Mid-Morning Art Thread

Threshing Wheat
Thomas Hart Benton

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

2 Howdy, CBD!

Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2021 09:30 AM (mZUr4)

3 Curvy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 09:30 AM (LvTSG)

4 yuk

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 13, 2021 09:30 AM (yrol0)

5 Cartoonish.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

6 And look at all that global warmening.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

7 Whoa

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 13, 2021 09:30 AM (Do5/p)

8 CBD using the time machine today??

Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2021 09:31 AM (mZUr4)

9 Aoshq time machine isn't right

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 13, 2021 09:31 AM (aJ8Xd)

10 Wow, commenting in the present for a post that will not be posted for another 29 minutes. Whoa, indeed.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 13, 2021 09:31 AM (Do5/p)

11 first

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 13, 2021 09:32 AM (bVYXr)

12 Look! That thresher is sending up so much glowbull enwarmening that it's making the clouds all bendy!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 13, 2021 09:32 AM (dfRN6)

13 Are they burning coal in that steam tractor? Nasty looking smoke.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 13, 2021 09:32 AM (bVYXr)

14 Aoshq time machine isn't right
Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 13, 2021 09:31 AM (aJ8Xd)

CBD crossed the time and weather streams.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 09:32 AM (Zz0t1)

15 Why do they call it threshing ?

Posted by: JT at December 13, 2021 09:32 AM (arJlL)

16 12 Look! That thresher is sending up so much glowbull enwarmening that it's making the clouds all bendy!
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 13, 2021 09:32 AM (dfRN6)

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The poor people should starve for this sin against Gaia.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 09:32 AM (LvTSG)

17 That smoke is gonna cause tornado's

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 13, 2021 09:32 AM (IIAOb)

18 Meanwhile at NYT, news you can use:

"Why a Child's Bad Behavior May Be a Good Thing"

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at December 13, 2021 09:32 AM (qpX6U)

19 Interesting that the clouds and the exhaust stream are both following the curvature of the earth. Symmetry, I guess.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 13, 2021 09:33 AM (Do5/p)

20 I really like this one. It's twisted, but colorful. It all works.

Posted by: t-bird at December 13, 2021 09:33 AM (AytXr)

21 The horse looks like it's about to collapse.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 13, 2021 09:33 AM (NpAcC)

22 Papal election continues.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at December 13, 2021 09:33 AM (sX1BW)

23 The poor people should starve for this sin against Gaia.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 09:32 AM (LvTSG)

"Wait for it..."

- The Joads

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 13, 2021 09:33 AM (dfRN6)

24 Is that a pile of cream of wheat on the side?

Posted by: Mishdog at December 13, 2021 09:33 AM (/VWLE)

25 The upper cloud is a profile of Donald Trump.

Posted by: Cosda at December 13, 2021 09:33 AM (W3V1O)

26 Was this before or after the "Famine" with the dead horse?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2021 09:34 AM (BFigT)

27 Doing the work American layabouts refuse to do...

Would Hang.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 13, 2021 09:34 AM (tMjLZ)

28 What is that lump of vegetation?

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 13, 2021 09:34 AM (aJ8Xd)

29 Wheat!

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 13, 2021 09:35 AM (2RBkF)

30 The depression was a bendy time in America

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 13, 2021 09:35 AM (IIAOb)

31 Never been a fan of distorted drug art

Posted by: Eli Cash at December 13, 2021 09:35 AM (AQlkg)

32 Any relation to Barbi?

Posted by: 496 at December 13, 2021 09:35 AM (fRUHp)

33 I've always liked Benton's work.

ot, please tell me that the top-of-the-sidebar thing about 1984 is a joke ? joke, right ?

lie if you have to.

the part about "essentially happy with her life" is particularly horrifying. a morality play for Our Times, "lie back and think about Airstrip One".

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (03BbD) at December 13, 2021 09:35 AM (03BbD)

34 Love Benton's work - when a strong, vibrant farming scene coupled with a machine belching clots of smoke spoke to our abundance and forward outlook.

Definitely would hang.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 13, 2021 09:36 AM (mD/uy)

35 "What is that lump of vegetation?"

Metaphor Tree.

Posted by: gp's Dark Energy Acceleration at December 13, 2021 09:36 AM (qpX6U)

36 He shouldn't be growing so much wheat. Could affect interstate commerce.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 13, 2021 09:36 AM (m+jkK)

37 A tractor pull w/steam tractors would be interesting.

Posted by: BignJames at December 13, 2021 09:36 AM (AwYPR)

38 I'm in the mood for some Wheat Chex.

Posted by: redridinghood at December 13, 2021 09:36 AM (NpAcC)

39 Looks art deco'ey to me.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 09:37 AM (Zz0t1)

40 My favorite artist and from Kansas city to boot.

Posted by: JTinKC at December 13, 2021 09:37 AM (kAdNb)

41 28 What is that lump of vegetation?
Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 13, 2021 09:34 AM (aJ8Xd)

They've started calling it "Brandon".

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 13, 2021 09:37 AM (dfRN6)

42 Curvy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 09:30 AM (LvTSG)

Undulating, even.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Kulak-American at December 13, 2021 09:37 AM (4I/2K)

43 Thomas Hart Benton
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Nothing paints like a deer!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 13, 2021 09:37 AM (UHVv4)

44 My favorite artist and from Kansas city to boot.
Posted by: JTinKC at December 13, 2021 09:37 AM (kAdNb)

Does he dance around?

Posted by: Mr. Taggart at December 13, 2021 09:38 AM (4I/2K)

45 Looks very 1930s!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 09:38 AM (txdEq)

46 The depression was a bendy time in America

Bonnie and Clyde was on the teevee last week, so I watched it, really for the first time. I enjoyed seeing a believable depiction of depression era plain states and Texas...(everything so dry!)...but Faye Dunaway was terrible and looked at least ten years too old to be a credible Bonnie Parker.

The cars were neat though

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 09:38 AM (DJFLF)

47 The colors fell like wheat before the thresher.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 09:38 AM (DU+/6)

48 I found a better version....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2021 09:39 AM (Q9lwr)

49 I used to frequently go to a local museum that demonstrated steam powered harvesting. It was interesting.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at December 13, 2021 09:39 AM (eGTCV)

50 What is that lump of vegetation?

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 13, 2021 09:34 AM (aJ8Xd)

Looks like kudzu in the foreground.

Posted by: BignJames at December 13, 2021 09:39 AM (AwYPR)

51 Bringing in the sheaves!

Posted by: Mr. Taggart at December 13, 2021 09:39 AM (4I/2K)

52 Benton's paintings -- what's not to love?

Posted by: Ziba at December 13, 2021 09:40 AM (S1hrL)

53 Very neat picture of middle mechanization. You have big steam machines, trucks hauling mechanical equipment, and horses and wagons to carry the comparatively lightweight produce out of the fields. A little bit of everything.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 09:40 AM (DU+/6)

54 The year before the Biden Famine.....

Posted by: Jak Sucio at December 13, 2021 09:40 AM (fPWQm)

55 Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2021 09:39 AM (Q9lwr)

Looks higher res and the blue is a brighter, deeper hue

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 09:40 AM (DJFLF)

56 Threshing the wheat boss

Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2021 09:41 AM (CYnTg)

57 Curvy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 09:30 AM (LvTSG)

Undulating, even.
Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Kulak-American at December 13, 2021 09:37 AM (4I/2K)

If it starts heaving, I'm in trouble.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)

58 TH Benton has painted the House lounge at the MO state capital building. In toto, it's pretty cool the way the composition and accompanying linework-flow. Upon closer inspection, it's kind of like the history of Missouri as seen through the NYT editorial board.
I was an intern there and had to give tours, and explain why there was a Mormon being tarred and feathered and run out of the state on a rail. (OW!)

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 13, 2021 09:41 AM (lGrs1)

59 Looks like Mad Max until you embiggen

Posted by: blaster at December 13, 2021 09:42 AM (mbFEM)

60 If it starts heaving, I'm in trouble.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 09:41 AM (Zz0t1)
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It didn't watch "The Crying Game" this morning, so the odds of heaving are minimal.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 09:43 AM (DU+/6)

61 It's not just for wheat growers. Obviously it pertains to growers of all agricultural products.

- big nose

Posted by: 496 at December 13, 2021 09:43 AM (aursc)

62 Hmm. Does CBD have control of the time machine today?

Posted by: FrodoB-
cause someone has to be at December 13, 2021 09:43 AM (yFOIQ)

63 Seems late or after the depression by look of trucks, maybe 1940s

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 13, 2021 09:43 AM (aJ8Xd)

64 The equipment has changed but the process is the same. It's fascinating to watch the farmers in the fields behind us when they harvest corn or soybeans. It's so well planned as the wagons roll up to the harvester and get loaded without stopping. Agricultural ballet.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2021 09:44 AM (BFigT)

65 FrodoB he was up early

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 13, 2021 09:44 AM (aJ8Xd)

66 Threshing Wheat

Wheat (instead of rye) is what makes my bourbon so good

Posted by: Julian "Pappy" Van Winkle at December 13, 2021 09:44 AM (mZUr4)

67 Are they burning coal in that steam tractor? Nasty looking smoke.
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Yes, but they have to let it cool down first before doing a second run. It's the pause that rethreshes.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 13, 2021 09:45 AM (UHVv4)

68 Bonnie and Clyde was on the teevee last week,
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Check out "Highwaymen" w/Kostner and Woody Harrelson. It focuses more on Frank Hamer and less on Bonnie and Clyde. Frank Hamer lived about 6 normal lives, each one more interesting than the last. The unbridled use of BAR's is a neat bonus.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 13, 2021 09:46 AM (lGrs1)

69 You could say the wheat is caught in a mosh.

Posted by: Anthrax at December 13, 2021 09:46 AM (F8z9x)

70 Can't say I ever saw a steam powered tractor in my life, but I know they did exist.

Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 09:48 AM (RHGPo)

71 Stop eating grain. Just look at that carbon footprint!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at December 13, 2021 09:48 AM (7iFeQ)

72 Does CBD have control of the time machine today?

Posted by: FrodoB-cause someone has to be at December 13, 2021 09:43 AM (yFOIQ)

I had it planned for 10am because Sefton is frolicking in the Midwest. But apparently he is still on Eastern time....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2021 09:48 AM (Q9lwr)

73 Bonnie and Clyde was on the teevee last week,
======================

Did they live a long life this time ?

Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 09:48 AM (RHGPo)

74 Is this WPA art? It has that American Soviet vibe.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 13, 2021 09:49 AM (nfrXX)

75 Interestingly cartoonish.

Posted by: Cybernetic at December 13, 2021 09:49 AM (xawZJ)

76 I had to look up what style they called this, "Sychromism", I guess. Looks like a kind of mash up of art-deco and surrealism.

Posted by: lowandslow at December 13, 2021 09:50 AM (4thlk)

77 Can't say I ever saw a steam powered tractor in my life, but I know they did exist.
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There aren't that many around anymore, b/c a LOT of them exploded. (Some people still call them traction engines). You'll still occasionally hear about one blowing up at Co/State fairs. Usu taking several innocent spectators w/them.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 13, 2021 09:50 AM (lGrs1)

78 If, by some miracle, I'm not killed tomorrow, would you marry me?
To die before the harvest...
The crops, the grains.
Fields of rippling wheat.
Wheat. All there is in life is wheat.
Oh, wheat! Lots of wheat! Fields of wheat.
A tremendous amount of wheat!
Yellow wheat. Red wheat.
Wheat with feathers. Cream of wheat.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 13, 2021 09:51 AM (UHVv4)

79 Interesting juxtaposition. Painting is bright and colorful while catching the hard labor of farming, even with the advent of mechanization.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 13, 2021 09:52 AM (RrjYy)

80 The unbridled use of BAR's is a neat bonus.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 13, 2021 09:46 AM (lGrs1)

I did enjoy seeing Warren Beatty brandishing a Tommy Gun. After the movie I did a little research on the guy played by Michael J Pollard. The real guy was named DW JOnes or something like that. He said the movie was b.s. mostly except for the gunfights. He said he actually felt those bullets, because he was still carrying souvenirs from those battles.

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 09:52 AM (DJFLF)

81 Good morning.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 13, 2021 09:52 AM (RrjYy)

82 ========================
There aren't that many around anymore, b/c a LOT of them exploded. (Some people still call them traction engines). You'll still occasionally hear about one blowing up at Co/State fairs. Usu taking several innocent spectators w/them.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 13, 2021 09:50 AM (lGrs1)

We need common sense steam tractor laws.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 09:53 AM (Zz0t1)

83 There aren't that many around anymore, b/c a LOT of them exploded. (Some people still call them traction engines). You'll still occasionally hear about one blowing up at Co/State fairs. Usu taking several innocent spectators w/them.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 13, 2021 09:50 AM (lGrs1)
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Mobile, all-terrain steam wasn't a very safe approach to the problem. It was a technically feasible approach, though, and the increase in yields made the risks worth it. Steam in agriculture and construction died fairly quickly with IC engines and electricity, but man was it a force multiplier even with the safety and reliability problems. And I like going to fairs and whatnot that have the old steam equipment. It's awesome. When I was a kid, the county next door had an annual steam festival and had all kinds of machines including a steam-powered press they used to make apple cider. All that big, noisy, smoky steam equipment made for the ideal outing for a little boy, I tell you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 09:53 AM (DU+/6)

84 Yellow wheat. Red wheat.
Wheat with feathers. Cream of wheat.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 13, 2021

***
Meet me by the Wheatstone Bridge!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 09:53 AM (txdEq)

85 I found a better version....
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You don't want an artist, mate. You want a photographer!

Posted by: zombie Thomas Hart Benton at December 13, 2021 09:54 AM (UHVv4)

86 Is there a gluten free version?

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 09:54 AM (U2p+3)

87
I had it planned for 10am because Sefton is frolicking in the Midwest. But apparently he is still on Eastern time....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2021 09:48 AM (Q9lwr)

But you got the half hour added, like that crazy time zone somewhere in India.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 09:54 AM (Zz0t1)

88
Did they live a long life this time ?

Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 09:48 AM (RHGPo)

Yes! They escaped the Laws, settled in Mexico and became parents a little girl who they immediately put up for adoption because she was so irritable. A childless family from Hollywood adopted her.

And that little girl was Hanoi Jane.

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 09:55 AM (DJFLF)

89 >>>Did they live a long life this time ?

Did they have the same car trouble?

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 13, 2021 09:55 AM (HmZuC)

90 Wheat is the chicken of the plains.

Posted by: Bubba at December 13, 2021 09:55 AM (4I/2K)

91 Curvy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Undulating, even.
Posted by: Count de Monet

If it starts heaving, I'm in trouble.
Posted by: Sponge
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Don't come a-knockin' if you see this landscape a-rockin'!

Posted by: zombie Thomas Hart Benton at December 13, 2021 09:56 AM (UHVv4)

92
"Threshing wheat" means something very different in the Urban Dictionary.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 13, 2021 09:56 AM (Bmy3R)

93 #58 I though toto was in Kansas? Or down in Africa??

Posted by: zombie Thomas Hart Benton at December 13, 2021 09:57 AM (UHVv4)

94 When was this painted?

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 13, 2021 09:57 AM (aJ8Xd)

95 "Threshing wheat" means something very different in the Urban Dictionary.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 13, 2021 09:56 AM (Bmy3R)

This is the case for all the things.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 09:57 AM (Zz0t1)

96 #58 I though toto was in Kansas? Or down in Africa??
Posted by: zombie Thomas Hart Benton at December 13, 2021 09:57 AM (UHVv4)

I heard where they did the Africa song as a Christmas song.

It was bad.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

97 The Carnot steam cycle is the highest efficiency thermodynamic cycle that we have, IC engines are like 1/3 as efficient.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 13, 2021 09:58 AM (UuD2k)

98 #58 I though toto was in Kansas? Or down in Africa??
Posted by: zombie Thomas Hart Benton at December 13, 2021

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Both . . . but he didn't last long in the Africa of the 1930s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 09:58 AM (txdEq)

99 When was this painted?
Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 13, 2021 09:57 AM (aJ8Xd)
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1938-1939 per "picturingtheamericas.org"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 09:58 AM (DU+/6)

100 When was this painted?
Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 13, 2021 09:57 AM (aJ8Xd)

Harvest season. Duh.....

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 09:58 AM (Zz0t1)

101 100

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 09:58 AM (txdEq)

102 Didn't Bonnie and Clyde escape to Bolivia?

And M.J. Pollard became the Low Spark of High-Heel'd Boys?

Posted by: klaftern at December 13, 2021 09:59 AM (taPSh)

103 Feed the world!

Let them know it's Christmas time.!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 09:59 AM (U2p+3)

104 dn't Bonnie and Clyde escape to Bolivia? ...
Posted by: klaftern at December 13, 2021 09:59 AM (taPSh)
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Peruvia, I think.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:00 AM (DU+/6)

105 Feed the world!

Let them know it's Christmas time.!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 09:59 AM (U2p+3)

Earworm Achievement: UNLOCKED!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

106 Sovietesque

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2021 10:00 AM (flINI)

107 So, has Jeff Bezos sued Time Magazine yet?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:00 AM (LvTSG)

108 Americana + old trucks = would hang.

I love this style of art.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 13, 2021 10:00 AM (lNHqD)

109 You'll still occasionally hear about one blowing up at Co/State fairs. Usu taking several innocent spectators w/them.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin

Yeah, there was one big boom in 2002 at the Medina (OH) County Fairgrounds iirc during a steam tractor show. One dead, bunch more injured. My brother was involved as his insurance company was/is the insurer for the county.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 13, 2021 10:00 AM (mD/uy)

110 "Thresh": from the Proto-Germanic "threskan," originally "to tread, to stamp noisily"

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 13, 2021 10:00 AM (Bmy3R)

111 Feed the world!

Let them know it's Christmas time.!!!

Don't eat this summer, kids- you'll spoil your Christmas!

Posted by: t-bird at December 13, 2021 10:00 AM (CTJwJ)

112 Well, I almost made it!

OT: Someone here suggested I try Chewy dot com for my cat's Rx food. They had it and will ship probably this week. Thanks for the tip. I hadn't used them in a couple of years, no idea why. (Maybe because you can't check out on their site, even with a non-Rx order, as a guest. You have to call them on the phone for that. And I had forgotten my password anyway.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 10:01 AM (txdEq)

113 Having a mentally ill transwoman admiral with no qualifications is perfectly OK but . . .

Navy Commander relieved of command of warship for refusing COVID vaccine

https://bit.ly/3ylXKJ7

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2021 10:02 AM (FVME7)

114 My favorite artist and from Kansas city to boot.
Posted by: JTinKC at December 13, 2021 09:37 AM (kAdNb)

Does he dance around?
Posted by: Mr. Taggart

Okay; that was funny !

Posted by: JT at December 13, 2021 10:02 AM (arJlL)

115 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 10:01 AM (txdEq)

I tell my vet that there is no such thing as prescription cat food every time I see them.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 13, 2021 10:02 AM (UuD2k)

116 Steam power works pretty well

Posted by: Steely Dan at December 13, 2021 10:02 AM (2cfUo)

117 107 So, has Jeff Bezos sued Time Magazine yet?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:00 AM (LvTSG)
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Heh.

Posted by: WisRich at December 13, 2021 10:03 AM (G0vdT)

118 My favorite artist and from Kansas city to boot.
Posted by: JTinKC at December 13, 2021 09:37 AM (kAdNb)

Does he dance around?
Posted by: Mr. Taggart

Okay; that was funny !
Posted by: JT at December 13, 2021 10:02 AM (arJlL)

***

Groan...

Posted by: Kansas City Faggot at December 13, 2021 10:03 AM (flINI)

119 Very ... undulating.
Sorry, don't like this style.
[remembers music professor's scorn as I shared my love for Tchaikovsky with him decades ago...and subsequent years of not trusting my own artistic judgement.]
No, not sorry.

Posted by: Flyover at December 13, 2021 10:03 AM (Rbu5d)

120 Navy Commander relieved of command of warship for refusing COVID vaccine

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While bad, it will hasten the disconnect between the right and the military ... which needs to be disconnected because of the current track of the military.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at December 13, 2021 10:03 AM (sX1BW)

121 Report: Putin Added 10k More Troops To Ukraine Border After Call With Biden

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I guess Joe didn't tell him the Corn Pop story.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2021 10:03 AM (FVME7)

122 Is the Pope being replaced?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 13, 2021 10:04 AM (/FtdR)

123 Feed the world!

Let them know it's Christmas time.!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 09:59 AM (U2p+3)

Earworm Achievement: UNLOCKED!
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

That is on my list of Christmas songs that I want to hear once each year. Once!

Preferably the extended version with the participants speaking near the end. "Feed the people!"

Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2021 10:04 AM (mZUr4)

124 53 Very neat picture of middle mechanization. You have big steam machines, trucks hauling mechanical equipment, and horses and wagons to carry the comparatively lightweight produce out of the fields. A little bit of everything.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 09:40 AM (DU+/6)

Looks to me to be a steam powered tractor pulling a mechanical harvester. Horses pulling wagons of harvested wheat to the thresher. I am guessing a gasoline powered thresher and a gasoline powered truck to carry off the resulting grain.

IIRC, there is a re-enactor event in eastern WA on this. Around where I live (within an hour or so, anyways) there are "plow days" where folks bring their antique tractors (including garden tractors) and just plow. Good place to learn the finer points of equipment setup.

Went to a fall festival about 15 years ago and watched a steam powered machine making shake shingles at a rate of 1 every 2-3 seconds.

Haven't found any bodgers making spindles using a tree-branch powered lathe, though.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at December 13, 2021 10:04 AM (8C7+r)

125 The dudes on the tractor and fuel truck got it made. Looks like they're texting their buddies before the night's hoedown.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2021 10:04 AM (BFigT)

126 1 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 09:30 AM (Zz0t1)

O. M. G.

Posted by: Flyover at December 13, 2021 10:04 AM (Rbu5d)

127 121 Report: Putin Added 10k More Troops To Ukraine Border After Call With Biden

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I guess Joe didn't tell him the Corn Pop story.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2021 10:03 AM (FVME7)

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All that foreign chaos we were assured was going on under Trump sure does seem to be prepping to happen under Biden.

Just another piece of evidence of Trump's insidiousness.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:04 AM (LvTSG)

128 122 Is the Pope being replaced?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 13, 2021 10:04 AM (/FtdR)

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Rumors that he's dying, but that's all we got so far.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:04 AM (LvTSG)

129 109
Yeah, there was one big boom in 2002 at the Medina (OH) County Fairgrounds iirc during a steam tractor show. One dead, bunch more injured. My brother was involved as his insurance company was/is the insurer for the county.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 13, 2021 10:00 AM (mD/uy)

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There's a steam show about an hour from here every summer, over near the Ohio line. I only attended it once, and wouldn't go within 50 feet of anything running. Fascinating to watch, but terrifying to be around.

Speaking of big booms and the Medina County Fairgrounds, they have a gun show there several times per year that is definitely worth attending. I have a friend who lives in Seville, and I go over there when I can to hit the gun show with him.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 13, 2021 10:04 AM (lNHqD)

130 Probably he is a competent naval officer not an SJW and that can't be allowed in todays Navy...

Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2021 10:05 AM (CYnTg)

131 Who all is running for new Pope?

Any chances Trump runs?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 13, 2021 10:05 AM (/FtdR)

132 19 Interesting that the clouds and the exhaust stream are both following the curvature of the earth. Symmetry, I guess.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 13, 2021 09:33 AM (Do5/p)

No no no No NO!

Posted by: Flat Earthers at December 13, 2021 10:05 AM (Rbu5d)

133 Is the Pope being replaced?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger

Is the Pope Catholic ?

Posted by: JT at December 13, 2021 10:06 AM (arJlL)

134 Disclose.tv @disclosetv; 13h
NEW - Napoli midfielder [soccer] Piotr Zielinski (27) was taken off after 19 minutes in Serie A match after struggling to breathe.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 13, 2021 10:06 AM (UHVv4)

135 Steam power works pretty well
Posted by: Steely Dan

Needs more punk.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2021 10:06 AM (FVME7)

136 Who all is running for new Pope?

Any chances Trump runs?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 13, 2021 10:05 AM (/FtdR)
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The Bishops wouldn't allow PDT anywhere near the Vatican. PDT believes in GOD.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 13, 2021 10:06 AM (RrjYy)

137
I've seen this painting many, many, many times. There was a copy of it hanging in the front office area of a company I used to work for in southern Indiana. On the opposite wall was a group of photos of the CEO showing Ronald Regan around in one of their plants

Posted by: Swamp Rabbit at December 13, 2021 10:06 AM (K2SnJ)

138 Kind of boring. But then again so is threshing wheat, I suppose.

Posted by: bluebell at December 13, 2021 10:06 AM (wyw4S)

139
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Rumors that he's dying, but that's all we got so far.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:04 AM (LvTSG)

The Lord works in mysterious ways.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

140 Pope Donaldus I

It'll be a big, beautiful papacy. The best papacy. No one has ever seen a papacy like this before.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 13, 2021 10:07 AM (Bmy3R)

141 The undulating land with the swooping curvature of its fertile plain displays and reflects the eternal oneness of the earth and womankind. The life-bearing dynamism of the land represents the essential femininity of the earth.

The juxtaposition of the earth mother with the polluting mechanical equipment of industrial farming shows how the tendency of men to rape and destroy transcends the merely interpersonal and extends to all things in all contexts. Not satisfied with dominating and raping his wife, the farmer uses his tools to dominate and rape the earth itself.

Agricultural art is often subversive against the zeitgeist in which it was created. This piece is an example, masquerading as a "slice of life" reflecting mechanized farming in the new world, but deliberately revealing the oppression of the patriarchy as it dominates all things.

Posted by: Your Kid's Art History Professor at December 13, 2021 10:07 AM (DU+/6)

142 Man. That tornado hit Kentucky almost as hard as my wife's many boyfriends hit her this weekend.

Posted by: David French at December 13, 2021 10:07 AM (tpUWa)

143 134 Damn that stress

Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2021 10:07 AM (CYnTg)

144 The dudes on the tractor and fuel truck got it made. Looks like they're texting their buddies before the night's hoedown.
Posted by: Martini Farmer

Hoedown ?

pick her up ?

Oh.

Posted by: JT at December 13, 2021 10:07 AM (arJlL)

145 139 Rumors that he's dying, but that's all we got so far.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:04 AM (LvTSG)

The Lord works in mysterious ways.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:07 AM (Zz0t1)

==========

He was old when elected. He was never going to last very long.

It will be entertaining if Benedict outlives him, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:07 AM (LvTSG)

146 Feed the world!

Let them know it's Christmas time.!!!
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 09:59 AM (U2p+3)

Earworm Achievement: UNLOCKED!
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:00 AM (Zz0t1)

***

1 877 KARS FOR KIIIIIIIIDS... K A R S KARS FOR KIIIIIIIIIIIDDDSS
DONATE YOUR KAR TODAYYYYYY

Posted by: 1 877 KARS FOR KIDS at December 13, 2021 10:07 AM (flINI)

147 "I don't care if they're putting food on America's tables, we need to outlaw fossil fuel burning farm equipment to save the planet!"

Posted by: Joe Biden on seeing this painting at December 13, 2021 10:07 AM (gS3OW)

148 Any chances Trump runs?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 13, 2021 10:05 AM (/FtdR)

I had an interesting dream about him last night. He was surrounded by throngs of supporters and everyone was happy even ecstatic. But they all had on clear over the head type helmets.

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 10:08 AM (DJFLF)

149 Posted by: 1 877 KARS FOR KIDS at December 13, 2021 10:07 AM (flINI)

I'm cursing you with my mind right now.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 13, 2021 10:08 AM (Bmy3R)

150 Morning all.

Tornados in Tornado Alley. Who would have thought?

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:08 AM (tpUWa)

151 Biden is talking about the hurricane devastation.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 13, 2021 10:08 AM (UuD2k)

152 Who all is running for new Pope?

Any chances Trump runs?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 13, 2021 10:05 AM (/FtdR)

I remember seeing a funny March Madness style "bracket" for papal selection several years ago. It had 63 people's names on it -- with "Duke" on the other block.

Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2021 10:09 AM (mZUr4)

153
1 877 KARS FOR KIIIIIIIIDS... K A R S KARS FOR KIIIIIIIIIIIDDDSS
DONATE YOUR KAR TODAYYYYYY
Posted by: 1 877 KARS FOR KIDS at December 13, 2021 10:07 AM (flINI)

I've never heard this, so......

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:09 AM (Zz0t1)

154 "I don't care if they're putting food on America's tables, we need to outlaw fossil fuel burning farm equipment to save the planet!"
Posted by: Joe Biden on seeing this painting at December 13, 2021 10:07 AM (gS3OW)

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Yah, well, we're going for a twofer: No oil and no farming. #winning!

Posted by: CA and the Central Valley at December 13, 2021 10:09 AM (RrjYy)

155 At first I thought this was titled Threshing Meat. My bad.

Posted by: J. Toobin at December 13, 2021 10:09 AM (GYllL)

156 Those tornadoes were had but at least Dorothy's house landed on that wicked witch
Joe Biden

Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2021 10:09 AM (CYnTg)

157 Nice artwork. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2021 10:09 AM (Sdj7x)

158 Why haven't more American athletes had issues like the European soccer players?

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 13, 2021 10:09 AM (53oGX)

159 153 I've never heard this, so......

Lucky. If you did, you'd know the urge to throatpunch a soundbar.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 13, 2021 10:10 AM (Bmy3R)

160 "Having a mentally ill transwoman admiral with no qualifications is perfectly OK but . . .
Navy Commander relieved of command of warship for refusing COVID vaccine
https://bit.ly/3ylXKJ7
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2021 10:02 AM (FVME7) "

but the "admiral" is fully vaxxed, beyond a doubt, and since that is one of the prime indicators of allegiance to the State, it's all good !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (03BbD) at December 13, 2021 10:10 AM (03BbD)

161 The skeezicks pumping pollution into the atmosphere is high on fossil fuels.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 13, 2021 10:10 AM (BPuaD)

162 Benton unulates. I hear his wife does too.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 13, 2021 10:10 AM (bA3Ln)

163 I wonder if they could get kind of a new, fresh, younger Pope.

With a well groomed beard, a flannel shirt and cotton Dockers. Let him use one of those wireless headsets.

To appeal to the younger generations.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 13, 2021 10:10 AM (/FtdR)

164 >>Why haven't more American athletes had issues like the European soccer players?

Soccer is for pussies?

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:10 AM (tpUWa)

165 94 When was this painted?

Posted by: Skip's Phone at December 13, 2021 09:57 AM (aJ8Xd)

1938-1939

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 10:11 AM (DJFLF)

166 Lucky. If you did, you'd know the urge to throatpunch a soundbar.
Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 13, 2021 10:10 AM (Bmy3R)
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Where is the "throat" on a soundbar? If the cone is the "mouth" of the speaker, then is the throat the area behind it where it's wired up?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:11 AM (DU+/6)

167 158 Maybe it has to do with the sheer amount of running in soccer. Football and hockey players play in only small bursts

Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2021 10:11 AM (CYnTg)

168 Why haven't more American athletes had issues like the European soccer players?
Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 13, 2021 10:09 AM (53oGX)

Those guys are FAGS!!

Posted by: Jeff Spicolli at December 13, 2021 10:11 AM (mZUr4)

169 Dearest Lord, please enlighten those in the last thread with compassion and kindness. May they see past the person on the outside ( ugly, fat or poor) and feel genuine compassion and love for those who have lost everything including loved ones in the devastating weather this weekend. Bless even those who are so unkind as to harshly judge appearances of those so broken. In Jesus's name we pray. Amen.

Posted by: Stellastwocents at December 13, 2021 10:11 AM (cRbt7)

170 Who all is running for new Pope?

Any chances Trump runs?

It wouldn't surprise me if The Junta attempts to coerce the College of Cardinals to anoint Veep Throat so that it frees up the VP position.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 13, 2021 10:11 AM (+LCoQ)

171 It will be entertaining if Benedict outlives him, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:07 AM (LvTSG)

Be even more interesting if they let him back in...
Benedict 2, papal boogaloo

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 13, 2021 10:11 AM (53oGX)

172 Hmm, just got a news flash from the Epoch Times: 4 states have called on the NG to deal with health care staffing crisis.

I guess firing a bunch of people because they didn't want the vax wasn't really a great idea. Imagine that.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 13, 2021 10:12 AM (RrjYy)

173 It wouldn't surprise me if The Junta attempts to coerce the College of Cardinals to anoint Veep Throat so that it frees up the VP position.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 13, 2021 10:11 AM (+LCoQ)
++++
Is she even a nominal Catholic?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:12 AM (DU+/6)

174 172 Hmm, just got a news flash from the Epoch Times: 4 states have called on the NG to deal with health care staffing crisis.

I guess firing a bunch of people because they didn't want the vax wasn't really a great idea. Imagine that.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 13, 2021 10:12 AM (RrjYy)

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They all moved to Florida. Should be able to kick out a new batch of Nurse Practitioners in a couple of years, though. The people in those states just gotta hold on.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:13 AM (LvTSG)

175 It wouldn't surprise me if The Junta attempts to coerce the College of Cardinals to anoint Veep Throat so that it frees up the VP position.
Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 13, 2021 10:11 AM (+LCoQ)

Louisville selects the Pope???

Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2021 10:13 AM (mZUr4)

176 You know, The Man On The Ottoman has its own threshing of wheat symbology.

Posted by: Lucien Freud at December 13, 2021 10:13 AM (a3Q+t)

177 Who all is running for new Pope?

-
Whoever throws their funny hat into the ring.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2021 10:13 AM (FVME7)

178 Hmm, just got a news flash from the Epoch Times: 4 states have called on the NG to deal with health care staffing crisis.

I guess firing a bunch of people because they didn't want the vax wasn't really a great idea. Imagine that.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 13, 2021 10:12 AM (RrjYy)
++++
But there's a problem here, I suspect. The National Guard are mostly part-timers who have day jobs. So for the NG to send medical staff to a hospital, they're going to have to call up ... medical stuff from other places that were working there until they were called up. Do I have that right, or are NG medical staff full-time Guardsmen?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:13 AM (DU+/6)

179 I don't think ya hafta be Catholic to be Pope, IIRC.

But ya hafta be willing to convert.

Posted by: JT at December 13, 2021 10:14 AM (arJlL)

180 Women's Curling > Men's Soccer

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 13, 2021 10:14 AM (GYllL)

181 58 Maybe it has to do with the sheer amount of running in soccer. Football and hockey players play in only small bursts
Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2021 10:11 AM (CYnTg)

***

The Paolo, how do you say ..., works in small bursts as well.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 13, 2021 10:14 AM (flINI)

182 Women's Curling > Men's Soccer
Posted by: Capital Eff at December 13, 2021 10:14 AM (GYllL)
++++
Truth.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:14 AM (DU+/6)

183 >>I don't think ya hafta be Catholic to be Pope, IIRC.

You do have to shit in the woods, though.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:15 AM (tpUWa)

184 182 Women's Curling > Men's Soccer
Posted by: Capital Eff at December 13, 2021 10:14 AM (GYllL)
++++
Truth.

Thirded

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 13, 2021 10:15 AM (Bmy3R)

185 But ya hafta be willing to convert.
Posted by: JT at December 13, 2021 10:14 AM (arJlL)

It appears they accepts communist too!

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 13, 2021 10:15 AM (yrol0)

186 Wouldn't the Dr's and Nurses in the NG already be working in some hospital system? And if you move them won't those places then have a shortage?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 13, 2021 10:15 AM (IIAOb)

187 How about women's swimming big boys?
Lia Thomas

Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2021 10:15 AM (CYnTg)

188 182 Women's Curling > Men's Soccer
Posted by: Capital Eff at December 13, 2021 10:14 AM (GYllL)
++++
Truth.
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You guys just like watching girls with brooms.

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 13, 2021 10:15 AM (bA3Ln)

189 OT: Someone here suggested I try Chewy dot com for my cat's Rx food. They had it and will ship probably this week. Thanks for the tip.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 10:01
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You're welcome.

Posted by: olddog in mo at December 13, 2021 10:15 AM (ViCCR)

190 You do have to shit in the woods, though.
Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:15 AM (tpUWa)

and wear a funny hat

Posted by: rhennigantx at December 13, 2021 10:15 AM (yrol0)

191 4 states have called on the NG to deal with health care staffing crisis.

Can the National Guard say, "What?! No." If not, we'll take all your National Guardsmen to fill potholes in PA.

Posted by: t-bird at December 13, 2021 10:15 AM (AytXr)

192 >I don't think ya hafta be Catholic to be Pope, IIRC.

You do have to shit in the woods, though.
Posted by: garrett

LOL !!!

Posted by: JT at December 13, 2021 10:16 AM (arJlL)

193 Even the WSJ is trying to help Grandpa Nincompoop cover up inflation. They're stating it's all about how you "feel" about paying more for everything. Nothing about how BLS is trying to hide inflation (more) by changing the CPI calcs (again).

Posted by: Marcus T at December 13, 2021 10:16 AM (YmKky)

194 Willowed:

Miss India, Harnaaz Sandhu, crowned 70th Miss Universe.
Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 13, 2021 09:06 AM (UHVv4)

You'll be gratified to know that she overcame body shaming - supposedly. Having seen photos of her, I cannot image what sort of shaming was taking place.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at December 13, 2021 10:16 AM (U7wke)

195 172 Hmm, just got a news flash from the Epoch Times: 4 states have called on the NG to deal with health care staffing crisis.

My dear, elderly neighbor had to be taken to the hospital this weekend, and the two closest ones were overbooked because they'd fired all the unvaxxed staff. (Gee... cause -- effect?) The sad part is that he had to go because he'd just received his booster a few days prior and his wife told me he's had no energy since -- sleeping all the time, winded when he goes upstairs, can't catch his breath. If you're of the mind, please pray for Fred and June.

Posted by: red speck at December 13, 2021 10:16 AM (gS3OW)

196 Louisville selects the Pope???

Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2021 10:13 AM (mZUr4)

I heard Pius XII got kicked out because he was betting on exorcisms.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2021 10:16 AM (/EuRN)

197 You guys just like watching girls with brooms.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 13, 2021 10:15 AM (bA3Ln)
++++
Attractive, fit ladies who's athletic skills translate directly to light housekeeping? Where's the downside?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:16 AM (DU+/6)

198 There was one pope in the middle ages who had to receive something like three sacraments before he could be actually installed as pope after his election.

Italian politics, yo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:17 AM (LvTSG)

199 177 Who all is running for new Pope?

-
Whoever throws their funny hat into the ring.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2021 10:13 AM (FVME7)
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They mitre, or they mitre not. Who knows?

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 13, 2021 10:17 AM (lNHqD)

200 I would hope there is a counter coup inside the Vatican but I'm not expecting anything

Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2021 10:17 AM (CYnTg)

201 >>You'll be gratified to know that she overcame body shaming - supposedly. Having seen photos of her, I cannot image what sort of shaming was taking place.

Unsightly third nipple?

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:17 AM (tpUWa)

202 You'll be gratified to know that she overcame body shaming - supposedly. Having seen photos of her, I cannot image what sort of shaming was taking place.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at December 13, 2021 10:16 AM (U7wke)

Shame you have all those clothes on?

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 13, 2021 10:17 AM (53oGX)

203 You guys just like watching girls with brooms.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 13, 2021 10:15 AM (bA3Ln)

***

I do that at home. Do they also make sandwiches during their athletic contests?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2021 10:17 AM (flINI)

204 You guys just like watching girls with brooms.

That and the lack of fake injuries.

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 13, 2021 10:17 AM (GYllL)

205 You guys just like watching girls with brooms.
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 13, 2021 10:15 AM (bA3Ln)
++++
Attractive, fit ladies who's athletic skills translate directly to light housekeeping? Where's the downside?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:16 AM (DU+/6)
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You forgot sammiches. If they wield a mean broom, but can't make a sammich, well, some things just can't be overlooked.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 13, 2021 10:18 AM (RrjYy)

206 >>You guys just like watching girls with brooms.

I am always watching in the hopes that one team will force the Overtime Sandwich Making Round.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:18 AM (tpUWa)

207 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Looks like harvest time in the Palouse! Go Cougs!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2021 10:18 AM (axyOa)

208 Even the WSJ is trying to help Grandpa Nincompoop cover up inflation.

"Everything in your cupboards and fridge continues to gain value!"

Posted by: WSJ Hot Take at December 13, 2021 10:18 AM (U700v)

209 Sigh. We're gonna be short staffed next week. I have a colleague getting his booster this weekend, so he'll be out until Wednesday if I had to guess. The booster seems to be knocking people onto their asses for several days.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:18 AM (DU+/6)

210 The Pretend Idiot Queen in NY, who is dumber then a bag of paint chips, is going right for the Democrats anti freedom playbook. Masks that dont work and soon she'll be back to killing your grandparents. Oh yeah, she was in on it the first time. Inconvenient fact the media won't cover.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 13, 2021 10:19 AM (YmKky)

211 Can anyone confirm the Pope rumors? Francis is on my fantasy team.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 13, 2021 10:19 AM (HmZuC)

212 177...Who all is running for new Pope?
-
Whoever throws their funny hat into the ring.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2021 10:13 AM (FVME7)

Hold on, there are a few Catholics left in our ranks. We're weeding them out. Then we will tell you.

Posted by: College of Cardinals at December 13, 2021 10:19 AM (Rbu5d)

213 Point-shaving scandal hits Vatican City.

Posted by: klaftern at December 13, 2021 10:19 AM (taPSh)

214 180 Women's Curling > Men's Soccer

American soccer, I agree. Premiere League is good stuff.

Posted by: red speck at December 13, 2021 10:19 AM (gS3OW)

215 "Everything in your cupboards and fridge continues to gain value!"
Posted by: WSJ Hot Take at December 13, 2021 10:18 AM (U700v)
++++
Only a matter of time. "The best ways to invest in your kitchen in 2022!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:19 AM (DU+/6)

216 If you're of the mind, please pray for Fred and June.
Posted by: red speck at December 13, 2021 10:16 AM (gS3OW)

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Done.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 13, 2021 10:19 AM (RrjYy)

217 I'm assuming the RCs know this and even the non Catholics understand that the Pope is chosen from the College of Cardinals but here are some specifics on it:

https://tinyurl.com/45nmunxe

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2021 10:19 AM (cY2qy)

218 $20 says Pope Frank goes before Betty White

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2021 10:20 AM (flINI)

219 210 I picked her for her ass not her brains
Andrew Cuomo

Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2021 10:20 AM (CYnTg)

220 The Paolo, how do you say ..., works in small bursts as well.
Posted by: The Paolo at December 13, 2021 10:14 AM

Piker.

Posted by: Peter North at December 13, 2021 10:20 AM (a3Q+t)

221 215 "Everything in your cupboards and fridge continues to gain value!"
Posted by: WSJ Hot Take at December 13, 2021 10:18 AM (U700v)
++++
Only a matter of time. "The best ways to invest in your kitchen in 2022!"
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:19 AM (DU+/6)

=========

*Trump wins reelection in 2024*
"Why inflation is all Trump's fault and the worst thing to happen to grandma since Paul Ryan pushed her off a cliff."
-The WSJ

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:20 AM (LvTSG)

222 ""Everything in your cupboards and fridge continues to gain value!"
Posted by: WSJ Hot Take at December 13, 2021 10:18 AM (U700v)"

The actual quote was "How you Feel about Inflation Will Determine Its Longevity"

What the actual F.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 13, 2021 10:20 AM (YmKky)

223 $20 says Pope Frank goes before Betty White
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2021 10:20 AM (flINI)

Betty White is the female Abe Vigoda. She'll be around for a while yet.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:20 AM (Zz0t1)

224 218 $20 says Pope Frank goes before Betty White

Posted by: Keith Richards at December 13, 2021 10:21 AM (LQjWA)

225 the College of Cardinals

Their football team sucks. I blame the robes.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 13, 2021 10:21 AM (Bmy3R)

226 Interesting juxaposition of farming technologies. The horse, used for centuries. Then the steam engine, which ran threshing machines for about 120 years (used into the very late 1940's) and finally the internal combustion engine. All in one picture.

Posted by: RonF at December 13, 2021 10:21 AM (28zW2)

227 I recently read that soccer is now the 4th most popular sport in America

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 13, 2021 10:21 AM (IIAOb)

228 227 We keep importing Mexico it will be numero uno soon...

Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2021 10:22 AM (CYnTg)

229 I recently read that soccer is now the 4th most popular sport in America
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 13, 2021 10:21 AM (IIAOb)

***

We are doomed

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2021 10:22 AM (flINI)

230 >> I recently read that soccer is now the 4th most popular sport in America

Are there more than 4 Sports?

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:22 AM (tpUWa)

231 The actual quote was "How you Feel about Inflation Will Determine Its Longevity"

What the actual F.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 13, 2021 10:20 AM (YmKky)
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Unlikely, but it could help determine its severity. Inflation creates odd incentives that can be self-feeding in a feedback circuit. If you anticipate inflation will continue, you might be inclined to pull forward demand to get whatever the thing is before it gets more expensive. This adds inflationary pressure by increasing demand in an already supply-constrained environment.

I am a prime example. I will need a roof sometime between three and five years from now. I am tempted just to do it now while it will be probably $14k in stead of in 3-5 years when it might be $22k. I might do this, but it will also contribute to the overall problem to some small degree.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:22 AM (DU+/6)

232 I recently read that soccer is now the 4th most popular sport in America

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 13, 2021 10:21 AM (IIAOb)

More popular than cornhole? Don't believe it!

Posted by: BignJames at December 13, 2021 10:23 AM (AwYPR)

233 But there's a problem here, I suspect. The National Guard are mostly part-timers who have day jobs. So for the NG to send medical staff to a hospital, they're going to have to call up ... medical stuff from other places that were working there until they were called up. Do I have that right, or are NG medical staff full-time Guardsmen?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:13 AM (DU+/6)
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I'm not sure it really matters. Another case of administrative stupidity, then, looking for someone to bail them out for their incompetence.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 13, 2021 10:23 AM (RrjYy)

234 But there's a problem here, I suspect. The National Guard are mostly part-timers who have day jobs. So for the NG to send medical staff to a hospital, they're going to have to call up ... medical stuff from other places that were working there until they were called up. Do I have that right, or are NG medical staff full-time Guardsmen?

This should be a criminal act. The State decimates its medical staff, then takes people who probably have paying gigs in the same in industry, pulls them away from their homes, pays them pennies for their highly valuable services.

In the meantime, all hospitals have their tribal procedures and traditions such where an interloper takes time to get up to speed. Furthermore, just jamming an unvetted person into a role that has not gone through any interview or certification process doesn't help the hospital other than receiving free slave labor to do scut work.

This is an entirely demeaning process that trivializes the specialized knowledge expected in the medical profession.

We are not widgets.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 13, 2021 10:23 AM (+LCoQ)

235 >>More popular than cornhole?

Not in San Francisco.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:23 AM (tpUWa)

236 191 4 states have called on the NG to deal with health care staffing crisis.

Hah. Guess where those NG health care workers work in their civilian jobs?

They are eliminating shortages. They're just re-apportioning them.

Posted by: Hotlips Houlihan at December 13, 2021 10:23 AM (LQjWA)

237 I recently read that soccer is now the 4th most popular sport in America
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 13, 2021 10:21 AM (IIAOb)

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Although... I am well into my thied year of not watching football. It's going well, I don't even slightly miss it any longer. I will never watch soccerball

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2021 10:24 AM (flINI)

238 Meanwhile, speculators are buying up all available Crocs.

Posted by: J. Cramer at December 13, 2021 10:24 AM (a3Q+t)

239 I will pray for Fred and June. It's so hard. So many people with so many side effects from these shots but yet people got them because the vaccines were so hyped and people trusted the medical professionals-"Get a shot. Get a booster."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2021 10:24 AM (5PyMB)

240 Dammit

Checkengine light just popped on.

Along with cruise control light flashing
And my all wheel drive anti skid light.

I just spent 1700 bucks getting shit checked. Like less than a month ago.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 10:24 AM (M0GxS)

241 More popular than cornhole? Don't believe it!
Posted by: BignJames at December 13, 2021 10:23 AM (AwYPR)

Can we just have ONE freakin' day where we don't talk about that Mayor Pete jackass and his Undersecretary?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2021 10:24 AM (/EuRN)

242 Although... I am well into my thied year of not watching football. It's going well, I don't even slightly miss it any longer. I will never watch soccerball
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2021 10:24 AM (flINI)
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After the first couple of weeks which felt a little weird, I find that I'm actually *happier* post-football. I was wasting inordinate amounts of time watching it.

That is not the case with baseball, though. I miss baseball.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:24 AM (DU+/6)

243 Only way I am watching Soccer is if I meet a single Mom with a 6 figure salary AND a Prehensile Uvula.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:25 AM (tpUWa)

244 I'm assuming that means team sports.

The big 4 are football, baseball, basketball and hockey.

I guess I'd like to know what 'popular' means. Attendance at games, participation, or what exactly.

Wouldn't surprise me if more kids played soccer than hockey in the US.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 13, 2021 10:25 AM (/FtdR)

245 Perfect art thread moment....

Remember Rita Jenrette? The congressman's wife who posed for Playboy decades ago?

Well, she is selling her Roman villa. It has the only known Carravagio ceiling painting, and a Michelangelo sculpture in the garden. Enough art is included to fit out a museum. Rita hit a home run in her second marriage.

https://tinyurl.com/2p9emjyn

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2021 10:25 AM (raQcc)

246
I just spent 1700 bucks getting shit checked. Like less than a month ago.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 10:24 AM (M0GxS)
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Subaru?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 13, 2021 10:25 AM (RrjYy)

247 232 I recently read that soccer is now the 4th most popular sport in America

Flopping and overacting. It's a thing.

Posted by: The Academy Awards at December 13, 2021 10:25 AM (LQjWA)

248 Their football team sucks. I blame the robes.
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The Crimson Tide!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 13, 2021 10:25 AM (UHVv4)

249 If you're of the mind, please pray for Fred and June.
Posted by: red speck

Okay

Posted by: JT at December 13, 2021 10:25 AM (arJlL)

250 Only way I am watching Soccer is if I meet a single Mom with a 6 figure salary AND a Prehensile Uvula.
Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:25 AM (tpUWa)
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"Prehensile uvula" might be the funniest thing I've seen in a very long time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:25 AM (DU+/6)

251 Are there more than 4 Sports?
Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:22 AM (tpUWa)

Only if you include Wii Sports

Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2021 10:25 AM (mZUr4)

252 Only way I am watching Soccer is if I meet a single Mom with a 6 figure salary AND a Prehensile Uvula.
Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:25 AM (tpUWa)

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Is that the thing that hangs in the back of their throats?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2021 10:25 AM (flINI)

253 Does anyone actually *know* any NG deployed to fill staffing shortages in hospitals?

I'm starting to think it's just a cover story to pacify the rubes

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 10:25 AM (DJFLF)

254 I *like* Thomas Hart Benton, I have always liked that school of art. I see it gets called "american soviet", but in fact the style began in middle America at the turn of the 20th century, and then Russian artists copied it and adopted it because it was new, and it wasn't Deco which western Europe was doing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2021 10:26 AM (trdmm)

255
That is not the case with baseball, though. I miss baseball.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:24 AM (DU+/6)
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*fistbump*

Word.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 13, 2021 10:26 AM (RrjYy)

256 I just spent 1700 bucks getting shit checked. Like less than a month ago.
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Proctologist visits don't cost anything like that here!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 13, 2021 10:26 AM (UHVv4)

257
Subaru?
Posted by: blake - semi

2009 Outback.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 10:26 AM (KXXdn)

258 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 10:01 AM (txdEq)

I tell my vet that there is no such thing as prescription cat food every time I see them.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 13, 2021

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I raised His Lordship, Arizona the Maine Coon mix, to a healthy 14-lb. (not fat) adulthood on good old Friskies and 9 Lives. He did need an Rx later in his life, true, but not until he was about 11 years old, and he lived to be 16.5 in any case -- so I did something right.

Those Friskies cans ran about .35 each in those days (1983-1994). Now the z/d Rx stuff is $3.13/can!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 10:27 AM (txdEq)

259 >>"Prehensile uvula" might be the funniest thing I've seen in a very long time.

Someone saw them open for someone, somewhere,

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:27 AM (tpUWa)

260 Pete Buttplugs husband is mad he has to start repaying his student loan

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 13, 2021 10:27 AM (IIAOb)

261 259 >>"Prehensile uvula" might be the funniest thing I've seen in a very long time.

Someone saw them open for someone, somewhere,
Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:27 AM (tpUWa)

Flaming Lips...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2021 10:27 AM (/EuRN)

262 Wouldn't surprise me if more kids played soccer than hockey in the US.

Its not really a big thing with the millions of people pouring in from south/central America, the middle east, Africa, India and southeastern Asia.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at December 13, 2021 10:28 AM (+LCoQ)

263 Alternative POV... the National Guard call ups prepare the civilian population to accept militarized healthcare as normal.

Militarized law enforcement is already there.

There are many other facets of civilian life that can be so changed. For your protection, proles.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2021 10:28 AM (BFigT)

264 129 109
Yeah, there was one big boom in 2002 at the Medina (OH) County Fairgrounds iirc during a steam tractor show. One dead, bunch more injured. My brother was involved as his insurance company was/is the insurer for the county.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 13, 2021 10:00 AM (mD/uy)

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There's a steam show about an hour from here every summer, over near the Ohio line. I only attended it once, and wouldn't go within 50 feet of anything running. Fascinating to watch, but terrifying to be around.

Speaking of big booms and the Medina County Fairgrounds, they have a gun show there several times per year that is definitely worth attending. I have a friend who lives in Seville, and I go over there when I can to hit the gun show with him.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 13, 2021 10:04 AM (lNHqD)

I grew up there (5th through 9th grades, live 1/2 block off the square and across the street from the then Jr High). Mom still lives out that way where we moved to when I was in HS. Good gun show there, yes.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at December 13, 2021 10:28 AM (8C7+r)

265 240 Dammit

Checkengine light just popped on.

Along with cruise control light flashing
And my all wheel drive anti skid light.

I just spent 1700 bucks getting shit checked. Like less than a month ago.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Buy a $20 OBD II reader online and find out what the real problem(s) might be.

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 13, 2021 10:28 AM (GYllL)

266 Meanwhile, speculators are buying up all available Crocs.
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That also puts pressure on the Vespa market! Cascade! Cascade!

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 13, 2021 10:29 AM (UHVv4)

267 >>Is that the thing that hangs in the back of their throats?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2021

Yes.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:29 AM (tpUWa)

268 Wouldn't surprise me if more kids played soccer than hockey in the US.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 13, 2021 10:25 AM (/FtdR)

Makes sense. And European kickball is cheap compared to most other team sports.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2021 10:29 AM (Q9lwr)

269 >>That also puts pressure on the Vespa market! Cascade! Cascade!

Ace is going to have a tough time getting a new Messenger bag this year.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:29 AM (tpUWa)

270 Buy a $20 OBD II reader online and find out what the real problem(s) might be.
Posted by: Capital Eff at December 13, 2021 10:28 AM (GYllL)

I don't know which cars do this and which don't, but on mine you can turn the key on and off again five times in a row (just to accessory, not actually starting the engine) and it will spit out limited codes in the odometer display, which you can then look up online and get at least an idea of what's going on.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2021 10:30 AM (/EuRN)

271 Buy a $20 OBD II reader online and find out what the real problem(s) might be.
Posted by: Capital Eff

I wouldn't know which end to plug into what.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 10:30 AM (a+mNa)

272 "If you haven't been vaccinated, that's your choice. I respect that. But it's your fault when you're in the hospital with COVID," [Colorado's Democrat Governor Jared Polis] continued.

https://bit.ly/3dP46Y2

Funny, I don't recall politicians going around during past flu seasons reporting "X% of patients in hospitals with influenza did not get the flu shot" and then scolding people "That was their choice, but it's their own fault they're in the hospital." What an a-hole.

Or how about "If you haven't been living a healthy lifestyle, that's your choice. I respect that. But it's your fault when you're in the hospital with [heart disease/lung cancer/etc]."

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 13, 2021 10:30 AM (Do5/p)

273 2009 Outback.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 10:26 AM (KXXdn)
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Okay, going into the wayback memory bank of Blake, I recall our Subaru Forester doing the same. I want to say the problem was the emissions system. There's a couple of injectors on the back of the heads and device that controls them. Hideously expensive and a PIA to get to. (Yeah, I didn't the work myself. I was not happy)

But, don't quote me, let me think on it a bit further.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 13, 2021 10:30 AM (RrjYy)

274 I just spent 1700 bucks getting shit checked. Like less than a month ago.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Buy a $20 OBD II reader online and find out what the real problem(s) might be.
Posted by: Capital Eff at December 13, 2021 10:28 AM (GYllL)

Local Auto Zone will do a read for free. Not sure how good they are tho. I have my own reader.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

275 Willowed last thread, but I thought it was funny and wanted to share:

Usual laugh-a-sentence article from The Bulwark today. Even had a Jonah tweet embedded at the end for good measure!

(1) Chris Wallace bails on Fox News.
This story is both stunning and significant.

And, yes, a story can be shocking, but ultimately not at all that important. Chris Wallace's abrupt departure is both, because Wallace was one of the last redoubts of journalistic integrity at Fox, and it comes at a moment when the network's careen toward crackpottery seems utterly uncontrolled.

Posted by: Intrepid Bulwark AoS Liaison at December 13, 2021 10:31 AM (JCZqz)

276 I'm going to be the grumpy old man and say that I miss old-school baseball. Contemporary baseball is so poor. It's basically an arcade game at this point. Strikeout, strikeout, home run, strikeout. Rinse, lather, repeat. Blech.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 13, 2021 10:31 AM (HmZuC)

277 240 Dammit

Checkengine light just popped on.

Along with cruise control light flashing
And my all wheel drive anti skid light.

I just spent 1700 bucks getting shit checked. Like less than a month ago.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 10:24 AM (M0GxS)

I recommend the BlueDriver OBD2 dongle and phone app for reading codes. Will also clear them.
I'll always clear a code first to see if it comes back, unless the fix is obviously needed of course.

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 13, 2021 10:31 AM (53oGX)

278 I have watched very little football the last couple of years, but I did manage to catch the Packers - Bears game last night. Pretty fun to watch, since neither side bothered to play much defense (although the Pack had a very nice pick-6 at one point) Lots of running up and down the field, 75 total points scored. Packers 45, Bears 30.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2021 10:31 AM (trdmm)

279 His Persephone with a peeping tom is interesting

Posted by: banana Dream at December 13, 2021 10:32 AM (Qa/tj)

280 Makes sense. And European kickball is cheap compared to most other team sports.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2021 10:29 AM (Q9lwr)

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Hockey costs an absolute fortune these days. I don't know how parents do it... wait, I guess I do. I have a daughter that did show jumping and dressage. I must have paid off two Mercedes' with what I spent on those horses

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2021 10:32 AM (flINI)

281 The single reason that soccer has grown so popular with women in America is David Beckham's ass.

Posted by: Karen at December 13, 2021 10:32 AM (LQjWA)

282
I wouldn't know which end to plug into what.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 10:30 AM (a+mNa)

There's usually a plug underneath the dash on the drivers side near the steering column. Easy to find. The plug is shaped where there's only one way to connect to it.

But, again, there are auto parts stores that will do a free read.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:32 AM (Zz0t1)

283 >> I just spent 1700 bucks getting shit checked. Like less than a month ago.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Is it snowing over there? Sometimes the sensors in new vehicles get obstructed from all of the snow/slush buildup and these things go haywire until you clean them off.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:32 AM (tpUWa)

284 Meanwhile, speculators are buying up all available Crocs.
Posted by: J. Cramer at December 13, 2021 10:24 AM (a3Q+t)

My son had sweatpants and Crocs on his Christmas List and Academy Sports was having a 4-day sale that ended yesterday. So I looked online.

Jumpin' Jehoshaphat at them prices! $35 - $60 for sweats? $40+ for plastic shoes? Pass.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Kulak-American at December 13, 2021 10:32 AM (4I/2K)

285 I have my own reader.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

Lucky

Posted by: Stevie Wonder at December 13, 2021 10:32 AM (mZUr4)

286
I like Benton's works, so this one is a-ok

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 13, 2021 10:33 AM (3l5Yq)

287 By the way, OBD II readers are great, but, the codes they pull aren't always the solution.

However, if one does their own wrenching, they're great for resetting error codes after the work is done.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 13, 2021 10:33 AM (RrjYy)

288 I see Anne Rice has assumed room temp. Considering the topics in her work, I don't suppose that would bother her any.

The only book of hers I enjoyed thoroughly was Belinda, a semi-Lolita story (but with twists) that she wrote early on as "Anne Rampling." It plays out partly in Noo Awlins, yeah yeah yeah, but also in San Francisco, where AR lived for a time. It's not supernatural at all and has some real suspense, though not the action-adventure-danger kind. Her other things I've read were long and talky, full of "Look how well I'm writing" prose and attitudes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 10:33 AM (txdEq)

289 So is his "poker" night.

Posted by: banana Dream at December 13, 2021 10:33 AM (Qa/tj)

290 4 states have called on the NG to deal with health care staffing crisis.

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The combined military forces of the People's Republic of China -- The People's Liberation Army -- are tanned, rested, ready, awaiting the call, and hungry for some young, college-aged, progressive women.

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at December 13, 2021 10:33 AM (pkAQ5)

291
The actual quote was "How you Feel about Inflation Will Determine Its Longevity"

I don't like it. Does that means it will short lived or long lived?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 13, 2021 10:33 AM (63Dwl)

292 I wouldn't know which end to plug into what.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 10:30 AM (a+mNa)

You plug it into the OBD-II port.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 13, 2021 10:34 AM (Y5qcH)

293 TheAtlantic:
Why the January 6 Investigation Is Weirdly Static

The House committee can still succeed, but success won't look like what a lot of onlookers are hoping for.

greasing the skid of reduced expectation

Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 10:34 AM (RHGPo)

294 The Formula One (110th most popular sport in America) season just ended, and Max is the champion...unless Mercedes prevails in court and gets his victory overturned. What a bunch of whiny little bitches.

I wouldn't hang this painting because it doesn't go with my decor, but it would make a very interesting cross stitch subject.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at December 13, 2021 10:34 AM (8548M)

295 >> I wouldn't know which end to plug into what.

Any port ...in a storm.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:34 AM (tpUWa)

296 "If you haven't been vaccinated, that's your choice. I respect that. But it's your fault when you're in the hospital with COVID," [Colorado's Democrat Governor Jared Polis] continued.

Except when you're in the hospital because the mRna vaccine failed miserably. That's shits on the CDC and the FDA.

Posted by: There Are No Break-Throughs, Only Failed Vaccines at December 13, 2021 10:34 AM (LQjWA)

297 Usual laugh-a-sentence article from The Bulwark today. Even had a Jonah tweet embedded at the end for good measure!

(1) Chris Wallace bails on Fox News.
This story is both stunning and significant.

And, yes, a story can be shocking, but ultimately not at all that important. Chris Wallace's abrupt departure is both, because Wallace was one of the last redoubts of journalistic integrity at Fox, and it comes at a moment when the network's careen toward crackpottery seems utterly uncontrolled.
Posted by: Intrepid Bulwark AoS Liaison at December 13, 2021 10:31 AM (JCZqz)

LOL! Gawd what tripe. But I think someone at Fox has figured out that Trump and the Republicans are going to be back on top soon, and they're positioning themselves. That doesn't mean they're on our side; but they're mercenary and at least not stupid, and (as opposed to the Bulwark idiot) have figured out that it's better to be on the winning side rather than the losing one.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 13, 2021 10:34 AM (trdmm)

298 The left doesn't allow declarative statements of fact that do not comport with The Narrative.

This is why the vaguely worded eupemisms and talking in third person. "An SUV runs over parade goers". "Would be robbers" or "botched" robbery or "attempted" robbery. Or the classic "robbery gone bad", which implies that the natural order of things is for armed robbery to go "good". It also explains calling perpetrators "victims".

With government confetti-buck generators set on eleventy for years now monetary inflation was inevitable. But there's a "perception" that inflation is skyrocketing. How do people feel about their purchasing power cut in half while the quantity is reduced by 25% at the same time, and the ingredients imported from golly knows where, adulterated by golly knows what. Ya pays yer money and take yer chances.

Fake money gets you fake food, at the end of the day.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2021 10:35 AM (ubFZv)

299 Felenon Spoke: The College of Cardinals chooses the Pope but the Pope does not have to be a member of the College of Cardinals. In fact, he does not have to be a Cardinal. Apparently multiple Popes were not Bishops when elected; one was not even a priest when he was chosen and was consecrated as a priest, bishop and cardinal on successive days before he became pope.

Posted by: RonF at December 13, 2021 10:35 AM (28zW2)

300 271 Buy a $20 OBD II reader online and find out what the real problem(s) might be.
Posted by: Capital Eff

I wouldn't know which end to plug into what.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 10:30 AM (a+mNa)

Most auto parts stores will do a code readout for free using their device.

Posted by: Gref at December 13, 2021 10:35 AM (AMIL/)

301

Any port ...in a storm.
Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 10:34 AM (tpUWa)

*fistbump*

Posted by: River Otters at December 13, 2021 10:35 AM (Zz0t1)

302 Chris Wallace and Bret Baier warned Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott there would be repercussions if the extreme rhetoric of top-rated Tucker Carlson's wasn't reined in.

Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 10:35 AM (RHGPo)

303 I have my own reader.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

Lucky
Posted by: Stevie Wonder at December 13, 2021 10:32 AM (mZUr4)

***

ghjaer rejo e oeri n/';oqergnqergn qerouiqre

Posted by: Ronnie Milsap at December 13, 2021 10:35 AM (flINI)

304 All of this chit-chat, chaff and inflation doesn't put bread on the table and is getting us nowhere.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 13, 2021 10:35 AM (BPuaD)

305 The scene depicted is not gluten-free. I feel triggered.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 13, 2021 10:36 AM (II3Gr)

306 I hope Brett Baier is the next to go

Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2021 10:36 AM (CYnTg)

307 Joe makes a good point... I will also need a new roof in the next few years. Shit. I'll wait and see if I get fired over the shot first, I guess.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at December 13, 2021 10:36 AM (8548M)

308 And, yes, a story can be shocking, but ultimately not at all that important. Chris Wallace's abrupt departure is both, because Wallace was one of the last redoubts of journalistic integrity at Fox, and it comes at a moment when the network's careen toward crackpottery seems utterly uncontrolled.
Posted by: Intrepid Bulwark AoS Li

The Bulwark hasn't done any careening. They've taken up full time residence in Grifterville.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, the Phillips screwdriver of the gods at December 13, 2021 10:37 AM (eGTCV)

309 Chris Wallace and Bret Baier warned Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott there would be repercussions if the extreme rhetoric of top-rated Tucker Carlson's wasn't reined in.
Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 10:35 AM (RHGPo)

Did they solemnly tell her that she would rue the day she didn't act forthwith?

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Kulak-American at December 13, 2021 10:37 AM (4I/2K)

310 Chris Wallace and Bret Baier warned Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott there would be repercussions if the extreme rhetoric of top-rated Tucker Carlson's wasn't reined in.
Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 10:35 AM (RHGPo)
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I wonder what the threatened "repercussions" were.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:38 AM (DU+/6)

311 Let me plug my dongle into you.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 13, 2021 10:38 AM (II3Gr)

312 Think of the climate!

Says the west coast guy who actually went off and read the amazing JJ's EMT *content* and ended up #320 or something here...

Posted by: JEM at December 13, 2021 10:38 AM (8erNz)

313 Alternate title of the painting: And that's when the acid kicked in.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 13, 2021 10:38 AM (SoRML)

314 I applied to the College of Cardinals but my SAT scores weren't high enough.

Posted by: AOC at December 13, 2021 10:38 AM (LQjWA)

315
I like Benton's works, so this one is a-ok
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)

The Rainmakers used his art on an album cover.

https://tinyurl.com/yckzkhd5

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 13, 2021 10:38 AM (63Dwl)

316 Except when you're in the hospital because the mRna vaccine failed miserably. That's shits on the CDC and the FDA.

Posted by: There Are No Break-Throughs, Only Failed Vaccines at December 13, 2021 10:34 AM

There are no vaccine failures.

Posted by: Obi Wan Fauci at December 13, 2021 10:38 AM (Do5/p)

317 #124 The steam tractor is powering the thrasher via a long belt (the tan stripe between the two in the painting). Both machines are stationary, but the tractor could be moved to regulate belt tension.

Posted by: Capercaillie4901 at December 13, 2021 10:38 AM (4UqUS)

318 Its not really a big thing with the millions of people pouring in from south/central America, the middle east, Africa, India and southeastern Asia.

I'm sure that's part of it.

But again, I'd be interested to know what constitutes 'popular' in the article. If it's solely based on total participation, soccer will definitely have its statistical advantages, not least among them that girls play soccer, too, unlike football and baseball.

I'm in the south, I have no idea if girls hockey is popular.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 13, 2021 10:39 AM (/FtdR)

319 I just spent 1700 bucks getting shit checked. Like less than a month ago.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Buy a $20 OBD II reader online and find out what the real problem(s) might be.
Posted by: Capital Eff at December 13, 2021

***
Yeah, the OBD-II port is under the instrument panel and often hard to locate, though once you know where it is you're set. Or you can go to Autozone or one of the other auto parts stores. They'll read the codes for free.

The first thing to do, though, is to remove your gas cap and screw it down more securely, then drive for a bit. If the cap is loose, it triggers a light. The "Service Engine Soon" light has come on for me several times over the last 25 years, and more than half the time that's the answer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 10:39 AM (txdEq)

320 The stock market is a stupid place.

Some vapid tv show has an actor die after riding a peloton bike
Peloton stock crashes.
Peloton recreates the scene in an ad with the same actor saying he is alive and well.
Peloton stock soars.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2021 10:39 AM (E8EsG)

321 Chris Wallace and Bret Baier warned Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott there would be repercussions if the extreme rhetoric of top-rated Tucker Carlson's wasn't reined in.
Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 10:35 AM (RHGPo)
++++
Allow me to translate that:
Two employees threatened their boss due to the behavior of a third employee that the two found to be disagreeable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:39 AM (DU+/6)

322 Miss Universe looks like Anne Hathaway.

Posted by: College of Cardinals at December 13, 2021 10:39 AM (Rbu5d)

323
Chris Wallace and Bret Baier warned Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott there would be repercussions if the extreme rhetoric of top-rated Tucker Carlson's wasn't reined in.
Posted by: SMOD

Ratings' pygmies are always gunning for the top dog. How many divisions have you, gentlemen?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 13, 2021 10:39 AM (3l5Yq)

324 273 2009 Outback.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 10:26 AM (KXXdn)
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You didn't happen to have the head gaskets done previously have you?

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 13, 2021 10:39 AM (53oGX)

325 310 Chris Wallace and Bret Baier warned Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott there would be repercussions if the extreme rhetoric of top-rated Tucker Carlson's wasn't reined in.
Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 10:35 AM (RHGPo)
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I wonder what the threatened "repercussions" were.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:38 AM (DU+/6)

==========

They'd take their ball and go home.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:39 AM (LvTSG)

326 You lost me at "Chris Wallace and Bret Baier warned. . . "

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 13, 2021 10:39 AM (LQjWA)

327 311 Let me plug my dongle into you.
Posted by: Insomniac

"Baby, I'm quick-charge 3.0"

Posted by: JEM at December 13, 2021 10:39 AM (8erNz)

328 Ah, looks just like Bill Gates latest investments.

What? You didn't know that Bill Gates, technotyrant retired, is buying YUGE amounts of farmland?

No idea why.

Apropos of nothing, you will be eating soy and bugs instead of meat, you willful, disorient bastards.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2021 10:39 AM (5NkmN)

329 The gravy boat thingy light is on. Car making funny noises. What does it mean? Is it serious?

Posted by: Your Betters at December 13, 2021 10:40 AM (ubFZv)

330 I see Anne Rice has assumed room temp. Considering the topics in her work, I don't suppose that would bother her any.

------

Friend of mine sent a link to a Vox Day piece claiming she died after getting the jab. [Don't personally know if that's true.]

https://tinyurl.com/yckcz7fu

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at December 13, 2021 10:40 AM (pkAQ5)

331 Kyle Rittenhouse, and the username, has been permanently banned from Instagram and all EA services and games without violating any of their rules

EA is following in the footsteps of Instagram and have permanently banned Kyle Rittenhouse username and will ban all other people with similar names because it references "violence and terror."

Despite being found not guilty on all counts, Kyle Rittenhouse and anyone who supports him are being punished by big tech and the game industry. Players who have the username Rittenhouse have been permanently banned from all EA services and games, and the ban is not reversible.

Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 10:40 AM (RHGPo)

332 rando Brutha shows the world how to defeat a subway car full of Karens:

https://tinyurl.com/yz9833kf

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 10:40 AM (DJFLF)

333 Buy a $20 OBD II reader online and find out what the real problem(s) might be.

Most shops and some parts stores will do that for you at no charge. Of course, they're hoping you'll pay them $$($$) to fix whatever they find.

Posted by: Oddbob at December 13, 2021 10:40 AM (nfrXX)

334 321...
Brett Baier is afraid he's gonna end up on MSNBC.

Posted by: College of Cardinals at December 13, 2021 10:40 AM (Rbu5d)

335 1 877 KARS FOR KIIIIIIIIDS... K A R S KARS FOR KIIIIIIIIIIIDDDSS
DONATE YOUR KAR TODAYYYYYY
Posted by: 1 877 KARS FOR KIDS at December 13, 2021 10:07 AM

Zod, was that you?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 13, 2021 10:41 AM (m+jkK)

336 Polesmoker said he won't mandate masks, but he's also too gutless to ban the mandates.

My CO county still has the mandate.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 13, 2021 10:41 AM (Bmy3R)

337 Ah. "Extreme Rhetoric" = pointing out the obvious, what everybody already knows.

"Don't Talk About The War" codified

Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2021 10:41 AM (ubFZv)

338 The scene depicted is not gluten-free. I feel triggered.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist.

Roy Rogers' horse had his way with you ?

Posted by: JT at December 13, 2021 10:41 AM (arJlL)

339 311 Let me plug my dongle into you.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 13, 2021 10:38 AM (II3Gr)
----------------

Wasn't that on the "For Those About to Rock" album?

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 13, 2021 10:41 AM (lNHqD)

340 Brett Baier is afraid he's gonna end up on MSNBC.

You misspelled Univision.

Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at December 13, 2021 10:41 AM (LQjWA)

341 Chris Wallace bails on Fox News.

And hired by CNN's 'streaming service'. He won't even get to appear on airport monitors!

Posted by: t-bird at December 13, 2021 10:42 AM (oBAbT)

342 Chris Wallace and Bret Baier warned Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott there would be repercussions if the extreme rhetoric of top-rated Tucker Carlson's wasn't reined in.
Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 10:35 AM (RHGPo)

Wow, FOX is in trouble now. It's not like these guys could be easily replaced.

...

Oh, wait. They absolutely can.

Learn to code, fellas.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2021 10:42 AM (5NkmN)

343
I applied to the College of Cardinals but my SAT scores weren't high enough.
Posted by: AOC

You ought to have appealed for admission as a legacy candidate based on your having a bird brain. But you didn't because ... bird brain, of course.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 13, 2021 10:42 AM (3l5Yq)

344 342 Oh, wait. They absolutely can.

Learn to code, fellas.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2021 10:42 AM (5NkmN)

===========

Theory: Wallace has been learning to code and his new job at CNN+ is to design web pages.

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:42 AM (LvTSG)

345 In Germany - the Unclean are lined up against a wall:

https://tinyurl.com/38k7u2vr

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 10:43 AM (DJFLF)

346 I see Anne Rice has assumed room temp. Considering the topics in her work, I don't suppose that would bother her any.
------
Friend of mine sent a link to a Vox Day piece claiming she died after getting the jab. [Don't personally know if that's true.]

https://tinyurl.com/yckcz7fu
Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at December 13, 2021

***
I wouldn't be at all surprised if she rushed to get the shot(s). Virtue signaling writ large.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 10:43 AM (txdEq)

347 The gravy boat thingy light is on. Car making funny noises. What does it mean? Is it serious?
Posted by: Your Betters

Just drive a little longer. If it is bad, the car, or passers by will let you know.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2021 10:43 AM (E8EsG)

348 *sigh*

disorient = disobedient

Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2021 10:43 AM (5NkmN)

349
Chris Wallace and Bret Baier warned Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott there would be repercussions if the extreme rhetoric of top-rated Tucker Carlson's wasn't reined in.
Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 10:35 AM (RHGPo)

Repercussions, as in high ratings, large amounts of sponsorship dollars and domination in the timeslot?

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:44 AM (Zz0t1)

350 320...The stock market is a stupid place. ...

It's the people.

Posted by: College of Cardinals at December 13, 2021 10:44 AM (Rbu5d)

351 I just find out that only male Catholics are admitted to the College of Cardinals.

I am going to sue them for Equal Rights violations!

Posted by: AOC at December 13, 2021 10:44 AM (LQjWA)

352 They will never report anyone died from " vaccine" side effects

Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2021 10:44 AM (CYnTg)

353 EA is following in the footsteps of Instagram and have permanently banned Kyle Rittenhouse username and will ban all other people with similar names because it references "violence and terror."

Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 10:40 A

And yet, these same organizations and companies all promote Black-Lives-Matter, an organization which was conducting a campaign of violence and terror in cities all across the country all last summer... which was why Kyle Rittenhouse went to defend his neighborhood in the first place.

We live in stupid and evil times.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 13, 2021 10:44 AM (Do5/p)

354 Irony or inevitability? George Orwell's classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four will be retold to comply with a feminist social justice narrative. Publisher Granta is all on board with the new re-telling, saying that the Julia character, in Newman's imagination, has a "far better" understanding than Winston does of life in Oceania, and "is essentially happy with her life." [Buck]

==========

So, that quote essentially makes it sound like Winston Smith is the bad guy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:44 AM (LvTSG)

355 Some vapid tv show has an actor die after riding a peloton bike
Peloton stock crashes.
Peloton recreates the scene in an ad with the same actor saying he is alive and well.
Peloton stock soars.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2021 10:39 AM (E8EsG)

Affirming yet again the basic truth that people are stupid and should be beaten with a tire iron.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 13, 2021 10:44 AM (II3Gr)

356 331 Kyle Rittenhouse, and the username, has been permanently banned from Instagram and all EA services and games without violating any of their rules

he should sue the SHIT out of them

that's absolutely wrong

Posted by: Black Orchid the Unboosted at December 13, 2021 10:44 AM (j9HX3)

357 I have my own reader.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:31 AM (Zz0t1)

Lucky
Posted by: Stevie Wonder at December 13, 2021 10:32 AM (mZUr4)

***

ghjaer rejo e oeri n/';oqergnqergn qerouiqre
Posted by: Ronnie Milsap at December 13, 2021 10:35 AM (flINI)

LOL!!!!!!

Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2021 10:45 AM (mZUr4)

358 Nurse, if you missed it, see my suggestion at No. 319.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 10:45 AM (txdEq)

359
Kyle Rittenhouse

"Lyle Kittenhouse", animal lover, is still good?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 13, 2021 10:45 AM (3l5Yq)

360 >>>Brett Baier is afraid he's gonna end up on MSNBC.

I'd be surprised if Brett Baier can extricate himself from the buffet.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 13, 2021 10:45 AM (BPuaD)

361 Make-A-Wish Foundation denies 4 YEAR OLD their wish due to Unclean status:

https://tinyurl.com/5kkwyryd

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 10:45 AM (DJFLF)

362 I applied to the College of Cardinals but my SAT scores weren't high enough.
Posted by: AOC at December 13, 2021 10:38 AM

Don't take this lying down! File a writ of habeus popeus with the ICC!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 13, 2021 10:45 AM (m+jkK)

363
I saw Extreme Rhetoric open for Talk Talk at the Cow Palace in 81.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2021 10:45 AM (5NkmN)

364 I just spent 1700 bucks getting shit checked. Like less than a month ago.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 10:24 AM (M0GxS)

-----
I had a 2010 Outback that was a complete lemon. I had the maintenance performed by subaru and always on time.
Still, it was always in the shop for expensive stuff. I was so happy when I sold it. Of course, when the lady who ended up buying it was test driving it another light came up on the dash. I had to blow another $350 just to unload the fucker. Subaru quality blows.

Posted by: 496 at December 13, 2021 10:45 AM (VJsqe)

365 311 Let me plug my dongle into you.

What size batteries do they use?

Posted by: Megan Rapinoe at December 13, 2021 10:46 AM (GYllL)

366 333 Buy a $20 OBD II reader online and find out what the real problem(s) might be.

Most shops and some parts stores will do that for you at no charge. Of course, they're hoping you'll pay them $$($$) to fix whatever they find.
Posted by: Oddbob

There's basic OBD, then there's something like the $70 autel AP200 dongle that supports manufacturer-specific codes, you get one with the purchase and then $25 or so a year for more. Phone/tablet software. Huge bargain if you are, for instance, doing Mercedes air suspension...

Posted by: JEM at December 13, 2021 10:46 AM (8erNz)

367 So, that quote essentially makes it sound like Winston Smith is the bad guy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:44 AM (LvTSG)

TJM gets it?!?!?!?!?!

Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2021 10:46 AM (mZUr4)

368 So, that quote essentially makes it sound like Winston Smith is the bad guy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:44 AM

To the left, he is.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 13, 2021 10:46 AM (m+jkK)

369 367 So, that quote essentially makes it sound like Winston Smith is the bad guy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:44 AM (LvTSG)

TJM gets it?!?!?!?!?!
Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2021 10:46 AM (mZUr4)

=========

It was a mistake. Don't worry.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:46 AM (LvTSG)

370 The gravy boat thingy light is on. Car making funny noises. What does it mean? Is it serious?
Posted by: Your Betters

You're not driving hard enough to get the car broken in. Higher revs and more power until the light goes out.

Posted by: t-bird at December 13, 2021 10:46 AM (l0OK9)

371 Rittenhouse should go on Rogan's podcast and 'reveal' that he learned and honed the skills used to kill those thugs by playing EA first person shooter games.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 13, 2021 10:46 AM (/FtdR)

372 Nice colors. Nice subject. Skillful? I guess. Would not hang. Reminds me of dirty commie propaganda.

Posted by: G. Gnome will not comply at December 13, 2021 10:47 AM (OQcPl)

373
The gravy boat thingy light is on.

Yeah, "gravy boat" ... go with that.

LOL

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 13, 2021 10:47 AM (3l5Yq)

374 Affirming yet again the basic truth that people are stupid and should be beaten with a tire iron.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Sexual Racist. at December 13, 2021 10:44 AM (II3Gr)

Genuine Insomniac Tire Irons Only! There is no substitute.

Posted by: Count de Monet, Unvaccinated Kulak-American at December 13, 2021 10:47 AM (4I/2K)

375 Chris Wallace bails on Fox News.

And hired by CNN's 'streaming service'. He won't even get to appear on airport monitors!

Posted by: t-bird at December 13, 2021 10:42 AM

He didn't bail, fox chose to not renew his contract. His Sunday morning show was a ratings disaster for fox.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 13, 2021 10:48 AM (bVYXr)

376 Make-A-Wish Foundation denies 4 YEAR OLD their wish due to Unclean status:

https://tinyurl.com/5kkwyryd
Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 10:45 AM (DJFLF)

Are 4-year-olds even eligible?

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 13, 2021 10:48 AM (Ez6QX)

377 I put a piece of tape over the dashboard light.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2021 10:48 AM (E8EsG)

378 Rittenhouse should go on Rogan's podcast and 'reveal' that he learned and honed the skills used to kill those thugs by playing EA first person shooter games.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 13, 2021 10:46 AM (/FtdR)

Crowder had him on last week and asked him about how much time he spent on CoD. Kyle said he'd prestige'd a couple of times.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:48 AM (Zz0t1)

379 Heh. Watching USPS's delivery window change with reduced standards in real time.
At 06:00 this morning, the delivery window was "7:30 AM to 8:30 AM"
At 08:00 this morning, the delivery window was "8:30 AM to 10:30 AM"
Just now, the delivery window was "by 7:00 PM"

Why do they even bother with delivery window? If it's on the truck, it's on the truck. This false precision (and UPS does this to, and it also never works) is just confounding noise.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:48 AM (DU+/6)

380 Kyle Rittenhouse, and the username, has been permanently banned from Instagram and all EA services and games without violating any of their rules

he should sue the SHIT out of them

that's absolutely wrong
Posted by: Black Orchid the Unboosted at December 13, 2021 10:44 AM (j9HX3)

Well, this needs the cherry on top to make it work legally, I believe.

Someone representing Kyle should complain, and you just know some progtard working for the company won't be able to stop saying something defamatory and libelous, and then -

Bingo bango! Another mil or two.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2021 10:48 AM (5NkmN)

381 I put a piece of tape over the dashboard light.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2021 10:48 AM (E8EsG)

I took a car to the dealership to determine an issue. They couldn't figure it out, so they removed the bulb from the check engine light behind the dash.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)

382 I put a piece of tape over the dashboard light.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2021 10:48 AM (E8EsG)

Not interested in seeing paradise?

Posted by: Meatloaf at December 13, 2021 10:49 AM (mZUr4)

383 381 I took a car to the dealership to determine an issue. They couldn't figure it out, so they removed the bulb from the check engine light behind the dash.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)

=========

Should be fine. They're experts.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:49 AM (LvTSG)

384 Speaking of Joe Rogan, did you guys know Amanda Knox was a guest on his podcast?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5N3DTJENpGqbRDFYalntkT

She is a pretty surprising lady actually. Has her own podcast that is interesting.

Posted by: Black Orchid the Unboosted at December 13, 2021 10:49 AM (j9HX3)

385 Peaceful protesters in Germany get the old Stormtrooper treatment. (I guess the DNA in the great grandchildren of the Reichsters was just waiting for an excuse to activate

https://tinyurl.com/47wxsa9h

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 10:49 AM (DJFLF)

386 272 "If you haven't been vaccinated, that's your choice. I respect that. But it's your fault when you're in the hospital with COVID," [Colorado's Democrat Governor Jared Polis] continued.

https://bit.ly/3dP46Y2

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 13, 2021 10:30 AM (Do5/p)

Now, do AIDS.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 13, 2021 10:49 AM (DTX3h)

387 >>>The gravy boat thingy light is on.

>Fill with more gravy. duh.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 13, 2021 10:49 AM (BPuaD)

388
TJM gets it?!?!?!?!?!
Posted by: Doof

Umm, no. How can you ignore the giant thumb on the scale that is his love for "Prometheus"?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 13, 2021 10:49 AM (3l5Yq)

389 Nurse, when you went for the $1700 service, what was done?

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 13, 2021 10:50 AM (53oGX)

390 I told this Anne Rice story last week. In the late '90s, she apparently became enamored with the cat breed called Siberian and adopted several, only to lose interest in them and give them away a few years later -- around '03. That was the year I found Siberian cat Angelique in an empty parking lot. Miss Linda adopted her, since no one claimed her. Now that was not then, and is not now, an upscale area. Speculation: Did AR give one of her Siberians to someone who worked for her, a housekeeper or the like, who lived on the West Bank of the river? And did that person "lose" the cat, or accidentally on purpose let her run free . . .? We'll never know.

Given Angelique's contrary personality, I wouldn't be surprised to learn she spent her kittenhood with AR.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 10:50 AM (txdEq)

391 Should be fine. They're experts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:49 AM (LvTSG)
++++
The Expert: https://youtu.be/BKorP55Aqvg

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:50 AM (DU+/6)

392 American soccer, I agree. Premiere League is good stuff.
Posted by: red speck at December 13, 2021 10:19 AM (gS3OW)

My good man, come sit by me and we can watch all the matches this festive period...40 matches in 14 days.

***rearranges study to accommodate another body***

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at December 13, 2021 10:50 AM (BgMrQ)

393 They will never report anyone died from " vaccine" side effects

Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2021 10:44 AM

If you die within 2 weeks of getting the clot shot, they consider that an "unvaccinated" death.

If you die within 30 days of a COVID+ test result, you are considered a "COVID death".

Yet, I bet they say that if you die between 15 and 30 days after a clot shot, that it's not related to the "vaccine", because it was so long afterward. Completely opposite of how they define a "COVID death".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 13, 2021 10:50 AM (Do5/p)

394 Are 4-year-olds even eligible?

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 13, 2021 10:48 AM (Ez6QX)

...spoken like a True Superspreader

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 10:50 AM (DJFLF)

395 328 Ah, looks just like Bill Gates latest investments.

What? You didn't know that Bill Gates, technotyrant retired, is buying YUGE amounts of farmland?

No idea why.

Apropos of nothing, you will be eating soy and bugs instead of meat, you willful, disorient bastards.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2021 10:39 AM (5NkmN)
------
Headline at ZeroGedge yesterday:

Rupert Murdoch Buys Sprawling 340,000 Acre Montana Property, Mansion, For Reported $200 Million

Posted by: ShainS -- Let's Poop Brandon! at December 13, 2021 10:50 AM (pkAQ5)

396
Now, do AIDS.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at December 13, 2021 10:49 AM (DTX3h)

They're going to need to. I read over the weekend they've discovered that the vaxx causes something very very similar to AIDS.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:50 AM (Zz0t1)

397
Are 4-year-olds even eligible?
Posted by: Jordan61

At this moment they are not.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 13, 2021 10:51 AM (3l5Yq)

398 She is a pretty surprising lady actually. Has her own podcast that is interesting.
Posted by: Black Orchid the Unboosted at December 13, 2021 10:49 AM (j9HX3)

She surprised that one guy. Big time.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 13, 2021 10:52 AM (Y5qcH)

399 Fill with more gravy. duh.
Posted by: Dr. Bone

This is perfect. There's even a gravy boat on my, umm, 'gravy cap' where you fill it up.

Posted by: t-bird at December 13, 2021 10:52 AM (1fg6a)

400 I did not intend to end my post @385 with a smiley.

I'm a victim of Pixy circumstance

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 10:52 AM (DJFLF)

401 If it's a video podcast, I'd consider tuning to watch "Foxy Knoxy."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:52 AM (DU+/6)

402 aw Wolfus that's a terrible story! Siberian cats are so cool and sweet.

not crazy like Bengals lol

speaking of which still loving our crazy pants dog-cat over here! so far tree still standing!

Posted by: Black Orchid the Unboosted at December 13, 2021 10:52 AM (j9HX3)

403 I'm sure we'd all be shocked, if not surprised, how many of the media are on the alphabet agency payroll.

We like to call them stupid, and at one level they are, though not the way it's commonly supposed. They aren't stupid as such, they are paid to push a narrative, to disseminate propaganda. To coordinate talking points, to confuse people, and gaslight the easily led.

Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2021 10:52 AM (ubFZv)

404
Gotta go.

Time for my Zoom class on "Introduction to Forelock Tugging".

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 13, 2021 10:53 AM (3l5Yq)

405 TJM gets it?!?!?!?!?!
Posted by: Doof

Umm, no. How can you ignore the giant thumb on the scale that is his love for "Prometheus"?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 13, 2021 10:49 AM (3l5Yq)

No basis to judge. Haven't seen it. I'm blissfully unaware of its level of greatness / suckage.

Posted by: Meatloaf at December 13, 2021 10:53 AM (mZUr4)

406 401 If it's a video podcast, I'd consider tuning to watch "Foxy Knoxy."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 10:52 AM (DU+/6)

=======

She on Twitch?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:53 AM (LvTSG)

407 361 Make-A-Wish Foundation denies 4 YEAR OLD their wish due to Unclean status:

The death of compassion has been one of the saddest casualties of covidiocy.

Posted by: Guy Smiley at December 13, 2021 10:53 AM (Bmy3R)

408 off Meatloaf sock

Posted by: Doof at December 13, 2021 10:53 AM (mZUr4)

409
She surprised that one guy. Big time.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 13, 2021 10:52 AM (Y5qcH)

Murder is usually a surprise.

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:53 AM (Zz0t1)

410 Biden explains his poll numbers thusly. Thanks to Post Millenial:

"We used to have an awful lot of that [bipartisan] relationship... and it still exists except that the QAnon and the extreme elements of the Republican Party and what Donald Trump keeps sort of--seems to me--feeding, you know, with the Big Lie. It makes it awful hard."

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2021 10:53 AM (raQcc)

411 I had a 2010 Outback that was a complete lemon. I had the maintenance performed by subaru and always on time.
Still, it was always in the shop for expensive stuff.

Dude, they're all about keeping you in the shop for expensive stuff.

Just changed a $70 HID headlight module for a friend when Tesla quoted him over $1000. Jack up front corner, pull 15 push-stud fasteners, remove inner fender liner, change bulb, put everything back. An hour.

Got a Merc GL550, driver's door window switch 'broke', Merc part $400 (don't bitch about Merc parts prices, I paid that for a Toyota window switch long before I didn't know better). A little DDGing (Duck, not Burke) and...$13 on eBay and I had new switch caps, three minutes with a small screwdriver and voila.

There are expensive repairs - Scoobies have a reputation for head gasket problems, maybe not so much lately - but don't take anyone's word for it.

Posted by: JEM at December 13, 2021 10:53 AM (8erNz)

412 This is perfect. There's even a gravy boat on my, umm, 'gravy cap' where you fill it up.
Posted by: t-bird

Make sure you fill it to the top

Posted by: Bruce at December 13, 2021 10:54 AM (vd8XM)

413 403 I'm sure we'd all be shocked, if not surprised, how many of the media are on the alphabet agency payroll.

We like to call them stupid, and at one level they are, though not the way it's commonly supposed. They aren't stupid as such, they are paid to push a narrative, to disseminate propaganda. To coordinate talking points, to confuse people, and gaslight the easily led.
Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2021 10:52 AM (ubFZv)

For a long time I've thought that CNN was just a CIA front. What with their international desks and such... I kept quiet as 15 years ago it was tinfoil stuff... now it's just obvious.

Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 13, 2021 10:54 AM (53oGX)

414 410 Biden explains his poll numbers thusly. Thanks to Post Millenial:

"We used to have an awful lot of that [bipartisan] relationship... and it still exists except that the QAnon and the extreme elements of the Republican Party and what Donald Trump keeps sort of--seems to me--feeding, you know, with the Big Lie. It makes it awful hard."
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 13, 2021 10:53 AM (raQcc)

==========

"But you are an insurrectionist that I will sick the entirety of the federal government on if you even want Philadelphia's voting records looked into."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:54 AM (LvTSG)

415 "Gothic novelist Anne Rice dead at 80 due to complications from a stroke" the family said. So maybe it was the clot-shot??

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 13, 2021 10:55 AM (UHVv4)

416 Murder is usually a surprise.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:53 AM

Not just murder!!!

Posted by: The Otters at December 13, 2021 10:55 AM (fPWQm)

417 For a long time I've thought that CNN was just a CIA front. What with their international desks and such... I kept quiet as 15 years ago it was tinfoil stuff... now it's just obvious.
Posted by: Inogame X-State Lines at December 13, 2021 10:54 AM (53oGX)

Operation Mockingbird

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at December 13, 2021 10:55 AM (Y5qcH)

418 Chris Wallace and Bret Baier warned Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott there would be repercussions if the extreme rhetoric of top-rated Tucker Carlson's wasn't reined in.
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No one raises the moral flag and then goes to cnn.

This story is all bullshit. I'd wager anything Wallace didn't get his contract renewed. And just like the bulwark people he decided to get in front of the story by placing himself conveniently on the moral high ground.

Posted by: NYT at December 13, 2021 10:56 AM (zwDuR)

419 "Gothic novelist Anne Rice dead at 80 due to complications from a stroke" the family said. So maybe it was the clot-shot??
Posted by: andycanuck

Or a vampire.

Posted by: JT at December 13, 2021 10:56 AM (arJlL)

420 I wonder how long Paul Ryan and the Murdoch's will permit Tucker Carlson to voice his opinions? Chris Wallace leaving is probably a relief to the staff there, but if more of the so-called "stars" bail when do they send TuCa packing?

Or do they even care? Maybe this is just a cable news talking head migration where FOX and CNN just swap losers.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 13, 2021 10:56 AM (BFigT)

421 But it's your fault when you're in the hospital with COVID," [Colorado's Democrat Governor Jared Polis] continued.

Oh. Whose fault is it if I am fully vaxxed and end up in the hospital with covid?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2021 10:56 AM (E8EsG)

422 There are expensive repairs - Scoobies have a reputation for head gasket problems, maybe not so much lately - but don't take anyone's word for it.
Posted by: JEM at December 13, 2021 10:53 AM (8erNz)
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The cost for Subaru repairs is the cost of parts. I didn't find working on Subarus to be any more difficult than any other vehicle. The sticker shock was parts.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 13, 2021 10:56 AM (RrjYy)

423 Chris Wallace and Bret Baier warned Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott there would be repercussions if the extreme rhetoric of top-rated Tucker Carlson's wasn't reined in.
Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 10:35 AM (RHGPo)

Chris Wallace is 74 years old and his Fox contract expires at the end of this year. He should retire, but won't for the same reason as Pelosi, Feinstein, Steny Hoyer, and many other Wasington DC Creatures do not: They love to tell the plebs between the Hudson River and the Sierra Nevadas how stupid and useless they are, and work tirelessly to try to force them to get their minds right. Also, hob-nobbing with the Right Sort of People at DC events and parties, mostly for free, is too good a perk to give up for many of them.

Posted by: Gref at December 13, 2021 10:56 AM (AMIL/)

424 421
Oh. Whose fault is it if I am fully vaxxed and end up in the hospital with covid?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2021 10:56 AM (E8EsG)

==========

Wreckers and hoarders.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:56 AM (LvTSG)

425
This is perfect. There's even a gravy boat on my, umm, 'gravy cap' where you fill it up.
Posted by: t-bird

You just know there is a contingent of folks out there who would do that.

Remember when iPhone users were told they could drill a hole in the base of their device to restore its ability to use headphone jacked ear buds when Apple eliminated that port?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 13, 2021 10:57 AM (3l5Yq)

426 Another footballer with chest pain had to leave the field:

https://tinyurl.com/3eekkyf5

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 10:57 AM (DJFLF)

427 There are expensive repairs - Scoobies have a reputation for head gasket problems, maybe not so much lately - but don't take anyone's word for it.
Posted by: JEM at December 13, 2021 10:53 AM (8erNz)

Only new car I've ever bought was a Nissan Maxima. It was a lemon. One day, the dash lights went full bright. I didn't know the rear taillights failed as well. After searching about it online, I discovered that they have a fuse block hidden in the engine compartment that has a fuse running those circuits. Nissan was charging $150+ in labor charges to change a $2.00 fuse.

The owner's manual made no mention of the fuse block and the fuse was too small for the load and would blow over time 'automagically.'

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:57 AM (Zz0t1)

428 Oh. Whose fault is it if I am fully vaxxed and end up in the hospital with covid?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Duh...The UnVaxxed

Posted by: Bruce at December 13, 2021 10:57 AM (vd8XM)

429 nurse, the Challenger did something very similar this summer. It turned out to be a faulty rear wheel sensor. Cost less than a hundred dollars to fix at my local shade-tree mechanic's shop.

Posted by: creeper at December 13, 2021 10:57 AM (cTCuP)

430 Wolfus that's a terrible story! Siberian cats are so cool and sweet.

not crazy like Bengals lol. . . .

Posted by: Black Orchid the Unboosted at December 13, 2021

***
I've known 3 well. They tend to be either prickly (Angelique would growl at you if you tried to move while she was on your lap) or sickly (Tatiana the Wonder Siberian died at age 4 of heart trouble, and Chekov has had digestive allergies long before his arthritis came along). I love the way they look, and even the prickly ones like human company; but I don't know if I'd adopt another.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 10:57 AM (txdEq)

431 CNN:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi will stay until at least after the midterm elections, extending her nearly 20-year run as the House's top Democrat after she turns 82 and, perhaps, beyond.

She is planning to file and run for reelection in her San Francisco district next year - at least for now - in keeping with her pattern of deciding about staying in Congress after the elections, when she likely will have won an 18th full term.

And sources familiar with Pelosi's thinking say she isn't ruling out the possibility of trying to stay in leadership after 2022, despite her original vow to leave as the top House Democrat. She'll devote much of next year to raising money for Democrats as they try to hold their narrow majority, those sources tell CNN, adding to the nearly $1 billion her office calculates she has already raised for Democrats in her time as leader.

Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 10:57 AM (RHGPo)

432 I must have paid off two Mercedes' with what I spent on those horses

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2021 10:32 AM (flINI)

Hopefully you got a freezer full of meat afterwards.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2021 10:57 AM (Q9lwr)

433 Wreckers and hoarders.

Alive, alive o !

Posted by: JT at December 13, 2021 10:58 AM (arJlL)

434
I put a piece of tape over the dashboard light.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Was that a Meat Loaf song?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 13, 2021 10:58 AM (63Dwl)

435 Irony or inevitability? George Orwell's classic novel Nineteen Eighty-Four will be retold to comply with a feminist social justice narrative. Publisher Granta is all on board with the new re-telling, saying that the Julia character, in Newman's imagination, has a "far better" understanding than Winston does of life in Oceania, and "is essentially happy with her life." [Buck]
So, that quote essentially makes it sound like Winston Smith is the bad guy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:44 AM (LvTSG)

Yeah, it does.
So, in the end Karen, that's her name right, turns in the horrid pasty, white guy, Winston Smith to the gov't.

Winston learns to love Big Brother or have his face eaten off by rats. Karen was right alll along!
But she's moved on to her new job in the ministry. And is now banging an Eskimo, midget lesbian.

And Winston Smith is shot dead a month later trying to stop a white supremist from drawing a funny beard on a poster of Big Brother.
FIN

Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2021 10:58 AM (5NkmN)

436 In Germany, students have to tell their whole class their jab status. The jabbees get applause, the unjabbed must explain themselves

ANd the footballers get to leave the field with chest pains and shortness of breath

https://tinyurl.com/2p8m9yyc

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 10:59 AM (DJFLF)

437 Whose fault was it I contracted Covid before "vaccine" was available, with a 104.5 F fever, could hardly move, and had heart palpitations?

They Don't Talk About It. This was an escaped engineered virus.

Do life insurance policies pay off for this? How about if the vaccine kills you? Don't insurance policies have exclusions for death by experimental medical trials and biowarfare, generally speaking?

Posted by: Common Tater at December 13, 2021 10:59 AM (ubFZv)

438 Hopefully you got a freezer full of meat afterwards.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2021 10:57 AM (Q9lwr)

Have you eaten horse? What's it like?

Posted by: BignJames at December 13, 2021 11:00 AM (AwYPR)

439 Is the Pope Catholic ?
Posted by: JT at December 13, 2021 10:06 AM (arJlL)

TBD.

Posted by: Fox2! at December 13, 2021 11:00 AM (qyH+l)

440 How to paint through a fish-eyed lens

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2021 11:00 AM (KZzsI)

441 I took a car to the dealership to determine an issue. They couldn't figure it out, so they removed the bulb from the check engine light behind the dash.
Posted by: Sponge - Saying Jackson Sparks at December 13, 2021 10:49 AM (Zz0t1)

=========

Should be fine. They're experts.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 10:49 AM (LvTSG)

I had an engine misfire multiple times and took it to a dealership. the dealer said, and i quote "the tech couldn't get it to misfire so he reset the light".

top people there...

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 13, 2021 11:00 AM (8D42x)

442 439 Is the Pope Catholic ?
Posted by: JT at December 13, 2021 10:06 AM (arJlL)

TBD.
Posted by: Fox2! at December 13, 2021 11:00 AM (qyH+l)

B XVI? Most assuredly.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2021 11:00 AM (/EuRN)

443 more often than not, these days, the phrase "moral high ground. " needs to be enclosed in The Quote Marks of Mockery, don'ch'a think ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (03BbD) at December 13, 2021 11:01 AM (03BbD)

444 In Germany, students have to tell their whole class their jab status. The jabbees get applause,

the unjabbed must explain themselves

Fuck. You.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 13, 2021 11:01 AM (uXonU)

445 By the way, I've received the title for my Buick. Scanned it in, and I want to wave it and say, "There's one more thing: I got the pink slip, Daddy!"

Unfortunately it's not pink in color. And the expression "getting the pink slip" has changed since the Beach Boys sang that song.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 11:01 AM (txdEq)

446 Oh. Whose fault is it if I am fully vaxxed and end up in the hospital with covid?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2021 10:56 AM

Duh, the unvaccinated of course.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at December 13, 2021 11:02 AM (bVYXr)

447 "Fuck. You."
Posted by: rickb223 at December 13, 2021 11:01 AM (uXonU)

"... he explained."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2021 11:02 AM (/EuRN)

448 Biden blames Pandemic Porn For his Bad Polls

"Look people are afraid. People are worried. And people are getting so much inaccurate information[from this administration]," Biden said, talking about the economy. 'They're being told that Armageddon is on the way."

Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 11:02 AM (RHGPo)

449 Are 4-year-olds even eligible?
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No. However, I just learned that infants are recommended to get the regular flu shot annually.

Heaven save us.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 13, 2021 11:02 AM (MIKMs)

450 farmer needs to let more air into his firebox; black smoke = unburnt coal

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at December 13, 2021 11:02 AM (XHZzR)

451 the unjabbed must explain themselves

And it is illegal, a jailable offense, to home school.

Hitler started that policy. I am not joking.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2021 11:02 AM (KZzsI)

452 448 Biden blames Pandemic Porn For his Bad Polls

"Look people are afraid. People are worried. And people are getting so much inaccurate information[from this administration]," Biden said, talking about the economy. 'They're being told that Armageddon is on the way."
Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 11:02 AM (RHGPo)

===========

"I will fix this thing that we've been telling you is completely unfixable."
-Campaign promise that won an election, apparently

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 11:02 AM (LvTSG)

453

First Omicron death confirmed in U.K. as PM warns of "tidal wave" of infections

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 13, 2021 11:03 AM (63Dwl)

454 Fuck. You.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 13, 2021 11:01 AM (uXonU)

what they're doing over there, obviously...is using a psy-op to so shame and unperson the unjabbed that they will cave to the pressure to comply.

And it also extends to the unmasked. Austrian man arrested for trying to enter church without mask.

https://tinyurl.com/ms2kbbns

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 11:03 AM (DJFLF)

455 They're being told that Armageddon is on the way."
Posted by: SMOD

I already saw that movie. I ain't paying to see it again

Posted by: Bruce at December 13, 2021 11:03 AM (vd8XM)

456 Wonder - God's Literal Gift To Man (Luke 2:6-14)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwRWM2-cDnw

Posted by: SMH while awaiting His return at December 13, 2021 11:04 AM (kwfA1)

457 the unjabbed must explain themselves

I got your status right here.

Posted by: Little Klaus at December 13, 2021 11:04 AM (GYllL)

458 First Omicron death confirmed in U.K. as PM warns of "tidal wave" of infections

Because one person died out of 7 billion?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2021 11:04 AM (KZzsI)

459 'They're being told that Armageddon is on the way."

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Source: The Bible

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at December 13, 2021 11:04 AM (sX1BW)

460 Have you eaten horse? What's it like?
Posted by: BignJames at December 13, 2021 11:00 AM (AwYP

Not neighly as good as you think.....

Posted by: Jak Sucio at December 13, 2021 11:04 AM (fPWQm)

461 >>>Have you eaten horse? What's it like?

>If you pump them full of ivermectin and all of that other shit, you won't like it. Unless you're French. Tainted meat.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 13, 2021 11:04 AM (BPuaD)

462 Have you eaten horse? What's it like?

Posted by: BignJames at December 13, 2021 11:00 AM (AwYPR)

I have, and I wasn't impressed. Just imagine substandard beef, and you will get the idea.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2021 11:05 AM (Q9lwr)

463 If you pump them full of ivermectin and all of that other shit, you won't like it. Unless you're French. Tainted meat.
Posted by: Dr. Bone

Why would you want to eat the taint?

Posted by: Bruce at December 13, 2021 11:05 AM (vd8XM)

464 Have you eaten horse? What's it like?
Posted by: BignJames at December 13, 2021 11:00 AM (AwYPR)

I've eaten it in Japan as a sort of horse sashimi.

It was good. I'd definitely eat it again.

Apropos of nothing, whale was also delish.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2021 11:06 AM (5NkmN)

465 Have you eaten horse? What's it like?

Posted by: BignJames at December 13, 2021 11:00 AM (AwYPR)

I have, and I wasn't impressed. Just imagine substandard beef, and you will get the idea.

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Well, all I can afford in Joe Biden's America is substandard beef.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at December 13, 2021 11:06 AM (sX1BW)

466 Sadly, I am ready for the biblical threshing to start. I am sick and tired of this crew of global evildoers that occupy the news. The Lord is patient indeed.

Posted by: Miss Issippi at December 13, 2021 11:06 AM (sI15f)

467 The Greatest Generation ate a lot of horse, beef was being shipped to the military, mostly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2021 11:06 AM (KZzsI)

468 Well, all I can afford in Joe Biden's America is substandard beef.
Posted by: SH

Coming soon, to your area, Gubbmint Cheese

Posted by: Bruce at December 13, 2021 11:06 AM (vd8XM)

469 I have, and I wasn't impressed. Just imagine substandard beef, and you will get the idea.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2021 11:05 AM (Q9lwr)

I always imagine eye of round...and I don't like eye of round.

Posted by: BignJames at December 13, 2021 11:07 AM (AwYPR)

470 I have, and I wasn't impressed. Just imagine substandard beef, and you will get the idea.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2021 11:05 AM (Q9lwr)

I think the horse I had was raised to be eaten, the meat was nicely marbled and such. Very tender.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2021 11:07 AM (5NkmN)

471 On the bright side, have you ever seen a horse with COVID?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 13, 2021 11:07 AM (BPuaD)

472 First Omicron death confirmed in U.K. as PM warns of "tidal wave" of infections
------------------------
So Baldwin and the Moronic are now tied, worldwide. [Assuming the report isn't faked like a cancer death being labelled the Moronic etc.]

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at December 13, 2021 11:07 AM (UHVv4)

473 434
I put a piece of tape over the dashboard light.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Was that a Meat Loaf song?

Pair of lice by the check engine light ?

Posted by: Steely Dan at December 13, 2021 11:08 AM (2cfUo)

474 Hockey costs an absolute fortune these days. I don't know how parents do it... wait, I guess I do. I have a daughter that did show jumping and dressage. I must have paid off two Mercedes' with what I spent on those horses
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at December 13, 2021 10:32 AM (flINI)

Worth it though. Far better than having to pay for counsellors and attorneys.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2021 11:08 AM (axyOa)

475 I think the horse I had was raised to be eaten, the meat was nicely marbled and such. Very tender.
Posted by: naturalfake

Filet of filly

Posted by: Bruce at December 13, 2021 11:08 AM (vd8XM)

476 Love Benton's work - I also liked when Wood did this sort of thing. Americana rocks.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 13, 2021 11:08 AM (wAnMi)

477 John Stossel is suing Facebook after Facebook's 'fact checkers' labeled Stossel postings as "false and misleading"

So, in a court of law, in a legal filing, Facebook admits that its 'fact checks' are not really 'fact' checks at all, but merely 'opinion assertions.'

This strikes me as public relations disaster, and possibly a looming legal disaster for Facebook, PolitiFact, Climate Feedback and other left-leaning entities that engage in biased "fact checking."

Such "fact checks" are now shown to be simply an agenda to suppress free speech and the open discussion of science by disguising liberal media activism as something supposedly factual, noble, neutral, trustworthy, and based on science.

Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 11:08 AM (RHGPo)

478 A quarter of quarter horse.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 13, 2021 11:08 AM (BpkDQ)

479 I think the horse I had was raised to be eaten, the meat was nicely marbled and such. Very tender.

Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2021 11:07 AM (5NkmN)

That sounds very Japanese. I'll bet it was expensive too!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2021 11:08 AM (Q9lwr)

480 472 They need this to continue.

Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2021 11:08 AM (CYnTg)

481 JUST IN: An arena in South Dakota is holding a "Dash for Cash" where teachers get on their knees and fight for one dollar bills that they can use for classroom supplies while spectators watch and cheer. (h/t @AnnieTodd96)

Better that than sending my kindergartner home with another sales catalog of overpriced crap.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2021 11:09 AM (E8EsG)

482 I think the horse I had was raised to be eaten, the meat was nicely marbled and such. Very tender.
Posted by: naturalfake

Filet of filly
Posted by: Bruce at December 13, 2021 11:08 AM (vd8XM)

Fillydelphia Cheeksteak

Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2021 11:09 AM (5NkmN)

483 470 I have, and I wasn't impressed. Just imagine substandard beef, and you will get the idea.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2021 11:05 AM (Q9lwr)

I think the horse I had was raised to be eaten, the meat was nicely marbled and such. Very tender.
Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2021 11:07 AM (5NkmN)

Don't think Ben Had would be happy with this convo...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at December 13, 2021 11:09 AM (BgMrQ)

484 oh, FFS!

cheek steak = cheesesteak

Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2021 11:09 AM (5NkmN)

485 The Greatest Generation ate a lot of horse, beef was being shipped to the military, mostly.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2021

***
Possibly the greatest Rodney Dangerfield line ever:

[Eating a steak at the country club:] "This meat's so fresh it's still got marks where the jockey was kickin' it!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 11:09 AM (txdEq)

486 See on twatter Brick Suit posted a bunch of pics of Dr Oz at a party getting super chummy with Marina Abramovic. Wife not in attendance.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 13, 2021 11:09 AM (wAnMi)

487 481 Better that than sending my kindergartner home with another sales catalog of overpriced crap.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2021 11:09 AM (E8EsG)

=========

What do they do with the tens of thousands of dollars per student every year?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 11:09 AM (LvTSG)

488 Found this over the weekend:

https://youtu.be/zhTi0g9Nn-8

It's about the San Joaquin Valley in CA. Interesting part is the third generation Mexican that runs a business called Red State Relocate. He says he tells his clients that they need to stop voting for the stuff that ruined CA. But most of his clients are middle class conservatives that have had enough.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 13, 2021 11:10 AM (5HBd1)

489 240 Dammit...
I just spent 1700 bucks getting shit checked. Like less than a month ago.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 10:24 AM (M0GxS)

Nothing was repaired then? Hard to believe "getting shit checked" cost $1700.

If that shop did some repair on something related to trouble codes, I'd go back and have that shop run diagnostics (usually a deeper check on codes/conditions than what a $20 code reader can do). Then see how that lines up with an auto parts store diagnostic.

Thing here is to see if the $1700 work broke something. Could be something like water getting into the wrong thing.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at December 13, 2021 11:10 AM (8C7+r)

490 487 Not spending on supplies I can tell you that...

Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2021 11:10 AM (CYnTg)

491 486 See on twatter Brick Suit posted a bunch of pics of Dr Oz at a party getting super chummy with Marina Abramovic. Wife not in attendance.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 13, 2021 11:09 AM (wAnMi)

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Donald Trump taught celebrities that they could successfully run for office.

They did not also take the lesson that you kind of have to be a genuine outsider that can speak to the people on matters that they genuinely care about at the same time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 11:10 AM (LvTSG)

492 Ok, so who is volunteering to come out here and fix my car? I'll cook for you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 11:10 AM (bZs8Y)

493 Fillydelphia Cheeksteak
Posted by: naturalfake

That's my favorite Elton John song.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2021 11:11 AM (FVME7)

494 JUST IN: An arena in South Dakota is holding a "Dash for Cash" where teachers get on their knees and fight for one dollar bills that they can use for classroom supplies while spectators watch and cheer. (h/t @AnnieTodd96)

It's about time The Purge came to the teachers.....

Posted by: Jak Sucio at December 13, 2021 11:11 AM (fPWQm)

495
Biden said, talking about the economy. 'They're being told that Armageddon is on the way."
Posted by: SMOD

If we're going to have climate Armageddon we might as well have economic Armageddon as well.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 13, 2021 11:11 AM (63Dwl)

496 Hopefully you got a freezer full of meat afterwards.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2021 10:57 AM (Q9lwr)

Have you eaten horse? What's it like?
Posted by: BignJames at December 13, 2021 11:00 AM (AwYPR)

pretty much like beef. I've had it in europe and south america. wouldn't complain about having to eat it again.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 13, 2021 11:11 AM (8D42x)

497 cheek steak = cheesesteak

Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2021 11:09 AM (5NkmN)

Cheek steak = horse ass = bologna

Posted by: BignJames at December 13, 2021 11:11 AM (AwYPR)

498 495
Biden said, talking about the economy. 'They're being told that Armageddon is on the way."
Posted by: SMOD

If we're going to have climate Armageddon we might as well have economic Armageddon as well.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 13, 2021 11:11 AM (63Dwl)

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Democrats may be realizing that they've psychologically broken at least two generations of their own voters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 11:11 AM (LvTSG)

499 I think the horse I had was raised to be eaten, the meat was nicely marbled and such. Very tender.
Posted by: naturalfake

Filet of filly
Posted by: Bruce at December 13, 2021 11:08 AM (vd8XM)

Fillydelphia Cheeksteak
Posted by: naturalfake

Fillydelphia Cheapsteak

Posted by: rickb223 at December 13, 2021 11:11 AM (uXonU)

500 495 Kind of laughable since they constantly fear monger everything

Posted by: steevy at December 13, 2021 11:12 AM (CYnTg)

501 Pelosi's staff is putting out that she's not leaving only to stave off the slew of leadership resignations and retirements that happen when the top person bails...

They can see the handwriting on the wall, minority status is coming. I don't think Pelosi staying is going to keep that dam from bursting as we get into early 2022.

Posted by: Boswell at December 13, 2021 11:12 AM (5iUNf)

502 If we're going to have climate Armageddon we might as well have economic Armageddon as well.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 13, 2021 11:11 AM (63Dwl)
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Except one of those is a fiction and the other is increasingly likely....

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 11:12 AM (DU+/6)

503 It's about the San Joaquin Valley in CA. Interesting part is the third generation Mexican that runs a business called Red State Relocate. He says he tells his clients that they need to stop voting for the stuff that ruined CA. But most of his clients are middle class conservatives that have had enough.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 13, 2021 11:10 AM (5HBd1)
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In every way, this is the story of Blake and the lovely Mrs. Blake, recently relocated.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 13, 2021 11:12 AM (RrjYy)

504 Do people eat the horse organ meats?

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 13, 2021 11:12 AM (GYllL)

505 Pock-a-pock, pock-a-pock, pock-a-pock-pock-pock

Posted by: Hoofbeats at December 13, 2021 11:12 AM (txdEq)

506 JUST IN: An arena in South Dakota is holding a "Dash for Cash" where teachers get on their knees and fight for one dollar bills that they can use for classroom supplies while spectators watch and cheer. (h/t @AnnieTodd96)

It's about time The Purge came to the teachers.....
Posted by: Jak Sucio at December 13, 2021 11:11 AM (fPWQm)

*spreads glass shards on floor*

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 13, 2021 11:12 AM (BpkDQ)

507 cheek steak = cheesesteak

Posted by: naturalfake at December 13, 2021 11:09 AM (5NkmN)

Cheek steak = horse ass = bologna
Posted by: BignJames

Neigh! Neigh!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 13, 2021 11:12 AM (uXonU)

508 What do they do with the tens of thousands of dollars per student every year?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

How else are they going to pay for the Jr Vice superintendent for diversity and inclusion, and her 30 person staff?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2021 11:13 AM (E8EsG)

509 462 Have you eaten horse? What's it like?

Posted by: BignJames at December 13, 2021 11:00 AM (AwYPR)

I have, and I wasn't impressed. Just imagine substandard beef, and you will get the idea.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2021 11:05 AM (Q9lwr)

Substandard horse, perhaps?

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at December 13, 2021 11:13 AM (8C7+r)

510 Fillydelphia Cheapsteak
Posted by: rickb223 at December 13, 2021

***
Fillydelphia Fiefdom

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 11:13 AM (txdEq)

511 How do I know climate change is BS? Because Obama would not have spent $15m on a beach house if it were real. That is how.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 13, 2021 11:13 AM (ku5On)

512 JUST IN: An arena in South Dakota is holding a "Dash for Cash" where teachers get on their knees and fight for one dollar bills that they can use for classroom supplies while spectators watch and cheer.

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A remake of The Running Man? Of course, can't use the word man.

Posted by: SH (Overturn Roe) at December 13, 2021 11:13 AM (sX1BW)

513 Ok, so who is volunteering to come out here and fix my car? I'll cook for you.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 13, 2021 11:10 AM (bZs8Y)

I could supervise.

Posted by: BignJames at December 13, 2021 11:13 AM (AwYPR)

514 Neighbor of mine used to have a feed lot for horses going to Canada for meat.

He made a decent bit of coin from that until the American horse retards put a stop to the exporting.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 11:14 AM (tpUWa)

515 508 What do they do with the tens of thousands of dollars per student every year?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

How else are they going to pay for the Jr Vice superintendent for diversity and inclusion, and her 30 person staff?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2021 11:13 AM (E8EsG)

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This is fair.

America was far worse off when children gathered in a single room with one teacher who taught them how to read, write, and do arithmetic. Much better now that they can't read, write, or do arithmetic but know a plethora of gender pronouns instead.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 11:14 AM (LvTSG)

516 "Gothic novelist Anne Rice dead at 80 due to complications from a stroke" the family said. So maybe it was the clot-shot??
Posted by: andycanuck

I'm not sayin' the death certificate was filled out with the cause of death left blank, but at 80 it's likely to be something. I'm personally shocked she lasted this long.

Posted by: Brother Tim has nothing much to say, lately at December 13, 2021 11:14 AM (OUMaO)

517 Do people eat the horse organ meats?
Posted by: Capital Eff at December 13, 2021 11:12 AM (GYllL)

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Horse organ isn't so bad once you get accustomed to it.

Posted by: Catherine the Great at December 13, 2021 11:14 AM (VxC1e)

518 487 481 Better that than sending my kindergartner home with another sales catalog of overpriced crap.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2021 11:09 AM (E8EsG)

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What do they do with the tens of thousands of dollars per student every year?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 11:09 AM (LvTSG)

Hush money to the parents of the kids they diddled.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 13, 2021 11:14 AM (N39Ws)

519 How do I know climate change is BS? Because Obama would not have spent $15m on a beach house if it were real. That is how.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 13, 2021 11:13 AM (ku5On)
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How do you know politicians are corrupt? Because Obama couldn't spend $15m on anything is they weren't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 11:14 AM (DU+/6)

520 470 I have, and I wasn't impressed. Just imagine substandard beef, and you will get the idea.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 13, 2021 11:05 AM (Q9lwr)

You probably did not put enough ketchup or A1 Sauce on it.

(standing by for permanent banning)

Posted by: Gref at December 13, 2021 11:14 AM (AMIL/)

521 Because Obama would not have spent $15m on a beach house if it were real.

It isn't like it was his money.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2021 11:14 AM (E8EsG)

522 And now for the stupidest tweet of the day.

Adam Kinzinger
@AdamKinzinger
I think if Reagan and Lincoln were alive today, they would issue a joint statement telling people that vaccines work, infrastructure is good, and the electoral count act needs reformed. Maybe they are RINOS now, but I'd be proud to Join them.
6:50 AM � Dec 13, 2021

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Oh yeah, Reagan would be a RINO.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2021 11:14 AM (FVME7)

523 The "Dash for Cash" should include a gauntlet. If there's not a gauntlet the teachers have to run, it's a substandard product.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 13, 2021 11:14 AM (RrjYy)

524 Part of the grift is buying laptops and iPads for every kid every year. And guess who lobbies for higher and higher education budgets? Apple, Dell, HP, etc.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 13, 2021 11:15 AM (ku5On)

525 Have you eaten horse? What's it like?
Posted by: BignJames

I have, and I wasn't impressed. Just imagine substandard beef, and you will get the idea.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Substandard horse, perhaps?
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf

Barely Ed-ible.

Posted by: Brother Tim has nothing much to say, lately at December 13, 2021 11:15 AM (OUMaO)

526 522 Adam Kinzinger
@AdamKinzinger
I think if Reagan and Lincoln were alive today, they would issue a joint statement telling people that vaccines work, infrastructure is good, and the electoral count act needs reformed. Maybe they are RINOS now, but I'd be proud to Join them.
6:50 AM Dec 13, 2021

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Oh yeah, Reagan would be a RINO.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2021 11:14 AM (FVME7)

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I think if Lincoln were alive today, he'd have something really funny and folksy to say about how Democrats define infrastructure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 11:15 AM (LvTSG)

527 How else are they going to pay for the Jr Vice superintendent for diversity and inclusion, and her 30 person staff?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

I laugh at this crap.
I went to a Lutheran k-8 growing up. About 450 kids in the school.

One principal. One secretary who was also the school nurse.
Principal would also substitute teach if needed. Played the organ in the church and showed up for everything going on at the school and church.

Posted by: Bruce at December 13, 2021 11:15 AM (vd8XM)

528 Is it just me or do State Farm Jared and Juicy Smollett look alike?

Weird.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2021 11:16 AM (axyOa)

529 Frankie is a Lutheran.

Posted by: Been Lurking, but clearly been posting too at December 13, 2021 11:16 AM (rDgjh)

530 It's about the San Joaquin Valley in CA. Interesting part is the third generation Mexican that runs a business called Red State Relocate. He says he tells his clients that they need to stop voting for the stuff that ruined CA. But most of his clients are middle class conservatives that have had enough.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 13, 2021 11:10 AM (5HBd1)
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In every way, this is the story of Blake and the lovely Mrs. Blake, recently relocated.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (RrjYy) at December 13, 2021 11:12 AM (RrjYy)

I've got to speed up my exit plans, even if it means a huge hit monetarily. I think any "hit" I experience will be outweighed in short order.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 13, 2021 11:16 AM (wAnMi)

531 JUST IN: An arena in South Dakota is holding a "Dash for Cash" where teachers get on their knees and fight for one dollar bills that they can use for classroom supplies while spectators watch and cheer. (h/t @AnnieTodd96)

Better that than sending my kindergartner home with another sales catalog of overpriced crap.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 13, 2021 11:09 AM (E8EsG)

The usual suspects in the media are making a big deal out of this (Because it's South Dakota and they still view Noem as a threat?), but it's the same on-ice entertainment that hockey teams have done for years, with people scrambling for dollars on ice, but the team decided it would be nice to only have teachers compete.

So yes, the usual media BS

Posted by: Wally at December 13, 2021 11:17 AM (FJYfm)

532 528 Is it just me or do State Farm Jared and Juicy Smollett look alike?

Weird.
Posted by: Diogenes

Yes they do. I would pull that ad if I were State Farm.

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 13, 2021 11:17 AM (GYllL)

533 So who's getting a fucking pony for Christmas?

Posted by: Puddin Head at December 13, 2021 11:17 AM (bA3Ln)

534 I think if Lincoln were alive today, he'd have something really funny and folksy to say about how Democrats define infrastructure.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

And then have Grant put Kinzinger in the front line

Posted by: Bruce at December 13, 2021 11:18 AM (vd8XM)

535
One principal. One secretary who was also the school nurse.
Principal would also substitute teach if needed. Played the organ in the church and showed up for everything going on at the school and church.
Posted by: Bruce at December 13, 2021

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My grammar school wasn't that tiny, I think we had a school nurse. But there were 6 grades, generally only 1 teacher for each one, and about 25 kids in each class -- so 150 kids? This was in the French Quarter in the early '60s.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 11:18 AM (txdEq)

536 501 Pelosi's staff is putting out that she's not leaving only to stave off the slew of leadership resignations and retirements that happen when the top person bails...

They can see the handwriting on the wall, minority status is coming. I don't think Pelosi staying is going to keep that dam from bursting as we get into early 2022.

Posted by: Boswell at December 13, 2021 11:12 AM (5iUNf)

One reason she's going to stay through 2022 is her hope than Commie-La becomes Prez. Then Nanzi will proclaim that two-thirds of the US Government is controlled by WOMEN! History-making event!

Posted by: Gref at December 13, 2021 11:18 AM (AMIL/)

537 >> So who's getting a fucking pony for Christmas?

Fucking Ponies are expensive.

Best to stick to a sofa or a toaster.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 11:18 AM (tpUWa)

538 Is it just me or do State Farm Jared and Juicy Smollett look alike?

Weird.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2021 11:16 AM (axyOa)

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So you're saying all black men look alike?

Be better.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 13, 2021 11:18 AM (VxC1e)

539 So who's getting a fucking pony for Christmas?
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 13, 2021 11:17 AM (bA3Ln)

They breed them for that now?

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 13, 2021 11:18 AM (wAnMi)

540 The usual suspects in the media are making a big deal out of this (Because it's South Dakota and they still view Noem as a threat?), but it's the same on-ice entertainment that hockey teams have done for years, with people scrambling for dollars on ice, but the team decided it would be nice to only have teachers compete.

So yes, the usual media BS
Posted by: Wally at December 13, 2021 11:17 AM (FJYfm)
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Yeah, not new. When I was a kid, my district's (at least, but I think it is wider) school bus drivers would do a "bus rodeo" like this. Challenges of skill in driving. Who can get a bus closest to a $100 bill on the ground, etc. Prizes went to those who achieved the feat, with a cut skimmed off and sent to the district transit budget.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 11:19 AM (DU+/6)

541 with people scrambling for dollars on ice,

Fire up the Zamboni !

Posted by: Capital Eff at December 13, 2021 11:19 AM (GYllL)

542 "Gothic novelist Anne Rice dead at 80 due to complications from a stroke" the family said. So maybe it was the clot-shot??
Posted by: andycanuck

Yeah, but how long is she going to stay dead?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2021 11:19 AM (FVME7)

543 So who's getting a fucking pony for Christmas?
Posted by: Puddin Head

I'm just getting a plain ol' pony.

Posted by: Bruce at December 13, 2021 11:19 AM (vd8XM)

544 Never have a negotiator named "Blinken"
or a financial advisor name "Madoff"

Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 11:19 AM (RHGPo)

545 Black Jake from State Farm is the worst actor in the planet. He just plain is awful. Which is why Ive noticed the most recent commercials have him doing shit like meditating or fishing. No dialogue.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 13, 2021 11:19 AM (ku5On)

546 >>They breed them for that now?

The Fucking Monkey supply chain is comletely FUBAR.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 11:19 AM (tpUWa)

547 526
I think if Lincoln were alive today, he'd have something really funny and folksy to say about how Democrats define infrastructure.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 11:15 AM (LvTSG)
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The very uncomfortable truth about Lincoln is that if he were alive today, he'd probably say something to the effect of, "Why are all these black people still here?" He'd definitely be one where the man didn't live up to the mythology.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 13, 2021 11:19 AM (lNHqD)

548 >>>Do people eat the horse organ meats?

>Joking Joe Biden has a taste for hides and hooves.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at December 13, 2021 11:19 AM (BPuaD)

549 They breed them for that now?

The Fucking Monkey supply chain is comletely FUBAR.
Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 11:19 AM (tpUWa)

American ingenuity.

Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at December 13, 2021 11:20 AM (wAnMi)

550 What do they do with the tens of thousands of dollars per student every year?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, holy crap, John Ford made a lot of movies in the 1930s at December 13, 2021 11:09 AM (LvTSG)

Hush money to the parents of the kids they diddled.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at December 13, 2021 11:14 AM (N39Ws)

Also pensions.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 13, 2021 11:20 AM (Ez6QX)

551 @Nurse

Saw your posting last night re: carry while walking to work, but I had already retired for the night (read it this AM).

Sounds like you need a smaller piece with some oomf. In you place, I'd go with a Smaller 9mm (like a Sig 93

in a horizontal shoulder rig. Leave the jacket/coat partially unzipped/unbuttoned (Hey, it's Seattle, WA, not Minot, SD).

Might be other 9mm pistols of similar size/wt to the 938, too (haven't researched that).

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at December 13, 2021 11:20 AM (8C7+r)

552 Horse tastes like beef with a bit of sugar. If you use the ground meat in something like spaghetti, no one will notice the difference.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 13, 2021 11:20 AM (5HBd1)

553 529-There are various kinds of Lutherans-from quite conservative to very liberal. I don't think that Pope would fit in with the more conservative ones.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 13, 2021 11:20 AM (WRwvA)

554 Black Jake from State Farm is the worst actor in the planet. He just plain is awful. Which is why Ive noticed the most recent commercials have him doing shit like meditating or fishing. No dialogue.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 13, 2021 11:19 AM (ku5On)

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Samuel L. Jackson auditioned but in the test screenings he scared the wine moms.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 13, 2021 11:20 AM (VxC1e)

555 So who's getting a fucking pony for Christmas?

Posted by: Puddin Head

If I'm gonna eat it later, I'd rather have a lamb.

Posted by: BignJames at December 13, 2021 11:21 AM (AwYPR)

556 See on twatter Brick Suit posted a bunch of pics of Dr Oz at a party getting super chummy with Marina Abramovic. Wife not in attendance.

He's running for Senator in PA - GOP ticket

I had a feeling he was shite

Posted by: kallisto at December 13, 2021 11:21 AM (DJFLF)

557 >>Horse tastes like beef with a bit of sugar. If you use the ground meat in something like spaghetti, no one will notice the difference.

Make sure you cook it thoroughly or you'll risk getting the Trots.

Posted by: garrett at December 13, 2021 11:21 AM (tpUWa)

558 Hillary Clinton says that a Trump 2024 win would be the "end of our democracy"

hey toots... we're not a democracy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2021 11:21 AM (KZzsI)

559 528 Is it just me or do State Farm Jared and Juicy Smollett look alike?

it's the khakis

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at December 13, 2021 11:21 AM (oY6Yp)

560 So who's getting a fucking pony for Christmas?
Posted by: Puddin Head at December 13, 2021 11:17 AM (bA3Ln)

zombie Catherine the Great?

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 13, 2021 11:21 AM (8D42x)

561 I think if Lincoln were alive today,

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Four score and seven trillion dollars ago . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 13, 2021 11:21 AM (FVME7)

562 545 Black Jake from State Farm is the worst actor in the planet. He just plain is awful. Which is why Ive noticed the most recent commercials have him doing shit like meditating or fishing. No dialogue.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 13, 2021 11:19 AM (ku5On)

He is simply a prop. As were the all the white guys in ads before him. The commercials are totally written to highlight Rodgers and Mahomes.

Posted by: Gref at December 13, 2021 11:21 AM (AMIL/)

563 I'd hang it ... they used to have threshing circles, families would work together, big meal after the hard work ... my Mom was born on the day they were threshing here ... in the 20's. Very inconsiderate of her.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 13, 2021 11:22 AM (Cus5s)

564 Hillary Clinton says that a Trump 2024 win would be the "end of our democracy"

hey toots... we're not a democracy.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2021 11:21 AM (KZzsI)
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And the outlandish theft of the 2020 election and the five years of inveterate deep state corruption that so publicly preceded it ended the Republic.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 11:22 AM (DU+/6)

565 NOOD APE

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 13, 2021 11:22 AM (DU+/6)

566 Our bus driver growing up smoked like a chimney. Easily 2-3 on the way to school, 2-3 on the way home. Probably a flask hidden somewhere, too.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 13, 2021 11:22 AM (BpkDQ)

567 Hillary Clinton says that a Trump 2024 win would be the "end of our democracy"

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And after she worked so hard to build it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 13, 2021 11:22 AM (VxC1e)

568 Noodus simianus major

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at December 13, 2021 11:22 AM (txdEq)

569 Do people eat the horse organ meats?

Do people get sausage from china?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2021 11:23 AM (KZzsI)

570 Tons of money is spent of HS sportsball too which is total bullshit. That shit should not be subsidized by tax payers. You want your kid to play foozball pay for it yourself.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss the Delta Variant at December 13, 2021 11:23 AM (ku5On)

571 Lincoln said in a folksy way that we can only blame ourselves for our own self-destruction.

Posted by: Ziba at December 13, 2021 11:23 AM (S1hrL)

572 If you use the ground meat in something like spaghetti, no one will notice the difference.
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 13, 2021 11:20 AM (5HBd1)

i do that with venison. only way to get the missus to eat it.

Posted by: SturmToddler (8D42x) at December 13, 2021 11:23 AM (8D42x)

573 I watched Noem's address to the SD state legislature. (Yes, it was refreshing after having to listen to our clown guv here.) There were two things I found interesting. One is that part of their strategy to deal with the homeless is to fund mental health facilities. They want to get them out of the prisons and also off the streets. The second is that they want to put funding into a cybersecurity program at the university. I'm surprised there isn't more focus on this in other states, as it's going to be a major growth industry.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at December 13, 2021 11:23 AM (5HBd1)

574 the Julia character, in Newman's imagination, has a "far better" understanding than Winston does of life in Oceania, and "is essentially happy with her life."

Nothing more Orwellian than a SJW re-write of 1984.

Posted by: BOC Haiku at December 13, 2021 11:24 AM (Z2Pbf)

575 off sock

Posted by: Eisenhorn at December 13, 2021 11:24 AM (Z2Pbf)

576 525 Have you eaten horse? What's it like?
Posted by: BignJames

I have, and I wasn't impressed. Just imagine substandard beef, and you will get the idea.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Substandard horse, perhaps?
Posted by: Iron Mike Golf

Barely Ed-ible.

makes you feel triggered

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at December 13, 2021 11:24 AM (oY6Yp)

577 So you're saying all black men look alike?

Be better.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 13, 2021 11:18 AM (VxC1e)

Not at all.
Just these two.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 13, 2021 11:25 AM (axyOa)

578 Horse meat butcher shops used to be popular in Sicily.

Posted by: Ziba at December 13, 2021 11:25 AM (S1hrL)

579 Orwell would not approve of that BS; he would try not to laugh, though.

Posted by: Ziba at December 13, 2021 11:27 AM (S1hrL)

580 First Omicron death confirmed in U.K. as PM warns of "tidal wave" of infections

Because one person died out of 7 billion?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 13, 2021 11:04 AM

Define "tidal wave". Let's look at the average amount of flu infections in USA during the typical flu season. Average taken from '12-'13 season through '16-'17 season.

Illnesses: 29.4 million (163,333 per day)
Hospitalizations: 458,000 (2,544 per day)

Worldometers shows 50.7 million "COVID cases" over last ~2 years. Which is about 25 million per year. Which is 71,022 per day. Less than seasonal influenza. I bet the majority of people who freak out about "COVID cases" have no idea influenza cases are typically more than double in the average year, where no one has ever freaked out about it.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 13, 2021 11:27 AM (Do5/p)

581 Hillary Clinton says that a Trump 2024 win would be the "end of our democracy"

Methinks the key to this statement is the definition of "our"

Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 11:27 AM (RHGPo)

582 Point of my #580 being that if the media and politicians reported on influenza season illnesses, hospitalizations and deaths the same way they have "COVID", people would freak out too. But we've never done that and for good reason. Had we reported COVID the same way as we always have seasonal influenza, this pandemic would have come and gone just like every other pandemic in our lifetimes. Just like H1N1 under Obama/Biden.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 13, 2021 11:31 AM (Do5/p)

583 I can remember a schoolmate reading Shakespeare

"I have interests ... a broad"

Posted by: SMOD at December 13, 2021 11:35 AM (RHGPo)

584 B XVI? Most assuredly.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 13, 2021 11:00 AM (/EuRN)

Undoubtedly.

Frankie, not so sure. Who was a greater influence, Arrupe or Peron?

Posted by: Fox2! at December 13, 2021 12:06 PM (qyH+l)

585 Yes this is how it starts Bread for your Sandwich

Posted by: Tamaa the DrongoBird at December 13, 2021 06:16 PM (wGqjj)

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