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Monday Overnight Open Thread (12/27/21)

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I

I am not saying convict Byrd. I am saying try him, if only for the peace of mind of a nation that no longer can trust its federal government. Don Surber


Quote II & III

“Look, there is no federal solution. This gets solved at the state level.” Joe Biden December 2021


“I am not going to shut down the economy, period. I am going to shut down the virus,” Joe Biden December 2020


Quote IV

“We are so encouraged by the strength and determination you have shown during this very difficult time. You will remain in our hearts for complete care and comfort as you continue to recover. With your steadfast spirit, and the unwavering strength and support of your wonderful family and many friends, your future potential is limitless. May God bless you and your family.” President Donald Trump

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We residents of the Frozen Tundra don't mind the snow. It's the damn ice.

NSFW-Language

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Unfortunately, hypocrisy once again hits Chicago like a hammer. What good are gun control laws if you don't enforce them?!?!

A Chicago man who has been linked to guns and violence in the city since at least 2013 opened fire on two cops who tried to arrest him for openly carrying a handgun on a Near West Side street corner Christmas Eve, prosecutors said. The man posted just $500 to get out of jail for allegedly carrying a gun in his hand at the exact same location in March, according to prosecutors and public records.

Nokomis Jefferson, 29, was charged with two counts of attempted first-degree murder and being a felon in possession of a weapon for the latest incident on Sunday. He was still on bond for the March case when he allegedly tried to kill the officers.

Jefferson is the 62nd person accused of killing, trying to kill, or shooting someone in Chicago this year while awaiting trial for a felony. A total of 95 victims are involved in those crimes — 25 of them were murdered.


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Peace on earth and goodwill toward man. Something I've never witnessed in church.

Church-goers start brawling halfway through sermon in front of shocked pastor
A brawl erupted inside a church just one day after Christmas - after a church-goer randomly walked up to a youth pastor and punched him in the head in disturbing footage obtained by TMZ


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If I remember correctly, I learned in grade school not to let anyone use my identity. Not the case for this young lady.

Woman Hit With $6,864 Airbnb charge for "Damages” After She Let Friend Book With Her Name

If you're the kind of person who has a hard time telling your friends, acquaintances, or random folks who ask for favors "no," then you're no stranger to heartache, and headache, that could've probably been avoided. Learning to be an "a-hole" for the sake of not only your own sanity but to instead be available for those who should matter more to you is a hard habit for some to implement.

Saying No is pretty damn easy.

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So Resident of The White House, our Commander In Chief: Why are there Kung Flu infections when Pricks are mandatory?

COVID Outbreak on 100% Vaxxed Ship: Should Unvaxxed Military Get Their Jobs Back?

There are (at least) two rival explanations for why veterans lost their jobs for refusing the vaccine… and the justifiable reason just had a big hole blown through it.

The military, despite any protestations of the hard left, has one primary objective. To remain a lethal enough force that (a) other countries will think long and hard before picking a fight with us and (b) that it can protect both the American homeland — and our interests elsewhere — by hitting our adversaries with the kind of on-demand overwhelming force that gives teeth to any threats we make through diplomacy.


Contrary to what Fauci says, You should go to parties this New Year's. Perhap's Fauci's New Year's Resolution would be to FOAD.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

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Sometimes you just have to "Man Up" and confess. Genius Award Winner.

ECEMBER 20--A Florida Man denied ownership of baggies containing cocaine and methamphetamine that cops found “wrapped around his penis” during a search early Saturday morning, according to arrest affidavits.

Investigators say Patrick Florence, 34, was a passenger in a vehicle stopped around 4 AM for traveling without headlights or tail lights on a Clearwater roadway. The driver, Darius Owens, 27, was subsequently arrested on DUI and marijuana possession charges.

A search of the vehicle turned up a handgun under Florence’s seat, leading to his arrest on a pair of felony weapons charges. Florence denied ownership of the .38 Special, reported cops who noted that the ex-con’s rap sheet includes “dozens of felony convictions” which barred him from possessing firearms and ammunition.


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One of Tonight's Feel Good Stories of The Day.

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Tonight's Second Feel Good Story of The Day.

Watch the incredible moment a deaf nine-month-old hears his mum and dad for the first time


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Comments

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1

Harmadik!

Posted by: Zettai at December 27, 2021 10:00 PM (fCto4)

2 'Sup y'all?

Posted by: Doof at December 27, 2021 10:00 PM (mZUr4)

3 Evening!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at December 27, 2021 10:00 PM (Dc2NZ)

4 good evening all

Posted by: wing at December 27, 2021 10:01 PM (PlW9M)

5 Pictures are quite a contrast from first to last!

Posted by: lin-duh at December 27, 2021 10:01 PM (UUBmN)

6 Cheese balls, anyone?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 27, 2021 10:01 PM (VxC1e)

7 Woot, ONT.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 27, 2021 10:01 PM (3cGpq)

8 How did I do?

Posted by: Half Dozen at December 27, 2021 10:01 PM (dJs6r)

9 Nice ONT, Mis Hum -- thanks!!

Posted by: Doof at December 27, 2021 10:02 PM (mZUr4)

10 Didn't know Zappa's band did a version of "Ring of Fire".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at December 27, 2021 10:02 PM (Dc2NZ)

11 2021 is the year Failure Biden became a big believer in federalism.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 27, 2021 10:03 PM (VxC1e)

12 Nooded.

Posted by: Ann Wilson, aka Empire 1 at December 27, 2021 10:04 PM (JJatH)

13 A thing of winter beauty is the lead photo!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 10:04 PM (hOUT3)

14 The Vaccines Work*, are Safe* and Effective*

Posted by: Thomas Bender at December 27, 2021 10:04 PM (a7IPZ)

15 briefly present

Posted by: DB at December 27, 2021 10:04 PM (0KxNW)

16 10 Didn't know Zappa's band did a version of "Ring of Fire".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at December 27, 2021 10:02 PM (Dc2NZ)

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Yep. Preparation H licensed it for their TV commercials.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 27, 2021 10:04 PM (VxC1e)

17 "Look, there is no federal solution. This gets solved at the state level." Joe Biden December 2021

Sounds a lot like "Let's Go, Brandon!", doesn't it?

Posted by: t-bird at December 27, 2021 10:05 PM (vOGqy)

18 Didn't know Zappa's band did a version of "Ring of Fire".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at December 27, 2021 10:02 PM (Dc2NZ)


Extra hot wings -- leads to ring of fire

Posted by: Doof at December 27, 2021 10:05 PM (mZUr4)

19 Somehow I doubt Bidet at al. Are going to just let DeathSantis do his own thing...

Posted by: Bete at December 27, 2021 10:05 PM (Ojki1)

20 Church-goers start brawling halfway through sermon in front of shocked pastor
A brawl erupted inside a church just one day after Christmas - after a church-goer randomly walked up to a youth pastor and punched him in the head in disturbing footage obtained by TMZ

Baptists. That explains a lot.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 27, 2021 10:05 PM (II3Gr)

21 Good evening morons and thanks mh

Snow, no.

Tushy, yes.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 27, 2021 10:06 PM (EZebt)

22 Church-goers start brawling halfway through sermon in front of shocked pastor
A brawl erupted inside a church just one day after Christmas - after a church-goer randomly walked up to a youth pastor and punched him in the head in disturbing footage obtained by TMZ

Baptists. That explains a lot.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 27, 2021 10:05 PM (II3Gr)


Was Freebird playing at the time?

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at December 27, 2021 10:06 PM (AiZBA)

23 9 Nice ONT, Mis Hum -- thanks!!
Posted by: Doof at December 27, 2021 10:02 PM (mZUr4)

You're welcome.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:06 PM (aA3+G)

24 "Look, there is no federal solution. This gets solved at the state level." Joe Biden December 2021


Translation: We're gonna lose in court.

Posted by: davidt at December 27, 2021 10:06 PM (gjH3l)

25 So when does the media start referring to "Death DeBlasio"?

Posted by: New York, The Plague City! at December 27, 2021 10:07 PM (I2/tG)

26 Church-goers start brawling halfway through sermon in front of shocked pastor
A brawl erupted inside a church just one day after Christmas - after a church-goer randomly walked up to a youth pastor and punched him in the head in disturbing footage obtained by TMZ

Baptists. That explains a lot.
Posted by: Insomniac
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Yeah, Baptist...that's the problem///

Posted by: lin-duh at December 27, 2021 10:07 PM (UUBmN)

27 Baptists. That explains a lot.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 27, 2021 10:05 PM (II3Gr)

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Meh. It could have been snakes instead of fists.

Baptists. What're ya gonna do?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 27, 2021 10:07 PM (VxC1e)

28 Sounds a lot like "Let's Go, Brandon!", doesn't it?
Posted by: t-bird at December 27, 2021 10:05 PM (vOGqy)

The demented pervert in a straitjacket and muzzle, flanked by burly men in white uniforms saying, "Let's go, 'Brandon'".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 27, 2021 10:07 PM (6FeV1)

29 Beautiful pics as always. However, the bottom one seems to have been taken from the wrong side.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:08 PM (r1z5A)

30 Saying No is pretty damn easy.


Yes

Posted by: Miklos sometimes avers at December 27, 2021 10:08 PM (QzkSJ)

31 The left wants more gun laws so they can use them to prosecute those they disagree with.

Posted by: 29Victor at December 27, 2021 10:09 PM (BJKQV)

32 Who is Michael Byrd?

Posted by: rhomboid at December 27, 2021 10:09 PM (OTzUX)

33 Beautiful pics as always. However, the bottom one seems to have been taken from the wrong side.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:08 PM (r1z5A)


Looks just fine to me

Posted by: Doof at December 27, 2021 10:09 PM (mZUr4)

34 LOL - I feel kind of dirty about it, but I knew it was a black church long before I watched the video.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2021 10:10 PM (evAgx)

35 The left wants more gun laws so they can use them to prosecute those they disagree with.
Posted by: 29Victor


The more laws, the more they can be applied selectively to punish or reward. It's for our own good.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:10 PM (r1z5A)

36 33 Beautiful pics as always. However, the bottom one seems to have been taken from the wrong side.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:08 PM (r1z5A)

Looks just fine to me
Posted by: Doof at December 27, 2021 10:09 PM (mZUr4)

SR is a boob guy and your an ass guy. Got it.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:10 PM (aA3+G)

37 Who is Michael Byrd?

He's the Capitol Killer, isn't he?

Posted by: t-bird at December 27, 2021 10:10 PM (ELgVT)

38 It's a dandy ONT MH, thank you.
Ice everywhere here at my AO. It was a couple of years ago I slipped on ice and gave my self a concussion.
I wasn't out long, my cigar hadn't gone out. I checked all systems, picked up the cigar. I have no memory of walking home, finishing the cigar or anything else for several hours.
Good times
Good times

Posted by: Winston, GOPe, not one dime, not one vote at December 27, 2021 10:11 PM (Abpfo)

39 I'm just a girl who can't say Noh ...

Posted by: Adriane the Kabuki Critic ... at December 27, 2021 10:11 PM (okV1R)

40 Harmadik!
Posted by: Zettai

One day.

ONE DAY

Posted by: Miklos awards a Third Place Award for actual First because it feels So Right at December 27, 2021 10:11 PM (QzkSJ)

41 Sure, he went to jail but now he's Patrick "Cokedick" Florence.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 27, 2021 10:11 PM (VxC1e)

42 The left wants more gun laws so they can use them to prosecute those they disagree with.

The problem is, current gun laws punish criminals for possessing guns.

The Left wants new gun laws that punish law-abiding people for possessing guns.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 27, 2021 10:11 PM (I2/tG)

43 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 27, 2021 10:11 PM (SchxB)

44 32 Who is Michael Byrd?
Posted by: rhomboid at December 27, 2021 10:09 PM (OTzUX)

===
The Capitol Police office who has confessed to murdering Ashli Babbitt

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 27, 2021 10:11 PM (EZebt)

45 Saying no is pretty damn easy.


As pretty much any woman I've asked out will attest.

Posted by: Bete at December 27, 2021 10:12 PM (Ojki1)

46 Deck the halls and deck your neighbor
Fa la la la la
La la la la

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 27, 2021 10:12 PM (VxC1e)

47 17 "Look, there is no federal solution. This gets solved at the state level." Joe Biden December 2021

Sounds a lot like "Let's Go, Brandon!", doesn't it?
Posted by: t-bird at December 27, 2021 10:05 PM (vOGqy)


The half of my relatives who are liberals or antiTrumpers are not bringing up Biden or Trump. Funny that.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 27, 2021 10:13 PM (+lVUW)

48 Didn't know Zappa's band did a version of "Ring of Fire".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at December 27, 2021 10:02 PM


Let this serve as an example of a "confession of a misspent youth.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 27, 2021 10:13 PM (a3Q+t)

49 Am I the only one that's fascinated by the dark patch of water just past the edge of the floor in that photo? It almost looks like an underwater cave entrance, though I doubt that's the case.

Posted by: CppThis at December 27, 2021 10:13 PM (UewuT)

50 Who is Michael Byrd?
Posted by: rhomboid

Unprosecuted murderer

Posted by: Miklos beyond a reasonable doubt at December 27, 2021 10:13 PM (QzkSJ)

51 Looks just fine to me
Posted by: Doof


Just saying there are two sides to every situation.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:13 PM (r1z5A)

52 Deck the halls and deck your neighbor
Fa la la la la
La la la la


Get on a plane and slap a stranger

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 27, 2021 10:14 PM (SchxB)

53 24 "Look, there is no federal solution. This gets solved at the state level." Joe Biden December 2021


Translation: We're gonna lose in court.

Posted by: davidt at December 27, 2021 10:06 PM (gjH3l)


Also: I need scapegoats!

Posted by: Gref at December 27, 2021 10:14 PM (AMIL/)

54 It almost looks like an underwater cave entrance, though I doubt that's the case.
Posted by: CppThis at December 27, 2021 10:13 PM (UewuT)

I just came.

Posted by: The Squid at December 27, 2021 10:14 PM (6FeV1)

55 Michael Byrd killed Ashlii Babbitt in DC on 1/6.

Posted by: Toni at December 27, 2021 10:14 PM (PgM6e)

56 Michael Byrd murdered Ashli Babbitt. In cold blood.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Trying not to piss off Krampus at December 27, 2021 10:14 PM (x8Wzq)

57 Deck the halls and deck your neighbor
Fa la la la la
La la la la
Posted by: Cicero

Good King Wenceslas
Threw a Roundhouse

Then Mofo got even

Posted by: Miklos, expecting better at December 27, 2021 10:14 PM (QzkSJ)

58 The more laws, the more they can be applied selectively to punish or reward. It's for our own good.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:10 PM (r1z5A)



SR, you have broken the code:

"The "law" is like a spider's web, deadly to the weak, but barely an impediment to the powerful!"

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 10:15 PM (hOUT3)

59 Dang, thanks SFsycho, right. Name was vaguely familiar.

And I don't think a trial will do anything to restore any intelligent confidence in most parts of the federal govt. (or many parts of local and state levels, either).

Because these collapsed and/or corrupted institutions reflect the character and more of much of the population, are in fact the result of years of that population endorsing or tolerating the pathologies we now see.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 27, 2021 10:15 PM (OTzUX)

60 Am I the only one that's fascinated by the dark patch of water just past the edge of the floor in that photo? It almost looks like an underwater cave entrance, though I doubt that's the case.
Posted by: CppThis at


Pretty much.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:15 PM (r1z5A)

61 SR is a boob guy and your an ass guy. Got it.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:10 PM (aA3+G)

Hips don't lie

Posted by: Doof at December 27, 2021 10:16 PM (mZUr4)

62 Beautiful pics as always. However, the bottom one seems to have been taken from the wrong side.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:08 PM


Not necessarily from the wrong side, but it is miscaptioned. It should read Pull Ups, not Chin Ups.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 27, 2021 10:16 PM (a3Q+t)

63 Also: I need scapegoats!
Posted by: Gref at December 27, 2021 10:14 PM (AMIL/)


Seriously, if only DeSantis had gone along...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 10:16 PM (hOUT3)

64 Ave Maria makes me weep, reminds me of every funeral I have attended, including my parents. This version makes me say wtf was that ?

Posted by: Grease monkey at December 27, 2021 10:16 PM (oSX/P)

65 34 LOL - I feel kind of dirty about it, but I knew it was a black church long before I watched the video.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2021 10:10 PM (evAgx)
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I figured Irish!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4IletJ7-Tw

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at December 27, 2021 10:16 PM (Dc2NZ)

66 a couple years ago, police were called about an altercation in the pastors office on the north side of town. Ladies Altar Guild had a "disagreement" as to who was going to be in charge of selecting the flowers that Sunday. Funniest part was that the pastor sat back in his chair and just watched (maybe he had a bag of popcorn) while the ladies tried to rip each other's hair out by the roots.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2021 10:16 PM (evAgx)

67 Silent Night,
Good time for a fight ...

Posted by: Adriane the Ruckus Critic ... at December 27, 2021 10:17 PM (okV1R)

68 Seems to me those fine ladies are swinging on that cross-pole, preparatory to flinging themselves out into the tropical waters. I paid the price of doing a close analysis of the image to reach this conclusion.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 27, 2021 10:17 PM (OTzUX)

69 Because these collapsed and/or corrupted institutions reflect the character and more of much of the population, are in fact the result of years of that population endorsing or tolerating the pathologies we now see.
Posted by: rhomboid at December 27, 2021 10:15 PM (OTzUX)


Dayum, rhomboid I do so hate it when you capture the truth in so few words!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 10:18 PM (hOUT3)

70 Hips don't lie
Posted by: Doof

"I love the feminist movement. Especially when I'm walking behind it."

Posted by: Miklos, quoting St. Rush of Limbaugh at December 27, 2021 10:18 PM (QzkSJ)

71 61 SR is a boob guy and your an ass guy. Got it.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:10 PM (aA3+G)

Hips don't lie
Posted by: Doof at December 27, 2021 10:16 PM (mZUr4)

Types
Deletes

And ponders the universe.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:19 PM (aA3+G)

72 Hark, the horrid Karens shrieking
"Wear the mask
Or we'll all die"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at December 27, 2021 10:19 PM (6FeV1)

73 1
Harmadik!
Posted by: Zettai at December 27, 2021 10:00 PM (fCto4)

Lorena, that you?!?!

Posted by: John Bobbitt at December 27, 2021 10:19 PM (BgMrQ)

74

That "underwater cave entrance" appears to be what is known as a 'blue hole', q.v.

Posted by: Zettai at December 27, 2021 10:19 PM (UCSRy)

75 The young lady who rented the Airbnb for her friend...Insert Nelson Muntz laugh here. She deserves to pay $6800 for her abject stupidity.

I worked at Toyota Financial Services years ago. So many co-signers were in denial when the person they did a favor for, crapped out on paying their car loan. Quite a few of them were shocked they were expected to make payments.

If somebody doesn't care about their own credit rating why would they care about yours?

Posted by: JuJuBee at December 27, 2021 10:19 PM (aHT7c)

76 We cut the Covid quarantine period from ten days to five days, based on rigorous scientific evidence and analysis!

Well that, and the fact that the economy will be trashed if millions of people have to quarantine for ten days because they were exposed to the equivalent of a head cold!

Posted by: The CDC! at December 27, 2021 10:19 PM (I2/tG)

77 "Dayum, rhomboid I do so hate it when you capture the truth in so few words!"

Well it can be contested whether I have captured the truth here, or elsewhere.

And "few words" makes even *me* laugh. Not my MO.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 27, 2021 10:19 PM (OTzUX)

78 SR is a boob guy and your an ass guy. Got it.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:10 PM (aA3+G)

Hips don't lie
Posted by: Doof


But the front is a veritable cornucopia of eye goodies.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:20 PM (r1z5A)

79 30 Saying No is pretty damn easy.
Yes
Posted by: Miklos sometimes avers at December 27, 2021 10:08 PM (QzkSJ)


I used to watch tv judge shows like Judge judy and People's Court. The major lesson is you have friends and relatives who can't use their own credit cards, pay their bills, or buy what they need. They're irresponsible idiots with money and decision making, and if you loan them money, they will not pay you back. If you help them out, their need will expand.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 27, 2021 10:20 PM (+lVUW)

80
There have been, over the years, several near fist fights at my family church. And yep, it's Southern Baptist.

I learned early on the church politics are just as bad as regular politics, and oft worse.

When I was a kid, my father was a deacon. One Sunday morning, after service was over, a little girl came up and kicked my father in the shins. Turned out she had been hearing her father, also a deacon, bad mouth my father over some controversy of the day.

She kicked the Bad Man for him, of course.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 27, 2021 10:21 PM (Mzdiz)

81 I worked at Toyota Financial Services years ago. So many co-signers were in denial when the person they did a favor for, crapped out on paying their car loan. Quite a few of them were shocked they were expected to make payments.

If somebody doesn't care about their own credit rating why would they care about yours?
Posted by: JuJuBee

I worked at TFS in Hungary. No co-signers. Low trust.

Decades of Communist-Socialism and Associated Crap.

Posted by: Miklos, instituting ONT Kaizen at December 27, 2021 10:22 PM (QzkSJ)

82 Remember this on Byrd. There is no Statute of Limitations on murder. Ever.

No matter how long it takes, he needs to be indicted and tried for the murder of Ashli Babbit. Sooner would be better, but I'll take "later" over "never".


Jim
Sun New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 27, 2021 10:22 PM (QzJWU)

83 Hips don't lie

Lying boobs are acceptable

Posted by: Methos at December 27, 2021 10:23 PM (kOpft)

84 I was told that Japan - heretofore not the *most* idiotic place on earth WRT the collapse of science and the virus - is now requiring different quarantine periods for visiting gaijin, er, Americans, depending on your residence.

CA or IL and a few other states? 6 days.

Other places? 3 days.

I don't think even German has a word for this astonishing, endless, relentless piling of one baseless "intervention" upon another, this tweaking of all equally meaningless "policies" to prevent that which has likely already happened and is unpreventable in general. I sure don't know the word(s) for it.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 27, 2021 10:23 PM (OTzUX)

85 That's a touching story about DJT & Melania sending gifts to that kid

Posted by: vmom - link to Red's fundraiser at December 27, 2021 10:23 PM (tC/iN)

86 They're irresponsible idiots with money and decision making, and if you loan them money, they will not pay you back. If you help them out, their need will expand.
Posted by: nerdygirl


Hmmmm, sounds a little like our current society.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:23 PM (r1z5A)

87 So many co-signers were in denial when the person they did a favor for, crapped out on paying their car loan. Quite a few of them were shocked they were expected to make payments.

Years ago, a smart, witty, charming, and impecunious friend of mine came to me and explained that the Handy-Dandy E-Z Loan Company would lend him a few thousand dollars that he needed, if I would just cosign the loan.

I replied: "Of course they will. If I cosign, they're not lending the money to you. They're lending the money to me."

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 27, 2021 10:24 PM (I2/tG)

88 That "underwater cave entrance" appears to be what is known as a 'blue hole',
Posted by: Zettai

Now, yes.

But that required Work

Posted by: Miklos, still wondering if it was worth it at December 27, 2021 10:24 PM (QzkSJ)

89
"Look, there is no federal solution. This gets solved at the state level." Joe Biden December 2021
Translation: We're gonna lose in court.
Posted by: davidt


Will he recant if they win in court?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 27, 2021 10:24 PM (63Dwl)

90 84 I was told that Japan - heretofore not the *most* idiotic place on earth WRT the collapse of science and the virus - is now requiring different quarantine periods for visiting gaijin, er, Americans, depending on your residence."

And the endlessly recurring Question rises to our lips, once more - Japan; Nuked Too Much, or Not Enough?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2021 10:24 PM (evAgx)

91 Thanks for the swell ONT, Mis Hum!

That is some wet and heavy snow up top.

President and Mrs. Trump are good and decent Americans. I miss having them in the White House.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, Believing in America at December 27, 2021 10:25 PM (4GA/5)

92 Will he recant if they win in court?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 27, 2021 10:24 PM (63Dwl)

I think it's quite notable that even he knows that they won't.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2021 10:25 PM (evAgx)

93 82 Remember this on Byrd. There is no Statute of Limitations on murder. Ever.

No matter how long it takes, he needs to be indicted and tried for the murder of Ashli Babbit. Sooner would be better, but I'll take "later" over "never".


Jim
Sun New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 27, 2021 10:22 PM (QzJWU)

I would to. But it will never happen.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:25 PM (aA3+G)

94 requiring different quarantine periods for visiting gaijin, er, Americans, depending on your residence.

CA or IL and a few other states? 6 days.

Other places? 3 days.

Maybe they're just trying to discourage democrats from stealing their oxygen.

Posted by: Methos at December 27, 2021 10:25 PM (kOpft)

95 Poetry in Motion ONT Compliance GIFs

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at December 27, 2021 10:26 PM (qAR6u)

96 And I helped

Posted by: Fastly Strokewater - God's Gift to Women at December 27, 2021 10:26 PM (gWAUD)

97 I'm all in for chinups, as long as I ain't doing them. But I can easily watch them all day, as in that pic.

Saying No is pretty damn easy.

Actually, it isn't. Americans are the most generous people on the planet in general. "Charities" that send out 'gifts' to their mailing lists get a 6% response rate; far above the usual blind mailings. Send a gift, get a gift -- It's a rule. You all know the pressure applied.

No is hard to say or do. Evening, y'all.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 27, 2021 10:26 PM (F0YaR)

98
Also: I need scapegoats!
Posted by: Gref


Wearing pajamas

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 27, 2021 10:27 PM (63Dwl)

99 The Vaccines Work*, are Safe* and Effective*
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Let's make them safe, legal, and rare!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 27, 2021 10:27 PM (z4bSh)

100

I wish the Wounded Warrior Project would stop sending me "gifts"

Posted by: Zettai at December 27, 2021 10:27 PM (UCSRy)

101 SR is a boob guy and your an ass guy. Got it.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:10 PM (aA3+G)

Hips don't lie
Posted by: Doof

I'm pretty sure Doof appreciates a good "bass line", so to speak.

Posted by: Miklos, content in his opinions at December 27, 2021 10:27 PM (QzkSJ)

102 93 82 Remember this on Byrd. There is no Statute of Limitations on murder. Ever.
No matter how long it takes, he needs to be indicted and tried for the murder of Ashli Babbit. Sooner would be better, but I'll take "later" over "never".
Jim
Sun New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 27, 2021 10:22 PM (QzJWU)
I would to. But it will never happen.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:25 PM (aA3+G93


We can still dream can't we?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 10:28 PM (hOUT3)

103 But the front is a veritable cornucopia of eye goodies.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:20 PM (r1z5A)

You're not wrong. We can both be correct

Posted by: Doof at December 27, 2021 10:28 PM (mZUr4)

104
Yeah, it all started with Helen Curly Brown and Gloria Steinway and the women's lubrication movement.

Posted by: Archie Bunker at December 27, 2021 10:29 PM (Mzdiz)

105 Fuck Joe Biden and every democrat with a rusty chainsaw.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 27, 2021 10:29 PM (z4bSh)

106 I was told that Japan - heretofore not the *most* idiotic place on earth WRT the collapse of science and the virus - is now requiring different quarantine periods for visiting gaijin, er, Americans, depending on your residence.

CA or IL and a few other states? 6 days.

Other places? 3 days.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 27, 2021 10:23 PM (OTzUX)

I think the Japanese realize that the "6-day" States are governed by insane Donks, and therefore higher vaxx uptake and consequent greater infectiousness can be expected travelers from them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 27, 2021 10:29 PM (P3gRi)

107 No matter how long it takes, he needs to be indicted and tried for the murder of Ashli Babbit. Sooner would be better, but I'll take "later" over "never".

Jim
Sun New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 27, 2021 10:22 PM (QzJWU)

I would to. But it will never happen.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

So.

Miklos/Jim/Mis Hum 2032 it is then.

Posted by: Miklos, quasi-rising to the occasion at December 27, 2021 10:30 PM (QzkSJ)

108 We can still dream can't we?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 10:28 PM (hOUT3)

Oh, you're one of those optimistic fvckers?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:30 PM (aA3+G)

109 Hi everyone!
Thanks MisHum.
BTW MisHum, have we had Peaches En Regalia?
What about Dog Breath?
Saturday's my birthday. Just sayin'....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 27, 2021 10:30 PM (t0714)

110 You're not wrong. We can both be correct
Posted by: Doof


Fistbump!

Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:31 PM (r1z5A)

111 108 Well someone has to be buying lottery tickets.

Posted by: Bete at December 27, 2021 10:31 PM (Ojki1)

112 Good evening, Horde!

Posted by: Ladyl at December 27, 2021 10:31 PM (TdMsT)

113 105 Fuck Joe Biden and every democrat with a rusty chainsawcoping saw.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 27, 2021 10:29 PM (z4bSh)

Slower and painful I think.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:32 PM (aA3+G)

114 Well someone has to be buying lottery tickets.
Posted by: Bete

Spot me a couple, 'kay?

Posted by: Miklos, both temporarily and permanently embarrassed at December 27, 2021 10:32 PM (QzkSJ)

115 I was told that Japan - heretofore not the *most* idiotic place on earth WRT the collapse of science and the virus - is now requiring different quarantine periods for visiting gaijin, er, Americans, depending on your residence.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 27, 2021 10:23 PM

Japan is smarter than pretty much every Western nation in the world regarding COVID, considering they have been treating COVID patients with Ivermectin for months.

AUG 2021: Japanese medical association chairman tells doctors to prescribe Ivermectin for COVID - bit.ly/3CfqGDv

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 27, 2021 10:32 PM (Do5/p)

116 evening Ladyl

Posted by: wing at December 27, 2021 10:33 PM (PlW9M)

117 66 a couple years ago, police were called about an altercation in the pastors office on the north side of town. Ladies Altar Guild had a "disagreement" as to who was going to be in charge of selecting the flowers that Sunday. Funniest part was that the pastor sat back in his chair and just watched (maybe he had a bag of popcorn) while the ladies tried to rip each other's hair out by the roots.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2021 10:16 PM (evAgx)


My brother in law's parents had neighbors who would get into fights over their Bibles. It was a cause of amusement in the neighborhood.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 27, 2021 10:34 PM (+lVUW)

118 Good Evening {{{Ladyl}}}!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 10:34 PM (hOUT3)

119 Howdy COMM!! You're a new years day birthday girl??

Posted by: Doof at December 27, 2021 10:34 PM (mZUr4)

120 113 105 Fuck Joe Biden and every democrat with a rusty chainsaw coping saw.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 27, 2021 10:29 PM (z4bSh)

Slower and painful I think.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:32 PM (aA3+G)[.i]

Do not underestimate the Sawzall!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 10:35 PM (hOUT3)

121 And the endlessly recurring Question rises to our lips, once more - Japan; Nuked Too Much, or Not Enough?

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2021 10:24 PM (evAgx)


Option 3 -- We got it 'just right'. Funny thing happened after the wars -- Nazis are Still the worst thing evah, while the Japs, with a significantly worse war crimes record, got off mostly scot free.

Guilt is the answer, if you're looking for a single word reason.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 27, 2021 10:35 PM (F0YaR)

122 evening Ladyl
Posted by: wing

*instructs Heralds to sound, and Jesters to leap and amuse*

Posted by: Benevolent Miklos at December 27, 2021 10:35 PM (QzkSJ)

123 It turns out that the Crazy Karen (TM) on the Delta flight was a cheerleader for the Raiders back in the Nineties.

My question is, "Is she still hot?"

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 27, 2021 10:35 PM (dAd+z)

124 I saw Ladies Altar Guild open for Men Without Hats at the Inglewood Forum in '82.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 27, 2021 10:37 PM (VxC1e)

125 My question is, "Is she still hot?"
Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 27, 2021 10:35 PM (dAd+z)


going for the fundamentals, eh?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 10:37 PM (hOUT3)

126 Do not underestimate the Sawzall!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3)


We have a winner.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:37 PM (r1z5A)

127 My question is, "Is she still hot?"
Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 27, 2021 10:35 PM (dAd+z)

You need a copy of the hot-crazy matrix. And a stolen dick.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 27, 2021 10:37 PM (P3gRi)

128 Do not underestimate the Sawzall!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3)

Guy at the Flea Market had a rusty-looking Sawzall for $10.

Damn.

Posted by: Unprovidential Miklos at December 27, 2021 10:37 PM (QzkSJ)

129 My question is, "Is she still hot?"

She's divorced, has two adult children in England, and was looking for a furnished room in the Florida Panhandle for $1200/month after moving out of California, while claiming to be a "luxury real estate agent".

I don't think her life was going very well. It will go even less well now.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 27, 2021 10:39 PM (I2/tG)

130 Howdy COMM!! You're a new years day birthday girl??
Posted by: Doof

New Year, New You!

Posted by: Resolute Miklos at December 27, 2021 10:39 PM (QzkSJ)

131 It turns out that the Crazy Karen (TM) on the Delta flight was a cheerleader for the Raiders back in the Nineties.

My question is, "Is she still hot?"
Posted by: Pete in Texas


Looks wise, yes. Her personal life seems to be a bit of a train wreck. Based on her recent DUI/Drug arrest, substance abuse may have contributed.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:39 PM (r1z5A)

132 Do not underestimate the Sawzall!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 10:35 PM (hOUT3)

---------

An hour in the company of a Dremel Moto-Tool focuses the mind.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 27, 2021 10:40 PM (VxC1e)

133 Hmmmm, sounds a little like our current society.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:23 PM (r1z5A)


Yeah, I'm already paying enough for other peoples' stupidity through my taxes.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 27, 2021 10:40 PM (+lVUW)

134 Hi Doof!
Yep....

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 27, 2021 10:41 PM (t0714)

135 My question is, "Is she still hot?"

She's divorced, has two adult children in England, and was looking for a furnished room in the Florida Panhandle for $1200/month after moving out of California, while claiming to be a "luxury real estate agent".

I don't think her life was going very well. It will go even less well now.


"Yeah, but is she still hot?"

Posted by: t-bird at December 27, 2021 10:41 PM (l0Lgi)

136 I don't think her life was going very well. It will go even less well now.

Posted by: The ARC of History!

The art of humor is, to some extent, the art of understatement.

Posted by: Miklos, partial funder of all kinda jails at December 27, 2021 10:41 PM (QzkSJ)

137 I don't think her life was going very well. It will go even less well now.

A lot of women who were beautiful when they were young don't handle middle age very well, particularly if they aren't married.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 27, 2021 10:41 PM (I2/tG)

138 Why are there Kung Flu infections when Pricks are mandatory?


That's exactly how I've been phrasing it. I need to either rejoice that the HordeMind is successful or start tearing apart my house looking for cameras that MisHUm's planted. Decisions, decisions.....

Posted by: pookysgirl lives with a paramoiac at December 27, 2021 10:41 PM (XKZwp)

139 89
"Look, there is no federal solution. This gets solved at the state level." Joe Biden December 2021
Translation: We're gonna lose in court.
Posted by: davidt

Will he recant if they win in court?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 27, 2021 10:24 PM (63Dwl)


He's a career politician. He'll say whatever people are dumb enough to believe.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 27, 2021 10:42 PM (+lVUW)

140 An hour in the company of a Dremel Moto-Tool focuses the mind.
Posted by: Cicero

Dr. Sheissmacher is a well trained expert.

Ignore the accented English.

Posted by: Miklos, thinking there was a movie at December 27, 2021 10:43 PM (QzkSJ)

141 He's a career politician. He'll say whatever people are dumb enough to believe.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 27, 2021 10:42 PM (+lVUW)


I need to bookmark that comment!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 10:43 PM (hOUT3)

142 "Look, there is no federal solution. This gets solved at the state level." Joe Biden December 2021


This applies to practically everything.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:43 PM (r1z5A)

143 He'll say whatever people are dumb enough to believe.
Posted by: nerdygirl

I check it on myself first.

Posted by: Preznit Joey B. at December 27, 2021 10:44 PM (QzkSJ)

144 Arguing/fighting in church, was even a thing with the apostles. Luke included the account of them squabbling over who was the greatest amongst them. I never really registered that before but it resonated on this reading, this is human nature, no sense getting mad that Christians are behaving like this; even the apostles who faithfully spread the good news had some times of petty human behavior.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 27, 2021 10:44 PM (3cGpq)

145
An hour in the company of a Dremel Moto-Tool focuses the mind.
Posted by: Cicero


Is it safe?

Posted by: Marathon man's dentist at December 27, 2021 10:44 PM (63Dwl)

146 Posted by: pookysgirl lives with a paramoiac at December 27, 2021 10:41 PM (XKZwp)

My, my, what difficult decisions you have, I can help

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:45 PM (aA3+G)

147 He's a career politician. He'll say whatever people are dumb enough to believe.
Posted by: nerdygirl


Heh, joey will say whatever the prompter/notecard says, literally.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:45 PM (r1z5A)

148 Evening.

Looks like it'll be a couple of days before I get a load out.

Posted by: Robert at December 27, 2021 10:45 PM (1Yy3c)

149 He's a career politician. He'll say whatever people are dumb enough to believe.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 27, 2021 10:42 PM

As my friend George Costanza told me in the '90s, it's not a lie if *you* believe it. So that's my philosophy. If you all believe me, it's not a lie.

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 27, 2021 10:45 PM (Do5/p)

150 Re. Nokomis Jefferson, 29

His mom was the black prsn that watched grizzly Adams

Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 10:46 PM (lMmuq)

151 148 Evening.

Looks like it'll be a couple of days before I get a load out.
Posted by: Robert at December 27, 2021 10:45 PM (1Yy3c)

They have OTC medications for that.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:46 PM (aA3+G)

152 And when the scamdemic ends, it will be because of Joe's brilliant move to delegate to the states, not because Trump delegated to the states first, in the beginning.

Posted by: davidt at December 27, 2021 10:46 PM (gjH3l)

153 >>He's a career politician. He'll say whatever people are dumb enough to believe.

He's a Democrat career politician. He'll say whatever his pals in the media will get a majority of stupid people to believe. The reality is the Democrat party is at least as incompetent as the Republican party, they just have better media and far too many people including those who should know better fall for it all the time.

Without the media Democrats would be toast.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 27, 2021 10:46 PM (ZLI7S)

154 "Look, there is no federal solution. This gets solved at the state level."

Reminds me of the lyrics "There is no political solution. To our troubled evolution."

The Police - Spirits in the Material World.
From their outstanding album Ghost in the Machine.
https://youtu.be/iCgY0IdkfeU

Posted by: Doof at December 27, 2021 10:47 PM (mZUr4)

155 my friend George Costanza told me in the '90s, it's not a lie if *you* believe it. So that's my philosophy. If you all believe me, it's not a lie.


In fairness, that was Kramer, not George

Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 10:47 PM (lMmuq)

156 >>> 147 He's a career politician. He'll say whatever people are dumb enough to believe.
Posted by: nerdygirl


Heh, joey will say whatever the prompter/notecard says, literally.
Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 10:45 PM (r1z5A)

Salute the Marines!

Posted by: Joe Biden at December 27, 2021 10:47 PM (llON8)

157 They have OTC medications for that.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:46 PM (aA3+G)

Cherry flavored, too!

Posted by: Robert at December 27, 2021 10:47 PM (1Yy3c)

158
Re. Nokomis Jefferson, 29

His mom was the black prsn that watched grizzly Adams
Posted by: Y5


I KNEW that name sounded familiar.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 27, 2021 10:48 PM (63Dwl)

159 Posted by: pookysgirl lives with a paramoiac at December 27, 2021 10:41 PM (XKZwp)

My, my, what difficult decisions you have, I can help
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Unlike Chuck Berry, MisHum (to my limited knowledge) has never been sued, charged, or convicted for secret cameras.

So prolly OK, but can he Duck Walk?

Posted by: As Miklos recalls and inquires at December 27, 2021 10:48 PM (QzkSJ)

160 Evening.

Looks like it'll be a couple of days before I get a load out.
Posted by: Robert at December 27, 2021 10:45 PM (1Yy3c)


You asked for it...

Jackson Browne - The Load Out / Stay
https://youtu.be/rukvfk9a6rY

Posted by: Doof at December 27, 2021 10:49 PM (mZUr4)

161 Good evening, {{{Hrothgar}}} and {{{Wing}}}

Posted by: Ladyl at December 27, 2021 10:50 PM (TdMsT)

162 Salute the Marines!
Posted by: Joe Biden

They can't salute back, Joe.

They're holding our umbrellas.

Posted by: B. Soetoro O. at December 27, 2021 10:50 PM (QzkSJ)

163 Thanks for the ONT.

He did not own them, he was just having carnal knowledge of them.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 27, 2021 10:51 PM (dNqv+)

164 I ran across this study that purports to find about 150K people have died from the clot shot

https://tinyurl.com/ynbm5rnf

The money line?

We do not see much benefit in vaccine mandates other than increasing serviceable
obtainable market (SOM) share for the vaccine companies

Posted by: 18-1 at December 27, 2021 10:52 PM (ESjRY)

165 So prolly OK, but can he Duck Walk?
Posted by: As Miklos recalls and inquires at December 27, 2021 10:48 PM (QzkSJ)

Depends on how medication i have for my knees.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:52 PM (aA3+G)

166 Joe Biden, first he gets defeated by the Taliban, then Corona...next...dementia?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 27, 2021 10:52 PM (ESjRY)

167 Jackson Browne - The Load Out / Stay
https://youtu.be/rukvfk9a6rY
Posted by: Doof

I see that and raise with the Original

https://tinyurl.com/2p82fnxh

Posted by: Miklos Williams and the Zodiacs at December 27, 2021 10:52 PM (QzkSJ)

168 A quick update on something I posted about a week or two ago: some of you will remember back in November when one of the stories involved firearms attorney Andrew Branca, and Branca himself posted in the thread and made an offer for AoSHQ folks. Well, like a fool, I took him up on it. I got the free download book, of course, and also spent an additional roughly $60 to buy three hardcopy volumes of his Law of Self Defense books to give as gifts. Since then, the email address I used to place the order has been constantly and relentlessly spammed by Branca's company, and no books ever arrived. After a while and an inquiry, I was provided with a tracking number, which has now been in "Shipping Label Created, USPS Awaiting Item" status for three weeks.

I am left to conclude that Branca is a crook and a huckster and a fraud. He is, however, no fool. The only fool was me, for giving him my money, a mistake I'll not make again, and which I will vociferously encourage others to not make.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 27, 2021 10:53 PM (lNHqD)

169 A lot of women who were beautiful when they were young don't handle middle age very well, particularly if they aren't married.

As one such woman in such a situation I know puts it...men used to be so much nicer!

Posted by: 18-1 at December 27, 2021 10:54 PM (ESjRY)

170 I am left to conclude that Branca is a crook and a huckster and a fraud. He is, however, no fool. The only fool was me, for giving him my money, a mistake I'll not make again, and which I will vociferously encourage others to not make.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 27, 2021 10:53 PM (lNHqD)

That's too bad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 27, 2021 10:54 PM (dNqv+)

171 "CDC HALVES quarantine to five days for everyone who contracts COVID 'to keep society functioning'."

Follow the Science?

types/deletes

Posted by: Gref at December 27, 2021 10:54 PM (AMIL/)

172 Posted by: PaleRider at December 27, 2021 10:44 PM (3cGpq)



IIRC Corinthians gave a great insight into the early church!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 10:54 PM (hOUT3)

173 Is he sending th email spam cod?

How bad is more fucking spam?

Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 10:55 PM (lMmuq)

174 He's a Democrat career politician. He'll say whatever his pals in the media will get a majority of stupid people to believe. The reality is the Democrat party is at least as incompetent as the Republican party, they just have better media and far too many people including those who should know better fall for it all the time.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 27, 2021 10:46 PM

The sad thing is, no matter how many people on the right want to claim that "no one watches/trusts/believes the media", everything the right/GOP does is based on how it will play with the media. Because the media still has the most power and influence in society, no matter what the ratings say.

It's why the majority of political people were so against Trump in 2016. He was not following any of the political consultant suggestions of how to run a campaign. "He can't take position X, because that's too divisive", "he can't say X, because the media will use it against us", etc. Even after he pulled off a major upset, people on the right were still uneasy about his "mean tweets". Not because he was saying anything wrong, but because the media was using them to smear the GOP.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 27, 2021 10:56 PM (Do5/p)

175 171 "CDC HALVES quarantine to five days for everyone who contracts COVID 'to keep society functioning'."

Follow the Science?

types/deletes
Posted by: Gref at December 27, 2021 10:54 PM (AMIL/)

They seem to be noticing a bit late. Fuck you, CDC. Damage done you political hacks.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 27, 2021 10:56 PM (dNqv+)

176 129 My question is, "Is she still hot?"

She's divorced, has two adult children in England, and was looking for a furnished room in the Florida Panhandle for $1200/month after moving out of California, while claiming to be a "luxury real estate agent".

I don't think her life was going very well. It will go even less well now.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 27, 2021 10:39 PM (I2/tG)


So, a princess type who is having difficulty learning that sooner or later people decide they won't put up with her shit.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 27, 2021 10:56 PM (+lVUW)

177 173 Is he sending th email spam cod?

How bad is more fucking spam?

Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 10:55 PM (lMmuq)

Well I don't like Spam!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 27, 2021 10:56 PM (dNqv+)

178 In fairness, that was Kramer, not George

Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 10:47 PM

No, it was me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn_PSJsl0LQ

Posted by: George Costanza at December 27, 2021 10:57 PM (Do5/p)

179
IIRC Corinthians gave a great insight into the early church!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar


Two Corinthians walk into a bar...

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 27, 2021 10:57 PM (63Dwl)

180 Jackson Browne - The Load Out / Stay
https://youtu.be/rukvfk9a6rY
Posted by: Doof

I see that and raise with the Original

https://tinyurl.com/2p82fnxh
Posted by: Miklos Williams and the Zodiacs at December 27, 2021 10:52 PM (QzkSJ)


Nice!

That Jackson Browne live version of Load Out / Stay was recorded at Merriweather Post Pavillion -- Not too far from Casa de Doof. I've seen many a concert at Merriweather

Posted by: Doof at December 27, 2021 10:57 PM (mZUr4)

181 Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 27, 2021 10:53 PM (lNHqD

Dang.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 27, 2021 10:57 PM (II3Gr)

182 How many guessed it was a black church where the brawl took place?

Posted by: Just a side note at December 27, 2021 10:57 PM (DAevm)

183 182 How many guessed it was a black church where the brawl took place?
Posted by: Just a side note at December 27, 2021 10:57 PM (DAevm)

Why did you ask that question?

Never mind, no need to answer.....

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:58 PM (aA3+G)

184 177 173 Is he sending th email spam cod?

How bad is more fucking spam?

Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 10:55 PM (lMmuq)

Well I don't like Spam!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 27, 2021 10:56 PM (dNqv+)

Fortunately for me, I used a masked email (and masked credit card) when I placed the order, which is SOP for me when ordering from somewhere new. I can shut off the email address, and he can't scam my card, but I'm still out the original $60.

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 27, 2021 10:58 PM (lNHqD)

185 Ignore the accented English.
Posted by: Miklos, thinking there was a movie at December 27, 2021 10:43 PM (QzkSJ)


it is the tattoo in the armpit . . .

Posted by: Kindltot at December 27, 2021 10:59 PM (ZMraq)

186 I still say we don't know how the rank and file police and soldier would react to "crackdown" Australian type orders. All we know so far is that the top brass is corrupt, the Capitol Police and FBI are corrupt, and that cops won't risk their jobs and pensions to defend corporation and neighborhood property against their orders, and that National Guard will stand around defending a fence against noone. It's a much bigger step for them to go out and go after what is basically their people. I think the Junta knows this, which is why the coercion is threats in the media that never happen actually instead of Australian type actions.

Posted by: Azjaeger at December 27, 2021 10:59 PM (3/XaG)

187 From the Land of Sky-Blue Waters...

I really miss President Trump. What a contrast to that vile, mean-spirited life-long slacker, FJB...

Posted by: Garth Stonehocker at December 27, 2021 10:59 PM (gWAUD)

188 The thing is hotties are not staying in a 1200 a month shithol in Florida, they are riding a guy, or guys, in an ocean view apartment in Miami with a nose of blow

Fyi

Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 10:59 PM (lMmuq)

189 Arminianism begets violence.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. at December 27, 2021 10:59 PM (II3Gr)

190 >>The sad thing is, no matter how many people on the right want to claim that "no one watches/trusts/believes the media", everything the right/GOP does is based on how it will play with the media. Because the media still has the most power and influence in society, no matter what the ratings say.

Agree 100%.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 27, 2021 11:00 PM (ZLI7S)

191 Depends on how medication i have for my knees.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Dr. Miklos' Horse De-Wormer and Universal Joint Remedy*.

Cures what ails ya

*with Super Laudanum Plus, available only through our Fine Mexican Distributors

Posted by: Prof. Dr. Chikoadinaka Wnankpa, Healer Of Herbalist Knowlewdges at December 27, 2021 11:00 PM (QzkSJ)

192 How many guessed it was a black church where the brawl took place?
Posted by: Just a side note at December 27, 2021 10:57 PM (DAevm)

I didn't watch the video but it looked fairly well lit to me.

Posted by: Robert at December 27, 2021 11:00 PM (1Yy3c)

193 Fortunately for me, I used a masked email (and masked credit card) when I placed the order, which is SOP for me when ordering from somewhere new. I can shut off the email address, and he can't scam my card, but I'm still out the original $60.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 27, 2021 10:58 PM (lNHqD)

Well, hopefully it is just a matter of the holiday rush and supply chain delays. He offered those free books everywhere around the Rittenhouse trial, so I am guessing there was a metric shit ton of takers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 27, 2021 11:00 PM (dNqv+)

194 I hold all Republican Governors responsible for Biden's Covid plan failure..

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 27, 2021 11:01 PM (NM8ko)

195 Arminianism begets violence.
Posted by: Insomniac

And then, Bishop, is when the fight started.

Posted by: Ann Athanasian at December 27, 2021 11:01 PM (QzkSJ)

196 191 Depends on how medication i have for my knees.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Dr. Miklos' Horse De-Wormer and Universal Joint Remedy*.

Cures what ails ya

*with Super Laudanum Plus, available only through our Fine Mexican Distributors
Posted by: Prof. Dr. Chikoadinaka Wnankpa, Healer Of Herbalist Knowlewdges at December 27, 2021 11:00 PM (QzkSJ)

I'm a moron, I'll try it.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 11:01 PM (aA3+G)

197 167 Miklos

Thanks for that link!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at December 27, 2021 11:01 PM (t0714)

198 Well I don't like Spam!
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 27, 2021 10:56 PM (dNqv+)

Is there an unsubscribe link, there should be.

I have always used the filters for spam and different accounts for undesirables, such as the Horde members I correspond with from time to time.

Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 11:01 PM (lMmuq)

199 Barley Shochu gets a thumbs up from me.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 27, 2021 11:02 PM (dNqv+)

200 "Yeah, but is she still hot?"

Irrelevant. As my father used to say: "Never stick it in crazy."

Posted by: Nemo at December 27, 2021 11:02 PM (S6ArX)

201 "Yeah, but is she still hot?"
Posted by: t-bird at December 27, 2021 10:41 PM (l0Lgi)"


Insty's got a link at 7:05 pm and you can judge for yourself. But don't stick your dick in crazy always applies.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 27, 2021 11:02 PM (ZSK0i)

202 Fortunately for me, I used a masked email (and masked credit card) when I placed the order

---------

Can I get these double-masked? You can't be too careful!

Posted by: Karen at December 27, 2021 11:02 PM (VxC1e)

203 If I were an elected official in Portland, I'd be getting a bit nervous. Someone posted on Portland Reddit - the first paragraph of which was:

Last night I was held at gunpoint, over a fucking $20 bill. Ive had my window smashed out, twice, in the past 6 weeks, for nothing, in a fucking parking garage mind you. And about 3 months ago, a vagrant drug addict took a 2x4 to my entire (brand new) car for no reason as well.

He's moving to the suburbs.

This post has generated over 1200 comments, the vast majority supporting what the guy was saying, and more than 1600 net upvotes.

The pro-Antifa moderators of Portland Reddit took the post down, but then thought better of it, and put it back up.

The overt cop haters running in Portland lost in the last election - we'll see if some actual law and order candidates win next time.

The ongoing collapse of public order in Portland concentrates the mind, apparently.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 27, 2021 11:02 PM (I2/tG)

204 but I'm still out the original $60.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 27, 2021 10:58 PM (lNHqD)

Can always file a merchant dispute with your card issuer but you got to email him, ask for a refund and get some kind of response before the bank does anything.

Posted by: Robert at December 27, 2021 11:03 PM (1Yy3c)

205 194 I hold all Republican Governors responsible for Biden's Covid plan failure..
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 27, 2021 11:01 PM (NM8ko)

So do I, God bless em.

On the other hand his plan has mostly been about punishing the political enemies of the left and the jury is still out there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 27, 2021 11:03 PM (dNqv+)

206 Two Corinthians walk into a bar...
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr


And these Two Romans say....

Posted by: Pope Miklos the Innocent at December 27, 2021 11:04 PM (QzkSJ)

207 Insty's got a link at 7:05 pm and you can judge for yourself. But don't stick your dick in crazy always applies.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 27, 2021 11:02 PM (ZSK0i)

Crazy eyes (big surprise) and a bit leathery.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 27, 2021 11:04 PM (dNqv+)

208 The thing is there is nothing wrong with fucking crazy girls, you just have to be aware that they are crazy.

The best way to do this is assume every girl is crazy and wait for her to show otherwise

Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 11:05 PM (lMmuq)

209 How many guessed it was a black church where the brawl took place?

Posted by: Just a side note at December 27, 2021 10:57 PM (DAevm)

I didn't watch the video but it looked fairly well lit to me.

Posted by: Robert at December 27, 2021 11:00 PM

Can we forget about the things I said when I was drunk?
I didn't mean to call you that
I can't remember what was said or what you threw at me
Please tell me...

Posted by: Lit at December 27, 2021 11:05 PM (Do5/p)

210 @24 "Look, there is no federal solution. This gets solved at the state level." Joe Biden December 2021


Translation: We're gonna lose in court.

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They already knew that they were going to lose in court. Biden even said he didn't have the authority to enforce the mandates back when he first announced that the mandates were coming. I think this is more of a "We were kinda hoping that this thing would have resolved itself by now, and we're out of ideas, but there are too many hysterical Karens out there who won't let it go. So we're going to make it the states' problem, and wash our hands of it."

Posted by: junior at December 27, 2021 11:05 PM (PTw5h)

211 The ongoing collapse of public order in Portland concentrates the mind, apparently.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 27, 2021 11:02 PM (I2/tG)

I think personal property should be defended with a firearm. Too bad the laws of the looney say otherwise.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 11:05 PM (aA3+G)

212 Do not underestimate the Sawzall!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 10:35 PM (hOUT3)

Or their cordless Hackzall. One handed, like a light saber. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 27, 2021 11:06 PM (VwHCD)

213 The best way to do this is assume every girl is crazy and wait for her to show otherwise
Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 11:05 PM (lMmuq)

Yeah, but there is insane and then there is insane.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 27, 2021 11:06 PM (dNqv+)

214 Deciding that it was unwise to fight these in court was surprisingly smart for biden

Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 11:06 PM (lMmuq)

215 Insty's got a link at 7:05 pm and you can judge for yourself. But don't stick your dick in crazy always applies.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at December 27, 2021 11:02 PM

UK Daily Mail with the pictures here: https://bit.ly/3EzQVFw

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 27, 2021 11:07 PM (Do5/p)

216 Can we forget about the things I said when I was drunk?
I didn't mean to call you that
I can't remember what was said or what you threw at me
Please tell me...
Posted by: Lit at December 27, 2021 11:05 PM (Do5/p)

The local rock station played that no less than 600 times a week for 20 years.

*Sets himself on fire*

Posted by: Robert at December 27, 2021 11:08 PM (1Yy3c)

217 Pennsyltucky, you make me very glad I followed my hunch (no evidence, just a hunch) not to take that offer. Sorry you got taken, but thanks for passing your experience along.

Posted by: Ann Wilson, aka Empire 1 at December 27, 2021 11:08 PM (JJatH)

218 The thing is there is nothing wrong with fucking crazy girls, you just have to be aware that they are crazy.

The best way to do this is assume every girl is crazy and wait for her to show otherwise

Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 11:05 PM (lMmuq)

You need the ability to leave an epic vapor trail.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 27, 2021 11:08 PM (VwHCD)

219 They created the Karens, but they don't control the Karens. Nobody controls the Karens, except maybe other Karens. And now they're beginning to grasp the enormity of the monster that they turned loose...

Posted by: CppThis at December 27, 2021 11:08 PM (UewuT)

220 The problem with the States deciding is the Governors will decide, not the State Legislatures. We have inslee, we're screwed.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 11:09 PM (r1z5A)

221 Thanks for that link!
Posted by: COMountainMarie

FUN FACT

Maurice Williams had a glimpse into Show Business and all that at an early age.

Decided it was not for him, despite all the attractions. Became a Preacher of the Gospel.

Posted by: Miklos, happy with this particular Fun Fact at December 27, 2021 11:09 PM (QzkSJ)

222 Can always file a merchant dispute with your card issuer but you got to email him, ask for a refund and get some kind of response before the bank does anything.
Posted by: Robert

This.
My wife convinced me that only with credit cards can you have any sway over merchants. Being the up-front guy I am, I always wanted to use my debit card.
Oh, contraire, mon frere.
You can contest both, but the money is pulled immediately from a debit account, but not from a credit account.
I contest a credit charge... they never get payed. I contest a debit charge, maybe I get my money back after 3-4 months.

Posted by: MkY at December 27, 2021 11:09 PM (cPGH3)

223 Long ago we had a commenter who would say something a Sawzall will be more useful than guns when things go sideways and most roofs are very breachable with just a Sawzall. I still miss Purp at times.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 27, 2021 11:09 PM (3cGpq)

224 Do not underestimate the Sawzall!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 10:35 PM (hOUT3)

Or their cordless Hackzall. One handed, like a light saber. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 27, 2021 11:06 PM (VwHCD)

both would cut better if you first drilled a 3/8" hole through the joint.

evening everyone

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at December 27, 2021 11:09 PM (IJES/)

225 I think personal property should be defended with a firearm. Too bad the laws of the looney say otherwise.

Oregon still has Castle Doctrine, amazingly - even the left-wing legislature hasn't dared to mess with that yet.

I wouldn't test that before a Portland jury, however - in the suburban county I live in, I'd do fine.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 27, 2021 11:09 PM (I2/tG)

226 Deciding that it was unwise to fight these in court was surprisingly smart for biden
Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 11:06 PM (lMmuq)

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Remembering that the socks go on first is surprisingly smart for Biden.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 27, 2021 11:10 PM (VxC1e)

227 *Sets himself on fire*

There's a man who will never be cold again.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 27, 2021 11:10 PM (SchxB)

228
Looking at those DM pics of the CovidKaren, I can only say poor cat.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 27, 2021 11:10 PM (Mzdiz)

229 @218 Berserker- ....a vapor trail AND a good vehicle window replacement on your insurance.

Posted by: JROD at December 27, 2021 11:11 PM (0jZnq)

230 The local rock station played that no less than 600 times a week for 20 years.

*Sets himself on fire*
Posted by: Robert

*douses Robert in anything handy and non-flammable (which ain't much)*

Posted by: Miklos, who was both Boy Scout and Young Pioneer at December 27, 2021 11:11 PM (QzkSJ)

231 Guns are not that useful, sort of bitch to worry over.

Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 11:11 PM (lMmuq)

232 They created the Karens, but they don't control the Karens. Nobody controls the Karens, except maybe other Karens. And now they're beginning to grasp the enormity of the monster that they turned loose...
Posted by: CppThis at December 27, 2021 11:08 PM (UewuT)

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I'm beginning to grasp that I'll need to up the annual popcorn budget.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 27, 2021 11:11 PM (VxC1e)

233 *Sets himself on fire*

There's a man who will never be cold again.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 27, 2021 11:10 PM (SchxB)

Make a man a fire and you make him warm for a day
Set a man on fire and he's warm for life.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 27, 2021 11:11 PM (VwHCD)

234 113 105 Fuck Joe Biden and every democrat with a rusty chainsawcoping saw.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 27, 2021 10:29 PM (z4bSh)

Slower and painful I think.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 27, 2021 10:32 PM (aA3+G)


I think the punishment you are seeking for the Democrats is old-fashioned impalement. It would make people scream in agony for hours, or seconds, depending on the orders to the impalement team. There were many gruesome methods of impalement. Long before there were chainsaws or coping saws.

Posted by: Gref at December 27, 2021 11:12 PM (AMIL/)

235 You need the ability to leave an epic vapor trail.
Posted by: B




Indeed!

Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 11:12 PM (lMmuq)

236
The overt cop haters running in Portland lost in the last election - we'll see if some actual law and order candidates win next time.

The ongoing collapse of public order in Portland concentrates the mind, apparently.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 27, 2021 11:02 PM (I2/tG)

Reminds me of toothpaste - damn hard to put it back into the tube once it's out.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2021 11:12 PM (evAgx)

237
You need the ability to leave an epic vapor trail.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 27, 2021 11:08 PM (VwHCD)

easily accomplished with a steady diet of beans. breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

follow me for more recipes

Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at December 27, 2021 11:12 PM (IJES/)

238 *Sets himself on fire*

There's a man who will never be cold again.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

Set a man on fire, he will be warm for a day.

Teach him to set himself on fire....

Posted by: Blind and Reasonably non-infalammbale Monk Miklos at December 27, 2021 11:13 PM (QzkSJ)

239 232 I'm beginning to grasp that I'll need to up the annual popcorn budget.

inflation. well, once you put it in hot oil.

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at December 27, 2021 11:13 PM (edU/H)

240 You need the ability to leave an epic vapor trail.

Taco Bell for lunch and cabbage with dinner should help with that.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at December 27, 2021 11:13 PM (SchxB)

241 @220 The problem with the States deciding is the Governors will decide, not the State Legislatures. We have inslee, we're screwed.

----

And I'm in California. Gruesome Newsome has confirmation that the voters won't throw him out. However, the legislatures *can* intervene. There's been at least one state (I can't remember which one off the top of my head) that recently voted to revoke its governor's emergency powers.

Posted by: junior at December 27, 2021 11:13 PM (PTw5h)

242 Fortunately for me, I used a masked email (and masked credit card) when I placed the order, which is SOP for me when ordering from somewhere new. I can shut off the email address, and he can't scam my card, but I'm still out the original $60.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 27, 2021 10:58 PM (lNHqD)


Glad you didn't lose more. I tend to restrict my online ordering to major, well known companies.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 27, 2021 11:13 PM (+lVUW)

243 easily accomplished with a steady diet of beans. breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

follow me for more recipes
Posted by: BifBewalski @ (IJES/) - at December 27, 2021 11:12 PM (IJES/)

Corned Beef and Cabbage

White Castles

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 27, 2021 11:13 PM (dNqv+)

244 They already knew that they were going to lose in court. Biden even said he didn't have the authority to enforce the mandates back when he first announced that the mandates were coming. I think this is more of a "We were kinda hoping that this thing would have resolved itself by now, and we're out of ideas, but there are too many hysterical Karens out there who won't let it go. So we're going to make it the states' problem, and wash our hands of it."

Posted by: junior at December 27, 2021 11:05 PM

Which doesn't help all the people fired from their jobs over the past year due to COVID protocols (military, "healthcare" industry, corporations, etc).

I disagree that they thought this was going to be over by now. I believe this was all to usher in vaccine passports and China-style social credit system. The Great Reset. And that still hasn't been stopped. They are slow-walking all of this stuff. When there is no one on the right (in a position of influence), not even Trump or DeSantis (who supports "vaccines", just not mandates), standing up to "vaccines", we have a problem.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 27, 2021 11:14 PM (Do5/p)

245 I think the punishment you are seeking for the Democrats is old-fashioned impalement. It would make people scream in agony for hours, or seconds, depending on the orders to the impalement team. There were many gruesome methods of impalement. Long before there were chainsaws or coping saws.

Posted by: Gref at December 27, 2021 11:12 PM (AMIL/)

Yes, yes, yeeeuuuus. Rows of the impaled. Been saying that for years.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 27, 2021 11:14 PM (VwHCD)

246 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

is hereby appointed as head of the Patent and Trademark Division.

Posted by: GlobalMiklosCorp at December 27, 2021 11:14 PM (QzkSJ)

247 Long ago we had a commenter who would say something a Sawzall will be more useful than guns when things go sideways and most roofs are very breachable with just a Sawzall. I still miss Purp at times.
Posted by: PaleRider

I've destroyed property with a sawzall. If we're talking end-times, better bring a generator.

Sans electricity, I'd use a splitting maul for roofs, double edge for walls.
But that's just me.

Posted by: MkY at December 27, 2021 11:14 PM (cPGH3)

248 148 Evening.

Looks like it'll be a couple of days before I get a load out.
Posted by: Robert at December 27, 2021 10:45 PM (1Yy3c)

sounds like a job for Ex-Lax!

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2021 11:15 PM (evAgx)

249
They created the Karens, but they don't control the Karens. Nobody controls the Karens, except maybe other Karens. And now they're beginning to grasp the enormity of the monster that they turned loose...
Posted by: CppThis


The Brides of Faucistein.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 27, 2021 11:16 PM (63Dwl)

250 Corned Beef and Cabbage

White Castles
Posted by: Aetius451AD

FUN FACT

The original Austrian version of the Sound of Music included those lyrics

Posted by: Miklos von Trapp at December 27, 2021 11:16 PM (QzkSJ)

251 ..Long ago we had a commenter who would say something a Sawzall will be more useful than guns when things go sideways and most roofs are very breachable with just a Sawzall. I still miss Purp at times. Posted by: PaleRider at December 27, 2021 11:09 PM (3cGpq)

Point granted, but a powerful gas-engined chainsaw would be faster. Much faster. And if you're needing to breach a roof, speed *will* matter.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 27, 2021 11:16 PM (QzJWU)

252 Even if he was charged (fat chance), does anybody seriously expect a DC jury to convict Byrd?

Posted by: butch at December 27, 2021 11:16 PM (cHvOo)

253 Glad you didn't lose more. I tend to restrict my online ordering to major, well known companies.

I use Paypal when I can - I'm still vulnerable to Paypal being hacked, but I'm not giving my credit card into to a bunch of online retailers.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 27, 2021 11:16 PM (I2/tG)

254 Glad you didn't lose more. I tend to restrict my online ordering to major, well known companies.

I learned this lesson when I bought a song from an itunes type online company that I had never heard of. They charged me $78 instead of $.78. Lesson learned.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 27, 2021 11:17 PM (+lVUW)

255 Jim
Sunk New Dawn

With that carbide blade you know doubt stashed?

Posted by: MkY at December 27, 2021 11:17 PM (cPGH3)

256 They created the Karens, but they don't control the Karens. Nobody controls the Karens, except maybe other Karens. And now they're beginning to grasp the enormity of the monster that they turned loose...
Posted by: CppThis

And the karens are kept equal, by hatchet, axe, and saw.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 27, 2021 11:17 PM (VwHCD)

257 know=no

Posted by: MkY at December 27, 2021 11:18 PM (cPGH3)

258 @244 (who supports "vaccines", just not mandates), standing up to "vaccines", we have a problem.

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Without mandates, the vaccine is a non-issue. You get it, or you don't. It's up to you, just like with the annual flu vaccines. The problem is the mandates. Get rid of those, and they can't do anything to people who don't want to get vaccinated.

Forced masking is more or less the same thing.

Posted by: junior at December 27, 2021 11:18 PM (PTw5h)

259 The thing is there is nothing wrong with fucking crazy girls, you just have to be aware that they are crazy.

-
Just don't use your real name, address, or phone number. Use a burner phone, tell her there's construction at your house, and use the name Dick Highentight.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks Now With Pumpkin Spice! at December 27, 2021 11:18 PM (FVME7)

260 After a while and an inquiry, I was provided with a tracking number, which has now been in "Shipping Label Created, USPS Awaiting Item" status for three weeks.

I am left to conclude that Branca is a crook and a huckster and a fraud. He is, however, no fool. The only fool was me, for giving him my money, a mistake I'll not make again, and which I will vociferously encourage others to not make.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 27, 2021 10:53 PM (lNHqD)

I have the same with a priority international package, 3 days I've tried to get through and been on hold 'for an agent' for over an hour. It could be it's just the USPS sucks.

Posted by: firehorse at December 27, 2021 11:18 PM (qkPqY)

261
We bought new rocking recliners for the living room today. Large, overstuffed, lovely new recliners. Much falling asleep in them in the future.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2021 11:18 PM (/U27+)

262 They created the Karens, but they don't control the Karens. Nobody controls the Karens, except maybe other Karens. And now they're beginning to grasp the enormity of the monster that they turned loose...
Posted by: CppThis

Only their hairdressers know.

Posted by: Miklos, suspectifying at December 27, 2021 11:19 PM (QzkSJ)

263
10 Didn't know Zappa's band did a version of "Ring of Fire".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at December 27, 2021 10:02 PM (Dc2NZ)

----

Their gleeful contempt for it was entertaining for them, not for me.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 27, 2021 11:20 PM (2iDSr)

264 We bought new rocking recliners for the living room today. Large, overstuffed, lovely new recliners. Much falling asleep in them in the future.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2021 11:18 PM (/U27+)

So, new dog beds, eh?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 27, 2021 11:20 PM (dNqv+)

265 The thing is, nobody controls the karens, not even the karens


Those bitches are as interested in what they are going to do next as everybody else is

Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 11:21 PM (lMmuq)

266
Daily Mail has the copy of the police report on the CrazyKaren. It ends thus:

'Based on the foregoing, I am pleased to announce that there is probable cause to charge PATRICIA YANNET CORNWALL for a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 113(a)(4), where PATRICIA YANNET CORNWALL assaulted by striking, hitting, or injuring RSM in the US special aircraft jurisdiction.'

Apparently, she had an initial hearing before a federal judge today. She had to cool her jets since Thursday in the pokey.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 27, 2021 11:21 PM (Mzdiz)

267 I gots a great story about Fedex. I ordered a needed part last Tuesday. Paid for two day shipping.
Was going to a business address, mind you. Got an email Thursday, that my shipment was delayed one day. Fair enough, it's Christmas time, heavy load, I get it.

Posted by: MkY at December 27, 2021 11:21 PM (cPGH3)

268 155
It was George.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at December 27, 2021 11:21 PM (roH4R)

269 We bought new rocking recliners for the living room today. Large, overstuffed, lovely new recliners. Much falling asleep in them in the future.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2021 11:18 PM (/U27+)

So, new dog beds, eh?
Posted by: Aetius451AD

More and better food, we talk.

Posted by: the dogs at December 27, 2021 11:21 PM (QzkSJ)

270 So I go sit at the shop all day Friday, though I know I'm not gonna get any phone calls, cause it's Christmas, right?
decide to shoot my new black powder pistol. Nothing else to do, and I'm all alone in an entire industrial bottoms.

Posted by: MkY at December 27, 2021 11:23 PM (cPGH3)

271 'Based on the foregoing, I am pleased to announce that there is probable cause to charge PATRICIA YANNET CORNWALL for a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 113(a)(4), where PATRICIA YANNET CORNWALL assaulted by striking, hitting, or injuring RSM in the US special aircraft jurisdiction.'


Posted by: publius

"Yannet"

Ima say guilty

Posted by: Juror Miklos #1 at December 27, 2021 11:23 PM (QzkSJ)

272 267 I gots a great story about Fedex.

-------

Meh. No character arc.

Posted by: Wm. Shakespeare at December 27, 2021 11:23 PM (VxC1e)

273 250Corned Beef and Cabbage

White Castles
Posted by: Aetius451AD

FUN FACT

The original Austrian version of the Sound of Music included those lyrics


edelweiss in the original klingon?

Posted by: Kulak Anachronda, behind the Newsom curtain at December 27, 2021 11:24 PM (edU/H)

274 They, the karens, ere essentially the same as that planet eater thing in star st

Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 11:24 PM (lMmuq)

275 Hadrian, you have a small package coming. Since I can't get the beautifully elegant and accomplished Delilah anything, the congratulatory gift comes to you and Her Majesty.

Posted by: Ann Wilson, aka Empire 1 at December 27, 2021 11:24 PM (JJatH)

276 @260 I have the same with a priority international package, 3 days I've tried to get through and been on hold 'for an agent' for over an hour. It could be it's just the USPS sucks.

----

Last month, my rent check was over four weeks late due to the USPS. I assumed it got lost in the mail, or I'd screwed up the address (which is what happened the last time something I mailed went astray; it came back three weeks later). But the USPS just took its sweet time delivering it.

I was pretty pissed off, both when it disappeared, and when it suddenly resurfaced weeks late. Disappearing might be my fault. But a weeks late delivery is squarely the fault of the Postal Service.

Posted by: junior at December 27, 2021 11:24 PM (PTw5h)

277 Point granted, but a powerful gas-engined chainsaw would be faster. Much faster. And if you're needing to breach a roof, speed *will* matter.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at December 27, 2021 11:16 PM (QzJWU)


Chainsaws can choke on nails. I'd be tempted to try a cordless circular saw with a carbide-tipped blade.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 27, 2021 11:25 PM (P3gRi)

278 Apparently, she had an initial hearing before a federal judge today. She had to cool her jets since Thursday in the pokey.
Posted by: publius

Sign here

Posted by: New Year's Resolutions per the Federal Marshals Service at December 27, 2021 11:25 PM (QzkSJ)

279 MkY. No such thing as "a" carbide blade around here. I doubt that I have as many as AOP will have at his location(s). Pays to have a spare bar and roller for the chainsaw, too. Might only have to rarely change one out, but those *are* consumable items on the machine, given enough useage.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 27, 2021 11:25 PM (QzJWU)

280 Looks like it'll be a couple of days before I get a load out.

Posted by: Robert at December 27, 2021 10:45 PM

Do you like good boogie / Like a real boogie woogie
Hear the juke box singin' / A get the dance hall swingin'
A won't you grab my shaker / I got to meet your maker
Uumm get out the [load]
Get out on up there
Get the [load] out

https://bit.ly/3pzq0FG

Posted by: Aerosmith at December 27, 2021 11:26 PM (Do5/p)

281 So I go sit at the shop again today, just for this part.
At 3:50, the Fedex guy shows.
I tell him I've been waiting 8 hours for him, and waited 8 hours on Friday, too.
He said, "I came by Friday, but there was a guy with a pistol shooting back there, and no one else was around, so I just kept going."

Posted by: MkY at December 27, 2021 11:26 PM (cPGH3)

282
So, new dog beds, eh?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 27, 2021 11:20 PM (dNqv+)

__________

Hadrian, in December: The dogs aren't getting near them!

Hadrian, in April: Delilah, move.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2021 11:26 PM (/U27+)

283 In the fed world women go to the "fisty"

Posted by: Y5 at December 27, 2021 11:26 PM (lMmuq)

284
Chainsaws can choke on nails. I'd be tempted to try a cordless circular saw with a carbide-tipped blade.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 27, 2021 11:25 PM (P3gRi)


That would be the breaching team in the raid on the trailer in True Lies.

Posted by: Kindltot at December 27, 2021 11:26 PM (ZMraq)

285 @203: "The overt cop haters running in Portland lost in the last election - we'll see if some actual law and order candidates win next time. The ongoing collapse of public order in Portland concentrates the mind, apparently."

Nope. You'd need twenty-five years of Detroit like decay to shake some sense into the deepest blue cities, but sadly, long before then, you'd lose middle class whites to the suburbs en masse, and then there's no coming back. Crime spikes only pause and delay the leftward drift of urban governance. It'll take something otherworldly to move the needle back to center in any meaningful way.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 27, 2021 11:27 PM (+WWsf)

286 Couple things--the vid of the man punching that pastor, this was NOT random, he was targeting the other deliberately. You could SEE that. Need more back story here.

Michael Byrd murdered Ashli Babbit. Problem is, he'd protected by black democratium which is impervious to law.

Posted by: irongrampa at December 27, 2021 11:27 PM (KATBx)

287 Posted by: publius

"Yannet"

Ima say guilty
Posted by: Juror Miklos #1 at December 27, 2021 11:23 PM (QzkSJ)

Yanet Garcia
https://tinyurl.com/ybs7r7sm

Guilty.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 27, 2021 11:28 PM (dNqv+)

288 How many guessed it was a black church where the brawl took place?

Meh.

If the story was "Two Queers get married", what color would you guess the church was?

Or "Church Declares Congregants Must Be Vaccinated"?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 27, 2021 11:28 PM (5We2S)

289 @286 Michael Byrd murdered Ashli Babbit. Problem is, he'd protected by black democratium which is impervious to law.

----

This isn't the first time he's done something that should have gotten him fired, either. He also left his gun in a public restroom.

Posted by: junior at December 27, 2021 11:28 PM (PTw5h)

290 Dammit, Yannet.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at December 27, 2021 11:29 PM (vuisn)

291 Yanet Garcia
https://tinyurl.com/ybs7r7sm

Guilty.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Yep.

Just hoping for Good Behavior.

Posted by: El Mikloso comprende at December 27, 2021 11:29 PM (QzkSJ)

292 70 Hips don't lie
Posted by: Doof

"I love the feminist movement. Especially when I'm walking behind it."
Posted by: Miklos, quoting St. Rush of Limbaugh at December 27, 2021 10:18 PM (QzkSJ)

I love every movement
There's nothing I would change
She doesn't need improvement
She's much too nice to rearrange

Posted by: Fox2! at December 27, 2021 11:29 PM (jBoTu)

293 If people wanted to "reform" the police, the easiest and most effective way is get rid of a bunch of laws.

One of the BLM "martyrs" died because the cops tried to arrest him for selling loosies - loose cigarettes - to evade cigarette taxes.

Get rid of that law and that guy is probably alive. Yes, he's the end of a boot legging chain but...get rid of those extra cigarette taxes and THAT goes away too.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 27, 2021 11:29 PM (ESjRY)

294 Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 27, 2021 10:53 PM (lNHqD)

I just received mine today! I emailed them two weeks ago, and they said they were swamped. Yes, the "shipping label" notice lasted for quite a while, but they did arrive. Hang in there!

Posted by: Toni at December 27, 2021 11:30 PM (PgM6e)

295 Chainsaws can choke on nails. I'd be tempted to try a cordless circular saw with a carbide-tipped blade.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 27, 2021 11:25 PM (P3gRi)

Kinda my thinking. Set the blade just deep enough to cut through the roof and sheathing, apply crowbar, and bam.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 27, 2021 11:30 PM (VwHCD)

296 he's much too nice to rearrange
Posted by: Fox2!

This poetry moves me

Posted by: El Mikloso comprende tambien at December 27, 2021 11:31 PM (QzkSJ)

297 286 Couple things--the vid of the man punching that pastor, this was NOT random, he was targeting the other deliberately. You could SEE that. Need more back story here."

the link said that the two men had a dispute going for months, and the angry one thought his target had been insulting his mother publicly. Looks like he wanted everybody to know about it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2021 11:31 PM (evAgx)

298 If people wanted to "reform" the police, the easiest and most effective way is get rid of a bunch of laws.

One of the BLM "martyrs" died because the cops tried to arrest him for selling loosies - loose cigarettes - to evade cigarette taxes.

Get rid of that law and that guy is probably alive. Yes, he's the end of a boot legging chain but...get rid of those extra cigarette taxes and THAT goes away too.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 27, 2021 11:29 PM (ESjRY)

yeah, we're pretty much choking on laws and regs.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 27, 2021 11:32 PM (VwHCD)

299 ..Chainsaws can choke on nails. I'd be tempted to try a cordless circular saw with a carbide-tipped blade.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 27, 2021 11:25 PM (P3gRi)


I think that's the rig on the Fire Department's Stihl 14" gas powered rescue saws. Opens a roof like a can of tuna. You know, the kind with the pull-tab, as opposed to the *ahem* older ones with the opening key.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 27, 2021 11:32 PM (QzJWU)

300 Jim
Sunk New Dawn

Jim, I bought that carbide blade many, many years ago.
It won't cut through a T-post, but it spits nails like they weren't there. Weird angles on the sharpening. (Some are straight).
It cost MUCHO bucks 15 years ago, dunno how much now, but it helps to use the same size as whatever the fire dept uses, I would guess.

Posted by: MkY at December 27, 2021 11:32 PM (cPGH3)

301 Without mandates, the vaccine is a non-issue. You get it, or you don't. It's up to you, just like with the annual flu vaccines. The problem is the mandates. Get rid of those, and they can't do anything to people who don't want to get vaccinated. Forced masking is more or less the same thing.

Posted by: junior at December 27, 2021 11:18 PM

Agreed. But if no politicians will go on record against the "vaccines", then none of them are going to ban anyone (schools, corporations, sports leagues, airlines, etc) from enacting their own "vaccine" mandates. Being against the mandates is only a half-measure.

I think DeSantis in Florida has banned hospitals from firing people over "COVID vaccines", but not businesses or schools.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 27, 2021 11:32 PM (Do5/p)

302 Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2021 11:31 PM (evAgx)

....

Also says the attacker was just out of rehab and didn't even know where he was.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 27, 2021 11:33 PM (5We2S)

303 @301 I think DeSantis in Florida has banned hospitals from firing people over "COVID vaccines", but not businesses or schools.

----

Either Abbot or DeSantis (or possibly both; I don't recall for certain) banned the enforcement of mandates in their state.

Posted by: junior at December 27, 2021 11:33 PM (PTw5h)

304 the link said that the two men had a dispute going for months, and the angry one thought his target had been insulting his mother publicly. Looks like he wanted everybody to know about it.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Few such fights begin with someone insulting someone's Papa.

Is a puzzlement

Posted by: King Miklos I of Siam, I am at December 27, 2021 11:33 PM (QzkSJ)

305
Posted by: Ann Wilson, aka Empire 1 at December 27, 2021 11:24 PM (JJatH)

_________

Thank you!

*respectful tip o' the hat*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2021 11:34 PM (/U27+)

306 yeah, we're pretty much choking on laws and regs.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 27, 2021 11:32 PM (VwHCD)



All you peasants are guilty of something, comrade Bers!
We just have to figure what is the most efficient thing to charge you with!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 11:34 PM (hOUT3)

307 If the story was "Two Queers get married", what color would you guess the church was?

Or "Church Declares Congregants Must Be Vaccinated"?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 27, 2021 11:28 PM (5We2S)

Heh! 1) Episcopal; 2) any mainline Protestant bunch

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2021 11:35 PM (evAgx)

308 My brother in law's parents had neighbors who would get into fights over their Bibles. It was a cause of amusement in the neighborhood.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 27, 2021 10:34 PM (+lVUW)


Douay-Rheims vs King James?

Posted by: Fox2! at December 27, 2021 11:35 PM (jBoTu)

309 Few such fights begin with someone insulting someone's Papa.

Is a puzzlement
Posted by: King Miklos I of Siam, I am


Depend on far from the disciplinary action I was, I might agree with the person.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 11:36 PM (r1z5A)

310 you'd lose middle class whites to the suburbs en masse

That is the problem - 70% of the people in the Portland metro live in the burbs already, and the dissatisfied will vote with their feet, like I did.

OTOH, it will be fun when the leftists can no longer point to rising real estate prices in Portland as proof that Portland is doing great.

A big business park area in an adjacent suburb already has higher office lease rates than downtown Portland.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 27, 2021 11:37 PM (I2/tG)

311 yeah, we're pretty much choking on laws and regs.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 27, 2021 11:32 PM (VwHCD)



All you peasants are guilty of something, comrade Bers!
We just have to figure what is the most efficient thing to charge you with!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

Listen to him.

He's pre-Commissar Law

Posted by: My Delta name is Miklos, Omicron is Tiffani at December 27, 2021 11:37 PM (QzkSJ)

312 Yo Mama! POW!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 27, 2021 11:37 PM (63Dwl)

313
According to the DM, the number of unruly passenger incidents has increased five fold to over 5000, and about 3600 of those are due to mask disputes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 27, 2021 11:37 PM (Mzdiz)

314
If the story was "Two Queers get married", what color would you guess the church was?

Or "Church Declares Congregants Must Be Vaccinated"?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 27, 2021 11:28 PM (5We2S)

Heh! 1) Episcopal; 2) any mainline Protestant bunch
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2021 11:35 PM (evAgx)

___________

Effective January 2nd, the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston has reinstated the Sunday Obligation to attend Mass.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2021 11:38 PM (/U27+)

315 If the story was "Two Queers get married", what color would you guess the church was?

Or "Church Declares Congregants Must Be Vaccinated"?
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 27, 2021 11:28 PM (5We2S)

Heh! 1) Episcopal; 2) any mainline Protestant bunch
Posted by: Tom Servo

I am literally shaking. Mary will have thoughts on this.

Posted by: Concerned Woman of Brattleboro at December 27, 2021 11:39 PM (QzkSJ)

316
Yeah, you've to watch the double 'n' Yannets.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 27, 2021 11:39 PM (Mzdiz)

317 My mainline denomination church hierarchy had not declared its congregants must be vaccinated nor has the pastor where I attend church.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 27, 2021 11:39 PM (Zx2Q5)

318 261
We bought new rocking recliners for the living room today. Large, overstuffed, lovely new recliners. Much falling asleep in them in the future.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2021 11:18 PM (/U27+)


I have two of those. Best thing about them, I don't have to share the couch with the dog, who takes up more than her share of the space.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 27, 2021 11:39 PM (+lVUW)

319 No matter how long it takes, he needs to be indicted and tried for the murder of Ashli Babbit. Sooner would be better, but I'll take "later" over "never".
Jim

You'll have nothing and like it!

Posted by: Judge Smails at December 27, 2021 11:41 PM (z4bSh)

320 Tulsa police adopt puppies dumped at a convenience store:

https://tinyurl.com/2p8jz8kh

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 27, 2021 11:41 PM (Zx2Q5)

321 According to the DM, the number of unruly passenger incidents has increased five fold to over 5000, and about 3600 of those are due to mask disputes.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion


Now the pre flight safety briefing will include a section on MMA rules?

Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 11:42 PM (r1z5A)

322 If the story was "Two Queers get married", what color would you guess the church was?


uh..pink?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 27, 2021 11:42 PM (VwHCD)

323 Posted by: junior at December 27, 2021 11:33 PM

Thanks, found this. He didn't ban mandates, he banned mandates without exemptions.

https://abcn.ws/3qqUjNX

The new law prevents businesses from having vaccine mandates unless they allow workers to opt out for medical reasons, religious beliefs, immunity based on a previous infection, regular testing or an agreement to wear protective gear. The state health department, which is led by Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, who opposes mandates, will have authority to define exemption standards. [ ... ]

The bill also includes fines for businesses that fire a worker without allowing the exemptions. Additionally, it bars schools and governments from having vaccine mandates and allows parents to sue schools with masking requirements. A separate bill blocks the public release of records regarding state investigations of vaccine policies in businesses.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 27, 2021 11:42 PM (Do5/p)

324 284 That would be the breaching team in the raid on the trailer in True Lies.
Posted by: Kindltot at December 27, 2021 11:26

True Lies! That whack job doctor that gives Arnold the truth serum looks a lot like Tony Fauci. Nice when he gets his neck snapped.

Posted by: Rex B at December 27, 2021 11:43 PM (gv0Ka)

325 You'll have nothing and like it!
Posted by: Judge Smails

I've had to send Federal Employees older than you to the electric chair.

Felt I...owed it to them.

Posted by: Judge Miklos Smales at December 27, 2021 11:43 PM (QzkSJ)

326
The bill also includes fines for businesses that fire a worker without allowing the exemptions. Additionally, it bars schools and governments from having vaccine mandates and allows parents to sue schools with masking requirements.

________

The Guardian, with a straight face, called this "authoritarianism".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2021 11:45 PM (/U27+)

327 Problem with taking a circular saw (or any other opening tool) to the roof of an electric vehicle is that the main bus bars in most of them run along the outside edge of the roof. Wham!

Posted by: Fox2! at December 27, 2021 11:45 PM (jBoTu)

328 321 Now the pre flight safety briefing will include a section on MMA rules?
Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 11:42 PM (r1z5A)


There's a lot of nuance that has to go into the instructions, too.

Fighting in federal airspace = assault charges
Fighting in Chicago airspace = mutual combat

Posted by: CppThis at December 27, 2021 11:46 PM (UewuT)

329 Also snap, crackle and pop

Posted by: Fox2! at December 27, 2021 11:46 PM (jBoTu)

330
At this point, think of Moronic as live attenuated and transmissible virus vaccine. And one that actually works.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 27, 2021 11:46 PM (Mzdiz)

331 Thing is...

If you purchase an airline ticket, you have a pretty good idea of what the rules are. You can't be an obnoxious drunk who picks fights. You can't yell at other passengers. You have to wear a mask.

This is part of the agreement. I don't understand people who can't just follow the agreement. If you don't like the terms, don't fly. It doesn't matter if it's right, wrong, based on science or based on bullshit. That's the deal.

If enough folks refuse to buy the tickets, that will send a message.

Being an asshole, just means you're an asshole.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 27, 2021 11:46 PM (U2p+3)

332 If the story was "Two Queers get married", what color would you guess the church was?


uh..pink?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

AND SPARKLY!!!

Posted by: Uptwinkle Miklos at December 27, 2021 11:47 PM (QzkSJ)

333 Fighting in federal airspace = assault charges
Fighting in Chicago airspace = mutual combat
Posted by: CppThis

It's twue, it's twue.
We're post law now. This isn't even common law.

Posted by: MkY at December 27, 2021 11:47 PM (cPGH3)

334 62nd person accused of killing, trying to kill, or shooting someone in Chicago this year while awaiting trial for a felony.

--------

Well. That's fantastic.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 27, 2021 11:47 PM (hQ23g)

335 Being an asshole, just means you're an asshole.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 27, 2021 11:46 PM (U2p+3)


nurse, you have reduced much of civilized life to the essentials!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 11:48 PM (hOUT3)

336
You can't be an obnoxious drunk who picks fights.

_________

*cancels reservation*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2021 11:48 PM (/U27+)

337 62nd person accused of killing, trying to kill, or shooting someone in Chicago this year while awaiting trial for a felony.

--------

Well. That's fantastic.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

Be honest... a smart man plays the odds.

Posted by: MkY at December 27, 2021 11:48 PM (cPGH3)

338 317 My mainline denomination church hierarchy had not declared its congregants must be vaccinated nor has the pastor where I attend church.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 27, 2021 11:39 PM (Zx2Q5)

I confess to an overbroad answer, for comic effect. In every bad situation, there's always many who remain faithful. When Elijah thought he was the only faithful follower left, God told him "Yet I have left (me) seven thousand in Israel, all the knees which have not bowed unto Baal, and every mouth which hath not kissed him."

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2021 11:49 PM (evAgx)

339 At this point, think of Moronic as live attenuated and transmissible virus vaccine. And one that actually works.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 27, 2021 11:46 PM (Mzdiz)


publius, You forgot "unpatented"...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 11:49 PM (hOUT3)

340 Yo Mama! POW!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Army boots are considered rather stylish these days

Posted by: a "mother" who insists her "children" call her "Karen" at December 27, 2021 11:49 PM (QzkSJ)

341 You can't be an obnoxious drunk who picks fights.

Wait! I missed that rule! Where does it say that?

Posted by: MkY at December 27, 2021 11:49 PM (cPGH3)

342 publius, You forgot "unpatented"...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3)

And "unfunded"

Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 11:50 PM (r1z5A)

343  Fuck Joe Biden and every democrat with a rusty chainsawcoping saw.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 27, 2021 10:29 PM (z4bSh)
Slower and painful I think.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

I'd even let 'em have an emotional support piranha, you know, to help them cope...

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 27, 2021 11:50 PM (z4bSh)

344 I'll just say this, I expect that the majority of folks in Heaven won't be whities like me.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 27, 2021 11:51 PM (5We2S)

345 Where does it say that?
Posted by: MkY at December 27, 2021 11:49 PM (cPGH3)


Damn lawyers and that fine print!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 11:51 PM (hOUT3)

346
There is no federal solution
To our covid evolution
Have no faith in Constitution
The states need new revolution

Posted by: SFGoth at December 27, 2021 11:51 PM (KAi1n)

347 Biden is the Anti Chocolate Jesus....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 27, 2021 11:51 PM (NM8ko)

348 You can't be an obnoxious drunk who picks fights.

_________

*cancels reservation*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Yep.

Just come over to my place

Posted by: Miklos Welcomes YOU to Trailer Acres at December 27, 2021 11:51 PM (QzkSJ)

349 You can't be an obnoxious drunk who picks fights.


Is just drunk ok?

Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 11:51 PM (r1z5A)

350
There is no federal solution
To our covid evolution
Have no faith in Constitution
The states need a new revolution

Posted by: SFGoth at December 27, 2021 11:51 PM (KAi1n)

351 I'd even let 'em have an emotional support piranha, you know, to help them cope...
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 27, 2021 11:50 PM (z4bSh)



Candiru for the win!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 11:52 PM (hOUT3)

352 You can't be an obnoxious drunk who picks fights.
*cancels reservation*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

*breaks whiskey bottle on bar*

The hell you say!

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 27, 2021 11:52 PM (z4bSh)

353 I'll just say this, I expect that the majority of folks in Heaven won't be whities like me.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger


Now you're just playing the odds.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 11:52 PM (r1z5A)

354 There is no federal solution
To our covid evolution
Have no faith in Constitution
The states need new revolution
Posted by: SFGoth

I sang/shouted that in a Johnny Rotten voice

Posted by: Miklos, a Pistol (not pistil, that is for the Gardening Thread) at December 27, 2021 11:53 PM (QzkSJ)

355 349 You can't be an obnoxious drunk who picks fights.


Is just drunk ok?
Posted by: Some Rat at December

Of course! I'm usually mostly popped by the time I get on a plane. I hate flying.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 27, 2021 11:53 PM (U2p+3)

356 342 publius, You forgot "unpatented"...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3)

And "unfunded"
Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 11:50 PM (r1z5A)


Try "graft-free" (for now)!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 11:53 PM (hOUT3)

357 I sang/shouted that in a Johnny Rotten voice
Posted by: Miklos, a Pistol

Now try it like Sting.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 27, 2021 11:54 PM (KAi1n)

358 *breaks whiskey bottle on bar*

The hell you say!
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings

I just paid for that bottle

Posted by: Miklos, going for the knife in his boot at December 27, 2021 11:54 PM (QzkSJ)

359 The hell you say!
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings

I've been whipped by better men then you!
Come on, and bring your lunch, cause you're gonna be here awhile.

Posted by: MkY at December 27, 2021 11:54 PM (cPGH3)

360 No Federal Solution ? Then Biden should quit tonight because he serves no purpose. He is President Duncil from Star Trek....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 27, 2021 11:54 PM (NM8ko)

361 You can't be an obnoxious drunk who picks fights.

Is just drunk ok?


Posted by: Some Rat at December 27, 2021 11:51 PM

I was going to ask if I can pick fights while obnoxiously sober.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 27, 2021 11:55 PM (Do5/p)

362 Now try it like Sting.
Posted by: SFGoth

*decline*

Posted by: Miklos, who had a punk rooster hairdo, but that was then at December 27, 2021 11:55 PM (QzkSJ)

363 SO if Biden is throwing in the towel on beating Covid, does that also mean no flying school buses and robot apple pickers either?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 27, 2021 11:55 PM (ESjRY)

364 I was going to ask if I can pick fights while obnoxiously sober.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

Obnoxiously sober is asking for a fight...

Posted by: MkY at December 27, 2021 11:56 PM (cPGH3)

365
The hell you say!
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings

I've been whipped by better men then you!
Come on, and bring your lunch, cause you're gonna be here awhile.
Posted by: MkY at December 27, 2021 11:54 PM (cPGH3)

__________

Look out for my piano!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 27, 2021 11:56 PM (/U27+)

366 I mean, Chicago's a big place. A lot of people are going to get bailed out. Some number will shoot someone while out on bail. But I'm thinking maybe "five or so." Not 62.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at December 27, 2021 11:57 PM (hQ23g)

367 Guys I have a question.

Bought an 07 4Runner. Seems to run great except when under load. Going up hills on the interstate, for example, it doesn't have the pep to pass another car. It won't go over 2000 rpms when I drive it. Ever. Shudders a little when going from 35-45mph.

Took it to the shop today. They said they couldn't find the issue. Got it up to 80mph and 6000rpms and the engine runs great.

They charged me $100 for this.

Now I'm wondering if it could be the spark plugs, and I don't know if they checked them. Is it unreasonable for me to call and ask them to check the spark plugs tomorrow under the same $100 diagnostic fee? Was that likely part of their test or did they just hook up the computer?

Before I bought the car it had an engine light on. The previous shop said that was engine coils. This shop said coils are fine. I think the code was random misfires caused by a bad battery, which I've had replaced.

I know, I know. Y'all aren't mechanics. But if you have strongly worded hot takes on it, I'm open to those too!

Posted by: Plague rat at December 27, 2021 11:57 PM (rLfOT)

368 353 I'll just say this, I expect that the majority of folks in Heaven won't be whities like me.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger

a repeat from Upthread:

Catholic Heaven and Protestant Heaven:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4IletJ7-Tw
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Sans-Culottes at December 27, 2021 10:16 PM (Dc2NZ)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 27, 2021 11:57 PM (evAgx)

369 Just want to say again how much I enjoyed American Underdog, a fine film about football before it went woke, faith, family, perseverance and the importance of the support of friends. I think if lots of people go it can send a message to Hollyweird

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 27, 2021 11:58 PM (AOHti)

370 I was going to ask if I can pick fights while obnoxiously sober.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

Obnoxiously sober is asking for a fight...
Posted by: MkY

Excuse me, gentlemen.

Might I participate in this altercation?

If agreeable to all, of course.

Posted by: Very Polite Drunk Miklos at December 27, 2021 11:58 PM (QzkSJ)

371 Tomorrow, nearly one year into Joe Biden's presidency, the United States will hit a new all time high for daily covid infections. Joe Biden claimed he would shut down the virus. He has failed. Spectacularly.

More people have died with covid during the Biden presidency now than died with covid during the Trump presidency.

The reality is nothing we have done has had any real impact on covid. It has all been cosmetic theater bullshit, especially masking, which clearly has virtually zero impact. This has all been clear to anyone with a functional brain since last fall at the latest.

Democrats used covid to get independent & suburban voters to turn on Trump. They dragged Biden across the finish line from his basement by claiming they'd "follow the science" & "shut down the virus." It was all deceitful bullshit. And most in media were happy to spread the lie.


Clay Travis: https://bit.ly/3HkhXCi

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 27, 2021 11:58 PM (Do5/p)

372 Obnoxiously sober is asking for a fight...
Posted by: MkY at December 27, 2021 11:56 PM (cPGH3)


So boyo, ye have flown Aer Lingus!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 27, 2021 11:58 PM (hOUT3)

373 Story time! Today I bailed on an earlier thread cause the water had stopped flowing in the house. We are on our own well and the pumphouse is insulated to the best of Seattle Wx. (ie none). So begins the "where is the freeze point" game. heat gun, 1/2 hour...nothing, loosen main coupling to pressure tank, nothing. reset breaker which is on the pole 150 ft. away from the pump. Halfway to the pumphouse I could hear I had found the problem WATER EVERYWHERE!!. to be cont.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 28, 2021 12:00 AM (r1z5A)

374
Might I participate in this altercation?

If agreeable to all, of course.
Posted by: Very Polite Drunk Miklos at December 27, 2021 11:58 PM (QzkSJ)

__________

*throws Miklos through plate-glass window*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 28, 2021 12:01 AM (/U27+)

375 Plague rat
Engine codes, at first are almost always pollution control.
You know how to pull codes? If not, O'Reilly's and Advance Auto do it for free.
Next thing, if no codes, check pressure in each cylinder. Again, free rentals at most auto shops. Variable cylinder pressure? Spiff it up, and sell it.

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 12:02 AM (cPGH3)

376 *throws Miklos through plate-glass window*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 28, 2021 12:01 AM (/U27+)


Well, that's a start!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 28, 2021 12:02 AM (hOUT3)

377 So boyo, ye have flown Aer Lingus!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

RyanAir is much more so.

The Irish can handle their booze much better than the Englishters.

Posted by: Miklos has seen the Drunk Dunks in Budapest and Prague at December 28, 2021 12:02 AM (QzkSJ)

378 I was thinking of buying a security camera for my home to see a part of the yard I can't easily see.

I don't want anything you access through the internet and something easy to install would be nice - any suggestions?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2021 12:02 AM (ESjRY)

379 Jeepers. Didn't mean to start a barroom brawl.

Snowing again in Seattle. It's 19 degrees outside. I'm not used to this cold. Brrrrrr.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 28, 2021 12:02 AM (U2p+3)

380 I don't want anything you access through the internet and something easy to install would be nice - any suggestions?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2021 12:02 AM (ESjRY)


Comrade 18-1, you clearly do NOT understand the purpose of the surveillance state!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 28, 2021 12:03 AM (hOUT3)

381 308 My brother in law's parents had neighbors who would get into fights over their Bibles. It was a cause of amusement in the neighborhood.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 27, 2021 10:34 PM (+lVUW)


Douay-Rheims vs King James?
Posted by: Fox2! at December 27, 2021 11:35 PM (jBoTu)


Nope. Using each others Bibles, losing their place in it, stuff like that.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 28, 2021 12:04 AM (+lVUW)

382 "Look, there is no federal solution. This gets solved at the state level." Joe Biden December 2021
Translation: We're gonna lose in court.
Posted by: davidt

Will he recant if they win in court?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 27, 2021 10:24 PM (63Dwl)

He's a career politician. He'll say whatever people are dumb enough to believe.

Posted by: nerdygirl

He's a fucking senile retarded crooked finger-fucking pant-shitting bullshitting shithead arrogant racist rat-bastard incompetent incontinent incomprehensible inane insane malicious thieving bottom-of-his-class credential-waving family-molesting pedo stank-ass no-good projecting hypocritical hornswoggling democrat. Kind of a jerk, too. He can't not lie, it's in his bones.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 28, 2021 12:04 AM (z4bSh)

383 >> The reality is nothing we have done has had any real impact on covid

No impact on the virus, but much impact on children. See this ZeroHedge piece:

https://tinyurl.com/yxxa3e25

Follow the link to the Epoch Times stories on this. The damage this has to done to children in terms of mental and social development is staggering.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 12:05 AM (Mzdiz)

384 Enjoy:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/
article/Omicron- seems-to-be-milder-
Here-s-why-you-16732132.php

Posted by: SFGoth at December 28, 2021 12:05 AM (KAi1n)

385
Well, that's a start!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 28, 2021 12:02 AM (hOUT3)

__________

To be followed by
- Dancing girls screaming at mayhem
- Collapsing balcony
- Body thrown into mirror behind bar
- Someone sliding length of bar

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 28, 2021 12:06 AM (/U27+)

386 *throws Miklos through plate-glass window*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Hah!

That actually happened a few times at one bar where I worked. Which resulted in Legalities and Increased Insurance Premiums.

I was good at talking the obnoxious gonna-fight drunks outside to the back parking lot using my Native Guile and Lies.

Then Big Ray could take over. Cheaper, easier, more pleasant all-round.

Posted by: Miklos has had interesting employment at December 28, 2021 12:06 AM (QzkSJ)

387 got to the pumphouse, tightened the coupling and all was good. Now the grandson had wandered out to the above ground pool and was testing the ice and was successful. So Grandpa decided to test the ice also. With grandson safely on the deck I tested it. and it held! For 1 sec. at that point grandpa joined the polar bear club, with 30 lbs of winter clothing on...grandson busted a gut while I dragged my ass onto the deck. So even in my old age, I can serve as an excellent example.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 28, 2021 12:06 AM (r1z5A)

388 After almost 50 years of reading about WW2, with a special interest in naval operations in the Pacific theater, I finally noticed, tonight, for the very first time, that all of the big 6 Japanese carriers in the Kido Butai which hit Pearl Harbor, all but the Soryu had their islands/bridges built on the PORT, not starboard side of the ship. American carriers of course have theirs built on the starboard side, which is right and just.

How the Hell did I miss such a thing? "Attention to detail saves lives!!!" screams Chief Francis at OCS in 1988.

Talk about a total fail of observational skills.

Anyway, back to whatever everyone is talking about.

Posted by: Sharkman at December 28, 2021 12:07 AM (8gxrg)

389 I don't want anything you access through the internet and something easy to install would be nice - any suggestions?
Posted by: 18-1

Yeah. Cell stealth cams.
I use Command Com Stealth cams, but everyone raves about some other brand you can't find....
$5 a month for high quality digital, and if you have decent cell coverage, will text you pictures within a coupla minutes of them getting triggered.
Running 3 now. One at the house, and two at the shop.

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 12:07 AM (cPGH3)

390 So if omnicron is more infectious then delta then alpha which was THE MOST INFECTIOUS DISEASE EVER why did more people get "the cold" that was floating around every year in the past?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2021 12:07 AM (ESjRY)

391 Follow the link to the Epoch Times stories on this. The damage this has to done to children in terms of mental and social development is staggering.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 12:05 AM (Mzdiz)


This, so much this!
And worse, it will be years/decades before we fully realize the damage that has been done to our children and grandchildren!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at December 28, 2021 12:07 AM (hOUT3)

392 Plague rat
Engine codes, at first are almost always pollution control.
You know how to pull codes? If not, O'Reilly's and Advance Auto do it for free.
Next thing, if no codes, check pressure in each cylinder. Again, free rentals at most auto shops. Variable cylinder pressure? Spiff it up, and sell it.
Posted by: MkY


Ditto on the variable cylinder pressure; it means you have either valve problems (the over head cam has to be removed and the valves reground), or maybe a cracked head or a burned cylinder.

But it might just be bad fuel, a dirty fuel filter, or a dirty air filter. Or just sparkplugs (but the sparkplugs now last over 100K miles). It could also mean dirty fuel injectors. I like to use Techron in the gas at least twice a year, to help clean up the fuel (water) and clean the injectors.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 28, 2021 12:08 AM (tjZg/)

393
WHAT HAVE Y'ALL DONE TO MIKLOS!!??!!

Posted by: Highly Unhappy Darleen, Marleen, and Charleen, and Carleen too if she's out at December 28, 2021 12:09 AM (QzkSJ)

394 Follow the link to the Epoch Times stories on this. The damage this has to done to children in terms of mental and social development is staggering.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 12:05 AM

All part of the plan.

Posted by: WEF Elites at December 28, 2021 12:09 AM (Do5/p)

395 I am literally shaking. Mary will have thoughts on this.
Posted by: Concerned Woman of Brattleboro

But are you snapping your fingers, movin' round and round?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 28, 2021 12:11 AM (z4bSh)

396 He's a fucking senile retarded crooked finger-fucking pant-shitting bullshitting shithead arrogant racist rat-bastard incompetent incontinent incomprehensible inane insane malicious thieving bottom-of-his-class credential-waving family-molesting pedo stank-ass no-good projecting hypocritical hornswoggling democrat. Kind of a jerk, too. He can't not lie, it's in his bones.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 28, 2021 12:04 AM

Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 28, 2021 12:11 AM (Do5/p)

397 Snowing again in Seattle. It's 19 degrees outside. I'm not used to this cold. Brrrrrr.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Bellingham airport closed for 6 hours. I heard SeaTac was closed for 12.
Almost unheard of.

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 12:11 AM (cPGH3)

398 He's a fucking senile retarded crooked finger-fucking pant-shitting bullshitting shithead arrogant racist rat-bastard incompetent incontinent incomprehensible inane insane malicious thieving bottom-of-his-class credential-waving family-molesting pedo stank-ass no-good projecting hypocritical hornswoggling democrat. Kind of a jerk, too. He can't not lie, it's in his bones.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings

Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

Clarence Thomas might have a few things to add to all that. If you know what I mean.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 28, 2021 12:12 AM (tjZg/)

399 He's a fucking senile retarded crooked finger-fucking pant-shitting bullshitting shithead arrogant racist rat-bastard incompetent incontinent incomprehensible inane insane malicious thieving bottom-of-his-class credential-waving family-molesting pedo stank-ass no-good projecting hypocritical hornswoggling democrat. Kind of a jerk, too. He can't not lie, it's in his bones.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 28, 2021 12:04 AM (z4bSh)

Got nothing to add to that. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 28, 2021 12:13 AM (VwHCD)

400 I know, I know. Y'all aren't mechanics. But if you have strongly worded hot takes on it, I'm open to those too!
Posted by: Plague rat at December 27, 2021 11:57 PM (rLfOT)

Mere guesses on my part: refusal to go over 2000 RPM could mean the computer has gone into limp-home mode because it sensed a serious fault. The shudder could be a slipping clutch within the automatic transmission, which could trigger the limp mode. Worn spark plugs could cause it to lose power on hills, but it would miss randomly, and be jerky.

I would take it to an independent shop. Never hurts to get a second opinion.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 28, 2021 12:13 AM (P3gRi)

401 If you purchase an airline ticket, you have a pretty good idea of what the rules are. You can't be an obnoxious drunk who picks fights. You can't yell at other passengers. You have to wear a mask.

This is part of the agreement. I don't understand people who can't just follow the agreement. If you don't like the terms, don't fly. It doesn't matter if it's right, wrong, based on science or based on bullshit. That's the deal.


This is where I fall. I have no interest in flying for the time being. The cramped quarters of an airplane are bad enough, having to wear a mask would be miserable. So I don't fly. During the mask mandate, I also spent a lot less time in stores.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 28, 2021 12:13 AM (+lVUW)

402 The damage this has to done to children in terms of mental and social development is staggering.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

Beaten into submission. Most Excellent.

Respect my Social Securitie!

Posted by: Miklos in a Cartman voice at December 28, 2021 12:14 AM (QzkSJ)

403
I heard Miley laugh out loud. She's watching some comedian somewhere:

Guns don't kill people, Alec Baldwin kills people.

Seriously folks, I stand behind Alec Baldwin... no way in hell I'm gonna get in front of him.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 12:15 AM (Mzdiz)

404 Snowing again in Seattle. It's 19 degrees outside. I'm not used to this cold. Brrrrrr.
Posted by: nurse ratched at December 28, 2021 12:02 AM (U2p+3)
----------------

We're supposed to drop into the twenties and get some snow here. My wife is thrilled, because she's never lived where it snows.

Good evening, all.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at December 28, 2021 12:15 AM (5pTK/)

405 He's a fucking senile retarded crooked finger-fucking pant-shitting bullshitting shithead arrogant racist rat-bastard incompetent incontinent incomprehensible inane insane malicious thieving bottom-of-his-class credential-waving family-molesting pedo stank-ass no-good projecting hypocritical hornswoggling democrat. Kind of a jerk, too. He can't not lie, it's in his bones.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings

Somewhere, Chavez Smiles.

Posted by: Miklos likes the keeping of Traditions at December 28, 2021 12:16 AM (QzkSJ)

406 Polar vortex threatening Minneapolis with 36 hours below zero at end of this week, but I won't complain; very mild winter here so far all things considered.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 28, 2021 12:17 AM (+WWsf)

407 I would take it to an independent shop. Never hurts to get a second opinion.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Now there you go getting all reasonable and shit! I forget how old the vehicle is, and I ain't gonna go back up and look, but I dread buying the next round of vehicles, cause I already can't pull codes on my old shit.
My newest vehicle is a 2012.
Oldest is a '91. I DO have an '85, but the old 427 seems to be locked up. We're hoping it's the air pump, not the engine, but it's a half day to find out.
The steel's worth more than the truck right now....

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 12:18 AM (cPGH3)

408 This is where I fall. I have no interest in flying for the time being. The cramped quarters of an airplane are bad enough, having to wear a mask would be miserable. So I don't fly. During the mask mandate, I also spent a lot less time in stores.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 28, 2021 12:13 AM

Same here. I stopped frequenting any place that mandated mask-wearing the last 22+ months. I also choose not to fly.

That said, while I agree that flouting the mask-wearing rules on airplanes is being an asshole, I think times like these call for people being assholes to make the point to reject tyrannical non-sensical rules like this. Because if everyone against the rules just decided to not fly anywhere, the media would just spin that to claim airlines were suffering not due to protest of the mask mandates, but because "people are afriad to fly because of COVID".

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 28, 2021 12:19 AM (Do5/p)

409 He's a fucking senile retarded crooked finger-fucking pant-shitting bullshitting shithead arrogant racist rat-bastard incompetent incontinent incomprehensible inane insane malicious thieving bottom-of-his-class credential-waving family-molesting pedo stank-ass no-good projecting hypocritical hornswoggling democrat. Kind of a jerk, too. He can't not lie, it's in his bones.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings

Poetry.

Posted by: nurse ratched at December 28, 2021 12:19 AM (U2p+3)

410 @388 After almost 50 years of reading about WW2, with a special interest in naval operations in the Pacific theater, I finally noticed, tonight, for the very first time, that all of the big 6 Japanese carriers in the Kido Butai which hit Pearl Harbor, all but the Soryu had their islands/bridges built on the PORT, not starboard side of the ship. American carriers of course have theirs built on the starboard side, which is right and just.

----

You've got it backwards. There were two carriers in the Pearl Harbor raid that had their islands on the wrong side. Kaga was one of them. Either Hiryu or Soryu was the other.

Since Japanese carrier doctrine was that carriers would work in pairs, the idea was that putting the islands on opposite sides would streamline certain operations when carriers with opposing islands were operating alongside each other. Then it was realized that planes losing control on a carrier deck had a tendency to veer to Port. This was learned after the first four IJN fleet carriers were finished. So the subsequent Shokaku-class ships (Shokaku and Zuikaku) had their islands on the "planes don't crash into the island" side of the flight deck.

Posted by: junior at December 28, 2021 12:19 AM (PTw5h)

411
Someone I was reading the other day, can't remember which, said something profound. It's a pretty sick society that will harm and sacrifice its young to protect the old.

That sort of goes against your basic biological order of things, don't it?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 12:20 AM (Mzdiz)

412
Never trust an actor with a gun.

Posted by: Abe Lincoln at December 28, 2021 12:21 AM (Mzdiz)

413 My newest vehicle is a 2012.
Oldest is a '91. I DO have an '85, but the old 427 seems to be locked up. We're hoping it's the air pump, not the engine, but it's a half day to find out.
The steel's worth more than the truck right now....
Posted by: MkY


Any vehicle that doesn't need 500 lines of code to run is going to worth an awful lot in the future.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 28, 2021 12:21 AM (r1z5A)

414 Never trust an actor with a gun.
Posted by: Abe Lincoln


SNORT!! Well freaking played!

Posted by: Some Rat at December 28, 2021 12:22 AM (r1z5A)

415 Someone I was reading the other day, can't remember which, said something profound. It's a pretty sick society that will harm and sacrifice its young to protect the old.

That sort of goes against your basic biological order of things, don't it?


Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 12:20 AM

We've been a society that murders babies in the womb to protect women's choice to "live their best lives" for almost 50 years. We've been going against the basic biological order of things for decades.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 28, 2021 12:23 AM (Do5/p)

416 @410 You've got it backwards. There were two carriers in the Pearl Harbor raid that had their islands on the wrong side. Kaga was one of them. Either Hiryu or Soryu was the other.

----

I should add - to this day, those two IJN fleet carriers are the only aircraft carriers that have ever had their islands on the Port side. The price of being first in something is that sometimes you make mistakes that are obvious to those who come afterwards.

Posted by: junior at December 28, 2021 12:23 AM (PTw5h)

417 That sort of goes against your basic biological order of things, don't it?
Posted by: publius

What has my posterior ever done for me?

Oh

Posted by: Preznit Joey B. at December 28, 2021 12:23 AM (QzkSJ)

418 I want to know if anyone who was fired for the pseudo mandate got their job back? Would anyone be allowed to sue the companies? I know some hospitals are reaching out to fired employees to come back. It would take a large salary increase and some serious groveling for me to come back.

Posted by: Megthered at December 28, 2021 12:23 AM (sfWd9)

419 I know, I know. Y'all aren't mechanics. But if you have strongly worded hot takes on it, I'm open to those too!

Posted by: Plague rat at December 27, 2021 11:57 PM (rLfOT)


I have a friend who owns 2 of those, he was also service writer for toyota as well as a toyota mechanic. I'll ask him tomorrow what he thinks. He probably could smell it and tell you.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 28, 2021 12:23 AM (VwHCD)

420 @415 We've been a society that murders babies in the womb to protect women's choice to "live their best lives" for almost 50 years.

----

And they're in the process of moving the "murder the baby" stage to out of the womb.

Posted by: junior at December 28, 2021 12:23 AM (PTw5h)

421 Thanks Alberta Oil Peon, Bozo, and MKY.

I'm not too familiar with engines, and you've given me some things to read up on!

The car has over 200k miles, so I suspected original spark plugs could be in there causing the trouble.

Posted by: Plague rat at December 28, 2021 12:24 AM (rLfOT)

422 He probably could smell it and tell you.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Ehhh...oooooo

Posted by: Preznit Bad Touch Sniff 'n Smell at December 28, 2021 12:25 AM (QzkSJ)

423 He's a fucking senile retarded crooked finger-fucking pant-shitting bullshitting shithead arrogant racist rat-bastard incompetent incontinent incomprehensible inane insane malicious thieving bottom-of-his-class credential-waving family-molesting pedo stank-ass no-good projecting hypocritical hornswoggling democrat. Kind of a jerk, too. He can't not lie, it's in his bones.
Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 28, 2021 12:04 AM (z4bSh)


Cool. Now do Hunter.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 28, 2021 12:25 AM (+lVUW)

424 It's a pretty sick society that will harm and sacrifice its young to protect the old.

I was arguing with an older Branch Covidian about giving kids the clot shot, and I said, look you are putting them at risk from the side effects of the shot and they aren't at danger from COVID anyway.

The response? "Yes, but I AM AT RISK from COVID".

Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2021 12:25 AM (ESjRY)

425 Any vehicle that doesn't need 500 lines of code to run is going to worth an awful lot in the future.
Posted by: Some Rat

My thought, too. I also have an old '84 diesel with a bucket that goes to 55'. Breakover. Worthless, old, dangerous... but worth more in the future than now.
I start it every now and again. Run it in the yard to knock the rust off the brakes. It doesn't eat, and it owes me nothing.

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 12:26 AM (cPGH3)

426 Cool. Now do Hunter.
Posted by: nerdygirl


I think Pixey has a word limit.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 28, 2021 12:26 AM (r1z5A)

427 I want to know if anyone who was fired for the pseudo mandate got their job back? Would anyone be allowed to sue the companies? I know some hospitals are reaching out to fired employees to come back. It would take a large salary increase and some serious groveling for me to come back.

Posted by: Megthered at December 28, 2021 12:23 AM

Yep, I'd be demanding to see some of that CARES Act $$$ the hospitals have been raking in the last 18+ months. Preferably, I'd like to be able to tell the hospitals to go fuck themselves for being evil assholes and to never contact me again.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 28, 2021 12:27 AM (Do5/p)

428 Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 28, 2021 12:04 AM (z4bSh)

Cool. Now do Hunter.
Posted by: nerdygirl

DLV may not be from Arkansas, or interested in the inevitable paternity litigation.

Posted by: Miklos advises Prudence at December 28, 2021 12:27 AM (QzkSJ)

429 It doesn't eat, and it owes me nothing.
Posted by: MkY

Amen.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 28, 2021 12:28 AM (r1z5A)

430 I know some hospitals are reaching out to fired employees to come back. It would take a large salary increase and some serious groveling for me to come back.
Posted by: Megthered at December 28, 2021 12:23 AM (sfWd9)
----------------

Back pay, signing bonus, with the understanding the signing bonus needs to be exceedingly generous, otherwise, discussions will be held about a class action suit.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at December 28, 2021 12:30 AM (5pTK/)

431 The response? "Yes, but I AM AT RISK from COVID".

Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2021 12:25 AM

Not from asymptomatic people. Which 99.999% of children are. Thus, the Branch Covidian is at virtually zero risk of being infected with SARS-CoV-2 from children.

This seems to be too difficult for people to comprehend, because children typically are spreaders for every illness on the planet.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 28, 2021 12:30 AM (Do5/p)

432 382
He's a fucking senile retarded crooked finger-fucking pant-shitting bullshitting shithead arrogant racist rat-bastard incompetent incontinent incomprehensible inane insane malicious thieving bottom-of-his-class credential-waving family-molesting pedo stank-ass no-good projecting hypocritical hornswoggling democrat. Kind of a jerk, too. He can't not lie, it's in his bones.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 28, 2021 12:04 AM (z4bSh)

"We're feeling left out of this rant." - Bing Crosby and Danny Fuckin' Kaye

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at December 28, 2021 12:30 AM (lNHqD)

433 This seems to be too difficult for people to comprehend, because children typically are spreaders for every illness on the planet.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton

This is Top Secret and Unaccessible information, known only to every parent and pediatrician on the planet.

Posted by: Miklos has been so advised at December 28, 2021 12:31 AM (QzkSJ)

434 As an aside, just because this is an eclectic audience..
anyone need a Wisconsin VG4D before I offer it to the general public?
I bought it as a lark. Wanted to put it on a sawmill, and found it was too big.
About 100 hours, and it's been a pole barn queen for too long.

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 12:32 AM (cPGH3)

435 As an aside, just because this is an eclectic audience..
anyone need a Wisconsin VG4D before I offer it to the general public?
I bought it as a lark. Wanted to put it on a sawmill, and found it was too big.
About 100 hours, and it's been a pole barn queen for too long.
Posted by: MkY


WHERE ARE YOU?

Posted by: Some Rat at December 28, 2021 12:34 AM (r1z5A)

436 I want to know if anyone who was fired for the pseudo mandate got their job back? Would anyone be allowed to sue the companies? I know some hospitals are reaching out to fired employees to come back. It would take a large salary increase and some serious groveling for me to come back.

Posted by: Megthered at December 28, 2021 12:23 AM


It'd be interesting to see 30-40 of folks fired get together and start their own hospital.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 28, 2021 12:35 AM (axyOa)

437 And no it's not too big for a sawmill.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 28, 2021 12:35 AM (r1z5A)

438 I must have seen the Pole Barn Queens open for somebody

Posted by: Miklos, memory wracked at December 28, 2021 12:35 AM (QzkSJ)

439 It'd be interesting to see 30-40 of folks fired get together and start their own hospital.
Posted by: Diogenes

America's Front Line Doctors are on that route

Posted by: Miklos, hoping they open one here at December 28, 2021 12:36 AM (QzkSJ)

440 It'd be interesting to see 30-40 of folks fired get together and start their own hospital.
Posted by: Diogenes


Lotta vacant restaurants...lot of stainless already on site.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 28, 2021 12:37 AM (r1z5A)

441 Some Rat
Kansas City, Mo.
Just north of the Grandview Triangle.

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 12:37 AM (cPGH3)

442 I must have seen the Pole Barn Queens open for somebody

Posted by: Miklos, memory wracked at December 28, 2021 12:35 AM

I saw this one group open for another group at this one place sometime a while back.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 28, 2021 12:38 AM (Do5/p)

443 The Venn diagram of pro-aborts and Covid-zealots is likely a near unity. You're pissing in the wind trying to argue with them on the basis of child welfare. They're willing to murder children for mere convenience.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 28, 2021 12:38 AM (QU5/8)

444 Some Rat
Kansas City, Mo.
Just north of the Grandview Triangle.
Posted by: MkY

Darn...much, much too far. Good engines. Love em.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 28, 2021 12:42 AM (r1z5A)

445 DLV may not be from Arkansas, or interested in the inevitable paternity litigation.
Posted by: Miklos advises Prudence at December 28, 2021 12:27 AM (QzkSJ)


Okay, so now I'm wondering if the Arkansas stripper's baby got to go to the White House for Christmas with Gramps.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 28, 2021 12:43 AM (+lVUW)

446 Some Rat
I had Grinders (Independence, Mo) rebuild 2 of my Wisconsins. One a VH4D, one a W-4770.
They ain't disposable engines, that's for sure.

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 12:43 AM (cPGH3)

447 Okay, so now I'm wondering if the Arkansas stripper's baby got to go to the White House for Christmas with Gramps.
Posted by: nerdygirl


Stripper mom hopefully is too classy to let joey anywhere near the kid.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 28, 2021 12:44 AM (r1z5A)

448 The Venn diagram of pro-aborts and Covid-zealots is likely a near unity. You're pissing in the wind trying to argue with them on the basis of child welfare. They're willing to murder children for mere convenience.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 28, 2021 12:38 AM (QU5/

It really is that simple.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 28, 2021 12:45 AM (VwHCD)

449 And no it's not too big for a sawmill.
Posted by: Some Rat

PTO to a wood chipper?

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 28, 2021 12:45 AM (z4bSh)

450 *throws Miklos through plate-glass window*
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Hah!

That actually happened a few times at one bar where I worked. Which resulted in Legalities and Increased Insurance Premiums.
------

I've been working on an embellished story to explain my recently-acquired forehead-to-neck-nape still-healing scar.
The 'bear attack' story doesn't seem to be gaining much traction. Lately, I 've been testing the 'biker-bar barroom brawl'. It's not going so much better.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 12:45 AM (OMKK+)

451 The Venn diagram of pro-aborts and Covid-zealots is likely a near unity. You're pissing in the wind trying to argue with them on the basis of child welfare. They're willing to murder children for mere convenience.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

Try the almost perfectly circular Venn Diagram of Vaxx Maniacs and NO GMO FOOD types. No GMO would mean the vaxxed could not walk in the door.

Posted by: Miklos, who sometimes notices things at December 28, 2021 12:45 AM (QzkSJ)

452 The 'bear attack' story doesn't seem to be gaining much traction. Lately, I 've been testing the 'biker-bar barroom brawl'. It's not going so much better.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

At your service , Sir.

Posted by: Miklos, who bases all falsehoods on a solid foundation of Truth at December 28, 2021 12:47 AM (QzkSJ)

453 They ain't disposable engines, that's for sure.
Posted by: MkY


No sirree!

Posted by: Some Rat at December 28, 2021 12:47 AM (r1z5A)

454 He's a fucking senile retarded crooked finger-fucking pant-shitting bullshitting shithead arrogant racist rat-bastard incompetent incontinent incomprehensible inane insane malicious thieving bottom-of-his-class credential-waving family-molesting pedo stank-ass no-good projecting hypocritical hornswoggling democrat. Kind of a jerk, too. He can't not lie, it's in his bones.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at December 28, 2021 12:04 AM (z4bSh),

And a complete failure as Commander -in-Chief.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 28, 2021 12:47 AM (axyOa)

455 Kill me now before she makes me do that thing with the butter again.

Posted by: Commander, on the couch with Jill Biden at December 28, 2021 12:47 AM (t6Nh+)

456 I had Grinders (Independence, Mo) rebuild 2 of my Wisconsins. One a VH4D, one a W-4770.
They ain't disposable engines, that's for sure.
Posted by: MkY
-----

There's a lot to be said for iron cylinders.

Posted by: Chevy Vega at December 28, 2021 12:47 AM (OMKK+)

457 The 'bear attack' story doesn't seem to be gaining much traction. Lately, I 've been testing the 'biker-bar barroom brawl'. It's not going so much better.
Posted by: Mike Hammer


Cutlass duel with the Dred Pirate Roberts? Just spit balling here.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 28, 2021 12:49 AM (r1z5A)

458 Kansas City, Mo.
Just north of the Grandview Triangle.


Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 12:37 AM

I spent Jan-Aug 1998 in Kansas City, MO. Worked an internship at TWA at their engine overhaul facility at the KCI Airport. Loved my time there. Lived in apartments about 5 minutes from the Airport. Discovered a nature park I think a bit north of the area with a 4-5 mile paved trail that went around a lake that I went to almost every day to rollerblade.

Meant to go back sooner, but I only made it back in 2015 to go to a Bears-Chiefs game at Arrowhead with my brother and his wife when he was stationed at Fort Riley in Kansas. Had an awesome time and then had some awesome Chicago-style pizza from Rosati's in Overland Park after the game.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/rosatis-pizza-overland-park-2

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at December 28, 2021 12:49 AM (Do5/p)

459 Posted by: Mike Hammer


Also, have you ever, by chance, visited Group Therapy in Columbia, SC?

On occasion, one's perambulations end in odd locations.

(I give that as a freebie to tell the Wife)

Posted by: Miklos, who finds it unnecessary to lie much, also too lazy at December 28, 2021 12:49 AM (QzkSJ)

460 At your service , Sir.
Posted by: Miklos, who bases all falsehoods on a solid foundation of Truth
--------

I have a plausible background for both, but it is not well known...probably for the better in the latter case.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 12:50 AM (OMKK+)

461 I've been working on an embellished story to explain my recently-acquired forehead-to-neck-nape still-healing scar.
The 'bear attack' story doesn't seem to be gaining much traction. Lately, I 've been testing the 'biker-bar barroom brawl'. It's not going so much better.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 12:45 AM (OMKK+)

-----------

"Now where's that Eskimo woman I have to kill?"

Posted by: Disembodied Punchlines at December 28, 2021 12:50 AM (VxC1e)

462 There's a lot to be said for iron cylinders.
Posted by: Chevy Vega

Flat block decks, heads are nice too.

Posted by: Some Rat at December 28, 2021 12:51 AM (r1z5A)

463 "Now where's that Eskimo woman I have to kill?"
Posted by: Disembodied Punchlines at December 28, 2021 12:50 AM (VxC1e)
---------------

I thought it was an Indian gal with a sore tooth?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at December 28, 2021 12:51 AM (5pTK/)

464
See this latest Substack post from Robert Malone today:

https://tinyurl.com/u75zrnye

That's a roundup of some studies, actual science, he finds noteworthy. First one is a study showing how robust the immune response to the Covid virus is in children. Cross-reactivity is much more pronounced in children. That soup of cold viruses they're constantly swimming in? Made them bullet proof to the Coof. One could say their immune response is "exceptional".

They ain't gonna infect meemaw and uumpa.

Posted by: Abe Lincoln at December 28, 2021 12:51 AM (Mzdiz)

465 The 'bear attack' story doesn't seem to be gaining much traction. Lately, I 've been testing the 'biker-bar barroom brawl'. It's not going so much better.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Just mutter "Macho Grande" a lot and refuse to say more.

Posted by: Miklos, from the Bar "He's Not Here" at December 28, 2021 12:52 AM (QzkSJ)

466 I've been working on an embellished story to explain my recently-acquired forehead-to-neck-nape still-healing scar.

Just say "Persians" and nod your head. Pithy too.

Posted by: Dilios of Sparta at December 28, 2021 12:52 AM (ESjRY)

467 Also, have you ever, by chance, visited Group Therapy in Columbia, SC?
------

Nope, but plenty of others. My favorite was 'The Alibi', in Atlanta. Of, course, some number at Daytona.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 12:53 AM (OMKK+)

468 The car has over 200k miles, so I suspected original spark plugs could be in there causing the trouble.
Posted by: Plague rat

You also might have old spark plug wires, that may have intermittent shorting going on.

I think Alberta Oil Peon may be on to a big part of the problem. You may have a slipping, old clutch, and on a hill, the computer is making the engine "limp". The computer may be limiting rpm (power) due to a slipping clutch. I think that's what AOP said. In the shop, in neutral, on level ground, the engine revs fine.
My BiL has worked on a ton of Toyotas (mostly his own). He luvs 'em, but things can go wrong, or wear out.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at December 28, 2021 12:53 AM (tjZg/)

469 @Mike Hammer: You tried to stiff a hooker and it turned out to be a bad idea?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at December 28, 2021 12:53 AM (5pTK/)

470
Just say "Persians" and nod your head. Pithy too.
Posted by: Dilios of Sparta
----

Were I to do so, 'Turks' would be a decent argument...or maybe, 'Serbs'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 12:54 AM (OMKK+)

471 "Now where's that Eskimo woman I have to kill?"
Posted by: Disembodied Punchlines

Eskimo women don't kill
They thrill
Then chill
They call me "Bill"

Posted by: Miklos, from Medicine Hat at December 28, 2021 12:54 AM (QzkSJ)

472 @Mike Hammer: You tried to stiff a hooker and it turned out to be a bad idea?
Posted by: blake
--------

None of my acquaintance would believe that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 12:55 AM (OMKK+)

473 Clyde Shelton

Everything north of the river is new found territory.
Used to was it was no man's land between St Joe and the real City.
Then the Airport. Damn! The most user friendly airport that ever was, and all those small, unincorporated towns that needed civilizing.
So now KC is screwing up the airport, and has already ruined every small burg north.
Northland is rebelling. Wanting to secede. Won't happen, but it's fun to watch.

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 12:55 AM (cPGH3)

474 Were I to do so, 'Turks' would be a decent argument...or maybe, 'Serbs'.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I can get you Serbs for..umm...credibility.

Need Green Cards though

Posted by: Miklos, from North Balkans at December 28, 2021 12:56 AM (QzkSJ)

475 Need Green Cards though
Posted by: Miklos,
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Pfft. just a short wade across the Rio Grande.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 12:58 AM (OMKK+)

476 None of my acquaintance would believe that.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Darleen can be quite convincing. That's why Carlene (her cousin) always gets the minimum.

And unlike that Baldwin guy, she has never shot anybody by accident.

Posted by: Miklos, thinking logistics at December 28, 2021 12:58 AM (QzkSJ)

477 Ready Steve?
uh huh
Andy?
yeah
Mick?
okay
All right fellas, let's goooooooo!

Posted by: Antioch Baptist Blitz Church at December 28, 2021 01:00 AM (4I/2K)

478
Another study that Malone mentions there concludes:

"The authors conclude that the prospect of controlling spread of Omicron and the future SARS-CoV-2 variants by vaccination is not viable, especially if the virus continues to enhance its abilities in immune evasion and transmissibility."

Mars Attacks! gives the perfect metaphor here:
https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=isBDUHMAnpg

The vaccines are "our nyooculer capability". Moronic is the Martians. It inhales the nuclear blast and gets a little buzz, then laughs in our faces.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 01:00 AM (Mzdiz)

479 When I started working at my factory in 2004, one of the first friends I made was from my home state. He had poor health the whole time and COVID got him while I was out on my leave. I hate the day or so between everyone knowing and the obituary coming out.
Not equal to the loss of a parent or child, but loss of age-mates really hits hard. The tragedy is mixed up with a real sense of mortality.

Posted by: Downcast at December 28, 2021 01:01 AM (AEMfu)

480 Ready Steve?
uh huh
Andy?
yeah
Mick?
okay
All right fellas, let's goooooooo!
Posted by: Antioch Baptist Blitz Church

(Damned bass can never quite hit the beat!)

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 01:01 AM (cPGH3)

481 >> You tried to stiff a hooker and it turned out to be a bad idea?

Been there, done that.

Posted by: US Secret Service at December 28, 2021 01:01 AM (Mzdiz)

482 she has never shot anybody by accident.
Posted by: Miklos
--------

That's not so reassuring as it might be.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 01:02 AM (OMKK+)

483 Come to think of it, I have never heard of a Bad Date story where a guy ended up in a bathtub of ice in an Igloo.

Hmmm

Seems like that would be easier

Posted by: Miklos, asking "But Why?" like a child at December 28, 2021 01:02 AM (QzkSJ)

484 We've been a society that murders babies in the womb to protect women's choice to "live their best lives" for almost 50 years. We've been going against the basic biological order of things for decades.


I posed a question to my GF's liberal sister the other day. I told her my daughter had a horse show she wanted me to come to, but I had the opportunity to go take a job and make some money, which should I do?

She answered "Your daughter's show".

I then asked why women were aborting babies to pursue a career.

I got cussed a blue streak.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 28, 2021 01:02 AM (5We2S)

485 I've been working on an embellished story to explain my recently-acquired forehead-to-neck-nape still-healing scar.
The 'bear attack' story doesn't seem to be gaining much traction. Lately, I 've been testing the 'biker-bar barroom brawl'. It's not going so much better.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Tell Goldfinger the Operation was a Grand Slam.

Posted by: Bond. James Bond. at December 28, 2021 01:02 AM (z4bSh)

486 >> And unlike that Baldwin guy, she has never shot anybody by accident.

Amen. Reckless, hell! I hit where I was a-aimin'!

Posted by: Bubba, what shot the jukebox last night at December 28, 2021 01:03 AM (Mzdiz)

487 ..@Mike Hammer: You tried to stiff a hooker and it turned out to be a bad idea? Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at December 28, 2021 12:53 AM (5pTK/)

I thought the whole point of hiring a hooker was "stiffing them?"


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 28, 2021 01:03 AM (QzJWU)

488 I thought the whole point of hiring a hooker was "stiffing them?"
Jim
--------

I saw that, but the ONT being the ONT, I figured any comment was superfluous.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 01:05 AM (OMKK+)

489 I then asked why women were aborting babies to pursue a career.

I got cussed a blue streak.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 28, 2021 01:02 AM (5We2S)
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Gee, it's almost like she didn't appreciate you pointing out her inconsistencies.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at December 28, 2021 01:05 AM (5pTK/)

490 "stiffing them?"

Nuance is still a thang.

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 01:05 AM (cPGH3)

491 The left wants more gun laws so they can use them to prosecute those they disagree with.
Posted by: 29Victor

They're doing a bang - up job in Chicago......

Posted by: JT at December 28, 2021 01:06 AM (arJlL)

492 Nuance is still a thang.
Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 01:05 AM (cPGH3)
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So is the cheap double entendre.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at December 28, 2021 01:06 AM (5pTK/)

493 I thought the whole point of hiring a hooker was "stiffing them?"
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

And snorting lines off 'em!

*taps briefcase full o' blow*

Posted by: Charlie Sheen at December 28, 2021 01:07 AM (z4bSh)

494 [iSo is the cheap double entendre. Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at December 28, 2021 01:06 AM (5pTK/)

Cheap? I'd imagine they'd be more likely to charge extra for doubles?


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 28, 2021 01:08 AM (QzJWU)

495 They're doing a bang - up job in Chicago......
Posted by: JT

C'mon. You know Chicago is only having those killin's cause Indiana's gun laws are so lax!
What's wrong wit' you?

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 01:10 AM (cPGH3)

496 I thought the whole point of hiring a hooker was "stiffing them?"


Jim

But if the hooker turns out to be a stiff, Mike Hammer might not be elected Governor.

Posted by: Miklos, vaguely quotin Edwin Edwards at December 28, 2021 01:10 AM (QzkSJ)

497 So is the cheap double entendre.
Posted by: blake

And I thought you respected me.

Posted by: Double Entendre at December 28, 2021 01:12 AM (QzkSJ)

498 @496: "But if the hooker turns out to be a stiff, Mike Hammer might not be elected Governor."

Governor? Probably not, but there are plenty of charming third and fourth tier cities that need mayors.

Posted by: Walter Freeman at December 28, 2021 01:13 AM (+WWsf)

499 But if the hooker turns out to be a stiff, Mike Hammer might not be elected Governor.
Posted by: Miklos, vaguely quotin Edwin Edwards

OK. I think I get that.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I get that.

I don't get that.

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 01:13 AM (cPGH3)

500 Well, I'm off. Later!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at December 28, 2021 01:13 AM (5pTK/)

501 Nuance is still a thang.
Posted by: MkY


Nuance.....Gravitas


Gravitas....Nuance

Not easy, but we can Do This

Posted by: Agitprop Media Shill from CNN etc. at December 28, 2021 01:14 AM (QzkSJ)

502 I don't get that.
Posted by: MkY

"the only way I don't get elected, is if they catch me in bed with a live boy or a dead girl"

Posted by: Miklos quotes da Guvna at December 28, 2021 01:16 AM (QzkSJ)

503 Well, I'm off. Later!

Sure, sure. Leave us in the lurch...
But we're fine. Fine.
Go on.
We'll be fine.
Fine.
Go

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 01:17 AM (cPGH3)

504 Anyway, good that Mike etc. is among the Commenting.

Posted by: Miklos at December 28, 2021 01:17 AM (QzkSJ)

505 Nuance dances on the pole, twenty minutes from now.

Gravity fell offa the pole, twenty minutes ago. Gravity sucks, but only for an extra $20, same as in town.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 28, 2021 01:19 AM (QzJWU)

506 "the only way I don't get elected, is if they catch me in bed with a live boy or a dead girl"
Posted by: Miklos

Oh, ya lo se.

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 01:19 AM (cPGH3)

507
Indeed. Welcome back, Mr. Hammer. Good to see ya'.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 01:21 AM (Mzdiz)

508 Oh, my #$!
I gotta be in that office in about 6 hours.
You folks have been bery, bery bad for my career.
Each and every one of you should be ashamed

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 01:23 AM (cPGH3)

509 My thanks to all for encouraging thoughts and wishes. Very difficult to articulate my appreciation. There's a mildly dark joke in there, but I'm serious.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 01:24 AM (OMKK+)

510
A dead hooker in bed ain't so bad electorally. What if'n you let Mr. Corleone take care of it fer ya.

That feller can really make ya an offer you cain't refuse.

Posted by: Sen. Pat Geary (mob, NV) at December 28, 2021 01:24 AM (Mzdiz)

511 Oh, ya lo se.
Posted by: MkY

Use tildes next time.

Mas Autentico

Important for Federal Government Contracts

Posted by: Mikloso, hasta mañana at December 28, 2021 01:25 AM (QzkSJ)

512 >> Very difficult to articulate my appreciation.

I know how that is. A nod is all that is needed.

Posted by: Sen. Pat Geary (mob, NV) at December 28, 2021 01:27 AM (Mzdiz)

513 367 Well I play one for the government
You have a classic symptom of insulation or coil breakdown under load
Makes no sense that the "shop" you used couldn't find it in scan tool diagnosis find a better shop
Change the plugs and wires if I was here it would be done already
If you're getting the P0300 I expect you are (random misfires) that means you're misfiring on more than one cylinder but that info is available in the scan tool: if it has the ignition I think it has the coils are about $40 each my price. Your shop sucks wish you were local

Posted by: MAxIE at December 28, 2021 01:27 AM (dVkJu)

514 I gotta be in that office in about 6 hours.
You folks have been bery, bery bad for my career.
Each and every one of you should be ashamed
Posted by: MkY

Call in Covid

Manda-fuckin-tory days off

Posted by: Miklos, disgracefully self-employed, like duh at December 28, 2021 01:27 AM (QzkSJ)

515 Mike,
You're a grey box friend. Go with God.
Miklos. You're fingers are faster than yer wit... though not much.

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 01:28 AM (cPGH3)

516 Very difficult to articulate my appreciation.

Articulation of appreciation accelerates acceptance and approbation

Posted by: Miklos A at December 28, 2021 01:30 AM (QzkSJ)

517 Oh... I am the boss.

Posted by: MkY at December 28, 2021 01:30 AM (cPGH3)

518 Oh... I am the boss.
Posted by: MkY

There is The Boss...but legal Hobo season ends Dec. 31st, so he's probably busy.

Posted by: Miklos, not to be considered Legal Information under any (any especially Unfortunate) circumstances at December 28, 2021 01:35 AM (QzkSJ)

519
Sen. Geary sock off.

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=wPmTp9up26w

which led to this

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=ULcJhIoLte4

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 01:37 AM (Mzdiz)

520 My thanks to all for encouraging thoughts and wishes. Very difficult to articulate my appreciation. There's a mildly dark joke in there, but I'm serious.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 01:24 AM (OMKK+)

Well, I just received an unexpected package in the mail. A very nice letter, and a vintage engineering guide and some electrical parts. The inline switch will work perfectly for the LED fixture that I plan to hang over my little workbench in the garage.

I am honored that you went to the trouble of packing and mailing these things, Mike. I am in your debt.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 28, 2021 01:38 AM (P3gRi)

521 https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=ULcJhIoLte4
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

The subtitles are in one of the few languages that I have no friggin' clue about

Posted by: Miklos, much to learn at December 28, 2021 01:40 AM (QzkSJ)

522 Bahasa maybe?

Posted by: Miklos, much to learn at December 28, 2021 01:41 AM (QzkSJ)

523
I must say, The Godfather is one of the best movies ever made. It's silly to try to rank them, number 1, number 2, etc, but the Godfather is up there in the top (save for part III).

That sequence of Sen. Geary, high and mighty and arrogant, and then brought so low as to become Michael's bitch, is just brilliant.

Mikey told him his offer was "nothing" and he was gonna pay for the license out of his own pocket. And so it was.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 01:42 AM (Mzdiz)

524 I am honored that you went to the trouble of packing and mailing these things, Mike. I am in your debt.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Now see.

Nice people can have (and do) nice things.

Posted by: Miklos, much pleased at December 28, 2021 01:43 AM (QzkSJ)

525 >> The subtitles are in one of the few languages that I have no friggin' clue about

That was the first one that popped up with the dead whore scene. I was too lazy to find another one.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 01:43 AM (Mzdiz)

526 Berserker, that would be awesome! I'd love to hear what he has to say.

And, Bozo I hear you on the limp mode. I'm hoping it's not the transmi$$ion! But if it is, I hope this counts as catching it early.

Posted by: Plague rat at December 28, 2021 01:45 AM (rLfOT)

527 >The response? "Yes, but I AM AT RISK from COVID".
Posted by: 18-1 at December 28, 2021 12:25 AM (ESjRY)

You know, if the current young generation decided to metaphorically put Gen X on an ice floe in 25 years for our "golden age" plan, I can't say I'd blame them.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 28, 2021 01:45 AM (cSs/W)

528
Well, hell, here's one that has both of them together:

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=9wtFKXaltKY

"I know I could not have hurt that girl."

"This girl has no family, no one who knew she worked here. It'll be as if she never existed."

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 01:46 AM (Mzdiz)

529 Re: 367 by Plague Rat:

Bucking that feels like a miss under power is often the coil packs. It depends on the year and make but they are usually one per cylinder on newer vehicles. When they fail, they will set a check engine light code but when they are starting to go bad they will often fail to fire once in a while depending on weather and temp and usually under accel at higher speeds. Generally aftermarket ones (not OEM but the ones you find on eBay) aren't that expensive and they are usually accessible and just need a connector disconnected and one bolt taken off to replace. First thing I would do is to get a cheaper set and replace them all. On the 4.6s in my Crown Vic type cars it costs about $50 bucks and takes me a half hour of not strenuous work to do it. Just don't go to the likes of AutoZone or the dealer, they will charge you $50 to $100 each for basically the same part. If you look up coil pack replacement on You Tube for your vehicle you will probably find a video that will show you how hard it will be. Good luck!

Posted by: Azjaeger at December 28, 2021 01:46 AM (3/XaG)

530 I was too lazy to find another one.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

So

Hire Guatemalans for the 2022 okra harvest.

Posted by: Miklos, bidnis being bidnis at December 28, 2021 01:47 AM (QzkSJ)

531
Gen X is not the problem. It's the Boomers, really. Fauci is technically not even a Boomer, but a Silent Generationer.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 01:48 AM (Mzdiz)

532
We're lucky. The Cuomo family had a Sonny and a Fredo, but no Mikey. Be thankful for that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 01:49 AM (Mzdiz)

533 529 very correct

Posted by: MAxIE at December 28, 2021 01:49 AM (dVkJu)

534
I am honored that you went to the trouble of packing and mailing these things, Mike. I am in your debt.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
--------

As I pointed out, you are actually a victim of my 'stuff' dispersal. What's remarkable, is that the stuff is there. It was mailed Media Mail, with an estimated delivery date of February 28th!

That switch proved to be interesting. If you haven't noted, it switches both sides of the line, can be completely disassembled should contacts need burnishing. Another thing I discovered, the 'On' indicator is a neon lamp. As a matter of minor interest, I checked the firing voltage, 51 VAC. Also, the terminals (conveniently 'insert' screw terminals) are marked L(ine) and N(eutral). Now, if there is a convention for line and neutral connection for polarized zip cord, I am unaware of it...but a curious thing that I meant to research.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 01:50 AM (OMKK+)

535 Gen X is not the problem. It's the Boomers, really. Fauci is technically not even a Boomer, but a Silent Generationer.
Posted by: publius

Surplus to Requirements, if I may use a Britishism.

Posted by: Miklos, and that is being absurdly kind at December 28, 2021 01:50 AM (QzkSJ)

536 We're lucky. The Cuomo family had a Sonny and a Fredo, but no Mikey. Be thankful for that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

One assumes that the Rapscallion Fambly has a Publius.

Posted by: Miklos, just guessing based on Facts and Logic at December 28, 2021 01:54 AM (QzkSJ)

537 Mike Hammer, so very good to see you posting in fine form, you have been gifted, you deserve it. By the way, how is my beloved Horde tonight? You all have no idea how much you keep me sane right now as I drift in uncharted waters.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 28, 2021 01:55 AM (a4EWo)

538 All of us down at the Brattleboro Women's Reproductive Health Center thinks those Governors did nothing to makes Presdent Bidum look bad. They should pay for there crimes against the peeple !!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Mary Clogginstein from Brattleboro, VT at December 28, 2021 01:57 AM (otFiP)

539 Fauci's age or generational era is of no matter.

The fact that he continues to age is of great matter.

Poor, fragile oldster. I'd prescribe an Old Folks Home, STAT. How 'bout Liverpool Pathway Acres?


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 28, 2021 01:57 AM (QzJWU)

540
We would be wise to learn the ways of Michael Corleone. We're gonna need them to clean up this mess. I pledge to use them for good, for restoration, and not evil and self-aggrandizement.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 01:59 AM (Mzdiz)

541 I blame a lot of stuff on the boomers, but some of the boomers in my life have put forth a valid counterpoint: they're not responsible for LBJ, that's entirely on greatest/lost gens.

Posted by: CppThis at December 28, 2021 02:00 AM (UewuT)

542 So now Biden is blaming the Governors because he is a "Complete Fuckstain"....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at December 28, 2021 02:02 AM (NM8ko)

543 You all have no idea how much you keep me sane right now as I drift in uncharted waters.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
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Well, whatever the difficulties, when you're down in the dumps, this is the dump to be down in.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 02:02 AM (OMKK+)

544 I enjoy kicking around the various generations, who are all to blame for my woes, except my generation, of course, which is blameless. But I think it's just the knock-on effects of increased wealth and ease over time. Idle hands really are the Devil's tools.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at December 28, 2021 02:03 AM (QU5/8)

545
Oh yes, indeed. This generational stuff does not apply to all. See Strauss and Howe and that 4th Turning Turning stuff and the generational archetypes.

That fascinates me (and there's no question we're in a Crisis phase now). Basically, each generation in the cycle has it's good points and bad points, which sow the seeds for the cycle.

And not everyone fits that. The Boomers are the latest incarnation of their "Prophets" archetype. GenX is the "Nomad" archetype.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 02:04 AM (Mzdiz)

546 Mary is SO RIGHT!!!

But Mary, which Governor? There seem to be so many, and none Black or otherwise acceptable. Would your Special Friend Ahmed be Vermont's next Governor? This would solve all problems. And we thank you for donating 11% of the Birkenstock Sponsorship money!

Posted by: Concerned Woman of Brattleboro at December 28, 2021 02:05 AM (QzkSJ)

547 [bWell, whatever the difficulties, when you're down in the dumps, this is the dump to be down in. Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 02:02 AM (OMKK+)

Foocking Hell. One a'yaa COBs put that up in the sidebar, ASAP, yah?

I'm not Catholic, so won't need a Priest in the E.R. But do hang an ONT screen in front of me for spiritual healing, every time.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 28, 2021 02:05 AM (QzJWU)

548 Hi everyone.

The tech thread will be posted at 4AM so as not to stomp on the ONT quite so much. Just so no-one is left wondering if I got run over by a reindeer or something...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 28, 2021 02:06 AM (MqQvv)

549 Well, whatever the difficulties, when you're down in the dumps, this is the dump to be down in.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

I read that in a Curley Three Stooges voice

Posted by: Miklos, neglected Sixth Stooge at December 28, 2021 02:07 AM (QzkSJ)

550 A Pixy sighting is always a remarkable event...a brush with technical greatness.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 02:08 AM (OMKK+)

551 >Gen X is not the problem. It's the Boomers, really. Fauci is technically not even a Boomer, but a Silent Generationer.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 01:48 AM (Mzdiz)

Problem or not, the Boomers are mostly gone by then. Somebody has to take the blame. Kids call us Boomers now; they don't know the difference and don't care. Not like our generation doesn't have it's fair share of Coof Karens, either.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at December 28, 2021 02:08 AM (cSs/W)

552 Well, past midnight here. Time to go get some shuteye. Thanks again to Mike Hammer for his thoughtfulness. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 28, 2021 02:09 AM (P3gRi)

553 The tech thread will be posted at 4AM so as not to stomp on the ONT quite so much. Just so no-one is left wondering if I got run over by a reindeer or something...
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Yer fine.

Grandma is so drunk we took the reindeer keys away.

Posted by: Miklos, waving concerns away at December 28, 2021 02:09 AM (QzkSJ)

554 Pixy.

You're a Mencsh. or a Mencshette. Or however the fk I misspelled it.

I'd offer to put a schmeer of cream cheese on your bagel, but oy, the shelves are bare of the schmeer! I am verklempt! *throws hands up in frustrated frustration*
~~
Okay, that was my Missing Jew Formation Tribute Fly-By. You Tribe in the Horde, where the hell were ya when Pixy needed ya? *fries bacon in CBD's honor*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 28, 2021 02:12 AM (QzJWU)

555 553 Yer fine.

Grandma is so drunk we took the reindeer keys away

Posted by: Miklos


And she'll have fun, fun, fun,
Until her family takes the reindeer away.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at December 28, 2021 02:14 AM (MqQvv)

556 166 Joe Biden, first he gets defeated by the Taliban, then Corona...next...dementia?
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I think you missed diarrhea somewhere in that list ....

Posted by: Ciampino at December 28, 2021 02:16 AM (qfLjt)

557 And not everyone fits that. The Boomers are the latest incarnation of their "Prophets" archetype. GenX is the "Nomad" archetype.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

I see it in a similar, but slightly different way.

Sociologists call it the "Three Generation Phenomenon". The first immigrant generation never fully adapts, linguistically or otherwise. Their children want to be More American than American. The third generation starts to wonder and want to know more about the grandparents' generation and culture.

I think this applies to generations entirely from the US, whose grandparents were freaks back in the 60s-70s.

Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full" dealt with some of this.

Posted by: Miklos, watching the world with vague interest at December 28, 2021 02:18 AM (QzkSJ)

558 Just finished watching Young Frankenstein with hubs, it is one of the few movies to make him laugh anymore. It is such a moron movie, I love the sign outside the brain dispensary which declares, after 5:00 p.m. slip brains through the slot in the door. This should be modified to after 10:00 p.m.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 28, 2021 02:18 AM (a4EWo)

559 President Biden isn't being defeated by diarrhea so much as triumphing over his diapers.

Posted by: Peppermint Psaki at December 28, 2021 02:19 AM (QU5/8)

560 And she'll have fun, fun, fun,
Until her family takes the reindeer away.
Posted by: Pixy Misa

Is it allowed to go to the beach in Australia?

Posted by: Miklos, accurately uninformed at December 28, 2021 02:19 AM (QzkSJ)

561
Quick reference on Strauss and Howe's generational archetypes:

https://tinyurl.com/4k2bswya

This stuff is fascinating, and I think they're on to something, but don't quite have the full picture of it. There's an element of curve-fitting there, which I don't like.

Nonetheless, their hypothesis is that American history is driven by generational cycles that take 4 generations to complete. Every 80 years or so, American has a Crisis, an existential crisis that questions her going forward as a going concern. This is a result of those cycles, with each cycle sowing the seeds of its own destruction.

We either emerge victorious, and go on to new Highs, or we don't, and America comes to an end as we know it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 02:20 AM (Mzdiz)

562 I arrived in time to bid the thread adieu.

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 28, 2021 02:20 AM (4jlv/)

563 FWIW, I also ordered the Baranca book and it arrived in a timely manner. I did not order any of the extras that they were pushing.

Posted by: MammaB at December 28, 2021 02:21 AM (4l4RC)

564 We either emerge victorious, and go on to new Highs, or we don't, and America comes to an end as we know it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

Historians have hypothesized that America repeats its original Great Religious Awakening every so often.

Posted by: Miklos, who studied History when he could have done Electrical Engineering or Larnt 2 Code at December 28, 2021 02:23 AM (QzkSJ)

565 D3.

Movie concept. Young Frankenstien vs. the ONT.

We get to use ALL of the Mel Brooks references, though. What's more, we get to use them with Mel Blanc's voices.

That missed right turn in Albuquerque is goinna HOIT!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 28, 2021 02:23 AM (QzJWU)

566 Just finished watching Young Frankenstein with hubs, it is one of the few movies to make him laugh anymore. It is such a moron movie, I love the sign outside the brain dispensary which declares, after 5:00 p.m. slip brains through the slot in the door. This should be modified to after 10:00 p.m.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 28, 2021 02:18 AM (a4EWo)

This is about the ONT, isn't it? lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 28, 2021 02:24 AM (VwHCD)

567 I arrived in time to bid the thread adieu.
Posted by: Pete Bog

Gotta go so I can come back

Posted by: Miklos, quoting and translating Cajun Phrase at December 28, 2021 02:25 AM (QzkSJ)

568 Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 28, 2021 02:18 AM (a4EWo)

This is about the ONT, isn't it? lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Debbie, this Berserker is on to us

Posted by: Miklos, working Late Shift Without Complaint (need Tupperware) at December 28, 2021 02:26 AM (QzkSJ)

569 That missed right turn in Albuquerque is goinna HOIT!


Jim

Why I oughtta

Posted by: Miklos, still neglected Sixth Stooge at December 28, 2021 02:27 AM (QzkSJ)

570 I can't miss you if you won't leave me alone

Posted by: Pete Bog at December 28, 2021 02:29 AM (4jlv/)

571 ..We either emerge victorious, and go on to new Highs, or we don't, and America comes to an end as we know it. Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 02:20 AM (Mzdiz)

I typed a lot, and deleted. Had to be done.

Suffice to say. I stand with Irongrampa, and his foxhole is mine, too.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 28, 2021 02:30 AM (QzJWU)

572
By "curve fitting", I mean this. You can take the data points of the Dow, the stock market, however you like to define, and fit that curve to as many digits of precision as you like.

That is, you can come up with a function that will match the DOW curve over the last 100 years to match as closely as you desire.

And that will do you exactly Zero good in predicting what the DOW will do next week. Past performance is no indicator of future results, as the disclaimer goes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 02:32 AM (Mzdiz)

573 Nonetheless, their hypothesis is that American history is driven by generational cycles that take 4 generations to complete. Every 80 years or so, American has a Crisis, an existential crisis that questions her going forward as a going concern. This is a result of those cycles, with each cycle sowing the seeds of its own destruction.


Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 02:20 AM (Mzdiz)


That whole "hard times create hard men, hard men create good times, good times create weak men" thing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at December 28, 2021 02:35 AM (VwHCD)

574 What I've learned from Pixy Mesa is although I made a living writing software decades ago, discussions of current technology might as well be in Swahili, for all that I understand them.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 28, 2021 02:35 AM (I2/tG)

575 The tech thread will be posted at 4AM so as not to stomp on the ONT quite so much. Just so no-one is left wondering if I got run over by a reindeer or something...
Posted by: Pixy Misa

FINALLY ! A Pixy post that I understand !

Posted by: JT at December 28, 2021 02:35 AM (arJlL)

576 273 250Corned Beef and Cabbage

White Castles
Posted by: Aetius451AD

FUN FACT

The original Austrian version of the Sound of Music included those lyrics

edelweiss in the original klingon?
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No no, in Austrian.

Posted by: Ciampino at December 28, 2021 02:36 AM (qfLjt)

577 Tom Wolfe's "A Man in Full" dealt with some of this.
Posted by: Miklos,
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I could throw a rock and hit his (Wolfe's) grave: https://tinyurl.com/2p98cwzv

Then, there's this, downtown:
https://tinyurl.com/yc8dk2xn

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 02:37 AM (OMKK+)

578 And that will do you exactly Zero good in predicting what the DOW will do next week. Past performance is no indicator of future results, as the disclaimer goes.
Posted by: publius

Over the course of 100 years, past is a pretty good long term indicator. About 9%/annum long term, adjusted for inflation.

An inside track helps, e.g. Big University Endowments who amazingly get 12-15%. And I thought Bernie Madoff was retired.

Posted by: Miklos, proposing to raid the academic monasteries at December 28, 2021 02:38 AM (QzkSJ)

579 ..And that will do you exactly Zero good in predicting what the DOW will do next week. Past performance is no indicator of future results, as the disclaimer goes.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 02:32 AM (Mzdiz)


*takes wad of carefully flat-folded paper towels, and polishes DOW window cleaner off of windshield* Yeah, I gotcher DOW right'here, traderboy! *rude gesture*

/snrk! (actually enjoys massive growth in *mmble mmble* holdings)

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 28, 2021 02:38 AM (QzJWU)

580 I could throw a rock and hit his (Wolfe's) grave: https://tinyurl.com/2p98cwzv


That's another Tom Wolfe.

But I guess he could go home again.

Posted by: Miklos, mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers at December 28, 2021 02:41 AM (QzkSJ)

581 I am just heating up a bowl of beef noodle soup made from two small left over short ribs on Christmas, it smells so good, really fine egg noodles, beef broth, finely chopped carrots and celery plus the finely chopped short ribs, yum!!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 28, 2021 02:41 AM (a4EWo)

582 I'm out. My scalp hair follicles need all the rest that they can get.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 02:41 AM (OMKK+)

583 That's another Tom Wolfe.

But I guess he could go home again.
Posted by: Miklos
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I knew that...or used to know it. The Kool-Aid Acid test guy. Never mind.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 28, 2021 02:43 AM (OMKK+)

584 Past performance is no indicator of future results, as the disclaimer goes.

LOL. There used to be a late-night infomercial that sold a financial system - "Did YOU know that orange juice futures have gone up on February 23rd in 19 of the last 23 years?"

The idea was that you should buy orange juice futures next February 23rd, along with similar correlations that they had discovered.

Guaranteed money!

Always wondered how many of their systems they sold.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 28, 2021 02:43 AM (I2/tG)

585 DDS. I'd fly there for that, but then it'd be tomorrow, and the soup would be gone.

But as a Soupologist, I already know it would be grand. Think in terms of 15 qt. in October. I'll bring the pot, and the cooker. We can go to the local H.E.B. for ingredients. If "you're in", I'm in. And we'll make it happen.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 28, 2021 02:44 AM (QzJWU)

586 I'm out. My scalp hair follicles need all the rest that they can get.
Posted by: Mike Hammer

Yu haz!!???

Posted by: Miklos, almost as bald and only half as evil as Jeff bezos at December 28, 2021 02:45 AM (QzkSJ)

587 Jim, I'm in, soup for the Horde!!!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 28, 2021 02:46 AM (a4EWo)

588 584 LOL. There used to be a late-night infomercial that sold a financial system - "Did YOU know that orange juice futures have gone up on February 23rd in 19 of the last 23 years?"
Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 28, 2021 02:43 AM (I2/tG)


Duke brothers at it again!

Posted by: CppThis at December 28, 2021 02:46 AM (UewuT)

589 The Venn diagram of pro-aborts and Covid-zealots is likely a near unity. You're pissing in the wind trying to argue with them on the basis of child welfare. They're willing to murder children for mere convenience.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

They're slaying the competition.

At least they won't be passing along their genes.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 28, 2021 02:48 AM (Mzdiz)

590 Never mind.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

I read that in an Emily Litella voice with lots of power tool noise in the background

Posted by: Miklos, who hears a lot of things at December 28, 2021 02:49 AM (QzkSJ)

591 ..Jim, I'm in, soup for the Horde!!! Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 28, 2021 02:46 AM (a4EWo)

I'm in, too, then. You have NO IDEA as to what you have unleashed. Book your 2022 flight, an extra day early. I am not kidding. I'll even locally rent an extra fridge to hold the not quite ready soup. It's not READY until it's been re-cooked a time or three. Oh, and I can dice any veggie down to the sub-millimeter scale. I'll bring the sharp knives.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 28, 2021 02:50 AM (QzJWU)

592 At least they won't be passing along their genes.

That's why we control the schools!

Posted by: The Woke Left! at December 28, 2021 02:50 AM (I2/tG)

593 They're slaying the competition.

At least they won't be passing along their genes.
Posted by: Miley

\NO GMO FOOD

/ONLY GMO PEOPLE

Posted by: Miklos, who grew up with absurdity that was Officially called Truth at December 28, 2021 02:51 AM (QzkSJ)

594 Debby, I've got 4 meaty ribs left over from Christmas. Is this what I should do with them?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 28, 2021 02:51 AM (Mzdiz)

595 Jim, it needs a bit more flavoring, not quite sure what it is, but we can figure that out, I am tempted to add some worcestershire sauce but I'm not sure if that's it, maybe a bit of heat, I don't know, I'll work on it.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 28, 2021 02:51 AM (a4EWo)

596
Yep, I'm on Team Irongrampa my own self. I'm betting we emerge to a new High. The 2030s are gonna be the 1950s of the next cycle. I'll be an old man, but I'll enjoy it.

Again, that Ludwig von Beethoven feller captured the transition from Crisis to High pretty good, musically, the transition from the 3rd to 4th movements of his 5th Symphony, here:

https://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=xAQFJ1YpFaI

A little before the 5:00 marks the transition. As ol' Ludwig von said, "Joy follows sorrow, surely" or something like that.

That is Irongranpa's Hope expressed musically.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 02:51 AM (Mzdiz)

597 Debby, I've got 4 meaty ribs left over from Christmas. Is this what I should do with them?
Posted by: Miley

You got enough there to bring forth some wimmins

Posted by: Miklos, if I read the book rite at December 28, 2021 02:54 AM (QzkSJ)

598 Debbe Doberman Schultz...also.

Bring your spices along for the ride. Because I'll surely bring mine. This ain't gonna be no mild mannered Clark Kent of a soup.

It's gonna be Superman Fuel. Not explosive, but very much full of warmth, power and bulletproof.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 28, 2021 02:54 AM (QzJWU)

599 Hey Miley, I hope that you had a most wonderful Christmas, if I had 4 meaty ribs left over I would probably shred them and make a kind of shepherd's pie topped with some cheddar mashed potatoes.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 28, 2021 02:55 AM (a4EWo)

600 Hey Miley, I hope that you had a most wonderful Christmas, if I had 4 meaty ribs left over I would probably shred them and make a kind of shepherd's pie topped with some cheddar mashed potatoes.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

HIRED

Hired NOW

Posted by: Miklosian Food Services LLC at December 28, 2021 02:57 AM (QzkSJ)

601
Ol' Ludwig was pert near deaf when he composed that above 5th Symphony. He did that shit in his head.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 02:57 AM (Mzdiz)

602 558 Just finished watching Young Frankenstein with hubs, it is one of the few movies to make him laugh anymore. It is such a moron movie, I love the sign outside the brain dispensary which declares, after 5:00 p.m. slip brains through the slot in the door. This should be modified to after 10:00 p.m.
----
Gene Hackman's ad-libbing "I was about to make espresso ..." is hilarious. Mart Feldman did steal the show.

Posted by: Ciampino at December 28, 2021 02:58 AM (qfLjt)

603 Why Miklos, is this not served at the diner post holiday every year??

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 28, 2021 02:59 AM (a4EWo)

604 Debbie Doberman

I've sone Soup for the Horde, at the last TxMoMeet at Ben Had's show arena. For lunch. it was a Smash Hit, as Ben Had will attest.

Yeah, fine and etc. You n' me is gonna do mo bettah. I will forego a LOT of shooting, to be able to cook with you there. Hope that puts my respect for you into focus?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 28, 2021 02:59 AM (QzJWU)

605 He did that shit in his head.
Posted by: publius

Head?

Posted by: Preznit Pooty-Pants at December 28, 2021 02:59 AM (QzkSJ)

606 Why Miklos, is this not served at the diner post holiday every year??
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz

Ok.

Regional Manager

(this one is good, she knows)

Posted by: Miklosian Food Services LLP at December 28, 2021 03:01 AM (QzkSJ)

607
I must say, I'm listening to that Ludwig 5th stuff on some pretty shitty computer speakers. To really get the magnificence of that, you need some audio equipment with some what ya call dynamic range. Able to go from whisper-quite to wide-ass open with little distortion.

You want that eruption of joy from sorrow to be flawless, with no clipping and other distortion. You want the explosion of all them fiddles and horns to be just perfect.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 03:05 AM (Mzdiz)

608 Jim, how are we going to resolve this, I cook a few things well, otherwise I am quite average, I have only ever held a gun once in my life and I was nine years old and a friend of my Dad's who was an old time sheriff handed me a little Derringer that certain ladies used to shoot and he assured me it was quite lethal. I want to make soup and learn to shoot at the same time. I have an elderly uncle who surprised me with an early inheritance check just days ago. My trip to the MoMeet is now paid for, but I don't know what curveballs life is going to throw at me this year.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 28, 2021 03:08 AM (a4EWo)

609 Jim, it needs a bit more flavoring, not quite sure what it is, but we can figure that out, I am tempted to add some worcestershire sauce but I'm not sure if that's it, maybe a bit of heat, I don't know, I'll work on it.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 28, 2021 02:51 AM (a4EWo)

Mushrooms? Soy sauce? Tomatoes?

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 28, 2021 03:09 AM (Mzdiz)

610 Beethoven, while deaf, was to sound what was Michelangelo and DeVinci as to sight, touch, texture, feel and design, when blessed of all of their senses.

It would be like Ace, typing with all of the input of Helen Keller, and the output of Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, and the like. But without the links to them, their pages, their books and their music files.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 28, 2021 03:09 AM (QzJWU)

611 Debby, Christmas came prematurely and I'm still mopping up. I hope yours was wonderful!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 28, 2021 03:13 AM (Mzdiz)

612 You want that eruption of joy from sorrow to be flawless, with no clipping and other distortion. You want the explosion of all them fiddles and horns to be just perfect.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 03:05 AM (Mzdiz)

You want the music system hooked up in the living room.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 28, 2021 03:14 AM (Mzdiz)

613 ..Jim, how are we going to resolve this, I cook a few things well, otherwise I am quite average, I have only ever held a gun once in my life and I was nine years old and a friend of my Dad's who was an old time sheriff handed me a little Derringer that certain ladies used to shoot and he assured me it was quite lethal. I want to make soup and learn to shoot at the same time. I have an elderly uncle who surprised me with an early inheritance check just days ago. My trip to the MoMeet is now paid for, but I don't know what curveballs life is going to throw at me this year. Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 28, 2021 03:08 AM (a4EWo)

Trust, m'dear. We will resolve this all within trust. I did not fail to drop you at your hotel, nor pick you up the next morning at the appointed time. Nor fail to see to it that you enjoyed a rather pleasant breakfast.

Likewise, you shall succeed at the firing line, and you shall succeed at the stove. It has been decreed, and thus, it shall be so. Don't MAKE ME get Miklos involved in this?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 28, 2021 03:14 AM (QzJWU)

614 Miley, Yup. I think tomatoes are in order and I like mushrooms too, soy sauce is a kind of ninja ingredient, forget about worcestershire, soy is probably the way to go. I know someone who took our favorite Italian restaurant sauce to a chemical analyst to find out what was in it and soy sauce was the only unusual ingredient that popped up.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 28, 2021 03:16 AM (a4EWo)

615 You want that eruption of joy from sorrow to be flawless, with no clipping and other distortion. You want the explosion of all them fiddles and horns to be just perfect.

Posted by: publius,

With some Handel (Musick for the Royal Fireworks, Halleluiah Chorus for example) I call this Glory of Western Civilization Music.

Them some Charlie Daniels or Hank Sr.

Posted by: Miklos, redneck Hungarian (and there is a few) at December 28, 2021 03:19 AM (QzkSJ)

616 Miley, Yup. I think tomatoes are in order and I like mushrooms too, soy sauce is a kind of ninja ingredient, forget about worcestershire, soy is probably the way to go. I know someone who took our favorite Italian restaurant sauce to a chemical analyst to find out what was in it and soy sauce was the only unusual ingredient that popped up.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 28, 2021 03:16 AM (a4EWo)

{{{umami}}}

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 28, 2021 03:20 AM (Mzdiz)

617 In Sweden we used to dry wild muchrooms, then grind them to powder. You could then add a few spoonsful to soups, stews and gravies.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 28, 2021 03:22 AM (Mzdiz)

618 mushrooms, not muchrooms! LOL

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 28, 2021 03:23 AM (Mzdiz)

619 Jim, You are a gentleman of the first order, I do trust you, the rest is in the hands of our Lord and Savior. We are gonna cook the finest shooting soup there ever was!! Good night, I've killed off the better portion of a bottle of wine and I've got a lot to do tomorrow.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at December 28, 2021 03:23 AM (a4EWo)

620 Hasta la nite nite, Horde!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at December 28, 2021 03:23 AM (QzJWU)

621

Publius' grandma had a pearl-handled derringer. I could hide that thing in my bra easily.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 28, 2021 03:25 AM (Mzdiz)

622 'Nite, Jim!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 28, 2021 03:25 AM (Mzdiz)

623
Methinks the Duchess is giving me some hints at what needs to be accomplished soon at Casa de Publius-Miley in terms of audio setup.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at December 28, 2021 03:25 AM (Mzdiz)

624 mushrooms, not muchrooms! LOL
Posted by: Miley

I know where to get certain kinds of mushrooms.

They like to grow on "cow patties" and there are wild cattle just down the river.

Posted by: Miklos, knowing things he is not allowed to know at December 28, 2021 03:26 AM (QzkSJ)

625 Methinks the Duchess is giving me some hints at what needs to be accomplished soon at Casa de Publius-Miley in terms of audio setup.
Posted by: publius

She shall be known as "Madame la Deci Belle"

Posted by: Miklos, knowing eleven words of Official French at December 28, 2021 03:27 AM (QzkSJ)

626 Haven't had those kind of mushrooms since the last millennium, Miklos. I'd rather have some devil's lettuce. If you know where to find that, I'd be over the moon.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 28, 2021 03:28 AM (Mzdiz)

627 We would both appreciate the music, sweetheart!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at December 28, 2021 03:29 AM (Mzdiz)

628 I'd rather have some devil's lettuce

Hmm


Requires further research and Government Funding

Posted by: Miklos, who liked the Arrival of the Canadians in the movie The Devil's Brigade (based on a real st at December 28, 2021 03:31 AM (QzkSJ)

629 He did that shit in his head.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

Don't give brandon any ideas.....

Posted by: JT at December 28, 2021 03:41 AM (arJlL)

630 Byrd going on trial would be the biggest farce anyway. You'll have a judge, prosecutor and defense attorney all on the same side, and likely a jury picked to be filed with partisans. They'll be no cameras allowed, and only carefully selected media, to make sure the trial is a joke, where they'll paint Babitt as a Rambo figure storming the capital, and all the state media will make sure to plaster the airwaves with similar stories.

In the end he'll quickly be found not guilty and then be given a promotion or giant severance package for his troubles.

We need to just hope Republicans take control in 2022 and have the balls to clean house and also investigate the highly partisan Capitol police.

Posted by: Rbastid at December 28, 2021 03:43 AM (sPpzQ)

631 Byrd should be sued civilly - at least then the prosecutor is not pro-gubmint.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 28, 2021 03:58 AM (KAi1n)

632
We need to just hope Republicans take control in 2022

STEINER WILL COME

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko gender fluid at December 28, 2021 04:03 AM (t6Nh+)

633 Pixy's up!

Posted by: m at December 28, 2021 04:42 AM (SSiCQ)

634 A Mind-Blowing Website:

https://youtu.be/r1OaDkqAvlE

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