The Morning Rant

"RESPEC' MAH AUTHORITAH!"
This photo pastiche has been making the rounds:

I thought, maybe this isn't fair. I'm not familiar with military culture, but perhaps there is a time to wear your medals and a time not to. Like when you're in a combat situation. I also remember when the Democrats tried to gin up anothe hair-on-fire fake "Melania destroyed the Rose Garden OMG!" by showing too photographs taken at different times of the year to make it look like Michelle had everything growing beautifully but then Melania ripped everything out and replaced it all with nothing.

So I Googled up a bunch of pics of Eisenhower in dress uniform and did the same for Milley. See the difference? This one here is Eisenhower is wearing the most medals I could find and it's about half of what I can see in pretty much every photo of Milley. Has there been some sort of "medal inflation" over the years where it takes less achievement to earn one?

Eisenhower had a crap ton more awards and medals than Milley and could have festooned his entire torso with them. Which of course would look ridiculous. And also, Eisenhower was probably a more modest man. Which brings me to my point.

Progressives are at the 'demand respect' phase of the Burge Sequence of their penetration of the military, and hoo boy, they do like their frippery. All those medals and ribbons and ranks and awards. They just can't enough of 'em.

And didn't Lt. Col. Sta-Puft show up at the Russian Collusion Hoax hearings wearing enough bling to make a 3rd-world dictator jealous? Why yes, I believe he did.

It's like that elsewhere, too. I remember when former Senator Barbara Boxer upbraided a general at some committee hearing for not addressing her as 'Senator'. "I worked so hard to get that title" she lectured him. Which is kind of weird because Glenn Beck came up with an archival video clip of her repeatedly being addressed as 'ma'am' by another military guy and she didn't object at all. So apparently, the outrage is selective. Or, fake.

Academia is another area where the progs throw fits. "It's *doctor* Jill Biden" they keep insisting. But she got her Ph.D. in, what, education? Community service? And their strutting her around like she's some Nobel Prize winning brain surgeon.

And if there's somebody on social media complaining about not being called 'Doctor' or whatever her correct title is, it's usually someone with (a) a blue check, (b) pronouns in the bio and (c) prog slogans also in the bio. The complainer is usually female, too, but not always.

And they use their academic leverage to try to muscle their way into the high-status STEM fields. They could do this easily enough by simply enrolling as a major in one of the STEM disciplines and passing the required coursework. But they're too lazy or not smart enough to do this. Instead of doing the actual hard work, they've come up with a new acronym, STEAM, where the 'A' stands for 'Arts' so they can claim that a degree in Lesbian Feminist Yakut Poetry and Dance is just as rigorous as one in chemical engineering.

The way I see it, if you need to ask for respect, you probably haven't earned respect. You shouldn't have to ask. Your work, or your character, or your demeanor should speak for itself. And the people I respect most do not make a big deal about rank or title. I've known highly accomplished Ph.D's who don't give a rip about being called "Doctor."

Speaking of which:

[Jill] Biden later returned to school for her doctoral degree, studying under her birth name, Jill Jacobs. In January 2007, at age 55, she received a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in educational leadership from the University of Delaware under the direction of professor Barbara Curry. Her dissertation, Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Students' Needs, was published under the name Jill Jacobs-Biden.

So, not a Ph.D, then, just an Ed.D. Which is not as rigorous. Also "educational leadership". You can get a degree in that?

Here's an interview I would like to see:

Interviewer: So, Mrs. Biden...
Jill Biden: Excuse me, it's Doctor Biden.
Interviewer: You're a doctor?
Jill Biden: Yes.
Interviewer: I didn't know that. Where did you go to medical school.
Jill Biden: I didn't go to medical school.
Interviewer: You didn't?
Jill Biden: I'm not an M.D.
Interviewer: Oh. Then what are you a doctor of?
Jill Biden: Educational leadership.
Interviewer: What?
Jill Biden: I said, educational leadership.
Interviewer: (stifled laughter)

Dispatches From Clown World:

Who Dis:

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Photo 4 (leggy!)
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For the 'Ettes:

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Friday Who Dis: If I told you that the birth name of our Friday Who Dis, Laya Raki, was Brunhilde Marie Jörns, you would probably say "oh, pshaw, OM, we know you're just funnin' with us." But it's true! She was born in Germany of mixed parentage. Her father was German and her mother, who left her after only 5 years, was Javanese, from whom she inherited her exotic looks. She started out as a dancer (of the 'exotic' kind), before she got into acting. She starred with Spangler Arlington Brugh, AKA Robert Taylor in the 1955 medieval action/adventure film The Adventures of Quentin Durward. With a name like Spangler Arlington Brugh, he sounds like some rich guy. I'll bet he got made fun of a lot in school. His imdb bio mentions his role as a "friendly witness" before HUAC in 1947, and then:

He held rigid right-wing political beliefs that he refused to question and, when confronted with an opposing viewpoint, would simply reject it outright. He rarely, if ever, felt the need to be introspective.

I've never seen anything like this in any actor's bio on imdb before this. No source is given, so I guess we're supposed to just accept it on faith.

Today's Edition Of The Morning Rant Is Brought To You By Brats & Beer:

Brats & Brat recipe available here, but do you really need one?

Posted by: OregonMuse at 11:17 AM

Comments

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1 sponge

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 10:16 AM (LvTSG)

2 hiya

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 10:17 AM (arJlL)

3 She looks a tad like Jennifer Finnegan, but I know that's not her. The guy? Needs a shave.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 10:17 AM (/XOcP)

4 Early - sorry I missed the art thread and glad you all "enjoyed" the painting.
Will have to check out AnnaPuma's blog on the subject.

Posted by: RKinRoanoke at August 23, 2021 10:18 AM (HsXh7)

5 Munkey!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 23, 2021 10:18 AM (n9aSI)

6 Top 10!

Posted by: NR Pax at August 23, 2021 10:18 AM (PvQcL)

7 No idea who dis.

Can't stand brats.

Working 12-8 today.

Lousy all around.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 23, 2021 10:18 AM (2JVJo)

8 Morning, All

Posted by: Dirty Hands Clean Money at August 23, 2021 10:19 AM (cx155)

9 The brat to bun ratio is wrong.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 10:19 AM (LvTSG)

10 I like the monopoly game!

Posted by: CN at August 23, 2021 10:19 AM (ONvIw)

11 Vulva owners? People who drive Swedish sedans and SUVs?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 10:20 AM (/XOcP)

12 9 The brat to bun ratio is wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 10:19 AM (LvTSG)

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 23, 2021 10:20 AM (mbFEM)

13 Re: the medals pics. Interesting that Ike has more medals on as a 4-star than he is wearing as a 5-star.

Posted by: FrodoB-
cause I am at August 23, 2021 10:20 AM (yFOIQ)

14 she received a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in educational leadership from the University of Delaware

I believe that was one of the prizes with a Happy Meal, but none of the kids wanted it, so it was discontinued.

Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:20 AM (ZsR3z)

15 3 She looks a tad like Jennifer Finnegan, but I know that's not her.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 10:17 AM (/XOcP)

( *looks up Jennifer Finnegan* )
( *adds Jennifer Finnegan to 'who dis' queue* )

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 10:21 AM (qX1k9)

16 Nice first James Monroe !

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 10:21 AM (arJlL)

17 That Milley Vanilli photo? Yeah. It's now on Farcebook.

Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master at August 23, 2021 10:21 AM (OCTRt)

18 >But she got her Ph.D. in, what, education?

She doesn't even have a PhD, it's a EdD, which is a Cracker Jack box degree.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 23, 2021 10:21 AM (DXFDM)

19 Need to update that Monopoly to:

--We grab your kid and jab them without consent
--We pepper spray you and or your kids for being maskless
-- We shoot all the dogs in the pond to protect, uh, let's see. . . indigenous peopl

Posted by: Lizzy at August 23, 2021 10:21 AM (bDqIh)

20 No idea who dis.

Can't stand brats. . . .

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 23, 2021

***
Neither can I. Leave 'em at home with the babysitter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 10:22 AM (/XOcP)

21 Willowed, Stolen from Taki's wit from yesterday:

Djinn Lizzy
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Guess who just got back today? Them wild-eyed boys that'd been away, Haven't changed, had much to say, But man, I still think them cats are crazy...

You know that chick that used to dance a lot? Every night she'd be on the floor, shakin' what she's got. Man, when I tell you she was cool, she was red-hot
I mean we set her on fire and her family was shot!

The boys are back in town

(And if the boys wanna fight, you better let 'em!)

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 23, 2021 10:22 AM (OssQ4)

22 Left wingers are known for their open mindedness and ability to reassess their opinions with new information.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2021 10:22 AM (WpyXV)

23 She sure is pretty. And vaguely familiar.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 10:22 AM (Jsjd7)

24 That fucker looks like a 3rd world dictator with that uniform. All he's missing is a bunch of gold pins like the generals have in North Korea to finish the look.

Posted by: GOPe at August 23, 2021 10:22 AM (GQ5VU)

25 Ike was an interesting case. IIRC, he had no combat experience, but was selected to head the Euro theater because of his stellar admin and planning skills. MacArthur once called him "the best clerk I ever had". It must have really burned him (Mac) when Ike one the Presidential nom and blocked him simultaneously. Good.

Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:22 AM (ZsR3z)

26 That Milley Vanilli photo? Yeah. It's now on Farcebook.
Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master

Nice !

Its a good one !

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 10:22 AM (arJlL)

27 One of my friends from high school, when he was in elementary school fell off the top of one of those monkey bar sets onto a lower bar. Broke his spleen.

But, yeah, he lived. Built character, it did.

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM) at August 23, 2021 10:22 AM (mbFEM)

28 Idi Amin loved to flaunt his medals, too.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 23, 2021 10:23 AM (m/Gc2)

29 Mrs. Bupkis got a master's degree in private school leadership a few years ago. When she described her classes it sounded to me like she was getting an MBA for teachers.

On the other hand, public education leadership studies is all about how to maintain the grift.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at August 23, 2021 10:23 AM (GD2xa)

30 She looks a tad like Jennifer Finnegan, but I know that's not her.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 10:17 AM (/XOcP)

( *looks up Jennifer Finnegan* )
( *adds Jennifer Finnegan to 'who dis' queue* )
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021

***
She guested a couple of times on The Dead Zone TV series with Anthony Michael Hall.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 10:23 AM (/XOcP)

31 Has Fat RINO Bastard given Broooooce a ball gargle lately?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 10:23 AM (y7DUB)

32 Has there been some sort of "medal inflation" over the years where it takes less achievement to earn one?

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In addition to White Rage, Milley has a medal for each letter in the LGBTQWTFBBQ victim totem.

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at August 23, 2021 10:23 AM (w6ADW)

33 Larry Elder: I hope this guy wins, but he's gonna face a shit storm from the left if he does.

Posted by: Dirty Hands Clean Money at August 23, 2021 10:23 AM (cx155)

34 won, not one.

Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:23 AM (ZsR3z)

35 Costume jewelry on Milley.

Posted by: CN at August 23, 2021 10:23 AM (ONvIw)

36 11 Vulva owners? People who drive Swedish sedans and SUVs?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 10:20 AM (/XOcP)

I think those are the loud horns they have a soccer matches.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 23, 2021 10:23 AM (PiwSw)

37 Australia, the land where everything not only can, but probably wants to kill you is done in by Covid, a disease with a better survival rate than I would think a bite from over half the native fauna. Where's Crocodile Dundee when you need him?

Posted by: Flyguy at August 23, 2021 10:23 AM (3sOO0)

38 ut she got her Ph.D. in, what, education?

My stool could get a doctorate in education.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 23, 2021 10:24 AM (yQpMk)

39 Relish on brats is verboten. Mustard und onions, ja bestimmt.

Posted by: Muad'dib - Shhhhh Baby, We're in New South Wales at August 23, 2021 10:24 AM (sjdRT)

40 Brats - good food. Yuengling pretty good beer. They're Porter is delicious but kind find it anymore.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 23, 2021 10:24 AM (/MaDp)

41 And didn't Lt. Col. Sta-Puft show up at the Russian Collusion Hoax hearings wearing enough bling to make a 3rd-world dictator jealous?

Interesting that his highest award is a Purple Heart.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 10:24 AM (T7iTv)

42 So the clot shot has been approved after a grueling non-Stage 3 trial of far less than one (1) year. Oh, and the control group was destroyed. So rigorous.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 23, 2021 10:24 AM (DXFDM)

43 Mulva??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 23, 2021 10:24 AM (UHVv4)

44 I'm sure some of the more military orientated commenters will note Ike had a shit ton of medals/ribbons... probably more and more significant than what's hiz pronoun has.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 23, 2021 10:25 AM (BFigT)

45 The boys are back in town

(And if the boys wanna fight, you better let 'em!)
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 23, 2021

***
The Borg are back in town!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 10:25 AM (/XOcP)

46 The decorations and insisting on titles (like nobility!) are related to the overall theme, I think.

Systems on the brink of collapse have serious problems. The problems are so serious that it is daunting to even contemplate them - let along try to fix them, because fixing them will extremely painful. It is pretty normal for people in that situation to get caught up in minutiae and ceremony as a distraction from the real problems that are too severe to contemplate.

This looks like that. We give each other medals and address each other with puffed-up titles while we titter on worrying about sub-species of owls and virtue-signalling about pronouns while the world burns and we slide closer to disaster. This is the state of our government and ruling class.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 10:25 AM (Jsjd7)

47 The way I see it, if you need to ask for respect, you probably haven't earned respect. You shouldn't have to ask. Your work, or your character, or your demeanor should speak for itself.

If you have to tell everyone you're a lady, you aren't.
-Maggie Thatcher, a real lady

Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:25 AM (ZsR3z)

48 she got her Ph.D. in, what, education?

**

Wasn't able to do the math for the journalism doctorate.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 10:25 AM (wqFd7)

49 uhuh, rigorous mortis ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (YjYuE) at August 23, 2021 10:25 AM (YjYuE)

50 33 Larry Elder: I hope this guy wins, but he's gonna face a shit storm from the left if he does.
Posted by: Dirty Hands Clean Money at August 23, 2021 10:23 AM (cx155)

========

If he wins, he'll be unable to get anything done through legislation. He'll be fought every step of the way by the bureaucracy. The courts will hobble him anywhere he can.

He'll need to be as aggressive as possible in theaters he can control. He simply needs to fire as many people as he can in the state government. It's really the only thing he could do that might stick for more than a few weeks after he's out of office.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 10:25 AM (LvTSG)

51 SR military officers now get medals and ribbons for some of the most phony BS there is.

Posted by: Vic at August 23, 2021 10:25 AM (mpXpK)

52 I always liked Robert Taylor, and now that I know he was an unembarrassed right-winger I like him even more. He was great in 'Quo Vadis'. He played Marcus Vinicius like an American WWII soldier, not impressed by the effeminate frippery of Nero's court, and also pretty hard-headed and convinced that Rome had nothing to learn from these idiotic Christians. He's not like the book Vinicius, but I can't think of the character any other way now.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at August 23, 2021 10:25 AM (T10C6)

53 27 One of my friends from high school, when he was in elementary school fell off the top of one of those monkey bar sets onto a lower bar. Broke his spleen.

But, yeah, he lived. Built character, it did.
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Our monkey bars had asphalt to cushion the fall.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 23, 2021 10:25 AM (/MaDp)

54 >> Vulva owners?

These euphemisms to make trans people feel better are incredibly dehumanizing to the rest of us.

I do not want to be referred to by my freakin' vulva "ownership!!!" And really, no transman owns a vulva, so it's just a useless way to avoid saying "women."

Posted by: Lizzy at August 23, 2021 10:25 AM (bDqIh)

55 "Has there been some sort of "medal inflation" over the years where it takes less achievement to earn one?"

In peacetime, there comes a point where you lose perspective on what the requirements for earning medals are.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 23, 2021 10:26 AM (Ectld)

56 haha I've been waiting all morning for Laya Raki!

cool!

so I guess it's one of those "all the best cowboys have Chinese eyes" type situations ... and germanic plus some Asian genes really does tend to come out quite well.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 23, 2021 10:26 AM (j9HX3)

57 Monkey business!

Posted by: Skid Row at August 23, 2021 10:26 AM (+ugqD)

58 So the clot shot has been approved after a grueling non-Stage 3 trial of far less than one (1) year.

***

Hey guys?

That's not helping.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 10:26 AM (wqFd7)

59 Idi Amin loved to flaunt his medals, too.
Posted by: mr tmz

Remember when Richard Pryor as Idi Amin said " I love Americans ! I had 2 for breakfast !"

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 10:26 AM (arJlL)

60 This looks like that. We give each other medals and address each other with puffed-up titles while we titter on worrying about sub-species of owls and virtue-signalling about pronouns while the world burns and we slide closer to disaster. This is the state of our government and ruling class.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 10:25 AM (Jsjd7)

Get rid of this nobility and just import some quiet British earls to run around with ribbons.

Posted by: CN at August 23, 2021 10:26 AM (ONvIw)

61 I got a medal for painting rocks.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 23, 2021 10:26 AM (/MaDp)

62 That Trump be something yo, 8 months out of office and still controlling everything Joe does. Joy Reid is approaching Sally Kohn status.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 23, 2021 10:26 AM (oWBc3)

63 And they use their academic leverage to try to muscle their way into the high-status STEM fields. They could do this easily enough by simply enrolling as a major in one of the STEM disciplines and passing the required coursework. But they're too lazy or not smart enough to do this. Instead of doing the actual hard work, they've come up with a new acronym, STEAM, where the 'A' stands for 'Arts' so they can claim that a degree in Lesbian Feminist Yakut Poetry and Dance is just as rigorous as one in chemical engineering.

Ever notice how nobody in STEM ever wants to claim they're in the arts?

Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:26 AM (ZsR3z)

64 25 Ike was an interesting case. IIRC, he had no combat experience, but was selected to head the Euro theater because of his stellar admin and planning skills. MacArthur once called him "the best clerk I ever had".

Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:22 AM (ZsR3z)

Is there a name for this sort of insult, when you disguise your dis as praise? 'Cuz that's a brilliant insult.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 10:27 AM (qX1k9)

65 You want to see people proud of worthless idiotic medals, look at a cop in their dress uniform. The Capitol police especially. I rolled my eyes so hard at that tattooed neck beard mall cop I didn't think they would roll back.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 23, 2021 10:27 AM (qH6FZ)

66 Assume there is a serial killer who targets women and mutilates them for trophies that he then keeps in formaldehyde - his most prized possessions. Can that serial killer obtain benefits as a "vulva owner?"

These people are deranged.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 10:27 AM (Jsjd7)

67 Eisenhower versus Milley

Non GMO Fruit Salad versus GMO Fruit Salad

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 23, 2021 10:27 AM (CjHGv)

68 Is there a name for this sort of insult, when you disguise your dis as praise? 'Cuz that's a brilliant insult.

"Left handed compliment"

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2021 10:27 AM (DpkTQ)

69 Leading the charge was not Eisenhower's job... that went out of favor for us after the Civil War. The body count was rather high then, for Generals. Ike had a job, which he did a masterful job of doing.

Posted by: kraken at August 23, 2021 10:27 AM (6Je/Q)

70 Brats and Beer! Teh food of my people!

Posted by: grammie winger at August 23, 2021 10:27 AM (45fpk)

71 Is there a name for this sort of insult, when you disguise your dis as praise? 'Cuz that's a brilliant insult.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 10:27 AM (qX1k9)
++++
"Back-handed compliment."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 10:28 AM (Jsjd7)

72 Today's Edition Of The Morning Rant Is Brought To You By Brats & Beer:

You know what else is brought to you by Brats & Beer? That's right- Steiner.

Posted by: t-bird at August 23, 2021 10:28 AM (9Fwwf)

73 Lots of Vulva owners in Vermont.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 23, 2021 10:28 AM (Ectld)

74 How will Biden sell us out today? Gotta hide his guilt with more blackmail payoffs!

Posted by: CN at August 23, 2021 10:28 AM (ONvIw)

75 Me likey the Brats and Beer.

I ran into a guy once who wore only his MOH, a purple heart and his CAR. That was it. He rated a boatload more but he felt it told the story to those would could 'read' them.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 23, 2021 10:28 AM (mD/uy)

76 When I was 10/11 I was riding my bike sans shirt. No helmet or wrist pads or any of the other modern bullshit of course. I took a nasty tumble on an asphalt street. My entire stomach, chest, knees, elbows you name it was scraped and bloody, with little pieces of asphalt stick on me. I biked back home, my mom saw me and was like WTF happened, go wash yourself off, lol.

If my wife saw one of my kids like that today, she would rush them to the ER.

Ahh good times those were, good times.

Posted by: GOPe at August 23, 2021 10:28 AM (GQ5VU)

77 71 Is there a name for this sort of insult, when you disguise your dis as praise? 'Cuz that's a brilliant insult.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 10:27 AM (qX1k9)
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"Back-handed compliment."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 10:28 AM (Jsjd7)

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Pretty sure I call it, "How Dolley addresses me everyday."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 10:28 AM (LvTSG)

78 Joy Reid does not know what "venal" means.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 10:28 AM (fqcG3)

79 Off GOPe sock

Posted by: Joe XiDen - Delta Delta Delta Can I help ya help ya help ya Variant at August 23, 2021 10:28 AM (GQ5VU)

80 @Joe

I think you meant "Backhanded compliment, genius."

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 23, 2021 10:28 AM (Ectld)

81 lol, yes, all the po-leece "chiefs" with their 3 or four stars on the collar ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (YjYuE) at August 23, 2021 10:28 AM (YjYuE)

82 Vulva owners? I wonder how much they cost. Can they sell them used?

Posted by: Ripley at August 23, 2021 10:29 AM (MxEKc)

83 "Mustard und onions, ja bestimmt."

And Kraut.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 23, 2021 10:29 AM (qH6FZ)

84 Ike took on Germany, Italy and Japan and whipped all of them in four years.

Milley Vanilli managed to lose to a group of goat humpers and give them enough equipment to put a whole new army in the field while running in terror like a school girl.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2021 10:29 AM (DpkTQ)

85 81 lol, yes, all the po-leece "chiefs" with their 3 or four stars on the collar ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (YjYuE) at August 23, 2021 10:28 AM (YjYuE)

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Garbage workers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 10:29 AM (LvTSG)

86 Larry Elder: I hope this guy wins, but he's gonna face a shit storm from the left if he does.
Posted by: Dirty Hands Clean Money at August 23, 2021 10:23 AM (cx155)

The left is never shy about pointing out how inferior they consider colored people to be. They know sellouts like Tennessee Coatrack will excuse them.

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 10:29 AM (y7DUB)

87 Yeah. There has been (at least when I was in) a bit of award inflation.

For the Vietnam conflict, SVN gave out 2 medals for all enlisted (and officers?) who were present or had done a tour.

Then there was the alive in 65 medal for just being in the service during a certain time frame. I understand they've done that again since tho I don't know what the dates are.

And I'm sure previous and since that time there's been some action awards for being a part of them. The thing to do is look at the top most row starting at their right and see what those awards are.

And I'll give him this; he has a CIB and jump wings so he was once a soldier. After a certain grade an officer in any of the services becomes a more political position.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 23, 2021 10:29 AM (aayoh)

88 82 Vulva owners? I wonder how much they cost. Can they sell them used?
Posted by: Ripley at August 23, 2021 10:29 AM (MxEKc)

The Vulva--the world's safest car.

Posted by: Northernlurkerish at August 23, 2021 10:29 AM (cSyAR)

89 Is there a name for this sort of insult, when you disguise your dis as praise? 'Cuz that's a brilliant insult.

I'm sure Mac wasn't trying to disguise anything, arrogant ass that he was. The funny thing is that Ike never felt the need to respond, even when it was clear he'd won.

Truman made two great decisions: drop the bomb, and fire his ass.

Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:30 AM (ZsR3z)

90 I would love to see an animation of Milley taking off his coat, and having another coat on under it, with even more decorations on it. Then taking that one off, with even more on the next, and again and again, with more and more.

Just like Seuss' Bartholomew Cubbins. But unlike Cubbins, he actually doesn't win in the end. IYKWIM.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 23, 2021 10:30 AM (OssQ4)

91 81 lol, yes, all the po-leece "chiefs" with their 3 or four stars on the collar ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (YjYuE) at August 23, 2021 10:28 AM (YjYuE)

You would think they would have more feathers in their hats....

Posted by: kraken at August 23, 2021 10:30 AM (6Je/Q)

92 I understand a soldier is only required to wear personal awards and medals.
Most Of Milley's medals are unit citations, showed up for formation and went somewhere for 48 hours.
Some of them are personal awards.
The more medals they wear the more like Soviet Generals they appear.
After you have been in service for a long time the more you are able to get medals and badges along with ribbons because the awards are slow to come.
A short timer gets what is awarded for the two, three, or four years they are in and after they would have to go look for any awards they earned after they got out.

Posted by: obsidian at August 23, 2021 10:30 AM (DdrYE)

93 That Trump be something yo, 8 months out of office and still controlling everything Joe does. Joy Reid is approaching Sally Kohn status.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 23, 2021 10:26 AM

Funny that SloJoe Hiden trashed and ended everything Trump did but forgot that he was President when it came to Afghanistan. Sorry Baghdad Biden. You own this, lock stock and barrel, or both barrels when it comes to you.

Posted by: Minnfidel at August 23, 2021 10:30 AM (mV+3t)

94 Aldi has excellent bratwurst - actually from Germany (look for the blue & white package). Grilled some last night, in fact.

Posted by: Hoplite Housewife at August 23, 2021 10:30 AM (R1NI2)

95 Our monkey bars had asphalt to cushion the fall.
Posted by: Puddin Head at August 23, 2021 10:25 AM (/MaDp)

The broken beer bottles helped, too. And needing an updated tetanus shot.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 23, 2021 10:30 AM (89T5c)

96 Interesting that Ike has more medals on as a 4-star than he is wearing as a 5-star.
Posted by: FrodoB-
cause I am at August 23, 2021 10:20 AM (yFOIQ)

I believe that you're only required to wear the top three on a working uniform. Plus, as a five-star, he could tell everyone else to fuck off.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 10:31 AM (T7iTv)

97 morning Horde. running late today. coddee is nearly gone.

regarding who dis, anyone figure out which 'ette it is? i mean picc 2 with a gun and 3 with alcohol, she's got to be one our esteemed guests, right? and pics from a MoMe?

and Barts are fab, and wish i had some for lunch today. that looks great.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 23, 2021 10:31 AM (8D42x)

98 ""It's *doctor* Jill Biden" they keep insisting. But she got her Ph.D. in, what, education?"

She doesn't have a Ph.D. She has a "Doctor of Education" (Ed.D.), not a Ph.D. in education. Source: https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/dr-jill-biden/

A "Doctor of Education" is supposedly a professional degree, like a law degree is a "juris doctor", or "doctor of laws." (But the lawyers actually are prohibited from calling themselves "doctor" by ethics rules.)

Posted by: mondonico at August 23, 2021 10:31 AM (ZuG4t)

99 Pentagon briefing now: Vax mandate for military full steam ahead...because FDC approval.

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 10:31 AM (S1hrL)

100 96 I believe that you're only required to wear the top three on a working uniform. Plus, as a five-star, he could tell everyone else to fuck off.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 10:31 AM (T7iTv)

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"Who won't wear the ribbon!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 10:31 AM (LvTSG)

101 I think ill have a yuengling with my lunch today

Posted by: weew at August 23, 2021 10:31 AM (+m+uH)

102 You want to see people proud of worthless idiotic medals, look at a cop in their dress uniform.
Posted by: lowandslow

The four stars for the Chief of Police or Commissioner always gets me. Really guys/POC female?

Posted by: Tonypete at August 23, 2021 10:31 AM (mD/uy)

103 @Rothbard1776

The FDA's Pfizer vaccine approval letter contains the dates of when several safety and efficacy studies (ie. Vaccine exposure during pregnancy and infant outcomes, occurrence of myocarditis + pericarditis, etc.) are set to be completed.

https://tinyurl.com/yff3f3xf
(There's 2 pages. Hit the --> for 2nd page)

Posted by: Tami at August 23, 2021 10:32 AM (cF8AT)

104 I never realized the Army had a "Distinguished Lying Cross".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2021 10:32 AM (/EuRN)

105 The more medals they wear the more like Soviet Generals they appear.

The kings of this are the Norks. Their generals are short to begin with, and the top ones are almost covered head-to-toe with medals. It's kind of surprising they don't tip over like Guam.

Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:32 AM (ZsR3z)

106 There is another blog run by a military guy that has pointed out all of Milley's salad is pretty much decoration. Lots of been there but has Never been in a real shooting situation. All Puff, No Stuff.

Posted by: Kafiroon at August 23, 2021 10:32 AM (tfWLB)

107 Love the pic comparisons of our bemedalled generals.

I have come to the conclusion that we are gonna need a ranking system for clusterfucks. Cuz the Kabul one has set a new world standard, and the Dems still have 3.5 years to surpass Kabul.

I'm betting they are up to the task, sadly.

Posted by: GnuBreed, no circumstance at August 23, 2021 10:32 AM (F0YaR)

108 After my Dad died brother and I were going through his stuff, and were astonished. The man was pretty well medalled but he never once mentioned anything about the decorations.

All he ever talked about his service was one evening my brother, me and Uncle Ed (another in the same vein) talked about our service. I'd just got home and what they spoke of made me feel like the shit I saw was nothing more than a Sunday picnic.

There is no way those men can be venerated enough.

Posted by: irongrampa at August 23, 2021 10:32 AM (KATBx)

109 The legend of McArthur has always fascinated me. Everyone knows his name, but not near as many know the name Nimitz, who actually won the Pacific War. Well him and that Oppenheimer guy.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 23, 2021 10:32 AM (oWBc3)

110 I'm curious about the WhoDis, for reasons...

I had brats for dinner last night. Boiled in beer and onions, some time in the smoker, turned up the heat for color, back the the beer baff.

De-lish!

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at August 23, 2021 10:32 AM (wAT06)

111 105 The more medals they wear the more like Soviet Generals they appear.

The kings of this are the Norks. Their generals are short to begin with, and the top ones are almost covered head-to-toe with medals. It's kind of surprising they don't tip over like Guam.
Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:32 AM (ZsR3z)

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When every metal is made with very thin tin...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 10:33 AM (LvTSG)

112 I never realized the Army had a "Distinguished Lying Cross".

Heh.

Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:33 AM (ZsR3z)

113 "Cuz the Kabul one has set a new world standard, and the Dems still have 3.5 years to surpass Kabul."

*insert random cackle*

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 23, 2021 10:33 AM (Ectld)

114 Oops. See you haveed.hat coverd.

Posted by: mondonico at August 23, 2021 10:33 AM (ZuG4t)

115 Looking at the ?Korean? generals pic, they must be assigned medals to insure they lean to the left.

Posted by: FrodoB-
cause I am at August 23, 2021 10:33 AM (yFOIQ)

116 That Milley Vanilli photo? Yeah. It's now on Farcebook.
Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master

Nice !

Its a good one !
Posted by: JT

Had already got one like from a Vet before I could even get off of my page.

Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master at August 23, 2021 10:33 AM (OCTRt)

117 Two loaded brats and a Yuengling? There's a proper meal, sayeth this inhabitant of Greater Zinzinnati.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 23, 2021 10:33 AM (W+kMI)

118 Just reading Frank Furedi about Safety and our Culture.

https://tinyurl.com/4jwj3pwx

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 10:33 AM (yrol0)

119 Hitler wore one medal..... and why did I mention this? Please, nevermind...

Posted by: kraken at August 23, 2021 10:34 AM (6Je/Q)

120 The Vulva--the world's safest car.

Posted by: Northernlurkerish at August 23, 2021 10:29 AM (cSyAR)

One owner - leather interior...

Posted by: Parker at August 23, 2021 10:34 AM (hJWil)

121 The Vulva--the world's safest car.
Posted by: Northernlurkerish

Riddle me this Batman - why does the Vulva have the medical symbol for 'male' as part of it's logo?

A head-scratcher that one is.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 23, 2021 10:34 AM (mD/uy)

122 The FDA's Pfizer vaccine approval letter contains the dates of when several safety and efficacy studies (ie. Vaccine exposure during pregnancy and infant outcomes, occurrence of myocarditis + pericarditis, etc.) are set to be completed.

**

We live in an unserious world.

But of course the vaccines will be approved. There's no way the regulators are going to say "Wait, hold up, this chemical doesn't look safe, we need more focused studies here here and here" when 150M+ Americans have permanently changed their (and their childrens) physiology with the chemical.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 10:34 AM (wqFd7)

123 These doctors need to be launched into the sun for this. ofc is it "South Florida" one of the the Psy-Op Capitols of America.

https://beckernews.com/more-than-75- doctors-walk-out-of-south-florida-hospital-rather-than- treat-the-unvaccinated-41035/

More Than 75 Doctors Walk Out of South Florida Hospital Rather Than Treat the Unvaccinated

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 23, 2021 10:34 AM (sI26c)

124 @98

Half of the country thinks Dr. Jill is a real doctor because The View said she was.

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 10:34 AM (S1hrL)

125 MacArthur once called him "the best clerk I ever had".
Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:22 AM (ZsR3z)

MacArthur had an oversize ego. Lots of stuff done just to keep him away from being in charge.

Plus he got himself shit canned by a small town Missouri failed haberdasher so he hasn't much to really brag about.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 23, 2021 10:35 AM (aayoh)

126 Well.

Participation trophies helped get us where we are today. Being rewarded for showing up. How about all the parents who refuse to discipline their kids because they don't want to put down the kids' natural inclination to being assholes?

My boys once asked me why I didn't display all their participation trophies at home.

I said, "win something and I'll build a shelf for it."
Harsh? Maybe. But they understood.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 23, 2021 10:35 AM (U2p+3)

127 The legend of McArthur has always fascinated me. Everyone knows his name, but not near as many know the name Nimitz, who actually won the Pacific War. Well him and that Oppenheimer guy.

Yeah, the decision to go the northerly route vs the Phillippines and Taiwan was not an easy call, but the fact that Mac kept yammering about returning would have been enough for me.

Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:35 AM (ZsR3z)

128 94 Aldi has excellent bratwurst - actually from Germany (look for the blue & white package). Grilled some last night, in fact.
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This is true. Aldi brats are 25% cheaper than Johnsonville, grill nicely, taste great!

Posted by: exdem13 at August 23, 2021 10:36 AM (W+kMI)

129 More Than 75 Doctors Walk Out of South Florida Hospital Rather Than Treat the Unvaccinated

**

They don't want the vaccinated to get sick.

Wait, what?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 10:36 AM (wqFd7)

130 More Than 75 Doctors Walk Out of South Florida Hospital Rather Than Treat the Unvaccinated

Anybody remember "Do no harm?"

Anyone? Buehler?

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 23, 2021 10:36 AM (Bmy3R)

131 Bill Cosby has an Ed D, doesn't he? I don't remember the Dems falling all over themselves to correct people who didn't refer to him as "Dr." Cosby, even before his activities came to light.

Come to think of it, Bill "only" drugged a few hundred women. Joe Biden and Social Media roofied up half the country and the fcking is going on right now.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 23, 2021 10:36 AM (u1eUk)

132 My mom was fast tracked by Pfizer.

Posted by: Kurt at August 23, 2021 10:36 AM (NwN5T)

133 Robert Taylor "He held rigid right-wing political beliefs that he refused to question and, when confronted with an opposing viewpoint, would simply reject it outright. He rarely, if ever, felt the need to be introspective."

ha, Winston is rewriting history? "Refusing to question" your Christian/Western heritage (and your deep studies in its foundations in sovereign rights) will soon be a jailable offense, if we don't stop these murderous fluckers.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 23, 2021 10:36 AM (Cus5s)

134 If I'm counting them right, via Wikipedia, Milley is wearing at least 50 awards. I'm guessing at least one of them is for "Best In Parade".

Posted by: t-bird at August 23, 2021 10:36 AM (l0Lgi)

135 We live in an unserious world.

But of course the vaccines will be approved. There's no way the regulators are going to say "Wait, hold up, this chemical doesn't look safe, we need more focused studies here here and here" when 150M+ Americans have permanently changed their (and their childrens) physiology with the chemical.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 10:34 AM (wqFd7)

We live in a deadly serious world, with monsters in charge, not clowns, monsters.

Posted by: CN at August 23, 2021 10:36 AM (ONvIw)

136 "Half of the country thinks Dr. Jill is a real doctor because The View said she was."

She's meant to appeal to the wine box divorcees. I don 't think it was working, though, because she disappeared about six months into the PR campaign.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 23, 2021 10:36 AM (Ectld)

137 More Than 75 Doctors Walk Out of South Florida Hospital Rather Than Treat the Unvaccinated

**

So couldn't they just wear masks?

If not, why not?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 10:36 AM (wqFd7)

138
Jill Biden is NOT a Ph.D., for that program requires original research, academic rigor, and oral exams.

She write, badly, a term paper for her vaunted Ed.D.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 23, 2021 10:37 AM (pNxlR)

139 I'm guessing at least one of them is for "Best In Parade".

Don't forget best dick sucking. I *earned* that one trust me.

Posted by: Gen Milley at August 23, 2021 10:37 AM (DpkTQ)

140 Hitler wore one medal..... and why did I mention this? Please, nevermind...
Posted by: kraken

And he pretty much guaranteed that NOBODY would ever grow a 'stache like his again !

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 10:37 AM (arJlL)

141 Ike is wearing his top 3. You see a lot of that in the navy. Miley is wearing his full rack. A lot are participation awards. No valor medals that I can see

Posted by: LTCHAM at August 23, 2021 10:37 AM (JF+JP)

142 And didn't Lt. Col. Sta-Puft show up at the Russian Collusion Hoax hearings wearing enough bling to make a 3rd-world dictator jealous?

Interesting that his highest award is a Purple Heart.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 10:24 AM (T7iTv)
***

When I first saw it, I had the same thought. He was wounded in his deployment but no bronze star. Just the PH. His boss was sending a message.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2021 10:37 AM (axyOa)

143 132 Pfizer was fast tracked by Trump

Well, that's it then. I refuse to get the vax.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 23, 2021 10:37 AM (Bmy3R)

144 "Best In Parade".
Posted by: t-bird at August 23, 2021 10:36 AM (l0Lgi

Best of Opposite sex, bushiest brows

Posted by: CN at August 23, 2021 10:37 AM (ONvIw)

145 Looks like the AZ audit results will be released in #twoweeks

I mean, I hate that GP is the only one covering it 'cause, well, the guy has sold so much sizzle and no steak you'd think he'd change his name to Sizzler.

Posted by: Mrm88 at August 23, 2021 10:37 AM (jIL4c)

146 Pfizer was fast tracked by Trump
Posted by: Kurt

**

hahaha, even Kurt sees what's coming down the line with this FDA approval and the control group vaccinated along with the rest of the bunch.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 10:37 AM (wqFd7)

147 Is there a name for this sort of insult, when you disguise your dis as praise? 'Cuz that's a brilliant insult.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021

***
"Damning with faint praise"?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 10:38 AM (/XOcP)

148 I ran into a guy once who wore only his MOH, a purple heart and his CAR. That was it. He rated a boatload more but he felt it told the story to those would could 'read' them.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 23, 2021 10:28 AM (mD/uy)

Honestly, unless you're a general/admiral, the MOH would seem to imply the other two.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 10:38 AM (T7iTv)

149 Now, for something completely different ...

How underground arm-wrestling mania is slamming NYC streets

Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 10:38 AM (RHGPo)

150 The View said she was.
Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 10:34 AM (S1hrL)

They wanted her nominated for Gen Surgeon!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 10:39 AM (yrol0)

151 >Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 10:33 AM (yrol0)

The phrase "stay safe" now makes me want to choke a bitch.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 23, 2021 10:39 AM (DXFDM)

152 Her dissertation, Student Retention at the Community College: Meeting Students' Needs

That's easy: subsidize their tuition. Boom- make me a doctor, California. (California community colleges recently went from $16/credit to $32. It is the no-brainer of no-brainers to go there for a few years)

Posted by: t-bird at August 23, 2021 10:39 AM (vOGqy)

153 regarding awards, i remember a dress white inspection shortly after checking in onboard the Enterprise. had my stack of 8 ribbons for a 4 year and change service at the time. Chief was kind of shocked, especially when he saw the 3 sea service... Big E was my 3rd ship in 4 years. i was the definition of haze gray and underway. forward deployments used to do that too you.

but yeah, there was award inflation at that time, mid 90s, i can only imagine how it is now.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 23, 2021 10:39 AM (8D42x)

154 But did Ike ever read White Fragility? I don't think so, so Milley is clearly the better man (and general) for it.

Posted by: Match Checksout at August 23, 2021 10:39 AM (dYe5S)

155 Aldi has excellent bratwurst - actually from Germany (look for the blue & white package). Grilled some last night, in fact.
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This is true. Aldi brats are 25% cheaper than Johnsonville, grill nicely, taste great!
Posted by: exdem13 at August 23, 2021 10:36 AM

Hmmm.

*considers local Aldi*

I'll have to look for those.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 23, 2021 10:39 AM (n9aSI)

156 "How underground arm-wrestling mania is slamming NYC streets"

They don't use tables?

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 23, 2021 10:39 AM (Ectld)

157 Some days I wonder if Hoft is funded by the IC.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 23, 2021 10:39 AM (89T5c)

158 I believe that you're only required to wear the top three on a working uniform. Plus, as a five-star, he could tell everyone else to fuck off.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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Can anybody read out what his were? What he considered important?

Posted by: FrodoB-
cause I am at August 23, 2021 10:39 AM (yFOIQ)

159 How underground arm-wrestling mania is slamming NYC streets
Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 10:38 AM (RHGPo)

U reading NY Post!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 10:39 AM (yrol0)

160 And he pretty much guaranteed that NOBODY would ever grow a 'stache like his again !
Posted by: JT

At least on a face. . . .

Posted by: Tonypete at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM (mD/uy)

161 Vulva owners fail to acknowledge that it's been a Chinese owned car company for some time now.

As for Vulva trucks and heavy equipment, I don't know if that ownership sailed to Peking, or remained in the Swedish Chef's kitchen.

Just like British Leyland is now owned by the Indian (dot, not feather) auto giant "TATA". I'm waiting for the rollout of the new Jaguar Vindaloo, any day now!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM (QzJWU)

162 The phrase "stay safe" now makes me want to choke a bitch.

**

I have forced myself to move away from that phrase permanently. "Good luck and God bless" is what I tell people now.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM (wqFd7)

163
MacArthur had an oversize ego. Lots of stuff done just to keep him away from being in charge.

________

Should have been sacked after the loss of the Philippines.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM (ON6D8)

164 Pentagon: Goal is to get as many "people" out as fast as possible by the end of the month.

Pentagon: "Afghans in need."

AF at airport: I need to leave.

Pentagon: Get on the plane.

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM (S1hrL)

165 Kurt's entire repertoire: "But Trump!!1!"

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM (DXFDM)

166 The kings of this are the Norks. Their generals are short to begin with, and the top ones are almost covered head-to-toe with medals. It's kind of surprising they don't tip over like Guam.

Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:32 AM (ZsR3z)

The good part about this is that if we ever go to war with the Norks, we will be able to defeat them with a magnet.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM (qX1k9)

167 >>>The way I see it, if you need to ask for respect, you probably haven't earned respect.

Exactly.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM (6dJKT)

168 Eisenhower, MacArthur and Patton all wore less medals on their "working" uniform. They all had many more medals they wore for formal occasions.

Posted by: Archer at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM (gmo/4)

169 So if Lon Cheney is really blaming Biden it makes me wonder of they're legit setting us up to move him out and move Commiela in. I can't believe they're gonna do it without a "health" excuse but they are getting less predictable.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM (WpyXV)

170 They wanted her nominated for Gen Surgeon!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 10:39 AM (yrol0)

Mmmmm. I love caviar.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM (AiZBA)

171 Gah! Now I'm hungry and want a beer.

Posted by: artisanal ette at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM (2o90I)

172
Has there been some sort of "medal inflation" over the years where it takes less achievement to earn one?

See all the police chiefs who wear four stars.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM (63Dwl)

173 Is there a name for this sort of insult, when you disguise your dis as praise? 'Cuz that's a brilliant insult.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 10:27 AM (qX1k9)

"Back-handed compliment."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM (2JVJo)

174 Really tired of this idea that the unvaccinated are sick and carriers of the disease. We aren't. And I would never, ever, use a doctor that discriminated on the basis of a vaccine.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM (5HBd1)

175 Similar to overuse of "Dr.", if you ever see an attorney that puts "Esq." or "J.D." after their name, don't hire them. It just screams "I couldn't pass the bar and/or I went to a non-accredited law school. "

Posted by: brak at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM (bfRef)

176 Denninger on how the FDA's approval just broke the law, and further, has rendered the administration of BOTH the Moderna and Johnson + Johnson shots ILLEGAL:

https://tinyurl.com/3d6aacxt

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 23, 2021 10:41 AM (OssQ4)

177 Playgrounds at the elementary school I went to don't resemble anything like what I had. Merry go rounds that the bullies would make go faster and faster until us little ones screamed. Money bars like in the picture, metal slides that were pretty steep, etc, etc. Now its all plastic stuff with no challenges at all.

Posted by: Colin at August 23, 2021 10:41 AM (bhBSF)

178 And he pretty much guaranteed that NOBODY would ever grow a 'stache like his again !
Posted by: JT

At least on a face. . . .
Posted by: Tonypete

ISWYDT !

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 10:41 AM (arJlL)

179 Just like British Leyland is now owned by the Indian (dot, not feather) auto giant "TATA". I'm waiting for the rollout of the new Jaguar Vindaloo, any day now!

How many tatas do you see on the road?

Posted by: Northernlurkerish at August 23, 2021 10:41 AM (cSyAR)

180 But Milley looks like Curly.

Posted by: Archer at August 23, 2021 10:41 AM (gmo/4)

181 The good part about this is that if we ever go to war with the Norks, we will be able to defeat them with a magnet.

Bahahahaha.

Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:41 AM (ZsR3z)

182 "I can't believe they're gonna do it without a "health" excuse but they are getting less predictable."

Looks like an insight into Kamela's character. She demands legitimacy. Seems like a flaw.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 23, 2021 10:41 AM (Ectld)

183 64 25 Ike was an interesting case. IIRC, he had no combat experience, but was selected to head the Euro theater because of his stellar admin and planning skills. MacArthur once called him "the best clerk I ever had".

Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:22 AM (ZsR3z)

Is there a name for this sort of insult, when you disguise your dis as praise? 'Cuz that's a brilliant insult.
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Then there was Eisenhower's retort. "I studied histrionics under General MacArthur for five years."

Posted by: exdem13 at August 23, 2021 10:42 AM (W+kMI)

184 He'll need to be as aggressive as possible in theaters he can control. He simply needs to fire as many people as he can in the state government. It's really the only thing he could do that might stick for more than a few weeks after he's out of office.
...
Well.. he will have a whole year before state elections.. If he can show voters the legislature is blocking any meaningful reforms, perhaps he can affect those elections..

But.. it is probably hopeless..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 23, 2021 10:42 AM (CjFDo)

185 >Some days I wonder if Hoft is funded by the IC.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 23, 2021 10:39 AM (89T5c)

I think that's a likely scenario.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 23, 2021 10:42 AM (DXFDM)

186 Aqua Vulva

Posted by: Roy at August 23, 2021 10:42 AM (Ti+Tv)

187 Chief Wiggums of the US Army.

Posted by: BluesFish at August 23, 2021 10:42 AM (kPJ/p)

188 Ike took on Germany, Italy and Japan and whipped all of them in four years.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 23, 2021 10:29 AM (DpkTQ)

I don't believe Eisenhower had anything to do with the war in the Pacific.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 10:42 AM (T7iTv)

189 169 So if Lon Cheney is really blaming Biden it makes me wonder of they're legit setting us up to move him out and move Commiela in. I can't believe they're gonna do it without a "health" excuse but they are getting less predictable.
Posted by: ... at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM (WpyXV)

==========

He's not going anywhere. They won't be able to pull off the 25th Amendment gambit, and trying and failing would be such a huge humiliation that they'll never live it down.

The fight between "sources" in the IC and the Military and the White House are going to continue for a while now, as each tries to blame the other while the European press eggs everything on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 10:42 AM (LvTSG)

190 South Florida doctors, now do positive HIV patients.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 23, 2021 10:42 AM (oWBc3)

191 Vioxx was approved by the FDA, which killed 500k (?)
The FDA approved OxyContin in the mid 90's and said is was not habit forming.
The FDA is ok with HRT in children
The FDA said Ivermectin is not for humans
The FDA is anti-vitamin and supplements.

I put zero stock in what the FDA says people should and should not put in their bodies.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 23, 2021 10:42 AM (sI26c)

192 I would love to see an animation of Milley taking off his coat, and having another coat on under it, with even more decorations on it. Then taking that one off, with even more on the next, and again and again, with more and more.

Even Zombie Hermann Goering says, "Ach, das ist overkill mit der medals, ja?"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 23, 2021 10:43 AM (2JVJo)

193 Valley Village, CA: 2 women caught on camera opening a mailbox and stealing stack of California Gov. recall election ballots.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/
1428382828794978311

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 23, 2021 10:43 AM (UHVv4)

194 Fine looking Bratwurst. Toss the bun and get me some sauerkraut and German potato salad.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 23, 2021 10:43 AM (ecYxZ)

195 So the clot shot has been approved after a grueling non-Stage 3 trial of far less than one (1) year. Oh, and the control group was destroyed. So rigorous.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 23, 2021 10:24 AM

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Yep, pencil-whipped approval by the same FDA that is now picking nits with studies showing that Ivermectin is effective. The studies they did their best to ignore completely, at the direction of their big pharma buddies.

Posted by: Bigsmith at August 23, 2021 10:43 AM (G/mW5)

196
How many tatas do you see on the road?
Posted by: Northernlurkerish at August 23, 2021 10:41 AM (cSyAR)

They always drive in pairs

Posted by: Roy at August 23, 2021 10:43 AM (Ti+Tv)

197 The good part about this is that if we ever go to war with the Norks, we will be able to defeat them with a magnet.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 10:40 AM

Have you seen those hats they wear? You could defeat them with a big fan.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 23, 2021 10:43 AM (n9aSI)

198 Medal infaltion is real but I believe it was while GEN Shinseki the rule on medals was, if you got 'em, flaunt 'em so no more top row only stuff.
There are also more campaign ribbons to be worn now than when Ike was in uniform. Vietnam, Desert Storm, etc...

Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2021 10:43 AM (axyOa)

199 Press asks how many of the 42,000 evacuated were Americans.
Kirby: I don't have that information right now, but it was several thousand!

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 10:43 AM (S1hrL)

200 Volvo was helped immensely by getting out from under Ford. They're probably more Swedish than they've been in 20 years.

Jaguar? Well, they're still Jaguar.

(I love that, like what Alfa Romeo did with the Miata, when Jaguar was under Ford they'd make some stupid corporate engine design decision that would cause breakdowns and premature catastrophic engine failures. Perfectly good / bulletproof engines, and they'd make sure everyone knew they were Jaguars)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 10:44 AM (wqFd7)

201 Eisenhower, MacArthur and Patton all wore less medals on their "working" uniform. They all had many more medals they wore for formal occasions.

Mac was a MoH recipient, and certainly no coward. Some even described him as almost suicidal because of how he'd expose himself to enemy fire when visiting the front. His problem was that his ego wouldn't allow him to take orders from lesser mortal like, you know, presidents. That is a fatal flaw.

Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:44 AM (ZsR3z)

202 "I would love to see an animation of Milley taking off his coat, and having another coat on under it, with even more decorations on it."

@SNL

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 23, 2021 10:44 AM (Ectld)

203 That's easy: subsidize their tuition. Boom- make me a doctor, California. (California community colleges recently went from $16/credit to $32. It is the no-brainer of no-brainers to go there for a few years)
Posted by: t-bird at August 23, 2021 10:39 AM (vOGqy)

I have read it. It fucking stupid. She used the tables in Word (my guess) to do the math. Most of her numbers were so wrong you could see it without needing a calc.

By 1963, public and private two year headcount enrollment stood at 850,361. By 1980, enrollment had grown to 4,526,287, approximately a 230 percent increase in student attendance.

More like 400%.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 10:44 AM (yrol0)

204 How many tatas do you see on the road?
Posted by: Northernlurkerish at August 23, 2021 10:41 AM (cSyAR)

They always drive in pairs
Posted by: Roy at August 23, 2021 10:43 AM (Ti+Tv)

Automatic headlights.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2021 10:44 AM (/EuRN)

205 So now that all the vaccines are approved we can start buying Ivermectin OTC, too?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 10:45 AM (wqFd7)

206 "Get it all on record now, get the films, get the witnesses, because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Posted by: exdem13 at August 23, 2021 10:45 AM (W+kMI)

207 Does anyone think Harris is looking at this shit show and has decided she doesn't want the top job?

Posted by: I mean at August 23, 2021 10:45 AM (ZqoJU)

208 Vox Day remembers: Vioxx was "voluntarily withdrawn" by Merck, 5 years and 4 months after FDA approval. This chemical will be, too, after the damage is done.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 23, 2021 10:45 AM (OssQ4)

209 Schnitzengruben>Bratwurst....

Posted by: kraken at August 23, 2021 10:45 AM (6Je/Q)

210 South Florida doctors, now do positive HIV patients.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 23, 2021 10:42 AM (oWBc3)

And illegals.

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 10% at August 23, 2021 10:45 AM (Ez6QX)

211 Wait. If you "own" your body parts, does that mean they can be taxed? I think I see where this is going.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2021 10:45 AM (WpyXV)

212 193 Valley Village, CA: 2 women caught on camera opening a mailbox and stealing stack of California Gov. recall election ballots.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/
1428382828794978311
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 23, 2021 10:43 AM (UHVv4)

LA County alone has about 2 million extra voters registered than voters that should be elgible.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 10:45 AM (yrol0)

213 I don't believe Eisenhower had anything to do with the war in the Pacific.

Pfffft. Pussy.

Posted by: Gen. Milley at August 23, 2021 10:45 AM (ZsR3z)

214 The whole Doctor thing for PHDs is absurd. Reserve the title for those who made it through medical school. These are the "Doctors" we have some respect for.

A PHD these days just comes in a box of crackjacks. You can get a PHD by studying Gay Porn Films. Like all Education and liberal arts degrees, its a fraud.

Posted by: rcocean at August 23, 2021 10:45 AM (evE25)

215 My ex drove a Volvo, and happily let me drive her Vulva.

Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at August 23, 2021 10:46 AM (w6ADW)

216
I do not want to be referred to by my freakin' vulva "ownership!!!"
Posted by: Lizzy

Own up, you simply do not want to deal with all the junk calls headed your way to inquire whether you want to extend your factory warranty, which is about to expire.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 23, 2021 10:46 AM (pNxlR)

217 183 Then there was Eisenhower's retort. "I studied histrionics under General MacArthur for five years."
Posted by: exdem13 at August 23, 2021 10:42 AM (W+kMI)

Ha!

Posted by: m at August 23, 2021 10:46 AM (6dJKT)

218 207 Does anyone think Harris is looking at this shit show and has decided she doesn't want the top job?
Posted by: I mean at August 23, 2021 10:45 AM (ZqoJU

=======

No. She wants the job. She also doesn't understand her own incompetence. She's convinced that she'll do everything right.

If she gets the job, the turnover in the administration is going to make Trump's look positively stable.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 10:46 AM (LvTSG)

219 South Florida doctors, now do positive HIV patients.
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks

These DARPA linked Big Pharma are working on a HIV vaccine right now. I bet that becomes mandatory as well instead of people reframing from sticking multiple oenises in their buttholes.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 23, 2021 10:46 AM (sI26c)

220 This is my biggest fear; being told I can't see a Doctor for my regular visits cause I'm not vaccinated.

See the way they work it is every 6 months or so you have to see any prescribing Dr. so they can make sure the drugs aren't doing more damage etc. That's reasonable. But without a visit they won't supply a new prescription for the meds you need. So now their refusal makes it a life or death matter. Mine.

That's if they do that. And it's the Federal Gov't that sets the standards of care for Medicare patients and it's Health Care orgs that certify a practice for licensing. So if their rules change then so will the Drs.

This is a bad situation to be in. Particularly as the evidence of problems with the Vax are becoming more and more obvious and more and more Doctors are being vocal about it but you won't see them on TV or even talked about.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 23, 2021 10:46 AM (aayoh)

221 209 Schnitzengruben>Bratwurst....
Posted by: kraken at August 23, 2021 10:45 AM (6Je/Q)

13 should be a government mandated limit!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 10:46 AM (yrol0)

222 Interesting that Ike has more medals on as a 4-star than he is wearing as a 5-star.
Posted by: FrodoB-
cause I am at August 23, 2021 10:20 AM (yFOIQ)

I believe that you're only required to wear the top three on a working uniform. Plus, as a five-star, he could tell everyone else to fuck off.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 10:31 AM (T7iTv)

The raconteur Bennett Cerf tells a story about Ike walking into a PX one day and asking for something, while the distracted soldier shuffled for something under the counter and muttered, "hang on, mac."

And then when he came up and saw Ike's complement of stars, gulped, "Cripes! The whole Milky Way!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 23, 2021 10:46 AM (2JVJo)

223 "150M+ Americans have permanently changed their (and their childrens) physiology with the chemical.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 10:34 AM (wqFd7)"

Especially when it's not supposed to change anything - but appears to do so in some cases. Nobody knows how long some people keep expressing the proteins, but there isn't any reason to believe that it's not ultimately fatal when that happens.

I have been saying this from the beginning - accidental or intentional release, this is a deliberate attack after the progs jumped on taking advantage of it.

Posted by: somedood at August 23, 2021 10:47 AM (/z9fK)

224 "No. She wants the job. She also doesn't understand her own incompetence. She's convinced that she'll do everything right."

Someone should warn her there's no one else left to blow.

Posted by: squid_hunt at August 23, 2021 10:47 AM (Ectld)

225 I'm thinking the gal and guy might be singers. She has that country and western vibe.

Posted by: Javems at August 23, 2021 10:47 AM (8SSHh)

226
*Gorilla*

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 23, 2021 10:47 AM (n+4am)

227 Jaguar Land Rover has been owned by Tata since 2008. Nice looking vehicles but dependability remains a problem.

Posted by: mr tmz at August 23, 2021 10:47 AM (m/Gc2)

228 224 "No. She wants the job. She also doesn't understand her own incompetence. She's convinced that she'll do everything right."

Someone should warn her there's no one else left to blow.
Posted by: squid_hunt at August 23, 2021 10:47 AM (Ectld)

=========

*ready to take the podium*
-Bill Clinton

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 10:47 AM (LvTSG)

229 and Barts are fab, and wish i had some for lunch today.

You can eat my shorts, but that's it!

Posted by: Bart Simpson at August 23, 2021 10:48 AM (2JVJo)

230 How underground arm-wrestling mania is slamming NYC streets
Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 10:38 AM (RHGPo)
-
If you play with arms under ground, how do you know who wins?

Posted by: Biden's Dog at August 23, 2021 10:48 AM (RBYzW)

231 she received a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in educational leadership from the University of Delaware
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As others have pointed out, Elana Ceausescu was more attractive and just as credentialed.

Posted by: Mrm88 at August 23, 2021 10:48 AM (jIL4c)

232 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 10:42 AM (LvTSG)

Yeah I agree. Maybe she's blaming Biden to deflect from daddy and to pretend she's independent minded sometimes. I just thought she didn't do anything off script.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2021 10:48 AM (WpyXV)

233 There are people with doctorates in Nursing and Administration and who the hell knows what else... so they run around the hospital demanding to be called "Doctor", which makes the patients assume that they are... you know.... A Doctor. Hilarity (a.k.a. "tort") ensues.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2021 10:48 AM (/EuRN)

234 >Yep, pencil-whipped approval by the same FDA that is now picking nits with studies showing that Ivermectin is effective. The studies they did their best to ignore completely, at the direction of their big pharma buddies.
Posted by: Bigsmith at August 23, 2021 10:43 AM (G/mW5)

Did y'all see their brilliant social media intern tweeted that "You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Stop it"? Damn, rekt by the FDA. I guess I dreamt that Ivermectin was also approved for human use.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 23, 2021 10:48 AM (DXFDM)

235 And then when he came up and saw Ike's complement of stars, gulped, "Cripes! The whole Milky Way!"

If it really happened, it's my guess Ike laughed his ass off at that.

Posted by: Gen. Milley at August 23, 2021 10:48 AM (ZsR3z)

236 This good-lookin' blonde is not impressed by Milley's decorations and abhors the fact that he's a shit heel:
https://is.gd/nEt9N8

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 10:48 AM (Jsjd7)

237 215 My ex drove a Volvo, and happily let me drive her Vulva.
Posted by: ShainS -- Unauthorized Freedom Exhibitionist at August 23, 2021 10:46 AM (w6ADW)

ha! I had a drink thrown in my face by a gal that asked about my first girlfriend. I said she had a car and a vagina and I drove them both.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 10:48 AM (yrol0)

238 What is the keyboard settings for iPhones to prevent screens of red?

Posted by: Captain Hate Won't Forget Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 10:48 AM (y7DUB)

239 The brats look great OM.
but...
The absolute best brats are to be found ONLY in Nurmberg Germany, and from any decent street vender. Two Nurmberg wursts, served on a fresh brotchen, with German mustard, washed down by any available pils or hells bier.
This is known...and almost worth the price of the airline fare.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2021 10:49 AM (axyOa)

240
The whole Doctor thing for PHDs is absurd. Reserve the title for those who made it through medical school. These are the "Doctors" we have some respect for.

With all due respect, an M.D. represents having spent however many years in school taking a series of rote memorization courses, and then a couple more years being a "resident" at some inner city abbatoir.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 23, 2021 10:49 AM (pNxlR)

241 Milley's a clear chump, but I think we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that at the end of 20 year long conflict (you could have raised your infiltration agents from infants with that amount of time) that the CIA (or IC more broadly) had apparently exactly zero agents inside the Taliban who could provide reliable/actionable intelligence to point out the massive offensive and/or negotiations necessary for surrender of the various provincial leaders. If the CIA analysts can't google it or see it on CNN, they're not going to know about it much before you do.

Posted by: Match Checksout at August 23, 2021 10:49 AM (dYe5S)

242 There is another blog run by a military guy that has pointed out all of Milley's salad is pretty much decoration. Lots of been there but has Never been in a real shooting situation. All Puff, No Stuff.
Posted by: Kafiroon at August 23, 2021 10:32 AM (tfWLB)

The top four are:

Defense Distinguished Service Medal - I was a general
Army Distinguished Service Medal - I was a general
Defense Superior Service Medal - I was a general
Legion of Merit - I was a general

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 10:49 AM (T7iTv)

243 No. She wants the job. She also doesn't understand her own incompetence. She's convinced that she'll do everything right.

If she gets the job, the turnover in the administration is going to make Trump's look positively stable.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 10:46 AM (LvTSG)

It's a figurehead job and if she doesn't know that she's just plain stupid. I think she knows. So "competence" does not factor in. Her competence will be judged by how far left she moves us.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2021 10:50 AM (WpyXV)

244 >>>A PHD these days just comes in a box of crackjacks. You can get a PHD by studying Gay Porn Films. Like all Education and liberal arts degrees, its a fraud.

>I've been credentialed thru social media and the web. I'm a doctor of divinity and my temple is open for all.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 23, 2021 10:50 AM (ecYxZ)

245 Well, since all of you are going to prison for badthink, and since prison rape is pretty much inevitable, you are all required to get our new HIV vaccine. If it saves just one life....

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at August 23, 2021 10:50 AM (OssQ4)

246 Press asks why Kirby is being "deliberately vague" about numbers of Americans being evacuated.

Kirby declines to answer with "specificity."

The plan continues.

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 10:50 AM (S1hrL)

247 @catturd2

2017 from NPR.

One-Third Of New Drugs Had Safety Problems After FDA Approval

https://tinyurl.com/yff97lr4

Posted by: Tami at August 23, 2021 10:50 AM (cF8AT)

248 With all due respect, an M.D. represents having spent however many years in school taking a series of rote memorization courses, and then a couple more years being a "resident" at some inner city abbatoir.

And so it begins....

Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:50 AM (ZsR3z)

249 Can anybody read out what his were? What he considered important?

Cross-referencing with wikipedia, it looks like the only three he's wearing are his only three "US Military Decorations": Army Distinguished Service w/ 4 oak clusters, Navy Distinguished Service, and Legion of Merit.

Posted by: t-bird at August 23, 2021 10:51 AM (9Fwwf)

250 239 The brats look great OM.
but...
The absolute best brats are to be found ONLY in Nurmberg Germany, and from any decent street vender. Two Nurmberg wursts, served on a fresh brotchen, with German mustard, washed down by any available pils or hells bier.
This is known...and almost worth the price of the airline fare.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2021 10:49 AM (axyOa)

European MoMe in the future? (if the vax hysteria ever dies down...)

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 23, 2021 10:51 AM (PiwSw)

251 The FDA approved OxyContin in the mid 90's and said is was not habit forming.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 23, 2021 10:42 AM (sI26c)

Primarily because Big Pharma sent their PR guys to congress to pinky swear honest you guys that the risk of addiction with Oxy was "minimal".

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 10:51 AM (qX1k9)

252 174 Really tired of this idea that the unvaccinated are sick and carriers of the disease. We aren't. And I would never, ever, use a doctor that discriminated on the basis of a vaccine.
==========
The real delta-variant carriers are the unscreened and unvetted horde that was let over the borders this year and blithely sent to all the large and medium sized cities of the Republic. The MSM news gatekeepers have been determinedly ignoring that inconvenient fact for the entire time.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 23, 2021 10:51 AM (W+kMI)

253 Did y'all see their brilliant social media intern tweeted that "You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Stop it"? Damn, rekt by the FDA. I guess I dreamt that Ivermectin was also approved for human use.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 23, 2021 10:48 AM (DXFDM)

Ivermectin safe and effective.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33278625/

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 10:51 AM (yrol0)

254 When I was in the reserves/NG, I had like 3 pieces of fruit salad on my class-A's. The things I cared about were: my rank, my jump wings, and my marksmanship badge. I impressed my troops (when I had them) with my ability not to be a knucklehead. Somehow, I succeeded.

Posted by: SFGoth (KAi1n) at August 23, 2021 10:51 AM (KAi1n)

255 What better for Commiela to become President without having to run a campaign? (sound of cackling).

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 10:52 AM (S1hrL)

256 I'll bet Milley's 'I Love Me' wall is half a mile long.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, The Suicide Squad review at August 23, 2021 10:52 AM (XvPQV)

257 Have you seen those hats they wear? You could defeat them with a big fan.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 23, 2021 10:43 AM (n9aSI)

Curtis Sliwa always called them "Jiffy Pop" hats for obvious reasons.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 23, 2021 10:52 AM (aayoh)

258 These are the "Doctors" we have some respect for.

Well, had some respect for, in the Before Times. News like that out of South Florida makes that a "not so much."

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 23, 2021 10:52 AM (Bmy3R)

259 More Than 75 Doctors Walk Out of South Florida Hospital Rather Than Treat the Unvaccinated
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 23, 2021 10:34 AM (sI26c)

We're shipping illegals to south Florida? Or is it blacks that they won't treat?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 10:52 AM (T7iTv)

260 ha! I had a drink thrown in my face by a gal that asked about my first girlfriend. I said she had a car and a vagina and I drove them both.
Posted by: rhennigantx

If, over the course of your adult life, you don't have a drink thrown or your face slapped, you really just aren't trying.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 23, 2021 10:53 AM (mD/uy)

261 The brat to bun ratio is wrong.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 10:19 AM (LvTSG)

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!

Posted by: blaster (mbFEM)

++++
Thread winner

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at August 23, 2021 10:53 AM (Y+l9t)

262 I am shocked I can get hpv from my volvo. I mean they never mentioned this in the commercials. It was supposed to be safe! Wait, not volvo? Oh, Nevermind.

Posted by: Emily Litella at August 23, 2021 10:53 AM (r+sAi)

263 I don't know the woman, buuuut, I'm pretty sure the guy is Andy Grammar.

Posted by: soulpile at August 23, 2021 10:53 AM (hiX0r)

264 >>> Also "educational leadership". You can get a degree in that?

I've mentioned before, but our local mask karen has an Ed. D in educational leadership; calls herself doctor. She has had her family on lockdown since late January 2020. Not even grandparents allowed to visit kids. The stated reason being her kids heightened sensitivity (allergies) to China virus. Yet, they will be getting the kids "vaccinated" next week. Noodle that one out.

Posted by: flounder at August 23, 2021 10:53 AM (KnJdm)

265 More Than 75 Doctors Walk Out of South Florida Hospital Rather Than Treat the Unvaccinated
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 23, 2021 10:34 AM (sI26c

Time to lose their licences.

Posted by: CN at August 23, 2021 10:53 AM (ONvIw)

266 @ColumbiaBugle

Vladimir Putin Says He's Not Allowing Afghan Refugees Into Russia

"[Putin] said he will not accept 'militants showing up here under cover of refugees.'"

https://tinyurl.com/yh4pkkwc

Posted by: Tami at August 23, 2021 10:53 AM (cF8AT)

267 This is known...and almost worth the price of the airline fare.
Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2021 10:49 AM (axyOa)

There were a number of excellent brat stands in Aschaffenburg. But also a couple of Turkish kebap stands near the bahnhoff. Love the spicy red sauce they used instead of the white sauce the Greeks used.

I'm hungry now.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Reporting Remotely at August 23, 2021 10:53 AM (4l77G)

268 I don't care what's pinned to Milley's jacket. It's what's between his ears that makes him a bastard and an enemy of the republic.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2021 10:53 AM (/EuRN)

269 63 And they use their academic leverage to try to muscle their way into the high-status STEM fields. They could do this easily enough by simply enrolling as a major in one of the STEM disciplines and passing the required coursework. But they're too lazy or not smart enough to do this. Instead of doing the actual hard work, they've come up with a new acronym, STEAM, where the 'A' stands for 'Arts' so they can claim that a degree in Lesbian Feminist Yakut Poetry and Dance is just as rigorous as one in chemical engineering.
Ever notice how nobody in STEM ever wants to claim they're in the arts?
Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 10:26 AM (ZsR3z)

Ever notice how the arts they're in never actually require talent. You don't hear painters and musicians demanding to be put with STEM.

Posted by: Buzzion at August 23, 2021 10:54 AM (Ul6/E)

270 When I was in Germany (Army), military families got AFN, US television free from commercials, and instead had "infomercials" about military history and such. They would talk about WW2 vets that did crazy, heroic stuff...and received the bronze star.

Shit, every major and above in Iraq (when I deployed in 200

got a bronze star. That was the baseline award. No combat, no risk...just a fobbit. I felt so dirty.

Posted by: Grimmy at August 23, 2021 10:54 AM (MZnJr)

271 Putin knows first hand what Afghans are capable of.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 23, 2021 10:54 AM (oWBc3)

272 266 @ColumbiaBugle

Vladimir Putin Says He's Not Allowing Afghan Refugees Into Russia

"[Putin] said he will not accept 'militants showing up here under cover of refugees.'"

https://tinyurl.com/yh4pkkwc
Posted by: Tami at August 23, 2021 10:53 AM (cF8AT)

He's so MEEEAN!!!! Reeeee...!!!

Posted by: kraken at August 23, 2021 10:54 AM (6Je/Q)

273 What better for Commiela to become President without having to run a campaign? (sound of cackling).
Posted by: Ziba

She'll blow it !

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 10:54 AM (arJlL)

274 In the same vein, if you have to inform people that you are a strong, empowered woman, then you're not.

Posted by: Sal at August 23, 2021 10:54 AM (3c1fY)

275 Good to know even our medical employees have been corrupted by the Left. Another fringe benefit of OScare no doubt.

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2021 10:55 AM (WpyXV)

276 Milley has a CIB (Combat Infantryman's Badge) with one star. Could mean something, could mean nothing.

Posted by: Javems at August 23, 2021 10:55 AM (8SSHh)

277 Vladimir Putin Says He's Not Allowing Afghan Refugees Into Russia

"[Putin] said he will not accept 'militants showing up here under cover of refugees.'"

https://tinyurl.com/yh4pkkwc
Posted by: Tami at August 23, 2021 10:53 AM (cF8AT)

Good for him.

I wonder how many of the 300K strong afghan army were ghost soldiers whose money went to the country's pols, so their kids could live in the West?

Posted by: CN at August 23, 2021 10:55 AM (ONvIw)

278 241 Milley's a clear chump, but I think we shouldn't lose sight of the fact that at the end of 20 year long conflict (you could have raised your infiltration agents from infants with that amount of time) that the CIA (or IC more broadly) had apparently exactly zero agents inside the Taliban who could provide reliable/actionable intelligence
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Legacy of the Clinton years, when the CIA was forbidden from directly working with guys who were criminals, part of shady dealings, or part of groups we don't like. In other words, about every other dude in Afghanistan, and the ones most likely to know the skinny.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 23, 2021 10:55 AM (W+kMI)

279 get me some sauerkraut and German potato salad.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 23, 2021 10:43 AM (ecYxZ)

yes please, fresh and warm...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 23, 2021 10:55 AM (8D42x)

280 @265

The Hippocratic Oath is also dead, it appears.

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 10:55 AM (S1hrL)

281 I'll bet Milley's 'I Love Me' wall is half a mile long.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, The Suicide Squad review at August 23, 2021 10:52 AM (XvPQV)

Heh. Hubs has an entire room, so I can't judge.

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 10% at August 23, 2021 10:55 AM (Ez6QX)

282 Looks like Thoroughly-Modern Milley has all the pretty, pretty colors of the rainbow. Let's see, ROYGBIV - yep, all accounted for.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 23, 2021 10:55 AM (Bmy3R)

283 Wow, Springsteen is is so knowledgeable about politics

Posted by: JoeF. at August 23, 2021 10:55 AM (mR6Gs)

284 It's what's between his ears
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2021 10:53 AM (/EuRN)

A p*nis?

Posted by: ... at August 23, 2021 10:55 AM (WpyXV)

285 Sinema: I simply won't back a $3.5T spending bill

Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 10:55 AM (RHGPo)

286 More Than 75 Doctors Walk Out of South Florida Hospital Rather Than Treat the Unvaccinated
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 23, 2021 10:34 AM (sI26c)

Now due HPV and HIV!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 10:56 AM (yrol0)

287 Have a resaurant here that serves Fried Potato Salad...... awesome!!!

Posted by: kraken at August 23, 2021 10:56 AM (6Je/Q)

288 And no idea on the blonde today, but she looks like a keeper. Hot but not high maintenance.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, The Suicide Squad review at August 23, 2021 10:56 AM (XvPQV)

289 Mmmmmmm.... Turkish kebabs.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 23, 2021 10:56 AM (89T5c)

290 Odd thought about the Afghan Taliban flag:

How many years of military history (western) use the white flag as a signal for surrender. If you shoot at a group waving a white flag, you are committing a war crime.

Taliban has an evil genius sense of 'humor'.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 23, 2021 10:56 AM (MIKMs)

291 >>>With all due respect, an M.D. represents having spent however many years in school taking a series of rote memorization courses, and then a couple more years being a "resident" at some inner city abbatoir.

Then why do we have 250k deaths at least as year from medical mistakes?

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 23, 2021 10:56 AM (sI26c)

292 I guess everybody seems to have lost interest in today's who dis. Happens. But > 250 comments and not even a guess? That's gotta be a record.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 10:56 AM (qX1k9)

293 There were a number of excellent brat stands in Aschaffenburg. But also a couple of Turkish kebap stands near the bahnhoff. Love the spicy red sauce they used instead of the white sauce the Greeks used.

I'm hungry now.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Reporting Remotely at August 23, 2021 10:53 AM (4l77G)
***
Concur.
I't take a Turk kabab over the Greeks anyday.
Disclaimer: I lived in Sinop for ayear so...

Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2021 10:56 AM (axyOa)

294 Yuengling! Good choice. I'm still drinking the IC Light I bought in W. PA a few weeks ago.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 23, 2021 10:56 AM (QFVV9)

295 285 Sinema: I simply won't back a $3.5T spending bill
Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 10:55 AM (RHGPo)

DNC REALLY wants to keep the AZ Senate seat....

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, The Suicide Squad review at August 23, 2021 10:56 AM (XvPQV)

296 Are they trotting out Biden to give a presser today? if so, this must be the hardest he has ever worked so far. lazy bastard.

Posted by: IC at August 23, 2021 10:56 AM (hV9ir)

297 Springsteen has been hanging out with Obama too much

Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 10:57 AM (RHGPo)

298 295 285 Sinema: I simply won't back a $3.5T spending bill
Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 10:55 AM (RHGPo)

DNC REALLY wants to keep the AZ Senate seat....
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, The Suicide Squad review at August 23, 2021 10:56 AM (XvPQV)

=========

Because voting doesn't matter?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 10:57 AM (LvTSG)

299 I wonder how many of the 300K strong afghan army were ghost soldiers whose money went to the country's pols, so their kids could live in the West?
Posted by: CN at August 23, 2021 10:55 AM (ONvIw)

After Katrina they realized about 10 to 15% of NO police force never ever existed.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 10:57 AM (yrol0)

300 Posted by: flounder at August 23, 2021 10:53 AM (KnJdm)

Her kids are allergic to WuFlu? That just doesn't even make sense.

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 10% at August 23, 2021 10:57 AM (Ez6QX)

301 More Than 75 Doctors Walk Out of South Florida Hospital Rather Than Treat the Unvaccinated
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 23, 2021 10:34 AM (sI26c

Time to lose their licences.
Posted by: CN

I feel so ripped off. I'm unvaxxed, been to a casino four times since the mask mandate was lifted, in grocery stores almost daily, and haven't got sick yet.

Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master at August 23, 2021 10:57 AM (OCTRt)

302 123 These doctors need to be launched into the sun for this. ofc is it "South Florida" one of the the Psy-Op Capitols of America.

https://beckernews.com/more-than-75- doctors-walk-out-of-south-florida-hospital-rather-than- treat-the-unvaccinated-41035/

More Than 75 Doctors Walk Out of South Florida Hospital Rather Than Treat the Unvaccinated
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 23, 2021 10:34 AM (sI26c)

Looks like they "walked out" for a photo op and went right back.

Posted by: m at August 23, 2021 10:57 AM (6dJKT)

303 301 I feel so ripped off. I'm unvaxxed, been to a casino four times since the mask mandate was lifted, in grocery stores almost daily, and haven't got sick yet.
Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master at August 23, 2021 10:57 AM (OCTRt)

========

Sounds like you're just not getting tested enough.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 10:58 AM (LvTSG)

304
After Katrina they realized about 10 to 15% of NO police force never ever existed.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 10:57 AM (yrol0)

So, about 60% in Astan?

Posted by: CN at August 23, 2021 10:58 AM (ONvIw)

305 I guess everybody seems to have lost interest in today's who dis. Happens. But > 250 comments and not even a guess? That's gotta be a record.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 10:56 AM (qX1k9)

Thats cause we're all still looking at pictures of Lyla Raki.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2021 10:58 AM (axyOa)

306 Photo 4 (leggy!)

I don't know who dis is, but those are some nasty chicken legs.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 23, 2021 10:58 AM (Bmy3R)

307
Milley's awards are largely campaign ribbons or "Flag Officer Only" medals.

Bearclaw's awards are surprisingly sparse, by modern Army standards. Considering that he looks like Fatty Arbuckle, it probably means that he couldn't even brown-nose competently enough to get more bling.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 23, 2021 10:58 AM (n+4am)

308 290 Odd thought about the Afghan Taliban flag:

How many years of military history (western) use the white flag as a signal for surrender. If you shoot at a group waving a white flag, you are committing a war crime.

Taliban has an evil genius sense of 'humor'.
Posted by: mustbequantum at August 23, 2021 10:56 AM (MIKMs)

i think white banners as a Pashtun identifier predates even Islam in the region.... so it's probably just a sick coincidence.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2021 10:58 AM (/EuRN)

309 There are two types of Bronz Star, one for Valor and one for meritorious service. The one for valor has a V pined to it.

Posted by: Javems at August 23, 2021 10:58 AM (8SSHh)

310 I've been credentialed thru social media and the web. I'm a doctor of divinity and my temple is open for all.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 23, 2021 10:50 AM (ecYxZ)

should have socked Lena Dunham for this one...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 23, 2021 10:58 AM (8D42x)

311 "And also, Eisenhower was probably a more modest man. Which brings me to my point."

Ike didn't wear all of his medals because he never served a day in combat and he didn't feel he deserved to wear them.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at August 23, 2021 10:58 AM (JUOKG)

312 Good to know even our medical employees have been corrupted by the Left. Another fringe benefit of OScare no doubt.
Posted by: ... at August 23, 2021 10:55 AM (WpyXV)

I'll be seeing my doctor next month. So far, he's been chill about my refusing the Kung Flu shot, but we will see.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 23, 2021 10:58 AM (2JVJo)

313 So, will the Congress appropriate enough funds to keep all the military equipment in Afghanistan up to full readiness ?

Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 10:58 AM (RHGPo)

314 I'll bet Milley's 'I Love Me' wall is half a mile long.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, The Suicide Squad review at August 23, 2021 10:52 AM (XvPQV)

Heh. Hubs has an entire room, so I can't judge.
Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 10% at August 23, 2021 10:55 AM (Ez6QX)

I can't picture that. Your hubs is very cool and laid back.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, The Suicide Squad review at August 23, 2021 10:59 AM (XvPQV)

315 284 It's what's between his ears
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 23, 2021 10:53 AM (/EuRN)

A p*nis?
Posted by: ... at August 23, 2021 10:55 AM (WpyXV)

But much, MUCH, smaller...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 10:59 AM (s2VJv)

316 99 Pentagon briefing now: Vax mandate for military full steam ahead...because FDC approval.

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 10:31 AM (S1hrL)

I can't wait to not sign their attestation form. Fuck them and fuck Joe.

234 Did y'all see their brilliant social media intern tweeted that "You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Stop it"? Damn, rekt by the FDA. I guess I dreamt that Ivermectin was also approved for human use.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 23, 2021 10:48 AM (DXFDM)

It sounds as though I need to add at least a couple more tubes of horse paste to my prepper supplies posthaste if the FDA is blathering about it on Twatter.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 23, 2021 10:59 AM (DTX3h)

317 I guess everybody seems to have lost interest in today's who dis. Happens. But > 250 comments and not even a guess? That's gotta be a record.
Posted by: OregonMuse

Bea Arthur and Carroll O'Conner!

Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master at August 23, 2021 10:59 AM (OCTRt)

318 Brats and beers = summertime in Wisconsin.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at August 23, 2021 10:59 AM (HabA/)

319 Reading a Marine's fruit salad is easy. If there's no Combat Action Ribbon, the rest is all "I was there" crap.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at August 23, 2021 10:59 AM (kTF2Z)

320 I had a 102 fever yesterday afternoon. I took a dose of horse paste and zinc and a couple of Advil's, then slept for 10 hours. All better today.

Just noting.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at August 23, 2021 10:59 AM (yQpMk)

321 BTW, Blinken thinks Karzai was still running Afghanistan during the recent "fall" instead of having been out since 2014.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at August 23, 2021 10:59 AM (UHVv4)

322 I feel so ripped off. I'm unvaxxed, been to a casino four times since the mask mandate was lifted, in grocery stores almost daily, and haven't got sick yet.
Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master at August 23, 2021 10:57 AM (OCTRt)

My cousin runs security for a big Hospital in Shreveport. His boss (a mix of HR and Quality) has not been to the hospital since sometimes last year. He goes in 5 to 6 days a week.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 10:59 AM (yrol0)

323 Settings -> Keyboard -> turn off smart punctuation

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at August 23, 2021 10:59 AM (5HBd1)

324 So, will the Congress appropriate enough funds to keep all the military equipment in Afghanistan up to full readiness ?
Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 10:58 AM (RHGPo)

Only for 2 weeks

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 23, 2021 10:59 AM (GPwVZ)

325
I guess everybody seems to have lost interest in today's who dis.

Some chick and some dude. In the absence of their pronouns being posted with their pictures, I humbly decline to state which is which.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 23, 2021 10:59 AM (pNxlR)

326 I'll be seeing my doctor next month. So far, he's been chill about my refusing the Kung Flu shot, but we will see.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

I'm seeing my GP today for a foot/heel issue. This ought to be interesting. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at August 23, 2021 11:00 AM (mD/uy)

327 Who dis guess: Miranda Kerr and some guy.

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi's Infected Taint at August 23, 2021 11:00 AM (ZUU8O)

328 dang, that should be Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> turn off smart punctuation

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at August 23, 2021 11:00 AM (5HBd1)

329 Another really good Robert Taylor movie is "Westward the Women", which is about seriously strong women.

Of course, he's prettier than most of the cast, but he couldn't help that.

Posted by: Sal at August 23, 2021 11:00 AM (3c1fY)

330 It sounds as though I need to add at least a couple more tubes of horse paste to my prepper supplies posthaste if the FDA is blathering about it on Twatter.

lol that's what I did and NAC as well

they are coming for the supplements that work

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 23, 2021 11:00 AM (j9HX3)

331 Spouse in medical profession. As a conservative he battles daily against the BS from the managers and bureaucrats and also medical staff.

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 11:00 AM (S1hrL)

332 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 10:48 AM (Jsjd7)

Of course I'm not a guy, but I think the girl in the black outfit "Who's dis?" is prettier that bodacious babe baring her boobs for big bucks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 23, 2021 11:00 AM (ai5jE)

333 317 I guess everybody seems to have lost interest in today's who dis. Happens. But > 250 comments and not even a guess? That's gotta be a record.
Posted by: OregonMuse

Bea Arthur and Carroll O'Conner!
Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master at August 23, 2021 10:59 AM (OCTRt)

Lily Tomlin and Willem Dafoe....

Posted by: kraken at August 23, 2021 11:00 AM (6Je/Q)

334 Can anybody read out what his were? What he considered important?
Posted by: FrodoB-
cause I am at August 23, 2021 10:39 AM (yFOIQ)

His opinion is irrelevant. It's the top three in the order or precedence. The comment about the guy with the MOH is different cuz no one is going to argue with one of those.

Eisenhower's opt three appear to be Army Distinguished Service, Navy Distinguished Service? (looks a bit like the Navy Cross but that makes no sense at all), and Legion of Merit. Basically, "I'm a general" medals.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 23, 2021 11:00 AM (T7iTv)

335
Joy Reid is a fucking ignorant overstuffed knockwurst. Does she not know what the word "venal" means?

No, I guess she doesn't. She just likes the sound of it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 11:01 AM (s2VJv)

336 Did y'all see their brilliant social media intern tweeted that "You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Stop it"? Damn, rekt by the FDA. I guess I dreamt that Ivermectin was also approved for human use.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen

So no erythromycin because I'm not a fish?

Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master at August 23, 2021 11:01 AM (OCTRt)

337 One of my brothers just went to his office for the first time since 3/16/20. He took a picture of his desk calendar, still on that date.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 23, 2021 11:01 AM (Bmy3R)

338 Hiya Donna of the Ampersands !

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 11:01 AM (arJlL)

339 I guess everybody seems to have lost interest in today's who dis. Happens. But > 250 comments and not even a guess? That's gotta be a record.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 10:56 AM (qX1k9)

i STILL think it's an 'ette...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 23, 2021 11:01 AM (8D42x)

340 I guess everybody seems to have lost interest in today's who dis.

My guess is Kellie Pickler, but not sure the eyes are right.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2021 11:01 AM (axyOa)

341 Looks like they "walked out" for a photo op and went right back.
Posted by: m

Yes. It was a Psy-Op. They need to be launched into the sun regardless for pulling that stunt. This fuels others to behave the same way. You should see the number of social media posts from nurses and doctors bragging about withholding care because of X, Y, or Z. Then you have the pharmacy nazis....

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at August 23, 2021 11:02 AM (sI26c)

342 @bennyjohnson 3m

REPORTER: "Were you being deliberately vague when you said the number of Americans was 'several thousand' or was it because you're not sure of the number?"

PENTAGON SPOX KIRBY: "I think I'm just gonna leave it at several thousand right now."

https://tinyurl.com/yeyd6lqh

Posted by: Tami at August 23, 2021 11:02 AM (cF8AT)

343
The guy I think is Jerry Connolly.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 11:02 AM (s2VJv)

344 Can't we send James Taylor to Kabul so he can serenade the Taliban with "You've got a Friend?" That would work so well, because everyone listens to singers. I think "Imagine" would do the trick too.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at August 23, 2021 11:02 AM (HabA/)

345 277 Good for him.

I wonder how many of the 300K strong afghan army were ghost soldiers whose money went to the country's pols, so their kids could live in the West?
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That's a good question, but only history will know, if the numbers are ever available. However if we take a look at the ARVN case study, I would venture 20-25% ANA was never there to begin with, before the shooting started.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 23, 2021 11:02 AM (W+kMI)

346
Britt Tritt and Travis Tritt, of the Tritterville Tritts, if I am not mistaken.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 23, 2021 11:02 AM (pNxlR)

347 hi, JT!

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V at August 23, 2021 11:02 AM (HabA/)

348 I'm seeing my GP today for a foot/heel issue. This ought to be interesting. . .

Posted by: Tonypete

Good luck with that !

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 11:02 AM (arJlL)

349 343
The guy I think is Jerry Connolly.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 11:02 AM (s2VJv)

Or Jerry Lewis...

Posted by: kraken at August 23, 2021 11:02 AM (6Je/Q)

350 Respect?? From our enemies?? Respect left the building about the same time as Elvis. What I expect from our enemies is hate. There is little doubt that they hate us. The real question is, do they fear us?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * invictus maneo at August 23, 2021 11:03 AM (QxCGo)

351 Taiwan's president receives shot of the first domestically developed Covid-19 vaccine from local biotech company, Medigen

Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 11:03 AM (RHGPo)

352 Today's pictures reminded me of a post by Juanita Broaddrick. She posted, "I have photographic proof of Donald Trump grabbing a pussy!" ....

She then posted a picture of Trump shaking hands with Milley. :-)

Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger.... at August 23, 2021 11:03 AM (DV/hr)

353 Poland plans to build a fence along its border with Belarus and deploy more soldiers there to stop migrants seeking to enter the European Union nation.

Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 11:03 AM (RHGPo)

354 "some coming off their shifts to gather here"

The South Florida hospital "walkout"; the link has a video where that statement is made. So: the doctors standing there for the photo op included doctors who were 1) off duty or 2) on-duty and momentarily "walking out".

Posted by: m at August 23, 2021 11:03 AM (6dJKT)

355 BREAKING: Biden administration has no idea how many Americans are hostages in Afghanistan. Adding incompetence to imbecility.

https://tinyurl.com/hpkf4pxe

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 11:03 AM (fqcG3)

356 hi, JT!
Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V

Posted by: JT at August 23, 2021 11:03 AM (arJlL)

357 Guessing they are from Nashville show. Hayden something maybe?

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 23, 2021 11:03 AM (oWBc3)

358 Andrew Cuomo left behind his dog at the Executive Mansion when he moved out

DOG GONE

Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 11:03 AM (RHGPo)

359 Joy Reid: Venal is short for venereal, right?

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 11:04 AM (S1hrL)

360 355 BREAKING: Biden administration has no idea how many Americans are hostages in Afghanistan. Adding incompetence to imbecility.

https://tinyurl.com/hpkf4pxe
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 11:03 AM (fqcG3)

It's not that they're incompetent (which they are). It's that they could not care fuck all.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 11:04 AM (s2VJv)

361 Joy Reid is a fucking ignorant overstuffed knockwurst. Does she not know what the word "venal" means?

No, I guess she doesn't. She just likes the sound of it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 11:01 AM (s2VJv)

JJ, that's unfair.

knockwurst have a purpose and are good.

joy on the other hand...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 23, 2021 11:04 AM (8D42x)

362 If, over the course of your adult life, you don't have a drink thrown or your face slapped, you really just aren't trying.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 23, 2021 10:53 AM (mD/uy)

does having a whole bottle of Kalua poured over the windshield of my car count? It was a bitch to get off.

Posted by: CB. just CB. at August 23, 2021 11:04 AM (wFQsY)

363 It sounds as though I need to add at least a couple more tubes of horse paste to my prepper supplies posthaste if the FDA is blathering about it on Twatter.

lol that's what I did and NAC as well

they are coming for the supplements that work
Posted by: BlackOrchid

That'll be tough to do, since every rancher and horse breeder uses the stuff.

Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master at August 23, 2021 11:05 AM (OCTRt)

364 Jill Biden doesn't have a Ph.D.

She has an Ed.D. -- a doctorate in education. It's a totally bullshit degree made up by schools of education so that teachers could say they hold advanced degrees and therefore qualify for more pay. (Teachers are paid more if they have a master's degree than a bachelor's, more if they have a doctorate than a master's, etc.)

The Ed.D. is a joke. It does not require a publishable dissertation, just a paper, and doesn't have to be defended like a Ph.D. dissertation does. And the paper that Jill wrote was on the level of a 7th-grader (and not a particularly bright one at that). Jill's doctoral paper was riddled with errors, and it was about the trials and tribulations of community college students. She had a pool of TWO whole CC students from which she drew her research. Just imagine what brilliant insights could be gained from such extensive, wide-ranging research!

It's hard to say who should be more embarrassed by "Ed.D." degrees -- the people who hold them, or the institutions who issued them. (BTW, this is the same degree that "Dr." Bill Cosby holds).

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 23, 2021 11:05 AM (k4dH2)

365 That'll be tough to do, since every rancher and horse breeder uses the stuff.

they'll make you go thru your vet

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 23, 2021 11:05 AM (j9HX3)

366 >So no erythromycin because I'm not a fish?
Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master at August 23, 2021 11:01 AM (OCTRt)

Right. It's airtight logic, pleb.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 23, 2021 11:05 AM (DXFDM)

367 Springsteen has been hanging out with Obama too much
Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 10:57 AM (RHGPo

Springsteen is not only politically ignorant, he's stupid for closely aligning himself with SPECIFIC politicians like Obama and Biden.
I can't think of another major recording artist who does this. Yeah, they probably all lean Left, but you don't see Dylan or The Stones or others sucking up to specific politicians,

Now Springsteen OWNS Biden's fuck-ups

Posted by: JoeF. at August 23, 2021 11:05 AM (mR6Gs)

368 305 I guess everybody seems to have lost interest in today's who dis. Happens. But > 250 comments and not even a guess? That's gotta be a record.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 10:56 AM (qX1k9)

Thats cause we're all still looking at pictures of Lyla Raki.
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I heard that. Shake it down, girl!

Posted by: exdem13 at August 23, 2021 11:05 AM (W+kMI)

369 So the government response to the number of Americans trapped in Afghanistan is " a bunch"...

Posted by: kraken at August 23, 2021 11:06 AM (6Je/Q)

370 The guy I think is Jerry Connolly.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 11:02 AM (s2VJv)

Or Jerry Lewis...
Posted by: kraken at August 23, 2021 11:02 AM (6Je/Q)

Jerry Springer...

Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2021 11:06 AM (axyOa)

371 I guess I'm the dickhead who puts his PhD in is greybox name...

Posted by: Dr. Washington Nearsider, Single and #SuperStraight at August 23, 2021 11:06 AM (cvNl1)

372 362 If, over the course of your adult life, you don't have a drink thrown or your face slapped, you really just aren't trying.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 23, 2021 10:53 AM (mD/uy)

does having a whole bottle of Kalua poured over the windshield of my car count? It was a bitch to get off.
Posted by: CB. just CB. at August 23, 2021 11:04 AM (wFQsY)

I had to climb out of a second story window to avoid an ass-kicking. Got caught in the end but did talk my way out of it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 11:06 AM (s2VJv)

373 Commenting on the art thread

Where is Flashman Im sure he was somewhere in the survivors.

Posted by: Dread0 at August 23, 2021 11:06 AM (ZP4Ww)

374 Did y'all see their brilliant social media intern tweeted that "You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Stop it"? Damn, rekt by the FDA. I guess I dreamt that Ivermectin was also approved for human use.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 23, 2021 10:48 AM (DXFDM)

I'm on a daily regimen of levetiracetam, an anti-seizure medication. Great medication for me, does the job, no known interaction with any other medication. Found out that vets use it, too, to control seizures in dogs. Woof woof.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 11:06 AM (qX1k9)

375 Andrew Cuomo left behind his dog at the Executive Mansion when he moved out

DOG GONE
Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 11:03 AM (RHGPo)

not shocked. dog has served its purpose...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at August 23, 2021 11:06 AM (8D42x)

376 Also breaking: Kirby affirmed US "turned over" some equipment to the Taliban, but not all of it!

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 11:06 AM (S1hrL)

377 I can't picture that. Your hubs is very cool and laid back.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, The Suicide Squad review at August 23, 2021 10:59 AM (XvPQV)

He is, but a lot of it is stuff he worked hard for and he's proud of. Like the hat box he made for CCTI, his retirement shadowbox, things like that.

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 10% at August 23, 2021 11:07 AM (Ez6QX)

378 Aussie cops spotted near Governors Mansion, news at 11.

Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at August 23, 2021 11:07 AM (oWBc3)

379 they are coming for the supplements that work

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 23, 2021 11:00 AM (j9HX3)

How much NAC do you take/day? I started using it but for another reason, not the coof

Posted by: kallisto at August 23, 2021 11:07 AM (DJFLF)

380 Where is Flashman Im sure he was somewhere in the survivors.

Posted by: Dread0 at August 23, 2021 11:06 AM (ZP4Ww)

Flashman could've survived Little Big Horn. Hell, he probably did.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 11:07 AM (qX1k9)

381 I had to climb out of a second story window to avoid an ass-kicking. Got caught in the end but did talk my way out of it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 11:06 AM (s2VJv)

Damned husbands can be so unreasonable!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2021 11:08 AM (axyOa)

382 355 BREAKING: Biden administration has no idea how many Americans are hostages in Afghanistan. Adding incompetence to imbecility.

https://tinyurl.com/hpkf4pxe
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 11:03 AM (fqcG3)
======================
All, is it REALLY a good idea to tell the Taliban approximately how many hostages they have?

When Iran sacked the embassy, the US did the same thing. It allows some citizens to be smuggled out by Canada.

The Biden admin is incompetent, but am willing to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one.

Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger.... at August 23, 2021 11:08 AM (DV/hr)

383 358 Andrew Cuomo left behind his dog at the Executive Mansion when he moved out

DOG GONE
Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 11:03 AM (RHGPo)

hahahahaha

Posted by: m at August 23, 2021 11:08 AM (6dJKT)

384 I'm on a daily regimen of levetiracetam, an anti-seizure medication. Great medication for me, does the job, no known interaction with any other medication. Found out that vets use it, too, to control seizures in dogs. Woof woof.
Posted by: OregonMuse

You know what you can buy at Tractor Supply without a prescription? That's right, penicillin.

Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master at August 23, 2021 11:08 AM (OCTRt)

385 The Aussie authoritahs will be happy to come shoot all the unwanted Political Show Dogs.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 23, 2021 11:08 AM (Bmy3R)

386 I'm on a daily regimen of levetiracetam, an anti-seizure medication. Great medication for me, does the job, no known interaction with any other medication. Found out that vets use it, too, to control seizures in dogs. Woof woof.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 11:06 AM (qX1k9)

There was a while there where both hubs and the dog were on gabapentin.

Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 10% at August 23, 2021 11:09 AM (Ez6QX)

387 She has an Ed.D. -- a doctorate in education. It's a totally bullshit degree made up by schools of education so that teachers could say they hold advanced degrees and therefore qualify for more pay. (Teachers are paid more if they have a master's degree than a bachelor's, more if they have a doctorate than a master's, etc.)

The Ed.D. is a joke. It does not require a publishable dissertation, just a paper, and doesn't have to be defended like a Ph.D. dissertation does. And the paper that Jill wrote was on the level of a 7th-grader (and not a particularly bright one at that). Jill's doctoral paper was riddled with errors, and it was about the trials and tribulations of community college students.

Thank you.
I knew someone who who got an Ed.D and it went right to his head. Nice guy, but only average.
I even helped him re-write his paper--it was unreadable before--but he got the advanced degree and started making the big bucks.
He recently retired to Florida with a 150K pension and I'm still grinding it out.

Oh well.
Who's the stupid one?

Posted by: JoeF. at August 23, 2021 11:09 AM (mR6Gs)

388 Sinema: I simply won't back a $3.5T spending bill

My concern is that this leaves lots of wiggle room. Is a $3.2T bill okay? If she says "every dollar spent must have a corresponding cut in another part of the budget", then I'll be impressed.

Posted by: pep at August 23, 2021 11:09 AM (ZsR3z)

389 Also breaking: Kirby affirmed US "turned over" some equipment to the Taliban, but not all of it!
Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 11:06 AM (S1hrL)

I doubt we will hear just how brutal the takeover really is. If anyone has studied Islamic war and what the victors do, it is ugly.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2021 11:10 AM (axyOa)

390 Andrew Cuomo left behind his dog at the Executive Mansion when he moved out

That's a bit of a harsh description of Sandra Lee.

Posted by: spindrift at August 23, 2021 11:10 AM (h5TKJ)

391 You know what you can buy at Tractor Supply without a prescription? That's right, penicillin.
Posted by: rickb223

Well that's interesting. Could use some for my SHTF kit.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 23, 2021 11:10 AM (mD/uy)

392 376 Also breaking: Kirby affirmed US "turned over" some equipment to the Taliban, but not all of it!
Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 11:06 AM (S1hrL)

So they got only 10 up-armored vehicles instead of 12? That's a relief.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 11:10 AM (qX1k9)

393 @DailyMail

Washington Post staff rescued by BRITISH troops after Biden banned US forces from venturing out of Kabul airport

https://tinyurl.com/ygtwzwq9

Thanks guys but next time...leave 'em. jk/jk...sorta.

Posted by: Tami at August 23, 2021 11:10 AM (cF8AT)

394 364 It's hard to say who should be more embarrassed by "Ed.D." degrees -- the people who hold them, or the institutions who issued them. (BTW, this is the same degree that "Dr." Bill Cosby holds).

yeah, but at least dr. bill cosby invented the pudding pop, earning his place in the stem hall of fame.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at August 23, 2021 11:10 AM (v3pYe)

395 Australia, done in by Covid
Posted by: Flyguy
It is a very interesting case study. I lived there for 3 years in the 90s. A land of beer drinkers, and aussie rules football, meat pies at milk bars, and pretty women they call Sheilas and no one gets offended. But very interested in being green environmentally and some other elements like that. Seems, as usual, the commies/Karens win.

Posted by: MikeM at August 23, 2021 11:10 AM (jbRB1)

396 Has there been some sort of "medal inflation" over the years where it takes less achievement to earn one?

Yes. I've got a ton of 'attendance' medals. Went to Iraq when they made me? Medal. Went to Afghanistan when they made me? Medal. Didn't get caught doing anything really bad for a few years? Medal.

My dad's dad (who saw aerial combat in WWII, Korea, and 'Nam) had something like 12 medals when his 32-year career was said and done. Among them were things like the Distinguished Flying Cross and some twenty-five Air Medals.

I have approximately two decorations that matter to me (Air Medal with 'V', and my CAR). I also have like 15 bullshit medals. Medal inflation is definitely a thing.

Posted by: Dr. Washington Nearsider, Single and #SuperStraight at August 23, 2021 11:10 AM (cvNl1)

397 I once climbed *in* a window to *initiate* an ass-kicking.

Caught the b!tch bare-assed in bed with another man. I put his head through a wall before I left.

(I had been tipped by a friend of hers who she was using as "cover" but she started feeling guilty about that.)

Posted by: Guy Smiley at August 23, 2021 11:11 AM (Bmy3R)

398 381 I had to climb out of a second story window to avoid an ass-kicking. Got caught in the end but did talk my way out of it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 11:06 AM (s2VJv)

Damned husbands can be so unreasonable!
Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2021 11:08 AM (axyOa)

Semi-biker dude who actually really liked me. I was about to schtup his girlfriend who no one told me was his girlfriend. I thought I was heading for the hospital that night for sure.

Heard he wound up dead a few years after that incident.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 11:11 AM (s2VJv)

399 > Andrew Cuomo left behind his dog at the Executive Mansion when he moved out.

Where's Obama, dog coinsurer?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 23, 2021 11:11 AM (BFigT)

400 387 I knew someone who who got an Ed.D and it went right to his head. Nice guy, but only average.
I even helped him re-write his paper--it was unreadable before--but he got the advanced degree and started making the big bucks.
He recently retired to Florida with a 150K pension and I'm still grinding it out.

Oh well.
Who's the stupid one?
Posted by: JoeF. at August 23, 2021 11:09 AM (mR6Gs)

It's not either/or!

Posted by: m at August 23, 2021 11:11 AM (6dJKT)

401 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 11:11 AM (tjClK)

402 365 they'll make you go thru your vet

Posted by: BlackOrchid at August 23, 2021 11:05 AM (j9HX3)

Yup. I require a vet sign-off for urinary care cat kibble despite it not containing any drugs so for them to require that for Ivermectin isn't totally out of the question--particularly if it's saving peoples' lives. Quercetin is also in their crosshairs so I should probably stock up on that, too.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at August 23, 2021 11:11 AM (DTX3h)

403 I guess everybody seems to have lost interest in today's who dis.

Someone ^up there^ said the guy dis is Andrew Grammar....wiki sez he's a "multi platinum" singer...never heard of him.

Posted by: BignJames at August 23, 2021 11:12 AM (AwYPR)

404 There was a while there where both hubs and the dog were on gabapentin.
Posted by: Jordan61, I am the 10% at August 23, 2021 11:09 AM (Ez6QX)

My 86 yo mom took that once. Once. She took it and went mean bonkers. She called my son satan incarnate. He's is the nicest guy you'll ever meet.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at August 23, 2021 11:12 AM (AiZBA)

405 Laughing list revised:

2022 election
Kirby pressers
FDC approval

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 11:12 AM (S1hrL)

406 They sell Yuengling in Texas now. I've had quite a bit of it over the last 10 days.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 11:12 AM (tjClK)

407 So a Christian has to bake a cake even though he is spiritually opposed to coprophilia and doesn't want any association with it, but a doctor who took an oath...

Posted by: Moron Robbie - (BMWRT) PSA on action you can take if your local school requires masks at August 23, 2021 11:12 AM (wqFd7)

408 NOOD We're so screwed edition

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at August 23, 2021 11:12 AM (wAnMi)

409
1 sponge
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, nihilism is all fun and games with a Carpenter leading the way at August 23, 2021 10:16 AM (LvTSG)

*fistbump*

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at August 23, 2021 11:12 AM (tjClK)

410 I am real tired of search engines deciding what I want. I am looking for a ticket that begins with a certain word. Let's say it's "TECH." The format is always something like TECH-987654.

So I search my inbox for 'TECH-' - with the single quotes (or double quotes), which should be a literal search. But no. Forget that noise. I get everything with the word "tech" in it. No case match, no dash, just ignoring my quotes because obviously Microsoft knows what I want and I am some kind of toolbox.

Fuckers.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 23, 2021 11:13 AM (Jsjd7)

411 292 I guess everybody seems to have lost interest in today's who dis. Happens. But > 250 comments and not even a guess? That's gotta be a record.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 10:56 AM (qX1k9)

Please see my comment at 263. The man is Andy Grammar, I have no idea who the woman is.

Posted by: soulpile at August 23, 2021 11:13 AM (hiX0r)

412 Jill Biden doesn't have a Ph.D.

She has an Ed.D.

Bob Dole can fix that.

Posted by: Bob Dole at August 23, 2021 11:13 AM (QU5/8)

413 The phrase "stay safe" now makes me want to choke a bitch.

**

I have forced myself to move away from that phrase permanently. "Good luck and God bless" is what I tell people now.

I remember over a year ago writing here that "Stay safe" had become the modern "Sieg Heil". And now it's international, too. Some protested that they used it as a sincere wish, but it was fake and gay from the beginning.

Posted by: Dr. Mabuse at August 23, 2021 11:13 AM (T10C6)

414 Well that's interesting. Could use some for my SHTF kit.
Posted by: Tonypete

I can't. Deathly allergic to penicillin.
Erythromycin for me.

Posted by: rickb223 Pronouns: Your Highness, Master at August 23, 2021 11:13 AM (OCTRt)

415 What the narrative manufacturers do not seem to understand is that this story is not "going away". You can't "change the subject" on being weak. You can only work at becoming strong. When the Taliban starts publicly brutalizing their hostages, the Biden Cabal will need to find a way to fight back. When China starts a hot war in the South China Sea, the Indian frontier or the Taiwan Straits, thinking Biden is weak, America will have to pay that price.

Spin does not fix this. Do they somehow not understand this fact?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 23, 2021 11:13 AM (fqcG3)

416
Where is Flashman Im sure he was somewhere in the survivors.

Posted by: Dread0 at August 23, 2021 11:06 AM (ZP4Ww)

Flashman could've survived Little Big Horn. Hell, he probably did.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 11:07 AM (qX1k9)

Errr, he DID survive Little Big Horn. An injun friend saw him on the battlefield, ran him down and partially scalped him without killing him, in order to keep the rest of the injuns from shooting him in the face.

Flashman was involved in pretty much every battle of the 19th century, everywhere in the world.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 23, 2021 11:13 AM (n+4am)

417 380 Where is Flashman Im sure he was somewhere in the survivors.
Posted by: Dread0 at August 23, 2021 11:06 AM (ZP4Ww)
Flashman could've survived Little Big Horn. Hell, he probably did.
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He actually did! See part 2 of Flashman and the Redskins for the gory details. Flashy didn't have much good to say about Custer, but he outlived many brave men. And having started his career in the First Afghan War, and survived some other bold offensives, maybe Flashman could claim to speak about looking before you leap.

Posted by: exdem13 at August 23, 2021 11:14 AM (W+kMI)

418 >I'm on a daily regimen of levetiracetam, an anti-seizure medication. Great medication for me, does the job, no known interaction with any other medication. Found out that vets use it, too, to control seizures in dogs. Woof woof.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 11:06 AM (qX1k9)

This is where we're at in 2021. No consideration that many drugs will be applicable across species because we share common systems, methods of metabolism, etc. No acknowledgement that the reason people are seeking out pony paste is because the medical-government complex has made it a career-ender for a MD to Rx a long-available, well-tolerated, and known safe druge. Just sick Twatter burns that annihilate all nuance in the name of scoring cheap points, from what is supposed to be the preeminent regulatory body in medicine (I know, stop snickering).

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 23, 2021 11:14 AM (DXFDM)

419 Whut?? Sanitary issues on the planes? Full toilets apparently.

Posted by: Ziba at August 23, 2021 11:14 AM (S1hrL)

420 new thread up

Posted by: kallisto at August 23, 2021 11:14 AM (DJFLF)

421 nood

Posted by: m at August 23, 2021 11:14 AM (6dJKT)

422
Also breaking: Kirby affirmed US "turned over" some equipment to the Taliban, but not all of it!
Posted by: Ziba

"We still have the parking passes for those which we did not turn over. Try getting them out of the public parking garages in which they are without THOSE, Mr. TolleyBahns!"

Superior minds FTW!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 23, 2021 11:14 AM (pNxlR)

423
Heard he wound up dead a few years after that incident.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at August 23, 2021 11:11 AM (s2VJv)

I have observed that when mixups like that occur, the guys can become good friends later on. A bummer about his death.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 23, 2021 11:15 AM (axyOa)

424 I don't think they will mess with ivermectin. Horses are expensive animals to own. Anyone with one has the means to sue if their animal dies because of an adulterated medicine.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at August 23, 2021 11:16 AM (5HBd1)

425 416
Errr, he DID survive Little Big Horn. An injun friend saw him on the battlefield, ran him down and partially scalped him without killing him, in order to keep the rest of the injuns from shooting him in the face.

Flashman was involved in pretty much every battle of the 19th century, everywhere in the world.
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One of my literary regrets is that Fraser never did get around to Flashman in Blue and Grey which would've been an epic adventure!

Posted by: exdem13 at August 23, 2021 11:17 AM (W+kMI)

426 Vulva owners? People who drive Swedish sedans and SUVs?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 10:20 AM (/XOcP)

I think the Taliban all qualify as vulva owners, now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2021 11:18 AM (71TR0)

427 The Chemical Engineers out of Lehigh University all visit the Yuengling Brewery in Pottsville, PA

Posted by: SMOD at August 23, 2021 11:18 AM (RHGPo)

428 Re: stockpiling treatments and supplements --

Should I start saving pennies to buy quercetin? Great for my sinuses, which keeps airways clear of secondary infections. Same with pseudoephedrine.

Posted by: mustbequantum at August 23, 2021 11:19 AM (MIKMs)

429 We have got the NAC and Vit D supplies up as well, things we already supplement with, but yeah the feds are gonna stop some of things otc. BTW, the NAC has a mellow yellow effect on some people.

Posted by: Emily Litella at August 23, 2021 11:19 AM (r+sAi)

430 Can't count the many times I died and was told to shake it off.

Posted by: sidney at August 23, 2021 11:20 AM (+fjIe)

431 "Well that's interesting. Could use some for my SHTF kit.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 23, 2021 11:10 AM (mD/uy)"

You can get any of the common antibiotics just fine. z-pack, amox, bunch of others.

Fishflexfishmox.com is a good example. You can also just ebay from a legit supplier (Thomas Labs); the good sellers list expiration date and include images of the contents so you can look at the color/alphanumerics and see who made it.

Invest in a pocket rx reference while you're at it.

Posted by: somedood at August 23, 2021 11:22 AM (/z9fK)

432 off sock

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 23, 2021 11:23 AM (r+sAi)

433 Aqua Vulva
Posted by: Roy at August 23, 2021

***
Vulveeta and Vulvet Pipe Tobacco?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at August 23, 2021 11:23 AM (/XOcP)

434 Hot dogs are bivalves.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 23, 2021 11:24 AM (KAi1n)

435 Checked out the Milley Wikipedia entry, and it has a rundown on his fruit salad. I honor his service (as required), but apart from a Bronze Star triplet, looks like the rest are AttaBoys and Been there, Done that awards. Also reminded myself that the Bronze also has some BTDT components as well.

Posted by: ObeliskToucher at August 23, 2021 11:25 AM (DUu0q)

436 Please see my comment at 263. The man is Andy Grammar, I have no idea who the woman is.
Posted by: soulpile at August 23, 2021 11:13 AM (hiX0r)

Grammer. But you are correct.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 11:25 AM (qX1k9)

437 In Re the Dr walkout; I remember when they had a Dr. Strike in Los Angeles County and the death rate went down.

And also maybe one of those guys could explain why so many (about 50% is the number I've seen the most) of health care workers (incl. Nurses and Drs.) have not gotten the shot nor will they?

And also a survey run that stated that the people who are refusing the shot have a larger IQ, education and are well read than those who do get the shot.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 23, 2021 11:25 AM (aayoh)

438 Ike was wearing his most senior row of ribbons, which is customary under certain circumstances. There are occasions where he would have worn all of them. But yes, there certainly has been award inflation.

Posted by: Jim at August 23, 2021 11:26 AM (K0QfL)

439 Errr, he DID survive Little Big Horn. An injun friend saw him on the battlefield, ran him down and partially scalped him without killing him, in order to keep the rest of the injuns from shooting him in the face.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 23, 2021 11:13 AM (n+4am)

Really? Because that's how Dustin Hoffman's character in the film Little Big Man survived LBH. I wonder who borrowed from who here.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 11:28 AM (qX1k9)

440 >>>should have socked Lena Dunham for this one...

Posted by: SturmToddler

>I assure you I look more like John Wick than Lena Dunham.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 23, 2021 11:33 AM (ecYxZ)

441 They wanted her nominated for Gen Surgeon!

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 23, 2021 10:39 AM (yrol0)

They should make Dr. Jill the Sturgeon General. Everything about her is fishy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 23, 2021 11:35 AM (4blk7)

442 Grammer. But you are correct.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader, Pants Monitor & Social Distancing Professional at August 23, 2021 11:25 AM (qX1k9)

Yeah, I have some of his albums and I /still/ spell his name wrong. Comes from being a grammar checker, I guess. Cannot replace the a with an e.

Posted by: soulpile at August 23, 2021 11:35 AM (hiX0r)

443 People don't understand how FDA "approval" is obtained. They have a panel that reviews the data that the pharmaceutical company submits. They don't do any independent testing. The drug company may use an outside clinic to obtain that data, but it still gets paid by the DRUG company. It's the drug company's data and sometimes that data is cherry picked. I was listening to two women who were part of the clinical test for two of the mRNA "vaccines" who both had severe reactions. AstraZenica and Pfizer were the companies. The women both said after they reported adverse reaction requiring hospitalization, they were both taken out of their respective studies. If we still had an investigative press in this country...

Posted by: itsacookbook at August 23, 2021 11:47 AM (yPxXc)

444 Another famous fake photo is Mt. Kilimanjaro taken in the summer to make it look like the snow has disappeared all year long. GLOBAL WARMING!!!!

Posted by: pj at August 23, 2021 11:48 AM (G1dq6)

445 Wow. A new record. Took four hits on the "Who Dis" photos before Image Search returned a non-generic answer.

Posted by: MW at August 23, 2021 11:51 AM (u33s0)

446 Dear Mrs. Biden: I have a Ph.D. in science, and am a Fellow of a leading scientific society, but never use "Dr." in front of my name.

Posted by: R.F. Hirsch at August 23, 2021 12:45 PM (oMkPq)

447 Ike is wearing three rows of ribbons. General Milli Vanilli is wearing nine! Colonel Stay Puft has three rows on his left side--and some more parked over on his right side.

I tell you these chairborne commandos are racking and stacking decorations and awards.

Posted by: GlendaleGreybeard at August 23, 2021 12:50 PM (cn6vO)

448 Old Rule of Thumb: A General's ability is inversely proportional to the number of medals he is wearing.

Posted by: George Mashall at August 23, 2021 01:06 PM (sCU2U)

449 You can tell a lot about the career of a servicemember by reviewing the ribbon rack. In the Air Force, there seems to have been a proflagration of decorations based on job description, including one for admin types.

It started during the '70's with the Command patches on the right breast pocket on the fatigues (during the late '80's, a Command badge was created for the dress uniform). Since I was a firefighter, we wore our Fire Protection badge/patch on the right breast pocket. We also had a patch for Prime BEEF (Base Engineer Emergency Force - Air Force version of Seabees).

I could go on and on. Like everything else, shiny, pretty decorations are added mostly to increase rack size during 'peacetime' operations.

Posted by: cubiclecommando at August 23, 2021 01:30 PM (nFhrl)

450 oldest brewery in the nation, pottstown.
i was ready to scoff at yuengling brats' ingredients (i expected a chemical soup). flipped the package and read: pork, beer. bought them ever since; still can't get that beer any closer than ohio though.

Posted by: cmeat at August 23, 2021 02:49 PM (ncRE1)

451 Vulva owners? Do they come with an extended warranty? Or does that have to be purchased separately?

Posted by: Rachel at August 23, 2021 02:56 PM (9PEcd)

452 A Crow flew down and called Biden a Imbecile the other Scarecrow agrees

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at August 23, 2021 06:20 PM (wGqjj)

453 "The way I see it, if you need to ask for respect, you probably haven't earned respect. "
With only one exception: parents. You respect your parents, period.

Posted by: GWB at August 23, 2021 08:40 PM (2nnuG)

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