies about television shows!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:26 AM (KZzsI)

117 Iran's largest warship catches fire, sinks in Gulf of Oman

Posted by: Rev Ike at June 02, 2021 10:26 AM (RHGPo)

118 @JackPosobiec
White House staff are actively discussing an exit strategy for Dr Anthony Fauci following the release of his emails yesterday, per WH official
Posted by: Rev Ike at June 02, 2021 10:20 AM (RHGPo)

**

Oh no.

There's something bad wrong with the vaccines, or there's a clear link to China.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Sure it works in practice, but does it work in theory? The $2 Drug that Cracked COVID at June 02, 2021 10:26 AM (Kt1w/)

119 115 Horde mind...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021 10:26 AM (uxJPn)

=======

I was just thinking that...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:26 AM (LvTSG)

120 Did anyone get that ice cream cake from DairyQueen for OM like we said?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 02, 2021 10:26 AM (9etX0)

121 "Exit Strategy": Millions of taxpayer dollars in luxurious pension benefits and retirement.

Trotsky is said to have been killed by an ice axe, the long handled wooden type device used by Alpine climbers as a kind of walking stick, also used to chop steps in snow and ice, and perform a life saving maneuver known as "self arrest" if sliding down the mountain.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 02, 2021 10:26 AM (zCpUM)

122 Wait.......they made a movie about a video game?
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:23 AM (Zz0t1)

They made a movie with the same name as a video game.

Posted by: Totally not an Orca at June 02, 2021 10:26 AM (G2zl5)

123 My lady friend and I created some food porn yesterday. We made 2 large pizzas with nothing but cheese. After those were cooked, we look the leftover pulled pork and had 5 different BBQ sauces of our own and friends from Sunday and Monday.
We have 5 different flavors of extra double cheese BBQ pizza with garlic butter crust for the next few days.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at June 02, 2021 10:26 AM (jN3n3)

124 Welcome back OM. Didn't I tell you to never watch your pass and keep your head up while skating through the neutral zone?

Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2021 10:26 AM (gmo/4)

125 69 44 "Wake up, Mr. Muse. It's time for your sleeping pill!"
Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2021 10:17 AM (m45I2)

Oh, it was worse than that: "I thought you'd never wake up. Here's your sleeping pill!"
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:20 AM (7GWft)

I love the every 4 hour or so BP/vital check. Its so comforting.

Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 10:26 AM (Ojki1)

126 Damn clingy sock.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 02, 2021 10:27 AM (G2zl5)

127 Yeah, I'm seriously tempted to go to SF and dump a barrel of paint thinner down the side of that building one night.

Graffiti: no big deal, its art! Not really a crime
Smudging graffiti: Special task force, likely hate crime!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:27 AM (KZzsI)

128 Welcome back, OM!!!
Glad you are on the mend.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2021 10:27 AM (bDqIh)

129 A mountain climber's ice axe, in fact. Standard household implement in Mexico of the 1930's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM (d2S1U)

I guess my point was a gruesome and violent end for rayk, er, trotsky....but I stand corrected.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 02, 2021 10:27 AM (jvt6t)

130 FIFY

Posted by: pep at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM (v16oJ)

.....

I appreciate your correction, but it really isn't someone else's money.

It was all printed out of thin air. Bullshit, make believe money. BitDollar.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 02, 2021 10:27 AM (7F9te)

131 Did anyone get that ice cream cake from DairyQueen for OM like we said?
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Yes - it's been in the trunk for three weeks.

Here's a spoon. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2021 10:27 AM (Rvt88)

132 Mask wearing is down to 1-2% in my burg. They are now the freaks.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 02, 2021 10:27 AM (CAP2d)

133 Iran's largest warship catches fire, sinks in Gulf of Oman

"How about that? What are the odds?"
--Mossad

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:27 AM (KZzsI)

134 OM,
So glad to see you back and in improving health. I hope our prayers and rosaries in my case, helped.

Posted by: JTB at June 02, 2021 10:28 AM (7EjX1)

135 I'm sure it's been said, but just in case it hasn't...

A Morning Rant about Americans throwing off the shackles of British Imperialism....

....brought to me by....

....fish and chips.

*SRPOING! CLATTER! VARIOUS NOISES OF MY IRONY-METER BREAKING!*

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 02, 2021 10:28 AM (l2max)

136 Horde mind...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards

A clear sign I have finally found my tribe!

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: No Blood for Congress! at June 02, 2021 10:28 AM (OUMaO)

137 And yeah, killer legs on that chickie. Must be a dancer.

My thought exactly. She gets 2 Hubbas.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 02, 2021 10:28 AM (HaL55)

138 Worst thing about the pandemic is that we now have a grifting, leftist asshat in the Oval Office that is the retarded sequel to the Obama administration that was soundly rejected 5 years ago.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at June 02, 2021 10:28 AM (UuD2k)

139 O.M.,

That's one heck of a welcome back post! Wasn't aware of your injury, so cheers to a speedy recovery...

DJA

Posted by: KD9RBN at June 02, 2021 10:28 AM (f++n4)

140 When you're a hammer, everything looks like an ice pick.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 10:28 AM (Bmy3R)

141 I posted this in JJs thread this am:

198 The Fauci emails. Imma walkback my previous skepticism of the "media admitting that the COVID from a lab thing is actually legit and not a conspiracy theory is just prepping us for something else" theory.

I still do not believe that its a distraction for some other topic. But I do think it was perhaps the beginning of modified limited hangout of Fauci. He will be the fall guy for the gain of function supported by the US government in the Wuhan lab thing.

Prediction: by the fall, the narrative will be Fauci was corrupt and in on the COVID coverup, and Trump knew and kept him in charge anyway.
Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2021 07:42 AM (Yoq4u)

Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2021 10:28 AM (Yoq4u)

142 Iran's largest warship catches fire, sinks in Gulf of Oman

Fire's out, boss!

Posted by: t-bird at June 02, 2021 10:28 AM (V+A8w)

143 ""I'm convinced that, if this were the 1930s and Biden was Hitler, half of
Americans would be helping load the other half of Americans into the
cattle cars, and the passengers would be thanking them for being polite
about it.""
100% spot on. I always said the nazi's weren't nazi because they were german. They just happened to live there.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM

And is it just me, or does that b&w pic of Scoldilocks look like it was taken in the dock at Nuremberg?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2021 10:28 AM (m+jkK)

144 I appreciate your correction, but it really isn't someone else's money.

It was all printed out of thin air. Bullshit, make believe money. BitDollar.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 02, 2021 10:27 AM (7F9te)
++++
It is someone else's money. Inflation hits everyone, and gets worse the further away you get from the source. Those with first access to shit money (the major banks, the government) do okay. Everyone downstream loses more and more.

So by printing the welfare money, while not "someone else's money," is "everyone else's money."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:28 AM (Jsjd7)

145 The freaks are and have always been the ones who put masks on little kids. What in God's name is wrong with you idiots???

I still see it and it makes me want to smack them upside the head.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:28 AM (KZzsI)

146 I am willing to give the benefit of the doubt in the very early phases,
especially if the IC had good intelligence that this was a lab leak.
Overreaction in that case might be justifiable at the time with the data
then available. By Easter of 2020, however, it was obvious. That's my
mark. Every second of this shit beyond Easter of last year has been, in
essence, a war crime against the population.------------------------------------I am not willing to give the benefit of the doubt, because the doubt is not only justifiable, it is certain. The experts are not experts in anything. They are wrong about everything. Not only are they wrong, they have an unearned hubris and completely lack any humility.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 02, 2021 10:29 AM (sX1BW)

147 >>I love the every 4 hour or so BP/vital check. Its so comforting.

"It's 2am, your phlebotomist is here for the blood draw. . . "

Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2021 10:29 AM (bDqIh)

148 The response of the public at large to the pandemic, the fear, the acquiescence to nonsensical government mandates... this has been by far the most discouraging episode in my long 29 years of life. The founding spirit may be alive in pockets, but it is no longer predominate in the country... probably hasn't been for awhile. It's like I woke up on day and realized I was in a different country than the one in which I'd grown up...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 02, 2021 10:29 AM (pcsoT)

149 I love the every 4 hour or so BP/vital check. Its so comforting.

Posted by: Bete

BP check = stealth attempt to amputate my left arm
Holy God, I hate those cuffs now.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: No Blood for Congress! at June 02, 2021 10:29 AM (OUMaO)

150 And yeah, killer legs on that chickie. Must be a dancer.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now

See also Helen Wood/Dolly Sharp - who went on to greater fame as. . .
Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM (Rvt8

Today's chick did porn?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021 10:29 AM (uxJPn)

151 I love the every 4 hour or so BP/vital check. Its so comforting.
Posted by: Bete

Do what I do if ambulatory - park your sorry butt at the nurse's station all night and play euchre. At least they don't have to wake you then.

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2021 10:29 AM (Rvt88)

152 They got paid. Their loss of income was paid by PPP and state grants and every other sort of slush. And their rent was excused, foreclosures forbidden, eviction forbidden and the Feds paid the banks and landlords.

And so given the choice between the old normal (work hard, make money) and the new normal (sit on your fat ass, make money), people with no shame took that government cash, just like the welfare bum and EBT whore.

And it's still destroying our country, as we speak.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 02, 2021 10:23 AM (7F9te)

Simplistic and silly. Small business owners know what work is and aren't out to cash in on the short term at expense of the long term.

My wife owns a small business. She worked for two years to build it and was crushed when it basically collapsed. You think a few loans makes up for that?

And I'd guess the reason most of these owners didn't band together is because a) they didn't realize they'd be fucked for so long and b) what difference would it make? Talk about a helpless feeling.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2021 10:29 AM (KbCG3)

153 "It's 11:45, the lab is finally ready for the xray we told you would happen at 7pm. . ."

Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2021 10:29 AM (bDqIh)

154 132 Mask wearing is down to 1-2% in my burg. They are now the freaks.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 02, 2021 10:27 AM (CAP2d)

========

Ran into the library yesterday. Second time since the mask mandate lifted. The first time I was the only one without a mask. This time there were a few, including one of the security guards.

Dolley and I also went to the friends of the library sale over the weekend, and I didn't wear my mask (she did). I was convinced she'd say something to me about it, but she didn't say a word. I think she's doing it to make other people feel more comfortable at this point.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:30 AM (LvTSG)

155 The thing is, I never get sick. No colds, flu, etc. My body just keeps acquiring damage like an old car.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM (7GWft)

Welcome back OM. As a great archeologist once said; it's not the age, it's the mileage sweetheart.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 02, 2021 10:30 AM (k/TB6)

156 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:28 AM (KZzsI)

The massive-scale child abuse was the most sick-making to me of all the monstrosities of the past year plus.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 10:30 AM (Bmy3R)

157 I'm familiar with all of the statist thugs in that photo...

And who is that, all tucked in nice and cozy between Tank, Ruthie, and Bernie? Tells you everything you need to know about him, if you didn't already.

Posted by: Oddbob at June 02, 2021 10:30 AM (nfrXX)

158 79 IMPORTANT NEWS!

THERE IS AN EXTENDED CUT OF THE MAGNUM OPUS SUPER MARIO BROS! IT IS AVAILABLE FOR FREE, LEGALLY, RIGHT NOW!

https://tinyurl.com/2akaj32f

BE CALM, PEOPLE!
I SAID BE CALM!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:22 AM (LvTSG)

I paid money to see that movie. In a theater (that no longer exists). On the night of my HS graduation. Still was a better experience than HS.

Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 10:30 AM (Ojki1)

159 I appreciate your correction, but it really isn't someone else's money.

It was all printed out of thin air. Bullshit, make believe money. BitDollar.
Technically, it's your kid's and grandkid's money. They're the ones who'll be paying it via a reduced standard of living.

Posted by: pep at June 02, 2021 10:30 AM (v16oJ)

160 Jak, that ice ax changed Leon's mind about communism.

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 02, 2021 10:31 AM (Hwak8)

161 OK I loooked up Who Dis girl with reverse image search and her name is vaguely familiar. One of those girls that was in a lot of TV stuff, especially westerns, but you never knew.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:31 AM (KZzsI)

162 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2021 10:19 AM (Uh2oA)

That would be the late drug moll Breonna Taylor.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at June 02, 2021 10:31 AM (l7Kbv)

163 Prediction: by the fall, the narrative will be Fauci was corrupt and in on the COVID coverup, and Trump knew and kept him in charge anyway.
Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2021 07:42 AM (Yoq4u)

Yup. The crime is funding China's biological weapon. Fauci is the fall guy. I knew when the legacy media started to report on this that the jig was up for Fauci. They have to cover their asses, which means there is also probably MUCH WORSE information yet to come to light.

The Trump angle will be the go to for the MSM shit talkers. Trump failed by keeping Fauci on. Trump failed by not canceling the funding, blah blah blah.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 02, 2021 10:31 AM (9etX0)

164 Very glad to see you back and on the mend, OM!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at June 02, 2021 10:31 AM (wtvvX)

165 Hiya

And welcome back OM !

Posted by: JT at June 02, 2021 10:31 AM (arJlL)

166 Did anyone get that ice cream cake from DairyQueen for OM like we said?
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 02, 2021 10:26 AM (9etX0)

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Get it? Yes.
Deliver it? No.

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 02, 2021 10:32 AM (l2max)

167 All I know is they will NEVER make any movies about television shows!

Heh. I started watching Daydream Believers recently. It's a movie about the formation of the Pre-Fab Four, The Monkees. Not bad so far, for a 20-year-old movie.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 02, 2021 10:32 AM (HaL55)

168 Yes, I agree that after a couple of months, when we had a better idea what we were dealing with, we should have instituted more rational measures. But my opinion diverges a bit from some of my respected fellow 'rons because I don't think Trump's reticence was due to germophobia. I think it was a blend of at least two things. One, Trump is not egotistical enough to assume he knows better than the doctors. I think he respects expertise in others. He knows what he doesn't know and seeks the best advice he can find. Unfortunately, the swamp is even thicker with cads than he ever imagined, so good advice was scarce.

Two, part of his concern was to counteract the insane panic the swampsters were cultivating with all their might. He was trying to reassure Americans. He may have felt that upsetting the apple cart in the middle of a pandemic would have been far more alarming than helpful.

Of course, it's easy to imagine that if he had done one thing or another that things would have turned out a certain way. But there's no guarantee the swamp would not have countered with something even more horrendous.

Posted by: Emmie at June 02, 2021 10:32 AM (tcsxg)

169 160 Jak, that ice ax changed Leon's mind about communism.
it also saved him from a fate worse than death.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 02, 2021 10:32 AM (v3pYe)

170 Today's chick did porn?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now

Not that I know of - just riffing on dancer's legs. Now Helen/Dolly had a, shall we say, wide ranging career.

In 'Give a girl a Break' (1953) and Deep Throat (1972).

Posted by: Tonypete at June 02, 2021 10:32 AM (Rvt88)

171 Lab leak story is now gaining steam. Expect significant spending in bio terrorism spending.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 02, 2021 10:32 AM (sX1BW)

172 I am not willing to give the benefit of the doubt, because the doubt is not only justifiable, it is certain. The experts are not experts in anything. They are wrong about everything. Not only are they wrong, they have an unearned hubris and completely lack any humility.
Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 02, 2021 10:29 AM (sX1BW)
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I don't disagree on them being wrong. My point is just that at the time, if they thought we were dealing with a synthetic virus (we likely were) with unknown parameters, unknown spread, unknown mortality, unknown treatment and unknown effects, then overreaction in the absence of data isn't entirely unjustifiable. It was quite clear early on, though, that the worst case scenarios weren't justified. That the extreme response continued beyond that knowledge is evidence of profound evil whereas the initial response may be rationalized as an overreaction in the absence of good information. It's why I have it pinned at Easter. It may have been evil from the start, but it was absolute, unquestionable evil from that point forward.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:32 AM (Jsjd7)

173 Welcome back Oregon Muse.

What pisses me off about that freaking letter signed by 1,200 experts who approved the BLM protests in the middle of the plandemic is that nobody bothered to fully read it (not even OregonMuse) to understand it was a freaking hoax.

Look at the names of the "experts" who signed it. At the very bottom of the list:

Y. R. Usodum

Why are you so dumb, indeed?

Posted by: nobody at June 02, 2021 10:32 AM (hn6f8)

174 OregonMuse, glad to hear you are feeling better!

"While I was in the hospital, unable to sleep because they kept coming in pretty much every hour to do stuff that wasn't really necessary ..."

Yes, the noise in hospitals is almost as bad as the noise in jail. Sleep deprivation makes everything worse.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at June 02, 2021 10:33 AM (qpX6U)

175 All I know is they will NEVER make any movies about television shows!

S.W.A.T.

And it sucked ass. The TV show rocked.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 10:33 AM (Bmy3R)

176
OK I loooked up Who Dis girl with reverse image search and her name is
vaguely familiar. One of those girls that was in a lot of TV stuff,
especially westerns, but you never knew.
I really like the pic of her putting a notch in her gun grip.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 02, 2021 10:33 AM (HaL55)

177 Glad you're back and on the mend. That first meme is absolutely chilling. I remember as kids learning about WWII and we were all baffled that anyone went along with it. Now we know.

Posted by: InCali at June 02, 2021 10:33 AM (ov5G+)

178 While a lot of it is driven by irrational fear, the real underlying reason that DeSantis is hated so much by the maskers is that he revealed the entire thing was a ridiculous fraud.

Oregon has had one of the most severe overreactions in the nation but also some of the fewest cases and fewest deaths. Not as a result of the crazed overreaction but because hey, low population density and climate.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:33 AM (KZzsI)

179 >>The massive-scale child abuse was the most sick-making to me of all the monstrosities of the past year plus.

Buckle your seatbelt, because Pride Month is looking to top it. .

Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2021 10:33 AM (bDqIh)

180 PPP loans were not really loans since they were automatically forgiven. It was straight up cash. So yeah the whole small business owners got fucked thing ring a little hollow. And people who were laid off working in restaurants, hotels, etc made more on UI than they made working before the Rona.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 02, 2021 10:33 AM (CAP2d)

181 The woman looks like a generic 1960s blonde, I know the guy because kid1 named the doggo Zorro!

Posted by: CN at June 02, 2021 10:33 AM (ONvIw)

182 Per Boy928, the fire alarm meme is misleading. The cuff went around the reporters arm but didn't lock them to the fire alarm itself.

FWIW.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 02, 2021 10:33 AM (Q+K8B)

183 Horde mind...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021 10:26 AM (uxJPn)

I'm laughing about it.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:33 AM (Zz0t1)

184 Good to see you back, OM! First pic is chilling.

Posted by: runner at June 02, 2021 10:33 AM (o8Bqg)

185 I see obama is out there flapping his lips about how racist we all are because we voted for Trump.. He says it's like the OJ verdict was to the Blacks.. It's wrong but you feel so good.. POS

Posted by: It's me donna at June 02, 2021 10:33 AM (Zmnko)

186 "He allowed himself to be jerked around by that malignant little homunculus Anthony Fauci whom he should've fired in February of last year. For starters. Because if there's one thing Trump didn't do enough of, it's house-cleaning."

OM - first of all, welcome back. We missed the big Magilla in these parts. Great post.

I disagree with this part of it, though. Yes, looking back at it Trump should have fired Fauxci back in Feb 2020. Only thing was, if he did that he would have been impeached, and Mitch McConnell would have led the charge, not Schumer or Pelosi. Fauci was untouchable for months into the lockdown - a secular saint, anointed by the MSM. Navarro had his number- and said so - and got tremendous blowback at the time. At one point, IIRC, it was rumored that he would be fired, not Fauci. It takes time to bring the homunculus down a peg, and the contradictions in his statements over time were the only thing that could do it. Even now - today, 2 Jun 21 - Fauci is relatively safe. Most LIVs think he's doing a great job.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 02, 2021 10:34 AM (mdjgu)

187 So glad you're back OM!

To celebrate, the lefties are absolutely melting down over the Fauci email release. You can tell, because shocked silence is all around us. And the White House is talking "retirement".

Posted by: Huck Follywood at June 02, 2021 10:34 AM (5iiCZ)

188 The Trump angle will be the go to for the MSM shit talkers. Trump failed by keeping Fauci on. Trump failed by not canceling the funding, blah blah blah.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 02, 2021 10:31 AM (9etX0)

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Truth.

I've already had a liberal argue with me that the "Trump DOJ" saw to it that Epstein didn't-kill himself.

Not powerful Hillary pulling in favors. Nope. Trump had him offed. Someone let Winston at the Ministry of Truth know so he'll keep an eye out for the revision.

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 02, 2021 10:34 AM (l2max)

189 The Trump angle will be the go to for the MSM shit talkers. Trump failed by keeping Fauci on. Trump failed by not canceling the funding, blah blah blah.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 02, 2021 10:31 AM (9etX0)

In your opinion, Jake, why would Trump, knowing all he knew about Fauci, why would he keep him on in such a prominent role?

That's a great question, Chris, and it's one Trump really needs to answer for.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2021 10:34 AM (KbCG3)

190 I paid money to see that movie. In a theater (that no longer exists). On the night of my HS graduation. Still was a better experience than HS.
Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 10:30 AM (Ojki1)
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Was there a dame involved? Dames make crap movies a lot better.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:34 AM (Jsjd7)

191 Gorilla Pundit comes back, thumping his mighty chest, and roaring defiance!

Welcome back Sensai

Posted by: Loki, looking to water the Tree of Liberty at June 02, 2021 10:34 AM (KqiMr)

192
That would be the late drug moll Breonna Taylor.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at June 02, 2021 10:31 AM (l7Kbv)

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Ah. I see. I'm starting to notice that, as I consume less and less news, major stories are passing me by completely. I only vaguely know that name. Some kinda race-hustle scandal, right? Is she the one that died in jail?

In any event, my plan is working. The sooner I can't recognize any public figures, the better.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2021 10:34 AM (Uh2oA)

193 RE: The Lockdowns. Everyone on the left had to buy into it and pump it up into a scare. They saw an opening on how to blame Trump and ran with it, country and people be damned. It's going to take someone out there to have our Tinamene(sp) Square moment in front of the tank to stir people from this self induced slumber. It can't be manufactured, it will have to just happen.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 02, 2021 10:34 AM (jvt6t)

194 Lets see, I served during the Cold War, dad served during Korea, several Uncles served in WW2, Great Uncle in WW1, Grandpa served in the Great White Fleet, Great-Great Grandpa Served in the Union Army During the Civil War and my 5th Great Grandpa fought in the Continental Army. I will do what is necessary, if need be, to defend the Constitution.

Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2021 10:34 AM (gmo/4)

195
S.W.A.T.

And it sucked ass. The TV show rocked.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 10:33 AM (Bmy3R)

Miami Vice.

The show was epic.

The movie....largely blew chunks.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:34 AM (Zz0t1)

196 On 20 August 1940, Trotsky was attacked in his study by Spanish-born NKVD agent Ram�n Mercader, who used an ice axe as a weapon

Posted by: Vic at June 02, 2021 10:34 AM (mpXpK)

197 Welcome back, OregonMuse. So sorry you had to go through all that pain in your shoulder again.
Life always looks grimmest when you are flat on your back, unable to do your normal work/chores. Take care of your corner of the world and pray about the rest.

Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at June 02, 2021 10:35 AM (+CiEK)

198 The massive-scale child abuse was the most sick-making to me of all the monstrosities of the past year plus.

***

Test run for fixing Global Warming.

If they can get kids to do this to save grandma, imagine what they'll do to save the planet.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Sure it works in practice, but does it work in theory? The $2 Drug that Cracked COVID at June 02, 2021 10:35 AM (Kt1w/)

199 There are multiple reasons for the wimpy response to lockdowns. ... It was a coordinated effort across almost all agencies, and Trump played along with his promotion of Fauci and skarf lady, both Gates' Goons.

The fear of a bioweapon release was part of the agitprop, and part of the concerns were (mostly) real enough, but the response was not smart, and then became purely maniacal, seditious, 'terrorist".

Real Force was used against those that opened, or did not wear the mask. And even if a restaurant opened (except for connected governors in private parties) there was fear in their customer base. Then Unemployment paid more than work ...

This was a coordinated attack across all leftist powers, and we found they control ... almost everything. Bailouts for billionaires over the decades allowed globalists to buy all power, including government.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 02, 2021 10:35 AM (Cus5s)

200 Lab leak story is now gaining steam.

So much so that outfits like Washington Post are going back and editing old stories. Like, over a year-old.

Its one thing to edit your story from last night, but to go back that far, that's just coverup and trying to change history.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:35 AM (KZzsI)

201 "Everyone was packed cheek by jowl into the memorial service"

Points for using "jowl" and "John Lewis" in the same sentence....

but the handbook-approved nomenclature here should be "nutts to butts".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2021 10:35 AM (/EuRN)

202 Yea... OregonMuse is back!

Posted by: redridinghood at June 02, 2021 10:35 AM (NpAcC)

203 A mountain climber's ice axe, in fact. Standard household implement in Mexico of the 1930's.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM (d2S1U)

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Its how they crush ice for the Margaritas.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at June 02, 2021 10:25 AM

*shifty eyes*

Yes. Is for Margaritas.

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: The NKVD at June 02, 2021 10:35 AM (m+jkK)

204 My point is just that at the time, if they thought we were dealing with a
synthetic virus (we likely were) with unknown parameters, unknown
spread, unknown mortality, unknown treatment and unknown effects, then
overreaction in the absence of data isn't entirely unjustifiable.---------------------------------------------I would have preferred the posture of pointing of every nuke at red china if we thought that was possible (and still is).

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 02, 2021 10:35 AM (sX1BW)

205 Fauci started under Reagan, right? So, the MFM can get in a little Reagan corpse-kicking to go with the Trump-blaming. They always enjoy that.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 10:35 AM (Bmy3R)

206 94 Going along with the Chinese Flu lockdowns was Trump's biggest failure .
Posted by: Just a side note at June 02, 2021 10:23 AM (2DOZq)

Hindsight is 20/20. He was maneuvering around impeachment with almost every decision. In retrospect, shoulda just went Nelson and gone straight at them!

Posted by: Rael at June 02, 2021 10:35 AM (Amveu)

207 Praise God for healing Jimmy D! He is the most honest, guileless, optimistic person I know. Remembers everybody's little accomplishments and compliments them often. I could never be as good a human being as Jimmy D is.

Posted by: Rolling Donut Unharmed By gp's Flying Leap at June 02, 2021 10:35 AM (qpX6U)

208 I see obama is out there flapping his lips about how racist we all are because we voted for Trump..

We had to cheat to save you from your racism!

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at June 02, 2021 10:36 AM (Vhoaq)

209 120 Did anyone get that ice cream cake from DairyQueen for OM like we said?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 02, 2021 10:26 AM (9etX0)

Wait, there's ice cream cake? Damn, you guys are great!

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:36 AM (7GWft)

210 ? Why aren't Americans fighting back harder against their lawless oppressors?

There are several January 6 mostly peaceful protesters being held in worse than Supermax jail conditions--being beaten brutally by their guards who could say more and better on this subject.

Oh....welcome back OM!

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at June 02, 2021 10:36 AM (p2qC7)

211 That would be the late drug moll Breonna Taylor.
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at June 02, 2021 10:31 AM (l7Kbv)

Kind of surprised the shrine doesn't also have pics of Trayvon Martin and George Floyd, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 02, 2021 10:36 AM (d2S1U)

212 There's no wrong way to kill a Communist

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021 10:36 AM (uxJPn)

213 In your opinion, Jake, why would Trump, knowing all he knew about Fauci, why would he keep him on in such a prominent role?

That's a great question, Chris, and it's one Trump really needs to answer for.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2021 10:34 AM (KbCG3)

So, Chris. Is it fair to say that Trump is worse than Hitler now?

Oh yes, absolutely. Way worse.

I concur. Are you thinking International Tribunal?

Of course. It's the only justice that will do.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 02, 2021 10:36 AM (9etX0)

214 but the handbook-approved nomenclature here should be "nutts to butts".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2021 10:35 AM (/EuRN)

flank to shank

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 02, 2021 10:37 AM (jvt6t)

215 I would have preferred the posture of pointing of every nuke at red china if we thought that was possible (and still is).
Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 02, 2021 10:35 AM (sX1BW)
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That's an entirely different point. China should have been embargoed and blockaded with nukes in reserve at an absolute minimum. It still should be. Better late than never.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:37 AM (Jsjd7)

216 It will not be long before the left/MSM (birm) starts asking why didnt Trump impose more tariffs on China?

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 02, 2021 10:37 AM (CAP2d)

217 200 Lab leak story is now gaining steam.
So much so that outfits like Washington Post are going back and editing old stories. Like, over a year-old.
Its one thing to edit your story from last night, but to go back that far, that's just coverup and trying to change history.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:35 AM (KZzsI)

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Remember...even with the media "tamping down" on the lab leak theory and upping the danger angle of covid...Trump still won, hence the late night cheating (mixed with the prearranged cheating).

There's a pendulum swing going on in this country right now that the left is trying to ignore and wish away while holding onto our cultural, financial, and governmental institutions, but it's not going to actually change that pendulum swing. They're actually just making sure that the pendulum swings further in the direction they don't want.

America is going to react somehow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:37 AM (LvTSG)

218 Wait, there's ice cream cake? Damn, you guys are great!
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:36 AM

Carvelle's finest!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2021 10:37 AM (m+jkK)

219 The movie....largely blew chunks.

Miami Vice movie took all the parts that were not beloved from Miami Vice, turned them up to 11, and left out all the parts people liked. It was terrible, and for that, inexcusable. I mean its not like JJ Abrams took over, it was freaking Michael Mann, who has proven he can make good movies and was the show creator for Miami Vice for God's sake.

Its like asking John Lennon to do an orchestral version of Imagine and he makes it some kind of bizarre postmodern atonal screeching Ono piece. Dude, wasn't this your song?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:38 AM (KZzsI)

220 212 There's no wrong way to kill a Communist
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021 10:36 AM (uxJPn)

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With kindness?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:38 AM (LvTSG)

221 There's no wrong way to kill a Communist
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021 10:36 AM (uxJPn)

This is correct.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 02, 2021 10:38 AM (Fdt5i)

222 Oh happy day!
On Monday, Work dispensed with the thermal gun to the head that caused traffic jams every morning. Today, those who took the $100 bribe for the J&J guinea pig shot can dispense with the face diaper.
Yeah America.
Yeah American government for allowing me to have rights again on a probationary basis.

Posted by: Downcast at June 02, 2021 10:38 AM (RXQXA)

223 Simplistic and silly. Small business owners know what work is and aren't
out to cash in on the short term at expense of the long term.

My wife owns a small business. She worked for two years to build it
and was crushed when it basically collapsed. You think a few loans makes
up for that?

Your point is a good one, but the problem is that so much of the money was spent to benefit political constituencies, not to help the deserving business owners. I know folks who've lost once-successful businesses through no fault of their own. I suspect most people wouldn't object to helping them, but it's the Dems blatant bribery of favored groups that sticks in people's craws.

Posted by: pep at June 02, 2021 10:38 AM (v16oJ)

224 That's an entirely different point. China should have been embargoed and
blockaded with nukes in reserve at an absolute minimum. It still should
be. Better late than never.-----------------------------------You can be my defense secretary any time.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 02, 2021 10:38 AM (sX1BW)

225 Comrade Anachronda, yup, Leon got off easy.

The KGB used to show new cadets a movie to warn them about betrayal.

They rolled a captured traitor / defector into a crematorium, cremated him alive, and filmed it.

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 02, 2021 10:38 AM (Hwak8)

226 Yes, overreaction - which we didn't know was an overreaction - at the beginning doesn't bother me, but I remember around early May looking at the statistics showed that we should have started opening back then. That's when I started relaxing a bit, but the constant fear porn likely had an effect on all of us even if we deny it.

Posted by: InCali at June 02, 2021 10:38 AM (ov5G+)

227 205 Fauci started under Reagan, right?
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 10:35 AM (Bmy3R)

Right. He f*cked up big time on AIDS, pushing for a vaccine even when drug therapies proved to be working. He should've been fired, but he's very adept at burrowing deep into the bureaucracy, permanently.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:39 AM (7GWft)

228 There's a pendulum swing going on in this country right now that the left is trying to ignore and wish away while holding onto our cultural, financial, and governmental institutions

I get a sense this is true and think it, but then my common sense and cynicism tamps that back. Its been my experience over 50 years that bad wins and good is driven back every time.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:39 AM (KZzsI)

229 Hmmm...

Posted by: SMH at June 02, 2021 10:39 AM (oUI8H)

230 Don't look now, but China is making another virus play with some bird flu.

Posted by: InCali at June 02, 2021 10:39 AM (ov5G+)

231 Good to see you back, OM! Hope the recovery continues on well!

Excellent rant -- gonna be referring back to this one quite a bit.

Posted by: Doof at June 02, 2021 10:39 AM (mZUr4)

232 Europe! Not America! I can scarcely believe it.
*****

I haven't heard of cancel culture being such a big thing in the US. People are cowed by the job loss and threat of greater retribution.

Posted by: CN at June 02, 2021 10:40 AM (ONvIw)

233 WB, OM.

Posted by: SMH at June 02, 2021 10:40 AM (oUI8H)

234 Your point is a good one, but the problem is that so much of the money
was spent to benefit political constituencies, not to help the deserving
business owners. I know folks who've lost once-successful businesses
through no fault of their own. I suspect most people wouldn't object to
helping them, but it's the Dems blatant bribery of favored groups that
sticks in people's craws.
Also, as the old saying goes, to govern is to choose. What tradeoffs were made to provide this support? Which programs were cut (other than DoD, of course)? What provisions were made to pay the money back?

Posted by: pep at June 02, 2021 10:40 AM (v16oJ)

235 The Brady Bunch Movies.

Those worked.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 10:40 AM (Bmy3R)

236 Katrina was the catalyst for this. Post Katrina every politician is scared shitless of being seen as uncaring while people suffer. So at the slightest little thing, they go all out to show they care. Trump was no exception.

Posted by: Joe XiDen at June 02, 2021 10:40 AM (CAP2d)

237 There's no wrong way to kill a Communist

Chased to death by beautiful naked women like in Meaning of Life?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:40 AM (KZzsI)

238 Wait, there's ice cream cake? Damn, you guys are great!
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional

The moose out front ate it.

Posted by: JT at June 02, 2021 10:40 AM (arJlL)

239 Simplistic and silly. Small business owners know what work is and aren't out to cash in on the short term at expense of the long term.

I can only speak anecdotally for the small business I work for and some area businesses that defied local lockdown orders.

My business owner saw the PPP loan program as a boon, actually turned a greater profit and offset expenses that improved his bottom line.

Some area bars decided f* it, they weren't complying. The rest of the local bars trashed them online and went to government meetings demanding that they be punished for violating the rules.

And to be honest, it's about impossible to hire unskilled labor right now, because it pays better to draw a check. Local McDonald's is offering $13 an hour to start with a $500 sign on bonus. Still can't get employees.

I'm sure there are exceptions, but exceptions prove the rule.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 02, 2021 10:41 AM (7F9te)

240 "Hey waiter! I ordered Fish and Chips. You brought me French Fries!"

Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2021 10:41 AM (m45I2)

241

The greatest ape of them all.

Merry Anders was in a lot of 60's TV. I see her on Perry Mason and Dragnet.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2021 10:41 AM (63Dwl)

242 Hi Oregon Muse, welcome back!

Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2021 10:41 AM (DJFLF)

243 And it sucked ass. The TV show rocked.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 10:33 AM (Bmy3R)

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New SWAT also sucks the ass. It is painfully woke. The writers seek out social justice issues to cram into the show.

Apparently in LA there is no black gang crime. IIt's all white supremacists.

And the scrawny girl who looks so top-heavy when she wears the bulletproof helmet she reminds me of when elementary kids visit the fire-house and one of them gets all the gear put on them... She's the strong brave bi one who never misses a shot and always shows up out of nowhere to sock the bad guy running away.

All I want is a cop show about cops catching bad guys. But NOOOoOoooOoooo...

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 02, 2021 10:41 AM (l2max)

244 I mean its not like JJ Abrams took over, it was freaking Michael Mann, who has proven he can make good movies and was the show creator for Miami Vice for God's sake.

Its like asking John Lennon to do an orchestral version of Imagine and he makes it some kind of bizarre postmodern atonal screeching Ono piece. Dude, wasn't this your song?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:38 AM (KZzsI)

And he didn't even invite Jan Hammer back to do ANY of the music.......

https://youtu.be/0uF2Y1yIHdc

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:41 AM (Zz0t1)

245 They rolled a captured traitor / defector into a crematorium, cremated him alive, and filmed it.
Posted by: callsign claymore at June 02, 2021 10:38 AM (Hwak

OK, so the commies had *some* decent ideas....

but I still hate them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2021 10:41 AM (/EuRN)

246 "Wake up, Mr. Muse. It's time for your sleeping pill!"
Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2021 10:17 AM (m45I2)

Oh, it was worse than that: "I thought you'd never wake up. Here's your sleeping pill!"
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:20 AM (7GWft)
***
Only thing worse is OM wakes up and she's standing there with a sultry come hither smile and swinging a catheter around.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2021 10:41 AM (axyOa)

247 Merry Anders was in a lot of 60's TV. I see her on Perry Mason and Dragnet.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2021 10:41 AM (63Dwl)
She looks like the My Three Sons mom, or nanny or something.

Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2021 10:42 AM (DJFLF)

248 Kind of surprised the shrine doesn't also have pics of Trayvon Martin and George Floyd, too.

It's a work in progress...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 02, 2021 10:42 AM (HaL55)

249 but the handbook-approved nomenclature here should be "nutts to butts".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2021 10:35 AM (/EuRN)

flank to shank

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 02, 2021 10:37 AM (jvt6t)

Assholes to Elbows. Which would also be a great name for a food truck that serves macaroni and hot dogs.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 02, 2021 10:42 AM (k/TB6)

250 Your point is a good one, but the problem is that so much of the money was spent to benefit political constituencies, not to help the deserving business owners. I know folks who've lost once-successful businesses through no fault of their own. I suspect most people wouldn't object to helping them, but it's the Dems blatant bribery of favored groups that sticks in people's craws.
Posted by: pep at June 02, 2021 10:38 AM (v16oJ)

It was a program created in haste, with money pulled out of thin air.

A grifters dream, aka, the typical government-run bullshit.

And yes, my wife and the business owners she knows all just wanted help in getting through. They would've much rather had their businesses than these stupid ass loans.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2021 10:42 AM (KbCG3)

251 In Merrie Olde, If you want fries you ask for chips!

If you want chips you ask for crisps!

If you want crisps you ask for...pork rinds?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 10:42 AM (Bmy3R)

252 Miami Vice.

The show was epic.

The movie....largely blew chunks.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:34 AM (Zz0t1)

There was a Miami Vice movie?? I did not know this.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:43 AM (7GWft)

253 So glad you are back. Our prayers are answered.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at June 02, 2021 10:43 AM (u82oZ)

254 IIRC the lab leak story was the first reporting on COVID... when it was called Bat Flu and not "COVID." There were several accounts of this bug getting out of the lab, intentionally or not is really the only question. It's obvious the "wet market" story was an attempt to cover up the truth and our government went along with it. They did so because Fauci was complicit in the research being done there. Whether or not Trump was aware of this, or that info was withheld from him is not known, but I'd bet it was withheld.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 02, 2021 10:43 AM (3H9h1)

255 Welcome back, OregonMuse. Good to see you again.

Posted by: flounder at June 02, 2021 10:43 AM (KnJdm)

256 Good to see you 'Muse

The thing is, I never get sick. No colds, flu, etc. My body just keeps acquiring damage like an old car.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM (7GWft)

Sounds like me...my suspension is shot.

Posted by: BignJames at June 02, 2021 10:43 AM (AwYPR)

257 ... atonal screeching Ono piece. ...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:38 AM

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Intragalactic Yoko Ono Artistry Appreciation Association at June 02, 2021 10:43 AM (DMUuz)

258 There's no wrong way to kill a Communist
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021 10:36 AM (uxJPn)

========

With kindness?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:38 AM (LvTSG)
***

Ahhh. A head shot vice a gut shot.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2021 10:43 AM (axyOa)

259 Arlene Golonka, aka Millie Hutchins on The Andy Griffith Show and Millie Swanson on Mayberry RFD, died at 85 on Monday.

RIP.

Another part of my childhood passing.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2021 10:43 AM (Aivl/)

260 Movie remakes of TV shows probably has the worst success to failure ratio of any genre. You can count the number of ones that weren't just godawful almost on one hand.

The Star Trek movies
Addams Family movies
Untouchables
Muppet Movie
Wayne's World
Naked Gun
South Park
and I hear "Man From Uncle" was pretty good

That's about it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:43 AM (KZzsI)

261 I have somewhere a collection of Reader's Digest stories about crime. One of them was about the death of Trotsky. I just went looking for the book, but I can't find it.

One titbit: Mercado gained access to Trotsky's heavily guarded house that morning by saying he had written an article he wanted Trotsky to read and comment on. According to Mercado's later statement, Trotsky began reading the piece and said, "This is awfully muddled, Ramon."

To which Mercado, standing behind the old commie, replied, "Perhaps this will clear it up," and smashed the ice axe into Trotsky's head.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 02, 2021 10:43 AM (2JVJo)

262 There was a Miami Vice movie?? I did not know this.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:43 AM (7GWft)

Colin Ferrel and Jamie Fox, it sucked.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 02, 2021 10:43 AM (k/TB6)

263
May, 2021, in Germany comes in as one of the coldest in years.

Also spring, 2021, comes in cooler than normal. Spring in Germany hasn't warmed at all over the past 30 years

Posted by: SMOD at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (RHGPo)

264 And he didn't even invite Jan Hammer back to do ANY of the music.......

And no Elvis The Sailboat Guarding Alligator either, I bet.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (HaL55)

265 Biden won NM-1 by 23 pts

The Dem won yesterday's special election by 25.

Posted by: Vote Harder! at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (KiuXs)

266 243 Apparently in LA there is no black gang crime. IIt's all white supremacists.

figures.

In the original show it was all crazed 'Nam vets LOL

Or Sal Mineo as a Manson-type cult leader.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (Bmy3R)

267
There was a Miami Vice movie?? I did not know this.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:43 AM (7GWft)

With the poor casting selections of Colin Ferrell and Jamie Foxx, I believe.......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

268 252 There was a Miami Vice movie?? I did not know this.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:43 AM (7GWft)

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The movie Michael Mann made right after Collateral.

It's okay, speaking as someone who's never seen an episode of the show. It's overlong, and overserious, but there are some good sequences. It feels very much like a first draft rushed into production as fast as possible, which is probably was.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (LvTSG)

269 Movie remakes of TV shows probably has the worst success to failure
ratio of any genre. You can count the number of ones that weren't just
godawful almost on one hand.-------------------------------------------I enjoyed Dragnet.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (sX1BW)

270 Welcome back, OregonMuse! We missed you!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (Dc2NZ)

271 Also, as the old saying goes, to govern is to choose. What tradeoffs were made to provide this support? Which programs were cut (other than DoD, of course)? What provisions were made to pay the money back?
Posted by: pep at June 02, 2021 10:40 AM (v16oJ)
++++
This is a fair point, but I think it misses one of the key underlying points, which is that none of this is necessary. This question wouldn't need to be asked (in the specific sense) if the state and press didn't force the extreme response to continue past the point when the data reflected that this wasn't nearly big enough a problem to justify it (even if their responses had been effective, which they weren't). That it was unnecessary (indeed, that it was evil) makes this far worse.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (Jsjd7)

272 Kind of surprised the shrine doesn't also have pics of Trayvon Martin and George Floyd, too.

The collection is remarkably pasty and pale. Hilariously it includes that demented bald chick from Hogg's school who bragged about bullying the shooter.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (KZzsI)

273 Miami Vice.

The show was epic.

Great Music. Smugglers Blues, Crockett's Theme, Opening Theme.

Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (gmo/4)

274 260 That's about it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:43 AM (KZzsI)

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Monty Python might like a word.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (LvTSG)

275 There was a Miami Vice movie?? I did not know this.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:43 AM (7GWft)

some abomination with Jamie Foxx and that Irish dude from Hart's War

Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 02, 2021 10:45 AM (9etX0)

276 >>Its one thing to edit your story from last night, but to go back that far, that's just coverup and trying to change history.

old and busted: Stealth edit old stories

New hotness: Configure news site so that pages aren't archived.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2021 10:45 AM (bDqIh)

277 And to be honest, it's about impossible to hire unskilled labor right now, because it pays better to draw a check. Local McDonald's is offering $13 an hour to start with a $500 sign on bonus. Still can't get employees.

I'm sure there are exceptions, but exceptions prove the rule.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 02, 2021 10:41 AM (7F9te)

Then your point is that employees are abusing this. I'm sure the McDonald's franchisee isn't "loving it," it being watching his business go down in flames because the government is handing out free money for people not to work.

I'm just saying, if you gave small business owners the choice between a short-term loan to keep their business afloat, or just having everything open, 90% would choose open.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2021 10:45 AM (KbCG3)

278 114 Its how they crush ice for the Margaritas.
the ice must be crushed. wouldn't want it getting uppity.

Posted by: The Margaritas at June 02, 2021 10:45 AM (sGtp+)

279
There's no wrong way to kill a Communist
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021 10:36 AM (uxJPn)

Well, Mercader was made a Hero of the Soviet Union when he got sprung from prison in Mexico. So one commie made it out ok.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 02, 2021 10:46 AM (Uh2oA)

280 RuPaul's Drag-net.

Bunch of faaaaaabulous drag queens fighting crime in feather boas and size 12 heels.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2021 10:46 AM (/EuRN)

281 The day OM returned, America turned a corner........

*future history book*

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 02, 2021 10:46 AM (jvt6t)

282 Folks, in case any failed to notice, THIS is how you make a return as a COB.

Holy hell, what an essay! Every word exactly the right one, impeccable reason, logic and presentation. Not one misstated or ill chosen phrase, beginning to end.

This essay should be the feature of the Mid-Morning Art Thread, tomorrow. Because that's exactly what it is. A work of Art. And we are honored to read it.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 02, 2021 10:46 AM (QzJWU)

283 190 I paid money to see that movie. In a theater (that no longer exists). On the night of my HS graduation. Still was a better experience than HS.
Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 10:30 AM (Ojki1)
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Was there a dame involved? Dames make crap movies a lot better.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:34 AM (Jsjd7)

I was geekdom before it was the cool kids pretending to be nerds as the hip thing. Don't think there was a woman anywhere close to the screening room, at least no closer than walking past the door to go see a better movie in a different room.

Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 10:46 AM (Ojki1)

284 Welcome back, OM.

As for what destroyed America, I'm going to say that one of the most destructive forces of all time is television. It makes imagination superfluous, simplifies complex issues to 20 second sound bites, and doesn't require intelligence at all. In fact, it hates intelligence.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 02, 2021 10:46 AM (p+1gI)

285 A sultry image of our whodis girl:

https://tinyurl.com/hhyefxcy

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:46 AM (KZzsI)

286 Greta looks so much like an angry Cabbage Patch doll.

Posted by: Emmie at June 02, 2021 10:46 AM (tcsxg)

287 The collection is remarkably pasty and pale. Hilariously it includes that demented bald chick from Hogg's school who bragged about bullying the shooter.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM

Ah. Shaved Guevara. I was trying to remember which lefty twit that was.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2021 10:46 AM (m+jkK)

288 >Its one thing to edit your story from last night, but to go back that far, that's just coverup and trying to change history.

that was exactly Winston Smith's job at MiniTru

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 02, 2021 10:47 AM (iTXRQ)

289 Wait, there's ice cream cake? Damn, you guys are great!

Well, there was. But you didn't show up and it was getting kind of soft and it would have been a shame to let it go to waste....

Posted by: Oddbob at June 02, 2021 10:47 AM (nfrXX)

290 I think the protests were bigger in Europe because the lockdowns were so much stricter in some places. In England the citizens were "permitted" an hour for exercise.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 02, 2021 10:47 AM (Dc2NZ)

291 Ahhh. A head shot vice a gut shot.
Posted by: Diogenes

Texas head shot. Wait until they bend over.
Straight up the ass and out the head.
(Term comes from hog hunting when they turn away from you)

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2021 10:47 AM (Aivl/)

292 >>Movie remakes of TV shows probably has the worst success to failure
ratio of any genre.

CHIPS
Starsky and Hutch
Dukes of Hazard

All bad.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2021 10:47 AM (bDqIh)

293
She looks like the My Three Sons mom, or nanny or something.
Posted by: kallisto

Are you thinking of Beverly Garland?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2021 10:48 AM (63Dwl)

294 Count down to Fauci is a white supremacist who invented COVID to 1) make the Chinese look bad and 2) kill many minorites begins in 5...4...

Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2021 10:48 AM (Yoq4u)

295 287 The collection is remarkably pasty and pale. Hilariously it includes that demented bald chick from Hogg's school who bragged about bullying the shooter.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM

Ah. Shaved Guevara. I was trying to remember which lefty twit that was.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2021 10:46 AM (m+jkK)

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The picture must predate George Floyd. It's the only explanation for why he would be there and Guevera would be on it. The Left dropped her like a rock a while back when she admitted that they bullied the kid with the gun, but...it was before the rise of covid and Fauci's there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:48 AM (LvTSG)

296 The American Legion in Rochester, Indiana was the very last building to 'be allowed to open'.

I quizzed the commander on why did we not organize a march through town straight to the Health office.

I guess the boys have had enough marching...

Posted by: Cicero Kaboom! Kid at June 02, 2021 10:48 AM (n/szn)

297 Ah. Shaved Guevara. I was trying to remember which lefty twit that was.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2021 10:46 AM (m+jkK)

Don't forget McStains is in there. Mavericky!!

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 02, 2021 10:48 AM (jvt6t)

298 269 Movie remakes of TV shows probably has the worst success to failure

ratio of any genre. You can count the number of ones that weren't just

godawful almost on one hand.-------------------------------------------I enjoyed Dragnet.
and there was that batman movie that involved shark repellent, being unable to dispose of a bomb with a burning fuse, and freeze-dried diplomats.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 02, 2021 10:48 AM (v3pYe)

299
This essay should be the feature of the Mid-Morning Art Thread, tomorrow. Because that's exactly what it is. A work of Art. And we are honored to read it.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at June 02, 2021 10:46 AM (QzJWU)

Will. Not. Argue.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

300 294 Count down to Fauci is a white supremacist who invented COVID to 1) make the Chinese look bad and 2) kill many minorites begins in 5...4...
Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2021 10:48 AM (Yoq4u)

It would serve him right.

Posted by: CN at June 02, 2021 10:48 AM (ONvIw)

301 Only thing worse is OM wakes up and she's standing there with a sultry come hither smile and swinging a catheter around.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2021 10:41 AM

However, when he's standing there ...

Posted by: Shep! Now with even more Sheppiness! at June 02, 2021 10:48 AM (DMUuz)

302 286 Greta looks so much like an angry Cabbage Patch doll.
Posted by: Emmie at June 02, 2021 10:46 AM (tcsxg)

Garbage Pail Kid

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (/EuRN)

303 292 >>Movie remakes of TV shows probably has the worst success to failure
ratio of any genre.

CHIPS
Starsky and Hutch
Dukes of Hazard

All bad.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2021 10:47 AM (bDqIh)

========

Baywatch has Alexandra Daddario in a bikini.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (LvTSG)

304 At least we wont have to listen to Fauci much longer. Whitehouse discussing how to get rid of him currently.
Tired of his gas.

Posted by: Secretaria de Seguridad Publica at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (8YfCc)

305 Trump told Pence to run the task force.
Who hired Fauci to join it?

Traitor Pence. Questions?

Posted by: nobody at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (HnoEl)

306 "Of course, it's easy to imagine that if he had done one thing or another that things would have turned out a certain way. But there's no guarantee the swamp would not have countered with something even more horrendous." Posted by: Emmie

yes ... Trump had the swamp right in his offices, and it is hard to know if he could have overcome that is better ways. I did keep asking at the time ... "why does Trump keep Gates' boy Fauci running this circus?"

Trump did empower governors, but he had real scientists that could have rebuked Fauci and the bureaucrats. I surmise perhaps they had something on Ivanka, or his kids, since DeepStaters always seemed to get their TopMen is every key position.

But Trump was probably being fed lies from his military, from his AG, from the FBI ... the coup was not all out in the open, and the DeepState went into blitzkrieg mode ... their survival was at stake, they seemed to have taken care of their Trump problem (for now).

Posted by: illiniwek at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (Cus5s)

307 196 On 20 August 1940, Trotsky was attacked in his study by Spanish-born NKVD agent Ramon Mercader, who used an ice axe as a weapon
Posted by: Vic at June 02, 2021 10:34 AM (mpXpK)

I'll proudly use that as a what happened on your birthday in history

Posted by: A dude in MI at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (/6GbT)

308 Star Trek and Mission Impossible probably the two most successful TV to movies .

Posted by: Just a side note at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (2DOZq)

309
In England the citizens were "permitted" an hour for exercise.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Sounds like prison

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (63Dwl)

310 212 There's no wrong way to kill a Communist
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021 10:36 AM (uxJPn)

Waiting for old age to do it is pretty crap.

Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (Ojki1)

311 There's a pendulum swing going on in this country right now that the left is trying to ignore and wish away while holding onto our cultural, financial, and governmental institutions

I get a sense this is true and think it, but then my common sense and cynicism tamps that back. Its been my experience over 50 years that bad wins and good is driven back every time.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:39 AM (KZzsI)

I can see this is true. But I also think it's true that people need to force the pendulum arm, not just watch it swing. And I'm speaking to myself as much as anyone else.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (sJHOI)

312 298 and there was that batman movie that involved shark repellent, being unable to dispose of a bomb with a burning fuse, and freeze-dried diplomats.
Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 02, 2021 10:48 AM (v3pYe)

=========

That was more of an extension of the show. Made by the same people who made the show after the first season. It's probably most accurately viewed as an extended episode.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (LvTSG)

313 Miami Vice.

The show was epic.

Great Music. Smugglers Blues, Crockett's Theme, Opening Theme.

Posted by: Archer
Tons of stars got their start on that show. One in particular was thug #2, director Michael Mann.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (k/TB6)

314 Who Dis is named Merry Anders, she was apparently also a model. The dude is Mark Damon who I don't know at all. No clue what connects them.

Monty Python might like a word.

I probably should have left off South Park and the Muppets because the same people made the movie as the TV show. I don't really consider that as being part of the genre. When you make a longer theatrical release of own product, its not really the same as someone else completely unconnected with the TV program 30 years later making a movie of your show.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (KZzsI)

315
CHIPS
Starsky and Hutch
Dukes of Hazard

All bad.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2021 10:47 AM (bDqIh)

Starsky and Hutch basically just pissed me off.

They took a show that was largely serious with the occasional comedic undertones and DESTROYED it with shit slapsitck garbage.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)

316 309
In England the citizens were "permitted" an hour for exercise.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Sounds like prison
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (63Dwl)

Nah, they let you out of prison cause you might catch Wuflu there.

Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 10:50 AM (Ojki1)

317 Traitor Pence. Questions?
Posted by: nobody at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (HnoEl)

I can't imagine why he and Miss Nikki think they're desirable candidates. Shivving the President is a bad look.

Posted by: CN at June 02, 2021 10:50 AM (ONvIw)

318 I do like a lot of the SNL skits turned into movies. I even liked Super Star !

Posted by: Just a side note at June 02, 2021 10:50 AM (2DOZq)

319 The Horde, collectively, has now officially put more thought into that stupid menagerie of dipshit portraiture than the person who actually assembled it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2021 10:50 AM (/EuRN)

320 I can see this is true. But I also think it's true that people need to
force the pendulum arm, not just watch it swing. And I'm speaking to
myself as much as anyone else.-----------------------------------But it only takes a few people to force it. The vast majority will just go with the flow. That is true of much of history. That's good and bad.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 02, 2021 10:51 AM (sX1BW)

321 Greta looks so much like an angry Cabbage Patch doll.

Posted by: Emmie at June 02, 2021 10:46 AM (tcsxg)

Garbage Pail Kid

Pet Rock. An angry one. Mine tried to bite me once...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 02, 2021 10:51 AM (HaL55)

322 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (KZzsI)

They were both in some weak version of Beauty and the Beast.

Posted by: CN at June 02, 2021 10:51 AM (ONvIw)

323 I don't understand the success of the Mission Impossible movies. Their charm is lost on me.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 02, 2021 10:51 AM (QU5/8)

324 That should've triggered our American DNA.

Well, I don't think all is lost. In the last year a hell of a lot of guns and ammo were bought up. And it is possible the government (particularly city governments) won't like it very much the next time we tell it to f* right off.

Oh...and speaking of DNA, another result of locking people up for so long...4 pregnant women in the coffee place this morning.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2021 10:51 AM (axyOa)

325 I do like a lot of the SNL skits turned into music videos!

The Killer Bees!

Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2021 10:51 AM (gmo/4)

326 318 I do like a lot of the SNL skits turned into movies. I even liked Super Star !
Posted by: Just a side note at June 02, 2021 10:50 AM (2DOZq)

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You have the Blu-ray of It's Pat: The Movie, don't you?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:51 AM (LvTSG)

327 The Killer Bees!
Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2021 10:51 AM (gmo/4)

The one with Gloria Swanson and Kate Jackson...lol

Posted by: CN at June 02, 2021 10:52 AM (ONvIw)

328 Finally something for us elbow fetishists!

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 02, 2021 10:52 AM (k4dH2)

329 Tons of stars got their start on that show. One in particular was thug #2, director Michael Mann.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (k/TB6)

Michael Mann can give you a great movie like Collateral, but ruins Miami Vice movie. Strange.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 02, 2021 10:52 AM (jvt6t)

330 Miami Vice.

The show was epic.

Great Music. Smugglers Blues, Crockett's Theme, Opening Theme.
Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (gmo/4)

There was also this gem from Russ Ballard...
https://youtu.be/Jw135y5IL7c

Posted by: Doof at June 02, 2021 10:52 AM (mZUr4)

331 I don't understand the success of the Mission Impossible movies.

Yeah I am not super fond of them either. I get bored watching them, because there's no dramatic tension whatsoever. The stunts are often impressive but otherwise its dull.

I do like a lot of the SNL skits turned into movies

Lady's Man is dumb as hell but makes me laugh so hard.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:53 AM (KZzsI)

332 286 Greta looks so much like an angry Cabbage Patch doll.

Pippi Ragestocking

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 10:53 AM (Bmy3R)

333 321 Greta looks so much like an angry Cabbage Patch doll.

Posted by: Emmie at June 02, 2021 10:46 AM (tcsxg)

Garbage Pail Kid

Pet Rock. An angry one. Mine tried to bite me once...
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 02, 2021 10:51 AM (HaL55)
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A moose once bit mai sister.

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 02, 2021 10:53 AM (l2max)

334
There was also this gem from Russ Ballard...
https://youtu.be/Jw135y5IL7c
Posted by: Doof at June 02, 2021 10:52 AM (mZUr4)

a FANTASTIC song.......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

335 265 Biden won NM-1 by 23 pts
The Dem won yesterday's special election by 25.
Posted by: Vote Harder! at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (KiuXs)

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Hard to believe that it used to be a reliable Republican seat up until 2006, when the Republican barely held on. By 2008, yeah, game over.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at June 02, 2021 10:54 AM (cwI4U)

336 OregonMuse: delighted to have you back in your normal place in the AoS universe. Hopefully, you will not have another stay at Club Hospital. And, yes, the Times I've been in the hospital, I do looked forward to coming home so I could finally get a little sleep.

I used to think Americans were more willing to take risks, more entrepreneurial, more action oriented because we are descended from people who risked all to pull up roots and move thousands of miles to better their lives. The rest of the world were the stay-at-homes, the keep-your-head-downs, the ones afraid to take a chance. But, OM, you are absolutely right; Americans aren't like that any more. Somewhere between the end of WW II and now, we lost it. Bit by bit by bit, we let it slip away. The mask compliance is merely a symptom. I spent the entire WuFlu lockdown arguing that the world didn't shut down for the Hong Kong flu, the Asian flu, SARs, and I can't remember what else. Repeatedly, I was told by others who should have known better, that the WuFlu was so much more deadly than anything else short of possibly the Great Plague. I have kids and grandkids; I don't think the America of the future will be kind to them.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- current occupation: cat furniture at June 02, 2021 10:54 AM (grl6Y)

337 Tom Cruise for all his weirdness just makes good movies. He's just a star that makes dumb movies better. Weird dude, but just a fact.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 02, 2021 10:54 AM (sX1BW)

338 323 I don't understand the success of the Mission Impossible movies. Their charm is lost on me.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 02, 2021 10:51 AM (QU5/

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I bought the first one recently and watched it for the first time in a decade (on beautiful 4K).

It's more of a Brian de Palma movie than anything else. The paranoia, Hitchcock references, voyeurism...it's all there. Anyway, as an action thriller with a huge budget given to a filmmaker who probably never should have had it, it's fun.

II is an abomination and proof that John Woo is a hack. III is lightly amusing and proof that JJ Abrams barely knows what he's doing but he's going to throw lens flares at everything. IV is where the series really finally comes into its own as the kind of action spectacle that makes Tom Cruise into Action Man. It's a weird series.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:54 AM (LvTSG)

339 Greta looks so much like an angry Cabbage Patch doll.

Pippi Ragestocking
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 10:53 AM (Bmy3R)
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HAHAHA! I've been calling her Pippi Long-talking.

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 02, 2021 10:54 AM (l2max)

340 There was also this gem from Russ Ballard

Tons of great music on that show, introduced me to a lot of great bands. Manhunter and Band of the Hand had killer soundtracks, too.

Michael Mann can give you a great movie like Collateral, but ruins Miami Vice movie.

He's incredibly uneven, like Ridley Scott. He can do Blade Runner, then do Legend.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:54 AM (KZzsI)

341
I don't disagree on them being wrong. My point is just that at the time, if they thought we were dealing with a synthetic virus (we likely were) with unknown parameters, unknown spread, unknown mortality, unknown treatment and unknown effects, then overreaction in the absence of data isn't entirely unjustifiable. It was quite clear early on, though, that the worst case scenarios weren't justified. That the extreme response continued beyond that knowledge is evidence of profound evil whereas the initial response may be rationalized as an overreaction in the absence of good information. It's why I have it pinned at Easter. It may have been evil from the start, but it was absolute, unquestionable evil from that point forward.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:32 AM (Jsjd7)

But yet, some of us knew from the beginning that this was a political scam. We tried to warn all of you. But you decided you wanted to live in fear.

Posted by: Justsayin' at June 02, 2021 10:54 AM (Fs5vw)

342 Ah. Shaved Guevara. I was trying to remember which lefty twit that was.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2021 10:46 AM (m+jkK)
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I thought that was in reference to AOC's personal grooming. I didn't know about the Hogg connection.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:54 AM (Jsjd7)

343 I haven't ever gone wrong following The Critical Drinker's movie recommendations.

I even watched Highlander last night.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, nothing important, skip ahead at June 02, 2021 10:54 AM (2BgZB)

344 "Everyone was packed cheek by jowl into the memorial service"

Points for using "jowl" and "John Lewis" in the same sentence....

but the handbook-approved nomenclature here should be "nutts to butts".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at June 02, 2021 10:35 AM (/EuRN)

well, there were plenty of nuts at that funeral...

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 02, 2021 10:55 AM (8D42x)

345 So joe is shutting down the oil leases in Alaska... Wonder how Murkowski feel about that....

Posted by: It's me donna at June 02, 2021 10:55 AM (Zmnko)

346
That was more of an extension of the show. Made by the same people who made the show after the first season. It's probably most accurately viewed as an extended episode.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (LvTSG)

Pretty sure part of making the movie was it gave them budget to add the Batboat and Bat Copter as it was planned before they discovered they had a -turns out flash in the pan- bonzo hit for a season and a half or so. And then to cut the budget the 3rd went avant garde. Looks good on Blu Ray though.

Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 10:55 AM (Ojki1)

347 You have the Blu-ray of It's Pat: The Movie, don't you?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:51 AM (LvTSG)

That's one I've never seen. Night at the Roxbury, SuperStar, Coneheads, Blues Brothers were all enjoyable to me.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 02, 2021 10:55 AM (2DOZq)

348 340 He's incredibly uneven, like Ridley Scott. He can do Blade Runner, then do Legend.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:54 AM (KZzsI)

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Have you seen the director's cut of Legend? I've never seen the theatrical, just the director's cut, and it's pretty solid stuff. The general consensus seems to be that the director's cut improves on the theatrical.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:55 AM (LvTSG)

349 and there was that batman movie that involved shark repellent, being unable to dispose of a bomb with a burning fuse...

The bomb scene is hilarious. One of my favorite movie quotes: "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb."

Posted by: Oddbob at June 02, 2021 10:55 AM (nfrXX)

350 I'm just saying, if you gave small business owners the choice between a short-term loan to keep their business afloat, or just having everything open, 90% would choose open.

I don't disagree with that. But that is not what happened.

They gave businesses the choice between having everything open and replacement income loans that did not need to be repaid, and that percentage tightened up quite a lot.

33 % of restaurants closing in Cali seems crazy. But the reality is 17-18% of restaurants fail in their first year and 50% don't make it to five years.

The likelihood is that probably 25% of Cali restaurants would have failed pandemic or no.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 02, 2021 10:55 AM (7F9te)

351 I can see this is true. But I also think it's true that people need to
force the pendulum arm, not just watch it swing. And I'm speaking to
myself as much as anyone else.-----------------------------------But it only takes a few people to force it. The vast majority will just go with the flow. That is true of much of history. That's good and bad.
Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 02, 2021 10:51 AM (sX1BW)

Here in southern California I've started going everywhere (including into stores) without a mask. I'm usually the ONLY person without a mask, but mostly no one seems to mind. Except, I went into a CVS pharmacy last week and two different workers went all Karen on me, literally almost shouting that I needed a mask or I had to leave.... The pendulum needs to swing a whole lot more.

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 02, 2021 10:55 AM (pcsoT)

352 OK Hordelings. I gotta go do stuff like clean out the storage unit. Don't burn the place down, 'k?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 02, 2021 10:55 AM (HaL55)

353 Wait until they bend over.
Straight up the ass and out the head.

Posted by: rickb223

Yoo Hoo!! Over here!!

Posted by: Obummer at June 02, 2021 10:55 AM (Rvt88)

354 So good to "see" you, OM. FenSpouse and I have been praying for you. Thankful to God that you are out of the hospital and doing better and able to get back on the ASHQ horse. Good essay!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2021 10:56 AM (k39e/)

355 And to be honest, it's about impossible to hire unskilled labor right now, because it pays better to draw a check. Local McDonald's is offering $13 an hour to start with a $500 sign on bonus. Still can't get employees.

I'm sure there are exceptions, but exceptions prove the rule.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 02, 2021 10:41 AM (7F9te)

Another big disincentive is that employees have to wear a stifling mask all day. If you stay home you can receive your $$ without a mask.

Posted by: Emmie at June 02, 2021 10:56 AM (tcsxg)

356 My wife sent me out for fish and chips a couple months ago. I had an expired coupon, but the nice lady at the restaurant gave me the $10 off anyway. Unfortunately I forgot to check the bag when they handed it to me and didn't discover they had left out the chips from the order until I pulled in at home. Wife asked me how it went. I said, "Good buy. Missed yer chips!"

Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2021 10:56 AM (m45I2)

357 345 So joe is shutting down the oil leases in Alaska... Wonder how Murkowski feel about that....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 02, 2021 10:55 AM (Zmnko)

And importing oil from Iran. Sick bastard

Posted by: CN at June 02, 2021 10:56 AM (ONvIw)

358 Miami Vice.

The show was epic.

Great Music. Smugglers Blues, Crockett's Theme, Opening Theme.
Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (gmo/4)

There was also this gem from Russ Ballard...
https://youtu.be/Jw135y5IL7c
Posted by: Doof at June 02, 2021 10:52 AM (mZUr4)

A full version of Russ Ballard - "Voices"
https://youtu.be/imiFk2J4Dkk

Posted by: Doof at June 02, 2021 10:56 AM (mZUr4)

359 Tom Cruise for all his weirdness just makes good movies.

He's a great actor. Not a GREAT ACTOR like a stage performer with massive range or whatever, but great in the sense of being riveting on screen and entertaining while being able to play a variety of roles convincingly.

Like John Wayne, you never forget its Tom Cruise, but he's still very fun to watch and yeah, he makes a movie better by being in it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:56 AM (KZzsI)

360 ... It's more of a Brian de Palma movie than anything else. The paranoia, Hitchcock references, voyeurism...it's all there. Anyway, as an action thriller with a huge budget given to a filmmaker who probably never should have had it, it's fun. ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:54 AM (LvTSG)
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I think the first movie is extremely good, and it's because it's a real movie. Brian de Palma is exceptionally talented at telling a visual story and that movie reflects it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:56 AM (Jsjd7)

361 There was also this gem from Russ Ballard...
https://youtu.be/Jw135y5IL7c
Posted by: Doof at June 02, 2021 10:52 AM (mZUr4)

Let me guess.. Crockett and Tubbs blasting across the ocean in the cigarette boat.. excellent tune!

Posted by: A dude in MI at June 02, 2021 10:56 AM (/6GbT)

362 I think Legend is better than Blade Runner.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 02, 2021 10:56 AM (QU5/8)

363 340 He's incredibly uneven, like Ridley Scott. He can do Blade Runner, then do Legend.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:54 AM (KZzsI)
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It's only out of respect to TJM that we don't use that movie as the nadir of Scott's career.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 02, 2021 10:57 AM (Dc2NZ)

364 Traitor Pence. Questions?
Posted by: nobody at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (HnoEl)

Wasn't he put in charge of Wuflu response by Trump? He has to be sitting there, watching all the current stuff come out and know that his chances of raising any cash for a run on his heroic oppose Trump stand are now sinking faster than Jeb's polls did.

Such a shame.

Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 10:57 AM (Ojki1)

365 America needs you, Augusto Pinochet.

There's a lot of commies that need helicopter rides.

Posted by: Minuteman at June 02, 2021 10:57 AM (+OFdK)

366 I think Legend is better than Blade Runner.

The original Blade Runner or the newer one?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 02, 2021 10:57 AM (Zmnko)

367 I was in the hospital for a week a couple of years ago. They never let you rest quietly for any amount of time. Constant interruptions.

Posted by: RM at June 02, 2021 10:57 AM (U3LtS)

368 Lady's Man is dumb as hell but makes me laugh so hard.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:53 AM (KZzsI)

Yes forgot about that one.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 02, 2021 10:57 AM (2DOZq)

369 196 On 20 August 1940, Trotsky was attacked in his study by Spanish-born NKVD agent Ramon Mercader, who used an ice axe as a weapon
back when netflix was young, i rented a film titled "the assassination of leon trotsky". worst film i'd seen until the recent "this is the end". not reccommended.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 02, 2021 10:57 AM (v3pYe)

370 359 Like John Wayne, you never forget its Tom Cruise, but he's still very fun to watch and yeah, he makes a movie better by being in it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:56 AM (KZzsI)

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John Wayne was a very good actor. Unironically, he was very good at doing what he did.

"I never knew the big son of a bitch could act!"
-John Ford after watching John Wayne in Red River

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:57 AM (LvTSG)

371 Great Music. Smugglers Blues, Crockett's Theme, Opening Theme.
Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (gmo/4)

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I don't disagree. However, with regards to 80's opening themes:

Knight Rider > Miami Vice

Posted by: Speed Racer's Banana Hammock at June 02, 2021 10:57 AM (l2max)

372 Early in May 2020 of the pandemic, I got in the ear of my blue councilman and told him he had two options for the summer - he could encourage everything to stay closed and have people then doing what they wanted which the county wouldn't want them doing (at that point, we were getting emails about folks swimming in pollution runoff) or he could do what it takes to open up the outside of our county while everyone figured out how the virus spread indoors (b/c outside, with sun and humidity, even the best designed virus was gonna struggle). We wrote emails back and forth for weeks, and by the end, got pretty much the entire outside of the county open.

Now, I don't do medicine, so there was no way I was gonna convince on indoor stuff...but reasonable discourse at the local level was possible to change minds, even of our blue counterparts - if we made it happen. Ranting on the internet isn't that work.

Posted by: Nova local at June 02, 2021 10:57 AM (b1h2x)

373 How bad is it...the local taco bell closes at 9!

Posted by: A dude in MI at June 02, 2021 10:58 AM (/6GbT)

374 Biden won NM-1 by 23 pts

The Dem won yesterday's special election by 25.
Posted by: Vote Harder! at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (KiuXs)

Should I draw the inference that Albuquerque has become a 2% greater shithole in the last six months?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 02, 2021 10:58 AM (Q+K8B)

375 So joe is shutting down the oil leases in Alaska... Wonder how Murkowski feel about that....
Posted by: It's me donna at June 02, 2021 10:55 AM (Zmnko)
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She's fine with it. It won't hurt her directly. Even if she loses reelection, she'll be fine. She's put in her time with the organization and will be well taken care of.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:58 AM (Jsjd7)

376 Such a shame.
Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 10:57 AM (Ojki1)

He was also in charge of "Election Integrity", which was his betrayal of the nation.

Posted by: CN at June 02, 2021 10:58 AM (ONvIw)

377 The general consensus seems to be that the director's cut improves on the theatrical.

I thought his director's cut of Blade Runner ruined the movie, oddly enough. I'll have to see if I can watch it and find out.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 10:58 AM (KZzsI)

378 There's something bad wrong with the vaccines, or there's a clear link to China.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Sure it works in practice, but does it work in theory? The $2 Drug that Cracked COVID at June 02, 2021 10:26 AM (Kt1w/)

I think that the e-mails indicated had Fauci had been a big help in tamping down on the idea hat WuFlu came from China.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2021 10:58 AM (k39e/)

379 Welcome Back OM!!! Good to hear you are on the mend.

Now I need to find a place that serves fish n chips.

Posted by: Scuba_Dude at June 02, 2021 10:58 AM (Oq/TM)

380 There was also this gem from Russ Ballard...
https://youtu.be/Jw135y5IL7c
Posted by: Doof at June 02, 2021 10:52 AM (mZUr4)

a FANTASTIC song.......
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at June 02, 2021 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

Fistbump! One of the best songs ever -- and not too many people know it. I used to request it on the radio all the time back when that was a thing.

It was the first song I "borrowed" from the internet back in the day.

Posted by: Doof at June 02, 2021 10:58 AM (mZUr4)

381 Ah. Shaved Guevara. I was trying to remember which lefty twit that was.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 02, 2021 10:46 AM (m+jkK)
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I thought that was in reference to AOC's personal grooming. I didn't know about the Hogg connection.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Shaved Guevara was Hogg's compatriot at the school shooting. She was a rising star until she said something along the lines of, "yeah. We picked on him. He deserved it".

Bam. Instant obscurity.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2021 10:59 AM (Aivl/)

382 From Tuesday until September 30, Consumers Energy will charge its customers a 50 percent higher rate between 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Mondays through Fridays. According to the company's website, it has more than 6.5 million customers in Michigan.

Posted by: SMOD at June 02, 2021 10:59 AM (RHGPo)

383 I do/did not care for the voiceover narrative in the original Blade Runner. It just seemed odd and out of place given the atmosphere of the rest of the flick.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, nothing important, skip ahead at June 02, 2021 10:59 AM (2BgZB)

384 Speaking of which.... Wondering how many other couples have/had differences of opinions on taking vaccines.

I refuse. Wife took it. Up until that....we had been united in everything.

Posted by: Secretaria de Seguridad Publica at June 02, 2021 10:59 AM (8YfCc)

385 360 I think the first movie is extremely good, and it's because it's a real movie. Brian de Palma is exceptionally talented at telling a visual story and that movie reflects it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 10:56 AM (Jsjd7)

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I like quite a bit of De Palma, but the more time goes on, the more I feel like he's actually not that good of a director. It's hard to describe, especially when I outright love stuff like The Phantom of the Paradise and Blow Out, but he understands individual sequences extremely well, but not the overall movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:59 AM (LvTSG)

386 Tom Cruise for all his weirdness just makes good movies. He's just a star that makes dumb movies better. Weird dude, but just a fact.
Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 02, 2021 10:54 AM (sX1BW)

Yes. He's one of the few I put aside the off screen crap and just enjoy watching him.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2021 10:59 AM (axyOa)

387 The original Blade Runner or the newer one?

Both.

I think the first one is very overrated. (Not that it is not good; it just gets more acclaim than it deserves.)

The second one is pretty but stupid.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 02, 2021 10:59 AM (QU5/8)

388 I declare June a "national month of action" to get more people vaccinated against COVID-19.

Also, chocolate chocolate chip ice cream month.

Posted by: Joseph Robinette Biden at June 02, 2021 10:59 AM (DMUuz)

389 There's no wrong way to kill a Communist
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021 10:36 AM (uxJPn)

Waiting for old age to do it is pretty crap.
Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (Ojki1)

Agreed. It's too slow, but it is sure, I suppose

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021 11:00 AM (uxJPn)

390 Someone's worried - WashPost with an assist:

@DrLeanaWen

I and other AAPIs are increasingly concerned that speculation over the lab leak theory will increase anti-Asian hate.

As we embark on a full scientific investigation, we must take actions to prevent the next escalation of anti-Asian racism. Thread @postopinions

Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2021 11:00 AM (bDqIh)

391 Now, I don't do medicine, so there was no way I was gonna convince on indoor stuff...but reasonable discourse at the local level was possible to change minds, even of our blue counterparts - if we made it happen. Ranting on the internet isn't that work.
Posted by: Nova local at June 02, 2021 10:57 AM (b1h2x)

I beg to differ. I live in LA County. They closed the beach last April/May... CLOSED THE BEACH!! I called and wrote the county supervisors... nothing. The beach stayed closed for a month. They're fanatics...

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 02, 2021 11:00 AM (pcsoT)

392 Tom Cruise is about 70% good movies.

Keanu Reeves is about 90% good movies.

Proves you don't need to be a good actor to be successful in Hollywood. You have to know how to pick scripts.

Posted by: Just a side note at June 02, 2021 11:00 AM (2DOZq)

393 363 It's only out of respect to TJM that we don't use that movie as the nadir of Scott's career.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 02, 2021 10:57 AM (Dc2NZ)

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You can dig on Black Rain, if you want. I won't be offended.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 11:00 AM (LvTSG)

394 Posted by: SMOD at June 02, 2021 10:59 AM (RHGPo)

Are they still HQd in the Jackson, drug capital of Michigan?

Posted by: CN at June 02, 2021 11:00 AM (ONvIw)

395 Welcome Back OM!!! Good to hear you are on the mend.

Now I need to find a place that serves fish n chips.
Posted by: Scuba_Dude

Arthur Treacher's or Long John Silver's.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2021 11:00 AM (Aivl/)

396 337 Tom Cruise for all his weirdness just makes good movies. He's just a star that makes dumb movies better. Weird dude, but just a fact.
Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 02, 2021 10:54 AM (sX1BW)

He has...limits.

Posted by: The Mummy 2017 at June 02, 2021 11:00 AM (Ojki1)

397 I like quite a bit of De Palma, but the more time goes on, the more I feel like he's actually not that good of a director. It's hard to describe, especially when I outright love stuff like The Phantom of the Paradise and Blow Out, but he understands individual sequences extremely well, but not the overall movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:59 AM (LvTSG)
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I'll take your word for it. I am not an expert on de Palma's catalogue but have liked what I've seen and he did very nice work on the first Mission: Impossible movie.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 11:00 AM (Jsjd7)

398 Should I draw the inference that Albuquerque has become a 2% greater shithole in the last six months?

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 02, 2021 10:58 AM (Q+K8B)

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A very safe bet to take.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at June 02, 2021 11:00 AM (cwI4U)

399 The MFM yells "FIRE" in a crowded theater 24/7. The FBI/Antifa/et.al provide the smoke and fabricate "Emergencies". This is highlighted with their "Jan. 6th Insurrection", full of provocateurs (cops inciting the crowd, opening locked doors, fake stories (e.g. cop murdered with fire extinguisher) and now the troops and razor wire around the capitol.

All Agitprop ... FBI/DOJ ... schools/military now pushing CRT ... this is their blitzkrieg war, it is PsyOp War, "they" (China and/or DeepState) plan to win without firing a shot.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 02, 2021 11:00 AM (Cus5s)

400 Email: Researcher Who Funded Wuhan Lab, Admitted To Manipulating Coronaviruses Thanked Fauci For Dismissing Lab Leak Theory

Posted by: SMOD at June 02, 2021 11:01 AM (RHGPo)

401 Biden won NM-1 by 23 pts

That's a fking disgrace, for a border state.

Good and hard, they need it.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 11:01 AM (Bmy3R)

402 Oh, so you're ashamed to be seen with me now?

But freaking Alien: Covenant gets a pass!

Posted by: Prometheus at June 02, 2021 11:01 AM (Hwak8)

403 Legend was a great film, but Blade Runner had a deep impact on filmmaking and culture.

Ridley Scott directed two of the greatest SciFi films of all time, so he's got that going for him.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2021 11:01 AM (qmgN2)

404 Clue. Battleship.

Serenity.

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated american at June 02, 2021 11:01 AM (4I/2K)

405 inre Blade Runner - a few days ago I finished a VR game based on the recent Blade Runner movie.

Rather interesting to stand in the street and look at the dystopia first hand.

Reminded me of Detroit.

Posted by: WitchDoktor, nothing important, skip ahead at June 02, 2021 11:01 AM (2BgZB)

406 BabylonBee: First-Ever Pride Month Ruined By 40 Days Of Rain

Posted by: SMOD at June 02, 2021 11:01 AM (RHGPo)

407
Another big disincentive is that employees have to wear a stifling mask all day. If you stay home you can receive your $$ without a mask.
Posted by: Emmie at June 02, 2021 10:56 AM (tcsxg)

THIS! I'd like to get a part time job in my retirement. But the corporate communism's mask rules make working at most places unpalatable.

Posted by: Justsayin' at June 02, 2021 11:01 AM (Fs5vw)

408 I made a playlist of songs from my life that really affect me, and Voices is on there along with a lot of other Mann soundtrack stuff:

https://tinyurl.com/mjhudj9z

It has a lot of "oh yeah, I forgot about that song" stuff in it, and some classics

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 11:02 AM (KZzsI)

409 343 I haven't ever gone wrong following The Critical Drinker's movie recommendations.

I even watched Highlander last night.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, nothing important, skip ahead at June 02, 2021 10:54 AM (2BgZB)

I believe he warns against the sequels in the review.

Listen to him on this, or know regret.

Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 11:02 AM (Ojki1)

410 I would respond to Dr. Wen - No, not hate at all Asians, just the Chinese government and those who assisted it, such as you . . .

Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2021 11:02 AM (bDqIh)

411 405 inre Blade Runner - a few days ago I finished a VR game based on the recent Blade Runner movie.

Rather interesting to stand in the street and look at the dystopia first hand.

Reminded me of Detroit.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, nothing important, skip ahead at June 02, 2021 11:01 AM (2BgZB)

========

There's a really good point and click adventure game made in the 90s that, I think, has gotten a recent remaster. It's a companion adventure to the first film where you play another blade runner on another investigation that intersects with the movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 11:02 AM (LvTSG)

412 Miami Vice.

The show was epic.

Great Music. Smugglers Blues, Crockett's Theme, Opening Theme.
Posted by: Archer at June 02, 2021 10:44 AM (gmo/4)

Bad to the Bone in Nobody Lives Forever S01E12.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 02, 2021 11:02 AM (Q+K8B)

413 As we embark on a full scientific investigation, we must take actions to prevent the next escalation of anti-Asian racism.

Tell them to talk to the DA's and Mayors of the cities that are letting out thugs to repeatedly terrorize people on the streets and on mass transit.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2021 11:02 AM (k39e/)

414 Ridley Scott NEEDS a strong script. If he gets paired up with Damon Lindehof or a similar shit merchant, you get a terrible movie. Ridley simply cannot elevate material.

But you give him a good script and he can create gold.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021 11:02 AM (uxJPn)

415 That's a fking disgrace, for a border state.

Good and hard, they need it.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 11:01 AM (Bmy3R)

A lot of Donks moved to NM.

Posted by: CN at June 02, 2021 11:02 AM (ONvIw)

416 @DrLeanaWen
I and other AAPIs are increasingly concerned that speculation over the lab leak theory will increase anti-Asian hate.

As we embark on a full scientific investigation, we must take actions to prevent the next escalation of anti-Asian racism. Thread @postopinions
Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2021 11:00 AM (bDqIh)
++++
Dr. Wen,

I do hate you. I don't hate you because you're Asian, though. That has nothing to do with it. I hate you because you're clearly a woke-ass adherent to Critical Theory with a raft of degrees that you misinterpret as making you valuable. You're not valuable, you and your kind are a cancer on civilization. This isn't because of how you look, but because of the ideology to which you adhere and that you continue to push forward. It's evil, and so are you. Your mind made you evil, not the color of your skin or the shape of your eyes.

Sincerely,

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 11:03 AM (Jsjd7)

417 Pence was put in by the Deep State to be a baby sitter for Trump. I think Trump genuinely liked him and I think Pence respected Trump, but his allegiance was to the Deep State.

I wonder if he feels like a backstabbing weasel, or is he so
"moral" that he feels he was right.

In any case, his political career is over.

Posted by: JoeF. at June 02, 2021 11:03 AM (HrMC1)

418 Texans can buy beer, wine at 10 a.m. on Sunday, starting Sept. 1
Who said it was a "blue" state

Posted by: SMOD at June 02, 2021 11:03 AM (RHGPo)

419 Wife asked me how it went. I said, "Good buy. Missed yer chips!"
Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2021 10:56 AM (m45I2)

Groan....

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2021 11:03 AM (axyOa)

420
Proves you don't need to be a good actor to be successful in Hollywood. You have to know how to pick scripts.
Posted by: Just a side note at June 02, 2021 11:00 AM (2DOZq)

I know, right?

Posted by: Nicolas Cage at June 02, 2021 11:03 AM (Yoq4u)

421 People continuously criticize Trump for not FIRING Fauci after a few months. Apparently no one believes in the fact that Civil Servants in the government cannot be fired. How was Trump supposed to fire this 52 year veteran of the NIH, who was the current head of it, making $450,000 per year? Whom was treated like an all knowing deity by the press, the Democrats, and half of the Republicans?

Until Congress changes the employment laws around civil servants in conjunction with getting their union to approve, you will not be able to get rid of these barnacles.

Blaming Pence for including Fauci on the Covid Task Force as if he knew that Fauci would be double dealing with China is idiotic. Imagine excluding the head of the National Institute of Health during a world wide pandemic from a committee to guide the US policy toward protecting it's citizens? It's amazing how people seem to want to blame someone for not doing something they legally cannot do, and for seeking guidance from the very people who are charged professionally with providing that guidance.

Posted by: Jen the original at June 02, 2021 11:03 AM (igZug)

422 First time I became aware of DePalma was the movie "Obsession", which he directed and Vilmos Zsigmond filmed. Gorgeous visual style, which is a DePalma signature. Even when the movie itself is sleazy as f*ck.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 02, 2021 11:03 AM (Dc2NZ)

423 The 3 most recent MI movies are very good
Tom Cruise doing that stunt at the beginning of Rogue Nation is absolutely insane
ballsy MFer for that

Posted by: DB- just DB at June 02, 2021 11:03 AM (iTXRQ)

424 I beg to differ. I live in LA County. They closed the beach last April/May... CLOSED THE BEACH!! I called and wrote the county supervisors... nothing. The beach stayed closed for a month. They're fanatics...
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 02, 2021 11:00 AM (pcsoT)

You gotta find the ones who aren't...there are some, even in blue land. Nova isn't a bastion of the red, either...

Now, I did the work b/c it was personal for me - I was not gonna stand by to see my kids' summer ruined after their grandmom died and I got a cancer diagnosis...I wanted a positive, and got one through research and positive communication ...

Posted by: Nova local at June 02, 2021 11:04 AM (b1h2x)

425 Good to know that Democrats have to dredge up an incident in 1921 to make their point that race relations haven't improved in 100 years. Since Jim Crow was the official position of the Democrat Party- should we blame them? Just asking.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 02, 2021 11:04 AM (VpIIl)

426 352 OK Hordelings. I gotta go do stuff like clean out the storage unit. Don't burn the place down, 'k?
Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Psychos Rule! No, really. They're in charge now. at June 02, 2021 10:55 AM (HaL55)

That's an Easter thing after all.

Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 11:04 AM (Ojki1)

427
Texans can buy beer, wine at 10 a.m. on Sunday, starting Sept. 1
Who said it was a "blue" state---------------------------------That's not going to be of much help to me at 8:30 on Sunday.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 02, 2021 11:04 AM (sX1BW)

428 A lot of Donks moved to NM.
Posted by: CN at June 02, 2021 11:02 AM (ONvIw)

I suspect Dominion did too.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2021 11:04 AM (axyOa)

429 409 343 Highlander had no sequels.

It.had.no.sequels!

Posted by: callsign claymore at June 02, 2021 11:04 AM (Hwak8)

430 I wonder if he feels like a backstabbing weasel, or is he so
"moral" that he feels he was right.

In any case, his political career is over.
Posted by: JoeF. at June 02, 2021 11:03 AM (HrMC1)

I vote for back stabbing weasel

Posted by: CN at June 02, 2021 11:04 AM (ONvIw)

431 Tom Cruise can express the full range of human emotion with a single jaw clench.

Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2021 11:04 AM (m45I2)

432 422 First time I became aware of DePalma was the movie "Obsession", which he directed and Vilmos Zsigmond filmed. Gorgeous visual style, which is a DePalma signature. Even when the movie itself is sleazy as f*ck.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 02, 2021 11:03 AM (Dc2NZ)

=======

One of Hitchcock's last movies, Frenzy, almost feels like an early Brian de Palma movie because of the sleeziness. It's more akin to Dressed to Kill than even Psycho.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 11:05 AM (LvTSG)

433 How was Trump supposed to fire this 52 year veteran of the NIH ?
Fauci is 80 years old

Posted by: SMOD at June 02, 2021 11:05 AM (RHGPo)

434 I don't disagree with that. But that is not what happened.

They gave businesses the choice between having everything open and replacement income loans that did not need to be repaid, and that percentage tightened up quite a lot.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at June 02, 2021 10:55 AM (7F9te)

Businesses had no choice. They were shut down. The loan was to supposedly help cushion the blow as we each chipped in our two weeks to flatten the curve.

Well, it became apparent that some businesses are more equal than others and nobody really gave a fuck about the hard work and sweat these owners put into something that was ripped from them in a matter of weeks.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2021 11:05 AM (KbCG3)

435 First time I became aware of DePalma was the movie "Obsession", which he directed and Vilmos Zsigmond filmed. Gorgeous visual style, which is a DePalma signature. Even when the movie itself is sleazy as f*ck.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 02, 2021 11:03 AM (Dc2NZ)
++++
:: channels sponge ::

You asked for it.
https://youtu.be/hIs5StN8J-0

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 11:06 AM (Jsjd7)

436 "hell, look at the response to jan 6th. the fed gov is in gestapo mode and our "representatives" can't be fucking bothered to do anything to even highlight it. and that's not counting the fuck nuggets on our "side" who are actively supporting the gov actions."

Posted by: SturmToddler at June 02, 2021 10:19 AM (8D42x)

LOL, I just read about my REP (Annie Kuster D NH) and her daily struggles with PTSD from the Jan 6 protest in our local news.

Posted by: Kat_man at June 02, 2021 11:06 AM (3Eq59)

437 @428

According to Dominion Voting Systems products brochure, New Mexico is a client state.

So, there's that.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 02, 2021 11:06 AM (qmgN2)

438 How was Trump supposed to fire this 52 year veteran of the NIH ?------------------------------------------By saying You're Fired. In all seriousness, I don't particularly blame Trump. But he should have either fired him, sidelined him, or ignored him.

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 02, 2021 11:06 AM (sX1BW)

439 The average citizens in this country never bothered to inform themselves about Russiagate. If they had, they would have known Rod Rosenstein appointed Special Counsel Robert Mueller for only one purpose: to overthrow Trump.

When that failed, Rosenstein and his pals were in very deep shit so they concocted the Ukraine setup to justify Trump's removal with impeachment #1.

When that failed too, Rosenstein's sister at the CDC conspired with the MSM to call for a press conference without authorization from her boss (who was on a plane over the Atlantic), and sounded the coronavirus alarm to derail Trump's election.

That press conference alone should have been a clue coronavirus was nothing but a political tool.

Posted by: nobody at June 02, 2021 11:06 AM (3kUVb)

440 The Mummy remake wasn't really Cruise's fault. The producers took it and tried to make a huge shared universe thing out of their monster movies after seeing the MCU doing so well and crapped the bed like Harry in Dumb and Dumber.

It has more exposition than any movie I have ever seen and its incredibly tedious. There's glimpses of what could have been a better movie in there but its overall just awful to watch.

See, a lot of stuff that gets shot in a regular production doesn't get used, so you have tons of voice over readings, etc. But in this one... they used it all. Then they probably had Cruise come back in and read a bunch more. It was interminable.

What they COULD have done instead of two really bad sequels is use the Brendan Frazier Mummy to kick off him as a monster hunter back in the day. He runs into ALL the classic monsters, with him and Evie (and her brother) as the thing that ties them together. Even throw in that amazing charismatic Egyptian guy as part of the team.

But no, they only thought in terms of sequels back then.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 11:06 AM (KZzsI)

441 Fauci is an 80 year old bureaucrat in his job for ~40 years. The only thing that sort of person has to be good at is avoiding responsibility for anything bad that happens. He's not going to get in much if any trouble for sending money to a lab that "was a little sloppy" and caused worldwide pandemic. "Oopsie! I already disciplined the person responsible for that. Sorry congressman, I can't give you the name of that person due to privacy laws. But rest assured we've got an inspector general investigating everything, so no worries. Now back our urgent need for additional funding our new office building I'm recommending for your district..."

Posted by: Match Checksout at June 02, 2021 11:07 AM (dYe5S)

442 Posted by: Jen the original at June 02, 2021 11:03 AM (igZug)

I agree with your points.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2021 11:07 AM (k39e/)

443 Cruise is good in any role where his ability to bulge his eyes at will works.

It's sort of like his Blue Steel vs Magnum look.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 02, 2021 11:07 AM (Q+K8B)

444

Amazon will no longer include marijuana in its comprehensive drug screening program for positions that are not regulated by the Department of Transportation. The company will continue to do impairment checks on the job and will test for all drugs and alcohol after any incident.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2021 11:07 AM (63Dwl)

445 Weird how Stairmaster Fail said race relations haven't improved since 1921, then pivoted to stuttering that voter integrity laws passed in 14 states were racist, and that the filibuster should be eliminated. Why, it's almost as if the whole issue was contrived for political purposes.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 02, 2021 11:08 AM (VpIIl)

446 The Mummy remake wasn't really Cruise's fault.

Yeah, no one could have made that script work.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at June 02, 2021 11:08 AM (QU5/8)

447 Why can't people get through their thick skulls that
1) Trump --when he called it the "China Flu"--was referring to the Commie government of China, the CCP, Red China--and NOT the little old Asian lady down the street...and
2) The ones beating little old Asian ladies are the same black thugs that cause 90% of urban street crime "

Yeah, we expect the media to distort the truth, but why do so many people BELIEVE this shit?

Posted by: JoeF. at June 02, 2021 11:08 AM (HrMC1)

448 So, Albuquerque took a left turn?

/Bugs Bunny

Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2021 11:08 AM (m45I2)

449 ...It's amazing how people seem to want to blame someone for not doing something they legally cannot do, and for seeking guidance from the very people who are charged professionally with providing that guidance.
Posted by: Jen the original at June 02, 2021 11:03 AM (igZug)

Amen, Jen. And Awomen.

There was no Trump Administration. There was only Trump.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 02, 2021 11:08 AM (mdjgu)

450 First time I became aware of DePalma was the movie "Obsession", which he directed and Vilmos Zsigmond filmed. Gorgeous visual style, which is a DePalma signature. Even when the movie itself is sleazy as f*ck.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 02, 2021 11:03 AM (Dc2NZ)

Louie De Palma > Brian De Palma

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 02, 2021 11:08 AM (KR/Q/)

451 >>I do hate you. I don't hate you because you're Asian, though. That has nothing to do with it. I hate you because you're clearly a woke-ass adherent to Critical Theory with a raft of degrees that you misinterpret as making you valuable.

She's part of it. She's a medical expert on MSNBC and she's always on there saying unintentionally revealing, such as (extra concerned agitation) 'States should NOT be opening up until people get tha vaccine, they will lose their leverage, they can tell people they cannot enjoy their freedoms until they are vaccinated. . .'

You can take the doctor out of China, but apparenently you cannot take the China mindset out of the doctor. Experts like her have made this so much worse by pushing locjdowns, masks, and mandatory vaccines.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2021 11:08 AM (bDqIh)

452 That press conference alone should have been a clue coronavirus was nothing but a political tool.
Posted by: nobody at June 02, 2021 11:06 AM (3kUVb)

The " hurry close the schools" presser.

Posted by: CN at June 02, 2021 11:08 AM (ONvIw)

453 Israel put his arms around Texas, Yeah baby I'm a bad country but i keep worse countries away from your door.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 02, 2021 11:08 AM (VgIeo)

454 Intel, the high tech maker of microprocessors, has a mandatory retirement age of 65 for executives of the company.

Posted by: SMOD at June 02, 2021 11:08 AM (RHGPo)

455 Wife asked me how it went. I said, "Good buy. Missed yer chips!"
Posted by: Muldoon at June 02, 2021 10:56 AM (m45I2)

Took awhile for the punchline to ketchup.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2021 11:09 AM (axyOa)

456 Yeah, we expect the media to distort the truth, but why do so many people BELIEVE this shit?
Posted by: JoeF. at June 02, 2021 11:08 AM (HrMC1)

They want to. It fits being a donk. If you didn't like Obama's policies, you were a racist. It's in their genes

Posted by: CN at June 02, 2021 11:09 AM (ONvIw)

457 *shakes be-braceleted fist at Mannix*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 02, 2021 11:09 AM (Dc2NZ)

458 I wanted fish and chips, so ordered take out from McMenamins. It was not good, really like what Burgerville makes. So, for my birthday, I went to the fish market in Ridgefield WA. They have the best fish and chips, also halibut and chips. Great place and price is reasonable.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at June 02, 2021 11:10 AM (5HBd1)

459 I know, right?
Posted by: Nicolas Cage

Cage doesn't pick good scripts or bad scripts. He picks ALL scripts. Its hiarious and sad at the same time to listen to him talk about how he plays a part. He thinks he's doing these deep character studies and creating something amazing and new ARTISTIC thing like he's Olivier or something.

But he can be really good. Or really cringy terrible.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 11:10 AM (KZzsI)

460 I made a playlist of songs from my life that really affect me, and Voices is on there along with a lot of other Mann soundtrack stuff:

https://tinyurl.com/mjhudj9z

It has a lot of "oh yeah, I forgot about that song" stuff in it, and some classics
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 11:02 AM (KZzsI)

Good stuff, CRT -- thanks for sharing!

ONT dwellers are familiar with my extensive music collection. I'd love to share some of my playlists with the Horde. Miklos was very happy with the stuff I recently recommended to him for a road trip.

Posted by: Doof at June 02, 2021 11:10 AM (mZUr4)

461 In sum, while we're in blue land and blue times, we have to figure out the playing field and where we can get wins and hold losses, and then how to long term change the game back into red land and red times...and we need to know what strategies work for both and when.

Sometimes, it's a hammer...sometimes, it's a scalpel...and sometimes, it's a hug (I almost joke, but I do know my councilman loved having an email convo that was fully positive after 2 months of the Covid mess b/c he personally wrote me back, and then he kept writing me back as I stayed positive and knew I had his ear) - different issues will need different strategies...and that's always the case in life...

Posted by: Nova local at June 02, 2021 11:11 AM (b1h2x)

462 I think the problem that the Biden team has in getting rid of Fauci today is not that it will make FAUCI look bad, but that it will make the whole OP look bad

Posted by: JoeF. at June 02, 2021 11:11 AM (HrMC1)

463 Fauci could not be fired, but he could have been sidelined...Didn't someone have to go investigate moose shit in alaska

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 02, 2021 11:11 AM (85Gof)

464 I wanted fish and chips, so ordered take out from McMenamins. It was not good, really like what Burgerville makes. So, for my birthday, I went to the fish market in Ridgefield WA. They have the best fish and chips, also halibut and chips. Great place and price is reasonable.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward

When was your birthday ?

Posted by: JT at June 02, 2021 11:11 AM (arJlL)

465 I like quite a bit of De Palma, but the more time goes on, the more I feel like he's actually not that good of a director. It's hard to describe, especially when I outright love stuff like The Phantom of the Paradise and Blow Out, but he understands individual sequences extremely well, but not the overall movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 10:59 AM (LvTSG)

I agree, although I think The Untouchables works well throughout most of its running length, though a lot of that is due to Connery's performance and BDPs use of the Odessa Steps sequence.

The Black Dahlia was an absolute mess, notwithstanding its ridiculous plot.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 02, 2021 11:11 AM (2JVJo)

466 Amazon will no longer include marijuana in its comprehensive drug screening program for positions that are not regulated by the Department of Transportation.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2021 11:07 AM

Are the contractor drivers using their own vehicles "regulated by the Department of Transportation"?

Posted by: Chuck C at June 02, 2021 11:11 AM (awtm/)

467 "When the Chinese flu first hit, and the federal government issued lockdown and quarantine mandates"

Most of you were asleep at the wheel. This didn't start with the lockdowns - this started with Hawaiian judges striking down Trump's orders and allowing flights directly from Hubei province and Dems telling people to go to Chinatown and hug random Asians. Then with the State Dept. flying back infected Americans mixed in with the uninfected, then releasing the latter and having the former attended by staff without PPE whose movements weren't even monitored.
Then Dem-run agencies banned commercially sourced tests, and having the office run by Rod Rosenstein's sister manage all testing; that office had to shut down for months after it was discovered they "made a mistake" and were mailing virus-contaminated test kits throughout the US.
The left did EVERY LAST BIT of half-deniable monkeywrenching for about 3 months to make sure they could ramp up as many cases as possible, no doubt to fuel their later actions. THAT is when it was time to do something. But the right was warned well before the lockdowns and the general response was "hurr durr just turn off the TV!"

Posted by: somedood at June 02, 2021 11:11 AM (CYgrT)

468 Louie De Palma > Brian De Palma
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at June 02, 2021 11:08 AM (KR/Q/)

I have ear worm now.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at June 02, 2021 11:12 AM (Fdt5i)

469 Cage doesn't pick good scripts or bad scripts. He picks ALL scripts. Its hiarious and sad at the same time to listen to him talk about how he plays a part. He thinks he's doing these deep character studies and creating something amazing and new ARTISTIC thing like he's Olivier or something.

But he can be really good. Or really cringy terrible.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 11:10 AM (KZzsI)

I'll say this about Cage. From listening to him talk about why he takes the parts that he does, I see that he's a serious actor. It gives me some insight into the craft that goes into acting, and he seems to be able to explain that better than most.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 02, 2021 11:12 AM (mdjgu)

470 Cage doesn't pick good scripts or bad scripts. He picks ALL scripts.

Owing millions to the IRS will do that to you. I do appreciate when he does a script he likes and actually works it, unlike Bruce Willis who hasn't done more than phone it in for a decade.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at June 02, 2021 11:12 AM (Q+K8B)

471 Long time lurker. I did not know of your troubles, my prayers for you and your continued recovery. Glad you are back.

Posted by: B. Hammer at June 02, 2021 11:12 AM (P7Mrk)

472 Knight Rider > Miami Vice
Airwolf > Knight Rider > Miami Vice

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 02, 2021 11:12 AM (k/TB6)

473 *shakes be-braceleted fist at Mannix*
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 02, 2021 11:09 AM (Dc2NZ)
++++
What can I say? I'm a giver.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 11:12 AM (Jsjd7)

474 Nic Cage is somebody's nephew, I forget who.....

Posted by: JT at June 02, 2021 11:12 AM (arJlL)

475 I wanted fish and chips, so ordered take out from McMenamins. It was not good, really like what Burgerville makes. So, for my birthday, I went to the fish market in Ridgefield WA. They have the best fish and chips, also halibut and chips. Great place and price is reasonable.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at June 02, 2021 11:10 AM (5HBd1)

OMG!!!
Flashback to my teens in Vancouver and Burgerville...home of the 19 cent gutbomb!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2021 11:12 AM (axyOa)

476 440 What they COULD have done instead of two really bad sequels is use the
Brendan Frazier Mummy to kick off him as a monster hunter back in the
day.
so... remake hansel and gretl?

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 02, 2021 11:13 AM (v3pYe)

477 Back in April. It was a significant birthday, so I tried to just ignore it.

I don't know why I didn't just go to Ridgefield in the first place. They have outdoor seating and it's just a nice place to visit.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at June 02, 2021 11:13 AM (5HBd1)

478 465 I agree, although I think The Untouchables works well throughout most of its running length, though a lot of that is due to Connery's performance and BDPs use of the Odessa Steps sequence.

The Black Dahlia was an absolute mess, notwithstanding its ridiculous plot.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 02, 2021 11:11 AM (2JVJo)

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I have a soft spot for The Black Dahlia. It's not good, but it has three fantastic sequences in it. Where the partner dies in the stairwell is one of the best things De Palma ever made. It's just trapped in a movie that doesn't deserve it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 11:13 AM (LvTSG)

479 Nic Cage is somebody's nephew, I forget who........................................Uncle Dick

Posted by: SH (Back Lurking, Commenting Occasionally) at June 02, 2021 11:13 AM (sX1BW)

480 Merry Anders was in a lot of 60's TV. I see her on Perry Mason and Dragnet.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 02, 2021 10:41 AM (63Dwl)
She looks like the My Three Sons mom, or nanny or something.
Posted by: kallisto at June 02, 2021

***
Beverly Garland (a very talented actress, BTW) played Fred MacMurray's (new) wife in My Three Sons. She and Merry look like they could play sisters.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 02, 2021 11:13 AM (/XOcP)

481 Nic Cage is somebody's nephew, I forget who.....
Posted by: JT at June 02, 2021 11:12 AM (arJlL)

The guy who made The Godfather

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 02, 2021 11:13 AM (85Gof)

482 Took awhile for the punchline to ketchup.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 02, 2021 11:09 AM (axyOa)

LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2021 11:13 AM (k39e/)

483 Nic Cage is somebody's nephew, I forget who.....

Posted by: JT at June 02, 2021 11:12 AM (arJlL)

Francis Ford Coppola

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 02, 2021 11:13 AM (k/TB6)

484 462 I think the problem that the Biden team has in getting rid of Fauci today is not that it will make FAUCI look bad, but that it will make the whole OP look bad
Posted by: JoeF. at June 02, 2021 11:11 AM (HrMC1)

Agreed. That, and Fauci will not go gently into that good night. He's gotten to where he is by being a better political operative than a medical professional. He knows where all the bodies are buried - figuratively and literally.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 02, 2021 11:13 AM (mdjgu)

485 474 Nic Cage is somebody's nephew, I forget who.....
Posted by: JT at June 02, 2021 11:12 AM (arJlL)

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Francis Ford Coppola.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 11:13 AM (LvTSG)

486 I'll say this about Cage. From listening to him talk about why he takes the parts that he does, I see that he's a serious actor. It gives me some insight into the craft that goes into acting, and he seems to be able to explain that better than most.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at June 02, 2021 11:12 AM (mdjgu)
++++
Plus, the alphabet scene from "Vampire's Kiss"
https://youtu.be/WLrALs-Nq_I

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 11:14 AM (Jsjd7)

487 Nic Cage is somebody's nephew, I forget who.....
Posted by: JT at June 02, 2021

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Francis Ford Coppola of The Godfather fame.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at June 02, 2021 11:14 AM (/XOcP)

488 There were folks that wanted to get that original Burgerville store listed as a historical monument! Fortunately, they tore it down and put in apartments.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at June 02, 2021 11:14 AM (5HBd1)

489 Nood

Posted by: CN at June 02, 2021 11:14 AM (ONvIw)

490 Speaking of The Cage, do watch "Matchstick Men" if you haven't seen it. Cage is hilarious as a con artist with OCD and Tourette's. And it has the ever-awesome Sam Rockwell as his partner.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 02, 2021 11:14 AM (Dc2NZ)

491 I wanted fish and chips, so ordered take out from McMenamins. It was not good, really like what Burgerville makes. So, for my birthday, I went to the fish market in Ridgefield WA. They have the best fish and chips, also halibut and chips. Great place and price is reasonable.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at June 02, 2021 11:10 AM (5HBd1)

You went for the halibut?

Posted by: Count de Monet, unvaccinated american at June 02, 2021 11:14 AM (4I/2K)

492 Airwolf > Knight Rider > Miami Vice
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 02, 2021 11:12 AM (k/TB6)

80s nerd trivia --

From memory (no cheating) -- KITT is an acronym. What does it stand for??

Posted by: Doof at June 02, 2021 11:14 AM (mZUr4)

493 Speaking of The Cage, do watch "Matchstick Men" if you haven't seen it. Cage is hilarious as a con artist with OCD and Tourette's. And it has the ever-awesome Sam Rockwell as his partner.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 02, 2021 11:14 AM (Dc2NZ)
++++
That is a legitimately good movie. Good story, good acting, good casting.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at June 02, 2021 11:14 AM (Jsjd7)

494 Oh, and directed by Ridley Scott, and you can tell. He captures SoCal light just perfectly.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 02, 2021 11:15 AM (Dc2NZ)

495 Our fish n chips are better than where they arosed from.

You can fight my dorkest gung fu student.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 02, 2021 11:15 AM (VgIeo)

496 When that failed too, Rosenstein's sister at the CDC conspired with the MSM to call for a press conference without authorization from her boss (who was on a plane over the Atlantic), and sounded the coronavirus alarm to derail Trump's election.

You have a very good memory because that was the EXACT moment this whole thing started.
And it was against the backdrop of the DOW going down like 2000 points over a two day period--"due to fears of Coronavirus' and THAT'S why people took notice.
Not when Trump banned Chins travel or when Trump talked about it at the SOTU speech that Nancy ripped up

Posted by: JoeF. at June 02, 2021 11:15 AM (HrMC1)

497 Nic Cage is somebody's nephew, I forget who.....
Posted by: JT at June 02, 2021 11:12 AM (arJlL)

=======

Francis Ford Coppola.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 11:13 AM (LvTSG)

Nic was credited as Nicolas Coppola in Fast Times

Posted by: Doof at June 02, 2021 11:15 AM (mZUr4)

498 >>I think the problem that the Biden team has in getting rid of Fauci today is not that it will make FAUCI look bad, but that it will make the whole OP look bad

Another wrinkle it the scapegoat Fauci plan is that he's involved in global NGOs, such as WHO, and the Gates Foundation. They will try to pin it on Trump, but Fauci is a top guy in the whole global pandemic preparedness area.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2021 11:16 AM (bDqIh)

499 I like DePalma most of the time, he can make some truly gripping and entertaining stuff. But I agree, something's missing in most of his movies, a coherence or a sense of storytelling. Untouchables is a consistent and excellent story told well from start to finish but a lot of them are uneven and just a series of great bits

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 11:16 AM (KZzsI)

500 rom memory (no cheating) -- KITT is an acronym. What does it stand for??

Posted by: Doof at June 02, 2021 11:14 AM (mZUr4)

Knight Industries Two Thousand

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 02, 2021 11:16 AM (k/TB6)

501 I don't blame Trump for Fauci.

But I am predicting that by the fall, the media will be.

Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2021 11:16 AM (Yoq4u)

502 "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" is a very nice novel and Mr. Chips had a habit of telling little jokes about things with the boys in the school. I believe he liked puns. He would appreciate Muldoon.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 02, 2021 11:16 AM (k39e/)

503 welcome back om

the intelligence community of course knew, fauci had to know it was coming from the same place he had been funding for years, through daszak's ecohealth, but every journalist and pundit was in the same prone position re fauci that they had last exhibited re mueller, another useless tool,

Posted by: alien covenant was much worse at June 02, 2021 11:17 AM (hMlTh)

504 Imagine excluding the head of the National Institute of Health during a world wide pandemic from a committee to guide the US policy toward protecting it's citizens? It's amazing how people seem to want to blame someone for not doing something they legally cannot do, and for seeking guidance from the very people who are charged professionally with providing that guidance.
Posted by: Jen the original at June 02, 2021 11:03 AM (igZug)

Thank you, Jen. You said it better than I did.

Posted by: Emmie at June 02, 2021 11:18 AM (tcsxg)

505 Another wrinkle it the scapegoat Fauci plan is that he's involved in global NGOs, such as WHO, and the Gates Foundation. They will try to pin it on Trump, but Fauci is a top guy in the whole global pandemic preparedness area.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 02, 2021 11:16 AM (bDqIh)

Facts are not important.

Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2021 11:18 AM (Yoq4u)

506 423 The 3 most recent MI movies are very good
meh. i gave up on mi when they made mr. phelps a bad guy.

Posted by: Comrade Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at June 02, 2021 11:18 AM (sGtp+)

507 440 The Mummy remake wasn't really Cruise's fault. The producers took it and tried to make a huge shared universe thing out of their monster movies after seeing the MCU doing so well and crapped the bed like Harry in Dumb and Dumber.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 11:06 AM (KZzsI)

Cruise reportedly had a lot of sway over the film, as it was going to be the start of a universal Monsters Universe. He even took a reduced paycheck (for him) that included returns for all the films in that universe. So probably carries more blame than your average actor stuck in a bad film by a crap director who is a shit writer, and also came up (at least in part) with the story.

Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 11:18 AM (Ojki1)

508 so... remake hansel and gretl?

But, years before Hansel and Gretel came out, sure.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 11:19 AM (KZzsI)

509 421 People continuously criticize Trump for not FIRING Fauci after a few months. Apparently no one believes in the fact that Civil Servants in the government cannot be fired. How was Trump supposed to fire this 52 year veteran of the NIH, who was the current head of it, making $450,000 per year? Whom was treated like an all knowing deity by the press, the Democrats, and half of the Republicans?

Posted by: Jen the original at June 02, 2021 11:03 AM (igZug)

Then Trump should've reassigned him to something out of the limelight, like, say, investigating salmonella outbreaks in Sitka, Alaska. And make it a 5-year assignment.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 11:19 AM (7GWft)

510 "Yeah, we expect the media to distort the truth, but why do so many people BELIEVE this shit?
Posted by: JoeF. at June 02, 2021 11:08 AM (HrMC1)"

It's herd behavior. Questioning CNN/MSNBC/etc makes you a "kook" - or a "nazi", now - and people want to fit in.

It's one of the really effective prog tactics, sort of like a rhetorical burqa; all office water cooler conversations must be preceded by the well-I-never talking points of the day as distributed by the MSM. The participants get to feel morally superior and correct for doing so, and it makes anyone who isn't joining in stand out.

I have had people who have known me for many years - close friends, the sort of people whose kids you might pick up in a pinch, who are on the Xmas card list - suddenly up and tell me they're worried that their future social credit score will get dinged because they associate with me. That's the level of conformity we're talking about.

Posted by: somedood at June 02, 2021 11:19 AM (CYgrT)

511 From memory (no cheating) -- KITT is an acronym. What does it stand for??

Posted by: Doof at June 02, 2021 11:14 AM (mZUr4)

Knight Industries Two Thousand
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 02, 2021 11:16 AM (k/TB6)

Well done!

Posted by: Doof at June 02, 2021 11:19 AM (mZUr4)

512 508 so... remake hansel and gretl?

But, years before Hansel and Gretel came out, sure.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at June 02, 2021 11:19 AM (KZzsI)

There was a Hansel and Gretel movie a few years ago. It started out interestingly enough, but then it took a wrong turn somewhere and ended up just being a bad movie.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 11:21 AM (7GWft)

513 you had to be very diligent in finding real info on this russian scam because all the papers and half the magazines, were in on it,

Posted by: alien covenant was much worse at June 02, 2021 11:21 AM (hMlTh)

514 Leftists were all in for Fauci from the beginning. Lefties I know were mad that Trump put the VP in charge of the task force and not the Sainted Dr. Fauci. What does Pence know about virology they asked?

I countered with what does Fauci know about mobilizing and managing across executive agencies? Could Fauci order the Hope out of drydock and into NY Harbor in a week?

Posted by: blaster at June 02, 2021 11:23 AM (Yoq4u)

515 There was a Hansel and Gretel movie a few years ago. It started out interestingly enough, but then it took a wrong turn somewhere and ended up just being a bad movie.
Posted by: OregonMuse

There was a Handsy and Gretel movie on Pronhub but I don't think that's the one you are looking for.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 02, 2021 11:24 AM (Aivl/)

516 "You have a very good memory because that was the EXACT moment this whole thing started.
And it was against the backdrop of the DOW going down like 2000 points over a two day period--"due to fears of Coronavirus' and THAT'S why people took notice.
Not when Trump banned Chins travel or when Trump talked about it at the SOTU speech that Nancy ripped up
Posted by: JoeF. at June 02, 2021 11:15 AM (HrMC1)"

The groundwork was being laid much earlier than that; they didn't just hop on this opportunistically, they were getting their ducks in a row possibly as far back as December 2019. Someone leaked docs pertaining to a vaccine development contract dating back that far - the US medical authorities absolutely knew roughly what was up at that point. And once the cat was out of the bag to the public in mid-January it was quickly evident to those in certain communities that there had been cases popping up in North America all the way back in October.

Posted by: somedood at June 02, 2021 11:24 AM (CYgrT)

517 401 Biden won NM-1 by 23 pts
That's a fking disgrace, for a border state.
Good and hard, they need it.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at June 02, 2021 11:01 AM

Undo Gadsden's Folly and throw in the rest of both states as a bonus.

Posted by: Downcast at June 02, 2021 11:25 AM (RXQXA)

518 I have a soft spot for The Black Dahlia. It's not good, but it has three fantastic sequences in it. Where the partner dies in the stairwell is one of the best things De Palma ever made. It's just trapped in a movie that doesn't deserve it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a dangerous profession with a Hawksian woman at my side at June 02, 2021 11:13 AM (LvTSG)

I wanted to like that movie, because I'm a true crime buff. But it left me cold right from the start. Although I did like the bird's eye view of the discovery of the Dahlia's body.

DePalma's got the same sort of visual sense as Peter Greenaway, but not the same narrative flow.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 02, 2021 11:26 AM (2JVJo)

519 yes the last three films were very good, lets skip the first mission impossible because frankly it had too many writers, the second despite the john woo flourishes had a pharmaceutical tycoon enable the release of a virus, for profit sake, the next had a deep state figure trying to acquire a similatr item from shanghai, art inspiring life,

Posted by: alien covenant was much worse at June 02, 2021 11:27 AM (hMlTh)

520 Welcome Back, OM! Nice to see that the GorillaPundit hasn't calmed down a bit. Stay angry, my friend...(and rest up, recuperate, and recognize that you are part of the greatest online community, evah!)

Posted by: Lord Squirrel at June 02, 2021 11:30 AM (ZIoLS)

521 There's no wrong way to kill a Communist
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, get ready now at June 02, 2021 10:36 AM (uxJPn)

Waiting for old age to do it is pretty crap.
Posted by: Bete at June 02, 2021 10:49 AM (Ojki1)

Agreed. It's too slow, but it is sure, I suppose
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
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[by tradition, saves quote from 'One Lonely Night' for the ONT]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 02, 2021 11:34 AM (bk3Sg)

522 102 The thing is, I never get sick. No colds, flu, etc. My body just keeps acquiring damage like an old car.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at June 02, 2021 10:24 AM (7GWft)

I'm knocking on wood for you, over here!

Posted by: m at June 02, 2021 11:36 AM (SJbY/)

523 I'm glad you're back; I've missed your posts. I hope that all goes well for you with your recovery.

And to quote our friend Bill Clinton, "I feel your pain."

My house blew up and fell on me in late December, and took me out for several months, with a TBI, broken collar bone, 5 broken ribs, and a fractured pelvis.

This shit isn't a lot of fun, is it?

Posted by: jackcoke at June 02, 2021 11:36 AM (xxJ+H)

524 189 The Trump angle will be the go to for the MSM shit talkers. Trump failed by keeping Fauci on. Trump failed by not canceling the funding, blah blah blah.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at June 02, 2021 10:31 AM (9etX0)

In your opinion, Jake, why would Trump, knowing all he knew about Fauci, why would he keep him on in such a prominent role?

That's a great question, Chris, and it's one Trump really needs to answer for.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 02, 2021 10:34 AM (KbCG3)

Aagghh! This is spot-on.

Posted by: m at June 02, 2021 12:04 PM (SJbY/)

525 Trump staying in the GOP and endorsing sketchy candidates like Abbott makes me thing he might be engaging in a little of the failure theater his party is so fond of.
DeSantis does not suffer fools.

Posted by: Valiant at June 02, 2021 12:40 PM (3MiF8)

526 Anyone notice McCain in the NOT A CULT photo collage? LOLGF.

Posted by: SideFx at June 02, 2021 01:02 PM (1hiZs)

527 Been saying for a year Trump failed, big whopping as bad as Carter failed. Yes germphobia is his Achilles heel. Those god damn sons of bitches Democrats used Trump's weakness to destroy first the economy, the Trump, the Bill of Rights and pretty much the whole country. I saw it, Sarah Hoyt saw it. Trump could not see it. Allow 2 weeks of lockdowns and you might as well use the Constitution for the toilet paper you can't find.

For God's sake don't bring Trump back. He blew it. Yes I hate the NeverTrump with the passion of a thousand suns, but it isn't worth it. Trump had his chance, he Carter'd it. Time to let DeSantis try to steer the ship away from the falls. Of course long before 24, we are going over the falls. Maybe DeSantis can some of us safely to shore.

Posted by: BurkeanMama at June 02, 2021 02:20 PM (CYk5a)

528 You were missed. Best of luck on your permanent recovery.

Posted by: Con Reeder at June 02, 2021 03:15 PM (YC/rL)

529 Welcome back OM! Speedy recovery!

Posted by: jwmiii at June 02, 2021 04:43 PM (ii2y5)

530 "Why did they not tell government to f* right off?"

Why didn't they file mountains of 5th Amendment lawsuits over 'takings'?! The courts should have been jammed to the hilt with those lawsuits. Instead, it took something like 8 months before anyone actually took that tack, and they were still few and far between.

Posted by: GWB at June 02, 2021 10:43 PM (aDTsF)

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