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Sunday Overnight Open Thread (3/6/22)

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The Quotes of The Day


Quote I

“This unspeakable tragedy highlights the true cost, unintended or not, of sanctuary policies that prevent law enforcement from protecting its citizens,” Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones


Quote II

“Our side — the elected Republicans — sit on their asses and they don’t do a thing.”Bo Snerdley (aka James Golden)


Quote III


“Mr. President, we are inspired by you and the strength and courage of the Ukrainian people.”

“The people of New York and its large Ukrainian community stand with you,"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY)

Hey Chuck, do us and the Ukrainians a favor. Go over and stand with them in person.


Quote IV

“[I]f we ever want to be truly free of the ability of dictators to blackmail us over oil and gas, we should be investing right here at home in renewable energy technologies."Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA)


Pramila, you ignorant slut sleazy politician.

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Why it's almost as good as a wheelbarrow of pennies.

The Russian Federation is essentially announcing a strategic default and will pay individuals or entities deemed enemies of Russia to be repaid in Russian rubles on dollar-denominated debt, or other foreign debt denominations.

Moscow. 5th of March. INTERFAX.RU – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree “On the temporary procedure for fulfilling obligations to certain foreign creditors,” the Kremlin press service reported.

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Of course it is NSFW, it is Paul Joseph Watson.............


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Good old asset forfeiture. It's a world wide phenomenon.

Authorities in Italy froze two yachts belonging to sanctioned Russian billionaires on Friday. Italian police froze the Lady M yacht—owned by steel magnate Alexey Mordashov—in the port of Imperia, according to a tweet posted on Saturday by Ferdinando Giugliano, the media advisor to Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. He also added that the country’s tax police froze the Lena yacht, owned by oil & gas mogul Gennady Timchenko, in the nearby port of Sanremo.

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It's not Kung Flu related. It isn't Ukraine related. It's the third time may be the charm for this fellow to change his ways.

GARNER, N.C. — An Apex man’s arrest this week on a charge of impersonating a law enforcement officer was not his first. Court records show Devin Alexander Stenulis, 34, has arrests on the same charge from 2017 and 2018.

Wake County Sheriff's Office deputies seized his vehicle this week, saying it could easily have been mistaken for a law enforcement vehicle. After searching his vehicle, deputies found a vest with a North Carolina fugitive recovery agent's badge pinned on it, according to photos released by the sheriff's office. Court records show Stenulis previously worked for Golden Bail Bonds in Raleigh and a LinkedIn profile associated with Stenulis said he had worked as a fugitive recovery agent.

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Isn't there any responsible adult in the circle jerk inner circle of Joe Biden? Why depend on foreign oil from the bad guys?

Several senior Biden administration officials from the White House and State Department traveled to Venezuela on Saturday to meet with the Russian ally as Moscow’s economy begins to crater under the weight of sanctions, according to a report.

The U.S. is hoping to capitalize on Russia’s economic weakness three years after the Kremlin – along with China and Iran – came to Venezuela’s financial aid when the Trump administration cut diplomatic ties with Caracas and imposed sanctions on oil exports in the Latin American country amid Western accusations of an illegitimate election, The New York Times reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.

Most of Venezuela’s oil exports went to the U.S. before the sanctions.


The oil thing not upsetting enough? How about the USA playing footsie with the Iranians with Vladimir Putin supplying the aphrodisiac.

Joe Biden Spits on US Allies to Secure a Deal That Makes No Sense

Guess who’s at the forefront of helping secure that deal? That would be none other than Vladimir Putin, who the United States is ostensibly at economic war with over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. About now, you are probably asking how that makes any sense at all. But stick around, because I promise you that it gets even worse.

Recently, I wrote two articles noting the seeming subservience of the Biden administration to Russia (see here and here), even as Biden himself has trotted out the tough-guy talk for a gullible public. Yet, behind the scenes, it appears that a deal with Iran has taken priority, even as Putin continues to bomb cities in Ukraine.

But hang on, I told you things would get worse. According to Kenneth Vogul, the Biden administration is now looking to normalize relations with the communist Maduro regime in Venezuela. How does that connect with the Iran deal? We’ll get to that in a moment.


It's not dementia folks. It's absolute hatred of the USA and the American way of life. I believe he is a traitor and should be tried, convicted and sentenced as one.


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A vaginal problem at the southern border. Quickly, have the VP go down (phrasing?) to the border.

US Border Patrol Sees Spike In Women Smuggling Fentanyl In Vaginal Cavity

EL PASO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the El Paso area ports of entry have encountered individuals attempting to smuggle fentanyl concealed internally on their bodies over the past two weeks.

“It is tragic that people are willing to put themselves in these dangerous situations,” said CBP El Paso Director of Field Operations Hector A. Mancha. “This synthetic opioid is so powerful that if a package were to rupture inside the body, the consequences could be life threatening.”


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Well I know one thing. While in high school this woman excelled in hypocrisy and Karen.

A Florida mom was hilariously lampooned on Twitter after her hypocritical, self-owning rant against Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis went viral.

Dawn Marshall, the mother of a student at Middleton High School in Tampa, told WFLA-TV on Wednesday that she was furious because the governor had told students they could take off their masks if they wanted to.

“You do not have to wear those masks,” DeSantis told students while walking toward the podium for a news conference at the University of South Florida. “I mean, please take them off. Honestly, it’s not doing anything and we’ve got to stop with this COVID theater.

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I have no idea if she is a doper. More friction between the US and Russia.

WNBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner has been detained in Russia and could face up to 10 years in prison after customs officers found "vapes" containing hashish oil in her luggage back in February, reports say.

The Russian Federal Customs Service released a statement Saturday confirming that an American "two-time Olympic basketball champion" had been taken into custody in February after a narcotics' dog at Sheremetyevo International Airport near Moscow alerted the athlete’s luggage.


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LGBTQ2SIA+ OK, what the fvck?

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown blasts Texas, says she stands with “LGBTQ2SIA+” children. Really.


It appears she was dropped on her head as an infant repeatedly.

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Yup, this ought to drive Vlad straight to retreat.

Streaming giant Netflix is suspending service in Russia, citing that country’s invasion of Ukraine. They join numerous entertainment companies and other businesses who have halted business there.

Netflix already paused all of its production and acquisitions work in the territory, Deadline sources confirmed.

One Netflix original project in production is being halted, namely the detective drama series Zato.

Two further pieces of content Netflix commissioned from Russia, including its first Russian original, Anna K, the contemporary retelling of Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel Anna Karenina, have already wrapped and are undated – there is no update about plans for those at this time.

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A new term that I had never heard. But, I like it. Transgrifter. Lot of that going on.

‘HE’S TRANSGRIFTER’: The evolution of an ‘EXPERT’ on whatever is the latest hot thing to be an ‘EXPERT’ on

The death of expertise? More like the proliferation, because as self-identifying smart people say so often when sneering at people like Joe Rogan or Joe Blow on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, “everybody’s an expert.”

That snark has some unintended truth to it, though, because the media will treat any egghead as an expert on any topic, assuming the nerd in question is willing to tow the party line.


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Journalism is dead. Why the feds don't just take it over is beyond me. Fox News & Newsmax Took Biden Money To Push Deadly COVID Vaccines To Its Viewers

Corporate news outlets did not disclose the money they took to push dangerous drugs to their conservative audience

Two days ago, Chris Pandolfo at Blaze Media revealed that his media organization had filed FOIA requests regarding the Biden Administration’s covert funding of the deadly new vaccines and the American corporate media. What they discovered will certainly shock you — and it’s a crucial story that our corrupt media will work hard to make the least covered and least discussed news story of the year.

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The ONT Musical Interlude & Lunaediesophobia Emporium



Born on this day: 7 Mar 1946
Matthew Fisher from Procol Harum who had the 1967 UK No.1 & US No.5 single 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' (one of the few singles to have sold over 10 million copies) and scored the hits 'Homburg', 'Conquistador'. via thisdayinmusic.com

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Born on this day: 7 Mar 1946
Peter Wolf, singer with American rock band The J Geils Band, who had the 1982 US No.1 & UK No.3 single 'Centerfold' which was taken from their US No.1 1981 album Freeze Frame. Wolf was once married to US actress Faye Dunaway. via thisdayinmusic.com


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At that time, you had only one job to do. Genius Award Winner.

Doorbell Camera Shows Real Estate Agent Showing Home That Isn't For Sale

When a house is listed for sale, real estate agents often bring prospective buyers in it to show them the home. The listing agent typically gives instructions on how the showing agents can get in - sometimes there is a lockbox hanging on the doorknob, sometimes there is a hidden key, and sometimes a side door might even be left open. It's all perfectly normal. What isn't normal is when an agent enters a home that is not for sale to show it to clients, but that's exactly what happened recently, and it was all caught on the homeowner's doorbell camera and then shared on TikTok.

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This really isn't surprising to yours truly. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

According to a preliminary study that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 74th Annual Meeting in April, owning a pet, especially for five years or longer, may be linked to slower cognitive decline in older adults.

"Prior studies have suggested that the human-animal bond may have health benefits like decreasing blood pressure and stress," said study author Tiffany Braley, MD, MS, of the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor and a member of the American Academy of Neurology. "Our results suggest pet ownership may also be protective against cognitive decline."

The study looked at cognitive data from 1,369 older adults with an average age of 65 who had normal cognitive skills at the start of the study. A total of 53% owned pets, and 32% were long-term pet owners, defined as those who owned pets for five years or more.


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Weekly commenter stats for week of 3-6-2022


Top 10 commenters:
1 [665 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa' [93.32 posts/day]
2 [599 comments] 'Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe!'
3 [464 comments] 'Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)'
4 [449 comments] '... '
5 [437 comments] 'whig'
6 [422 comments] 'JT'
7 [393 comments] 'Cat Ass Trophy'
8 [391 comments] 'Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker.'
9 [385 comments] 'REDACTED'
10 [371 comments] 'Skip '

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [61 names] 'Count de Monet' [8.56 unique names/day]
2 [60 names] '18-1'
3 [53 names] 'Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison'
4 [49 names] 'Duncanthrax'
5 [42 names] 'I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper'
6 [41 names] 'OrangeEnt'
7 [40 names] 'browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard'
8 [36 names] 'Notorious BFD'
9 [28 names] 'REDACTED'
10 [28 names] 'andycanuck (UHVv4)'


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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:01 PM




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1 Yes!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:01 PM (hOUT3)

2

最初の!

Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 10:01 PM (DTIWw)

3 My life is complete!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:02 PM (hOUT3)

4 Present!

Posted by: Eromero at March 06, 2022 10:02 PM (0OP+5)

5 good evening all

Posted by: wing at March 06, 2022 10:02 PM (PlW9M)

6 Hey, where all da white wimmen at?

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at March 06, 2022 10:02 PM (VxC1e)

7 Real estate crash will be a buying opportunity

Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 10:02 PM (7mU9T)

8 Arf!

Posted by: Sandy at March 06, 2022 10:02 PM (VxC1e)

9 Take that, Zettai!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:02 PM (hOUT3)

10 3 My life is complete!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:02 PM (hOUT3)


It better be with the gas prices you sent me.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 06, 2022 10:03 PM (w45mR)

11 To date my yacht has not been seized by the Italians.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:03 PM (VxC1e)

12 Congrats Hrothgar.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at March 06, 2022 10:04 PM (83y/e)

13 On behalf of the combine, I present the Order Of Merit to Commissar Hrothgar. lkKisses each cheek and gives a hearty bear hug. Cues 'Eye Of The Tiger', turns volume up to 11.

Posted by: Eromero at March 06, 2022 10:04 PM (0OP+5)

14 Yay, ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 06, 2022 10:05 PM (SchxB)

15 Premium is at $5.95 in SoCal today.

FJB, and F all of the idiot Trump haters who voted for him.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:05 PM (VxC1e)

16 Nice color on the top pic. Filter, or natural light?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 06, 2022 10:06 PM (7bRMQ)

17 Elon Musk @elonmusk; 2h
Hopefully, it is now extremely obvious that Europe should restart dormant nuclear power stations and increase power output of existing ones.

This is *critical* to national and international security.

Posted by: andycanuck (UHVv4) at March 06, 2022 10:06 PM (UHVv4)

18 US Border Patrol Sees Spike In Women Smuggling Fentanyl In Vaginal Cavity

Huh. Better call the gynodentist.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 06, 2022 10:07 PM (II3Gr)

19 "This unspeakable tragedy highlights the true cost, unintended or not, of sanctuary policies that prevent law enforcement from protecting its citizens"

There are knife fights between Guatemalans and Mexicans in our small Iowa public high school. Tell me again how this makes things better for our country?

Posted by: pookysgirl, ready to unleash the Pooky at March 06, 2022 10:07 PM (XKZwp)

20 Bo Snerdley Johnson is right!

Posted by: Olson Johnson at March 06, 2022 10:07 PM (VxC1e)

21 Evening, Mis Hum, and thanks for the fine (if infuriating) ONT content. Idle thought -- does Castle Doctrine apply to realtors?

Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at March 06, 2022 10:07 PM (v23vE)

22 top pic looks like CBD's driveway crack has become

well, worse

Posted by: REDACTED at March 06, 2022 10:08 PM (us2H3)

23 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2022 10:08 PM (Msys3)

24 Uneducated Economist on Russian bonds:

https://youtu.be/A1S749TzpLA

Seems investors were told the bonds wouldn't be honored and their insurance would not cover the loss. So they were sold and snapped up by companies like JPMorgan. Then, miraculously, the bonds were covered again.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at March 06, 2022 10:08 PM (YynYJ)

25 Does Stolin think he will get oil from Venezuela tomorrow? They're years away from producing.

Posted by: Clutch at March 06, 2022 10:08 PM (9UmRs)

26 21 Evening, Mis Hum, and thanks for the fine (if infuriating) ONT content. Idle thought -- does Castle Doctrine apply to realtors?
Posted by: Schnorflepuppy at March 06, 2022 10:07 PM (v23vE)


You're welcome


And most of the realtors I know deserve the Castle Doctrine exercise.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 06, 2022 10:08 PM (w45mR)

27 ". Fox News & Newsmax Took Biden Money To Push Deadly COVID Vaccines To Its Viewers"

why, oh why, am I not surprised ? even a little bit ?

and yes, I have seen that fedex box myself, more than once, lol.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (NDCP0) at March 06, 2022 10:09 PM (NDCP0)

28 I haven't looked at gas prices in several days. Last time I looked it was $3.69 a gallon. Thankfully I don't drive much so a tank can last me a month. But both my youngest kids do Lyft and Uber. This is really hurting them. Groceries will continue to skyrocket. This is so fucking insane.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 06, 2022 10:09 PM (nxdel)

29 Evening, Horde...how goes it?

I find all of the international pressure on Russia a bit odd.

Does anyone think the international community would react the same way if China invaded Taiwan?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2022 10:09 PM (K5n5d)

30 Is there a broken leg in that fedex package?

Posted by: davidt at March 06, 2022 10:09 PM (ApVam)

31 Take that, Zettai!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:02 PM



*grabs keyboard in both hands, contemplates ritual seppuku with said keyboard...

Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 10:10 PM (DTIWw)

32 I'm late and still haven't read the content

Posted by: IanDeal at March 06, 2022 10:10 PM (MGjjz)

33 30 Is there a broken leg in that fedex package?
Posted by: davidt at March 06, 2022 10:09 PM (ApVam)

Fra-gee-lay.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 06, 2022 10:10 PM (II3Gr)

34 Our side the elected Republicans sit on their asses and they dont do a thing

I see Althouse picked this up...and declared it was racism. And most of her posters tore her a new one for it.

And it amazes me. Did Brown do well or not? Well...obviously if she did they'd whip out the scores to show it. But...they aren't.

So then what part of asking to see her scores is racist? And, here's where we have to get into the meat of it. The leftwing argument is something like, "Well scores, and even what you troglodytes would call intelligence is a white supremacist idea!" So, judging her by a white supremacist idea is...well..duh...racist.

But they can't say that out allowed - so they just throw the accusation of racism out and make it nebulous.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:11 PM (ESjRY)

35 29 Evening, Horde...how goes it?

I find all of the international pressure on Russia a bit odd.

Does anyone think the international community would react the same way if China invaded Taiwan?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2022 10:09 PM (K5n5d)


Please pass the paper towel, I just spewed my last gulp of coffee for the day.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 06, 2022 10:11 PM (w45mR)

36 would like to see the MSM spend as much time on the southern border as they do Ukraine

it is just a little bit more important than Ukraine

Posted by: REDACTED at March 06, 2022 10:11 PM (us2H3)

37 Is there a broken leg in that fedex package?
Posted by: davidt at March 06, 2022 10:09 PM (ApVam)

Fra-gee-lay.

Posted by: Insomniac

It's a major award.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2022 10:12 PM (Msys3)

38 The best part of the energy crisis is that the one energy resource that seems to be plentiful in many areas of the world (including the US) is that there is oil and natural gas in abundance.

The worst part of the energy crisis is that the electric vehicle requires the use of exceedingly rare and difficult (if not impossible to recycle) minerals that simply are not readily available without the possibility of "supply chain" interruptions between foreign sources and the battery manufacturers!

Guess which approach our betters have selected for our future?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:12 PM (hOUT3)

39 Fox News & Newsmax Took Biden Money To Push Deadly COVID Vaccines To Its Viewers

I don't watch much TV, but when I do the ads are about equally distributed between;

New Cars
New Medicines (Blood Pressure/STDs/etc)
Clot shots

I can't imagine how much money we, as in you and I, have spent on the clot shot ads. Its probably enough to keep the legacy media afloat.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:13 PM (ESjRY)

40 Ugh, I'm late.

Posted by: mot at March 06, 2022 10:13 PM (FlUFP)

41 I'm getting the feeling this is going to get ugly, real fast

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 06, 2022 10:14 PM (kkEbA)

42 Ugh, I'm late.
Posted by: mot

The rule of thumb is not to worry until you're two weeks late.

Or so I've been told.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2022 10:14 PM (Msys3)

43 41 I'm getting the feeling this is going to get ugly, real fast
Posted by: Pete Seria at March 06, 2022 10:14 PM (kkEbA)

*looks in mirror*

I'm not THAT ugly.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 06, 2022 10:14 PM (II3Gr)

44 Does anyone think the international community would react the same way if China invaded Taiwan?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2022 10:09 PM (K5n5d)

If.

Posted by: Spartans at March 06, 2022 10:14 PM (7bRMQ)

45 I find all of the international pressure on Russia a bit odd.

Does anyone think the international community would react the same way if China invaded Taiwan?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2022 10:09 PM (K5n5d)

absolutely

the world would slap sanctions on Taiwan in a nanosec

Posted by: REDACTED at March 06, 2022 10:15 PM (us2H3)

46 hiya

Posted by: JT at March 06, 2022 10:15 PM (arJlL)

47 Ugh, I'm late.
Posted by: mot at March 06, 2022 10:13 PM (FlUFP)

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You're docked a full hour. Next time it happens you're fired.

Posted by: The AoSHQ Help Desk at March 06, 2022 10:15 PM (VxC1e)

48 Wow! It's an ONT! It's like happy birthday and Christmas all rolled into .. um .. well, never mind that..



March is so confusing, here in NE Okla.

Here we had those sunny 80° days, and I was ready to start making OJ for a mixer again.

Now we have rain and reversion to February. Next 7 days' forecast has sub-freezing nights every night. Back to hot chocolates it is.

♪ Bring back those lazy, hazy, crazy days of last week....

Posted by: mindful webworker - if you clik it won't be Rick at March 06, 2022 10:15 PM (4Hf9E)

49 A Florida mom was hilariously lampooned on Twitter after her hypocritical, self-owning rant against Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis went viral.

Ahem. It is SCIENCE that you can't catch COVID while bad mouthing a Republican. Duh. Do you people know nothing?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:16 PM (ESjRY)

50 I'm not THAT ugly.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 06, 2022 10:14 PM (II3Gr)

don't sell yourself short, fugly

Posted by: Ty Webb at March 06, 2022 10:16 PM (us2H3)

51 ..Real estate crash will be a buying opportunity
Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 10:02 PM (7mU9T)


Remember how just over a year ago, the sale of huge RVs was the going thing, in reaction to the covid isolations? Hit the road, gas is cheap, be isolated in your RV!

Yeah. Watch for those to be For Sale at Fire Sale Prices, from sea to shining sea. +$5 gas is going to shatter that market and industry. I'd also short the hell out of RV manufacturing stocks, if you're so inclined. Me, I'm not a wrecker that way, I'd rather see as many "survivors" make it there as possible. But the deal of a lifetime for a nice RV is likely, in just the next few months.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 06, 2022 10:16 PM (QzJWU)

52 I'm getting the feeling this is going to get ugly, real fast
Posted by: Pete Seria at March 06, 2022 10:14 PM (kkEbA)

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Rest easy.

Top Men are in charge.

Top.

Men.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:16 PM (VxC1e)

53 Hi all. I've got photos of something even worse than the Fragile photo...and the carrier is denying culpability.

Sigh.

In Robert the Cat news, he is very sweet and I put a shim on the night table by the bed, so he doesn't have to push the venetian blinds aside to see things he wants to murder outside. It's for the cat, so it's ok.

Love you all, and yeah been drinking because why not.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 06, 2022 10:16 PM (m0zqP)

54 Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 06, 2022 10:09 PM (nxdel)

{{{Jewells}}}, in the four days after Joey Baiden's SOTU, premium gas at a local NoVA discount station rose 7.63%.

Not to worry, we have a seasoned statesman at the helm

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:16 PM (hOUT3)

55 Does anyone think the international community would react the same way if China invaded Taiwan?


I presume most of what Europe is doing is based on people in the Biden junta demanding it of them.

And as Biden's on the Chinese payroll he won't tell them to do shit if/when they invade Taiwan

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:16 PM (ESjRY)

56 Thanks for the dandy ONT, Mis Hum! That photo up top is quite lovely. Nice tune behind the photo too.

Bo Snerdley is 100% correct.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at March 06, 2022 10:16 PM (oJ+Lj)

57 I'm getting the feeling this is going to get ugly, real fast
Posted by: Pete Seria
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Every stabilizing system is under attack. Chip, chip, chip. Big chunks to fall off soon, I fear.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 06, 2022 10:17 PM (bk3Sg)

58 My life is complete!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:02 PM (hOUT3)
* * * *
So happy for you!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient, HONK! Believing in America at March 06, 2022 10:17 PM (oJ+Lj)

59 The same people who pushed the covid hysteria are now pushing the Russia/Ukraine hysteria.


That must be just a coincidence, right?

Posted by: davidt at March 06, 2022 10:18 PM (ApVam)

60 Does anyone think the international community would react the same way if China invaded Taiwan?

It's a Chinese internal problem.

Of course, Ukraine has been independent for only 31 years, and was part of Russia prior to that for centuries.

Taiwan has been under the control of the central Chinese government for only 4 of the last 116 years.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2022 10:18 PM (I2/tG)

61 Sing, sing a song....

sing it loud, sing it strong

Posted by: sven at March 06, 2022 10:18 PM (Lzpvj)

62 BeckChas, sounds like you are getting the hang of this owning being owned by a cat thing.
Welcome to the club!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:18 PM (hOUT3)

63 Does anyone think the international community would react the same way if China invaded Taiwan?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2022 10:09 PM (K5n5d)

Nope.

After I saw the video of Lindsey and his McCain in Ukraine cheering for "action against Russia in 2017", I knew that McCain probably had a huge role in the Russia/Trump scam and that they were both there to push for a proxy war. And we are way more dependent on China, because more money for billionaires

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 06, 2022 10:18 PM (ONvIw)

64 I'm getting the feeling this is going to get ugly, real fast
Posted by: Pete Seria at March 06, 2022 10:14 PM (kkEbA)

*looks in mirror*

I'm not THAT ugly.
Posted by: Insomniac


No worries, I am.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 06, 2022 10:18 PM (SchxB)

65 43 41 I'm getting the feeling this is going to get ugly, real fast
Posted by: Pete Seria at March 06, 2022 10:14 PM (kkEbA)

I would like to know where all these TV military geniuses were during the Afghan exit debacle ??

Posted by: REDACTED at March 06, 2022 10:18 PM (us2H3)

66 LGBTQ2SIA+

Sia's that singer that made a video where she had Shia LeBeouf pretend to be a pedo raping a kid right?

Sounds about right.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:18 PM (ESjRY)

67 60 Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2022 10:18 PM (I2/tG)

You can tell who cuts the bigger checks for the democrat party based on who they genuflect to

Posted by: sven at March 06, 2022 10:19 PM (Lzpvj)

68 Rest easy.

Top Men are in charge.

Top.

Men.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:16 PM (VxC1e)

old and busted : hoarding toilet paper

new hotness: hoarding iodine tablets

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 10:19 PM (V13WU)

69

There's too much homosexual content in this evening's offerings...

-1

Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 10:19 PM (nDX1d)

70 Sia's that singer that made a video where she had Shia LeBeouf pretend to be a pedo raping a kid right?

Sounds about right.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:18 PM (ESjRY)

Um...what?

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 06, 2022 10:19 PM (II3Gr)

71 Did everyone see this? https://tinyurl.com/2p93awav

UFC #11 Featherweight Bryce Mitchell calls out the Biden family corruption in Ukraine, says stop sending Americans overseas to fight politician's wars, and stop sending taxpayer dollars to foreign countries when we got veterans sleeping on the streets here in America.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:19 PM (ESjRY)

72 7 Real estate crash will be a buying opportunity

Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 10:02 PM (7mU9T)

++++

Exactly.

Posted by: George Soros at March 06, 2022 10:19 PM (hVqGz)

73 64 I'm getting the feeling this is going to get ugly, real fast
Posted by: Pete Seria at March 06, 2022 10:14 PM (kkEbA)

---------

*fistbump*

Posted by: Adm. Josh Painter at March 06, 2022 10:19 PM (VxC1e)

74 Every stabilizing system is under attack. Chip, chip, chip. Big chunks to fall off soon, I fear.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 06, 2022 10:17 PM (bk3Sg)

Who could have foreseen this?!?

Posted by: The Authorities at March 06, 2022 10:20 PM (7bRMQ)

75 51 - But the deal of a lifetime for a nice RV is likely, in just the next few months.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn

SND Jim - I'm approaching retirement and the plan WAS to get a travel trailer and a truck to pull it with...but now - with gas fast approaching 6/gal here in So Cal and no end in sight - well- I'll at least wait a few months to see if prices on Ram Laramies come down a bit.

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at March 06, 2022 10:20 PM (7SwmH)

76 Hrothgar! My kids and some friends make fun of me for stockpiling food. We'll see who's laughing in 6 months. It's gonna get very ugly. Something seriously has to give soon. I will admit I'm depressed over it and very very angry. This is NOT how I planned my golden years.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 06, 2022 10:20 PM (nxdel)

77 Sia's video: https://youtu.be/KWZGAExj-es

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:20 PM (ESjRY)

78 52 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:16 PM (VxC1e)

Best case is this is literal kabuki theater with the designated villain taking the dive for GloboHomo....

worst case scenario is all that stands between peace and a general nuclear exchange is Joe Biden's renowned judgement and military expertise.

Posted by: sven at March 06, 2022 10:20 PM (Lzpvj)

79 "It is tragic that people are willing to put themselves in these dangerous situations," said CBP El Paso Director of Field Operations Hector A. Mancha. "This synthetic opioid is so powerful that if a package were to rupture inside the body, the consequences could be life threatening."

That quote has reminded me of just how plain, fu**ing fed up I've become with people who care more about criminals and lawbreakers than they do hard working, responsible citizens.
Actions have consequences. So boo hoo.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 06, 2022 10:21 PM (+lVUW)

80 *we had stabilizing systems ? no one told me .....

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 10:21 PM (V13WU)

81 Who could have foreseen this?!?
Posted by: The Authorities at March 06, 2022 10:20 PM (7bRMQ)

----------

Did you miss last year in Davos?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:21 PM (VxC1e)

82 Jen Rubin is off her meds again.

Jennifer 'I stand with Ukraine' Rubin
@JRubinBlogger
President Biden just had one of his better weeks.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 06, 2022 10:21 PM (FVME7)

83 Of course all the FNM outlets accepted COVID ad buys. But did they get extra money for all those stories about the brave parents putting their kids into the vaccine studies and stories of docs encouraging parents to get their kids jabbed? It'd almost make me feel better if all that propaganda garbage was purely "you pays I says" I suspect plenty of the media wing of the DNC are willing to do that shit for free.

Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at March 06, 2022 10:21 PM (83y/e)

84 the one thing all these warmongers have got going for them

is that when they are proven wrong and the world is destroyed

there wont be any twitter for people to yell at them

Posted by: REDACTED at March 06, 2022 10:21 PM (us2H3)

85 61 Sing, sing a song....

sing it loud, sing it strong
Posted by: sven at March 06, 2022 10:18 PM (Lzpvj)

Thank you Sven - brings back good memories...

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at March 06, 2022 10:21 PM (7SwmH)

86 76 Hrothgar! My kids and some friends make fun of me for stockpiling food. We'll see who's laughing in 6 months. It's gonna get very ugly. Something seriously has to give soon. I will admit I'm depressed over it and very very angry. This is NOT how I planned my golden years.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 06, 2022 10:20 PM (nxdel)

You, too? I've got a lot of stuff saved up. Very few Americans seem to fathom that there could possibly be a shortage or rationing in their future.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 06, 2022 10:21 PM (ONvIw)

87 72 Posted by: George Soros at March 06, 2022 10:19 PM (hVqGz)

Just wait until me and my friends own ALL the arable land in America....

you're going on a diet.

//G Soros

Posted by: sven at March 06, 2022 10:21 PM (Lzpvj)

88 Nice to be among my late night, gray box friends. Cheers (raises Coors banquet stubby).

Posted by: mot at March 06, 2022 10:21 PM (FlUFP)

89 worst case scenario is all that stands between peace and a general nuclear exchange is Joe Biden's renowned judgement and military expertise.

After a 31 year reprieve we are back to having to worry about global thermonuclear war.

Thanks for restoring that norm Biden!

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:22 PM (ESjRY)

90 I'm not THAT ugly.
Posted by: Insomniac

No worries, I am.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

My sainted Mother said when I was born, the Doctor turned me over to slap my bottom and said:

"Ah, Twins!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2022 10:22 PM (Msys3)

91 Our side -- he elected Republicans -- sit on their asses and they don't do a thing.

Donald Trump endorsed 33 candidates in the Texas primary.

33 candidates endorsed by Donald Trump in the Texas primary won.

Coat Tails

Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 10:22 PM (7mU9T)

92 Actions have consequences. So boo hoo.
Posted by: nerdygirl

You're booing the guy on first ?

Posted by: JT at March 06, 2022 10:23 PM (arJlL)

93 Sia's video: https://youtu.be/KWZGAExj-es

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:20 PM



Not opening that... Nopity nope nope!

Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 10:23 PM (nDX1d)

94 Jen Rubin is doing mushrooms again.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:23 PM (VxC1e)

95 Jen Rubin is running on raw emotion and Haldol.

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 10:23 PM (V13WU)

96 LGBTQ2SIA+

A+ gay people?

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 06, 2022 10:23 PM (+lVUW)

97 Jewells, I understand completely!

I was remiss about the stockpiling, but trying to catch up! Evil is walking in the halls of power in DC, and in many State Houses as well!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:23 PM (hOUT3)

98 75 51 - But the deal of a lifetime for a nice RV is likely, in just the next few months.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn

SND Jim - I'm approaching retirement and the plan WAS to get a travel trailer and a truck to pull it with...but now - with gas fast approaching 6/gal here in So Cal and no end in sight - well- I'll at least wait a few months to see if prices on Ram Laramies come down a bit.
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at March 06, 2022 10:20 PM (7SwmH)


If you folks see any nice mini-rvs on a van chasis.....I'm interested. The Fabulous Mrs. Mis. Hum. and I plan to travel even if the gas is astronomically priced.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 06, 2022 10:23 PM (w45mR)

99 I saw one tank the Euros sent to the Ukes was painted bright pink.

Do you suppose the GlobalHomo folks understand there is a reason to NOT paint your tanks a bright color?

Or is getting some cishet Uke soldiers killed part of the kink?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:23 PM (ESjRY)

100 89 Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:22 PM (ESjRY)

Much to my chagrin like the 80s I am now within five miles of a top 100 target.

In a sane republic this whole event would be a rallying cry to maximize US energy production and industry....

we are not that republic.

Posted by: sven at March 06, 2022 10:23 PM (Lzpvj)

101 Jennifer 'I stand with Ukraine' Rubin
@JRubinBlogger
President Biden just had one of his better weeks.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 06, 2022 10:21 PM (FVME7)

You can't expect anything else, Tablet, The Forward, etc are all comparing Zelensky to Churchill and are framing it as Jewish Ukraine against Nazi Russia. It's painful, but it's what you get with a total WWII preoccupation,

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 06, 2022 10:23 PM (ONvIw)

102 This is NOT how I planned my golden years.
Posted by: Jewells45

You, too? I've got a lot of stuff saved up. Very few Americans seem to fathom that there could possibly be a shortage or rationing in their future.
Posted by: CN...FJB

Me too. Every time I shop, I buy 5-10 extra cans of something. Usually what is on sale. The basement is starting to look like a fallout shelter.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2022 10:24 PM (Msys3)

103 My sainted Mother said when I was born, the Doctor turned me over to slap my bottom and said:

"Ah, Twins!!"
Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2022 10:22 PM (Msys3)

When I was born the doctor slapped my mother.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 06, 2022 10:24 PM (II3Gr)

104 actually, in my area, a little more than 2 hrs above NYC, everytime there is a crisis, real estate increases in value

I'm waiting for NYC to get nuked to cash out of my home

Posted by: REDACTED at March 06, 2022 10:24 PM (us2H3)

105 After a 31 year reprieve we are back to having to worry about global thermonuclear war.

Thanks for restoring that norm Biden!
Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:22 PM (ESjRY)
-------------

Worry more.
We never had as big of an idiot for president during the cold war.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 10:24 PM (7mU9T)

106 You, too? I've got a lot of stuff saved up. Very few Americans seem to fathom that there could possibly be a shortage or rationing in their future.
Posted by: CN...FJB at March 06, 2022 10:21 PM (ONvIw)

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Well, it never happened before in all of history, right?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:24 PM (VxC1e)

107 In a sane republic this whole event would be a rallying cry to maximize US energy production and industry....

There are plenty of leftists that don't care how high gas prices get. If they pay more for no mean tweets that's a good investment right?

But I wonder if this will get through the thick skulls of the LIVs? One can hope...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:25 PM (ESjRY)

108 76 This is NOT how I planned my golden years.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 06, 2022 10:20 PM (nxdel)

Jewells - I so looked forward to turning 16 and getting my drivers license and what do you know - gas went from 30c/gal to 55 and more....just my luck. Same with interest rates (and prices) when we wanted to buy a house...but we survived both and more. This too shall pass. We've seen worse.

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at March 06, 2022 10:25 PM (7SwmH)

109
When I was born the doctor slapped my mother.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 06, 2022 10:24 PM (II3Gr)
----
Reminds me of an Emo Philips joke: "My mother says that when I was born, they threw away the mold! ...Some of it grew back..."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2022 10:25 PM (K5n5d)

110 105 Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 10:24 PM (7mU9T)

Hilarious really, mankind was on the precipice of transcending the bounds of Earth and finally succeeding at feeding all the population....

we are programmed to be unable to cope with success I think.

Posted by: sven at March 06, 2022 10:26 PM (Lzpvj)

111 Come to the Honeycomb Hideout.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 06, 2022 10:26 PM (vuisn)

112 111 Come to the Honeycomb Hideout.
Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 06, 2022 10:26 PM (vuisn)

Are you cereal about this?

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 06, 2022 10:26 PM (II3Gr)

113 Me too. Every time I shop, I buy 5-10 extra cans of something. Usually what is on sale. The basement is starting to look like a fallout shelter.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2022 10:24 PM (Msys3)

Exactly cans of protein, soups, beans, and lots of dried beans, grain, flour, pasta in mylar bags.
If I don't need it, I'll be pleased, but if I do, I'll be glad to have it.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 06, 2022 10:26 PM (ONvIw)

114 Very few Americans seem to fathom that there could possibly be a shortage or rationing in their future.

I've been slowly increasing my supplies of long term storage food.

Best case scenario in a few years I have to eat a lot of canned food, rice, and MREs, worst case scenario...wellsss

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:27 PM (ESjRY)

115 Fragile. That's Italian for drop kick off the truck, I believe.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 06, 2022 10:27 PM (LKTKP)

116 Did you miss last year in Davos?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:21 PM (VxC1e)

All we remember was the buffet sucked!

Posted by: The Authorities at March 06, 2022 10:27 PM (7bRMQ)

117 My sainted Mother said when I was born, the Doctor turned me over to slap my bottom and said:

"Ah, Twins!!"


Unpossible. If the ends were interchangeable you'd be in politics.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 06, 2022 10:27 PM (SchxB)

118 Well, it never happened before in all of history, right?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:24 PM (VxC1e)


Come on man, we have TOP.MEN at every level of government, pay no attention to all that history stuff!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:27 PM (hOUT3)

119 and are framing it as Jewish Ukraine against Nazi Russia.

If nothing else I give props to Putin for using the left's own language against it in talking about de-nazifying Ukraine...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:28 PM (ESjRY)

120 That's the late, great Gary Brooker singing lead for Procol Harum on Conquistador, not Matthew Fisher.

Posted by: Interesting Times at March 06, 2022 10:28 PM (ieN7O)

121
Well, it never happened before in all of history, right?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:24 PM (VxC1e)

That's what most people think, but I remember my grandmothers both telling me about the Depression and rationing during the war. It made an impression.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 06, 2022 10:28 PM (ONvIw)

122 All we remember was the buffet sucked!
Posted by: The Authorities at March 06, 2022 10:27 PM (7bRMQ)

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You're complaining about the buffet?

I got seated with Bill Gates!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:28 PM (VxC1e)

123 Does anyone think the international community would react the same way if China invaded Taiwan?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2022 10:09 PM (K5n5d)


Of course not. Hell, NBA players don't give a damn about what China is doing to Uyghurs.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 06, 2022 10:29 PM (+lVUW)

124 stop sending taxpayer dollars to foreign countries when we got veterans sleeping on the streets here in America.
Posted by: 18-1
--------

As an aside, an organization that I work with:
https://www.abccm.org/veterans-restoration-quarters

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 06, 2022 10:29 PM (GBHAb)

125 One thing I was wondering about...has Biden not entered the war solely because he knows the military wouldn't follow him?

All of the normally gung-ho types I know* are basically saying, "Good luck Ukraine, but I ain't fighting no one else's war no more"

*As in people that would do the fighting, not the people on twitter

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:29 PM (ESjRY)

126 "LGBTQ2SIA+" ! Way to oppress the -, x, and ÷ children, Governor Brown!

* retreats to safe space, mainlines soy *

Posted by: Hysterical Austin hipster at March 06, 2022 10:30 PM (CSb83)

127 we are programmed to be unable to cope with success I think.
Posted by: sven at March 06, 2022 10:26 PM (Lzpvj)


No, more like our betters are programmed to hate it when a peasant class starts to have a decent civilization and do not cower under the boot of the ruling class!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:30 PM (hOUT3)

128 Great ONT, MisHum!

Good evening, Horde!

Posted by: Ladyl at March 06, 2022 10:30 PM (TdMsT)

129 Gates kept sticking his tongue in the chocolate fountain. Disgusting!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:30 PM (VxC1e)

130 Anyone know what's going on at the Hostomel airport in Ukraine? Hard to find current info. Big battles there for over a week The Ruskies can't take it or keep it. They need it to reinforce the Kyiv invasion/occupation.

Posted by: mot at March 06, 2022 10:30 PM (FlUFP)

131 It's obvious that something is afoot with this Ukraine-Russia thing. Too many people are giddy over a what should be a nuclear war.

Biden is sniffing Iran's hair and now he's slipping roofies into Venezuela's drink.

They won't cut off Russian Oil but will cut off everything else.

Whatever is going on, I'm sure it ends with America getting gut punched.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 06, 2022 10:30 PM (LKTKP)

132 enemies of Russia to be repaid in Russian rubles on dollar-denominated debt

Visa & Master Card cancells all business w/Russia
China Credit Cards takes all MC & Visa business.

Just nuke 'em
Just blow 'em all away
Joey's got no brains
It's the only way we can beat 'em

Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 10:30 PM (7mU9T)

133 This too shall pass.

That's what my mama always said when I would go to her with a problem or worry. I truly hope you are right. I feel like we're hanging on by our fingernails.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 06, 2022 10:31 PM (nxdel)

134 Robert O'Neill says Lindsey needs to use "back door channels"

I'm guessing phrasing aint a thing with the military

Posted by: REDACTED at March 06, 2022 10:31 PM (us2H3)

135 Hiya LadyL !

Posted by: JT at March 06, 2022 10:31 PM (arJlL)

136 If you folks see any nice mini-rvs on a van chasis.....I'm interested. The Fabulous Mrs. Mis. Hum. and I plan to travel even if the gas is astronomically priced.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 06, 2022 10:23 PM (w45mR)

Wait a min, MisHum! That's a perfect opportunity to "make" your own RV. Buy an old trailer chassis and build it to your specs. And you can post the vids on the hobby thread!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 06, 2022 10:31 PM (7bRMQ)

137 One thing I was wondering about...has Biden not entered the war solely because he knows the military wouldn't follow him?
----
Wouldn't surprise me in the least. If we've learned one thing from how the top generals in the military treated Trump, it's that they are basically just in it for themselves. Defending American interests is simply not their top priority.

I doubt they have any more respect for mush-brain than they do for Trump (less, probably).

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2022 10:32 PM (K5n5d)

138
No, more like our betters are programmed to hate it when a peasant class starts to have a decent civilization and do not cower under the boot of the ruling class!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:30 PM (hOUT3)


Perfectly stated, {{{Hrothgar}}}!

Posted by: Ladyl at March 06, 2022 10:32 PM (TdMsT)

139 @62 - thank you! He is a pretty understanding master. And I love the heck out of him. You would not believe the [cat things cut] and that's just today!

Also, if there's an Aos ugly contest, damn it, I will enter! I am number one!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 06, 2022 10:32 PM (m0zqP)

140 36 would like to see the MSM spend as much time on the southern border as they do Ukraine

it is just a little bit more important than Ukraine
Posted by: REDACTED at March 06, 2022 10:11 PM (us2H3)


But then how would our children get their fetanyl fix?

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 06, 2022 10:32 PM (+lVUW)

141 Whatever is going on, I'm sure it ends with America getting gut punched.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 06, 2022 10:30 PM (LKTKP)

----------

If you figure it out, be sure to let FJB know.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:32 PM (VxC1e)

142 Are the Russians still trying to capture those bio-weapons labs, errrrr, I mean, those gain of function labs in Ukraine? Did Putin catch wind of some plan?

Posted by: davidt at March 06, 2022 10:32 PM (ApVam)

143 Rome got fat and lazy. And then found it couldn't fight the wars it wanted to...and eventually it couldn't fight the wars it needed to.

And it all goes back to the Roman elites throwing away everything that made Rome so great to begin with.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:33 PM (ESjRY)

144 Good evening morons and thank you mh

Shout out to Miklos haven't seen him on the leaderboard in a while

Posted by: Soylent Corporation at March 06, 2022 10:33 PM (EZebt)

145 If you folks see any nice mini-rvs on a van chasis.....I'm interested. The Fabulous Mrs. Mis. Hum. and I plan to travel even if the gas is astronomically priced.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

AOP's prolly got 4or5 of 'em !

Posted by: JT at March 06, 2022 10:34 PM (arJlL)

146 Tonypete hubby is getting annoyed because all this food is in the garage and he's worried if we finally do sell the house what are we gonna do? We can't have food all over the damn garage! Sheesh... selling the house will be least of my worries.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 06, 2022 10:34 PM (nxdel)

147 7 Real estate crash will be a buying opportunity

Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 10:02 PM (7mU9T) \

Assuming I have any money left.

Posted by: Javems at March 06, 2022 10:34 PM (AmoqO)

148 138
{{{Ladyl}}}
Thanks, I really think that is a key part of our problems!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:34 PM (hOUT3)

149 No chance of a nuke war over this, not worried about that at all.

But pretty certain the degradation, impoverishment, vandalism, and theft that was certain the day PA announced the official winner of its electoral votes are going to live up to my expectations, probably exceed them.

But on Ukraine, come on, guys. That millennium of Ukraine being dominated by Russia or even essentially merged into it was some kind of fluke. We can't possibly live with that situation now, right?

And all of this before North Macedonia was able to build up its military to pull their weight as a NATO member. It's so, so distressing.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 06, 2022 10:34 PM (OTzUX)

150 " a narcotics' dog at Sheremetyevo International Airport near Moscow alerted the athlete's luggage."

Did the luggage respond when alerted?

Posted by: Ciampino at March 06, 2022 10:34 PM (qfLjt)

151 Authorities in Italy froze two yachts belonging to sanctioned Russian billionaires on Friday

Arrogance or hubris?

Rooskies should have slipped those yachts out of port the day Putin crossed the border.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 10:34 PM (7mU9T)

152

Vlad's got something up his sleeve...

Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 10:34 PM (Qe669)

153 Are the Russians still trying to capture those bio-weapons labs, errrrr, I mean, those gain of function labs in Ukraine? Did Putin catch wind of some plan?

So if there is something to this story shouldn't the Russians be screaming it to the rooftops?

Also, presumably they've got plenty of data to dump on Biden's corruption, the origins of COVID, and the effectiveness of the clot shots...none of which are the pushing out.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:35 PM (ESjRY)

154 Assuming I have any money left.
Posted by: Javems at March 06, 2022 10:34 PM (AmoqO)


And if you are "allowed" to engage in financial transactions with your own money!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:35 PM (hOUT3)

155 152

Vlad's got something up his sleeve...
Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 10:34 PM (Qe669)

A nuclear arm. Heyoooooo!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 06, 2022 10:35 PM (II3Gr)

156 Biden must be impeached and humiliated for the liar and traitor he is!!!! He must go down in American history worse than B. Arnold....

Governors of Red States should also disregard anything he says or any Executive Orders. Double Barrel Middle Finger Sloe Joe !!!!

I also believe NATO CO and EUCOM CO told Biden that they will not support any direct conflict with Putin..

All this $$$ going to Ukraine could have built the Southern Wall and regained Energy independence...

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at March 06, 2022 10:35 PM (ptzM0)

157 I read somewhere once on the intertubes, so it must be true, that slapping a Fragile label on a box INCREASES the odds of rough handling.

I'll just say I wouldn't rule it out.

..."This synthetic opioid is so powerful that if a package were to rupture inside the body, the consequences could be life threatening."

I looked up the LD50 of fentanyl, and it is 0.015 milligrams/kg of body weight. And it can adsorbed thru the skin. Assume a hoo-ha of average proportion and an average body weight of a female at 60ish kg and deduct the heavy wrappings on the product and you get (no, I ain't showing my work, ya buncha mathphobes) -----

There's enough fentanyl in there to kill about 2000 people. Give or take. Yeah, that might cause a 'a few health complications'.

Evening, y'all.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 06, 2022 10:35 PM (F0YaR)

158 Sacramento municipal utility district sold off much of their shuttered nuclear power plant. How much could still be useful as seed material for a new one is unknown.

It's free of earthquake danger and has good cooling water supply. The cooling towers still stand. The reactor building is intact and guarded.

We're going to need a nuke plant here.

Posted by: torabora at March 06, 2022 10:35 PM (vTL8p)

159 I saw one tank the Euros sent to the Ukes was painted bright pink.

Do you suppose the GlobalHomo folks understand there is a reason to NOT paint your tanks a bright color?

Or is getting some cishet Uke soldiers killed part of the kink?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 06, 2022 10:23 PM (ESjRY)

Not necessarily.

Posted by: USS Sea Tiger at March 06, 2022 10:35 PM (7bRMQ)

160 And if you are "allowed" to engage in financial transactions with your own money!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:35 PM (hOUT3)

Remember, it isn't YOUR money, it's the government's money.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 06, 2022 10:35 PM (II3Gr)

161 There will be a US funded civil war and government in exile. The usual bloody , meddling BS cooked up in the halls of Washington's halls of power.

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 10:35 PM (V13WU)

162 halls and oats

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 10:36 PM (V13WU)

163 Europe Burns while Joe whacks Off in the Oval Office to a Naked Picture of Whoopie Goldberg...

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at March 06, 2022 10:36 PM (ptzM0)

164 Hiya {{{JT}}}!!!

Posted by: Ladyl at March 06, 2022 10:36 PM (TdMsT)

165 Re: the experimental injections a trusting public was compelled to take by 'Jab the Impaler' Fauci,

https://tinyurl.com/mr3ht87x

Of course, we were warned...but not by Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, AstraZenica, CDC or the FDA.

Posted by: Ju at March 06, 2022 10:36 PM (aTmM/)

166 They tried that on Assad in Syria.

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 10:36 PM (V13WU)

167 Ladyl!!! Hope you are on the mend my dear!

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 06, 2022 10:37 PM (nxdel)

168 Sunday Swimwear ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/media

*scroll down

Posted by: kbdabear at March 06, 2022 10:37 PM (qAR6u)

169 30 Is there a broken leg in that fedex package?
Posted by: davidt at March 06, 2022 10:09 PM (ApVam)

Fra-gee-lay.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 06, 2022 10:10 PM \

Heh.

Posted by: Javems at March 06, 2022 10:37 PM (AmoqO)

170 I was told if I voted for Trump Russia would become a threat world peace, the US would become a laughing stock , democracy would die and the economy would collapse. They were right.

Posted by: Ripley at March 06, 2022 10:37 PM (PTDkx)

171 halls and oats
Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 10:36 PM (V13WU)

--------

Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:37 PM (VxC1e)

172 I have seen first hand the therapeutic value of cats and dogs on people with cognitive impairment. They have a calming, organizing presence, give lots of physical love and attention, provide a sense of purpose and connection, they communicate without words, they do not criticize.

Posted by: Soylent Corporation at March 06, 2022 10:37 PM (EZebt)

173 There's a better than zero chance of a nuclear war.

They've games out a Russia Nato war for decades.

Usually by accident, a NATO country like Poland gets a stray missile and declares article 5. Putin can't win a conventional war against NATO and uses tactical nukes in Europe, which means a larger strike from US and other allies.

End of the world as we know it.

All it takes is a desperate leader who's gonna lose and doesn't want to retreat.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 06, 2022 10:38 PM (LKTKP)

174 {{{Jewells}}}

I feel great right now. I just need to know how to keep it from happening again!

Posted by: Ladyl at March 06, 2022 10:38 PM (TdMsT)

175 The stories coming out about the collapse of the Manhattan DA's criminal prosecution of Trump are interesting.

Trump was accused of talking up the value of his assets when talking to the bankers to get a loan, and talking down the value of his assets when talking to the tax authorities. Of course, if you prosecuted everyone who did that, you'd need a lot more prisons. It's like the Foreign Agent Registration Act - only politically unpopular people get prosecuted.

One prosecutor said that not prosecuting Trump would put them on the "wrong side of history", and another said that even if the case wasn't very strong, they should go ahead anyway - i.e "the process is the punishment".

But one prosecutor was retired from from a big-name New York law firm, and volunteered to help prosecute Trump, for no pay. How on earth isn't this an ethical violation?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2022 10:38 PM (I2/tG)

176 Remember, it isn't YOUR money, it's the government's money.
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 06, 2022 10:35 PM (II3Gr)


Thanks Insom, I got carried away for a second there.

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:38 PM (hOUT3)

177 Yea Baby..... Recession by June.....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at March 06, 2022 10:38 PM (ptzM0)

178 Wilco and Son Volt. Solid bands.

Uncle Tupelo was a great band. Too bad Tweedy and Farrar hated each other.

https://youtu.be/9ilDhb2qk1M

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 06, 2022 10:39 PM (sAmhv)

179 People who get their news from TV don't know that we are buying 880,000 barrels of gas from Puting every day.

People who get their news from TV don't know that Puting is negotiating the Iran pallets of cash to Iran.
Also that our representative on the deal is the same guy that negotiated for Obama.


Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 10:39 PM (7mU9T)

180 That's the late, great Gary Brooker singing lead for Procol Harum on Conquistador, not Matthew Fisher.

Posted by: Interesting Times at March 06, 2022 10:28 PM (ieN7O)

The live version w/the Edmonton Symphony is kickin'.

Posted by: BignJames at March 06, 2022 10:39 PM (AwYPR)

181
You're complaining about the buffet?

I got seated with Bill Gates!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:28 PM (VxC1e)

Can't beat that, you win!

Posted by: The Authorities at March 06, 2022 10:39 PM (7bRMQ)

182
Did the luggage respond when alerted?
Posted by: Ciampino
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Mandatory Calvin & Hobbes cartoon: https://tinyurl.com/2s3k66ry

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 06, 2022 10:39 PM (bk3Sg)

183 Yeah Jewells - that is a bit of an issue here also. We are heading out on another recon trip at the end of the month. But, I've moved big piles of hardwood a couple of times so I've tried to reassure the Mrs. we can move the stocked up supplies too - if we need to.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2022 10:39 PM (Msys3)

184 But one prosecutor was retired from from a big-name New York law firm, and volunteered to help prosecute Trump, for no pay. How on earth isn't this an ethical violation?

I mean, if there was a guy I didn't like in town, and I went to the DA and told him that I'd pick up all the expenses of prosecuting the guy, if DA would go ahead and prosecute, would be that be OK?

How is volunteering to help prosecute someone you dislike any different?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2022 10:40 PM (I2/tG)

185 162 halls and oats
Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 10:36 PM (V13WU)

my fav group

Stall and oats

Posted by: Seabicuit at March 06, 2022 10:41 PM (us2H3)

186 Thanks Insom, I got carried away for a second there.
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:38 PM (hOUT3)

Always happy to keep y'all grounded in reality.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 06, 2022 10:41 PM (II3Gr)

187 Hiya {{{JT}}}!!!
Posted by: Ladyl

Posted by: JT at March 06, 2022 10:41 PM (arJlL)

188 136 If you folks see any nice mini-rvs on a van chasis.....I'm interested. The Fabulous Mrs. Mis. Hum. and I plan to travel even if the gas is astronomically priced.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
----------------

Check Craigs List. It runs hot and cold but some week there are some very nice selections.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 10:41 PM (7mU9T)

189 Trump is the most vetted human being in American history.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:42 PM (VxC1e)

190 Zero chance of nuke war.

And someone knows what's going on at Hostomel, though that's probably only the Ukes and Russkis involved. Russians sure have put on a clinic on how *not* to take an objective, from what I can tell. On top of a botched airborne operation, there've been a few head-scratcher ground approaches that ended up as ambushes, many destroyed Russian vehicles.

It's possible this is a Bernard Lewis situation (describing Iran and Iraq in the fall of 1980) - a resistible force meeting a moveable object. Ukes have limited capacity/resources, Ivan may be not just stepping on but jumping up and down on his schlong. At least in the north and east.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 06, 2022 10:42 PM (OTzUX)

191 Well I'm off to bed. Have my exercise class at 9:00 am. Stay safe morons.

Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 06, 2022 10:42 PM (nxdel)

192 Gates kept sticking his tongue in the chocolate fountain. Disgusting!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:30 PM (VxC1e)

But it felt so good.

Posted by: Chocolate Fountain at March 06, 2022 10:42 PM (7bRMQ)

193 I actually take some comfort in the fact that the retards in the WH are inconsistent in their sanctions on Russia. They aren't serious. I wish Russia would live up to their supposed military superiority and get this over with so it can be forgotten a few weeks afterwards.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 06, 2022 10:43 PM (4lzWT)

194 189 Trump is the most vetted human being in American history.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:42 PM (VxC1e


Obama was the least.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 06, 2022 10:43 PM (LKTKP)

195 Jimmy Carter can die now rest assured he's safe from being the worst President ever.

Posted by: torabora at March 06, 2022 10:43 PM (vTL8p)

196 Howdy MisHum, Horde,

* notes complete abandonment of Covid Panic! Narrative *

* notes the new madness of crowds, Nazi Russia! Narrative *

Man, I'm gonna need a chiropractor for this whiplash.

Posted by: callsign claymore at March 06, 2022 10:43 PM (CSb83)

197 76 Hrothgar! My kids and some friends make fun of me for stockpiling food....
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 06, 2022 10:20 PM (nxdel)


Heck, I stockpile food in the winter anyway, just in case we have a 1978 style blizzard. It always pays to be prepared. Now, it just makes more sense than ever. Your kids and friends should read the story of the ant and the grasshopper.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 06, 2022 10:43 PM (+lVUW)

198 I am near to a very minor military base and nothing else but swamp or farmland.

The way I figure it I am either vaporized if they strike the base or I get to see if I can live out my life farming old school while the rest of the world burns.

For me WW III is meh.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at March 06, 2022 10:43 PM (Adlwz)

199 There is no such thing as a zero chance of nuclear war.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 06, 2022 10:44 PM (LKTKP)

200 At least Davos didn't have the "chocolate" fountain.

Posted by: Dr. Varno at March 06, 2022 10:44 PM (vuisn)

201 Good night, Jewells!

Posted by: Ladyl at March 06, 2022 10:44 PM (TdMsT)

202 194 189 Trump is the most vetted human being in American history.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:42 PM (VxC1e


Obama was the least.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 06, 2022 10:43 PM (LKTKP)

Oh, I dunno bout dat

Posted by: Reggie at March 06, 2022 10:44 PM (us2H3)

203 "If you folks see any nice mini-rvs on a van chasis.....I'm interested."


What if it has, "Free Candy!!" painted on the sides?

Posted by: davidt at March 06, 2022 10:44 PM (ApVam)

204 Cicero, this seems like a side thing but really - Trump has been "vetted" more than any public figure in our history, most likely. It's amazing.

And AFAIK, nobody has found bupkis.

A flamboyant, driven real estate mogul who was heavily into casino development and construction in NY/NJ, and yet managed to remain clean. An astounding accomplishment all by itself.

Meanwhile, this stupid buffoonish nasty and histrionically corrupt husk of a non-entity is "president" (and his crime family presumably still feasting). It's 1,000% on his voters and the garbage institutions.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 06, 2022 10:45 PM (OTzUX)

205 People who get their news from TV don't know that we are buying 880,000 barrels of gas from Puting every day.


For some reason I tried watching some MSM news tonight to get some useful news about the situation here. I didn't succeed but did get about about half a dozen heartbreaking refugee and suffering civilian stories. Ukranian Strong! will soon be a thing, if it isn't already.

Posted by: Ripley at March 06, 2022 10:45 PM (PTDkx)

206 "US Border Patrol Sees Spike In Women Smuggling Fentanyl In Vaginal Cavity "

Carpet-munchers beware - best to vacuum the carpet first.

Posted by: Ciampino at March 06, 2022 10:46 PM (qfLjt)

207 Trump is the most vetted human being in American history.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:42 PM (VxC1e

His skeletons were all dancing at studio 54 for all to see.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 06, 2022 10:46 PM (4lzWT)

208
UFC #11 Featherweight Bryce Mitchell calls out the Biden family corruption in Ukraine, says stop sending Americans overseas to fight politician's wars, and stop sending taxpayer dollars to foreign countries when we got veterans sleeping on the streets here in America.
Posted by: 18-1



I saw that. Kid gets it. A son of the Ozarks.

Posted by: Puddleglum at March 06, 2022 10:46 PM (sAmhv)

209 AlaBAMA, correct. The chance of nuke war remains where it's always been, non-zero, but so close to zero that the difference cannot be measured.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 06, 2022 10:46 PM (OTzUX)

210 Hey Chuck, do us and the Ukrainians a favor. Go over and stand with them in person.

Preferably right in front, wearing a t-shirt with the Lucky Strike logo.

Posted by: Paco at March 06, 2022 10:46 PM (njExo)

211 I have no idea if she is a doper.

Brittany's no valley girl. She's doper, 99 &99/100 percent sure.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 10:47 PM (7mU9T)

212 HANDLE WITH CARE
Ha!
You don't think anyone at FedEx speaks English do you?

Posted by: Diogenes at March 06, 2022 10:47 PM (axyOa)

213 Meanwhile, this stupid buffoonish nasty and histrionically corrupt husk of a non-entity is "president" (and his crime family presumably still feasting). It's 1,000% on his voters and the garbage institutions.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 06, 2022 10:45 PM (OTzUX)

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I have ended relationships with friends who voted for FJB against Trump to "get back to normal competent government."

Unforgivable stupidity in my book.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 10:48 PM (VxC1e)

214

I'd always thought a the nukular war would start when India and Pakistan had had enough of each other...

Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 10:48 PM (Qe669)

215 22 top pic looks like CBD's driveway crack has become

well, worse
----
Is that glow due to magma rising via that initial crack?

Posted by: Ciampino at March 06, 2022 10:48 PM (qfLjt)

216 I have no idea if she is a doper.

Brittany's no valley girl. She's doper, 99 &99/100 percent sure.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 10:47 PM (7mU

Just ask her wife.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 06, 2022 10:49 PM (4lzWT)

217 209 AlaBAMA, correct. The chance of nuke war remains where it's always been, non-zero, but so close to zero that the difference cannot be measured.
Posted by: rhomboid at March 06, 2022 10:46 PM (OTzUX


Sorry, I just don't share your optimism. Any war near the border of NATO with a country like Russia means the chance is greater than anyone would ever want it to be.

Like I said, all it takes is for a mistake to happen and NATO gets involved. Once that happens, all it takes is for a leader with nothing to lose and a fuckitall attitude.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at March 06, 2022 10:49 PM (LKTKP)

218 If you feel owned by your cat, you have the wrong cat. Got a sweet (and occasionally feisty) feline napping in my lap as i read this. She just wants some bonding (whereas i need to get to safeway).

Posted by: SFGoth at March 06, 2022 10:49 PM (KAi1n)

219 I wish Russia would live up to their supposed military superiority and get this over with so it can be forgotten a few weeks afterwards.




I think they chose to let it collapse under pressure. Without reducing cities into rubble. 10-11 day is nothing. seems like years because of non-stop media hysteria.

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 10:50 PM (V13WU)

220 ...Meanwhile, this stupid buffoonish nasty and histrionically corrupt husk of a non-entity is "president" (and his crime family presumably still feasting). It's 1,000% on his voters and the garbage institutions.

Posted by: rhomboid at March 06, 2022 10:45 PM



Well put!

Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 10:50 PM (Qe669)

221 Howdy Hordelings!

Well done, Hrothgar! A gen-yoo-wine First.

Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2022 10:50 PM (mZUr4)

222 Howdy Doof!

Posted by: callsign claymore at March 06, 2022 10:52 PM (CSb83)

223 >>> 29 Evening, Horde...how goes it?

I find all of the international pressure on Russia a bit odd.

Does anyone think the international community would react the same way if China invaded Taiwan?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2022 10:09 PM (K5n5d)

#STOPASIANHATE

Posted by: This... is XiNN at March 06, 2022 10:52 PM (llON8)

224 ..Check Craigs List. It runs hot and cold but some week there are some very nice selections. Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 10:41 PM (7mU9T)

Cities to check are primarily Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, Dallas & Houston. California units will be gobbled up by folks looking for alternatives to sky-high rents and housing. And learn how to use Craigslist's (limited) search tools, and run a search on "Class C", or "Van", to narrow down the number of pages to scroll through.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 06, 2022 10:52 PM (QzJWU)

225 As long a Ukraine gets bullets, javelins, and stingers Russia is going to have a hard time.

Russian men are fighting because they have to.
Ukraine men are fighting for their country.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 10:53 PM (7mU9T)

226 Will the left start selling rolls of I DID THAT stickers with Putin's grinning face and pointing finger, to go on gas pumps?

And will the businesses all go along and LEAVE THEM ON, unlike peeling off the FJB stickers?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at March 06, 2022 10:53 PM (KiBMU)

227 /soylent sock off

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 06, 2022 10:53 PM (EZebt)

228 That blizzard of 1978 was awesome. I was in 6th grade. A boy can't really have much more fun than a week off from school with 3' on the ground.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 06, 2022 10:54 PM (KAi1n)

229 226 Will the left start selling rolls of I DID THAT stickers with Putin's grinning face and pointing finger, to go on gas pumps?

And will the businesses all go along and LEAVE THEM ON, unlike peeling off the FJB stickers?

Posted by: Mr Gaga


Magic 8-Ball says, "Fuck Yeah."

Posted by: davidt at March 06, 2022 10:55 PM (ApVam)

230 >>> 146 Tonypete hubby is getting annoyed because all this food is in the garage and he's worried if we finally do sell the house what are we gonna do? We can't have food all over the damn garage! Sheesh... selling the house will be least of my worries.
Posted by: Jewells45 deplorablethug#FJB at March 06, 2022 10:34 PM (nxdel)

Jewells, no idea which direction you would go, but I do have some climate-controlled space available if needed. Also I hope you have some water stored, not to mention the means to collect and purify.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 06, 2022 10:55 PM (llON8)

231 Remember the blizzard, back in Manhattan
In eighteen-eighty-six
They say that traffic was tied up
And folks were in a fix
That's the story that went around
But here's the real low-down
Put the blame on Mame, boys
Put the blame on Mame
Mame gave a chump such an ice-cold "No"
For seven days they shovelled snow
So you can put the blame on Mame, boys
Put the blame on Mame

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 10:56 PM (V13WU)

232 And because they aren't allowed to leave

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 06, 2022 10:57 PM (ONvIw)

233 That's what most people think, but I remember my grandmothers both telling me about the Depression and rationing during the war. It made an impression.
Posted by: CN...FJB at March 06, 2022 10:28 PM (ONvIw)


My mom would talk about how, during WWII, my uncle gave them a gunny sack of dried navy beans. Also, she had to keep my brother, who was a baby, in his snowsuit because they were having trouble getting coal for heating.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 06, 2022 10:58 PM (+lVUW)

234 Whom is going to fly these NATO A/C ??? Ukrainian pilots I would assume fly and are trained to fly MiGs......

If a NATO pilot from a western European Country flies these jets and is shot down and becomes a POW........ Then what? NATO just attacked Russia !!!!

WHY DO WE GIVE A OBAMA ABOUT THE UKRAINE ANYWAY ???????????????????

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at March 06, 2022 10:59 PM (ptzM0)

235 Grand parents told stories of depression and WWII. I have been stocking up for a few years.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2022 11:01 PM (ou23q)

236 235 Grand parents told stories of depression and WWII. I have been stocking up for a few years.
Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2022 11:01 PM (ou23q)

I have plenty of stories of depression. Not WWII though.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 06, 2022 11:02 PM (II3Gr)

237 My mom would talk about how, during WWII, my uncle gave them a gunny sack of dried navy beans. Also, she had to keep my brother, who was a baby, in his snowsuit because they were having trouble getting coal for heating.
Posted by: nerdygirl at March 06, 2022 10:58 PM (+

It was very difficult. They planted a garden as far out of sight of the neighbors as they could, theft was common.

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 06, 2022 11:02 PM (ONvIw)

238 Bought a truck last July. Before all the used prices went totally bananas. It can tow 7500 lbs. looking to get a used travel trailer this spring to put on our Florida property to homestead.

Posted by: blaster at March 06, 2022 11:02 PM (9otr5)

239 Yea Baby...... $130 a barrel..... Start putting those solar panels on top of your Yugo's people.....

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at March 06, 2022 11:03 PM (ptzM0)

240 Well done, Hrothgar! A gen-yoo-wine First.
Posted by: Doof at March 06, 2022 10:50 PM (mZUr4)


Modestly accepts the accolade!
Really good to see you here Doof!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:03 PM (hOUT3)

241 gold breaks 2000.00

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 06, 2022 11:05 PM (ONvIw)

242 One of the more distasteful things in the culture of Portland and Seattle is the development of "drug user unions" - articulate people who use hard drugs, are proud that they use hard drugs, and advocate eliminating all legal penalties and discrimination against hard drug users. They have had an appreciable effect on normalizing the use of hard drugs in the Northwest, and are prominent in "harm reduction efforts" - handing out free needles, etc.

One prominent open drug user in Portland, "AnarchoPharmacology" retweeted this on Friday:

Alcohol, sugar & caffeine are not softer than heroin, meth & cocaine. There's no such thing as soft and hard drugs. That's a drug war myth

The difference is that the former is normalized by being allowed and the latter is stigmatized by being outlawed

Anyway, legalize ALL drugs


Today he died of an overdose. Wonderful culture here.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2022 11:05 PM (I2/tG)

243 Alcohol, sugar & caffeine are not softer than heroin, meth & cocaine. There's no such thing as soft and hard drugs. That's a drug war myth

The difference is that the former is normalized by being allowed and the latter is stigmatized by being outlawed

Anyway, legalize ALL drugs

Today he died of an overdose. Wonderful culture here.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2022 11:05 PM (I2/tG)

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 06, 2022 11:06 PM (II3Gr)

244 163 Europe Burns while Joe whacks Off in the Oval Office to a Naked Picture of Whoopie Goldberg...
Posted by: Ferd Berfall at March 06, 2022 10:36 PM (ptzM0)


Um, Joe likes to sniff the hair of little, white girls.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 06, 2022 11:07 PM (+lVUW)

245 If I'm going to pay $85 for a fill-up I want a complimentary melamine dinner plate.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 11:07 PM (VxC1e)

246 Today he died of an overdose. Wonderful culture here.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Gotta love karma.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2022 11:08 PM (ou23q)

247
The Ukraine/Russia bullshit
Makes me want to puke
I've just fucking had it
Launch all the nukes!

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 06, 2022 11:09 PM (II3Gr)

248 ..Gotta love karma. Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2022 11:08 PM (ou23q)


His Karma ran over his Dogma.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 06, 2022 11:10 PM (QzJWU)

249 I like how Blinken passed the buck, yeah , fine you have our permission to give ukies fighter jets. I want to see who is going to be first....

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 11:10 PM (V13WU)

250 people are actually telling friends / family that they are stockpiling ?
srsly ?
wtf ?
I do everything I can to camouflage the stuff coming in, and I tell nobody, nothing, nohow ... Mrs Eez is instructed to do likewise.

opsec, opsec, opsec, dammit !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (NDCP0) at March 06, 2022 11:10 PM (NDCP0)

251 249 I like how Blinken passed the buck, yeah , fine you have our permission to give ukies fighter jets. I want to see who is going to be first....
Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 11:10 PM (V13WU

Didn't Poland say, "nope"

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 06, 2022 11:11 PM (ONvIw)

252 sock, I have only told the kids and advised them to do the same.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2022 11:11 PM (ou23q)

253 $7/gallon...you guys should have bought Teslas....

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 11:12 PM (V13WU)

254 opsec, opsec, opsec, dammit !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (NDCP0) at March 06, 2022 11:10 PM (NDCP0)


An old lesson that will be painfully relearned!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:12 PM (hOUT3)

255 If I'm going to pay $85 for a fill-up I want a complimentary melamine dinner plate.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 11:07 PM (VxC1e)
----
Or at least the courtesy of a reacharound...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2022 11:12 PM (K5n5d)

256 Daily mail: In Russia's dystopia, truth is a crime.

Now do covid and election fraud!

Posted by: CN...FJB at March 06, 2022 11:12 PM (ONvIw)

257 Even in FL, where gas has historically been less expensive, has crept up to $4.00/gallon for regular at some stations. No bueno.

Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw. Hoarder. Wrecker. Honker. at March 06, 2022 11:13 PM (II3Gr)

258 Now, to be fair to hard drugs, people die of alcohol and sugar overdoses all the time, and caffeine withdrawal symptoms are often commented on here. It's a slow and grisly way to go. Could opium parlors be much worse than Starbucks, or would they over-roast that too?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at March 06, 2022 11:13 PM (videA)

259

Jack Posobiec is, as usual, all over the current bullshit, on Tw*tter...

Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 11:13 PM (HC6pF)

260 Solar cars !

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 11:13 PM (V13WU)

261 well, family is family, & that's (kinda) different ... but we got none of that, so I can hardline it, bigly, & do so.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (NDCP0) at March 06, 2022 11:13 PM (NDCP0)

262 Like solar calculators.

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 11:14 PM (V13WU)

263 256 Daily mail: In Russia's dystopia, truth is a crime.
Now do covid and election fraud!
Posted by: CN...FJB at March 06, 2022 11:12 PM (ONvIw)


One of these things is not like the other, Comrade CN!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:14 PM (hOUT3)

264 Also, she had to keep my brother, who was a baby, in his snowsuit because they were having trouble getting coal for heating.
Posted by: nerdygirl

I wouldn't say we were poor when growing up - everyone around us was the at the same level but we did walk the RR tracks and picked up any coal we found and threw it on the pile in the basement when we got home. It probably was just my Dad's habit and we picked it up.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2022 11:14 PM (Msys3)

265 136 If you folks see any nice mini-rvs on a van chasis.....I'm interested. The Fabulous Mrs. Mis. Hum. and I plan to travel even if the gas is astronomically priced.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

""""

I've been thinking about doing this as well. When I looked at it a couple of years ago I was told that it would be two years before I old get a new one that was priced north of $100K. It will be interesting to see what the market is for 2 year old units if gas holds at this price level or more

Posted by: Pete Seria at March 06, 2022 11:15 PM (kkEbA)

266 "254 opsec, opsec, opsec, dammit !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (NDCP0) at March 06, 2022 11:10 PM (NDCP0)

An old lesson that will be painfully relearned!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:12 PM (hOUT3) "

again & again & again, until the end of time & everything else.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (NDCP0) at March 06, 2022 11:16 PM (NDCP0)

267 Tw*tter...
Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 11:13 PM (HC6pF)

Does nitter work on his links?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:17 PM (hOUT3)

268 nuts

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:18 PM (hOUT3)

269 An old lesson that will be painfully relearned!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

again & again & again, until the end of time & everything else.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez

"History shows again and again
How nature points out the folly of man"
(Godzilla!)

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2022 11:18 PM (Msys3)

270 whew

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:18 PM (hOUT3)

271 242 ..."AnarchoPharmacology" ... has died of an OD. Sadzz.

BOC -- O.D.'d On Life Itself

https://youtu.be/jAT5ewOfwEI

Methinks he's a former self-professed 'expert' based on extensive internet searches. Mayhaps he shoulda actually studied pharmacology.

He might of learned something beside a fatal "whoopsies".

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 06, 2022 11:18 PM (F0YaR)

272 230 >>> 146 Tonypete hubby is getting annoyed because all this food is in the garage and he's worried if we finally do sell the house what are we gonna do? We can't have food all over the damn garage! Sheesh... selling the house will be least of my worries.
Posted by: Jewells45
------------

Many companies discard pallets.
You can cut them to size stack the food and screw them together with sheet rock screws.
The screws will hold up for your purpose.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 11:19 PM (7mU9T)

273 Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2022 11:18 PM (Msys3)

Amazing how many practical fundamental lessons are so quickly forgotten because we want to believe "It will be different this time!"

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:20 PM (hOUT3)

274 Huh, where has Miklos disappeared to? Pretty sure I saw comments from him last week.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 06, 2022 11:21 PM (5p7BC)

275 I don't get the bottom picture. Somebody hordesplain it to me.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at March 06, 2022 11:22 PM (wdCAN)

276 Are we beating the NATO war drums yet, Kemosabe?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 06, 2022 11:22 PM (oWZwa)

277

https://nitter.net/JackPosobiec

Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 11:22 PM (HC6pF)

278 Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 11:22 PM (HC6pF)

Thank you my dear colleague Zettai!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:23 PM (hOUT3)

279 AnarchoPharmacology, on being worried about being jailed:

Picturing going through that is honestly one of the most terrifying things for me.

I'm chock full of undiagnosed disabilities that I've been self medicating for 20 years, incarceration might be medically dangerous for me at this point tbh


Turns out that not being incarcerated was even more medically dangerous.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2022 11:24 PM (I2/tG)

280 okay, and now rly g'night everyone ...

and i'll repeat it, because it needs to be repeated until it's welded to the top end of everyone's spinal cord:
opsec, opsec, opsec !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez (NDCP0) at March 06, 2022 11:24 PM (NDCP0)

281

Everyone's run off to check his larder, I suppose...

Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 11:26 PM (HC6pF)

282 Huh, where has Miklos disappeared to? Pretty sure I saw comments from him last week.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 06, 2022 11:21 PM (5p7BC)

Need his wacky ONT analysis to make sense of things.

Posted by: pookysgirl, not nearly Hungarian enough at March 06, 2022 11:26 PM (XKZwp)

283 FWIW.

Orange Man predicts China does invade Taiwan next.

So we *may* have that to look forward to.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 06, 2022 11:26 PM (sJHOI)

284 I got a bad feeling about this.
Putin made it very clear his line in the sand was Ukraine joining NATO.
Now he's pretty damned clear about the airspace over Ukraine.
NATO airpower will turn this war. Will Putin allow that without going nuke?
Like I said, I have a bad feeling about this.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 06, 2022 11:27 PM (axyOa)

285 Today he died of an overdose. Wonderful culture here.

Just a guess from all the coffee shops I saw the last time i was there, he had too much of that hard drug caffeine?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at March 06, 2022 11:27 PM (SchxB)

286 278 Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 11:22 PM (HC6pF)

Thank you my dear colleague Zettai!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:23 PM (hOUT3)


On second thought, now I am even more depressed!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:27 PM (hOUT3)

287 >>> 283 FWIW.

Orange Man predicts China does invade Taiwan next.

So we *may* have that to look forward to.
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 06, 2022 11:26 PM (sJHOI)

OBVIOUSLY HE IS WORKING WITH THEM TOO!

...er wait...

Posted by: This... is XiNN at March 06, 2022 11:28 PM (llON8)

288

Our Dear Miklos has taken time off before... He'll be back!

Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 11:28 PM (HC6pF)

289 The kids these days won't understand even/odd days.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2022 11:28 PM (ou23q)

290 I'm honestly confused by everything going on with Russia. We are told they are in the brink of economic collapse, but are selling more oil to us than ever before and are negotiating our deal with Iran?

Makes as much sense as trying to import more oil from the Middle East and Venezuela, so we don't produce any here. If the point is to stop using oil, the source of the oil doesn't matter.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 06, 2022 11:28 PM (5p7BC)

291 262 Like solar calculators.
Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 11:14 PM (V13WU)+
--------------

Casio solar only calculator purchased 1981 from Wally
still works.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 11:29 PM (7mU9T)

292 82 Jen Rubin is off her meds again.

Jennifer 'I stand with Ukraine' Rubin
@JRubinBlogger
President Biden just had one of his better weeks.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Proprietor of the Outrage Outlet at March 06, 2022 10:21 PM (FVME7)

*********

Gas just jumped 45 cents a gallon over here on Friday.

What are his worse weeks going to be like?

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at March 06, 2022 11:29 PM (xxG/v)

293 NATO airpower will turn this war. Will Putin allow that without going nuke?
Like I said, I have a bad feeling about this.


Depends how far they go. I think there is a significant possibility that Russia sets off a demonstration nuke in the ocean somewhere to indicate that They Are Serious.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2022 11:29 PM (I2/tG)

294 283 FWIW.

Orange Man predicts China does invade Taiwan next.

So we *may* have that to look forward to.
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 06, 2022 11:26 PM (sJHOI)

So....gas goes to $20/gal then....?

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia at March 06, 2022 11:30 PM (7SwmH)

295 If the point is to stop using oil, the source of the oil doesn't matter.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 06, 2022 11:28 PM (5p7BC)


That is not the point. The easier graft from foreign sources is the point!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:30 PM (hOUT3)

296 OBVIOUSLY HE IS WORKING WITH THEM TOO!

...er wait...
Posted by: This... is XiNN at March 06, 2022 11:28 PM (llON

---------

Just two more impeachments and he gets a free six-inch Subway sandwich of his choice.

*Toasted selections excluded.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 11:31 PM (VxC1e)

297 The kids these days won't understand even/odd days.
Posted by: Infidel
-------

S'ok. There's an app for that.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 06, 2022 11:31 PM (L47aO)

298 There are Ukraine pilots checked out/trained for A-10s they just need the planes.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 11:31 PM (7mU9T)

299 Makes as much sense as trying to import more oil from the Middle East and Venezuela, so we don't produce any here. If the point is to stop using oil, the source of the oil doesn't matter.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

Only a bit off tangent - during WWII, didn't both Britain and Germany license war material to their respective enemies? Or am I misremembering?

Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2022 11:31 PM (Msys3)

300 Ooohhh...

In April there will be a convention in Wales where Sam J. Jones and Brian Blessed will be attending.

"Flash Gordon! Is alive?"

I wonder if the con will survive the experience.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 06, 2022 11:33 PM (d1hL+)

301 I got a bad feeling about this.
Putin made it very clear his line in the sand was Ukraine joining NATO.
Now he's pretty damned clear about the airspace over Ukraine.
NATO airpower will turn this war. Will Putin allow that without going nuke?
Like I said, I have a bad feeling about this.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 06, 2022 11:27 PM (axyOa)

What I see happening is that politicos running their stupid mouths, and then serious military men are forced to step in and tell them to STFU. Like it happened with Liz Truss. Now Boris wrote in NYT over the weekend that No, good Lord, No, Ukraine does not belong in NATO, whoever had such a crazy idea ! When they were pushing the opposite just a few months ago.

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 11:33 PM (V13WU)

302

I should think the regime's blatant, calculated interference in commerce in this nation as regards energy acquisition is a treasonous offence...

Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 11:34 PM (21Kdw)

303 Jack Posobiec is, as usual, all over the current bullshit, on Tw*tter...
Posted by: Zettai

Ranks right up there with Hercules and the Augean stables.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at March 06, 2022 11:35 PM (wdCAN)

304
Alcohol, sugar & caffeine are not softer than heroin, meth & cocaine. There's no such thing as soft and hard drugs. That's a drug war myth

I've heard that before.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 06, 2022 11:36 PM (63Dwl)

305 Fiddlesticks to acquisition.

Let the drillers drill
Let the frackers frack
Let the refineries refine.

We don't need their oil.

Needing their oil is a communist talking point.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 11:37 PM (7mU9T)

306 In April there will be a convention in Wales where Sam J. Jones and Brian Blessed will be attending.

"Flash Gordon! Is alive?"

Critical Drinker just interviewed him this week.

Posted by: Methos at March 06, 2022 11:37 PM (kOpft)

307 What I see happening is that politicos running their stupid mouths, and then serious military men are forced to step in and tell them to STFU. Like it happened with Liz Truss. Now Boris wrote in NYT over the weekend that No, good Lord, No, Ukraine does not belong in NATO, whoever had such a crazy idea ! When they were pushing the opposite just a few months ago.
Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 11:33 PM (V13WU)


A lot to this. I suspect a third of the asshats inside the Beltway cannot even fine Ukraine on a map. But that won't stop them fom rushing to any camera they see. Further, I am not sure I have a lot of faith in the current pentagon brain trust.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 06, 2022 11:37 PM (axyOa)

308 Now they put Ukraine in line for membership in EU. Well , that's nice. Turkey has been in that like for decades, so has Greece. How would this happy fast-racking look to them ? I mean , they have little chance, it is symbolic, but , again, stupid moves.

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 11:38 PM (V13WU)

309 I should think the regime's blatant, calculated interference in commerce in this nation as regards energy acquisition is a treasonous offence...
Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 11:34 PM (21Kdw)


I would completely agree with your position if Trump was doing this, but since it is BaiDen and the Democrat/Socialists, there simply cannot be any sinister reasons for these actions!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:39 PM (hOUT3)

310 298. Bad plan

Posted by: CN at March 06, 2022 11:39 PM (ONvIw)

311
The kids these days won't understand even/odd days.
Posted by: Infidel


It's more difficult with all the personalized plates with no numbers.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 06, 2022 11:39 PM (63Dwl)

312 301. A spark of sense?

Posted by: CN at March 06, 2022 11:40 PM (ONvIw)

313 ...there simply cannot be any sinister reasons for these actions!



Touché

Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 11:41 PM (21Kdw)

314 Critical Drinker just interviewed him this week.

Watching it right now.

Ming's costume was 30,000 beads hand sewn. The women, according to Sam Jones was maybe 100 beads. o_O;;

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 06, 2022 11:41 PM (d1hL+)

315 Depends how far they go. I think there is a significant possibility that Russia sets off a demonstration nuke in the ocean somewhere to indicate that They Are Serious.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2022 11:29 PM (I2/tG)

They might...but why? Any direct, no bullshit conversation behind the scenes, or a direct back channel will send the same.message. but would a fucktard like Kerry even grasp the context of such a conversation?

Posted by: Diogenes at March 06, 2022 11:41 PM (axyOa)

316 Depends how far they go. I think there is a significant possibility that Russia sets off a demonstration nuke in the ocean somewhere to indicate that They Are Serious.

Or an offending air base.

Posted by: Methos at March 06, 2022 11:41 PM (kOpft)

317 It is all about emotions. "I Hate Putin !" And that is all they see. Do they love Erdogan ? How did Erdogan del with his political opponents ? Pragmatism does not exist with these girlymen. Someday we will find out what happened, what was the final straw. But not today.

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 11:42 PM (V13WU)

318 316 hopefully the Poles don't give in

Posted by: CN at March 06, 2022 11:42 PM (ONvIw)

319 Getting out alive with Biden running it is a best case scenario

But Biden's not running it and those that are have a plan and they are on schedule. What the end game is who knows.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 11:42 PM (7mU9T)

320 NATO airpower will turn this war. Will Putin allow that without going nuke?
----
No, NATO airpower will be shot down. No one is going to try and set up a no-fly zone.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 06, 2022 11:43 PM (5p7BC)

321 Orange Man predicts China does invade Taiwan next.

So we *may* have that to look forward to.
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at March 06, 2022 11:26 PM (sJHOI)

So....gas goes to $20/gal then....?
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia.

Gas requires a ration credit on your social passport which will be required for any movement. Which means some of us may be hoofin it or possibly considering truck hijacking as a new career.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at March 06, 2022 11:43 PM (wdCAN)

322 I wouldn't say we were poor when growing up - everyone around us was the at the same level but we did walk the RR tracks and picked up any coal we found and threw it on the pile in the basement when we got home. It probably was just my Dad's habit and we picked it up.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 06, 2022 11:14 PM (Msys3)


Michigan has a 10 cent deposit on cans and bottles for pop and beer. This woman I knew is not poor, but she's very thrifty. When she gets gas, she checks the trash cans for returnables that people just threw away. She told me she was doing that one day and another driver gave her a twenty dollar bill thinking she was poor.

Posted by: nerdygirl at March 06, 2022 11:43 PM (+lVUW)

323 308. A virtue signal

Posted by: CN at March 06, 2022 11:44 PM (ONvIw)

324 320. I certainly hope not

Posted by: CN at March 06, 2022 11:44 PM (ONvIw)

325 Further, I am not sure I have a lot of faith in the current pentagon brain trust.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 06, 2022 11:37 PM (axyOa)


What rational person could object to a gender inclusive military where all the senior military leaders at the command level* are selected/approved by scum sucking politicians seeking re-election (and easy graft)?

*Military leaders that after twenty YEARS in the 'stan never had even a definition of what a victory or coherent exit strategy would look like!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:44 PM (hOUT3)

326 black and white thinking is sooper wokey

Posted by: REDACTED at March 06, 2022 11:45 PM (us2H3)

327

Tomorrow's markets might be a depressing spectacle to behold, IYKWIMAITYD...

Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 11:45 PM (21Kdw)

328 I think everyone now understands they are very serious. Unfortunately 11 days ago, top men did not.

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 11:46 PM (V13WU)

329
When she gets gas, she checks the trash cans for returnables that people just threw away. She told me she was doing that one day and another driver gave her a twenty dollar bill thinking she was poor.
Posted by: nerdygirl


Did she accept the money?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 06, 2022 11:46 PM (63Dwl)

330 311 The kids these days won't understand even/odd days.
Posted by: Infidel

It's more difficult with all the personalized plates with no numbers.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 06, 2022 11:39 PM (63Dwl)
---------------

Consonants/Vowels

They don't understand quarter hour time either.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 06, 2022 11:46 PM (7mU9T)

331 If I'm going to pay $85 for a fill-up I want a complimentary melamine dinner plate.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 06, 2022 11:07 PM (VxC1e)
----
Or at least the courtesy of a reacharound...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2022 11:12 PM

Oh well, at least it's not rape-rape.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at March 06, 2022 11:47 PM (sbdu4)

332 We need to put an end to any suggestions that NATO is going to extend its airspace to cover Ukraine.

But Joe Biden is in the Oval Office and on Dec 7th, he told Ukraine that NATO membership was in his hands just after Putin told Biden that this was a hard, red line that Russia would not tolerate.

Top. People. Yup, the Man Who Stood Up to Fat, and Who Put Corn Pop in His Place - we're blessed to have his drooling presence in the Oval Office right now.

Aren't we so lucky.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at March 06, 2022 11:47 PM (xxG/v)

333 288. Didn't he have a sick family member?

Posted by: CN at March 06, 2022 11:47 PM (ONvIw)

334 good thing for the west coast

they never know what hit them

rooskies subs are just off the US coast

Posted by: REDACTED at March 06, 2022 11:48 PM (us2H3)

335 Gas requires a ration credit on your social passport which will be required for any movement. Which means some of us may be hoofin it or possibly considering truck hijacking as a new career.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at March 06, 2022 11:43 PM (wdCAN)


Unvaxecuted do NOT need to travel as it poses risks to the "public health"!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:48 PM (hOUT3)

336 242 Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2022 11:05 PM (I2/tG)

It is a self-correcting problem, and part of why I now advocate total legalization and subsidy of any drug period.

You can get welfare and get the smack delivered to your door no limit.

Let God and nature sort it out, we have failed.

Posted by: sven at March 06, 2022 11:49 PM (Lzpvj)

337 US banning Russian subs from using the Panama Canal

Posted by: REDACTED at March 06, 2022 11:49 PM (us2H3)

338 I also find it interesting that last week the Azov battalion was neo nazi, and now they are the finest of men.

Posted by: CN at March 06, 2022 11:50 PM (ONvIw)

339
US banning Russian subs from using the Panama Canal
Posted by: REDACTED


What does the US have to do with the Panama Canal?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 06, 2022 11:50 PM (63Dwl)

340 Oh, great. 650 miles.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2022 11:51 PM (ou23q)

341 They might...but why?

Induce complete panic in Western countries. The Russian stock market dropped by 50% before being closed. Putin might want to return the favor.

Russians have a very different level of risk tolerance than Westerners, so lighting off a demonstration nuke would not induce anywhere near the same level of panic in Russia than in the West.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2022 11:52 PM (I2/tG)

342 *Military leaders that after twenty YEARS in the 'stan never had even a definition of what a victory or coherent exit strategy would look like!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:44 PM (hOUT3)


Ding! Ding! Ding!
And we have a winna!!!

BTW, hats off to every 'ron and 'ette who served in the cold war. You notice the rooskies didn't try this crap until after we all retired.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 06, 2022 11:52 PM (axyOa)

343 Let God and nature sort it out, we have failed.
Posted by: sven at March 06, 2022 11:49 PM (Lzpvj)


There was a time when I thought summary execution of drug dealers in the public square might be beneficial to our society...

I am rethinking that position!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:53 PM (hOUT3)

344 Yea Baby...... $130 a barrel..... Start putting those solar panels on top of your Yugo's people.....
Posted by: Ferd Berfall

Need to order carburetors for my Honda Trail 90's. 100mpg.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at March 06, 2022 11:53 PM (wdCAN)

345 US banning Russian subs from using the Panama Canal
Posted by: REDACTED

What does the US have to do with the Panama Canal?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 06, 2022 11:50 PM (63Dwl)

we still have the keys to all the locks

Posted by: REDACTED at March 06, 2022 11:53 PM (us2H3)

346 So....gas goes to $20/gal then....?
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornia.

Stock up on rice (brown and Jasmin will store best for the long-term, from what I understand), beans, and flour (potatoes, onions, and carrots, too, if you have a room in the basement that is cool enough to store this long-term) - 50-100 pounds of the rice, beans, and flour would be a good start. Figure out what recipes you like best for these and buy the oversized, restaurant-sized containers of the spices (I bought the 16-ounce ones for each major type of spice) needed for these recipes. Buy whatever canned meat you think you'd like and that you can afford right now and put it aside for later on.

Then add more canned meat, vegetables, and fruits whenever you go into the grocery store in the future.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at March 06, 2022 11:54 PM (xxG/v)

347 289 The kids these days won't understand even/odd days.

Posted by: Infidel at March 06, 2022 11:28 PM (ou23q)


I was a gas jockey during those days. Possibly. Mostly, I remember the lines.

But there is a much more recent example -- Water restrictions, mainly in CA on when residents could water their dying lawns and trees.

Bu hey, what do I know. I'm not of the enlightened class.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 06, 2022 11:54 PM (F0YaR)

348 343 Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:53 PM (hOUT3)

That solution has its limits, and may have been the one seeming virtue of the CCP.

Posted by: sven at March 06, 2022 11:55 PM (Lzpvj)

349 308 Now they put Ukraine in line for membership in EU. Well , that's nice. Turkey has been in that like for decades, so has Greece.

so... putin is in the pocket of big zelenskyy who harched a scheme to get his grubby mitts on a pile of sweet sweet euros?

Posted by: anachronda at March 06, 2022 11:55 PM (fkNSY)

350 I also find it interesting that last week the Azov battalion was neo nazi, and now they are the finest of men.
Posted by: CN at March 06, 2022 11:50 PM (ONvIw)


We have always had the highest regard for the fine men of the Azov Battalion, comrade CN!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:55 PM (hOUT3)

351 ...You notice the rooskies didn't try this crap until after we all retired.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 06, 2022 11:52 PM



The Elder Spawn is an Army reservist as was his ol' man... I was (was!) rather hoping he'd help maintain the pressure in my stead!

Posted by: Zettai at March 06, 2022 11:56 PM (SW6Fm)

352 So, something occurs to me. You know how the government outsourced all of its domestic tyranny to its partners in the private sector, so it could get around the Constitutional restraints on itself?

Now, it's outsourcing its foreign policy to them to avoid accountability for laying maximum pressure on Russia. SV, finance sector, etc. are doing all the heavy lifting on isolating and punishing Russia.

There are no more rules. The American corporate monolith has provided our Marxists with a regime so totally accountable that even Stalin is green with envy.

This should all turn out well.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 06, 2022 11:56 PM (SKVme)

353 Unvaxecuted do NOT need to travel as it poses risks to the "public health"!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

Drove a semi for a short while 40+ years ago. Never a 3 axle trailer carrying 11000 gallons but..just sayin.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at March 06, 2022 11:56 PM (wdCAN)

354 337 US banning Russian subs from using the Panama Canal
Posted by: REDACTED at March 06, 2022 11:49 PM (us2H3)

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*snort*

Posted by: China at March 06, 2022 11:57 PM (VxC1e)

355 352 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 06, 2022 11:56 PM (SKVme)

THAT is what will lead to nukes comrade.

The GloboHomo left thinks they can tee off and never suffer reciprocity.

They forget that they lay their heads on pillows in the real world.

Posted by: sven at March 06, 2022 11:57 PM (Lzpvj)

356 350. Lol. I was also stunned to read that Ukraine had zero antisemitism. The turn around could give you whiplash

Posted by: CN at March 06, 2022 11:58 PM (ONvIw)

357 US banning Russian subs from using the Panama Canal
Posted by: REDACTED at March 06, 2022 11:49 PM (us2H3)

--------

*snort*
Posted by: China at March 06, 2022 11:57 PM (VxC1e)

let's try this :

Google and Facebook bans Russian subs from using Panama Canal !

Posted by: runner at March 06, 2022 11:58 PM (V13WU)

358 >>>Everyone's run off to check his larder, I suppose...

>It's time to rotate the freezer storage units and stock up on soda crackers.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 06, 2022 11:59 PM (oWZwa)

359 Induce complete panic in Western countries. The Russian stock market dropped by 50% before being closed. Putin might want to return the favor.

Russians have a very different level of risk tolerance than Westerners, so lighting off a demonstration nuke would not induce anywhere near the same level of panic in Russia than in the West.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2022 11:52 PM (I2/tG)
***
ARC, in the deep dark recesses of my heart, I think you may be right, but damn I hope not.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 06, 2022 11:59 PM (axyOa)

360 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 06, 2022 11:56 PM (SKVme)

YD, this is a brilliant analytical comment!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) - Lie back and think of that sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 11:59 PM (hOUT3)

361 "Genius Award Winner" article about the real estate agent showing clients through the wrong house, and the homeowner caught it on their doorbell camera...

Not a news article, it's an advertising campaign with the intention to convince readers to buy "Ring" doorbells. It's disguised as a news article because that's the best vehicle to run the confidence job on the mark and make them want to buy the product.

The article's author, Dave Basner, is not a reporter or journalist. His title at iHeart is: Vice President of Content Strategy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 06, 2022 11:59 PM (nRMeC)

362

I can hardly bare waiting for tomorrow to arrive...

Oh, wait! Here it is!

Posted by: Zettai at March 07, 2022 12:00 AM (SW6Fm)

363
BEAR waiting!

Posted by: Zettai at March 07, 2022 12:00 AM (SW6Fm)

364 Anna Taylor exhibiting the Dene Adams corset.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_a2HixSht4

Posted by: Braenyard at March 07, 2022 12:01 AM (7mU9T)

365 old man porn on tube

Linda Darnell

Posted by: REDACTED at March 07, 2022 12:02 AM (us2H3)

366 I can hardly bare waiting for tomorrow to arrive...

Oh, wait! Here it is!
Posted by: Zettai at March 07, 2022 12:00 AM (SW6Fm)

---------

There's a great big beautiful tomorrow
Shining at the end of every day
There's a great, big, beautiful tomorrow
And tomorrow's just a dream away

Posted by: Disney's Carousel of Progress at March 07, 2022 12:02 AM (VxC1e)

367 Saltines have been in short supply as of late.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 07, 2022 12:04 AM (63Dwl)

368 What does the US have to do with the Panama Canal?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 06, 2022 11:50 PM (63Dwl)

we still have the keys to all the locks

Posted by: REDACTED at March 06, 2022 11:53 PM (us2H3)


What new leader of Panama wants to be subjected to non-stop Barry Manilow tunes on loudspeaker? Noriega folded within days. He's doing life in a US federal penitentiary. *

* I may have editorialized Noriega's surrender slightly for dramatic effect.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 07, 2022 12:04 AM (F0YaR)

369 BTW, hats off to every 'ron and 'ette who served in the cold war. You notice the rooskies didn't try this crap until after we all retired.

Posted by: Diogenes
___

Thanks for the sentiment, back atcha.
Only two years, but yeah, I learned a bit about military intelligence, and the lack thereof.

Did come in handy when dealing with the yahoos in my CoC while in Iraq.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:06 AM (ZTzFi)

370 Didn't buy Mrs. Sock anything for her birthday yesterday. Made up for it today by checking off one of her bucket list items. Bought her an 81 CJ5.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at March 07, 2022 12:07 AM (wdCAN)

371 >>>Saltines have been in short supply as of late.

>Funny, I can communicate with some bumfuck fishmonger in Odessa, Ukraine 24/7, but I can't get a half dozen biscuits from Joe Biden's supplychain.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 07, 2022 12:07 AM (oWZwa)

372 I just got back from a concert (Dream Theater). Did I miss anything here? Is Ladyl doing better? (that was scary news a day or two ago).
Starting back at the top...

Posted by: Theodore at March 07, 2022 12:08 AM (GJnvT)

373 369 BTW, hats off to every 'ron and 'ette who served in the cold war. You notice the rooskies didn't try this crap until after we all retired.

Posted by: Diogenes

I served in my own way

watching over all the women folk

Posted by: REDACTED at March 07, 2022 12:08 AM (us2H3)

374 amazingly, the price of pate has been very stable

Posted by: REDACTED at March 07, 2022 12:09 AM (us2H3)

375 Funny, I can communicate with some bumfuck fishmonger in Odessa, Ukraine 24/7, but I can't get a half dozen biscuits from Joe Biden's supplychain.
Posted by: Dr. Bone
___

The wonders of a globalized supply chain and the magic of technology.
The more local your food supply, the better.
May do without the fancy stuff in the big cities, you'll live.
You can also make your own biscuits.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:10 AM (ZTzFi)

376 Does anyone think the international community would react the same way if China invaded Taiwan?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 06, 2022 10:09 PM (K5n5d)

China invaded everyone with a bioweapon and we were all told to shut the fuck up and that it was Orange Man's fault.

Posted by: ... at March 07, 2022 12:10 AM (dscaa)

377 amazingly, the price of pate has been very stable
Posted by: REDACTED at March 07, 2022 12:09 AM (us2H3)


on the other hand...what happened to the dog ?

Posted by: runner at March 07, 2022 12:11 AM (V13WU)

378 "In training, they forced me to listen to the Barney I Love You song for 45 minutes. I never want to go through that again," one US operative told Newsweek.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2022 12:11 AM (bPH26)

379 amazingly, the price of pate has been very stable
___

https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/chicken_liver_pate/

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:11 AM (ZTzFi)

380 Orange Man's fault.
Posted by: ... at March 07, 2022 12:10 AM (dscaa)

FIFY

Posted by: XI at March 07, 2022 12:11 AM (us2H3)

381 So... dropped a comment at #48, then wandered off to watch some Zeducation and Star Trek. In the inimitable fashion of '60s TV, tonight's Trek ("Whom Gods Destroy") guest-starred Batgirl (as a dancing green Orion gal who blowed up reel gud) and Kung Fu's Master Po (who was once Charlie Chan's Numbah One Son).

Now, I'll just go catch up on (gulp!) over 300 comments.

Or maybe not.

Posted by: mindful webworker - if you click, it won't be Rick at March 07, 2022 12:12 AM (4Hf9E)

382 China invaded everyone with a bioweapon and we were all told to shut the fuck up and that it was Orange Man's fault.
Posted by: ... at March 07, 2022 12:10 AM (dscaa)

-------

To be fair, it was a joint effort of China and Fauci.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 07, 2022 12:12 AM (VxC1e)

383 I served in my own way
watching over all the women folk
Posted by: REDACTED
___

So you're Johnny.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:12 AM (ZTzFi)

384 To be fair, it was a joint effort of China and Fauci.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 07, 2022 12:12 AM (VxC1e)

Fauci is a pimp. He never could've outfought Santino. It was Barzini all along.

Posted by: ... at March 07, 2022 12:14 AM (dscaa)

385 Hey Ellipses : )

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:14 AM (ZTzFi)

386 So you're Johnny.
Posted by: SMH
-----

*?*

Did Jody age out?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2022 12:15 AM (bPH26)

387 383 I served in my own way
watching over all the women folk
Posted by: REDACTED
___

So you're Johnny.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:12 AM (ZTzFi)

sometimes

Posted by: REDACTED at March 07, 2022 12:15 AM (us2H3)

388 Russians have a very different level of risk tolerance than Westerners, so lighting off a demonstration nuke would not induce anywhere near the same level of panic in Russia than in the West.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2022 11:52 PM (I2/tG)

If Russia sets off a nuke, it won't be a demonstration... probably NATO assets of some kind will be targeted, possibly the Polish base where they are discussing sending some of their MIGS to Ukraine. And if Russia does that, NATO will do a nuclear response. NATO will have to, because any nuke use will now directly threaten the security of every European nation.

we're closer to a real, live nuclear war than at any other time in my life. No one wants it, but Biden could easily blunder into it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2022 12:17 AM (evAgx)

389 Hey Ellipses : )

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:14 AM (ZTzFi)

Hi SMH!!!!

Posted by: ... at March 07, 2022 12:17 AM (dscaa)

390 Did Jody age out?
Posted by: Mike Hammer
___

Even he had to retire at some point.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:17 AM (ZTzFi)

391 we're closer to a real, live nuclear war than at any other time in my life. No one wants it, but Biden could easily blunder into it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2022 12:17 AM (evAgx)

maybe but I doubt the guy who wanted to pass on UBL would pull the trigger

but I guess he could blunder into it

Posted by: REDACTED at March 07, 2022 12:19 AM (us2H3)

392 381 So... dropped a comment at #48, then wandered off to watch some Zeducation and Star Trek. In the inimitable fashion of '60s TV, tonight's Trek ("Whom Gods Destroy") guest-starred Batgirl (as a dancing green Orion gal who blowed up reel gud) and Kung Fu's Master Po (who was once Charlie Chan's Numbah One Son).
Now, I'll just go catch up on (gulp!) over 300 comments.

Or maybe not.
Posted by: mindful webworker - if you click, it won't be Rick at March 07, 2022 12:12 AM (4Hf9E)

I'm in the same boat. Yvonne's Green Girl dance is legendary, not just because it was so good, but because there was no choreographer; the director just told her that the script called for a dance, so make up whatever you feel like doing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2022 12:19 AM (evAgx)

393 If Russia sets off a nuke, it won't be a demonstration... probably NATO assets of some kind will be targeted, possibly the Polish base where they are discussing sending some of their MIGS to Ukraine. And if Russia does that, NATO will do a nuclear response. NATO will have to, because any nuke use will now directly threaten the security of every European nation.

we're closer to a real, live nuclear war than at any other time in my life. No one wants it, but Biden could easily blunder into it.
Posted by: Tom Servo
___

40 years ago, I thought for sure I would be vaporized, which was a comfort, being a 13-14 year old Navy brat who just watched The Day After while attending school at Pearl Harbor.

I don't have that cold comfort now.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:20 AM (ZTzFi)

394 but I guess he could blunder into it
Posted by: REDACTED


Remember that we are not being led by the best and brightest.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 12:20 AM (ou23q)

395 But, I do have a better comfort, though.
The Lord.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:21 AM (ZTzFi)

396 "...Biden could easily blunder into it. "

Biden blunders in to everything, why would this be any different?

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 07, 2022 12:22 AM (jTmQV)

397 my big problem with this is I put Putin's threat as a bluff at about 0 %

I mean, what will be people do if he launched

there would not be a twitter to snark at him

and all the historians would be dead

Posted by: REDACTED at March 07, 2022 12:22 AM (us2H3)

398 *SMH* fist bump!

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 12:23 AM (ou23q)

399 we're closer to a real, live nuclear war than at any other time in my life. No one wants it, but Biden could easily blunder into it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2022 12:17 AM (evAgx)


If he can, he will. He's a special kind of retard.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2022 12:23 AM (VwHCD)

400 Did Jody age out?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2022 12:15 AM (bPH26)

Jody got my girl and gone.

I never had a chance to thank him.
That poor bastard.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 07, 2022 12:23 AM (axyOa)

401 Venezuela's incompetence in recent years has screwed up their oil facilities so badly that it will take 5 years of heavy investment to start significantly raising their output again.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2022 12:23 AM (evAgx)

402 I did break down and buy one product that is proud to boast about its Vegan heritage. Its some sort of powder that has all sorts of greens, fruits, and mushrooms dried up and ground together, and it claims that it is 100% digestible (?), all essential amino acids with 22 vitamins and minerals.

I figure in the Burning Times we're about to see, that four bags of this will be helpful if rationed carefully. One measuring cup (which each bag comes with) of this per week should be enough to tolerate while in a state of ravenous hunger.

If not, then I'm in trouble. Where am I going to get all those digestive enzymes it promises that I'll desperately need after eating all those beans I have?

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at March 07, 2022 12:23 AM (xxG/v)

403 I mean, what will be people do if he launched
___

Die, and struggle to survive.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:24 AM (ZTzFi)

404 Good evening, horders and hordesters!
Quite the weekend with a tornado passing by the house. Areas to the southwest and northeast got hit. Pretty nasty but could have been much worse.

If you are so inclined, please pray for those who lost their homes, and loved ones. One family lost the dad and two toddlers. So damn heartbreaking.

Posted by: SnailRacer at March 07, 2022 12:25 AM (fz9Ix)

405 Think I'll watch Threads and The Day After and do a comparison.

TJM should do a movie post about that.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:25 AM (ZTzFi)

406 403 I mean, what will be people do if he launched
___

Die, and struggle to survive.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:24 AM (ZTzF

not sure anyone would survive a all out nuke war

billions would starve to death

Posted by: REDACTED at March 07, 2022 12:26 AM (us2H3)

407 Posted by: SnailRacer
__

Prayers up.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:26 AM (ZTzFi)

408 Evening, ONT'ers. I am pleasantly pissed this evening.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 12:26 AM (P3gRi)

409 I blame Biden for allowing the National Strategic Bacon Reserve to fall to such depleted levels! *burp!*

mmmm.. Bacon!


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 07, 2022 12:27 AM (QzJWU)

410 we're closer to a real, live nuclear war than at any other time in my life. No one wants it, but Biden could easily blunder into it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2022 12:17 AM (evAgx)



I concur.
And its not just Biden. He is surrounded with people who have lived in their own echo chamber for so long they are truly out of touch. They aren't just stupid. They are clueless.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 07, 2022 12:27 AM (axyOa)

411 Right now, I would gladly trade Carter for the Drooling Turnip that is now occupying the Oval Office, or his bedroom in Delaware.

Carter at least made some correct decisions while president and could be counted on to not eff things up to biblical levels.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at March 07, 2022 12:27 AM (xxG/v)

412 Today he died of an overdose. Wonderful culture here.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 06, 2022 11:05 PM


My Schadenfreude-o-meter just went off-scale high.

Posted by: Chuck C at March 07, 2022 12:28 AM (EughT)

413 BTW, hats off to every 'ron and 'ette who served in the cold war. You notice the rooskies didn't try this crap until after we all retired.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 06, 2022 11:52 PM (axyOa)

Thank you Colonel. All who served deserve thanks, whether hot or cold.

Posted by: Javems at March 07, 2022 12:28 AM (AmoqO)

414 There are knife fights between Guatemalans and Mexicans in our small Iowa public high school. Tell me again how this makes things better for our country?
Posted by: pookysgirl, ready to unleash the Pooky at March 06, 2022 10:07 PM (XKZwp)

Fewer criminal class Guatemalans and Mexicans?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 12:29 AM (P3gRi)

415
not sure anyone would survive a all out nuke war

billions would starve to death
Posted by: REDACTED at March 07, 2022 12:26 AM (us2H3)

On the plus side, Russia's nuke systems probably aren't in any better shape than the rest of their military. I wouldn't say we wouldn't get our hair mussed; but casualties probably only 10 million, 20 million tops.

(yeah do I really need a sarc tag?)

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2022 12:29 AM (evAgx)

416 Brian Kilmeade needs to be caged

he's really frothy as pf late

Posted by: REDACTED at March 07, 2022 12:31 AM (us2H3)

417 I am experiencing periods of no electricity.
Today was 6 hours worth.
It makes you prepare for life in the coming days.
I have gas appliances, that is good.
CA has banned them in all future construction.
As well as gasoline powered generators.
Starving times will follow.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 07, 2022 12:31 AM (jTmQV)

418 410 Posted by: Diogenes at March 07, 2022 12:27 AM (axyOa)

They have believed their own bullshit thanks to the ability of the US media to snow Americans and forget that the rest of the world knows and counts on their being clowns....

the media noise machine coupled with social media "taking sides" means you have a generation of "leaders" who have no grasp of the word "no."

Posted by: sven at March 07, 2022 12:31 AM (Lzpvj)

419 Never underestimate how badly Joe can fk it up

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2022 12:31 AM (2JoB8)

420 I always considered Kilmeade to be the "sports guy." The phrase "stay in your lane" was probably invented just for him.

Posted by: Theodore at March 07, 2022 12:32 AM (GJnvT)

421 not sure anyone would survive a all out nuke war

billions would starve to death
Posted by: REDACTED
___

Some longer than others, but yeah, mostly die except in the most secluded of places on earth.

Even the Bible has something to say about the last days, and it's likely that John saw nuclear war, and being in the first century and all, could only describe it in terms of his time.

It's time to get right with Jesus.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:32 AM (ZTzFi)

422 we're closer to a real, live nuclear war than at any other time in my life. No one wants it, but Biden could easily blunder into it.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Hard to say. Cuban missile crisis had a lot of us old coots pretty concerned, real or not.

Posted by: Javems at March 07, 2022 12:32 AM (AmoqO)

423 On the plus side, Russia's nuke systems probably aren't in any better shape than the rest of their military. I wouldn't say we wouldn't get our hair mussed; but casualties probably only 10 million, 20 million tops.

(yeah do I really need a sarc tag?)
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2022 12:29 AM (evAgx)

you're not accounting for inflation there, bucky

Posted by: REDACTED at March 07, 2022 12:32 AM (us2H3)

424 Putin dying of terminal colon cancer. (daliy star) hope there right!

Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at March 07, 2022 12:33 AM (Jv3MP)

425 Thank you, SMH. Much appreciated.

Posted by: SnailRacer at March 07, 2022 12:33 AM (fz9Ix)

426 Does Stolin think he will get oil from Venezuela tomorrow? They're years away from producing.
Posted by: Clutch at March 06, 2022 10:08 PM (9UmRs)

No. Venezuela has proven reserves. Put some experienced field engineers and drillers on the job, and you could have new wells pumping crude from existing fields in 30 days, given access to the tools needed for the job. Oilfield hands know how to get 'er done.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 12:34 AM (P3gRi)

427 424 Posted by: exodus 21:22-25 at March 07, 2022 12:33 AM (Jv3MP)

Yes because we should hope that the Russian leader is as cognitively impaired as our dementia patient in chief....

I want Earth One back.

Posted by: sven at March 07, 2022 12:35 AM (Lzpvj)

428 Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 07, 2022 12:31 AM (jTmQV)

move western MA

Boston makes all kinds of rules they think will help us

we pretend to follow them

Posted by: REDACTED at March 07, 2022 12:35 AM (us2H3)

429 I am experiencing periods of no electricity.
Today was 6 hours worth.
It makes you prepare for life in the coming days.
I have gas appliances, that is good.
CA has banned them in all future construction.
As well as gasoline powered generators.
Starving times will follow.
Posted by: gourmand du jour
___

Dehydrate food, especially meats.
These yahoos want to go all soylent green on us while they nom on Waygu.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:36 AM (ZTzFi)

430 426 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 12:34 AM (P3gRi)

A serious America would have exerted at least as much martial effort on Valenzuela's situation as housebreaking Irag and ghani....

we are not a serious America.

Posted by: sven at March 07, 2022 12:36 AM (Lzpvj)

431
I love you all.

Posted by: Auspex at March 07, 2022 12:37 AM (Xo3T0)

432 Evening, ONT'ers. I am pleasantly pissed this evening.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 12:26 AM (P3gRi)


Looking at word/phrase origins, pissed = drunk seems to be a US invention. I was guessing British.

Salute!

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 07, 2022 12:39 AM (F0YaR)

433 No. Venezuela has proven reserves. Put some experienced field engineers and drillers on the job, and you could have new wells pumping crude from existing fields in 30 days, given access to the tools needed for the job. Oilfield hands know how to get 'er done.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 12:34 AM (P3gRi)

disagree - it's mostly tar, and the infrastructure to support tar production on a large scale has been allowed to rust away. Venezuela has always had to import millions of gallons of gasoline just to cut the tar and get it to flow through pipelines; but that is precisely what is *not* going to be available in this Brave New World.

I rate Venezuelan oil fields, in the current scenario, as mostly worthless. Iran's, on the other hand, are good - until someone gets chippy and bombs the Abadan refinery, which is the choke point for *all* Iranian oil production.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2022 12:40 AM (evAgx)

434
here are knife fights between Guatemalans and Mexicans in our small Iowa public high school. Tell me again how this makes things better for our country?
Posted by: pookysgirl


Bathe deeply in the vibrant diversity.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 07, 2022 12:40 AM (63Dwl)

435 I love you all.
Posted by: Auspex at March 07, 2022 12:37 AM (Xo3T0)

can't say love but I'm a Budget man myself

Posted by: REDACTED at March 07, 2022 12:40 AM (us2H3)

436 Ammo.com is sending bullets to Ukraine, millions.
They won't do any good if you can't get within range of Ivan, who is sending artillery down range from 25 kilometers.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 07, 2022 12:40 AM (jTmQV)

437 Putin dying of terminal colon cancer. (daliy star) hope there right!
Posted by: exodus
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I doubt it. But if true, desperate men do desperate things.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2022 12:40 AM (830x5)

438 I doubt it. But if true, desperate men do desperate things.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
___

And some really want to go out with a bang.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:41 AM (ZTzFi)

439 438 Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:41 AM (ZTzFi)

I have always translated "going out with a bang" to mean Asian twins and blue pills...

Posted by: sven at March 07, 2022 12:43 AM (Lzpvj)

440 One of the Polish government ministers hotly denied the "rumor" (fostered by Blinken and social media nitwits) that there was any plan to load or give Polish Mig-29's to Ukraine. But they did say that they were helping Ukraine in other ways.
Hungary, on the other hand (a NATO member) is not having anything to do with Ukraine and is acting close to being a neutral on this as possible.
There have been a ton of pledges of "small arms" to Ukraine from various European nations, but I don't think these either get into the country, or end up where they are supposed to go.
My bet would be that a lot of this stuff ends up on some weapons black market.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....nic at night at March 07, 2022 12:44 AM (tjZg/)

441 On the plus side, Russia's nuke systems probably aren't in any better shape than the rest of their military. I wouldn't say we wouldn't get our hair mussed; but casualties probably only 10 million, 20 million tops.

(yeah do I really need a sarc tag?)

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2022 12:29 AM (evAgx)


I recall reading an article, quite a few years back, after the signing of the START treaty, that when we went to inspect Soviet silos many of their warbirds were actually shams. Fake news, as they might say.

Inoperable. And so it goes.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 07, 2022 12:44 AM (F0YaR)

442
Guess which approach our betters have selected for our future?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Lie back and think of the sweet graft! ~ at March 06, 2022 10:12 PM (hOUT3)

Let's drop the canard that EV components cannot be recycled. That's bullshit. If they are not recycled, it's only because there is not yet enough volume in the marketplace to make recycling profitable. (and if recycling is not profitable, it should not be done).

Take your dead lithium batteries. Grind them up. Put them in the smelter feed for a lithium smelter. Output? fresh lithium. Same with rare-earth magnets. Neither "rare" element is consumed during the life span of the product that uses it; it just gets degraded as the product loses usefulness. Only question is: will the cost of sorting and segregation of the lithium/rare earth containing scrap be less than the cost of mining new? Full stop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 12:45 AM (P3gRi)

443 any uber driver can fly a jet

this is common knowledge

Posted by: REDACTED at March 07, 2022 12:45 AM (us2H3)

444 I joined up in '88. Technically.... USSR had no chance of taking western Europe conventionally. The desertions would've been epic. One glimpse of McDonalds would do it.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 07, 2022 12:47 AM (KAi1n)

445 And some really want to go out with a bang.
Posted by: SMH at God's grace
-----------------------------

ISWYDT

Posted by: Braenyard at March 07, 2022 12:47 AM (7mU9T)

446 Prayers given snailracer.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at March 07, 2022 12:47 AM (wdCAN)

447 Company I worked for had over a dozen offices and bases in Venezuela. I've lifted some heavy crudes in my day. Just need some chemicals, and heat helps as well.

Posted by: Javems at March 07, 2022 12:48 AM (AmoqO)

448
{{{SMH}}}

Good to see you.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 07, 2022 12:48 AM (7mU9T)

449 That's the late, great Gary Brooker singing lead for Procol Harum on Conquistador, not Matthew Fisher.
Posted by: Interesting Times at March 06, 2022 10:28 PM (ieN7O)

Was that the live performaqnce they did with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 12:49 AM (P3gRi)

450 'Sup?

Posted by: Robert at March 07, 2022 12:49 AM (1Yy3c)

451 What are you pissed about, AOP, if you can share?

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 12:50 AM (ou23q)

452 ---------I doubt it. But if true, desperate men do desperate things.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2022 12:40 AM (830x5)
---------------

It could have migrated to his brain.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 07, 2022 12:53 AM (7mU9T)

453 Hey Braenyard. : )

Good to see you too.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:54 AM (ZTzFi)

454 Only question is: will the cost of sorting and segregation of the lithium/rare earth containing scrap be less than the cost of mining new? Full stop.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Mining Lithium is not particularly hard, but is is very dilute in formations, and requires a big industrial effort to concentrate and purify. There is a big Lithium plant in China, the area around it looks like lunar desolation; just a ruined landscape.
So I would think that re-cycling would be feasible, if there were enough batteries to keep some kind of industrial operation running.
I know of a couple operations that recycle lead from conventional batteries, and lead ($2300 USD/MT) is not nearly as valuable as Lithium ($7300 USD/MT).

Top global producers are (1) Australia and (2) Chile.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....nic at night at March 07, 2022 12:54 AM (tjZg/)

455 What are you pissed about, AOP, if you can share?
Posted by: Infidel
___

lol
He's drunk.
Three sheets to the wind.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:54 AM (ZTzFi)

456 How does Groundhog Day work in Edmonton?

Posted by: klaftern@yahoo.com at March 07, 2022 12:55 AM (taPSh)

457 We are all proud of Presdent Bidum four being tough on Russia. Keep up the good work as a war time liter. We loves you and Orsedint Obamar for keeping us on the rite path to renemibill energy sources.

Posted by: Mary Cloginstien from Brattleboro, VT at March 07, 2022 12:55 AM (Za5Oh)

458 Take your dead lithium batteries. Grind them up. Put them in the smelter feed for a lithium smelter. Output? fresh lithium. Same with rare-earth magnets. Neither "rare" element is consumed during the life span of the product that uses it; it just gets degraded as the product loses usefulness. Only question is: will the cost of sorting and segregation of the lithium/rare earth containing scrap be less than the cost of mining new? Full stop.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 12:45 AM (P3gRi)

Ahh, but we don't make business decisions, even about industry wide practices, based on what is efficient, cost effective or rational. Our central planners will consult The Oracles of Gaia, make up some numbers involving carbon and regulate away all that offends them.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at March 07, 2022 12:56 AM (cupoy)

459 SMH, sometimes I'm slow on the uptake.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 12:56 AM (ou23q)

460 If you folks see any nice mini-rvs on a van chasis.....I'm interested. The Fabulous Mrs. Mis. Hum. and I plan to travel even if the gas is astronomically priced.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 06, 2022 10:23 PM (w45mR)

Wait a min, MisHum! That's a perfect opportunity to "make" your own RV. Buy an old trailer chassis and build it to your specs. And you can post the vids on the hobby thread!
Posted by: OrangeEnt at March 06, 2022 10:31 PM (7bRMQ)

There are lots of "old" RV's out there. Class "A" or class "C". Many have low miles, and are sound mechanically, except for age-related deterioration. Roof failures are common, leading to interior damage. Find an old one with no roof failure, freshen up tires, brakes, etc., and you can enjoy the RV lifestyle for very little money. Some "destination" RV parks ban older RV's from staying there, but you probably won't miss the class of people that occupy those parks.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 12:57 AM (P3gRi)

461 Used to think 3 sheets to the wind was a sailor term, like sails all out flapping But discovered that a sailor's sheet has nothing to do with a sail.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 07, 2022 12:58 AM (7mU9T)

462 No biggie, Infidel.

I am too on a lot of stuff.

Posted by: SMH at God's grace at March 07, 2022 12:58 AM (ZTzFi)

463 There are knife fights between Guatemalans and Mexicans in our small Iowa public high school. Tell me again how this makes things better for our country?
Posted by: pookysgirl, ready to unleash the Pooky at March 06, 2022 10:07 PM (XKZwp)

Fewer criminal class Guatemalans and Mexicans?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 12:29 AM (P3gRi)

When they join the military because a judge made them choose that or jail time the close quarters combat experience will make them indispensable in the field.

Posted by: Robert at March 07, 2022 12:58 AM (1Yy3c)

464 I recall reading an article, quite a few years back, after the signing of the START treaty, that when we went to inspect Soviet silos many of their warbirds were actually shams. Fake news, as they might say.

Inoperable. And so it goes.
Posted by: GnuBreed

They pretended to pay Soviet workers with Rubles, and the Soviet workers pretended to work.
There are some interesting aspects of the Soviet/Russian arms industry, but a lot of things they made were just....junk.
To be a Soviet tanker in a T-64 or T-72, you typically had to be shorter than 5 ft 6, because the tanks were so small inside.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....nic at night at March 07, 2022 12:59 AM (tjZg/)

465 ... Only question is: will the cost of sorting and segregation of the lithium/rare earth containing scrap be less than the cost of mining new? Full stop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 12:45 AM (P3gRi)


"Rare earth" elements really aren't all that rare. It's the separation/purification costs that make them expensive.

I've seen a number of sci-fy novels that involve mining landfills as a rich source of elements. Someday that may be true. But not yet. The dried out husk of the Salton Sea contains enough lithium to build millions of EV batteries.

If you can get past the CA EPA permitting process.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 07, 2022 12:59 AM (F0YaR)

466 For anyone planning to use pallets--either for fuel or storage or projects--please check to be sure they're safe!

1001pallets.com/ pallet-safety/

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2022 12:59 AM (dpnJh)

467 we're closer to a real, live nuclear war than at any other time in my life. No one wants it, but Biden could easily blunder into it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 07, 2022 12:17 AM (evAgx)

Has the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (soi disant) changed the time on their "Doomsday Clock"? Or does that only happen with Republican Presidents?

Is a [ /s ] needed?

Posted by: Fox2! at March 07, 2022 01:00 AM (qyH+l)

468 Bidumb is three shits to the wind by 9am.

Posted by: ... at March 07, 2022 01:01 AM (dscaa)

469 We could have horse drawn sports cars like I just saw on an old Twilight Zone episode.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 07, 2022 01:02 AM (63Dwl)

470 466 For anyone planning to use pallets--either for fuel or storage or projects--please check to be sure they're safe!

1001pallets.com/ pallet-safety/
Posted by: JQ at March
----------------------

That's a joke website, Right?

Posted by: Braenyard at March 07, 2022 01:03 AM (7mU9T)

471 I was a very scared PFC in 62, we deployed (at the critical stage of the Missile Crisis) and staged with weapons hot for 5 days. Everyone expected to die in an atomic blast because the missile outfit we were assigned to was definitely a target. Ivan knew damn well where we were, so we were priority.

It was expected we'd launch 3 of a total of 5 before going up.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 07, 2022 01:04 AM (KATBx)

472 Crap, it's snowing. It rained earlier. Just love driving to work on snow over ice.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 01:05 AM (ou23q)

473 It was always weird to pretend that two dozen Polish MiGs were going to tilt the (apparently mostly non-existent) air war one way or the other anyway.

Posted by: spindrift at March 07, 2022 01:05 AM (SXo7b)

474 Cities to check are primarily Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, Dallas & Houston. California units will be gobbled up by folks looking for alternatives to sky-high rents and housing. And learn how to use Craigslist's (limited) search tools, and run a search on "Class C", or "Van", to narrow down the number of pages to scroll through.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 06, 2022 10:52 PM (QzJWU)

No action yet on that RV that I emailed you about. It's not super big; single rear axle, not tandem. Keeping an eye things there, for personal interests, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 01:06 AM (P3gRi)

475 Separating metallic components in batteries for reuse is expensive. I am not sure how various components such as lithium hydroxide are recovered. If water solutions are used, it is almost impossible ( by chemical means) to reduce the metal concentration to zero, so then the water is contaminated. Batteries are akin to miniature toxic waste dumps.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at March 07, 2022 01:06 AM (mCh4j)

476 466 For anyone planning to use pallets--either for fuel or storage or projects--please check to be sure they're safe!

1001pallets.com/ pallet-safety/

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2022 12:59 AM (dpnJh)

I pulled a flatbed fo ra couple of years. We were forbidden from carry pallets. Just too a rickety load, and damned it we were going to tarp them.

Posted by: Javems at March 07, 2022 01:07 AM (AmoqO)

477 Biden turned the doomsday clock back to high noon.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 07, 2022 01:07 AM (63Dwl)

478 466 For anyone planning to use pallets--either for fuel or storage or projects--please check to be sure they're safe!

1001pallets.com/ pallet-safety/
Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2022 12:59 AM (dpnJh)

one problem with reusing things like pallets is the wood contains a lot of dirt

and dirt wil dull your tools really fast

Posted by: REDACTED at March 07, 2022 01:07 AM (us2H3)

479 Ronettes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrVbawRPO7I

Posted by: Braenyard at March 07, 2022 01:08 AM (7mU9T)

480 The AG in Arizona is investigating possible antitrust violations being committed by the ESG groups and businesses regarding the prevention of financing our oil and gas companies.

Here's the link to the WSJ Opinion page editorial by AG Brnovich. I just contacted my state's AG and encouraged him to work with AG Brnovich on this matter.

https://tinyurl.com/2x7b52jh

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at March 07, 2022 01:09 AM (xxG/v)

481 I went long on wheelbarrows last week

Posted by: REDACTED at March 07, 2022 01:11 AM (us2H3)

482 471 I was a very scared PFC in 62, we deployed (at the critical stage of the Missile Crisis) and staged with weapons hot for 5 days. Everyone expected to die in an atomic blast because the missile outfit we were assigned to was definitely a target. Ivan knew damn well where we were, so we were priority.

It was expected we'd launch 3 of a total of 5 before going up.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 07, 2022 01:04 AM (KATBx)

I recall mentioning this the other night. I was in high school just outside of Ft Knox. I remember the concern in my Dad's eyes.

Posted by: Javems at March 07, 2022 01:13 AM (AmoqO)

483 To be a Soviet tanker in a T-64 or T-72, you typically had to be shorter than 5 ft 6, because the tanks were so small inside.
Posted by: Bozo Conservative.....nic at night at March 07, 2022 12:59 AM (tjZg/)

And you needed to be left handed to be the loader.

Posted by: Redchief at March 07, 2022 01:13 AM (bVGsy)

484 Ming's costume was 30,000 beads hand sewn. The women, according to Sam Jones was maybe 100 beads. o_O;;
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 06, 2022 11:41 PM (d1hL+)

Am I alone in demanding photographic proof of this assertion?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 01:14 AM (P3gRi)

485 That's a joke website, Right?
Posted by: Braenyard

No. It's for people who are interested in recycling, reusing, making stuff out of used pallets.

Sometimes they are chemically treated. Wouldn't want to use that type in your basement for food storage, for example. Wouldn't want to burn them for heat.

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2022 01:15 AM (dpnJh)

486 AOP, your knowledge of mechanical things is beyond impressive. We're you an engineer or manufacturing engineer in a past life, or just a run of the mill genius ?

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 07, 2022 01:16 AM (WF/xn)

487 So I did breeze through all the comments after all. From what I can gather, stock up now before the nukes fly. Always good advice. I want storage like in Blast from the Past. Except maybe the Dr. Pepper. RC Cola.

What was up with Ladyl? In any case, glad to read she's better.

Yvonne Craig on Trek: ...the director just told her that the script called for a dance, so make up whatever you feel like doing.
Posted by: Tom Servo


That's cool. I kinda wondered.

Wow. Lookit the time! It's tomorrow already (here in God's Central zone). One more wee dab or hit the pillows? Decisions, decisions....
🕧

Posted by: mindful webworker - clik nic for quick pic at March 07, 2022 01:17 AM (4Hf9E)

488 I'm moving in on some shagbark hickory in my wood pile

the stuff weighs a ton

Posted by: REDACTED at March 07, 2022 01:18 AM (us2H3)

489 Tis time.

Goodnite, good people. Be safe, stay warm and sleep well.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 07, 2022 01:18 AM (KATBx)

490 No action yet on that RV that I emailed you about. It's not super big; single rear axle, not tandem. Keeping an eye things there, for personal interests, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
------------------

Knew a fellow who had one built on a Toyota truck.
He became so accomplished at changing the rear wheel bearing he could do it on the side of the road in thirty minutes.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 07, 2022 01:20 AM (7mU9T)

491 489 Tis time.

Goodnite, good people. Be safe, stay warm and sleep well.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 07, 2022 01:18 AM (KATBx)

Goodnight irongrampa. Never got to say goodnight to my grandpas. They both were dead by 1930.

Posted by: Javems at March 07, 2022 01:22 AM (AmoqO)

492 Tis time.

Goodnite, good people. Be safe, stay warm and sleep well.
Posted by: irongrampa at

Alright, you got me. I read that as " it's tits time"

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 07, 2022 01:22 AM (WF/xn)

493 Loved the video of Procol Harum doing "Conquistador" but Fisher was no longer with the band in 1973, and I believe the man on the keys in this version is Chris Copping? Regardless, loved hearing my favorite PH song, and RIP to the amazingly talented Gary Brooker, who recently passed. That voice, that presence, wow.

And oh yeah, I know it's a quote from newsthud but the phrase is "toe the line" and not "tow the line."

(I cannot help it: I'm a former editor, my pet peeve alert went off, all hell broke loose, you know the drill.)

Posted by: JustGotHere at March 07, 2022 01:25 AM (0NV2q)

494 What are you pissed about, AOP, if you can share?
Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 12:50 AM (ou23q)

Pleasantly pissed = delightfully drunk. nada mas.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 01:25 AM (P3gRi)

495 Tis time.

Goodnite, good people. Be safe, stay warm and sleep well.
Posted by: irongrampa at

Alright, you got me. I read that as " it's tits time"
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 07, 2022 01:22 AM (WF/xn)

"le tits now"!

Posted by: Count Han de Monet at March 07, 2022 01:26 AM (4I/2K)

496 Yea, I got that upthread.
Can't sleep. So sick of being sick.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 01:28 AM (ou23q)

497 Democrat with an AK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As5-i3_1tRg

Posted by: Braenyard at March 07, 2022 01:30 AM (7mU9T)

498 Miklos is missed. I want him on that Wall of Shame. I need him on that Wall of Shame.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 07, 2022 01:31 AM (4I/2K)

499 Yea, I got that upthread.
Can't sleep. So sick of being sick.
Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 01:28 AM (ou23q

Best wishes man. That sucks

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 07, 2022 01:31 AM (WF/xn)

500 Pleasantly pissed = delightfully drunk. nada mas.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


I'm happy to know my British-American translator still works and I knew watcchoo meant. Bonnet! Spanner! Lift! Lorry! Bobsyerunkl!

Pillows win. Clocking out.

Closing thought:
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary... do it.

Posted by: mindful webworker - click nik for quick pic at March 07, 2022 01:31 AM (4Hf9E)

501 Separating metallic components in batteries for reuse is expensive. I am not sure how various components such as lithium hydroxide are recovered. If water solutions are used, it is almost impossible ( by chemical means) to reduce the metal concentration to zero, so then the water is contaminated. Batteries are akin to miniature toxic waste dumps.
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at March 07, 2022 01:06 AM (mCh4j)

Lithium ore minerals going to the smelter are going to be oxides, hydroxides, carboantes, or silicates. The guts of dead lithium batteries are going to be similar, because, chemistry. Lead from automobile starting batteries is nearly 100% recycled, now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 01:32 AM (P3gRi)

502 Thanks Hatari, afraid to miss anymore work, but slight fever and horrible cough. No one in the office wants that.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 01:33 AM (ou23q)

503 AOP, your knowledge of mechanical things is beyond impressive. We're you an engineer or manufacturing engineer in a past life, or just a run of the mill genius ?
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 07, 2022 01:16 AM (WF/xn)

No. Geologist, by profession. mechanic, by avocation.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 01:34 AM (P3gRi)

504 My Bacon number is 4.

4) I created an amateur feature with 3) someone who worked with 2) someone who worked with 1) someone who worked with 0) Kevin Bacon.

Well new fame is more direct but less rare. Today on twitter I made Michael Malice laugh.

Also on twitter someone had #therepist, and I refrained from posting a picture of the SNL version of Connery.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 07, 2022 01:35 AM (ybIRR)

505 Well, my eyelids are slamming shut. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 07, 2022 01:37 AM (P3gRi)

506 As far as " The Lack of Comprehension."

You are just lucky it wasn't lit on fire and dropped into the Pacific ocean.

Posted by: West at March 07, 2022 01:37 AM (QY+6a)

507 Thanks Hatari, afraid to miss anymore work, but slight fever and horrible cough. No one in the office wants that.
Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 01:33 AM (ou23q)


I had valley fever one time, it lasted forever, not contagious, but same deal, everyone thought I had the plague. It lasted for months.

Be well ! I wish you the best.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 07, 2022 01:39 AM (WF/xn)

508 No. Geologist, by profession. mechanic, by avocation.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March

Rock on brother

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 07, 2022 01:40 AM (WF/xn)

509 Can't sleep. So sick of being sick.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 01:28 AM (ou23q)

Yeah. Not sick per-say but persistent afib. For a week now. Seeing my electrocardiologist Tuesday. Just so tired of being tired.

Posted by: Javems at March 07, 2022 01:40 AM (AmoqO)

510 AOP,

I'm just the opposite of you. Did my Aerospace Engineering career, but I tell folks, if I had to pick a different career path, I think I would have been happiest as a geologist.

I've enjoyed John McPhee's books on geology, and love to peruse texts back in the day before plate techtonics was a thing, to see how things we take for granted now were explained.

Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle at March 07, 2022 01:41 AM (U8Hxf)

511 Just so tired of being tired.
Posted by: Javems

That too. I hope the doc can help you.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 01:42 AM (ou23q)

512 511 Just so tired of being tired.
Posted by: Javems

That too. I hope the doc can help you.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 01:42 AM (ou23q)

Thanks. Going to drag myself off to bed.

Hoping you feel better.

Posted by: Javems at March 07, 2022 01:47 AM (AmoqO)

513 Infidel, javems adding you guys to my prayer list.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at March 07, 2022 01:49 AM (wdCAN)

514 I've enjoyed John McPhee's books on geology,
Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle

Didn't he play bass for Fleetwood Mac?

Posted by: SFGoth at March 07, 2022 01:51 AM (KAi1n)

515 Javems, are you taking anything such as Multaq or Fenicaride?

Posted by: Braenyard at March 07, 2022 01:52 AM (7mU9T)

516 No. Geologist, by profession. mechanic, by avocation.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March


Guitar player first, harley builder when I'm bored. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2022 01:52 AM (VwHCD)

517 Guitar player first, harley builder when I'm bored. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2022 01:52 AM (VwHCD)

Animal ! So much knowledge in the horde. I always learn something from reading here.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 07, 2022 01:55 AM (WF/xn)

518 I have told the wife she can spend 65k on the kitchen she wants. She has been saving for 10 years. Wish me luck !

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 07, 2022 01:58 AM (WF/xn)

519 harley builder when I'm bored. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Dang BD, yer setting the bar kinda high for the rest of us.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at March 07, 2022 02:00 AM (wdCAN)

520 Hatari, be sure to take before and after pics.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 02:00 AM (ou23q)

521 I have told the wife she can spend 65k on the kitchen she wants. She has been saving for 10 years. Wish me luck !
Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway

I wish you well. Godspeed and all that.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 07, 2022 02:01 AM (KAi1n)

522
I wish you well. Godspeed and all that.
Posted by: SFGoth at March 07, 2022 02:01 AM (

Thanks ! She deserves it. She is an angel.

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 07, 2022 02:03 AM (WF/xn)

523 Headlines above the fold _DM

Russian mothers confront government official in Siberia Kremlin lying and using our children as cannon fodder

SAMS have taken down 45 Russian planes so far.

Russia recruiting in Syria.
Elon Musk held a video call with Volodymyr Zelensky
as he promised to bolster his Starlink satellite support.

UK top military commander has suggested.
Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said Russia's troops were
in a mess and the invasion was not going well.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 07, 2022 02:03 AM (7mU9T)

524 Hatari, be sure to take before and after pics.
Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 02:00 AM (ou23q)

I will !

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 07, 2022 02:04 AM (WF/xn)

525 Fading out now.

Best wishes all.

This is such a great community of smart and nice people !

Pasta manana

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 07, 2022 02:06 AM (WF/xn)

526 harley builder when I'm bored. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Dang BD, yer setting the bar kinda high for the rest of us.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at March 07, 2022 02:00 AM (wdCAN)

Well not really. It was always musician first, and other shit was to pay the bills when needed. Bottom line, unless you're in some super huge king shit band, you're gonna need a side job, and even then its not like it used to be. One band I was in is on their 19th album, and those dudes had day/side jobs for a loooong time. The harley thing I started learning in my teens, and just stayed with it, and eventually it just grew to where it was the only job I needed other than music. I needed a fall back for when music shit the bed, and it has shit the bed more than enough times.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2022 02:07 AM (VwHCD)

527 Pompeo says US should immediately recognize Taiwan as a free and sovereign country.

Lot of good it's doing Ukraine.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 07, 2022 02:10 AM (7mU9T)

528 Anybody else drawing a parallel to the summer of 1914 with all the stupid geopolitical moves and declarations being made?

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 07, 2022 02:23 AM (4I/2K)

529 Never studied the summer of 1914, but it does not bode well.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 02:24 AM (ou23q)

530 Attention all planets of the Solar Federal, we have assumed control.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 07, 2022 02:25 AM (KAi1n)

531 Well not really.

So if you're not jamming, you're bored? Most constructive thing I accomplish when I'm bored is possibly clean a gun . I do plenty of unconstructive things. Fortunately I don't get bored easily. Side benefits of ADD.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at March 07, 2022 02:28 AM (wdCAN)

532 Amanda Seyfried cannot portray Elizabeth Holmes. It's the eyes. Not her fault but not close, pun intended.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 07, 2022 02:31 AM (KAi1n)

533 I have ADD and I get bored very easily.

Posted by: SFGoth at March 07, 2022 02:33 AM (KAi1n)

534 Never studied the summer of 1914, but it does not bode well.
Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 02:24 AM (ou23q)

I was thinking of the book, The Guns Of August, which I had read years ago and more recently watched the documentary - https://youtu.be/h4zPg5Kv_ug

My memory likely has confuzzled many of the facts though I recall a series of miscalculations and blunders.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 07, 2022 02:35 AM (4I/2K)

535 What ever is going on is a mess.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 02:36 AM (ou23q)

536 "...setting the bar kinda high..."

Not to worry! I'm here to bring it back down! Unemployed now, formerly a lowly factory wrker. Have had many jerbs (30-40ish?) since getting only a GED, mostly of the minwage persuasion, and only *one* of those jerbs came with any insurance or retirement bennies.

There. LIIIIMMMMBOOO TIME!

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2022 02:38 AM (dpnJh)

537 So if you're not jamming, you're bored? Most constructive thing I accomplish when I'm bored is possibly clean a gun . I do plenty of unconstructive things. Fortunately I don't get bored easily. Side benefits of ADD.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at March 07, 2022 02:28 AM (wdCAN)

Oh I can waste time like no other, trust me, lol.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2022 02:38 AM (VwHCD)

538 Sock Monkey, thanks man. They had a good day today going through the rubble, saving what can be saved. But now it's snowing and it will be that much harder tomorrow.

Posted by: SnailRacer at March 07, 2022 02:40 AM (fz9Ix)

539 "...setting the bar kinda high..."

Not to worry! I'm here to bring it back down! Unemployed now, formerly a lowly factory wrker. Have had many jerbs (30-40ish?) since getting only a GED, mostly of the minwage persuasion, and only *one* of those jerbs came with any insurance or retirement bennies.

There. LIIIIMMMMBOOO TIME!

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2022 02:38 AM (dpnJh)

Been self employed my whole life. Retirement bennies? None that I know of. I'll probably work until I go carbon neutral.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 07, 2022 02:44 AM (VwHCD)

540 >>>It was always weird to pretend that two dozen Polish MiGs were going to tilt the (apparently mostly non-existent) air war one way or the other anyway.

>It's also foolish to believe that those armored columns are being held up because of a couple of demolitions of two lane bridges. If I was the commanding general of that column, I'd use the tanks and bones of my own crews to pile up a bridge high enough that it would span the Grand Canyon and then I'd drive over it with the rest of my troops.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 07, 2022 02:46 AM (oWZwa)

541 My memory likely has confuzzled many of the facts though I recall a series of miscalculations and blunders.
Posted by: Count de Monet

Balkan Ghosts by Robert Kaplan has some good insight into the convulations of the power elite which lead to WW1.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at March 07, 2022 02:46 AM (wdCAN)

542 Biden sending 17000 ant tank rockets & OKs Polish jets to Ukraine.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 07, 2022 02:46 AM (26uHx)

543 DM says they are armoring trucks/equipment w/logs.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 07, 2022 02:49 AM (26uHx)

544 Balkan Ghosts by Robert Kaplan has some good insight into the convulations of the power elite which lead to WW1.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at March 07, 2022 02:46 AM (wdCAN)

Thanks.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 07, 2022 02:49 AM (4I/2K)

545 Bers, you done good for y'self. Self employment ain't for the faint of heart!

Hell, I can't even play an instrument. (we won't count the piano and cello lessons from grammar school days)

My 'retirement' is what little I put into a company-sponsored 401k. Less than 200k. Probly won't be enough to pay property taxes, should I live long enough.

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2022 02:49 AM (dpnJh)

546 Attention all planets of the Solar Federal, we have assumed control.
Posted by: SFGoth at March 07, 2022 02:25 AM (KAi1n)

Oh thank God.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at March 07, 2022 02:50 AM (ybIRR)

547 I find it amazing that countries are just stealing shit from Russian citizens, and stopping them from travel everywhere... even if they have done nothing wrong...

And without any declaration of war. We've never done this for any prior conflict. Closest we've come before is the Japanese in WW2, but even then, it was AFTER we declared War.

Rule of law is out the window, totally now.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 07, 2022 02:53 AM (oHd/0)

548 Rule of law is out the window, totally now.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 07, 2022 02:53 AM (oHd/0)

WW2 was a more civilized time.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 07, 2022 02:55 AM (4I/2K)

549 There is a docu on now about the 1970's. I had forgotten some of the clusterf's.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 02:57 AM (ou23q)

550 Thought it was to cause internal revolt.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 07, 2022 02:57 AM (cXfmo)

551 Here's something for Pixy's 'party like it's 1981':

youtu.be/hniVcrkmRRY

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2022 02:57 AM (dpnJh)

552 Rule of law is out the window, totally now.
Posted by: Romeo13

That little issue seems to be universal.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at March 07, 2022 02:59 AM (wdCAN)

553 ipad hates me. Try to highlight &it runs up the page.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 07, 2022 03:00 AM (cXfmo)

554 How TF does puddinhead get to "OK" Polands jets to Ukraine?

See, I'm uneddicated as well as poor....

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2022 03:00 AM (dpnJh)

555 JQ, see 552.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 03:02 AM (ou23q)

556 party like it's 1981':


Going to pass. In my case that would still involve the risk of some serious jail time.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Ungovernable at March 07, 2022 03:03 AM (wdCAN)

557 Thanks, Infidel.

*facepalm*

How could I forget the basics?

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2022 03:04 AM (dpnJh)

558 How did he give the ok for the Nord Stream pipeline?

Posted by: Braenyard at March 07, 2022 03:04 AM (cXfmo)

559 Early morning, all,

Four hours' sleep, and here I am with coffee and an episode of House. This tends unfortunately to be usual for Mondays, since I nap, only about 90 minutes, on Sunday afternoon. It's warm and sticky outside already in March, so a workout will be uncomfortable. And this week at Crazy Town, aka work, will be busy. At least the face diaper requirement is gone.

Chekov the Ailing Codger Cat continues to eat, but not to be any more active. I've got to renew one of his prescriptions, but I think the pharmacy can deliver it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 07, 2022 03:06 AM (c6xtn)

560 Yesterday I watched a 1961 B-movie, When the Clock Strikes, a sort-of film noir with Merry Anders and other character actors from the '50s-'60s. It only ran an hour and 11 minutes, but it could have been cut by that 11. At several points the actors repeat information we've already been told, and there are a couple of scenes that are very slow. But it was entertaining in its way -- sort of James M. Cain lite.

Who remembers Merry Anders?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 07, 2022 03:09 AM (c6xtn)

561 Anybody else drawing a parallel to the summer of 1914 with all the stupid geopolitical moves and declarations being made?
Posted by: Count de Monet
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Churchill's 'The Gathering Storm' redux. Sadly, tragically, Prog/Left/Lib/Dems only read Howard Zinn for History.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2022 03:10 AM (pK7cg)

562 Glad Chekov is up and about.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 03:11 AM (ou23q)

563 Hang in there, Wolfus. One day you'll escape the Gulf Coast steambath.

Sending a rubby to Chekov...

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2022 03:11 AM (dpnJh)

564 I've got to renew one of his prescriptions, but I think the pharmacy can deliver it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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What is it?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2022 03:12 AM (pK7cg)

565 New Cat is telling me it's time for bed. He stomps the keyboard then lays down on it. Had a heckuva time with the last post, LOL

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2022 03:14 AM (dpnJh)

566 I've got to renew one of his prescriptions, but I think the pharmacy can deliver it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
------
What is it?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2022


***
Prednisolone, the oral anti-inflammatory. They've already refilled his Rx for gabapentin and delivered the packet of syringes to my work twice, so I suspect I can have the vet call them. Chekov of course hates the stuff and the administration of it, so I wish I knew if it's doing any good.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 07, 2022 03:15 AM (c6xtn)

567 ***
Prednisolone, the oral anti-inflammatory. They've already refilled his Rx for gabapentin and delivered the packet of syringes to my work twice, so I suspect I can have the vet call them. Chekov of course hates the stuff and the administration of it, so I wish I knew if it's doing any good.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
--------

Ah, yes. At one point, both Sophie the dog and I were both taking it.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2022 03:18 AM (L47aO)

568 Wireless keyboard ftw!

Cat is happily snoozing where keyboard used to be.

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2022 03:21 AM (dpnJh)

569 lol, JQ.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 03:21 AM (ou23q)

570 We have apposable thumbs for a reason. To feed the pets.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 03:22 AM (ou23q)

571 Chekov the Ailing Codger Cat continues to eat, but not to be any more active. I've got to renew one of his prescriptions, but I think the pharmacy can deliver it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 07, 2022 03:06 AM (c6xtn)

New Cat is telling me it's time for bed. He stomps the keyboard then lays down on it. Had a heckuva time with the last post, LOL
Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2022 03:14 AM (dpnJh)

I appreciate reading the beloved pet updates. Am not a pet person though I like the character and personalities of your pets you all share on here.

Posted by: Count de Monet at March 07, 2022 03:24 AM (4I/2K)

572
Re Russia paying debt in rubles. The sanctions and financial "canceling" of Russia are what caused this. They can't make the coupon in dollars on their dollar denominated bonds because of this. The Western govts. are forcing Russia to go into default. On purpose.

So Putin just says we'll make the coupon in rubles.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 07, 2022 03:26 AM (Mzdiz)

573 In Neal Stephenson's Anathem, there are a group of monks, cloistered for the most part, dedicated to the proposition that no matter how much the outside world changes, they carry on The Truth of logic and reason.

Each monk picks both a vocation (job) and avocation (hobby). The hobby usually requires the most physical efforts.

Sounds like Berserker's world.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 07, 2022 03:27 AM (F0YaR)

574 I appreciate reading the beloved pet updates. Am not a pet person though I like the character and personalities of your pets you all share on here.
Posted by: Count de Monet at March 07, 2022


***
Personalities they are. If there'd been an AoSHQ in 2004 (maybe there was, but I didn't know about it), I'd have had cat stories about Marie-Antoinette the Black Queen, Oreo the placid part-Persian, and Angelique the Psycho Siberian.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 07, 2022 03:29 AM (c6xtn)

575 In Neal Stephenson's Anathem, there are a group of monks, cloistered for the most part, dedicated to the proposition that no matter how much the outside world changes, they carry on The Truth of logic and reason.
----------

Faint whiff of Theosophy there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2022 03:30 AM (bk3Sg)

576
Re gas prices. Miley and I went to town this evening. Two gas stations, close together. One had jacked prices up to $3.99, the other was still at $3.69. Others on the way were at $3.79.

I think local prices are going to go over $4 this week.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 07, 2022 03:35 AM (Mzdiz)

577 New Cat appeared in the 'hood a couple years ago, was skittish for a long time. He started looking rough and unkempt early last year, so I began feeding him. I think he was dumped out here, like so many others.

Took another one to the shelter last month. Would've adopted him too, but New Cat kept bullying him so I gave up.

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2022 03:37 AM (dpnJh)

578 Publius - Have you had any contact with Miklos lately? He's AWOL.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2022 03:37 AM (bPH26)

579 I think local prices are going to go over $4 this week.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion

Things are never going back to normal.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 03:38 AM (ou23q)

580 >> Have you had any contact with Miklos lately? He's AWOL.

No. Miley sent him an email last night. Nothing.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 07, 2022 03:39 AM (Mzdiz)

581 Gabapentin's n is one of those drugs they all prescribe. I think they say it is in the top five most prescribed drugs.

It is odd because it is used for so many maladies. Doctors argue over whether it is effective. But then again, trusting a doctor on this is like trusting a doctor on dieting advice.

In my experience, get an independent doc you gel with. The best ones always leave for boutique services, so that sucks. The rest look at you as just another rando. They give the generic advice to cover their ass.





Posted by: Quint at March 07, 2022 03:40 AM (xfZfx)

582 Re gas prices. Miley and I went to town this evening. Two gas stations, close together. One had jacked prices up to $3.99, the other was still at $3.69. Others on the way were at $3.79.

I think local prices are going to go over $4 this week.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 07, 2022 03:35 AM (Mzdiz)


Maybe. There's a saying amongst commodity traders; the trend is your friend. The trend is most definitely UP. Betting against the trend is a high risk bet.

But sooner or later, people's behavior on usage WILL change, and there will be a crash. Supply and demand, biches.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 07, 2022 03:41 AM (F0YaR)

583 No. Miley sent him an email last night. Nothing.
Posted by: publius
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Worrisome.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2022 03:41 AM (bPH26)

584 Re gas prices. Miley and I went to town this evening. Two gas stations, close together. One had jacked prices up to $3.99, the other was still at $3.69. Others on the way were at $3.79.

I think local prices are going to go over $4 this week.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 07, 2022


***
Exxons around here jumped .30 on Saturday -- $3.59 to $3.89. I'd gassed up early that morning at a station that was at $3.69, but my Exxon card gives me .10 off. However, I chose to go with the E0 at $3.74. Only .15 more, about 4-5%, but I tend to see about 10% better gas mileage with it.

When E0 is more than 10-12% than E10, I guess I'll stop using it. Though there is an independent service station that offers E0 right now at $3.64. It's hard for me to get to it, but the gas mileage is worth it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at March 07, 2022 03:45 AM (c6xtn)

585
I was just reading GasBuddy's gas price projections. They have a high and low range. Their high range has $4.60ish by August for the national average. The low stays below $4.00 the whole time.

Me, I think I'm gonna take the high side of that, even higher.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 07, 2022 03:47 AM (Mzdiz)

586 are you people up late or up early

Posted by: DB at March 07, 2022 03:50 AM (geLO8)

587 586 yes

Posted by: Quint at March 07, 2022 03:51 AM (xfZfx)

588 Haven't heard a peep from my commie libtarded sister for a month. Wonder what propaganda she'll be parroting next?

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2022 03:51 AM (dpnJh)

589 Faint whiff of Theosophy there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 07, 2022 03:30 AM (bk3Sg)


Interesting. Central tenets are reincarnation and karma, per wiki. It's a new subject to me.

I dunno. I might compare these cloisters to the world seed bank, a repository of the DNA of vanishing strains of plants. I like that better.

A kickstarter to a New World. ymmv.

Posted by: GnuBreed at March 07, 2022 03:52 AM (F0YaR)

590 late. Been horribly sick and it's started snowing again.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 03:52 AM (ou23q)

591
Speaking of nuclear war, BCA research puts the probability of a nuclear exchange now at 10% for the next 12 months.

Here's some Doomsday wisdom. If the market tanks on rumors and belief that the nukes will start flying, buy, buy, buy!

If the nukes do fly, it won't matter if you're wiped out. If they don't, you'll win the bet.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Rapscallion (Mzdiz) at March 07, 2022 03:54 AM (Mzdiz)

592 snow here too- maybe 6" since Saturday night
16F right now

Posted by: DB at March 07, 2022 03:55 AM (geLO8)

593 DB at March 07, 2022 03:50 AM

Late. Very late.
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Infidel, hope you feel better soon!

Posted by: JQ at March 07, 2022 03:56 AM (dpnJh)

594 I think, it's supposed to be warm again today

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2022 04:01 AM (2JoB8)

595 602, your nick always reminds me of the movie Gotti with Armand Assante. It is funny how a few initials sound cool as a name and others don't work at all .

Posted by: Quint at March 07, 2022 04:02 AM (xfZfx)

596 Pixy nood

Posted by: Skip at March 07, 2022 04:03 AM (2JoB8)

597 Pixy up.

Posted by: Infidel at March 07, 2022 04:03 AM (ou23q)

598 264

You had lumps of coal?
Luxury.

When I was a boy, we had to run into still burning buildings for the charcoal on the ground. And that is if we were lucky!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at March 07, 2022 11:11 PM (roH4R)

599 Hi there mates, good article and nice arguments commented at this place, I am in fact enjoying by
these.

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