Adam Andrzejewski of OpenTheBooks: I Wrote About Anthony Fauci's Finances for Forbes. The NIH Then Began Pressuring Forbes for "Corrections" For Things That Were Already Correct.<br>And Then, Surprise Surprise, Forbes Fired Me.

Adam Andrzejewski of OpenTheBooks: I Wrote About Anthony Fauci's Finances for Forbes. The NIH Then Began Pressuring Forbes for "Corrections" For Things That Were Already Correct.
And Then, Surprise Surprise, Forbes Fired Me.

Oh, and take note, National Review-- the government is totally not already telling media companies what they can and cannot write about.

The controversy surrounding Dr. Fauci's finances reached a fever pitch in January of this year, and my column at Forbes was right in the middle of it.
In the Senate hearing on January 11, 2022, U.S. Senator Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), cited my Forbes article in his questioning of Dr. Fauci's salary and his financial disclosures. First, Fauci claimed his financials were "public knowledge," then, the hot mic caught the doctor calling the senator a "moron."
It was Fauci's code red moment and one of the top national news stories of the day.
As reported by The Washington Post, when Fauci went back to NIH, he admitted, "Maybe the senator has a point. Maybe my financial investments, though disclosed and available, should be much easier to see."
In fact, Fauci's financials were not available and I had firsthand knowledge.
Immediately, I published the evidence behind the lack of transparency at Forbes on January 12: No Fauci's Records Aren't Available. Why Won't NIH Immediately Release Them?
During an entire year, NIH had refused to produce Fauci's job contract, job description, non-disclosure agreement, conflict of interest, financial disclosures, ethics agreements, and royalties subject to our OpenTheBooks FOIA request. In October 2021, we sued NIH with Judicial Watch and we still hadn't received the 1,200 pages promised by the agency.
PolitiFact fact-checked Sen. Marshall and Dr. Fauci on their statements during the hearing, Fauci said all you have to do is ask for his financial disclosure. Yes, but it could take a while. PolitiFact cited my Forbes column as "Primary Source Material" for their Truth-O-Meter analysis.
In one of the top national news stories of the week, the fact checkers used my original reporting to hold both sides accountable in the heated U.S. Senate hearing.

Andrzejewski did the work that literally no other reporter saw fit to do and FOIA'd the government for details of Fauci's financial compensation.

Working through the night, I dug through the 178 pages of disclosure and published the breaking investigation at Forbes on Saturday, January 15 at 3:03 pm ET, Disclosures Show Dr. Fauci's Household Made $1.7 Million In 2020, Including Income, Royalties, Travel Perks And Investment Gains.
Our findings included:
Net worth: The Fauci household net worth exceeded $10.4 million.
Earnings and gains: Salaries, benefits, royalties, investment gains in the Fauci household exceeded $1.7 million in 2020.
Fauci's wife: Christine Grady, the chief bioethicist at NIH made $234,284 in 2020.
Royalties: Fauci made between $100,000 and $1 million as an editor and board member of McGraw-Hill.
Awards: In 2021, Fauci was awarded a $1 million prize for "speaking truth to power" from the Dan David Foundation in Israel.
These were newsy findings.

Indeed. Forbes should be excited about the scoop, you'd think.

But no.

Then at 4:22pm ET, I received an email from Caroline Howard, the executive editor at Forbes -- a person who I had never spoken to or met during my nearly eight years as a contributor:

His "error"? He had written a single number wrong in the title of the article but had written in it correctly in the body of the article. This number was changed to the accurate number when the article still only had 305 viewers.

See the article for NIH's article complaining about an "error" that was actually not an error. (They apparently didn't know about the brief mistake in the number in the title, so they found some trivial matter to demand a correction over.)

There needs to be a reckoning, in government and in the media.

Jay Bhattacharya
@DrJBhattacharya

This story is something else. An accomplished journalist at Forbes found out about Dr. Fauci's financial holdings and earnings through FOIA requests. The NIH retaliated by successfully pressuring his editors to fire him. Since when did the NIH start acting like the mob?

Exit thought: People used to go into government to get rich in ancient Rome, too.

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1 Oh grayt!

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 12:18 PM (vrz2I)

2 erste?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 10, 2022 12:18 PM (YFAIE)

3 No surprise

Posted by: CN at March 10, 2022 12:19 PM (ONvIw)

4 Dark mode!

Posted by: Dogbert at March 10, 2022 12:19 PM (Z9HSN)

5 Feeling Gray

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 10, 2022 12:19 PM (V6f9+)

6 Boxy. Grey. I like it.

Posted by: Zombie Ben Franklin at March 10, 2022 12:20 PM (lhr6a)

7 We are gray...we stand between the candle and the star....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 10, 2022 12:20 PM (YIVH2)

8 Every day there are new revelations about the corrupt mixture of the federal government and the private sector.

And it's almost all on the left.

Just...fascinating.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 12:20 PM (LvTSG)

9 Typing. Deleting. It's a way of life.

Posted by: Brother Tim, #teamheadsonpikes at March 10, 2022 12:21 PM (OUMaO)

10 Hopefully Fauci is cowering in a Ukrainian biolab right now

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 10, 2022 12:21 PM (lCui1)

11 Fraudci was feared for his life. If you want to write about his finances, you want to kill him--or date him.

Gray.

Posted by: Axeman at March 10, 2022 12:21 PM (S5d3L)

12 Old Grey Dog is a very sad song

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 10, 2022 12:21 PM (V6f9+)

13 Fauci strikes me as a dick-I mean a genuinely unlikable man who shouldn't have any friends anywhere, let alone high places. Yet he carries on.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 12:22 PM (eGTCV)

14 Anyway, yeah, gangster government is right.

Francis E. Dec we hardly knew ye

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 10, 2022 12:22 PM (V6f9+)

15 >>And it's almost all on the left.

The scary part is that the NPCs on the Left don't NEED instructions.
They just fall into line and reliably do what they have been programmed to do.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:22 PM (lhr6a)

16 nice! Is it Graceful Gray or Dust Bunny?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 10, 2022 12:22 PM (XlDSe)

17 foolishness on parade

Posted by: ace at March 10, 2022 12:22 PM (0G13K)

18
10 Hopefully Fauci is cowering in a Ukrainian biolab right now

Probably vacationing in Florida or Italy.

Posted by: CN at March 10, 2022 12:22 PM (ONvIw)

19 Remember how Forbes took down Stephen Glass and The New Republic? Now Forbes is firing reporters and stifling stories. How far they've fallen.

Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 12:22 PM (qpX6U)

20 Wish this was surprising, but it's not.
Not the Fauci money schemes, not the hiding of said schemes, not the reporter getting fired for finding and sharing it.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 10, 2022 12:22 PM (MmndN)

21 Fauci would fit right in with Unit 731.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 12:22 PM (ZjMb1)

22 And back to Light Mode!

Posted by: Dogbert at March 10, 2022 12:22 PM (Z9HSN)

23 Fauci would look mighty fine in a burning cabin.

Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at March 10, 2022 12:22 PM (wAnMi)

24 I like the look. Mid-gray + silver + the red of sig links.

Posted by: Axeman at March 10, 2022 12:22 PM (S5d3L)

25 Cancel culture at work

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 10, 2022 12:23 PM (cfvXw)

26 Politifact's 'truth o meter'....oh lord...what a clown world

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 10, 2022 12:23 PM (V6f9+)

27 "At some point, you've made enough money."....Some presidentin' guy.

Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 12:23 PM (AwYPR)

28 The scary part is that the NPCs on the Left don't NEED instructions.
They just fall into line and reliably do what they have been programmed to do.
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That is a rather fascinating aspect of human experience. A large percentage of human beings simply appear to have to real will of their own. They just do what "society" tells them to do, regardless of how they might actually feel on the matter.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 10, 2022 12:23 PM (YIVH2)

29 Fauci needs to be used as a test subject to include letting sand fleas eat his face off.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 12:24 PM (ZjMb1)

30 "He's only with $10 million? Amateur!"

-- Hillary Clinton
-- Crackhead Biden
-- Barack Obama

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 10, 2022 12:24 PM (iFTx/)

31 Fauci's reported compensation and wealth are about inline with what I expected. Not a big surprise.

Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 12:24 PM (qpX6U)

32
Funny how Fauci has all but disappeared since just before that SOTU performance.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 10, 2022 12:24 PM (s2VJv)

33 I'll go ahead and say it. I look foolish now. I could have used my First to make an intelligent statement on the content but no I had to go and make a snarky remark about the formatting. I denounce myself and will now go spank me 50 times.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (vrz2I)

34 >>That is a rather fascinating aspect of human experience. A large percentage of human beings simply appear to have to real will of their own. They just do what "society" tells them to do, regardless of how they might actually feel on the matter.

We should never come down from the trees.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (lhr6a)

35 Where is that little gnome? It's been weeks since I've been annoyed by his pinch-faced scolding scowl and smirk.

Posted by: LASue at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (Ed8Zd)

36 Don't talk about My Sweet Tony like this!!!

Posted by: AllahPundit at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (0G13K)

37 "I see this is your third article on Fauci in 3 weeks. Huh."

WOW! So much bitchiness packed into so few words. It's inexplicable someone would write three! articles on someone who was on network news shows nightly for a couple of years and who was directing one of the most expansive government efforts in decades.

THREE! articles IN A WEEK!

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (VCz/u)

38 These people are heavily invested in grafty places and work for people with even more. They'll fight to the death to avoid exposure or losses. I find it fascination to watch Western oligarchs blithely expropriating Russian oligarchs. Rule of law totally replaced with survival of the shrewdest

Posted by: CN at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (ONvIw)

39 Wait, something jumped out at me... Fauci's WIFE is the Chief Bioethicist at NIH???

So, the person checking Fauci's ethics, is LITERALLY in BED WITH HIM and sharing Bank Accounts?

How is that NOT A BLATANT CONFLICT OF INTEREST?

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (oHd/0)

40 Isn't this a dangerous attack on journalists and democracy?

Posted by: I'm literally shaking at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (0sMnO)

41 Fauci trued to scare the straights with the fear of heterosexual AIDS.

Nothing has changed. He is evil.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (ZjMb1)

42 >>Since when did the NIH start acting like the mob?

Did this guy not see that FOIA's emails between Fauci and Collins scheming to kill stories in the press? Did he not see the FOIA'd communications between Fauci and others in January to suppress stories about covid 19?

They've been acting like the mob for some time now.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 10, 2022 12:26 PM (MmndN)

43 Forbes used to be serious - but they went full woke years ago, and now they're just another Deep State propaganda rag.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 12:26 PM (trdmm)

44 Funny how Fauci has all but disappeared since just before that SOTU performance.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at March 10, 2022 12:24 PM (s2VJv)

Funny how Fauci disappeared RIGHT AFTER people started suing to see his financial documents...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 12:26 PM (oHd/0)

45 You people will consume the information we give you and like it.

Posted by: WEF at March 10, 2022 12:26 PM (a3Q+t)

46 This has been known for quite a while, nobody cares as they cheer on "power couples". Now do Rod Rosenstein and Lisa Barsoomian. It's rampant

Posted by: CN at March 10, 2022 12:26 PM (ONvIw)

47 Give Fauci an N-95 mask.

Which has been soaked for a week in a vat of concentrated C-19 Delta virus.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2022 12:27 PM (QzJWU)

48 37 "I see this is your third article on Fauci in 3 weeks. Huh."

WOW! So much bitchiness packed into so few words. It's inexplicable someone would write three! articles on someone who was on network news shows nightly for a couple of years and who was directing one of the most expansive government efforts in decades.

THREE! articles IN A WEEK!
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (VCz/u)

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Three articles in three weeks while the guy was on national television every day.

Weird how he would be a subject for a national magazine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 12:27 PM (LvTSG)

49 Pretty sure this is how the entire Grant Process works, too. The NIH is just another Federal Slush Fund.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:27 PM (lhr6a)

50 Most of us realized quite a while ago that everything presented as news was a lie. The goal is to ensure everyone you know understands this.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 12:27 PM (5kI0z)

51 NIH went bad in the 1970s. Saw it on the Grant requests approved.

My brother dated and lived with the #4 top doctor at a NIH Institute. She had things to say.

The one I remember is never date a plastic surgeon.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 12:27 PM (u82oZ)

52 "So, the person checking Fauci's ethics, is LITERALLY in BED WITH HIM and sharing Bank Accounts?"

Chief Bioethicist is probably a sinecure. Whenever that department issues a memo, the rest of NIH rolls their eyes and round-files it.

Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 12:27 PM (qpX6U)

53 We should never come down from the trees.
Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (lhr6a)

The Republic was an aberration, a blip in history. We'll be back to monarchies and such soon enough.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 10, 2022 12:27 PM (V6f9+)

54 Does Rich Lowery have an erection while watching his wife do butt stuff with the plumber (Y/N)?

Posted by: Capital Eff at March 10, 2022 12:27 PM (GYllL)

55 Fauci's government salary is/was available. That's by law. It wasn't hidden. His investments were hidden. Typically that's nobody's business, but this situation was anything but typical.

Depending on your position within the Fed you may have to disclose your investments and possibly divest yourself of some if there is a perceived conflict of interest. Obviously this was the case here and nobody did a thing to correct it.

Been there. Done that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2022 12:27 PM (BFigT)

56 How is that NOT A BLATANT CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (oHd/0)

Pointing that out is RAYCISS!!!

asking why that question is RAYCISS is even MOAR RAYCISS!!!

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 12:28 PM (trdmm)

57 Dust that N95 mask with anthrax

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 12:28 PM (ZjMb1)

58 Since when did the NIH start acting like the mob?
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At least March 2020. Probably before.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 10, 2022 12:28 PM (tyE4Z)

59 >>"I see this is your third article on Fauci in 3 weeks. Huh."

Translation: "I see this is your third article critical of Fauci in 3 weeks. Huh."

Bet there's no limit to the "Fauci is my new Science God, you guyz" articles. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 10, 2022 12:28 PM (MmndN)

60 45 You people will consume the information we give you and like it.
Posted by: WEF at March 10, 2022 12:26 PM (a3Q+t)

I'm loving the latest spin articles saying that Russian's are not getting REAL information from Ukraine...

When its OUR 'side' who has cut off internet access... in BOTH directions.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 12:28 PM (oHd/0)

61 Fuck Fauci.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 10, 2022 12:28 PM (sDz6A)

62 There is no government institution that is not against us. Just scratch their surface a little bit by being openly critical of them and see the response.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 12:28 PM (Vr12I)

63 Isn't this a dangerous attack on journalists and democracy?

Posted by: I'm literally shaking at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (0sMnO)

"Democracy dies in darkness"....still valid?

Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 12:28 PM (AwYPR)

64 The Forbes editor claiming they don't do advocacy journalism. I'm surprised she didn't burst out in flames from the blatancy of that lie.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 12:28 PM (L9uv7)

65 I denounce myself and will now go spank me 50 times.
Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM

The shades of grey got to you, eh?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 10, 2022 12:28 PM (a3Q+t)

66 Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 12:22 PM (eGTCV)

My father knew him casually. He said he was smart, but very, very political. And this was 30+ years ago.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 10, 2022 12:28 PM (SX9Cn)

67 I really feel sorry for these people losing jobs, cut off from financial services and families breaking up over political difference,

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 10, 2022 12:29 PM (cfvXw)

68 55 Fauci's government salary is/was available. That's by law. It wasn't hidden. His investments were hidden. Typically that's nobody's business, but this situation was anything but typical.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2022 12:27 PM (BFigT)

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I disagree. Investments of public employees should all be the people's business. There should be no delay on reporting. It should be instantaneously available to the people. From President to dog sweeper, if we're going to allow them to make personal investments while having a hand in managing tax payer funds, the people have every right to know it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 12:29 PM (LvTSG)

69 >We should never come down from the trees.
Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (lhr6a)

Agriculture was a mistake.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 12:29 PM (L9uv7)

70 56 How is that NOT A BLATANT CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (oHd/0)

Pointing that out is RAYCISS!!!

asking why that question is RAYCISS is even MOAR RAYCISS!!!
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 12:28 PM (trdmm)

Well, ya know... said it before... I AM RACIST!

I think the Human Race in total is pretty damn stupid, and I prejudge them by thinking they will act that way.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 12:29 PM (oHd/0)

71 Forbes could have left the article intact since their dogshit software makes it borderline unpossible to find anything.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at March 10, 2022 12:29 PM (y7DUB)

72 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 12:29 PM (Zz0t1)

73 Funny how Fauci disappeared RIGHT AFTER people started suing to see his financial documents...
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 12:26 PM (oHd/0)

Check the Marianas Trench.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 12:30 PM (eGTCV)

74 Fauci + Tire Iron = Orgasmic Bliss

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 12:30 PM (Zz0t1)

75 69 >We should never come down from the trees.
Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (lhr6a)

Agriculture was a mistake.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 12:29 PM (L9uv7)

Sorry, but Beer is proof God loves us.

Posted by: B. Franklin at March 10, 2022 12:30 PM (oHd/0)

76 I saw, a while ago that Twitter was people programming themselves. But now with an active selecting role, Twitter is allowing people to opt in to the left programming them.

You can't get the endorphin hit when Twitter deletes your tweet for wrongthink. So, it will skew the fast and furious response toward "approved" expressions.

And since it comes from a lefty perspective, the self-programming that was going on in social media has now turned into the self-programming of lefty ideas.

Posted by: Axeman at March 10, 2022 12:30 PM (S5d3L)

77 51 NIH went bad in the 1970s. Saw it on the Grant requests approved.

My brother dated and lived with the #4 top doctor at a NIH Institute. She had things to say.

The one I remember is never date a plastic surgeon.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 12:27 PM (u82oZ)

I'm always amazed at people here who have known, or had contact with some of these high ranking people. The only "famous" people that I or anyone in my family ever had any contact with all ended up in the state pen.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 12:30 PM (trdmm)

78 WOW! So much bitchiness packed into so few words. It's inexplicable someone would write three! articles on someone who was on network news shows nightly for a couple of years and who was directing one of the most expansive government efforts in decades.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (VCz/u)

He's a contributor and not an employee it sounds like? Obviously Forbes can just not accept his articles. Do they not have editors at Forbes who double-check the facts?

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at March 10, 2022 12:30 PM (EpDzw)

79 This is only the tip of the iceberg. This is only his PERSONAL wealth and holdings. He surely has millions more held in various grant programs and vehicles. That's how these cocksuckers make money. It's the same way the corrupt professors and charities do. They control tens of millions if not billions of dollars in grant and donation money. They dole it out to companies and causes owned or controlled by friends or family members, or for kickbacks. Why do you think we were ever funding this insanely reckless gain-of-function "research" anyway? It wasn't for any legitimate research purpose. It was to line people's pockets.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 10, 2022 12:30 PM (iFTx/)

80 Bet there's no limit to the "Fauci is my new Science God, you guyz" articles. . .
Posted by: Lizzy

I wonder what an author's weekly limit on Trump editorializing is.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 10, 2022 12:31 PM (OssQ4)

81 Been there. Done that.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2022 12:27 PM (BFigT)

And these fvcking cocksuckers go after bankers and analysts for accepting a few drinks and dinner.

The double standard is breathtakingly obvious.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 10, 2022 12:31 PM (SX9Cn)

82 73 Funny how Fauci disappeared RIGHT AFTER people started suing to see his financial documents...
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 12:26 PM (oHd/0)

Check the Marianas Trench.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 12:30 PM (eGTCV)

Nah, we are close to getting to the bottom of that trench....

They are stored with Hillaries emails. and the name of the whistleblower who dumped on Trump.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 12:31 PM (oHd/0)

83 Policy shaped and enforced by Fauci, along with the Gain of Function research, has killed 5 million people worldwide. First the AIDS patients, then the COVID-19 Wuhan infections.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 12:31 PM (u82oZ)

84 "Agriculture was a mistake."

Conquest of fire has had its pros and cons.

Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM (qpX6U)

85 >>I'm always amazed at people here who have known, or had contact with some of these high ranking people. The only "famous" people that I or anyone in my family ever had any contact with all ended up in the state pen.

I went on a date with Chuck Colson's daughter.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM (ZLI7S)

86 This is confirmation that National Review gets money from the feds-- watch as they WON'T write a word about this

They know who butters their bread

Posted by: Well at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM (Ih9I9)

87 The russian mafia only wishes they could be like the US govt.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM (6lMp2)

88 The only thing I know about economics us 10% for the Big Guy.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM (H7tlx)

89 Culturally, the LDS are miles ahead of inner city dynamics.

But I struggle with Romney and others. Hard to square the circle.

Honestly, it pains me a great deal. The very best people in my life are members and leaders of the Church. It's not even close. People like Harry Reid obviously exist, but I've never met anyone as crooked or nasty in the Church.

Romney confuses the hell out of me. I don't know if it's pique at Trump, or hubris at his worldly successes, or just a general misapplication of first principles, but I just don't understand how a seemingly devout member has such a squishy position on things that should be crystal clear; abortion for example.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM (VCz/u)

90 84 "Agriculture was a mistake."

Conquest of fire has had its pros and cons.
Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM (qpX6U)

==========

*considers mentioning Prometheus*

*thinks better of mentioning Prometheus and does not mention Prometheus*

*does own part to keep thread Prometheus free*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM (LvTSG)

91 Fauci's government salary is/was available. That's by law. It wasn't hidden. His investments were hidden. Typically that's nobody's business, but this situation was anything but typical.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2022 12:27 PM (BFigT)

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If you can have as big an effect on the market as Tony Fraudci had...No, for the public trust, we need to know your investments.

Posted by: Axeman at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM (S5d3L)

92 13 Fauci strikes me as a dick-I mean a genuinely unlikable man who shouldn't have any friends anywhere, let alone high places. Yet he carries on.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 12:22 PM (eGTCV)

Lots of those types in government and academia.

Posted by: Thrawn at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM (Rl7KJ)

93 From President to dog sweeper, if we're going to allow them to make personal investments while having a hand in managing tax payer funds, the people have every right to know it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 12:29 PM (LvTSG)

Exactly. And with today's technology, you should not have to FOIA to get it.

Posted by: WiNO - The Odds Are Never in Our Favor at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM (EpDzw)

94 Has anyone checked the Chicago bath houses for Fauci?

When was Ft Marcy Park last searched?

Did he decide to take skydiving lessons?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 12:33 PM (ZjMb1)

95 This entire 'Pandemic' could have been thwarted by OTC medications that could be had for mere dollars per person.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:33 PM (lhr6a)

96 My girlfriend in Italy (she was American) was the daughter of a federal judge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 12:33 PM (LvTSG)

97 "Agriculture was a mistake."

Conquest of fire has had its pros and cons.
Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM (qpX6U)
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But making friends with dogs had an upside.

Posted by: Axeman at March 10, 2022 12:33 PM (S5d3L)

98 From late last thread, but it bears repeating:

LDS resource for buying bulk storage food online and for finding their bulk food storage stores near you:

https://bit.ly/3t9tyjL

You don't have to be LDS to buy from them.

Stock up fellow Morons, things are getting sporty.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:33 PM (VCz/u)

99 I'm always amazed at people here who have known, or had contact with some of these high ranking people. The only "famous" people that I or anyone in my family ever had any contact with all ended up in the state pen.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Same. I knew a gal who went to High School with Sinbad. The 90s comedian. That's all I got.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 10, 2022 12:34 PM (OssQ4)

100 Forbes is about big business. And big business is about freedom and capitalism and stuff.
- 1994

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 12:34 PM (OalnH)

101 The videos dropped by Veritas yesterday and this morning really paint the picture of what is going on inside these "journalistic" organizations.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at March 10, 2022 12:34 PM (QYPq3)

102 Conquest of fire has had its pros and cons.
Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM

Something mentioned by reference here often.

Posted by: Prometheus at March 10, 2022 12:34 PM (a3Q+t)

103 In case it hasn't been said, there will be no reckoning.

Posted by: 496 at March 10, 2022 12:34 PM (U1eOr)

104 Tom Servo

Many of us here are high achievers, and more importantly, keep our eyes, ears and minds open. We can get intel and analyze like no other blog.

We are a high signal / noise smart military blog.

And then there is me.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 12:34 PM (u82oZ)

105 Author forgot to include Fauci's cut of the US foreign aid money sent to Wuhan and Ukraine and Kazakhstan for the bioweapons research.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 12:34 PM (5kI0z)

106 Is Fauci a public servant? Is Fauci paid by the people?

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 12:34 PM (Vr12I)

107 I'm loving the latest spin articles saying that Russian's are not getting REAL information from Ukraine...

When its OUR 'side' who has cut off internet access... in BOTH directions.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 10, 2022 12:28 PM (oHd/0)

Pretty much every story in the western media gets debunked within minutes. It's that kind of in-depth coverage that the Russians are missing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 10, 2022 12:34 PM (U7wke)

108 >> NIH went bad in the 1970s. Saw it on the Grant requests approved.

When we lived in N. VA we had a neighbor who was one of the people deciding who got NIH grants. Nice enough, but she liked to tell stories about her time at Harvard, hanging out with her fellow student radicals making mischief -- "The police who caught me never suspected a good little Irish Catholic like me, so they'd let me go, teehee!" Very progressive, and her kid worked for Soros' Aspen Institute. Can only imagine how she selected who received NIH grant money. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 10, 2022 12:34 PM (MmndN)

109 They know who butters their bread
Posted by: Well at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM (Ih9I9)
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And who holds the lube.

Posted by: Axeman at March 10, 2022 12:34 PM (S5d3L)

110 49 Pretty sure this is how the entire Grant Process works, too. The NIH is just another Federal Slush Fund.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:27 PM (lhr6a)

This is how federal grants have been since the tobacco onslaught.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at March 10, 2022 12:34 PM (Fs5vw)

111 I'm always amazed at people here who have known, or had contact with some of these high ranking people. The only "famous" people that I or anyone in my family ever had any contact with all ended up in the state pen.
Posted by: Tom Servo

___

I've known some pretty famous people. Not BFFs or anything, but a couple of them would probably take my call today. Every famous person started out as just some regular dude/dudette that had normal people as friends.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 12:35 PM (OalnH)

112 Agriculture was a mistake.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it!�

It made rednecks.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 10, 2022 12:35 PM (H7tlx)

113 Awards: In 2021, Fauci was awarded a $1 million prize for "speaking truth to power" from the Dan David Foundation in Israel.

--

Seems the Forbes reporter did just that. And he got fired for it for speaking truth to Fauci's power. Huh, imagine that.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 12:35 PM (sVtYq)

114 I just saw Dr. Frankenfauci's mug on a milk carton.

From Hero to Zero in 60 nanoseconds ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 12:36 PM (eI7hV)

115 The guys who developed the board game Trivial Pursuit where in university at the same time that I was.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 12:36 PM (eGTCV)

116 see this is your third article on Fauci in 3 weeks. Huh.

She wrote the "Huh". What a bitch.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 10, 2022 12:36 PM (qnVBz)

117 People used to go into government to get rich in ancient Rome, too.
........

Nowadays, it's garden gnomes.

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 12:36 PM (v0R5T)

118 That girlfriend also went to college with Jamie Lee Curtis' daughter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 12:36 PM (LvTSG)

119 We have lots of Amish and Mennonites around here to buy from.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 12:36 PM (Vr12I)

120 Conquest of fire has had its pros and cons.

Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM
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As the racist Gobineau observed.

Posted by: Axeman at March 10, 2022 12:36 PM (S5d3L)

121 Russell Brand hits another home run- this one about the shady and not so simple backdrop to the current Ukraine situation.
https://tinyurl.com/5h66b268

Posted by: LASue at March 10, 2022 12:36 PM (Ed8Zd)

122 Posted earlier that I'd found a new search engine I'm trying

https://www.gigablast.com/

Fair warning: It says "F*ck all dictators" on the main page.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 12:36 PM (cUuEU)

123 Why was the NIH so ruthless and brazen in pressuring Forbes to fire Andrzejewski? Hint: it wasn't just about Dr. Tiny Worm. He is just the tip of the iceberg at NIH in pocketing corrupt money and trying to hide it. They are ALL on the take. NIH needed to nip this story in the bud so as to protect not only Fauci's grift and corruption, but everyone else's at NIH as well.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 10, 2022 12:36 PM (iFTx/)

124 67 I really feel sorry for these people losing jobs, cut off from financial services and families breaking up over political difference,
Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 10, 2022 12:29 PM (cfvXw)

I feel sorry for the job loss and financial services losses. Those are politically motivated strangers. If your family dumps you over politics, it's the relationship you made and built. My husband lost his best friend of over 60 years due to Obamamania. He new the guy was a big lib but they kept the conversations limited to other things. Then Obama said "get in their faces", and it was over. We're long over the "loss" and think it was for the best. We had family who refused to attend kid2's wedding because of politics, but there was never much of a relationship outside of weddings, funerals, and bar mitzvahs. Oddly they sent us an invitation to a big bar mitzvah not long after. We sent a card, no check, just as they did. Good riddance

Posted by: CN at March 10, 2022 12:36 PM (ONvIw)

125 Is Fauci a public servant? Is Fauci paid by the people?
Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 12:34 PM (Vr12I)

He's the highest paid government employee at over $400,000.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 12:36 PM (Zz0t1)

126 kraken

Fauci is the highest paid Government official in the US government.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 12:37 PM (u82oZ)

127 >>This entire 'Pandemic' could have been thwarted by OTC medications that could be had for mere dollars per person.

And this would have served our Great Reset plans how?!

Posted by: WEF at March 10, 2022 12:37 PM (MmndN)

128 >> I'm always amazed at people here who have known, or had contact with some of these high ranking people. The only "famous" people that I or anyone in my family ever had any contact with all ended up in the state pen.

Depends a lot on your vocation. I know more famous assholes than I can count.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:37 PM (lhr6a)

129 Seems like Sergei Lavrov and Jussie Smollett have been sharing notes about howto talk to the press.

Deny. Deny. Deny.

No way man. We didn't attack nobody!

Posted by: Pussy Galore at March 10, 2022 12:37 PM (aoFfE)

130 Conquest of fire has had its pros and cons.
Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM
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Obama spoke, as the "Most powerful man in the world" about "Speaking Truth to Power".

It's always enlightening to discover which word a lefty means less.

Posted by: Axeman at March 10, 2022 12:37 PM (S5d3L)

131 Conquest of fire has had its pros and cons.
Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension�

In Quest For Fire they invented the missionary position.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 10, 2022 12:38 PM (H7tlx)

132 Wars and Rumors of Wars.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 12:38 PM (Vr12I)

133 Dear Caroline,
Thank you for your email of Jan 15...after eight years I am glad to finally hear from you.
I got your corrections right here!

**grabs man place**

Sincerely,
Andrew

I remain available to talk during the work week.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 12:38 PM (axyOa)

134 "Since when did the NIH start acting like the mob?"

That was at some point prior to their decision to kill hundreds of thousands of Americans for political benefit, I would think.

Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at March 10, 2022 12:38 PM (jAisO)

135 Depends a lot on your vocation. I know more famous assholes than I can count.
Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:37 PM (lhr6a)

I hate to be the one that points this out, but that sounds really gay.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 12:38 PM (Y5qcH)

136 > I disagree. Investments of public employees should all be the people's business.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 12:29 PM (LvTSG)
___________
Many high level government functionaries do in fact disclose their investments already. Some don't. The enforcement of government ethics sucks, but expecting every government employee to release their financial records is stupid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2022 12:38 PM (BFigT)

137 Wouldn't doubt Fauci like congressmen are getting rich from investments from government contracts.
Investing into Big Pharma then handing out contracts from his knowledge

Posted by: Skip's Phone at March 10, 2022 12:39 PM (cfvXw)

138 Fauci must have a tough negotiator for his contract to make that much. When we hired contract docs in the Army we were limited to less than the VP salary

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 10, 2022 12:39 PM (qnVBz)

139 >>I hate to be the one that points this out, but that sounds really gay.

I NEVER do that shit on purpose. Never.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:39 PM (lhr6a)

140 When was it, ten or more years ago, the Dem talking point was "you can't drill your way out of ..." with regard to energy policy.

Then we went and drilled our way to becoming a net oil exporter, with accompanying prosperity, decisively proving the Dems were full of shit.

Now today, the whole MSM is telling us "you can't drill your way out of this."

Cripes, we live in fucking ClownWorld. Bizarro version of ClownWorld.

Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 12:39 PM (qpX6U)

141 > Depends a lot on your vocation. I know more famous assholes than I can count.

Gigolo?

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:39 PM (VCz/u)

142 I denounce myself and will now go spank me 50 times.
Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 12:25 PM (vrz2I)

It won't take that long

#imanexpert

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at March 10, 2022 12:39 PM (BgMrQ)

143 but expecting every government employee to release their financial records is stupid.

*

I'm willing to compromise and say "anyone with any input into budgets"

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 12:39 PM (cUuEU)

144 >>Depends a lot on your vocation. I know more famous assholes than I can count.

Uh, phrasing?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 10, 2022 12:39 PM (MmndN)

145
Uh, phrasing?
Posted by: Lizzy at March 10, 2022 12:39 PM (MmndN)

Nah. He's into butt sniffing.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 12:40 PM (Zz0t1)

146 Fauci's final reckoning will happen before the Pearly Gates as he is met by everyone his actions caused to die. And they all will have Holy Tire Irons +5 vs evil gnomes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 10, 2022 12:40 PM (ZjMb1)

147 In Quest For Fire they invented the missionary position.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at March 10, 2022 12:38 PM (H7tlx)
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And the practical joke.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at March 10, 2022 12:40 PM (T8gyh)

148 All that toilet paper you hoarded for covid will come in handy for barter.

Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at March 10, 2022 12:40 PM (aoFfE)

149 >>Uh, phrasing?

I thought we stopped doing 'Phrasing'?

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:40 PM (lhr6a)

150 Highest Paid Government Executives:

#1 Head of the NIH
#2 President of the United States
...

Posted by: Axeman at March 10, 2022 12:40 PM (S5d3L)

151 136 Many high level government functionaries do in fact disclose their investments already. Some don't. The enforcement of government ethics sucks, but expecting every government employee to release their financial records is stupid.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2022 12:38 PM (BFigT)

==========

I say we put their investments through a government run portal that does their trading for them, and that portal is available to the public 24/7.

If the portal goes down and billions of investments are lost because the government can't be bothered to build a website well, then, well, that's what you get for deciding to work for the feds.

Also, if you don't trade through it, you are fired.

Also, a pony.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 12:40 PM (LvTSG)

152 Depends a lot on your vocation. I know more famous assholes than I can count.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:37 PM (lhr6a)

Meh, fame is over-rated.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 10, 2022 12:40 PM (mZOHK)

153 Exit thought: People used to go into government to get rich in ancient Rome, too.

***

Well, yeah, but primarily through military conquest & spoils first, so they the money for the necessary bribes to buy the big positions.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 10, 2022 12:40 PM (lCui1)

154 139 >>I hate to be the one that points this out, but that sounds really gay.

I NEVER do that shit on purpose. Never.
Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:39 PM (lhr6a)

=========

"Tell me about your mother..."
-Dr. Freud

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 12:41 PM (LvTSG)

155
Meh, fame is over-rated.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 10, 2022 12:40 PM (mZOHK)

I'll take the money, however.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 12:41 PM (Zz0t1)

156 Wait, something jumped out at me... Fauci's WIFE is the Chief Bioethicist at NIH???

So, the person checking Fauci's ethics, is LITERALLY in BED WITH HIM and sharing Bank Accounts?

How is that NOT A BLATANT CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
Posted by: Romeo13

Because that families *ethics* are like any Dem's ethics... for sale.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 10, 2022 12:41 PM (onc9E)

157 "Exit thought: People used to go into government to get rich in ancient Rome, too."

Ace, you don't have to go back to ancient Rome. You can look much more recently at China, SE Asia, and many countries in Africa. The corruption was so blatant and out in the open that candidates for government positions would bribe the higher-ups to get their appointments. The position went to the highest bidder. Everyone at every level was on the take and nobody even tried much to hide it. That was just the way things were done.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 10, 2022 12:41 PM (iFTx/)

158 "In Quest For Fire they invented the missionary position."

That was "Clan of the Cave Bear," wasn't it?

Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 12:41 PM (qpX6U)

159 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE LDS IS A CANCER ON THE BODY POLITIC

Posted by: BEN ROTHLEISBURGLAR at March 10, 2022 12:41 PM (ya9BE)

160 government employees sure seem to have a lot of 2nd jobs and alternate income streams. am I supposed to believe they do all that after 5PM and on weekends?

Posted by: x at March 10, 2022 12:41 PM (uQFwj)

161 >>Nah. He's into butt sniffing.

Fluffer.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 10, 2022 12:41 PM (ZLI7S)

162 > *considers mentioning Prometheus*

In one of the stories concerning Prometheus, Zeus chained P up to a rock and P had to endure having his liver eaten by an eagle (symbol of Zeus) everyday. Every night P's liver would grow back.

Hardcore.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:41 PM (VCz/u)

163 Cat Ass Trophy

Longevity is the Federal System, and SES incentive and award pay. From the corrupt NIH admin group.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 12:42 PM (u82oZ)

164 The subtext of Ofuckstick's pre-written speeches were always the important part.

He often liked to speak with a wry smile supposedly about our founding fathers - "a band of revolutionaries getting together and bringing an empire to its knees" (wink wink).

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 12:42 PM (bB9th)

165 The only famous people that I or anyone in my family ever had any contact with all ended up in the state pen.

Most of the famous people I know deserve to be there.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 12:42 PM (5kI0z)

166 Awards: In 2021, Fauci was awarded a $1 million prize for "speaking truth to power" from the Dan David Foundation in Israel.
________

Wow. Like the way Augustus Caesar did.

Posted by: Eeyore at March 10, 2022 12:42 PM (R0Tis)

167 The Press? Don't make me and half the country laugh.
ACE, you ARE the press.

Posted by: Winston Alabaster at March 10, 2022 12:42 PM (6BTho)

168 I'll take the money, however.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 12:41 PM (Zz0t1)

No kidding.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 10, 2022 12:42 PM (mZOHK)

169 So the "Maternity" Hospital in Ukraine did not have any patients in it it was housing Ukrainian military...So we are supposed to believe the weapons lab story They are feeding Us ?

Posted by: It's me donna at March 10, 2022 12:42 PM (J8ILO)

170 I really feel sorry for these people losing jobs, cut off from financial services and families breaking up over political difference,
Posted by: Skip's Phone

Fuck my cousins. I know their parents. I know how they were raised. They turned their backs on the family and went left.

With family like that, who needs enemies?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 12:42 PM (Ecl8U)

171 >> I'll take the money, however.

This is why I pick up the phone when they call.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:42 PM (lhr6a)

172 Depends a lot on your vocation. I know more famous assholes than I can count.
Posted by: garrett

Fartclams !

Posted by: JT at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (arJlL)

173 67 I really feel sorry for these people losing jobs, cut off from financial services and families breaking up over political difference,

__

Eh. My sister and I stopped talking for 2 years after the 2016 election. We're back to an occasional email and txting happy birthday or Merry Christmas. But I can't see us ever getting back to a normal sibling relationship. I'm not really losing sleep over it.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (OalnH)

174 In one of the stories concerning Prometheus, Zeus chained P up to a rock and P had to endure having his liver eaten by an eagle (symbol of Zeus) everyday. Every night P's liver would grow back.

Hardcore.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:41 PM (VCz/u)
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I'm glad I'm Not-P.

Posted by: Axeman at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (S5d3L)

175 In Russia trivia pursue you.

Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (xDyyD)

176 Many high level government functionaries do in fact disclose their investments already. Some don't. The enforcement of government ethics sucks, but expecting every government employee to release their financial records is stupid.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2022 12:38 PM

With these guys it's a matter of what was put into their contract. fauci was an "AD" administratively determined civil service employee before he got elevated when covid hit. It's entirely possible that there was nothing about any financial disclosure in his contract. It depends on the agency and whatever they agreed upon when he got hired.

Posted by: Mister Scot (Formerly GWS) at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (bVYXr)

177 Fauci is on ice now

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (Vr12I)

178 Tom Servo
Many of us here are high achievers, and more importantly, keep our eyes, ears and minds open. We can get intel and analyze like no other blog.

We are a high signal / noise smart military blog.

And then there is me.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 12:34 PM (u82oZ)
***
No worries Salty...I'm sure there are a few Marines here.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (axyOa)

179 169 So the "Maternity" Hospital in Ukraine did not have any patients in it it was housing Ukrainian military...So we are supposed to believe the weapons lab story They are feeding Us ?
Posted by: It's me donna at March 10, 2022 12:42 PM (J

Kiev put ou a statement that there were 3000+ starving babies there. Link?

Posted by: CN at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (ONvIw)

180 NIH review boards (you're required to participate if you've received R01-level funding) notoriously award "proven commodities" high scores (in practice, low numbers on a 1-10 scale), thus making it exceptionally difficult for young investigators to receive substantial funding....unless you work/worked under a proven commodity. It's an "old boy's club", just that the about half boys tend to have vaginas and sport multicolored hairdos.

Posted by: PacosMojo at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (he/dn)

181 >> Wouldn't doubt Fauci like congressmen are getting rich from investments from government contracts.
Investing into Big Pharma then handing out contracts from his knowledge

Fauci and NIAID partnered with Moderna on developing a covid vaccine back in 2015

https://tinyurl.com/yckuuu3d

Posted by: Lizzy at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (MmndN)

182 I knew a guy who killed and ate his wife.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (eGTCV)

183 92 13 Fauci strikes me as a dick-I mean a genuinely unlikable man who shouldn't have any friends anywhere, let alone high places. Yet he carries on.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 12:22 PM (eGTCV)

Lots of those types in government and academia.
Posted by: Thrawn at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM (Rl7KJ)

Lots of those types EVERYWHERE...

#natureofmankinnd

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 12:44 PM (BgMrQ)

184 182 I knew a guy who killed and ate his wife.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (eGTCV)

========

We all know Cannibal Bob.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 12:44 PM (LvTSG)

185 >>I knew a guy who killed and ate his wife.

In tht order?

Gross.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:44 PM (lhr6a)

186 Fauci is on ice now
Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (Vr12I)

And by this, I'm hoping you mean a lot like Ted Williams's head.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 12:44 PM (Zz0t1)

187 garrett

LOL. Maybe we should start using phasers. On Stun.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 12:44 PM (u82oZ)

188
Forbes is about big business. And big business is about freedom and capitalism and stuff.

That goes hand in hand perfectly with the having given some sort of reward to Hildebeast within the last few weeks.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 10, 2022 12:44 PM (pNxlR)

189 Fuck my cousins.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 12:42 PM (Ecl8U)
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[No comment needed]

Posted by: Axeman at March 10, 2022 12:44 PM (S5d3L)

190 bonhomme.. I went to that LDS food storage page, and looked at what they had available.

Other than the dry beans, it was all carbs. Now, facing starvation, any calories are better than none, but it wouldn't hurt to have a few cases of canned meats, powdered milk & eggs, and other proteins ready to hand.

And some dehydrated veggies, canned vegies, various jerkys in vacuum sealed bags, and frozen.

I don't think aiming at a two-year supply is an insane idea, either. Things gonna get that bad, y'think? Yeah I think.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2022 12:44 PM (QzJWU)

191 I met BB King once. I would imagine that's the most famous person I ever rubbed elbows with.

Oh and I was supposed to meet Al Gore but thankfully that didn't happen. He was probably getting his chakras cleansed.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 12:44 PM (bB9th)

192 178 Tom Servo
Many of us here are high achievers, and more importantly, keep our eyes, ears and minds open. We can get intel and analyze like no other blog.

We are a high signal / noise smart military blog.

And then there is me.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 12:34 PM (u82oZ)
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No worries Salty...I'm sure there are a few Marines here.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (axyOa)

I'm a marine? Awesome.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 10, 2022 12:45 PM (mZOHK)

193 Fauci's wife: Christine Grady, the chief bioethicist at NIH made $234,284 in 2020. ...
Awards: In 2021, Fauci was awarded a $1 million prize for "speaking truth to power" from the Dan David Foundation in Israel.
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First, I am convinced that everyone who is a "bioethicist" is in fact a Mengele type.

Second, that prize is a helluva joke, isn't it? I mean, the most powerful man in the world who's rule was law and resulted in the deaths of countless numbers of people and the destruction of entire countries gets a clean-cut cash payout for "speaking truth to power."

We live in a mirror universe of some kind.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 12:45 PM (DU+/6)

194 I knew a guy who killed and ate his wife.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (eGTCV)

He'd already told her twice.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 12:45 PM (bB9th)

195 Kiev put ou a statement that there were 3000+ starving babies there. Link?
Posted by: CN at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (ONvIw)

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It's KEEEEEEEV you Putin lover!!

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 12:45 PM (OalnH)

196 There needs to be a reckoning, in government and in the media.
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Reckoning. Debellation. Whatever.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 12:46 PM (DU+/6)

197 187 garrett

LOL. Maybe we should start using phasers. On Stun.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 12:44 PM (u82oZ)

"We come in peace shoot to kill"

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 12:46 PM (Vr12I)

198 Shame on Forbes. They used to be a great source for news and analytics, but they are purely political now.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at March 10, 2022 12:46 PM (MTm8X)

199 >> I met BB King once.

Never got to meet BB. Did see him 3-4 times. Once at Carnegie Hall w/ Miles Davis.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:46 PM (lhr6a)

200 nice! Is it Graceful Gray or Dust Bunny?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 10, 2022 12:22 PM

Fifty Shades of Moron (TM)

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 10, 2022 12:46 PM (RkC6l)

201 I've known some pretty famous people. Not BFFs or anything, but a couple of them would probably take my call today. Every famous person started out as just some regular dude/dudette that had normal people as friends.
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 12:35 PM (OalnH)

I had a "normal" acquaintance (NOT a friend) who's still on Death Row today. Well, I knew he was pretty creepy the very first time I met him, and that was before he did what he did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 12:46 PM (trdmm)

202 So the "Maternity" Hospital in Ukraine did not have any patients in it it was housing Ukrainian military...So we are supposed to believe the weapons lab story They are feeding Us ?
Posted by: It's me donna

*

Wait until it comes out that a bioweapons lab was in the basement.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 12:46 PM (cUuEU)

203 That Kamala Harris was impressive on her junket to Poland, huh?

Just a heartbeat away from the Presidency ...

We are so screwed.

Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (aoFfE)

204 I've got a painting of Billy Carter's horse.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (vrz2I)

205 >>>And by this, I'm hoping you mean a lot like Ted Williams's head.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 12:44 PM (Zz0t1)

Hey, now!

Posted by: Walt Disney at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (QYPq3)

206 Shame on Forbes. They used to be a great source for news and analytics, but they are purely political now.
Posted by: Eternity Matters at March 10, 2022 12:46 PM (MTm8X)
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Every major press enterprise in the western world is a propaganda outlet, as are most of the minor ones. There are no exceptions.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (DU+/6)

207 195 Kiev put ou a statement that there were 3000+ starving babies there. Link?
Posted by: CN at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (ONvIw)

I saw it at Conservative treehouse... I can't verify it

Posted by: It's me donna at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (J8ILO)

208 I don't think aiming at a two-year supply is an insane idea, either. Things gonna get that bad, y'think? Yeah I think.

I just bought another 50 cans of fish and chicken. Whenever the grocery stores have canned food sales, I'm there

Posted by: CN at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (ONvIw)

209 It's KEEEEEEEV you Putin lover!!
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 12:45 PM (OalnH)
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The funny thing is that the people with Ukrainian accents that I have heard, distinctly have pronounced it Kyev.

Posted by: Axeman at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (S5d3L)

210 Phrasers. Set Phrasers to pun.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (Vr12I)

211 "I met BB King once."

I met Greg Morris from 'Mission Impossible,' and crooked Illinois pol Paul Powell. I've seen the guys from Cheap Trick at the grocery store a couple times. Ringmaster Ned from Bozo's Circus gave me a Dutch Rub; I had a crewcut at the time.

Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (qpX6U)

212 I wouldn't meet anyone that would meet me.

(Sorry Groucho!)

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (Ecl8U)

213 Wait until it comes out that a bioweapons lab was in the basement.
Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 12:46 PM (cUuEU)

Of the Baby Milk Factory.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (axyOa)

214 Fuck my cousins.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 12:42 PM (Ecl8U)

Are they hot?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (Zz0t1)

215 It's KEEEEEEEV you Putin lover!!
Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 12:45 PM

I KEEEEEEV you!

Posted by: Ivan the Dead Terrorist at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (RkC6l)

216 > I knew a guy who killed and ate his wife.

That's awful.

One time in college a guy suddenly showed up and crashed on our couch for three months. He was a friend of the family who owned the condo I stayed in. I found out later he was wanted for drug crimes in MD, and that's why he was there.

So a few months after he disappeared again, that guy killed his mom and sister's best friend. He was a paranoid schizophrenic and went off his meds. They found him on the front porch, naked, covered in blood, draped in an American flag.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (VCz/u)

217 Diogenes

All the Marine officers I met were whip smart. Even the commander the the Beirut bombing.

But even in the most elite group, there is a finite amount of stupidity.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 12:48 PM (u82oZ)

218 Fauci lying about his financial disclosures is probably one of his less important lies of the many he has told.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 12:48 PM (XntMs)

219 People used to go into government to get rich in ancient Rome, too.
........

When does ours get vomitoriums?

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 12:48 PM (v0R5T)

220 I knew a guy who killed and ate his wife.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 12:43 PM (eGTCV)

Yeah?....and?

Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 12:48 PM (AwYPR)

221 I've met Stephen Harper.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 12:48 PM (eGTCV)

222 There used to be a commenter here that would say to not wake him up until the killing has started. I'm almost to that point.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at March 10, 2022 12:49 PM (Fs5vw)

223 Fauci's financials don't bother me so much as him being Floyd Ferris. Well, if Floyd Ferris was a closet queen who tortured puppies and proliferated WMDs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 12:49 PM (SKVme)

224 Hardcore.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:41 PM (VCz/u)

Zeus didn't screw around!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 10, 2022 12:49 PM (SX9Cn)

225 I bumped into Snake Plissken once. any celebrity after that is a step down.

Posted by: x at March 10, 2022 12:49 PM (uQFwj)

226 211 "I met BB King once."

I met Greg Morris from 'Mission Impossible,' and crooked Illinois pol Paul Powell. I've seen the guys from Cheap Trick at the grocery store a couple times. Ringmaster Ned from Bozo's Circus gave me a Dutch Rub; I had a crewcut at the time.

Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (qpX6U)

I threw up all over the bed of a highschool friend. Does that count?

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 10, 2022 12:49 PM (mZOHK)

227 >>Awards: In 2021, Fauci was awarded a $1 million prize for "speaking truth to power" from the Dan David Foundation in Israel.

The guy is the leader of the US covid response team, has leadership positions on several NGOs in addition to leading NIAID, works with Gates on global vaccines, and was a, if not the, leading voice in global covid policy recommendations -- it doesn't get more powerful than that during the pandemic.

So which power was he speaking truth to -- God?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 10, 2022 12:49 PM (MmndN)

228 >>I've met Stephen Harper.

Me too.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 10, 2022 12:49 PM (ZLI7S)

229 " I've met Stephen Harper."

I've met Andy Williams. No, not that Andy Williams.

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 12:49 PM (vrz2I)

230 This busty, glistening blonde wonders if she could get a million bucks for speaking truth to power in the form of calling Fauci a corrupt, incompetent, depraved, murderous witch doctor directly to his wizened old troll face:
https://is.gd/5dV8PC

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 12:49 PM (DU+/6)

231 >>All the Marine officers I met were whip smart.

TRUE FACT : Eating Crayons boosts your IQ.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 10, 2022 12:50 PM (lhr6a)

232 Famous?
I AM famous.
For certain degrees of famous.

Posted by: RI Red at March 10, 2022 12:50 PM (a8b7P)

233 Sounds like Forbes went long on Big Pharma.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at March 10, 2022 12:50 PM (SVUeu)

234 Agriculture was a mistake.

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Should've stuck to herding

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 10, 2022 12:50 PM (lCui1)

235 Fauci's financials don't bother me so much as him being Floyd Ferris. Well, if Floyd Ferris was a closet queen who tortured puppies and proliferated WMDs.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 12:49 PM (SKVme)
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Don't forget experimenting on orphans.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 12:50 PM (DU+/6)

236 I've been in the home of the guys from Nickelback.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 12:50 PM (eGTCV)

237 Are they hot?
Posted by: Sponge

Not anymore. We're all in the neighborhood of 60.
(It's a big neighborhood too)

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 12:50 PM (Ecl8U)

238 > Posted by: Jim at March 10, 2022 12:44 PM (QzJWU)

Good points.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:50 PM (VCz/u)

239 I've met Fred Thompson. And my realtor in 2014 was mass murder Todd Kohlhepp, who was arrested a year after he sold our house.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 12:50 PM (sVtYq)

240 Zeus didn't screw around!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 10, 2022 12:49 PM (SX9Cn)
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Oh, yes he did!!

Posted by: Hera at March 10, 2022 12:51 PM (T8gyh)

241 Zeus didn't screw around!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 10, 2022 12:49 PM (SX9Cn)
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That's not how Hera had it.

Posted by: Axeman at March 10, 2022 12:51 PM (S5d3L)

242 I met BB King once. I would imagine that's the most famous person I ever rubbed elbows with.

Oh and I was supposed to meet Al Gore but thankfully that didn't happen. He was probably getting his chakras cleansed.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 12:44 PM (bB9th)

I've met CBD. Closest I've ever come to fame.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 10, 2022 12:51 PM (U7wke)

243 That Kamala Harris was impressive on her junket to Poland, huh?

Just a heartbeat away from the Presidency ...

We are so screwed.
Posted by: Pleistocene Megafauna at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (aoFfE)
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We know that things impressive can be impressive indeed, but what we don't know is just how tremendously impressive things truly are, but if we work at it, get the right people involved, then we can be impressive for all of us.

We need a thread devoted to Writing Like Kamala.
Winner gets 50 ampersands and a tin foil membership.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 12:51 PM (axyOa)

244 234 Agriculture was a mistake.

***

Should've stuck to herding
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 10, 2022 12:50 PM (lCui1)

Goat ropin', cat herdin'.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 12:51 PM (Vr12I)

245 Not that I knew them, but I met a lot of famous people on flights. I used to be a road warrior back in the day and since I achieved platinum status I almost always got upgraded to 1st. I sat next to a lot of actors, politicians, sports celebs, etc.

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 12:51 PM (OalnH)

246 now we know one of the thousand reasons that Zelenski didn't rat out the Bidens

He damn well knew of the labs and what they were up to

Posted by: REDACTED at March 10, 2022 12:51 PM (us2H3)

247 While tending bar I met Tip O'Neil. There were some other politicos out and about, but I don't remember them.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 10, 2022 12:51 PM (BFigT)

248 "All the Marine officers I met were whip smart."

Is a captain an officer?

Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 12:51 PM (qpX6U)

249 I saw it at Conservative treehouse... I can't verify it
Posted by: It's me donna at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (J8ILO)

I tend to believe it. There were actual pics of the Ukranian soldiers posting locations on social media just before the schools they were hiding in were bombed. You'd think they'd not allow cell phones

Posted by: CN at March 10, 2022 12:52 PM (ONvIw)

250 My first wife's parents were famous hog farmers in Oregon. Well, not famous but they were hog farmers.

Posted by: Bosk at March 10, 2022 12:52 PM (x6uUk)

251 I had beers with the lead singer of Little River Band in a dive bar (good guy) and was in a hot tub with Greg Allman (fat world class douche). Got into an argument with him and he stole my towel.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 10, 2022 12:52 PM (6lMp2)

252 Hometown of Nickelback not home

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 12:52 PM (eGTCV)

253 They found him on the front porch, naked, covered in blood, draped in an American flag.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (VCz/u)

And that little girl was me.

Posted by: Kamala at March 10, 2022 12:52 PM (RwVoK)

254 Sorry, but Beer is proof God loves us.
Posted by: B. Franklin at March 10, 2022 12:30 PM (oHd/0)

One of my favorite quotes of his. Beer is also a sign of passing a societal development milepost to have surplus grain. Any monkey like Fauci can stomp grapes.

Posted by: Captain Hate won't forget Michael Byrd Murdered Ashli Babbitt at March 10, 2022 12:52 PM (y7DUB)

255 Romney confuses the hell out of me. I don't know if it's pique at Trump, or hubris at his worldly successes, or just a general misapplication of first principles, but I just don't understand how a seemingly devout member has such a squishy position on things that should be crystal clear; abortion for example.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM (VCz/u)

I strongly suspect Romney feels far more loyalty to his class (Ruling Class) than he feels towards his faith, or towards any of us, of course. In that light, his "faith" is just a tool to be used in the service of his class.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 12:53 PM (trdmm)

256 He'd already told her twice.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 12:45 PM (bB9th)

She asked him what he was thinking...

Posted by: Boswell at March 10, 2022 12:53 PM (5iUNf)

257 TRUE FACT : Eating Crayons boosts your IQ.

Posted by: Joe Biden at March 10, 2022 12:50 PM (lhr6a)

Makes you a more colorful person..

Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 12:53 PM (AwYPR)

258 >This is confirmation that National Review gets money from the feds-- watch as they WON'T write a word about this

They know who butters their bread
Posted by: Well at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM (Ih9I9)

FNC and Newsmax got money from the Biden regime to shill the clot shot, and they didn't tell you.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 12:53 PM (L9uv7)

259 >> Hardcore.

OK.

BAD BRAINS : WITH THE QUICKNESS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9i4cN2IN-s

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 12:54 PM (lhr6a)

260 250 My first wife's parents were famous hog farmers in Oregon. Well, not famous but they were hog farmers.
Posted by: Bosk at March 10, 2022 12:52 PM (x6uUk)

Love it! - well not hogs, but they were farmers - well not farmers, but thet lived in the country

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 12:54 PM (Vr12I)

261 FNC and Newsmax got money from the Biden regime to shill the clot shot, and they didn't tell you.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at March 10, 2022 12:53 PM (L9uv7)

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THEY ARE ALL ACTORS!!!!!!

Why do people refuse to understand this?

Posted by: Joe XiDen - I miss Delta Variant at March 10, 2022 12:54 PM (OalnH)

262 terst

Posted by: fd at March 10, 2022 12:54 PM (vrz2I)

263 It's pretty fucking quaint that our government speaks to us like we believe them

Posted by: REDACTED at March 10, 2022 12:54 PM (us2H3)

264 Diogenes

All the Marine officers I met were whip smart. Even the commander the the Beirut bombing.

But even in the most elite group, there is a finite amount of stupidity.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 12:48 PM (u82oZ)
***
Ditto.
My last job in the Army before retiring was aboard the Belleau Wood in Somalia with the Maries. Loved it. Great group and lots of fun.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 12:54 PM (axyOa)

265 Lady in Black

I remember you telling us that story. Close. Too close.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 12:54 PM (u82oZ)

266 I know a guy who is a member of the Canadian Senate. We even share the same surname.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 12:54 PM (eGTCV)

267 253 They found him on the front porch, naked, covered in blood, draped in an American flag.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:47 PM (VCz/u)

And that little girl was me.
Posted by: Kamala at March 10, 2022 12:52 PM (RwVoK)

LOL... Coffee through nose...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 10, 2022 12:54 PM (J8ILO)

268
Remember, everyone, Psuku Pfuki says to "be on the lookout" for Russia using chemical weapons OR, she says, Russia staging a "false flag" about using chemical weapons.

Yeah, that's normal -- for a white house press secretary to tell Twitter to "be on the lookout" for chemical warfare.

Because, you know, Twitter is the place to stop that kind of thing.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at March 10, 2022 12:55 PM (aGUIs)

269 Love it! - well not hogs, but they were farmers - well not farmers, but thet lived in the country
Posted by: kraken

Sounds like a Pigford Settlement application.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 10, 2022 12:55 PM (OssQ4)

270 What a world we're living in:

Natl Grid, my electric utility, just emailed me with great news...They can provide a low flow shower head for only $5.50 (down from $8.00...what inflation).

How about you upgrade the transformers in my area so I can get me a Tesla...ya pricks.

Never get inducements like that from my water utility...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 12:55 PM (BgMrQ)

271 One time I was on an elevator by myself when Bobby Orr got on. He said "hi: and "take it easy" when he got off. I just stood there like an idiot with my mouth open.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at March 10, 2022 12:55 PM (SVUeu)

272 OT: TJM is talking about what may be my favorite movie, The Seven Samurai, on his web zone.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 10, 2022 12:55 PM (V6f9+)

273 This busty, glistening blonde wonders if she could get a million bucks for speaking truth to power in the form of calling Fauci a corrupt, incompetent, depraved, murderous witch doctor directly to his wizened old troll face:
https://is.gd/5dV8PC
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 12:49 PM (DU+/6)

I'll give her $20 to get her started towards that million.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 12:55 PM (axyOa)

274 158 "In Quest For Fire they invented the missionary position."

That was "Clan of the Cave Bear," wasn't it?
Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 12:41 PM (qpX6U)

Before that, they did it Dire Wolf style.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 12:56 PM (trdmm)

275 255 Romney confuses the hell out of me. I don't know if it's pique at Trump, or hubris at his worldly successes, or just a general misapplication of first principles, but I just don't understand how a seemingly devout member has such a squishy position on things that should be crystal clear; abortion for example.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:32 PM (VCz/u)

In the business world, Mutt's pretty much a very small fry

big mouth ass

will swallow any bullshit

Posted by: REDACTED at March 10, 2022 12:56 PM (us2H3)

276 Natl Grid, my electric utility, just emailed me with great news...They can provide a low flow shower head for only $5.50 (down from $8.00...what inflation).

How about you upgrade the transformers in my area so I can get me a Tesla...ya pricks.

Never get inducements like that from my water utility...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 12:55 PM (BgMrQ)
++++
What's the rationale? Your electric water heater won't work so hard with a low-flow shower head?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 12:56 PM (DU+/6)

277 We know that things impressive can be impressive indeed, but what we don't know is just how tremendously impressive things truly are, but if we work at it, get the right people involved, then we can be impressive for all of us.

We need a thread devoted to Writing Like Kamala.
Winner gets 50 ampersands and a tin foil membership.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 12:51 PM (axyOa)

Look, as someone who agrees with you on many things, we shouldn't be surprised to find out that once again, I agree with you on the other thing that was just discussed in the most recent time frame and I assure you that this administration will be taking action on that.

Posted by: LASue at March 10, 2022 12:56 PM (Ed8Zd)

278 Well, son of a bitch...they fired him - Joe Biden

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2022 12:56 PM (bk3Sg)

279 Sounds like a Pigford Settlement application.

Wrong skin color. European decent. They had to work damn hard to make a living.

Posted by: Bosk at March 10, 2022 12:56 PM (x6uUk)

280 We are a high signal / noise smart military blog.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 12:34 PM

And that little noise was me!

Posted by: Kamala! at March 10, 2022 12:56 PM (a3Q+t)

281 Sorry but no career politician's faith is genuine... It's just to rook the yokels into thinking they're human. If you have any fear of G-d whatsoever, you'll run as far and fast from American politics as you possibly can, and without hesitation. The entire shameful edifice is pure, concentrated wickedness.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 10, 2022 12:56 PM (SKVme)

282 And my realtor in 2014 was mass murder Todd Kohlhepp, who was arrested a year after he sold our house.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 12:50 PM (sVtYq)

golly
What was he like?
Were you shocked by his arrest or were you like "huh, that tracks"

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 10, 2022 12:57 PM (lCui1)

283 Yay! Starlink was just delivered! Now I get to play with it this weekend.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 12:57 PM (Ecl8U)

284 Need a ruling:
Does appearing on The History Channel make me famous? Or just old?

Posted by: RI Red at March 10, 2022 12:57 PM (a8b7P)

285 Before that, they did it Dire Wolf style.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 12:56 PM (trdmm)

Dire Wolf?

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 12:57 PM (CTx0G)

286 This busty, glistening blonde wonders if she could get a million bucks for speaking truth to power in the form of calling Fauci a corrupt, incompetent, depraved, murderous witch doctor directly to his wizened old troll face:
https://is.gd/5dV8PC
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 12:49 PM (DU+/6)

I'll give her $20 to get her started towards that million.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 12:55 PM (axyOa)

I have a type and she is it.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 10, 2022 12:57 PM (V6f9+)

287 After watching Ukraine on Fire, I get the impression that the Ukes would gladly kill their own and blame it on someone else to advance their positions. I also got the impression that the US IC would do the same without batting an eye.

Posted by: CN at March 10, 2022 12:58 PM (ONvIw)

288 Chief Bioethicist is probably a sinecure. Whenever that department issues a memo, the rest of NIH rolls their eyes and round-files it.

That title really just means she's being paid for sitting on Fauci's dick.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 12:58 PM (ZGrMX)

289 > In the business world, Mutt's pretty much a very small fry

I'm not saying he's top of the world, but a nine figure net worth and a Senate seat has got to get to your head.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:58 PM (VCz/u)

290 Diogenes

Oooh. A Tin Foil Membership card. It can be a hat, a pterodactyl, a baking pan liner ...

*Looks at toilet paper membership card.*

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 12:58 PM (u82oZ)

291 You don't have to be LDS to buy from them.

Stock up fellow Morons, things are getting sporty.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:33 PM (VCz/u)

Friend of mine is LDS, and he's 100% the real deal. His gun collection dwarves most gun shops (his safe is a literal gun-Tetris), a knife collection to die for - and enough food/water for his family of 5 to last 6 months. Not counting the bug-out stuff. He gave me some addresses a couple of years back, I need to tap him again and do some shopping. Some of them specialize in a variety of things (not just food), there were some pretty decent offerings IIRC.

Posted by: clutch cargo - Now fortified with CPM-S90V at March 10, 2022 12:58 PM (wAnMi)

292 Look, as someone who agrees with you on many things, we shouldn't be surprised to find out that once again, I agree with you on the other thing that was just discussed in the most recent time frame and I assure you that this administration will be taking action on that.
Posted by: LASue at March 10, 2022 12:56 PM (Ed8Zd)

Snort!

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 12:59 PM (axyOa)

293 Does appearing on The History Channel make me famous? Or just old?

Depends, are you the "It's aliens" guy?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 12:59 PM (ZGrMX)

294 That may be your top one yet Mannix.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 10, 2022 12:59 PM (6lMp2)

295 My wife worked in Robert Hansens bakery. Alaska serial Killer. Saw him get arrested. Real creepy.

Posted by: Bosk at March 10, 2022 12:59 PM (x6uUk)

296 I met BB King once. I would imagine that's the most famous person I ever rubbed elbows with.

Oh and I was supposed to meet Al Gore but thankfully that didn't happen. He was probably getting his chakras cleansed.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 12:44 PM (bB9th)

Another good idea for a post- famous people I know, I've met (or dated, or...whatever).

Posted by: LASue at March 10, 2022 12:59 PM (Ed8Zd)

297 > Yay! Starlink was just delivered! Now I get to play with it this weekend.

Cool. Are you roof mounting it or do you have a mast?

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 12:59 PM (VCz/u)

298 284 Need a ruling:
Does appearing on The History Channel make me famous? Or just old?
Posted by: RI Red at March 10, 2022 12:57 PM (a8b7P)

Depends on whether you were selling reverse mortgages, catheters or continence diapers, as opposed to contraceptives, makeup or car seats.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:00 PM (Vr12I)

299 I have a type and she is it.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 10, 2022 12:57 PM (V6f9+)

FYI...just learned that Paige Spiranac is now single.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 01:00 PM (axyOa)

300 We need a thread devoted to Writing Like Kamala.
Winner gets 50 ampersands and a tin foil membership.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 12:51 PM (axyOa)

there was a fad in ESL (for real foreigners, not kids in US Schools) for Special English. I ran into it connected to Asian languages, oddly enough. It was a simplified English set up without slang or similes, or difficult construction, unusual nouns or rare verbs. It did this by simple sentence construction with only four tenses, and a limited vocabulary.
It sounds odd to English speakers, and can get really complicated trying to discuss technical things.

Either Kamala's speech writer thinks everyone is stupid, thinks the Vice President is stupid, or is stupid.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 01:00 PM (xhaym)

301 https://is.gd/5dV8PC
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 12:49 PM (DU+/6)

Thanks Joe.

Posted by: Stateless at March 10, 2022 01:00 PM (FsZ2q)

302 Cool. Are you roof mounting it or do you have a mast?
Posted by: bonhomme

Will do a mast when we get moved permanently.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 01:00 PM (Ecl8U)

303 The sidebar story about the "plucky" British teen who overcame her terrible disability to become a very fit pole-dancer is highly recommended. Posting this is a credit to the blog and we rate this story as inspiring!

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 10, 2022 01:00 PM (LwcON)

304 > My wife worked in Robert Hansens bakery. Alaska serial Killer. Saw him get arrested. Real creepy.

The Butcher Baker.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 01:00 PM (VCz/u)

305 What's the rationale? Your electric water heater won't work so hard with a low-flow shower head?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 12:56 PM (DU+/6)

That's all I can figure.

But I'm on gas, so...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 01:00 PM (BgMrQ)

306 Posted by: Bosk at March 10, 2022 12:59 PM (x6uUk)

Bosk same question at 282

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 10, 2022 01:00 PM (lCui1)

307 Looks like the Dan Davison group that just gave Fauci a $1M also gave that much to...Klaus Schwab, way back in 2004.

I suspect if you had someone investigate them you'd find their business is money laundering.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 01:00 PM (ESjRY)

308 225 I bumped into Snake Plissken once. any celebrity after that is a step down.
Posted by: x at March 10, 2022 12:49 PM (uQFwj)

I met him too. I'm friends with a relative of his. He's nice and smokes Marlboro reds.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2022 01:00 PM (wRauk)

309 Dire Wolf is cousin to Howlin' Wolf.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:01 PM (Vr12I)

310 BAD BRAINS : WITH THE QUICKNESS

*

What a damn band.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:01 PM (cUuEU)

311 At least the standards lady from Forbes "appreciate[d] his quickly reply."

Posted by: red speck at March 10, 2022 01:01 PM (gS3OW)

312 Same mob mentality keeps most scientists quiet about the Global Warming Big Lie ... opposition doesn't get grants, but they have gotten to where truth can get one fired.

Even NASA just changes their old data to create the preferred (demanded) narrative. And CO2 has been lagging warmer temps, probably because it takes hundreds of years after temps start rising (from long term cooling) for oceans to rising (and hence they hold less CO2). "Thermal Inertia" I think someone here called it. In any case more CO2 is a sort of fertilizer, so off course, the nihilists want to kill that good thing too ...

Posted by: illiniwek at March 10, 2022 01:01 PM (Cus5s)

313 Depends, are you the "It's aliens" guy?

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 12:59 PM (ZGrMX)

My first thought.

Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 01:01 PM (AwYPR)

314 I ate lunch with Neil Armstrong once. Good guy.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at March 10, 2022 01:01 PM (Fs5vw)

315 Sorry, Dan David, not Davison.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 01:01 PM (ESjRY)

316 Trying to think of famous people I'd like to meet. There's that lady who ran CERN, she was in the documentary "Particle Fever." I'd like to meet her, but she's not famous enough. I guess most of all I want to meet the guys from Green Day.

Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 01:02 PM (qpX6U)

317 Since when did the NIH start acting like the mob?
==
That right there is a knee slapper. Hey who had the bright idea to tell everyone to cower at home last year, no weddings, no funerals, cover your face or else?

Wow. Sometimes when things are so big and right in front of you, its hard to see what they are.

Posted by: Hello anyone home? at March 10, 2022 01:02 PM (XvSwn)

318 "democracy dies in darkness" is still valid.

"Journalism dies in the media" is more relevant than ever.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 10, 2022 01:02 PM (KATBx)

319 I hit Lori Morgan in the face with a pool float. I didn't know who she was. The country singer.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2022 01:02 PM (wRauk)

320 285 Before that, they did it Dire Wolf style.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 12:56 PM (trdmm)

Dire Wolf?
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 12:57 PM (CTx0G)

Dire Wolf? 100 ton Clan Mech?

Posted by: Romeo13, puts on his cooling vest... at March 10, 2022 01:02 PM (oHd/0)

321 >>What a damn band.

Rock for Light was like 1977-78 or some shit?

Amazing. They were miles and miles ahead of everyone else.

Dr Know had chops.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:02 PM (lhr6a)

322 First of all, let's talk about how we can make a difference. Because making a difference is how you keep something from being the same. Because the same doesn't work. If the same worked, then things wouldn't ever even be different because no one would want to make them different or change them. So making a difference is the best way regular people can go out and make important change in the world. And important change is how different things get done.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at March 10, 2022 01:02 PM (CTx0G)

323 FYI...just learned that Paige Spiranac is now single.
Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 01:00 PM (axyOa)

I guess miracles do surround us.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 10, 2022 01:03 PM (V6f9+)

324 Supposedly Dan David became a multibillionaire by...buying into a photoboth company in the 60s with a "small" loan of $200K from his "cousin".

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 01:03 PM (ESjRY)

325 285 Before that, they did it Dire Wolf style.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 12:56 PM (trdmm)

Dire Wolf?
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 12:57 PM (CTx0G)

Better than Dick Wolf

#amirite

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 01:03 PM (BgMrQ)

326 >>Dire Wolf?

600 lbs of sin.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:03 PM (lhr6a)

327 Another good idea for a post- famous people I know, I've met (or dated, or...whatever).
Posted by: LASue at March 10, 2022 12:59 PM (Ed8Zd)

The most famous for me...Charles Lindberg.
Arnold Palmer was a close second.
I was ten when I met Lindberg...nice guy. Just him and I at the little airport where I washed airplance for spending money. We talked flying for about 15 minutes. I didn't know who he was until the owner told me. Very cook guy.
I met Plamer later...was now running the gas pumps at the airport. I filled his Aero Commander. Great guy.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 01:03 PM (axyOa)

328 "Are you roof mounting it or do you have a mast?"

That was in "One Million Years BC," I think.

Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 01:03 PM (qpX6U)

329 Well off to get a second mortgage so I can buy gas and dog food.

Take a gander at Margot Cleveland's brand new article at The Federalist. Good for a smile.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 10, 2022 01:03 PM (ZLI7S)

330 Says he was real quite, creepy looking but she was young and just kept her head down and worked.
Never saw him outside of the workplace so not much more than that.

Posted by: Bosk at March 10, 2022 01:03 PM (x6uUk)

331 golly
What was he like?
Were you shocked by his arrest or were you like "huh, that tracks"

--

Vmom, he was very peculiar. Very braggadocious. He'd come to the house for whatever paperwork...and he literally stayed for hours. We couldn't figure out why he wouldn't leave. Every story he told was full of BS. He did sell our house in 1 day though. He was incredibly meticulous in his job, so that was good.

I'll never forget the day the arrest hit the news. Me, Mr. Black and Jr. Black were blown away because we had spent so much time making fun of him after our house sale and just how weird he was. We still talk about his weirdness!

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 01:03 PM (sVtYq)

332 Isn't it time to move on from Covid Panic, and start panicking about Putin's Spetsnaz Spiders about to attack the East Coast?

Eyewitnesses say they're jumping from drones disguised with Amazon delivery markinfs

Posted by: callsign claymore at March 10, 2022 01:03 PM (4cAOc)

333 Dire Wolf?
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 12:57 PM

Dere...dere wolf.

Posted by: Eyegore at March 10, 2022 01:04 PM (RkC6l)

334 Cool. Are you roof mounting it or do you have a mast?
Posted by: bonhomme

Stepdaughter's mom runs Starlink just outside of Durant, Oklahoma and loves it compared to land based services.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 01:04 PM (Ecl8U)

335 600 lbs of sin.
Posted by: garrett

Please, don't murder me.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 10, 2022 01:04 PM (OssQ4)

336 322 Perfect!

Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 01:04 PM (qpX6U)

337 markings

Posted by: callsign claymore at March 10, 2022 01:04 PM (4cAOc)

338 I once was on Splash Mountain at the Magic Kingdom with John Popper and his, significant other/handler at the time.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at March 10, 2022 01:04 PM (QYPq3)

339 Dire Wolf is cousin to Howlin' Wolf.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:01 PM (Vr12I)

Izzat dyer wolf or deer wolf?

Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 01:04 PM (AwYPR)

340 And also let me say this. The hard work of change isn't easy. But it is worth it. It's worth it to make a difference through change. Through getting up and doing things a new way even though you want to do it the old way. Because the old way doesn't work even though it did at one time.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at March 10, 2022 01:05 PM (CTx0G)

341 600 lbs of sin.
Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:03 PM (lhr6a)
++++
Leave me out of this.

Posted by: Trigglypuff at March 10, 2022 01:05 PM (DU+/6)

342 I've met Milton Berle, Jon Voight, Arnold the governor, Charles Krauthammer, Andrew Breitbart, Greg Gutfeld, Andy Levy, John Travolta, Bo Derek, Kelly Lebrock, drummer from the Pixies, Tab Hunter, Pink, Fergie from the black eyed peas.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2022 01:05 PM (wRauk)

343 First of all, let's talk about how we can make a difference. Because making a difference is how you keep something from being the same. Because the same doesn't work. If the same worked, then things wouldn't ever even be different because no one would want to make them different or change them. So making a difference is the best way regular people can go out and make important change in the world. And important change is how different things get done.
Posted by: Kamala Harris at March 10, 2022 01:02 PM (CTx0G)
++++
It burns. It is also credible.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 10, 2022 01:05 PM (DU+/6)

344 Bill Gates has really weird looking tits.

https://bit.ly/3t050cN

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 01:05 PM (VCz/u)

345 We need a thread devoted to Writing Like Kamala.
Winner gets 50 ampersands and a tin foil membership.
Posted by: Diogenes
--------

The thing is, tomorrow we need to be more like we are today, doing the things that we haven't done today.

Posted by: Kamala...on a bus at March 10, 2022 01:06 PM (bPH26)

346 My wife worked in Robert Hansens bakery. Alaska serial Killer. Saw him get arrested. Real creepy.

--

I remember that! I saw a show on him once. He was a creepy freak.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 01:06 PM (sVtYq)

347 339 Dire Wolf is cousin to Howlin' Wolf.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:01 PM (Vr12I)

Izzat dyer wolf or deer wolf?
Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 01:04 PM (AwYPR)

It's Der Wolf, as in Peter und der vulf.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:06 PM (Vr12I)

348 The United States won't allow Djokovic into the US to play in our big tennis tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami because he's not vaccinated.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 01:07 PM (XntMs)

349 There was a type of English as a second language teaching that was called Special English. It was a form of English made simple for foreign students to learn. It was set up with common words and verbs. It uses simple sentence construction and only uses four verb tenses. It uses a small vocabulary.
Special English sounds different to native English speakers. It can be difficult to use it to explain technical information with it.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 01:07 PM (xhaym)

350 These Kamala impressions are spooky how real they sound.

Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at March 10, 2022 01:07 PM (OssQ4)

351 344 Bill Gates has really weird looking tits.

https://bit.ly/3t050cN
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 01:05 PM (VCz/u)

Damn, your post was screaming for an Andrew Cuomo sock...

And those are nasty moobs!

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 01:07 PM (BgMrQ)

352 Beer is also a sign of passing a societal development milepost to have surplus grain

Posted by: Captain Hate

Barley doesn't have enough gluten to make good bread (by itself). There is never competition between the baker and brewer.
(well maybe now that so many good beers are ruined by adding wheat there might be...)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 10, 2022 01:07 PM (onc9E)

353 > The most famous for me...Charles Lindberg.

Didn't he die in like 1927?

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 01:07 PM (VCz/u)

354 I believe the children are the children. They are like us, though not quie as old.

Posted by: Kamala Harris at March 10, 2022 01:07 PM (lhr6a)

355 I have met - John Lovitz - yeeeah, that's it, John Lovitz!!

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:07 PM (Vr12I)

356
Money laundering or money funneling.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at March 10, 2022 01:07 PM (aGUIs)

357 The person who met all the Rock music legends is
now married to Bozo Conservative. Shibumi. Her t-shirt collection should be donated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 01:08 PM (u82oZ)

358 >>I have met - John Lovitz - yeeeah, that's it, John Lovitz!!

He Stinks!

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:08 PM (lhr6a)

359 It's Der Wolf, as in Peter und der vulf.
Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:06 PM (Vr12I)

Putin Lover...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 01:08 PM (BgMrQ)

360 17 foolishness on parade
Posted by: ace at March 10, 2022 12:22 PM (0G13K)

-----
If I laugh at any mortal thing, 'tis that I may not weep.

Posted by: 496 at March 10, 2022 01:08 PM (VJsqe)

361 Hmm. I once had afternoon tea with Helen Gahagan Douglas.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2022 01:09 PM (bPH26)

362 I'm at Sean Astin at a small regional airport in Iowa. He was very friendly. we talked family. he showed us picture of his daughters. I asked him what he was doing in Iowa. He was at a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton. This was in early 2008.

Posted by: Corners to the plate at March 10, 2022 01:09 PM (eco01)

363 The United States won't allow Djokovic into the US to play in our big tennis tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami because he's not vaccinated.

--

He should come in through Mexico. They're not checking vax status there.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 01:09 PM (sVtYq)

364 Anything you can imagine is possible! If something is impossible, it's only because it hasn't been imagined yet.

Posted by: Kamala Harris, VPOTUS at March 10, 2022 01:09 PM (qpX6U)

365 359 It's Der Wolf, as in Peter und der vulf.
Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:06 PM (Vr12I)

Putin Lover...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 01:08 PM (BgMrQ)

Heh. Yeah, the Stupidity now is Thiiis Big.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:09 PM (Vr12I)

366 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dire_wolf

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 01:10 PM (trdmm)

367 250 My first wife's parents were famous hog farmers in Oregon. Well, not famous but they were hog farmers.
Posted by: Bosk at March 10, 2022 12:52 PM (x6uUk)
........

I lived next door to some famous hog farmers on Oahu. They were famous for stinking up the neighborhood.

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 01:10 PM (v0R5T)

368 Barley doesn't have enough gluten to make good bread (by itself). There is never competition between the baker and brewer.
(well maybe now that so many good beers are ruined by adding wheat there might be...)

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 10, 2022 01:07 PM (onc9E)

Pre-WWII most US beers were wheat beers.

Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 01:10 PM (AwYPR)

369 Sean Austin...I think he went insane during the Trump presidency. I lost a lot of respect for him. To his credit, I lost a lot of respect for a lot of celebs.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 01:10 PM (sVtYq)

370 Sidebar comment...

How come when I was young I never met women whose life long dream was to be a pole dancer?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 10, 2022 01:10 PM (hJznm)

371 He was at a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton.

**

Do they get to do that for free, or is there some sort of tax/campaign finance requirement for manipulating voters?

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:10 PM (cUuEU)

372 I have met - John Lovitz - yeeeah, that's it, John Lovitz!!
Posted by: kraken
--------

The guy jilted me.

Posted by: Morgan Fairchild at March 10, 2022 01:10 PM (bPH26)

373 344-
I love that with one comment Joe Rogan has the Internet at large saying," Ya know, Bill Gates does have tits and looks a bit pregnant."

Cuz he does.

Posted by: Ktgreat at March 10, 2022 01:10 PM (AD3JT)

374 364 Anything you can imagine is possible! If something is impossible, it's only because it hasn't been imagined yet.
Posted by: Kamala Harris, VPOTUS at March 10, 2022 01:09 PM (qpX6U)

========

I imagine a federal government relegated to its limited, prescribed, and enumerated powers in the Constitution.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:10 PM (LvTSG)

375 My wife cornered Paulina Porizkova once in a revolving door, and prevented her from getting out while my wife smiled and waved. Paulina was very nice about it (once I got my wife to let her go) and chose not to call the cops. This time.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 10, 2022 01:10 PM (AWw/Q)

376 362 I'm at Sean Astin at a small regional airport in Iowa. He was very friendly. we talked family. he showed us picture of his daughters. I asked him what he was doing in Iowa. He was at a campaign rally for Hillary Clinton. This was in early 2008.
Posted by: Corners to the plate at March 10, 2022 01:09 PM (eco01)

Gandalf should have turned him into a newt, to be eaten in his little hobbit garden.

Hillary supporter...da fuq

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 01:11 PM (BgMrQ)

377 > I lived next door to some famous hog farmers on Oahu. They were famous for stinking up the neighborhood.

Oh, yeah. Hog farms are stank.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 01:11 PM (VCz/u)

378 "Bill Gates has really weird looking tits."

Kristin Wiig tits.

Posted by: Kamala Harris, VPOTUS at March 10, 2022 01:11 PM (qpX6U)

379 >>I have met - John Lovitz - yeeeah, that's it, John Lovitz!!

Dad!

Posted by: Asians at March 10, 2022 01:11 PM (lhr6a)

380 357 The person who met all the Rock music legends is
now married to Bozo Conservative. Shibumi. Her t-shirt collection should be donated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 01:08 PM (u82oZ)

Shibumi has great stories.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2022 01:11 PM (wRauk)

381 369 Sean Austin...I think he went insane during the Trump presidency. I lost a lot of respect for him. To his credit, I lost a lot of respect for a lot of celebs.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 01:10 PM (sVtYq)

IIRC, Austin's been a moonbat for awhile, losing his sanity at least as far back as W's Presidency.

Posted by: Thrawn at March 10, 2022 01:11 PM (Rl7KJ)

382 Lady in Black

Outside a few people known to me, and Navy Federal, I have lost all trust. Prove to me you are worthy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 01:11 PM (u82oZ)

383 I lived next door to some famous hog farmers on Oahu. They were famous for stinking up the neighborhood.
Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 01:10 PM (v0R5T)

Downwind from a pig farm is not a nice place to be.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at March 10, 2022 01:11 PM (AiZBA)

384 I once bought John Voight's Le Baron.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:11 PM (LvTSG)

385 342 I've met Milton Berle, Jon Voight, Arnold the governor, Charles Krauthammer, Andrew Breitbart, Greg Gutfeld, Andy Levy, John Travolta, Bo Derek, Kelly Lebrock, drummer from the Pixies, Tab Hunter, Pink, Fergie from the black eyed peas.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2022 01:05 PM (wRauk)

I've met Ben Had. ;-)

Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 01:11 PM (AMIL/)

386 Bill Gates has really weird looking tits.

And yet his ex says he never lacked for paramours. Must be because women are into personality and not looks.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 10, 2022 01:11 PM (KFhLj)

387 344 Bill Gates has really weird looking tits.

https://bit.ly/3t050cN
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 01:05 PM (VCz/u)
.......

You'd think he could afford a new pair.

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 01:12 PM (v0R5T)

388 We need a thread devoted to Writing Like Kamala.
Winner gets 50 ampersands and a tin foil membership.

Sounds great. That is a thread idea that would be good. *cackle*

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 01:12 PM (ZGrMX)

389 >> My wife cornered Paulina Porizkova once in a revolving door,

None Hotter. Seriously the loveliest of ALL the lovelies.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:12 PM (lhr6a)

390 > I'm at Sean Astin at a small regional airport in Iowa. He was very friendly.

I'd probably end up quoting Goonies at him until he went away. Then I'd tell everyone I got to quote Goonies at Sean Astin.

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 01:12 PM (VCz/u)

391 CaliGirl

I think her greatest stories were about her courtship. Bozo Conservative is a lucky guy.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 01:12 PM (u82oZ)

392
You'd think he could afford a new pair.
Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 01:12 PM (v0R5T)

He should be shot with something other than a camera.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:12 PM (Zz0t1)

393 he United States won't allow Djokovic into the US to play in our big tennis tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami because he's not vaccinated.

**

Djokovic being unvaccinated created Omicron, which cured COVID, and he can't come into the US because he's unvaccinated.

Or something.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:12 PM (cUuEU)

394 I still believe MSM, since they seem to be bleeding red ink, have a vested financial interest in spouting DNC line. MSM desperately want free speech regulated, so they can become the sole arbiters of truth, and, for their compliance, they also want a government subsidy/bailout.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (5pTK/)) at March 10, 2022 01:13 PM (5pTK/)

395 And yet his ex says he never lacked for paramours. Must be because women are into personality and not looks.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 10, 2022 01:11 PM (KFhLj)

Indeed. Also no way that the "handsome vs money" axis women have for men isn't heavily skewed toward favoriting money, right?

Posted by: Thrawn at March 10, 2022 01:13 PM (Rl7KJ)

396 390 > I'm at Sean Astin at a small regional airport in Iowa. He was very friendly.

I'd probably end up quoting Goonies at him until he went away. Then I'd tell everyone I got to quote Goonies at Sean Astin.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 01:12 PM (VCz/u)

=========

Rookie movie. You lift up your shirt and flab your belly fat at him. That's what you do when you meet Sean Astin.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:13 PM (LvTSG)

397 Back 30+ years ago some landowners in Stowe, VT (fancy schmancy rich town) wanted to put in a motel to cater to all the tourists Stowe gets. Stowe had dozens of motels and decided they didn't need another one to cater to all the rich tourists.

The landowners then became pig farmers. Heh.

Posted by: 496 at March 10, 2022 01:13 PM (VJsqe)

398 The most famous for me...Charles Lindberg.

Didn't he die in like 1927?
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 01:07 PM (VCz/u)

1974

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 10, 2022 01:13 PM (U7wke)

399 Outside a few people known to me, and Navy Federal, I have lost all trust. Prove to me you are worthy.

--

It's hard to argue that, Salty! I have lost trust in and of just about everything.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 01:13 PM (sVtYq)

400 Russia announced today that it would limit fertilizer exports to "friendly countries." A worldwide food crisis is looking more likely every day.

I remember when we produced our own fertilizer, but that was a long time ago.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2022 01:14 PM (sWM8x)

401
I've met Ben Had. ;-)
Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 01:11 PM (AMIL/)

AND Rancher Bob and Horse Queen!

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:14 PM (Zz0t1)

402 Sean Astin looks like an aging lesbian. He and Colbert could do Subaru commercials together.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 10, 2022 01:14 PM (KFhLj)

403 previously was remove all the lawyers. now it must be remove all the bureaucrats. with prejudice

Posted by: government here to save you at March 10, 2022 01:14 PM (dhA95)

404 comment not found

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:14 PM (LvTSG)

405 393 he United States won't allow Djokovic into the US to play in our big tennis tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami because he's not vaccinated.

Djokovic being unvaccinated created Omicron, which cured COVID, and he can't come into the US because he's unvaccinated.

Or something.
Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:12 PM (cUuEU)

Huh. I would have guessed our idiots would have guessed he was Russian.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:14 PM (Vr12I)

406 284 Need a ruling:
Does appearing on The History Channel make me famous? Or just old?
Posted by: RI Red at March 10, 2022 12:57 PM (a8b7P)

You just better not be the Shamwow! guy.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 01:14 PM (trdmm)

407 Indeed. Also no way that the "handsome vs money" axis women have for men isn't heavily skewed toward favoriting money, right?
Posted by: Thrawn at March 10, 2022 01:13 PM (Rl7KJ)

You forgot power / access to power

Posted by: Harvey Weinstein watering the Ficus at March 10, 2022 01:14 PM (BgMrQ)

408
I believe the children are the children. They are like us, though not quie as old.
Posted by: Kamala Harris

Well, not the photo-children. We snuff them, as many as we can. Speaker Pelosi loves them fresh baked and piping hot from the oven.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 10, 2022 01:14 PM (pNxlR)

409
Ted Cruise

Senator Cruz is riding with trucker convoy.

Honk! Honk!

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at March 10, 2022 01:14 PM (aGUIs)

410 Paulina Porizkova

Its about her long patrician neck, thin frame, and her breasts. Note the Oxford comma.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM (u82oZ)

411 We can't produce our own fertilizer because that would be bad for the environment.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM (cUuEU)

412 None Hotter. Seriously the loveliest of ALL the lovelies.
Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:12 PM (lhr6a)
==============
She looked great, and (as I said) was very nice.

Posted by: Huck Follywood, Break The Teachers Unions at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM (AWw/Q)

413 Bill Gates has really weird looking tits.

And yet his ex says he never lacked for paramours. Must be because women are into personality and not looks.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

They were into his bank account.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM (Ecl8U)

414
proto-children

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM (pNxlR)

415 One compliment I once gave to ace is I have a very hard time mocking his written patter. He's a supremely difficult writer to ape, mostly because his humor is unique, original and fires from many unpredictable angles.

He also writes with an extremely well hidden precision. His words appear on first blush to be almost entirely stream of consciousness but they are actually very well edited.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM (CTx0G)

416 404 comment not found

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:14 PM (LvTSG)

Refresh

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM (QYPq3)

417 >> Shibumi. Her t-shirt collection should be donated to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame museum.

I sold mine off about 2-3 years ago...holy shit, people are insane for authentic concert T's.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM (lhr6a)

418 I met the band members of Moody Blues. A friend in college was on the student entertainment/concert committee and we went to pick them up at the airport and take them to the hotel before their concert. My brush with fame.

Posted by: Ripley at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM (MxEKc)

419 None Hotter. Seriously the loveliest of ALL the lovelies.
Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:12 PM (lhr6a)

All time favorite. She still looks like a goddess

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM (M+Lyo)

420 FIRST!

SPONGE!

Posted by: Ladyl at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM (TdMsT)

421 The most famous for me...Charles Lindberg.

Didn't he die in like 1927?
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 01:07 PM (VCz/u)

1974.
I met him in '64.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM (axyOa)

422 Drinks with Johah Goldberg and Mark Steyn at the same time.

Dinner with Victor Davis Hanson.

Literally ran into Al Gore in the West Wing.

Sat next to David Cassidy on a flight to LA where he got shit faced then pissed off that I didn't know who he was. Grabbed my phone when I called my wife when landing to say "Hi! This is David Cassidy!"

Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM (hJznm)

423 Acknowledging I'm being kind of spammy, but just bringing it up again because it's related here:

Repost from last thread in case anyone missed it:

So, apparently nearly the entire media (I didn't see OANN on the list) , including the charlatans at Fox News, were paid by the Biden regime to push the clot shot [and prevent criticism of same on their platforms]

https://tinyurl.com/muxbbvpj

Posted by: Methos at March 10, 2022 01:16 PM (kOpft)

424 415 One compliment I once gave to ace is I have a very hard time mocking his written patter. He's a supremely difficult writer to ape, mostly because his humor is unique, original and fires from many unpredictable angles.

He also writes with an extremely well hidden precision. His words appear on first blush to be almost entirely stream of consciousness but they are actually very well edited.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM (CTx0G)

Fine fine. You still won't get to meet him.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:16 PM (Vr12I)

425 384 I once bought John Voight's Le Baron.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:11 PM (LvTSG)

-----
Bite this pencil!

Posted by: 496 at March 10, 2022 01:16 PM (VJsqe)

426 410 Paulina Porizkova

Its about her long patrician neck, thin frame, and her breasts. Note the Oxford comma.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM (u82oZ)

#classyguyisclassy

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 01:16 PM (BgMrQ)

427 397 Back 30+ years ago some landowners in Stowe, VT (fancy schmancy rich town) wanted to put in a motel to cater to all the tourists Stowe gets. Stowe had dozens of motels and decided they didn't need another one to cater to all the rich tourists.

The landowners then became pig farmers. Heh.
Posted by: 496 at March 10,

I swear if I was a billionaire I'd buy huge properties in Malibu, Beverly Hills, Hamptons, Palm Beach and I'd fill them with homeless people and halfway houses and drug rehabs. Just because.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2022 01:16 PM (wRauk)

428 Sean Astin looks like an aging lesbian. He and Colbert could do Subaru commercials together.

British men all turn into lesbians around their 50th birthday. This is known.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 01:16 PM (ZGrMX)

429 My wife was a bodyguard for a few years. She had some great celebrity stories.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at March 10, 2022 01:16 PM (SVUeu)

430 remember when we produced our own fertilizer, but that was a long time ago.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2022 01:14 PM (sWM8x)

Now we're gonna have to rely entirely on Kurt.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:16 PM (CTx0G)

431 Some people have to be put in the wind.

Posted by: Eromero at March 10, 2022 01:17 PM (xDyyD)

432 >> Drinks with Johah Goldberg and Mark Steyn at the same time.

I am guessing Jonah picked mark Steyn to sex up his wife that night?

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:17 PM (lhr6a)

433 27 "At some point, you've made enough money."....Some presidentin' guy.
_________

Some presidentin' guy who owns multiple, mult-million-dollar mansions (in D.C., the Hamptons, Hawaii, etc.), gets multi-million-dollar book deals for books he doesn't write (and his barely literate wife, who couldn't even make the grade as a junior associate, does as well), and 6-figure speaking fees for canned speeches written by somebody else.

There's a point at which Barky's made enough money, but he's apparently not at that point yet.

And never will be.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at March 10, 2022 01:17 PM (k4dH2)

434 >>>Oh, yeah. Hog farms are stank.
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 01:11 PM (VCz/u)

=====

My American history professor in college used to call that the smell of money. This is a light 80s.

Posted by: Corners to the plate at March 10, 2022 01:17 PM (eco01)

435 {{{{Ladyl}}}}

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:17 PM (Zz0t1)

436 Emerald Robinson is one of the few actual journalists still working in America

Posted by: 18-1 at March 10, 2022 01:17 PM (ESjRY)

437 "Drinks with Johah Goldberg and Mark Steyn at the same time."

What color drink-umbrella does Jonah fancy?

Posted by: gp's Over-The-Horizon Dick Projection Capability at March 10, 2022 01:18 PM (qpX6U)

438 I still believe MSM, since they seem to be bleeding red ink, have a vested financial interest in spouting DNC line. MSM desperately want free speech regulated, so they can become the sole arbiters of truth, and, for their compliance, they also want a government subsidy/bailout.

They actually came out and said that. I believe it was in the failure bill last fall. Multiple billions of dollars to fund news organizations to ensure that only approved truth was broadcast.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at March 10, 2022 01:18 PM (5kI0z)

439 Andrzejewski....don't you get it!? it's the Russians disinformation!

Posted by: Docta Fowchee at March 10, 2022 01:18 PM (XlDSe)

440 389 >> My wife cornered Paulina Porizkova once in a revolving door,

None Hotter. Seriously the loveliest of ALL the lovelies.
Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:12 PM (lhr6a)

-----
For me it was Carol Alt and her green eyes.

Posted by: 496 at March 10, 2022 01:18 PM (VJsqe)

441 I am guessing Jonah picked mark Steyn to sex up his wife that night?

Whose the Brit? Anyway back of the line for noobies limey.

Posted by: The line of guys outside The Fair Mrs Jessica's door at March 10, 2022 01:18 PM (ESjRY)

442 Need a ruling:
Does appearing on The History Channel make me famous? Or just old?
Posted by: RI Red at March 10, 2022 12:57 PM

Nah, bro, compared to Vic, we're not that old.

Posted by: Eric (the) Red at March 10, 2022 01:19 PM (a3Q+t)

443 Once met Derek Jeter at a Starbucks in Tampa. Was right after he broke his ankle in the playoffs. He's hanging with some buddies and I stumble over and stand awkwardly in silence, just to the side of the convo, making myself known whilst waiting for them to stop speaking so I can be acknowledged.

"Hey Derek, was bummed you got hurt."

"Yeah, me too."

Shook his hand and walked away with this story.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 10, 2022 01:19 PM (KbCG3)

444 Fine fine. You still won't get to meet him.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:16 PM (Vr12I)

Eh, he might not take the editing thing as a compliment. Might prefer to keep that under wraps.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:19 PM (CTx0G)

445 Oh, yeah. Hog farms are stank.
**

Hold my beer.
- Chicken farms of the 70s and 80s

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:19 PM (cUuEU)

446 My American history professor in college used to call that the smell of money. This is a light 80s.
Posted by: Corners to the plate at March 10, 2022 01:17 PM (eco01)

Used to be Steel Mills back in the 50s / 60s...

Also called the smell of American Success

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 01:19 PM (BgMrQ)

447 Oh had about a 30 minute conversation with Rubio and Cruz at the same time before they became Senators.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 10, 2022 01:19 PM (hJznm)

448 I'm gonna guess all the "financial disclosures" Falci gives don't include everything Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates give him.

Whether that includes underaged poon or not, that won't be disclosed either.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 10, 2022 01:19 PM (YV6PJ)

449 I cannot recognize famous people.
I can barely recognize people I know when I see them some place unexpected

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at March 10, 2022 01:19 PM (lCui1)

450 >>For me it was Carol Alt and her green eyes.

I used to deliver her pizzas when I was in HS.

She was unbelievable. And the sweetest thing under the sun. Seeing her in old jeans and a T-shirt, working in her garden...

I'm gonna need a minute.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:20 PM (lhr6a)

451 Oh, yeah. Hog farms are stank.
Posted by: bonhomme

My American history professor in college used to call that the smell of money. This is a light 80s.
Posted by: Corners to the plate

It is. If it's your hogs.
Otherwise, it smells like pig shit.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 01:20 PM (Ecl8U)

452 447 Oh had about a 30 minute conversation with Rubio and Cruz at the same time before they became Senators.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 10, 2022 01:19 PM (hJznm)

=========

I got Donald Trump to sign my biography of Zachary Taylor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:20 PM (LvTSG)

453 My American history professor in college used to call that the smell of money. This is a light 80s.
Posted by: Corners to the plate at March 10, 2022 01:17 PM (eco01)

LOL, I remember hearing that about Hobbs, New Mexico. Which anyone who ever drove through has probably noticed. (not far from Roswell) There's a lot of old oil production there, but it's all high sulfur oil, and the entire town stinks of sulfur, day and night. Smell of money, they say.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 01:20 PM (trdmm)

454 "This story is something else. An accomplished journalist at Forbes found out about Dr. Fauci's financial holdings and earnings through FOIA requests. The NIH retaliated by successfully pressuring his editors to fire him. Since when did the NIH start acting like the mob?"

Ace: it has been decades at least, maybe a century. Read RFK Jr's book. Fauci was getting scientists cancelled in the 80s. The NIH was bullying scientists decades before that over the Salk Polio vaccine.

Don't think any of this is new. They just ratcheted up what they had been doing for decades.

Posted by: the raven at March 10, 2022 01:20 PM (R9iSe)

455 What color drink-umbrella does Jonah fancy?
Posted by: gp's Over-The-Horizon Dick Projection Capability at March 10, 2022 01:18 PM (qpX6U)

Pink Lady

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 01:20 PM (BgMrQ)

456 I lived in a down that had a big grain and bean refining operation. Fairly disgusting.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:20 PM (Vr12I)

457 I met Jim Nabors at his beach house in 1980. Nice guy.
Surprise surprise surprise!

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 01:21 PM (v0R5T)

458 None Hotter. Seriously the loveliest of ALL the lovelies.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:12 PM (lhr6a)

Finally something we can agree on

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:21 PM (CTx0G)

459 Most of my famous person interaction revolves around hockey in Dallas.

Having spent a large amount of time in the Stars Club in the igloo outside of Reunion Arena, I've met a lot of players across multiple sports and some actors and various rich people.

Back when Norm Green owned the Stars, he had a piece of my birthday cake and wished me a happy birthday once.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:21 PM (Zz0t1)

460 One compliment I once gave to ace is I have a very hard time mocking his written patter. He's a supremely difficult writer to ape, mostly because his humor is unique, original and fires from many unpredictable angles.

He also writes with an extremely well hidden precision. His words appear on first blush to be almost entirely stream of consciousness but they are actually very well edited.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM (CTx0G)

THREAD WINNER

Posted by: ace ......................... at March 10, 2022 01:21 PM (XntMs)

461 She's single, fellas.

https://bit.ly/35HKhSj

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 01:21 PM (VCz/u)

462 Got a visit from Johnny Bench when I was in the hospital at at age 8. He did not promise to hit a homer.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 10, 2022 01:21 PM (YFAIE)

463
Oh, for crying' out loud. I have a spreadsheet of just over 20,000 rows that won't stop spinning the little lollipop so I can save it and shut down the app. My laptop needs a reboot.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 10, 2022 01:22 PM (pNxlR)

464 >> I lived in a down that had a big grain and bean refining operation. Fairly disgusting.

Scottsbluff Nebraska has a Sugar Mill (Beets).

My God. Worse smell than the Cattleyards in Heresford, Tx.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:22 PM (lhr6a)

465 I met Jim Nabors at his beach house in 1980. Nice guy.
Surprise surprise surprise!
Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 01:21 PM (v0R5T)

Did he ask you to take a naked dip in a hot tub?

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:22 PM (Zz0t1)

466 342 I've met Milton Berle, Jon Voight, Arnold the governor, Charles Krauthammer, Andrew Breitbart, Greg Gutfeld, Andy Levy, John Travolta, Bo Derek, Kelly Lebrock, drummer from the Pixies, Tab Hunter, Pink, Fergie from the black eyed peas.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2022 01:05 PM (wRauk)

I've met Robert Goulet, Ben Vereen, David Cassidy, Greg Abbott, Emmet Smith, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney (ick) Sylvester Stallone, Adam West, a very overweight Burt Ward, the woman who played the lawyer on Night Shift, Bill Gates, Jean Smart, all of STP, Carlos Santana, Tim Robbins. Kevin Durant, Vince Young.

Posted by: LASue at March 10, 2022 01:22 PM (Ed8Zd)

467 248 "All the Marine officers I met were whip smart."

Is a captain an officer?
Posted by: gp's Electro-Tonic Tension at March 10, 2022 12:51 PM (qpX6U)

I made the mistake once of referring to a former Marine helo pilot buddy of mine as, "lieutenant." I promptly received a punch in the shoulder and a terse correction of, "Captain!"

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik [DHS Verdict: MDM] at March 10, 2022 01:22 PM (DTX3h)

468 The Virtue Signal Train is pulling out of the station with DDG aboard. Just come right out and say it:
censorship. That's what you're doing.

Gabriel Weinbert @yeggGabriel Weinberg
Like so many others I am sickened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create. #StandWithUkraine

At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 01:23 PM (sVtYq)

469 Oh yeah I met Carol Alt when she was 19 and I was roughly up to her thigh. Remember it like it was yesterday.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:23 PM (CTx0G)

470 We can't produce our own fertilizer because that would be bad for the environment.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM (cUuEU)

We flare off Natural gas in all the oil fields that are too remote to process it. Each one of those well heads could host a Haber-Bosch processor in a shipping container. Urea and Ammonia are easier to ship, and can be used locally.
We live in a stupid time with stupid people controlling our lives.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 01:23 PM (xhaym)

471 She's single, fellas.

https://bit.ly/35HKhSj
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 01:21 PM (VCz/u)

Those are nice.......

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:23 PM (Zz0t1)

472 Did he ask you to take a naked dip in a hot tub?
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:22 PM (Zz0t1)

***I'm not gettin' in the hot tub***

Posted by: Eddie Murphy as James Brown at March 10, 2022 01:23 PM (BgMrQ)

473 I sat behind Dennis Rodman in a movie theater once.

Posted by: Diesel Jones at March 10, 2022 01:23 PM (Vu7A1)

474 Its about her long patrician neck, thin frame, and her breasts. Note the Oxford comma.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM

We did. Bravo Zulu. Carry on.

Posted by: Assistant Associate AoSHQ Copy Editor, Oxford Comma Squadron at March 10, 2022 01:24 PM (a3Q+t)

475 Well, I've met:
LadyL, Captain Josepha Sabin, Insomniac, Jewells45, westminsterdogshow, Reuben Hicks, CBD, Weasel, Weird Dave, two Bacon Wenches, Hrothgar, Gref, Insomniac, Tom Servo, Prof Squirrel, Dr. T, and the estimable Ben Had, Rancher Bob, Cow Horse Queen, and many many more great people. My fingers got tired or I would have a longer list.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 01:24 PM (u82oZ)

476
Bill Cosby offered me a drink, once.

Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at March 10, 2022 01:24 PM (aGUIs)

477 342 I've met Milton Berle, Jon Voight, Arnold the governor, Charles Krauthammer, Andrew Breitbart, Greg Gutfeld, Andy Levy, John Travolta, Bo Derek, Kelly Lebrock, drummer from the Pixies, Tab Hunter, Pink, Fergie from the black eyed peas.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2022 01:05 PM (wRauk)

You must be from California.

Posted by: Javems at March 10, 2022 01:24 PM (AmoqO)

478 476
Bill Cosby offered me a drink, once.
Posted by: Soothsayer, the #1 name in news at March 10, 2022 01:24 PM (aGUIs)

Lol!!!!!

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:24 PM (Vr12I)

479 I once ran into Sir Ernest Shackleton once off the coast of Elephant Island. He seemed busy, so didn't stop to say hi.

Posted by: Whale at March 10, 2022 01:24 PM (QYPq3)

480 Fuuuuuuuu.... you guys get Porizkova and Alt and I get a fat bastard in a hot tub.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 10, 2022 01:24 PM (6lMp2)

481 >>Bill Cosby offered me a drink, once.

Dodged a bullet, there.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:24 PM (lhr6a)

482 I have a lot of celebrity stories but I think I've told most of them already.

I do have one about a former girlfriend of Michael Keaton and wife of Richard Mulligan that I can't tell in mixed company.

Posted by: ace ......................... at March 10, 2022 01:24 PM (XntMs)

483 462-

My opinion, John Bench is kind of a dick, especially when the subject is Pete Rose.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 10, 2022 01:25 PM (YV6PJ)

484 Did he ask you to take a naked dip in a hot tub?
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:22 PM (Zz0t1)
.......

That was the surprise.

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 01:25 PM (v0R5T)

485 Scottsbluff Nebraska has a Sugar Mill (Beets).

My God. Worse smell than the Cattleyards in Heresford, Tx.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:22 PM (lhr6a)

Blue crab processing plant in Hampton, Va....it's a smell you'll never forget....if you ever smell it again, you'll know exactly what it is.

Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 01:25 PM (AwYPR)

486 Well, I've met:
LadyL, Captain Josepha Sabin, Insomniac, Jewells45, westminsterdogshow, Reuben Hicks, CBD, Weasel, Weird Dave, two Bacon Wenches, Hrothgar, Gref, Insomniac, Tom Servo, Prof Squirrel, Dr. T, and the estimable Ben Had, Rancher Bob, Cow Horse Queen, and many many more great people. My fingers got tired or I would have a longer list.
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 01:24 PM (u82oZ)

*sheepishly raises hand*

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:25 PM (Zz0t1)

487 I've met Col Sanders twice. Hubert Humphrey once. I liked Col Sanders.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 01:25 PM (2graF)

488 I can barely recognize people I know when I see them some place unexpected

That's me. Horrible with names AND faces.
Heck there are guys working here in the warehouse that I still don't know their names.

Posted by: Bosk at March 10, 2022 01:25 PM (x6uUk)

489 "I can't tell in mixed company."

Sigh. OK, I'll leave.

Posted by: gp's Over-The-Horizon Dick Projection Capability at March 10, 2022 01:26 PM (qpX6U)

490 >> John Bench is kind of a dick, especially when the subject is Pete Rose.

Should have changed the subject to Blu Emu.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:26 PM (lhr6a)

491 I can barely recognize people I know when I see them some place unexpected

That's me. Horrible with names AND faces.
Heck there are guys working here in the warehouse that I still don't know their names.
Posted by: Bosk at March 10, 2022 01:25 PM (x6uUk)

I recognize faces all the time. It's the names that escape me.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:26 PM (Zz0t1)

492 We flare off Natural gas in all the oil fields that are too remote to process it. Each one of those well heads could host a Haber-Bosch processor in a shipping container. Urea and Ammonia are easier to ship, and can be used locally.
We live in a stupid time with stupid people controlling our lives.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 01:23 PM (xhaym)

New welfare eligibility rule: anyone who takes welfare will be required to serve as the neighborhood urea collector.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 01:26 PM (trdmm)

493 I met Jim Nabors at his beach house in 1980. Nice guy.
Surprise surprise surprise!
Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 01:21 PM (v0R5T)

We learned a few things from him.

Posted by: The Otters at March 10, 2022 01:27 PM (Qxu49)

494 She's single, fellas.

https://bit.ly/35HKhSj
Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 01:21 PM (VCz/u)
.........

I wonder how many times she's been single.

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 01:27 PM (v0R5T)

495 I attended a concert of "Les Brown and His Band of Renown" once and after the concert I recruited guys to go with me to a local jazz bar. Five of them came with me and they played their asses off 'till the bar closed at 2AM. It was a lot of fun.

Also, we got very drunk.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 10, 2022 01:27 PM (sWM8x)

496 Ooooh, Urea would be a nice name for my daughter!
- Shervin T. Jones, Esquire

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:27 PM (cUuEU)

497 .........

I wonder how many times she's been single.
Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 01:27 PM (v0R5T)

Likely after every conversation afterward.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:27 PM (Zz0t1)

498 When I was in a coma, I met Russell Wilson. Man was I disappointed to learn that wasn't real.

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at March 10, 2022 01:28 PM (QYPq3)

499 At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation.
Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 01:23 PM (sVtYq)

But these are the only searches we interfere with...promise.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic, member - Ashli Babbitt Society at March 10, 2022 01:28 PM (U7wke)

500 Blue crab processing plant in Hampton, Va....it's a smell you'll never forget....if you ever smell it again, you'll know exactly what it is.
Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 01:25 PM (AwYPR

Pogie plant in Cameron, Louisiana.

Posted by: ace ......................... at March 10, 2022 01:28 PM (XntMs)

501 I recognize faces all the time. It's the names that escape me.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:26 PM (Zz0t1)

I've made my peace with forgetting names, it happens to everyone. What bothers me is when someone walks up and starts talking to me, and it's clear they know me pretty well, and I'm thinking "have I ever met you before in my life?"

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 01:28 PM (trdmm)

502 492
New welfare eligibility rule: anyone who takes welfare will be required to serve as the neighborhood urea collector.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 01:26 PM (trdmm)

And then take it to the dye vats, pour it in, get in and start walking around.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:28 PM (Vr12I)

503
I recognize faces all the time. It's the names that escape me.
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That's me. Always. Remembering names is a killer skill to have. I have seen morons promoted just because they never forget a name. Its weird.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 01:28 PM (2graF)

504 the problem with writing in Special English is that it influences how I compose sentence. It is a hard habit to shake.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 01:28 PM (xhaym)

505 I've met Milton Berle, Jon Voight, Arnold the governor, Charles Krauthammer, Andrew Breitbart, Greg Gutfeld, Andy Levy, John Travolta, Bo Derek, Kelly Lebrock, drummer from the Pixies, Tab Hunter, Pink, Fergie from the black eyed peas.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2022 01:05 PM (wRauk)

I've met Robert Goulet, Ben Vereen, David Cassidy, Greg Abbott, Emmet Smith, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney (ick) Sylvester Stallone, Adam West, a very overweight Burt Ward, the woman who played the lawyer on Night Shift, Bill Gates, Jean Smart, all of STP, Carlos Santana, Tim Robbins. Kevin Durant, Vince Young.

Posted by: LASue at March 10, 2022 01:22 PM (Ed8Zd)

Heidi and I met Macho Man Randy Savage. Oh and Gilligans Island Dawn Wells. They were nice.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at March 10, 2022 01:29 PM (XlDSe)

506 I've met Ace by proxy

Had lunch and an afternoon with Stoaty Weasel over in England. She has met Ace.

She was apparently sworn to secrecy about the meeting.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 10, 2022 01:29 PM (hJznm)

507
I've made my peace with forgetting names, it happens to everyone. What bothers me is when someone walks up and starts talking to me, and it's clear they know me pretty well, and I'm thinking "have I ever met you before in my life?"
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 01:28 PM (trdmm)

This happens to me as well.

"Was I drinking? Did I do or say something stupid?"

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)

508 Blue crab processing plant in Hampton, Va....it's a smell you'll never forget....if you ever smell it again, you'll know exactly what it is.
Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 01:25 PM (AwYPR

Pogie plant in Cameron, Louisiana.
Posted by: ace ......................... at March 10, 2022 01:28 PM (XntMs)
***

Chicken processing plant in Water Valley Mississippi.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 01:29 PM (axyOa)

509 I ain't putting that in my Excalade.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:29 PM (cUuEU)

510 Truly sorry. Thought I took off the sock.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 01:29 PM (XntMs)

511 I met Mike and Grayson, at Black Gog Salvage. That's about it.

Posted by: Javems at March 10, 2022 01:29 PM (AmoqO)

512 She wrote the "Huh". What a bitch.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at March 10, 2022 12:36 PM (qnVBz)

This this this

Posted by: TexasDan at March 10, 2022 01:30 PM (z9npv)

513 Jim,

LDS used to tell you to stock up on salt, oil, wheat and honey. that was the original plan, because they will last forever. There are folks that don't see the value of grains, because they don't understand they can prevent famine. They store better than just about anything.

Keystone makes good canned meat products. Walmart still has them in stock. They aren't especially cheap, but good if you don't can your own. I did buy a can of freeze dried sausage, $60. It's the kind of thing that can be used to flavor beans.

Posted by: Notsothoreau - move forward at March 10, 2022 01:30 PM (5HBd1)

514 506 I've met Ace by proxy

Had lunch and an afternoon with Stoaty Weasel over in England. She has met Ace.

She was apparently sworn to secrecy about the meeting.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 10, 2022 01:29 PM (hJznm)

I'd enjoy meeting Stoaty, she's a hoot...

Posted by: Eddie Murphy as James Brown at March 10, 2022 01:30 PM (BgMrQ)

515 502 492
New welfare eligibility rule: anyone who takes welfare will be required to serve as the neighborhood urea collector.
Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 01:26 PM (trdmm)
-----------------
In Azerbaijan all recipients of state support have to sweep the streets every morning. They use stubby broom handle brooms as well. Its mostly women doing the sweeping.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 01:30 PM (2graF)

516 > We flare off Natural gas in all the oil fields that are too remote to process it. Each one of those well heads could host a Haber-Bosch processor in a shipping container. Urea and Ammonia are easier to ship, and can be used locally.
We live in a stupid time with stupid people controlling our lives.

We are not allowed to dump pure water in streams if it's the end result of an industrial process. Chemically. Pure. Water. is industrial waste. Even if you add salts and whatnot to make it identical to the local water source, it's still an "industrial waste."

Posted by: bonhomme at March 10, 2022 01:30 PM (VCz/u)

517 506 I've met Ace by proxy

Had lunch and an afternoon with Stoaty Weasel over in England. She has met Ace.

She was apparently sworn to secrecy about the meeting.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at March 10, 2022 01:29 PM (hJznm)

If there's the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, why can't we have the Six Degrees of Ace?

Posted by: Thrawn at March 10, 2022 01:30 PM (Rl7KJ)

518 Had lunch and an afternoon with Stoaty Weasel over in England. She has met Ace.

She was apparently sworn to secrecy about the meeting.

The video of Ace on Fox News is still on YouTube, I think. In case anyone wants to understand why people call him "the Ewok".

Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 01:30 PM (ZGrMX)

519 The state run media under our new Chinese overlords will not be any worse.

Posted by: These fish sticks are hard as tits at March 10, 2022 01:30 PM (3AD8C)

520 /off eddie murphy sock

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 01:30 PM (BgMrQ)

521 Timothy Olyphant tells a great story about this guy following him around an airport while he was shooting Season 3 of Justified. He says the guy was walking with him like they were old friends and talking with a thick Australian accent and after a time he was thinking how the hell do I get away from this guy?

Turned out it was Damon Herriman, an actor who had been a regular part of the cast since the pilot and he just didn't recognize him.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:30 PM (CTx0G)

522 Nicki Haley is completely out of her f**king mind.

They want to kill us, that's the only thing that makes sense.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 10, 2022 01:31 PM (fqhF3)

523 Was Dawn wearing a coconut bra?

Posted by: wth at March 10, 2022 01:31 PM (v0R5T)

524 I worked in a meat packing plant for six months, that was all I could take. The killing floor was preferable to the hot dog department.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:31 PM (Vr12I)

525 >>She was apparently sworn to secrecy about the meeting.

Ace doesn't want his Pancake Recipe getting out.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:31 PM (lhr6a)

526 525 >>She was apparently sworn to secrecy about the meeting.

Ace doesn't want his Pancake Recipe getting out.
Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:31 PM (lhr6a)

=========

He makes it from the box.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:32 PM (LvTSG)

527 Damon Herriman plays Dewey Crowe. That was supposed to be part of the punch line.

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:32 PM (CTx0G)

528 504 the problem with writing in Special English is that it influences how I compose sentence. It is a hard habit to shake.
Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 01:28 PM (xhaym)

Yoda English, much easier it is.

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 10, 2022 01:32 PM (trdmm)

529 I know my sister.

Posted by: Ben Shapiro at March 10, 2022 01:32 PM (cIfn2)

530 We are not allowed to dump pure water in streams if it's the end result of an industrial process. Chemically. Pure. Water. is industrial waste. Even if you add salts and whatnot to make it identical to the local water source, it's still an "industrial waste."
Posted by: bonhomme

**

You are going to take a LOT of money away from the municipal wastewater facility with that approach, and we can't have that.

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:32 PM (cUuEU)

531 BeBe Boobs Destroy tells an interesting story on how she met Ace. Said he was a perfect gentleman after a quick glance at the Pyramids.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 01:32 PM (u82oZ)

532 Ace doesn't want his Pancake Recipe getting out.
Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:31 PM (lhr6a)

=========

He makes it from the box.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Most people use what's IN the box.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 01:32 PM (Ecl8U)

533
I've met Robert Goulet, Ben Vereen, David Cassidy, Greg Abbott, Emmet Smith, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney (ick) Sylvester Stallone, Adam West, a very overweight Burt Ward, the woman who played the lawyer on Night Shift, Bill Gates, Jean Smart, all of STP, Carlos Santana, Tim Robbins. Kevin Durant, Vince Young.
Posted by: LASue at March 10, 2022 01:22 PM (

I have more as I'm sure you do too. Michael Jordan, Emmet smith, Charles Barkly, Laurence Taylor, Jimmy Connors, Kevin Costner, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, a lot of baseball players that I can't remember their names, Victor Davis Hanson, Rush limbaugh's brother. There's more if I think about it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2022 01:32 PM (wRauk)

534 >>>Ace doesn't want his Pancake Recipe getting out.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:31 PM (lhr6a)

I already have it.

Posted by: Bill Cosby at March 10, 2022 01:32 PM (QYPq3)

535 >>He makes it from the box.

But he puts his Love in it.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:32 PM (lhr6a)

536 524 I worked in a meat packing plant for six months, that was all I could take. The killing floor was preferable to the hot dog department.
------------------
Do the cows sense what is going on?

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 01:33 PM (2graF)

537 The killing floor was preferable to the hot dog department.

**

18" or 24" squeegee?

Posted by: Moron Rubie - Enjoy your new DNA at March 10, 2022 01:33 PM (cUuEU)

538 524 I worked in a meat packing plant for six months, that was all I could take. The killing floor was preferable to the hot dog department.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:31 PM (Vr12I)

Is this part of the "famous people I have met" subthread or "things that stink really bad" subthread? I confess to some difficulty distinguishing between processed meat and celebrity.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 10, 2022 01:33 PM (mZOHK)

539 Turned out it was Damon Herriman, an actor who had been a regular part of the cast since the pilot and he just didn't recognize him.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:30 PM (CTx0G)

Dewey Crowe. One of my favorite characters.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Pugs are goofy at March 10, 2022 01:33 PM (x8Wzq)

540 He makes it from the box.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:32 PM (LvTSG)

Not the kind in a bottle that you add water to and shake? Sad.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 01:33 PM (Ez6QX)

541 I know my sister.
Posted by: Ben Shapiro

Biblically?

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 01:33 PM (Ecl8U)

542 468 The Virtue Signal Train is pulling out of the station with DDG aboard. Just come right out and say it:
censorship. That's what you're doing.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 01:23 PM (sVtYq)

I saw where a Moron posted about that in an earlier thread. When people correctly point out that DuckDuckGo had originally oriented themselves as anti-censorship, Weinberg said that was never the case--which is a lie (i.e., "disinformation").

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik [DHS Verdict: MDM] at March 10, 2022 01:33 PM (DTX3h)

543 El no socko the bosso

Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:33 PM (CTx0G)

544 536 524 I worked in a meat packing plant for six months, that was all I could take. The killing floor was preferable to the hot dog department.
------------------
Do the cows sense what is going on?
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 01:33 PM (2graF)

Yeah, but the hogs were MUCH worse.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:33 PM (Vr12I)

545 Sat next to Judge Reinhold on a flight. Chatted the whole way. Great guy.

Rode a parking shuttle with Colt McCoy.

Bumped into Tommy Lee Jones as he was exiting a limo. The way it turned out it appeared that I was supposed to be the one meeting him. Kinda funny.

I was then directed into the venue where he was headed but I waved them off. Should have rolled with it and just to see how far I could have carried it off.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 10, 2022 01:33 PM (z9npv)

546 535 >>He makes it from the box.

But he puts his Love in it.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:32 PM (lhr6a)

========

Is he a public school teacher?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:34 PM (LvTSG)

547 538 524 I worked in a meat packing plant for six months, that was all I could take. The killing floor was preferable to the hot dog department.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:31 PM (Vr12I)

Is this part of the "famous people I have met" subthread or "things that stink really bad" subthread? I confess to some difficulty distinguishing between processed meat and celebrity.
Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at March 10, 2022 01:33 PM (mZOHK)

Little, I would bet.

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:34 PM (Vr12I)

548 Smollett sentencing today...what's the over/under?

Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 01:34 PM (AwYPR)

549 Dewey Crowe. One of my favorite characters.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Pugs are goofy at March 10, 2022 01:33 PM (x8Wzq)

Dewey was great.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 10, 2022 01:34 PM (Qxu49)

550 Timothy Olyphant tells a great story about this guy following him around an airport while he was shooting Season 3 of Justified. He says the guy was walking with him like they were old friends and talking with a thick Australian accent and after a time he was thinking how the hell do I get away from this guy?

Turned out it was Damon Herriman, an actor who had been a regular part of the cast since the pilot and he just didn't recognize him.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:30 PM (CTx0G)
***

At the end of Desert Storm we were working the port waiting for our turn to go home and Dick Chaney was visiting. One of my lieutenants was a crazy lady said "Watch this!" He's walking by so she just walks out, joins in next to him and they chat for about 30 seconds while walking before security escorted her away. Chaney was laughing.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 10, 2022 01:34 PM (axyOa)

551
========

Is he a public school teacher?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:34 PM (LvTSG)

Counselor at the Sexy Sex Camp for Kids.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

552 548 Smollett sentencing today...what's the over/under?
Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 01:34 PM (AwYPR)

==========

"Boys will be boys. Record expunged."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:35 PM (LvTSG)

553 551 Is he a public school teacher?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:34 PM (LvTSG)

Counselor at the Sexy Sex Camp for Kids.
Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:35 PM (Zz0t1)

==========

This explains so much...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:35 PM (LvTSG)

554 China ratcheting up strong anti US rhetoric and threats.

Posted by: It's happening at March 10, 2022 01:35 PM (r87rO)

555 I've met and talked with Eugene Melnyk, the owner of the Ottawa Senators.

Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 01:35 PM (eGTCV)

556 I had lunch with 2/3 of the B-52s . I think Fred Schneider would have raped my boss ,who I went with , if he had the chance.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 01:36 PM (XntMs)

557 Turned out it was Damon Herriman, an actor who had been a regular part of the cast since the pilot and he just didn't recognize him.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:30 PM (CTx0G)

A friend of a friend is an artist in England, went to an art show of some sort with Bono. Bono had this short ugly guy with him and eventually the artist figured out the short ugly guy was Van Morrison.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 10, 2022 01:37 PM (z9npv)

558 In case anyone wants to understand why people call him "the Ewok".
Posted by: Ian S. at March 10, 2022 01:30 PM

For the record, my feet are hairier than his.

Posted by: Jen Psaki at March 10, 2022 01:37 PM (a3Q+t)

559 Our most hated late night talk show host is my second cousin.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 01:37 PM (Ez6QX)

560 Had some beers with Art Fowler...Billy Martin's pitching coach.

Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 01:37 PM (AwYPR)

561 544 536 524 I worked in a meat packing plant for six months, that was all I could take. The killing floor was preferable to the hot dog department.
------------------
Do the cows sense what is going on?
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 01:33 PM (2graF)

Yeah, but the hogs were MUCH worse.
---------------------
Don't think I could take it. During the 73 recession I got three job offers: washing crazy people at Dorothy Dix Mental Hospital; gassing dogs at the SPCA; and being a gopher for a construction company. I became a gopher. I also decided I really did need to go to college.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 01:37 PM (2graF)

562 559 Our most hated late night talk show host is my second cousin.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 01:37 PM (Ez6QX)

I'm sorry. Prayers up!

Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:38 PM (Vr12I)

563 Our most hated late night talk show host is my second cousin.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 01:37 PM (Ez6QX)

For this, you get an extra hug at the TxMoMe.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:38 PM (Zz0t1)

564 Ted Cruz is riding in the DC trucker convoy today...yes, they are still here, even if local news stopped reporting on it after 2 days (and national news never did)...

Posted by: Nova local at March 10, 2022 01:39 PM (exHjb)

565 >> My wife cornered Paulina Porizkova once in a revolving door,

None Hotter. Seriously the loveliest of ALL the lovelies.
Posted by: garrett

And she married Ric Ocasek. Who is, let's say, not quite the fashion model that Paulina is.

That gave ugly dudes everywhere hope.

Posted by: mikeski at March 10, 2022 01:39 PM (P1f+c)

566 Our most hated late night talk show host is my second cousin.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 01:37 PM (Ez6QX)

...

Leslie Van Houten is my wife's second cousin.

Let's all agree that second cousins don't necessarily count.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 10, 2022 01:39 PM (z9npv)

567 Jordan61

That can cover a lot of late night hosts.

This year in Corsicana.

Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at March 10, 2022 01:39 PM (u82oZ)

568 I'm sorry. Prayers up!
Posted by: kraken at March 10, 2022 01:38 PM (Vr12I)

Heh, thanks. I haven't seen him since I was a kid. I did see his dad a couple of years ago.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 01:39 PM (Ez6QX)

569 Our most hated late night talk show host is my second cousin.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 01:37 PM (Ez6QX)

Talk about having to narrow down a list !

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at March 10, 2022 01:39 PM (XntMs)

570 Don't think I could take it. During the 73 recession I got three job offers: washing crazy people at Dorothy Dix Mental Hospital; gassing dogs at the SPCA; and being a gopher for a construction company. I became a gopher. I also decided I really did need to go to college.
Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 01:37 PM (2graF)

Oh dead lord...gassing dogs, washing crazy people.

Being a gopher would seem like heaven...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 01:40 PM (BgMrQ)

571 564 Ted Cruz is riding in the DC trucker convoy today...yes, they are still here, even if local news stopped reporting on it after 2 days (and national news never did)...
Posted by: Nova local at March 10, 2022 01:39 PM (exHjb)

=========

"When will America rise up and Republicans do something!"
*America rises up and Republicans do something, but it's not on the front page of the NYT*
"When will America rise up and Republicans do something!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:40 PM (LvTSG)

572 >>>Our most hated late night talk show host is my second cousin.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 01:37 PM (Ez6QX)

That doesn't really narrow it down. Does he scare the crap out of you in the hallways?

Posted by: In Reel Life (yes, dummy, on purpose) at March 10, 2022 01:40 PM (QYPq3)

573 >>And she married Ric Ocasek. Who is, let's say, not quite the fashion model that Paulina is.

And Ric Ocasek was the Producer for Bad Brains first LP!

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:40 PM (lhr6a)

574
And she married Ric Ocasek. Who is, let's say, not quite the fashion model that Paulina is.

That gave ugly dudes everywhere hope.
Posted by: mikeski at March 10, 2022 01:39 PM (P1f+c)

Money cures all visual ills.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)

575 I used to drink with Marvin Hagler once in awhile. He'd come into a bar in Boston where I was a regular and hang out with us. Good guy.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at March 10, 2022 01:40 PM (SVUeu)

576 342 I've met Milton Berle, Jon Voight, Arnold the governor, Charles Krauthammer, Andrew Breitbart, Greg Gutfeld, Andy Levy, John Travolta, Bo Derek, Kelly Lebrock, drummer from the Pixies, Tab Hunter, Pink, Fergie from the black eyed peas.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2022 01:05 PM (wRauk)

Funny -- I have the Pixies' Monkey Gone to Heaven running on infinite repeat inside my skull. It. Will. Not. Stop.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at March 10, 2022 01:40 PM (TObAv)

577 521 Timothy Olyphant tells a great story about this guy following him around an airport while he was shooting Season 3 of Justified. He says the guy was walking with him like they were old friends and talking with a thick Australian accent and after a time he was thinking how the hell do I get away from this guy?

Turned out it was Damon Herriman, an actor who had been a regular part of the cast since the pilot and he just didn't recognize him.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:30 PM (CTx0G)

Didn't recognize him why?

Posted by: m at March 10, 2022 01:41 PM (k8wcX)

578 That gave ugly dudes everywhere hope.
Posted by: mikeski at March 10, 2022 01:39 PM (P1f+c)

Looks are overrated...

Posted by: Lyle Lovett at March 10, 2022 01:41 PM (BgMrQ)

579 Huh, I figured Jimmy Kimmel was easily the most hated.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 01:41 PM (Ez6QX)

580 >> I used to drink with Marvin Hagler once in awhile. He'd come into a bar in Boston where I was a regular and hang out with us. Good guy.

Awesome. I used to fish with Dusty Baker. Guy is a fucking riot. Funniest baseball player, ever.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:41 PM (lhr6a)

581 Oh dead lord...gassing dogs, washing crazy people...
Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 01:40 PM (BgMrQ)

You know, there would be a certain logic in switching the tasks.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at March 10, 2022 01:41 PM (CYEwl)

582 579 Huh, I figured Jimmy Kimmel was easily the most hated.
Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 01:41 PM (Ez6QX)

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I thought it would be Colbert.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:41 PM (LvTSG)

583 552 548 Smollett sentencing today...what's the over/under?
Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 01:34 PM (AwYPR)

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"Boys will be boys. Record expunged."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:35 PM (LvTSG)

"Fake story but an accurate narrative of the nationwide sin of widespread white violence against blacks and gays. Record Expunged."

Also, two minutes after he's sentenced Pritzker will pardon him.

Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 01:42 PM (AMIL/)

584 Closest I got to celebrity was passing Nick Searcy on a street in a small town.

My buddy has met quite a few as a hotel manager in a tourist town.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Pugs are goofy at March 10, 2022 01:42 PM (x8Wzq)

585 We are not allowed to dump pure water in streams if it's the end result of an industrial process. Chemically. Pure. Water. is industrial waste. Even if you add salts and whatnot to make it identical to the local water source, it's still an "industrial waste."
Posted by: bonhomme

...

Is this more about getting a permit than about what's in the water? Even the municipalities have a fun time staying within the limits of their permits, and trying to get a new one is not easy apparently.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 10, 2022 01:42 PM (z9npv)

586 Funny -- I have the Pixies' Monkey Gone to Heaven running on infinite repeat inside my skull. It. Will. Not. Stop.

Posted by: Not Enough Lampposts at March 10, 2022 01:40 PM (TObAv)

Quick! Kill it by humming Where Is My Life

Posted by: Kindltot at March 10, 2022 01:42 PM (xhaym)

587 >>I figured Jimmy Kimmel was easily the most hated.

He fishes the river in my backyard a lot. Stays up the road with Huey Lewis...
one of these days ours paths will cross.

Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:42 PM (lhr6a)

588 Being a gopher would seem like heaven...
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It turned out well. Both sons of the company were decent guys and the father a stand up guy. Yeah, the other options could easily twist a person.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 10, 2022 01:42 PM (2graF)

589 I used to drink with Marvin Hagler once in awhile. He'd come into a bar in Boston where I was a regular and hang out with us. Good guy.
Posted by: Shooter McGavin at March 10, 2022 01:40 PM (SVUeu)

I sat in a bar in NYC and drank beers with a seriously fucked up Mark Gastineau once. After he left, the bar tender told me stories about how much better he was then than he was a while back when he would go into the bathroom and do a few lines of coke before coming back out and pounding ever liquor imaginable.

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:42 PM (Zz0t1)

590 I thought it would be Colbert.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:41 PM (LvTSG)

That's where my money was...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 01:43 PM (BgMrQ)

591 548 Smollett sentencing today...what's the over/under?

Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 01:34 PM (AwYPR)

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12 rapes/day.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 01:43 PM (v72l5)

592 *every

Posted by: Sponge - Trudeau is Asshoe! at March 10, 2022 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

593 591 548 Smollett sentencing today...what's the over/under?

Posted by: BignJames at March 10, 2022 01:34 PM (AwYPR)

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12 rapes/day.
Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 01:43 PM (v72l5)

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"Rapes"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning Bushido with Kurosawa at March 10, 2022 01:43 PM (LvTSG)

594 Semiconductor sales to Russia banned, but that shouldn't hurt Intel, AMD and other chip makers

Most chip stocks decline Monday morning, but analyst says Russian semiconductor sales are likely too small to matter to large chip makers

Posted by: SMOD at March 10, 2022 01:43 PM (RHGPo)

595 575 I used to drink with Marvin Hagler once in awhile. He'd come into a bar in Boston where I was a regular and hang out with us. Good guy.
Posted by: Shooter McG

I have also met Ray boom boom Mancini. He is friends with someone I know.

Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2022 01:43 PM (wRauk)

596 nood inflation

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, RIP Oregon Muse at March 10, 2022 01:43 PM (V6f9+)

597 We are not allowed to dump pure water in streams if it's the end result of an industrial process. Chemically. Pure. Water. is industrial waste. Even if you add salts and whatnot to make it identical to the local water source, it's still an "industrial waste."
Posted by: bonhomme

One of the more modern ways of purifying drinking water (from ground water, like lakes, rivers, etc) is to run it through a reverse osmosis filter.
The RO filter will reject about 85-90% of the water you try and force through the filter. So about 10-15% gets purified. The "reject water" has more "stuff" in it than the starting raw water. The reject water, for regulatory purposes, has to be approved by regulation before you can return it to whatever body of water it came from. I had a humorous conversation with guys from a local water utility about that a few years ago. They just kind of shook their heads and laughed.
The EPA at work.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative...Living on the Prison Planet at March 10, 2022 01:43 PM (vcOmj)

598 He fishes the river in my backyard a lot. Stays up the road with Huey Lewis...
one of these days ours paths will cross.
Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:42 PM (lhr6a)

That's funny, the last time I saw his dad he mentioned that Jimmy was off somewhere with Huey Lewis.

Posted by: Jordan61 at March 10, 2022 01:43 PM (Ez6QX)

599 You know, there would be a certain logic in switching the tasks.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at March 10, 2022 01:41 PM (CYEwl)

I admit it...I laughed...

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at March 10, 2022 01:44 PM (BgMrQ)

600 My opinion, John Bench is kind of a dick, especially when the subject is Pete Rose.

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That's kind of a shame. Not only did I grow up during the Bench/Rose era of the Big Red Machine, Mr. Black has worshipped at the Johnny Bench alter since his childhood. Even insisted he wore a #5 on his baseball jerseys while playing ball all through school.

Posted by: Lady in Black at March 10, 2022 01:44 PM (sVtYq)

601 Truth, Justice and the American way used to mean something. America is nothing but spoiled simpering children that don't care a bit about what we once were and could be again.

Our balls dropped. Right out of our sacks and straight to the sewer.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at March 10, 2022 01:44 PM (g/Dto)

602 I swear if I was a billionaire I'd buy huge properties in Malibu, Beverly Hills, Hamptons, Palm Beach and I'd fill them with homeless people and halfway houses and drug rehabs. Just because.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2022 01:16 PM

There is a recommendation for people who win a lot of money: Take 10% and use that money to celebrate your win and save and invest the rest. My 10% will be spent on placing awful neighbors next to people I hate.

Posted by: Chuck C at March 10, 2022 01:44 PM (EughT)

603 Awesome. I used to fish with Dusty Baker. Guy is a fucking riot. Funniest baseball player, ever.
Posted by: garrett at March 10, 2022 01:41 PM (lhr6a)

That guy used to drive me nuts when he coached the Nats. I'd watch him on teevee sucking on that toothpick, just waiting for it to get stuck in his throat and cause a medical emergency.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at March 10, 2022 01:45 PM (dfRN6)

604 460 One compliment I once gave to ace is I have a very hard time mocking his written patter. He's a supremely difficult writer to ape, mostly because his humor is unique, original and fires from many unpredictable angles.

He also writes with an extremely well hidden precision. His words appear on first blush to be almost entirely stream of consciousness but they are actually very well edited.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM

Agreed.

Posted by: m at March 10, 2022 01:45 PM (k8wcX)

605 ace,

DeSantis recently pointed out that "Bidenflation" is the worst in 40 years. Apparently Jimmy Carter was President the last time inflation was this high. I just discovered that there is a Jimmy Carter "Miss me yet" meme online now.

LOL

Posted by: 40 Miles North at March 10, 2022 01:45 PM (uWF4x)

606 Gosh, other than Horde members I don't think I've met anyone famous. I was interviewed a couple of times on TV in Russia, in the mid-nineties. So maybe I'm the most famous, and soonest to be deported, person I've met!

Posted by: Gref at March 10, 2022 01:45 PM (AMIL/)

607 @190 Other than the dry beans, it was all carbs. Now, facing starvation, any calories are better than none, but it wouldn't hurt to have a few cases of canned meats, powdered milk & eggs, and other proteins ready to hand.

And some dehydrated veggies, canned vegies, various jerkys in vacuum sealed bags, and frozen.

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There's carrots, onions, and milk all listed there. Apples, too, if you want dehydrated fruit (though they're out of stock)

The fruits and veggies does seem sparse, though. I know they've offered other stuff in the past (for instance, iirc I've got dehydrated strawberries I purchased from them a while back). It makes me wonder if the list is missing items due to supplier issues.

Posted by: Junior at March 10, 2022 01:46 PM (8ukeS)

608 At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that down-rank sites associated with Russian disinformation.

Just switched to Brave search. We'll see how it goes.

Posted by: Diesel Jones at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (Vu7A1)

609 Played rugby in Las Vegas with young, at the time unknown, actor Billy Campbell when he was in town to film the TV show Crime Story in the mid '80s. Great guy, and great athlete.

Our sponsor was the Thunderbird Lounge, where I learned to drink beer with the rest of the guys after rugby practice and matches to quell the physical pain. The stories he would tell about Hollywood and all the cocaine and women .... he's also a cousin of the actor Bruce Campbell.

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (v72l5)

610 I was at the blackjack table across the aisle from Michael Jordan once. Saw Ray Charles at an airport; he didn't see me.

Brian Dennehy walked past me in the Goodman theatre lobby. He was in the play we were attending. No, I was not nearly killed by his mass. Thankfully.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 10, 2022 01:47 PM (Qxu49)

611 I sat in a bar in NYC and drank beers with a seriously fucked up Mark Gastineau once. After he left, the bar tender told me stories about how much better he was then than he was a while back when he would go into the bathroom and do a few lines of coke before coming back out and pounding ever liquor imaginable.

Night after Thanksgiving 1979. We go into a bar north of Boston and there's a guy passed out on the end of the bar. So we're kinda ragging on him and the bartender says, "You know who that is? That's Mike Eruzione, captain of the US hockey team." And we're all like Oh, Jeezus the US is so fucked.
And about 3 months later they all made history.

Posted by: Shooter McGavin at March 10, 2022 01:49 PM (SVUeu)

612 Do the cows sense what is going on?
Posted by: Puddinhead
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*?*

Uh, what are you talking about?

Posted by: Democrat Voters at March 10, 2022 01:49 PM (WZ5i4)

613 Saw Ray Charles at an airport; he didn't see me.

I did not see that coming.
Then again, neither did Ray!

Posted by: rickb223 at March 10, 2022 01:49 PM (Ecl8U)

614 So the NIH conspired with a corporation to deny first amendment rights to a member of the press because that member of the press made them look bad.

A conspiracy to violate a fundamental natural right by the US government and a corporation. We're seeing a lot of this today. It's tyranny.

Posted by: Spiff The Spaceman at March 10, 2022 01:49 PM (lfSFb)

615 Saw Ray Charles at an airport; he didn't see me.
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Heh. Had the same experience with Stevie Wonder, ATL airport.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 10, 2022 01:50 PM (WZ5i4)

616 I arm wrestled Derland Moore, an old Saints defensive lineman. He was also the NFL arm wrestling champion in 83 and 84. It was an our local bar, He took me down so fast it rubbed a blister on my elbow.

Posted by: Javems at March 10, 2022 01:51 PM (AmoqO)

617 have more as I'm sure you do too. Michael Jordan, Emmet smith, Charles Barkly, Laurence Taylor, Jimmy Connors, Kevin Costner, Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, a lot of baseball players that I can't remember their names, Victor Davis Hanson, Rush limbaugh's brother. There's more if I think about it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at March 10, 2022 01:32 PM (wRauk)

Yep. LA in the 80s! You couldn't avoid it. Ed Marinaro bought me a drink and Jerry West did too. I dated a guy whose best friends were Jon Lovitz and Tige Andrew's son and Lisa Kudrow's brother, so I met Gary Cole and Peggy Lipton and lots more through him. Its probably much different now.

Posted by: LASue at March 10, 2022 01:51 PM (Ed8Zd)

618 604 460 One compliment I once gave to ace is I have a very hard time mocking his written patter. He's a supremely difficult writer to ape, mostly because his humor is unique, original and fires from many unpredictable angles.

He also writes with an extremely well hidden precision. His words appear on first blush to be almost entirely stream of consciousness but they are actually very well edited.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM

Agreed.
Posted by: m at March 10, 2022 01:45 PM (k8wcX)
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+2

Posted by: ShainS -- Honk Semper Tyrannis! at March 10, 2022 01:53 PM (v72l5)

619 His words appear on first blush to be almost entirely stream of consciousness but they are actually very well edited.
Posted by: ... at March 10, 2022 01:15 PM

Us ... sometimes not so much ...

Posted by: Close Tags at March 10, 2022 01:54 PM (a3Q+t)

620 From a previous thread about Putin: It seems fashionable to call him a thug, etc.,but then people in glass houses, yada yada -- our whole political class seems to be made up of thugs, just look at Jan 6, Ottawa, and so on.
From the thread: "He has engaged in political repression up to and including assassination of anyone who dares challenge his authority."
Sound like he's murdered a large number of people that we know of yet we only know of a few who died in questionable circumstances, so let's not exaggerate. And can we prove that he has actually assassinated anyone?

Posted by: Ciampino at March 10, 2022 01:54 PM (qfLjt)

621 The NIH retaliated by successfully pressuring his editors to fire him. Since when did the NIH start acting like the mob?
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Let's not point fingers at a faceless institution and instead ask the question: who at NIH, and/or elsewhere in government, were the individuals actually responsible for this pressurizing? Names please.

Posted by: Ciampino at March 10, 2022 01:59 PM (qfLjt)

622 Caroline Howard has a school-girl crush on Fauci's finances and wants to go to the prom with it.

Posted by: klaftern@yahoo.com at March 10, 2022 02:00 PM (taPSh)

623 548 Smollett sentencing today...what's the over/under?
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Time served, as judge weeps over how much he has "already suffered!"

Posted by: TrivialPursuer--F*ck Joe Biden at March 10, 2022 02:06 PM (k4dH2)

624 Gimme the Fauci 2-2-2 deal!

2-vaccine shots
2-booster shots
2-masks

Am I missing something from the Science?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 10, 2022 02:10 PM (oWZwa)

625 Upton, Whirlpool, 1911.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 10, 2022 02:19 PM (Qxu49)

626 Makes $340 to $680 per day online work and I received $21894 in one month online acting from home. I am a daily student and work simply one to a pair of hours in my spare time. Everybody will do that job and online ask extra cash by simply
copy and paste this link_________ http://WWW.CASH46.COM

Posted by: Shirley at March 10, 2022 02:40 PM (lz4yl)

627 I know a guy who is a member of the Canadian Senate. We even share the same surname.
Posted by: N.L. Urker, oops, I commented again. Sorry, eh. at March 10, 2022 12:54 PM (eGTCV)

I don't see any "Urkers" in the Canadian Senate.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 10, 2022 02:54 PM (eoQWY)

628 "Since when did the NIH start acting like the mob?"

Umm, about the same time every other department & agency of the federal government did.

Posted by: aelfheld at March 10, 2022 03:29 PM (Zy9Yy)

629 I was right, somewhat. Estimates for 2021 oil production have Russia as #1 with the US dropping 2 places to #3 behind Saudi Arabia.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 10, 2022 04:21 PM (Y5qcH)

630 The Gods of the swamp must not be angered, examined, or criticized.

Posted by: Harry at March 10, 2022 08:03 PM (EcD5Y)

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Adam Andrzejewski of OpenTheBooks: I Wrote About Anthony Fauci's Finances for Forbes. The NIH Then Began Pressuring Forbes for "Corrections" For Things That Were Already Correct.
And Then, Surprise Surprise, Forbes Fired Me.