Breaking: Explosion at the Hoover Dam<br>New Video Added

Breaking: Explosion at the Hoover Dam
New Video Added

CityofBoulderCityNV

@BoulderCityNev

Boulder City Fire Department is en route to an emergency call at Hoover Dam. No further information is available at this time.

I hope this is something mundane and minor, like a generator blowing up from poor maintenance.

Although -- even that is something that happens in third world countries that don't bother doing maintenance, isn't it?

Importantly, this explosion is not in the body of the actual dam itself.

DaveA links this video of a transformer catching fire and then exploding, which might be what happened here.

BREAKING: Apparent Explosion seen at the Hoover Dam

pic.twitter.com/JiPN9BBGK7
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 19, 2022

UPDATE - Alarm sirens are now wailing at Hoover Dam.pic.twitter.com/xAoGfJh1pg
— Disclose.tv (@disclosetv) July 19, 2022

Posted by: Ace at 01:46 PM

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1 fuck

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 19, 2022 01:46 PM (89T5c)

2 Is This Something ?

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 19, 2022 01:46 PM (tNU8M)

3 I'm sure it's nothing serious /s

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 19, 2022 01:47 PM (XvPQV)

4 I just came here to say that.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at July 19, 2022 01:48 PM (qpX6U)

5 In the corner of the image you can see a couple FBI agents running away from the scene.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 19, 2022 01:48 PM (AHeqJ)

6 "Infrastructure spending" usually means building more instead of maintaining what we already have.

Posted by: Dread at July 19, 2022 01:48 PM (++kAO)

7 To me it looks like a vehicle went splodey outside one of the turbine buildings then caught fire.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 19, 2022 01:48 PM (m7R0k)

8 My sources tell me that this was not muslim terrorism and that we may never know their true motivation.

Posted by: Brian Stelter at July 19, 2022 01:48 PM (WKPeU)

9 Cow flatulence. I tried to tell you it's a Bad Thing.

Posted by: Greta Thunberg at July 19, 2022 01:48 PM (a3Q+t)

10 There's a better than average chance this is Earth First or something.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2022 01:48 PM (ZGrMX)

11 Trump, AGAIN!!!

Posted by: The MSM at July 19, 2022 01:48 PM (AD14M)

12 Good thing we have so much law enforcement to prevent this and, oh, fires at refineries

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 19, 2022 01:48 PM (XvPQV)

13 Dam it!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 19, 2022 01:48 PM (aaGzp)

14 Ominous.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2022 01:48 PM (anj39)

15 Hey, what happened to those Chinese guys that were on the tour?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 19, 2022 01:48 PM (89T5c)

16 Doesn't appear to be part of the actual dam wall itself, so that is good.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 19, 2022 01:49 PM (N39Ws)

17 Actually, kind of shocking how little I care what happened, or how ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 19, 2022 01:49 PM (tNU8M)

18 Yeah, here's to hoping it's some bizarre accident or failure and not somebody purposely blowing up a truck outside the powerhouse or something like that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2022 01:49 PM (WWh8n)

19 Although -- even that is something that happens in third world countries that don't bother doing maintenance, isn't it?

==========

Maintenance is racist and a product of the patriarchy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 19, 2022 01:49 PM (LvTSG)

20 Good thing we have so much law enforcement to prevent this and, oh, fires at refineries
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 19, 2022 01:48 PM (XvPQV)

And food processing plants!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2022 01:49 PM (anj39)

21 Pretty small explosion. I'm thinking M-80...

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 19, 2022 01:49 PM (QSjkU)

22 Actually, kind of shocking how little I care what happened, or how ...
___

Yep.

Posted by: SMH at what's coming at July 19, 2022 01:49 PM (bMboH)

23

Didn't this happen in Superman I?

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 19, 2022 01:49 PM (DYmlj)

24 "Infrastructure spending" usually means building more instead of maintaining what we already have

"Infrastructure Spending"™ means building something worthy of being named for the sponsoring politician.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 19, 2022 01:49 PM (AHeqJ)

25 Get Jack Bauer on the phone!

Today's his day off!

Not today!

*oppressive digital clock*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 19, 2022 01:49 PM (dNqv+)

26 My sources tell me that this was not muslim terrorism and that we may never know their true motivation.
Posted by: Brian Stelter at July 19, 2022 01:48 PM

Are your sources reliable?

Posted by: Candy Crowley at July 19, 2022 01:49 PM (a3Q+t)

27 12 Good thing we have so much law enforcement to prevent this and, oh, fires at refineries
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 19, 2022 01:48 PM (XvPQV)

Good Lord knows they are doing a bang up job keeping the public safe from active shooters.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (N39Ws)

28 Why was there a Tesla down there?

Posted by: davidt at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (oTZbj)

29 A certain religion of peace likes using truck bombs.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (WKPeU)

30 Actually, kind of shocking how little I care what happened, or how ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 19, 2022 01:49 PM (tNU8M)

Come sit with me. We seem to have a lot in common.

Posted by: LASue at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (Ed8Zd)

31 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

32 With Democrats in charge of America, radical Islamists have issued a new directive:

Just wait, no need to sacrifice yourself.

They'll do it on their own.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (1Gz/l)

33 Hoover Dam is a fun visit. You can tour around inside, and the art-deco stuff on the outside is way cool. Worth a stop if you're in Vegas anyway.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (qpX6U)

34 Anything the Biden administration can do to bring doom and misery to Americans.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (Zz0t1)

35 That is the south side electrical generators. I've been in there many years ago.

Generators about 15 feet tall. I seem to recall a line of about 10 of them.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (5p7BC)

36 28 Why was there a Tesla down there?
Posted by: davidt at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (oTZbj)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (dNqv+)

37 It would take quite an explosion to take out Hoover Dam. Maybe even a nuke.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (QSjkU)

38 Transformers are full of ?di-electric? insulating oil. Which heats up, explodes, and burns orange when the juice goes wrong.

Posted by: DaveA at July 19, 2022 01:51 PM (FhXTo)

39 And at the end of the week, there will 50 different stories and nobody knows nothing. And in 6 months, the truth will come out.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 19, 2022 01:51 PM (89T5c)

40 But it is also a gigantic power plant. A transformer torching off or something like that is probably more likely than terrorism.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2022 01:51 PM (WWh8n)

41 AZ Gov Ducey: Sorry Calif, we're gonna have to open all the breakers. Enjoy your 100 deg temps. Also, fuck off you blood sucking ticks.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 19, 2022 01:51 PM (m7R0k)

42 Whew. We dodged a bullet...er...bomb.

Posted by: Food Processing Plants at July 19, 2022 01:51 PM (Xrfse)

43 28 Why was there a Tesla down there?
Posted by: davidt at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (oTZbj)

Ran out of juice...

Posted by: Hannibal Lecter at July 19, 2022 01:51 PM (BgMrQ)

44 Looks like it's outside the main building.

Hoover supplies power to L.V. so NBD, unless we have part of the horde there.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 19, 2022 01:51 PM (cM9SK)

45 7 To me it looks like a vehicle went splodey outside one of the turbine buildings then caught fire.

*whistles innocently*

Posted by: tesla at July 19, 2022 01:51 PM (oY6Yp)

46 Infrastructure spending means connected cronies get huge contracts with little to no oversight.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 19, 2022 01:51 PM (LvTSG)

47 The Hoover Dam may be one of mankind's cockiest projects ever. It's incredible.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 19, 2022 01:51 PM (KbCG3)

48 39 And at the end of the week, there will 50 different stories and nobody knows nothing. And in 6 months, the truth will come out.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 19, 2022 01:51 PM (89T5c)

I think they're never going to release the truth.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 19, 2022 01:51 PM (XvPQV)

49 Hoover Dam is a fun visit. You can tour around inside, and the art-deco stuff on the outside is way cool. Worth a stop if you're in Vegas anyway.
Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (qpX6U)
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The visitor center is very well done. If you're into engineering marvels, it's well worth the visit.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 19, 2022 01:51 PM (aaGzp)

50 /off Silence of the Lambs sock

Posted by: browndog Official Mascot of Team Gizzard at July 19, 2022 01:51 PM (BgMrQ)

51 Infrastructure spending" usually means building more instead of maintaining what we already have.
Posted by: Dread at July 19, 2022 01:48 PM (++kAO)

"Yeah, sure. "Building."!"

*Greedy dem donors and Hunter Biden with their grubby hands out waiting for that sweet, sweet infrastructure lucre.*

Posted by: LASue at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (Ed8Zd)

52
Miller! That git!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (/U27+)

53 Actually, kind of shocking how little I care what happened, or how ...
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 19, 2022 01:49 PM (tNU8M)

Unless this can be tied to MAGA terrorism or be used to blame the penny-pinching GOP for not voting for mucho bux for 'needed maintenace,' do not expect this story to make it to the weekend.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (AW0uW)

54 Based on the picture the explosion was downstream from the dam, should be trivial to put the fire out if they need to. Of course that might be a classic example of the cure is worse than the disease, but at least the fire would be out.

Posted by: moon_over_vermont at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (OAVBD)

55 That damn dam.

Posted by: Czech Chick at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (Ypbog)

56 Force 10 from Navarone.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (iiRhj)

57 I got a sawbuck on Eco-Terrorist.

Posted by: garrett at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (gnohi)

58 8 My sources tell me that this was not muslim terrorism and that we may never know their true motivation.
Posted by: Brian Stelter
____________

My sources are telling me that it was a Tea Party member.

Posted by: Brian Ross at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (9vQJW)

59 Environmental activism sometimes turns violent, out of frustration, and is not, repeat NOT, domestic terrorism.

And, I am not a terrorist.

Posted by: Deb Haaland, Secretary, Dept Of The Interior at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (Syrkw)

60 Transformer got too hot and over-pressure. Just guessing.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (0ocXn)

61 Is this a god dam?

Posted by: Beavis at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (xPl2J)

62 Damn!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (ynpvh)

63 Looks minor, like a vehicle fire that may have exploded.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (U3uv2)

64 Infrastructure Spending means i steal a dollar from you, keep $0.90 for myself, and give the rest to your governor for a little walkin' around money.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (/tleW)

65 Gonna have to send in the pizza-delivery men, who belong to an elite order of Deliverators to rescue the kids...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (K5n5d)

66 Transformer explosion?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (aaGzp)

67 "Groomer" isn't the word for just any "Letter People". It's for "Letter People" who cannot stop themselves from talking to small kids about sex and gender identity.

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (krQz2)

68 Okay, who had "major dam failure" on their DOOM-charts?

Posted by: Dr. T at July 19, 2022 01:53 PM (Vgw1E)

69 Indiana Dynamite shows to blame

Posted by: Bruce at July 19, 2022 01:53 PM (RbVRN)

70 Transformer explosion?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (aaGzp)
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More than meets the eye?

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 01:53 PM (krQz2)

71 I'll give to them , after 9-11 they built the adjacent bridge for traffic fairly quickly.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 19, 2022 01:53 PM (IeQbT)

72 To me it looks like a vehicle went splodey outside one of the turbine buildings then caught fire.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 19, 2022 01:48 PM (m7R0k)

Government should ban EVs, not ICEs.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 19, 2022 01:53 PM (7bRMQ)

73 Like the bombing of the stock exchange, acts like this are things that turn the whole of society against the communist/anarchists.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 19, 2022 01:53 PM (PNb1b)

74 What I wonder is how LONG will it take to replace the damaged unit?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 19, 2022 01:53 PM (ynpvh)

75 Based on the picture the explosion was downstream from the dam, should be trivial to put the fire out if they need to. Of course that might be a classic example of the cure is worse than the disease, but at least the fire would be out.
Posted by: moon_over_vermont at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (OAVBD)
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Sometimes the simple solutions are the best solutions...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 19, 2022 01:53 PM (K5n5d)

76 Okay, who had "major dam failure" on their DOOM-charts?
Posted by: Dr. T at July 19, 2022 01:53 PM (Vgw1E)
++++
:: raises hand ::

Except I expect it to be China or South America

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2022 01:53 PM (WWh8n)

77 Infrastructure spending means connected cronies get huge contracts with little to no oversight.

Only days after Pelosi Investment and Brokerage has a chance to buy up large chunks of stock.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 19, 2022 01:54 PM (AHeqJ)

78 Transformer explosion?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (aaGzp)

You rang?

Posted by: Michael Bay at July 19, 2022 01:54 PM (Vgw1E)

79 Shelving Failure?

Posted by: garrett at July 19, 2022 01:54 PM (gnohi)

80 Transformer got too hot and over-pressure. Just guessing.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (0ocXn)

Climate change is to blame, again!!!

*greenies everywhere*

Posted by: LASue at July 19, 2022 01:54 PM (Ed8Zd)

81 Looks like some of the electrical stuff exploded, from the video it is nowhere near the actual dam.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 19, 2022 01:54 PM (bVYXr)

82 Carl Weathers. Not a damn thing happened! Nothing!

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 19, 2022 01:54 PM (iiRhj)

83 The cement used to build the dam is still in the process of drying.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 19, 2022 01:54 PM (IeQbT)

84 Video has emerged of Ray Epps telling tourists yesterday, "Tomorrow, we are going to go INTO the dam and blow the place up!"

Posted by: JoeF. at July 19, 2022 01:55 PM (mR6Gs)

85 On my way...

Posted by: Pizza Delivery Guy at July 19, 2022 01:55 PM (oTZbj)

86 Well, Hoover was a Republican and white.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 19, 2022 01:55 PM (HTCOy)

87 Get Jack Bauer on the phone!

Today's his day off!

Not today!

*oppressive digital clock*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 19, 2022 01:49 PM (dNqv+)

Send in Pizzaman.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 19, 2022 01:55 PM (U3uv2)

88
That doesn't look remotely close to big enough to cause any kind of critical damage to the dam. If that's terrorism, something either went really wrong with the explosive charges, or the bomber has a serious problem understanding the scale of his target.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 19, 2022 01:55 PM (Zhwz2)

89 83 The cement used to build the dam is still in the process of drying.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 19, 2022 01:54 PM (IeQbT)

One place Jimmy Hoffa isn't...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 19, 2022 01:55 PM (ynpvh)

90 Hoover Dam is an absolute marvel of engineering for the period they made it in.

And it demonstrates the green bullshit is just that - bullshit.

If they wanted 'sustainable energy' they'd be damming the Colorado at multiple points all the way up the US.

Instead they're fucking about with wind turbines and solar panels.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at July 19, 2022 01:55 PM (setIA)

91 I think the cement at the bottom of the dam is like 300 feet thick.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 19, 2022 01:55 PM (QSjkU)

92 like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZipeaAkuC0

Posted by: DaveA at July 19, 2022 01:55 PM (FhXTo)

93 25 Get Jack Bauer on the phone!

Today's his day off!

Not today!

*oppressive digital clock*
Posted by: Aetius451AD
___________

* watches Elisha Cuthbert running down several flights of stairs *

Posted by: Furious George at July 19, 2022 01:55 PM (9vQJW)

94 Sometimes the simple solutions are the best solutions...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 19, 2022 01:53 PM (K5n5d)

***violently triggered***

Posted by: The Federal Government at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (Vgw1E)

95 I said cut the green wire first! Damnit!

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (iiRhj)

96 So i guess with enough EVs around it will be even easier for You Know Who to cover up inconvenient terrorist attacks. The media will just imply battery splodey fires:

You: "But it was a 1998 Jeep!"
Media: "Shut up."
You: "And it wasn't on fire, it plowed through a sidewalk full of children on July 4th!"
Media: "Move on."
You: "They were ululating Allahu Akbar!"
Media: "MAGA Country."

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (/jq25)

97 Transformer blowing up in front of a powerhouse.

It happens.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (I2/tG)

98 78 Transformer explosion?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (aaGzp)

You rang?
Posted by: Michael Bay at July 19, 2022 01:54 PM (Vgw1E)

Autobots! Roll Out!

Posted by: Optimus Prime at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (dNqv+)

99 Has anyone seen Clark?

“O, beautiful for spacious skies”

Posted by: Squid at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (LSRK6)

100

Bob Cummings and Priscilla Lane were seen driving away in a '39 Ford, straight 8 with California license plates . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (4oM4Q)

101 What I wonder is how LONG will it take to replace the damaged unit?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 19, 2022 01:53 PM (ynpvh)
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It depends on what it is. If it's a transformer, probably a couple of months if I had to make a wild, uneducated guess. Those power plant transformers are *huge." The plant up the road from me got new transformers this year and it required road closures, de-energizing power lines along the route, police convoys, etc. to deliver them. Big operation, and those were for a midsized power plant. I don't imagine transformers that big are sitting around waiting to be sold, they're probably build to order.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (WWh8n)

102 Putin? Again?!?!?!?!?!?!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (odVni)

103 BTW did we have a 4th of July terrorist attack or did I dream that?

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (/jq25)

104 watches Elisha Cuthbert running down several flights of stairs *
Posted by: Furious George at July 19, 2022 01:55 PM

Yes please.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (iiRhj)

105
>>>91 I think the cement at the bottom of the dam is like 300 feet thick.

daaaaaamn dat's thicc...!

Posted by: guy on the internet at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (B3oWe)

106 Why was there a Tesla down there?
Posted by: davidt

Note to Tesla owners: no, you cannot charge your car directly off the Hoover Dam, even if the math shows it should only take 0.0015 seconds.

Posted by: mikeski at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (P1f+c)

107 Video has emerged of Ray Epps telling tourists yesterday, "Tomorrow, we are going to go INTO the dam and blow the place up!"
Posted by: JoeF. at July 19, 2022 01:55 PM (mR6Gs)
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That's not like Ray.

Posted by: Rep Adam Kryzinger (R(D)) at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (krQz2)

108 To me it looks like a vehicle went splodey outside one of the turbine buildings then caught fire.

To be fair, the charging stations were broken or unavailable so after consulting 4chan the advice was to hook up the EV directly to the turbine for an ultra-fast quick charge.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (AHeqJ)

109
Calling the Flex Seal guy!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (/U27+)

110 Shelving Failure?
Posted by: garrett at July 19, 2022 01:54 PM

That was a subtle jape, correct?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (a3Q+t)

111 God Dam, man

Posted by: JoeF. at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (mR6Gs)

112 103 BTW did we have a 4th of July terrorist attack or did I dream that?
Posted by: ... at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (/jq25)

Parade shooting

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (XvPQV)

113 I think the cement at the bottom of the dam is like 300 feet thick.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 19, 2022 01:55 PM (QSjkU)

Concrete!

Posted by: all the civil engineers at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (h5TKJ)

114 This is clearly Trump's fault.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (HTCOy)

115 95 I said cut the green wire first! Damnit!
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (iiRhj)

"THE QUICK FUSE???!!!!"

- - Franz Liebkin, Max Bialystock, Leo Bloom

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (4oM4Q)

116 All Letter People are groomers.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (PNb1b)

117 I saw Shelving Failure open for Brutal Juice at Trees in '92.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (Zz0t1)

118 Imagine being the cops, Marshals and DEA agents that have to stand around for this one.

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (/jq25)

119 That twit video shows it may be part of a cooling system or pump.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (0ocXn)

120 Force 10 from Navarone.
Posted by: Minnfidel at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM

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Ocean's 14?

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (+R5dc)

121 86 Well, Hoover was a Republican and white.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 19, 2022 01:55 PM (HTCOy)

He f'd up the economy with his "fixes". If he'd done with Coolidge and Harding had done, wouldn't have been nearly so bad, and Roosevelt continued the pain.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (ynpvh)

122 So, which do you think will be more successful - Putin's trip to Teheran, or Biden's trip to Saudi Arabia?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (I2/tG)

123 Putin did it!!!!!

Posted by: Da Pentagon Trans Dept. at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (MO+cI)

124 City of Boulder City seems slightly redundant.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (Zz0t1)

125 If it wasn't for all those nasty tweets from Trump, this wouldn't have happened.

Posted by: jwest at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (/BlEx)

126 Calling the Flex Seal guy!
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM

Hey if it will float that fat fuck around in a boat with a sceen door for a bottom, why not!

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (iiRhj)

127 Maybe the 1st (or 2nd) Battle for Hoover Dam has begun, with the NCR and Legion fighting over it like two hungry dogs battling over a curved and bare bone?

Posted by: Thrawn at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (Rl7KJ)

128 How many Angelinos does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Yes, too soon.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (nMx88)

129 Transformer explosion?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (aaGzp)

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More likely Decepticons.

Hmmm... good name for GOPe.

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (krQz2)

130 Paging Mr. John Galt! Paging Mr. John Galt!!!

Posted by: Biden's Dog at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (odVni)

131
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (I2/tG)

My trips to the toilet are more successful than Biden's.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (Zhwz2)

132 PUTIN!

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (iiRhj)

133 Last clip could have a better shot of that chick's legs.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (PNb1b)

134

Call me when this happens at the Three Gorges Dam.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (4oM4Q)

135 Theory: the reservoir is so low that the pelton wheel cavitated trying to push low water through the chute sluice, which led to a collapse of the adit and subsequent combustion of the spillway crest.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (qpX6U)

136 >>That was a subtle jape, correct?

Or, just trying to get ace a cushy Consulting gig with the Feds.

Posted by: garrett at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (gnohi)

137 I've been wondering what Clock Boy is getting up to.

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (/jq25)

138 Ray Epps is a tour guide there.

Posted by: Roland THTG at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (j40lz)

139 Putin did it!!!!!
Posted by: Da Pentagon Trans Dept. at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (MO+cI)
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Inflation = Blown up.

So, yeah.

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 01:59 PM (krQz2)

140 Hey, I remember this mission from GTA: San Andreas!

Posted by: The Chap in the Deerstalker Cap at July 19, 2022 01:59 PM (N/KJF)

141

"The gums of minestrone. And then ice cream!"

- - Prez Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 19, 2022 01:59 PM (4oM4Q)

142 The Dambusters, featuring the dog that must not be called...

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 19, 2022 01:59 PM (LdmGl)

143 It would take quite an explosion to take out Hoover Dam. Maybe even a nuke.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (QSjkU)

Don't need to take out the whole thing, just disable it. And then not be able to get a little replacement part.

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 19, 2022 01:59 PM (Mzdiz)

144 64 Infrastructure Spending means i steal a dollar from you, keep $0.90 for myself, and give the rest to your governor for a little walkin' around money.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 19, 2022 01:52 PM (/tleW)

I see you know road construction scams

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 19, 2022 01:59 PM (XvPQV)

145 This low-trust society state of being absolutely sucks.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 19, 2022 01:59 PM (xVAiC)

146 135 Theory: the reservoir is so low that the pelton wheel cavitated trying to push low water through the chute sluice, which led to a collapse of the adit and subsequent combustion of the spillway crest.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier

Are you in Pre-Med?

Posted by: Delta Pledge at July 19, 2022 01:59 PM (oTZbj)

147 Theory: the reservoir is so low that the pelton wheel cavitated trying to push low water through the chute sluice, which led to a collapse of the adit and subsequent combustion of the spillway crest.
Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (qpX6U)
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And the muffler bearings were shot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 19, 2022 01:59 PM (aaGzp)

148 I've been on that tour several times, and that's the location of the Nevada Guidestones.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 19, 2022 02:00 PM (4Botv)

149 Imagine being the cops, Marshals and DEA agents that have to stand around for this one.
Posted by: ... at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (/jq25)

If 400 cops = 1 active shooter, how many do you require for an exploding Hoover Dam? Now there's a good question for a math textbook.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 19, 2022 02:00 PM (Vgw1E)

150 135 Theory: the reservoir is so low that the pelton wheel cavitated trying to push low water through the chute sluice, which led to a collapse of the adit and subsequent combustion of the spillway crest.
Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (qpX6U)

"The planetary gearbox, from Peoria."

"Never heard of it."

"It's in Illinois."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 19, 2022 02:00 PM (4oM4Q)

151 Theory: the reservoir is so low that the pelton wheel cavitated trying to push low water through the chute sluice, which led to a collapse of the adit and subsequent combustion of the spillway crest.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (qpX6U)

That sounds plausible.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 19, 2022 02:00 PM (U3uv2)

152 British dude smoking a pipe watching from the hill. Well, one must be patient with these sorts of things.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 19, 2022 02:01 PM (iiRhj)

153 More likely Decepticons.

Hmmm... good name for GOPe.

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (krQz2)

I like it for so-called NeverTrump but it makes them sound too cool.

I prefer something like Shitsack Ballslurpers.

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2022 02:01 PM (/jq25)

154 >>Theory: the reservoir is so low that the pelton wheel cavitated trying to push low water through the chute sluice,

Shoulda used more spit.

Posted by: garrett at July 19, 2022 02:01 PM (gnohi)

155 Elisha Cuthbert was hot as all hell back in the day. But in the context of the show, noticing felt creepy.

First season 24 is also a good example of one of my idiosyncrasies: it makes perfect sense in the context of the show's story, but I absolutely HATED the inclusion of the rape subplot. Ruined a perfectly good show.

Season 4 was probably the best, even though Marwan was kind of plot hole Nirvana.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 19, 2022 02:01 PM (dNqv+)

156 The Dambusters, featuring the dog that must not be called...

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at July 19, 2022 01:59 PM (LdmGl)
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Scrappy Doo?

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 02:01 PM (krQz2)

157 It's another admirer just trying to get my ATTENTION because he wants to date me!!! Just like Hinckly and Jodi Foster!!1!1

Posted by: AOC Donkey Chompers at July 19, 2022 02:01 PM (786Ro)

158
Call me when this happens at the Three Gorges Dam.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (4oM4Q)

Not as long as they keep buying my oil.

- - Vlad "The Impaler" Putin

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 02:01 PM (Zz0t1)

159 Hoover uses axial turbines as far as I know. No Pelton wheels.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 19, 2022 02:02 PM (QSjkU)

160 Why was there a Tesla down there?
Posted by: davidt at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (oTZbj)

Because they couldn't find a Pinto.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 19, 2022 02:02 PM (CRc3O)

161 How many Angelinos does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Yes, too soon.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (nMx8

"in," or on?

Posted by: Dr. T at July 19, 2022 02:02 PM (Vgw1E)

162 Actually, kind of shocking how little I care what happened, or how ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 19, 2022 01:49 PM (tNU8M)

The man has a point.

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2022 02:02 PM (/jq25)

163 TRANSFORMERS ARE REAL FORMERS

Posted by: Cave Johnson at July 19, 2022 02:02 PM (CJJvA)

164 More likely Decepticons.

Hmmm... good name for GOPe.

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (krQz2)

Whiny bitch starscream=bill kristol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 19, 2022 02:02 PM (dNqv+)

165 If you enbiggen the film, you can just see Edward Fox strolling away trying to look all innocent.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 19, 2022 02:02 PM (906pl)

166 Here's a furry explaining several meows of her fursona:

https://tinyurl.com/ywuy383t

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 19, 2022 02:02 PM (sWM8x)

167 163 TRANSFORMERS ARE REAL FORMERS
Posted by: Cave Johnson at July 19, 2022 02:02 PM (CJJvA)

Love is Vol . . .

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 19, 2022 02:02 PM (4oM4Q)

168 Wow, if they have to take the Hydro from Hoover offline... Calif grid will flat out fail.

Posted by: Romeo13 at July 19, 2022 02:02 PM (oHd/0)

169 Hoover Dam explosion? Is AOC out from under her bed yet?

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2022 02:03 PM (/jq25)

170 Doesn't look like a place open to the public or for most vehicular traffic except dam crews.
Will be interesting to see. Given the level of education in todays engineering graduates, I'm wonder if Intern Bob fu*ked up?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2022 02:03 PM (anj39)

171 This low-trust society state of being absolutely sucks.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 19, 2022 01:59 PM (xVAiC)

I know, right?

Posted by: Terrorist on a Guest Pass from Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 02:03 PM (Zz0t1)

172 Theory: the reservoir is so low that the pelton wheel cavitated trying to push low water through the chute sluice, which led to a collapse of the adit and subsequent combustion of the spillway crest.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (qpX6U)
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No time for that faggy talk.

Posted by: Frito at July 19, 2022 02:04 PM (krQz2)

173 Eiza Dushku looked pretty nice running down stairs, too.

Posted by: garrett at July 19, 2022 02:04 PM (gnohi)

174 Art Deco stuff at Hoover Dam:
https://tinyurl.com/2p82sery

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at July 19, 2022 02:04 PM (qpX6U)

175 He f'd up the economy with his "fixes". If he'd done with Coolidge and Harding had done, wouldn't have been nearly so bad, and Roosevelt continued the pain.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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I just think it had more to do with "wrong place wrong time" than his policies.

We've been beat over the head for nearly 100 years by globalists that Hoover's protectionism policies singlehandedly caused the Great Depression.

Posted by: Blago at July 19, 2022 02:04 PM (PwNLq)

176 Get Jack Bauer on the phone!

Today's his day off!

Not today!

*oppressive digital clock*

DAMMIT, CHLOE, I DON'T HAVE TIME!

Posted by: Jack Bauer at July 19, 2022 02:04 PM (ZSK0i)

177 Doesn't look like a place open to the public or for most vehicular traffic except dam crews.
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As I recall, the public gets to view the generator room from a gallery above. Not allowed on to the floor.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 19, 2022 02:04 PM (aaGzp)

178 Transformer explosions kinda happen for a lot of reasons. Mostly because I even though you can usually see it coming, exactly when it's going to hit is a mystery. Oil temps rose? Well that's a sign the transformer is going. Could last another month, could last another 5 years. It's hard to say. You can't fix it really, you have to completely rebuild the transformer. So a lot electric operators roll the dice on early indications of transformer failure, because it usually is a slow process of degradation, and you have years of life in the transformer left. Well sometimes it's not slow, and you don't have years, and degradation deteriorates into a full loss of coupling between the primary and secondary and all that power just gets dumped into the transformer body and BOOM!

Posted by: mikethemoose at July 19, 2022 02:04 PM (T/vhV)

179 Shit.

Guys? GUYS!? It looks like we may have a problem at that new next-gen Turbo Encabulator installation ...

Posted by: Chrysler Engineering Product Line Manager at July 19, 2022 02:04 PM (WWh8n)

180
Hoover uses axial turbines as far as I know. No Pelton wheels.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 19, 2022 02:02 PM

Com'on, guys. It's all ball bearings these days

-Irwin Fletcher

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 19, 2022 02:04 PM (ENBF0)

181 >>Theory: the reservoir is so low that the pelton wheel cavitated trying to push low water through the chute sluice,
.......

Must be tough riding that Peloton.

Posted by: wth at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (v0R5T)

182 Transformer explosion and fire. It's outside the generator house. Shit like this happens when containing huge amounts of electrical energy.

Posted by: Pork Chops & Bacons at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (Qhnrt)

183 Theory: the reservoir is so low that the pelton wheel cavitated trying to push low water through the chute sluice, which led to a collapse of the adit and subsequent combustion of the spillway crest.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (qpX6U)

This sounds like math. I was told there'd be no math. I'm gonna need to talk to the manager.

Posted by: Xander Crews at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (MpOGS)

184 correction: 50% of power goes to CA, 20% to AZ and the rest(?) goes to NV (L.V.).

So AZ can afford to take the hit and L.A. will *really* take a hit it can't afford.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (cM9SK)

185 Off in the distance, Jennifer Granholm was heard cackling wildly...

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (0ocXn)

186 Theory: the reservoir is so low that the pelton wheel cavitated trying to push low water through the chute sluice, which led to a collapse of the adit and subsequent combustion of the spillway crest.
__________________

I'm going with a Johnson Rod failure.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (es0Dj)

187 "Theory: the reservoir is so low that the pelton wheel cavitated trying to push low water through the chute sluice, which led to a collapse of the adit and subsequent combustion of the spillway crest."

sounds plausible ... but surely there was a flux capacitor involved? (heh, I have no idea, but yeah, low water might be an issue)

Posted by: illiniwek at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (Cus5s)

188 It was Lex Luthor.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (p+1gI)

189 Wow, if they have to take the Hydro from Hoover offline... Calif grid will flat out fail.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 19, 2022 02:02 PM (oHd/0)

I'll go make popcorn.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (Vgw1E)

190 Went to Hoover Dam once. Pretty boring really. They had not yet implemented the midday pyrotechnics show.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (KFhLj)

191 That twit video shows it may be part of a cooling system or pump.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (0ocXn)

Turbine rooms. Unless something happened inside, it shouldn't do anything to the power.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (7bRMQ)

192 Were they staging “Springtime for Hitler” at the dam?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (atmen)

193 Why was there a Tesla down there?

*

Heyl, remember a week or two ago when we were laughing about the Bill Gates affiliated food warehouse whatever going up in flames?

Guess the cause. Go ahead. I dare you. Guess.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (xVAiC)

194 I love Art Deco.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (QSjkU)

195 178 Transformer explosions kinda happen for a lot of reasons. Mostly because I even though you can usually see it coming, exactly when it's going to hit is a mystery. Oil temps rose? Well that's a sign the transformer is going. Could last another month, could last another 5 years. It's hard to say. You can't fix it really, you have to completely rebuild the transformer. So a lot electric operators roll the dice on early indications of transformer failure, because it usually is a slow process of degradation, and you have years of life in the transformer left. Well sometimes it's not slow, and you don't have years, and degradation deteriorates into a full loss of coupling between the primary and secondary and all that power just gets dumped into the transformer body and BOOM!
Posted by: mikethemoose at July 19, 2022 02:04 PM (T/vhV)

And don't get me started on how common spontaneous human combustion is!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (XvPQV)

196 180 Com'on, guys. It's all ball bearings these days

-Irwin Fletcher
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 19, 2022 02:04 PM (ENBF0)

"Fetzer valve."

- -John Cocktoastin

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (4oM4Q)

197 Wow, if they have to take the Hydro from Hoover offline... Calif grid will flat out fail.

Looks like the transformer for one generator blew up. Since they don't have enough water to fully run the dam anyway, probably no reduction in electrical output.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (I2/tG)

198 Heyl, remember a week or two ago when we were laughing about the Bill Gates affiliated food warehouse whatever going up in flames?

Guess the cause. Go ahead. I dare you. Guess.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (xVAiC)

Normies tired of his bullshit?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (XvPQV)

199 The original generator motors are still inside IIRC even though they have been replaced. Too big to move out. It's possible they have been moved out since I read about it 25 years ago.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (IeQbT)

200 This sounds like math. I was told there'd be no math. I'm gonna need to talk to the manager.

Posted by: Xander Crews at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (MpOGS)
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Only if you try to calculate the friction or torque.

You're not trying to do that, are you?

*stares accusingly*

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (krQz2)

201 @BoulderCityNev
#Hooverdam - the fire was extinguished before Boulder City Fire Department arrived on scene. Bureau of Reclamation/ Hoover Dam will be handling any additional questions.
https://is.gd/f0DZYM

That's good.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (WWh8n)

202 British dude smoking a pipe watching from the hill. Well, one must be patient with these sorts of things.

Posted by: Minnfidel at July 19, 2022 02:01 PM

This thread is rife with obscure movie quotes.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 19, 2022 02:07 PM (bVYXr)

203 Theory: the reservoir is so low that the pelton wheel cavitated trying to push low water through the chute sluice, which led to a collapse of the adit and subsequent combustion of the spillway crest.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at July 19, 2022 01:58 PM (qpX6U)

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I'm old enough to remember flooding downstream of the record snow melt in 1983 -- and the concrete spillways of the dam being used for the first time since testing in 1941.

It was an amazing sight to see -- the force & sound of the rushing water, and your occasionally see fish being carried in the water, and sometimes comically trying to swing back upstream while floating in the air.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 19, 2022 02:07 PM (4Botv)

204 Maybe the Florida All-Female Engineering Team was called in to replace lightbulbs?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 19, 2022 02:07 PM (guGkK)

205 >>So AZ can afford to take the hit and L.A. will *really* take a hit it can't afford.

They could always try rerouting the power through the tachyon emitter ray?

Posted by: Jordie at July 19, 2022 02:07 PM (gnohi)

206 Normies tired of his bullshit?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (XvPQV)

Red hot deals?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 19, 2022 02:07 PM (U3uv2)

207 And don't get me started on how common spontaneous human combustion is!
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (XvPQV)
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It's just not widely reported.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 19, 2022 02:07 PM (aaGzp)

208 King Boris,

Boris Johnson's Government WINS
late-night confidence vote by 349 votes to 238

Posted by: Braenyard at July 19, 2022 02:07 PM (PNb1b)

209 They can't start fixing anything until they figure out if there's an active shooter. Then they have to wait for him to kill everyone. It's a whole thing.

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2022 02:07 PM (mHaki)

210 I think the story of the dam's construction had some very American elements. The big civil construction firms of the day didn't want any part of it, so some small guys got together and formed a consortium to do it. Henry Kaiser I believe was one of the members (he'd been primarily a road-builder).

A friend is working with a descendant of the consortium founder (I think that's who it is), doing development projects in NV. Sadly, and unsurprisingly, from what I gathered during shouted conversation during a long bike ride, it sounds like they're mostly drawing on guvamint grants (and doing nothing remotely as squarely in the "public good" category as Hoover Dam).

Class: compare and contrast this with, for example, the slave labor projects in the USSR of the time, on their "hero projects", none of which compared to the technical and other majesty of Hoover Dam.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2022 02:07 PM (OTzUX)

211 Pelton wheels are impulse turbines. High head, low flow. I don't know how you would cavitate one.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 19, 2022 02:07 PM (QSjkU)

212 194 I love Art Deco.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (QSjkU)

This. Beautiful.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 19, 2022 02:07 PM (dNqv+)

213 So a lot electric operators roll the dice on early indications of transformer failure, because it usually is a slow process of degradation, and you have years of life in the transformer left.

Since there isn't enough water to run all the generators, the Bureau of Reclamation may well have decided to run the transformers until failure.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 19, 2022 02:08 PM (I2/tG)

214 DAMMIT, CHLOE, I DON'T HAVE TIME!
Posted by: Jack Bauer at July 19, 2022 02:04 PM (ZSK0i)

*furious typing to tecno music*

Posted by: Chloe at July 19, 2022 02:08 PM (dNqv+)

215 Wow, if they have to take the Hydro from Hoover offline... Calif grid will flat out fail.
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 19, 2022 02:02 PM (oHd/0)

I'll go make popcorn.
Posted by: Dr. T

Not if you live in California.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 19, 2022 02:08 PM (AHeqJ)

216 Guy Gibson, the Dam Busters commander, was an amazing individual, worth reading into for those with an interest.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2022 02:08 PM (OTzUX)

217 81 Looks like some of the electrical stuff exploded, from the video it is nowhere near the actual dam.

Posted by: Mister Scott (formerly GWS) at July 19, 2022 01:54 PM (bVYXr)

Wun Hung Lo, have the designers and builders of that so-called precision-guided hypersonic missile rounded-up and executed before sundown today!

Posted by: President Xi at July 19, 2022 02:09 PM (AMIL/)

218 I sure hope it wasn't Bumblebee. He was my favorite.

Posted by: Anotheranon at July 19, 2022 02:09 PM (8Ze5j)

219 >>Pelton wheels are impulse turbines. High head, low flow. I don't know how you would cavitate one.

Give me a gallon of Lube and 2 Hours alone with her.

Posted by: Data at July 19, 2022 02:09 PM (gnohi)

220 1996: Get the engineers here immediately.

2022: Email the Engineering Studies graduates.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 19, 2022 02:09 PM (xVAiC)

221
They could always try rerouting the power through the tachyon emitter ray?
Posted by: Jordie

Can't wait to see what the inherent jitter will scorch.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 19, 2022 02:09 PM (cM9SK)

222 Why was there a Tesla down there?
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That's The Way It Is.

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 02:10 PM (krQz2)

223 Since there isn't enough water to run all the generators, the Bureau of Reclamation may well have decided to run the transformers until failure.

Non sequitur. Government == failure. Has nothing to do with preconditions.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 19, 2022 02:10 PM (AHeqJ)

224 I remember watching The Dam Busters for the first time and hearing the dog name. It really was the name. The dog has it's own Wikipedia page. In 2020 they removed the dog's headstone and put up a new one without the name.

Posted by: Mark1971 at July 19, 2022 02:10 PM (xPl2J)

225 180 Com'on, guys. It's all ball bearings these days

-Irwin Fletcher
Posted by: AltonJackson at July 19, 2022 02:04 PM (ENBF0)

"Fetzer valve."

- -John Cocktoastin
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (4oM4Q)

Professor Irwin Corey's explanation is the most succinct.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 19, 2022 02:10 PM (AiZBA)

226 Only if you try to calculate the friction or torque.

You're not trying to do that, are you?

*stares accusingly*
Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (krQz2)

If I wanted to learn Spanish, I'd go to Tijuana, a**hole!

Posted by: Dr. T at July 19, 2022 02:10 PM (Vgw1E)

227 This busty black lady in workout clothes is glad that the fire is out:
https://is.gd/iyuYB9

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2022 02:10 PM (WWh8n)

228 Only if you try to calculate the friction or torque.

You're not trying to do that, are you?

*stares accusingly*
Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (krQz2)

Explosions, Elisha Cuthbert, Eliza Dushku, friction, torque, judgmental staring . . . this thread is getting super sexy right now.

Posted by: Xander Crews at July 19, 2022 02:10 PM (MpOGS)

229 Greg Price
@greg_price11

13m
She pretends to be handcuffed, raises her fist in a salute, and then goes back to pretending to be handcuffed.

Douglas Blair
@DouglasKBlair
38m
.@AOC has just been escorted by police away from the Supreme Court.

https://tinyurl.com/3bmjbnj2

Posted by: redridinghood at July 19, 2022 02:10 PM (NpAcC)

230 124 City of Boulder City seems slightly redundant.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (Zz0t1)

Tell me about it...

Posted by: Muirfield Village at July 19, 2022 02:11 PM (BgMrQ)

231 This is what happens when you drive the hamsters too hard.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 19, 2022 02:11 PM (guGkK)

232 Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2022 02:07 PM (OTzUX)

The contract called for huge bonuses for early completion of the various jobs and big penalties for not meeting the timeline.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 19, 2022 02:11 PM (IeQbT)

233 190 Went to Hoover Dam once. Pretty boring really. They had not yet implemented the midday pyrotechnics show.
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Drove across it in 1961. Its fucking big.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 19, 2022 02:11 PM (HTCOy)

234 This is what happens when you drive the hamsters too hard.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 19, 2022 02:11 PM (guGkK)
++++
It's HAMPster!

I'm so triggered right now.

Posted by: Hampster Girl at July 19, 2022 02:11 PM (WWh8n)

235 And AOC arrested [??] at Supreme Court demonstration:

https://twitter.com/DouglasKBlair/status/
1549445391585878022

Includes video if not linked above. Apologies if redundant.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 19, 2022 02:12 PM (yikp0)

236 City of Boulder City seems slightly redundant.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (Zz0t1)

Tell me about it...
Posted by: Muirfield Village at July 19, 2022 02:11 PM (BgMrQ)
------------
Hah!

Posted by: Torpenow Hill at July 19, 2022 02:12 PM (aaGzp)

237 I love Art Deco.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (QSjkU)

Art Nouveau > Art Carney > Art Linkletter > Art Deco

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2022 02:12 PM (AW0uW)

238 If SCOTUS hadn't taken away women's rights and forced them in to back alleys to die - this never would have happened!!

Posted by: Cheri at July 19, 2022 02:12 PM (oiNtH)

239 Joe Mannix

I used to work for a fairly large utility. Did some follow up work following a flashover failure on one of the transformers.

Usually for critical infrastructure like this they will have at least one backup. It’s the smaller regionals that have limited backup capabilities.

But they will spend a week or more assessing what went wrong anyway. This is always considered a big failure.

Posted by: Justin Castreau at July 19, 2022 02:12 PM (iTOK8)

240 Things are gettin’ jive torquey around here.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2022 02:12 PM (atmen)

241 Premature detonation. "It's never happened to me before!"

Posted by: Force 10 From Guangzhou at July 19, 2022 02:12 PM (4I/2K)

242 Might be hackers blowing up our power grid, piece by piece.

I've seen a few stories on natural gas pipelines and fuel processing facilities blowing up lately, too.

Could all just be coincidence, but it's enough to make a person start paying closer attention.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2022 02:12 PM (1Gz/l)

243 Hint to all CA Hordians

It's time to leave. No excuses.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 19, 2022 02:13 PM (PNb1b)

244 50 quatloos on The Monkey Wrenchers

Posted by: The Star Trek Aliens who bet on everything at July 19, 2022 02:13 PM (K5kOC)

245 I'm sure this happens all the time. Transformers are like light bulbs. You run 'em until they blow up and scatter hot oil and shrapnel all over the place.

Posted by: fd at July 19, 2022 02:13 PM (sn5EN)

246 Call me when this happens at the Three Gorges Dam.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

The Three Gorgeous Dame looks FABULOUS

Posted by: Miklos, in best Fernando Llamas voice at July 19, 2022 02:13 PM (4g4yr)

247 Can't be too careful! We'll have to drain the lake and turn off the turbines until we finish the investigation in 2035.

Posted by: Biden Administration at July 19, 2022 02:13 PM (ugV9/)

248 Thought this might be at the Three Stooges Dam in Chy-Nah, but I am disappoint.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 19, 2022 02:13 PM (FmMvr)

249 I used to work for a fairly large utility. Did some follow up work following a flashover failure on one of the transformers.

Usually for critical infrastructure like this they will have at least one backup. It’s the smaller regionals that have limited backup capabilities.

But they will spend a week or more assessing what went wrong anyway. This is always considered a big failure.
Posted by: Justin Castreau at July 19, 2022 02:12 PM (iTOK

++++
Cool! Thanks for dropping the learnin' on me. Having redundancy is not surprising I would think it would be SOP. And yeah, I imagine the investigation and postmortem will be thorough...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2022 02:13 PM (WWh8n)

250 This explosion, the transformer explosion reminds us all of the movies. Before today I thought that cars transforming into robots was just a trope of the big screen too. The plight of this overlooked Autobot should remind us of the struggles that another group of transformers faces. Transgender men and women are gunned down in our streets every day and this needs to stop.

Posted by: Kameltoe Harris at July 19, 2022 02:13 PM (eRVYd)

251 City of Boulder City seems slightly redundant.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (Zz0t1)
---
The name or the city?

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 02:14 PM (krQz2)

252 The Three Gorgeous Dame looks FABULOUS
Posted by: Miklos, in best Fernando Llamas voice at July 19, 2022 02:13 PM (4g4yr)

Very high maintenance though.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 19, 2022 02:14 PM (IeQbT)

253 Art Nouveau > Art Carney > Art Fleming > Art Linkletter > Art Deco
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2022 02:12 PM (AW0uW)

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 19, 2022 02:14 PM (aaGzp)

254 So why did 18 republicans vote against fin-swede joining nato? Anyone know?

The Left is having a field day saying they are the q/russia/coup group. I expected dem BS thrown into the bill but it looks clean.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 19, 2022 02:14 PM (X5xXa)

255 I'm sure this happens all the time. Transformers are like light bulbs. You run 'em until they blow up and scatter hot oil and shrapnel all over the place.
Posted by: fd at July 19, 2022 02:13 PM (sn5EN)
++++
What kind of crazy light bulbs do you use?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2022 02:14 PM (WWh8n)

256 I'm going with a Johnson Rod failure.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (es0Dj)

For an erection lasting more than four hours, call me.

Posted by: Kamala at July 19, 2022 02:14 PM (qwO6y)

257 This busty black lady in workout clothes is glad that the fire is out:
https://is.gd/iyuYB9
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2022 02:10 PM (WWh8n)

Ugh, no. "Hungover club slut" if ever I saw one.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2022 02:14 PM (AW0uW)

258 This busty black lady in workout clothes is glad that the fire is out:
https://is.gd/iyuYB9
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2022 02:10 PM (WWh8n)

No....no it's not....

And seems more Asian to me, but you're the boss.

Posted by: Terrorist on a Guest Pass from Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 02:14 PM (Zz0t1)

259 I'm going with a Johnson Rod failure.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (es0Dj)
........

Duranium is very brittle.

Posted by: wth at July 19, 2022 02:14 PM (v0R5T)

260 230 124 City of Boulder City seems slightly redundant.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (Zz0t1)

Tell me about it...
Posted by: Muirfield Village at July 19, 2022 02:11 PM (BgMrQ)

Pfff!!

- James City County, Virginia

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at July 19, 2022 02:14 PM (906pl)

261 This busty black lady in workout clothes is glad that the fire is out:
https://is.gd/iyuYB9
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2022 02:10 PM (WWh8n)

Ugh, no. "Hungover club slut" if ever I saw one.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2022 02:14 PM (AW0uW)

And would a smile kill you?

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 19, 2022 02:15 PM (U3uv2)

262 Boulder City of course started off as the worker's camp.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 19, 2022 02:15 PM (IeQbT)

263 Art Nouveau > Art Carney > Art Fleming > Art Linkletter > Art Deco
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2022 02:12 PM (AW0uW)
Posted by: Captain Obvious

That's what THEY want you to think

Posted by: Art Bell's Bartender at July 19, 2022 02:15 PM (4g4yr)

264 194 I love Art Deco.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 19, 2022 02:06 PM (QSjkU)

You stay away from me.

Posted by: Art Deco at July 19, 2022 02:15 PM (KFhLj)

265 If the managed the place wisely, they should have a spare transformer around for just this contingency. (The number of transformers they have should justify at least one spare )

They could pop one in temporarily in a matter of days, maybe a couple weeks if so.

When working at the steel mill (where were generated some of our own power), we had at least one very large MVA sized transformer on hand.

A new one would takes months to get.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 19, 2022 02:15 PM (ufFY8)

266 Before today I thought that cars transforming into robots was just a trope of the big screen too.

Posted by: Kameltoe Harris at July 19, 2022 02:13 PM (eRVYd)
---
Thus demonstrating the significance of the passage of time if we all work together.

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 02:15 PM (krQz2)

267 I'm going with a Johnson Rod failure.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (es0Dj)

This has never happened before, believe me.

Posted by: Dr. T at July 19, 2022 02:15 PM (Vgw1E)

268 The bald guy in the dress over at the Atomic Energy Commission is still trying to figure out whether he should be doing anything.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 19, 2022 02:15 PM (guGkK)

269 Boulder City of course started off as the worker's camp.
Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 19, 2022 02:15 PM (IeQbT)
++++
I didn't know that, but it doesn't surprise me.

:: files it away for trivia night ::

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2022 02:15 PM (WWh8n)

270 Anti doesn't matter - I assume those incentives worked? Seems like common sense stuff like that usually does.

Still clearly recall the LA quake ('94?) that took down some overpasses on the 10 freeway (key freeway in LA, for those who don't know the area). TV reporter bimbos doing stand-ups, broken overpasses as background, burbling about how it might take years to repair them, and obviously what a massive disruption that would be to daily life for many.

Very rich time-incentive contracts were issued. Overpasses were fixed in a few months. Duh.

Kuwaiti oil fires in '91 still the outstanding example of Experts Are Idiots, Don't Understand Human Nature or Markets disease, of course.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2022 02:15 PM (OTzUX)

271 Heyl, remember a week or two ago when we were laughing about the Bill Gates affiliated food warehouse whatever going up in flames?

Guess the cause. Go ahead.

Firefly burgers?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2022 02:16 PM (1Gz/l)

272 The base of the dam is 660 feet think. A nuke probably could not take it out

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 19, 2022 02:16 PM (flINI)

273
The Three Gorgeous Dame looks FABULOUS
Posted by: Miklos, in best Fernando Llamas voice at July 19, 2022 02:13 PM (4g4yr)

If you dislike straight lines, sure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)

274 Now would be the time to take it offline and upgrade the grid and infrastructure.

It's all spelled out there in the green new deal.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 19, 2022 02:16 PM (0ocXn)

275 Hoover Damn guards our strategic reserve of
fermented honey.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2022 02:16 PM (atmen)

276 So why did 18 republicans vote against fin-swede joining nato? Anyone know?

*

In an election year? There are probably a hundred billion reasons.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Norway only has EVs because the government has guns at July 19, 2022 02:16 PM (xVAiC)

277
Art Vandelay> Art Nouveau > Art Carney > Art Fleming > Art Linkletter > Art Deco

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2022 02:12 PM

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 19, 2022 02:16 PM (ENBF0)

278 163 TRANSFORMERS ARE REAL FORMERS
Posted by: Cave Johnson at July 19, 2022 02:02 PM (CJJvA)

I'm into Terraforming big boy...

Posted by: Carol Marcus at July 19, 2022 02:16 PM (BgMrQ)

279 The base of the dam is 660 feet think. A nuke probably could not take it out
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 19, 2022 02:16 PM (flINI)
++++
Don't count me out.

Posted by: San Andreas Fault at July 19, 2022 02:16 PM (WWh8n)

280 254 So why did 18 republicans vote against fin-swede joining nato? Anyone know?

The Left is having a field day saying they are the q/russia/coup group. I expected dem BS thrown into the bill but it looks clean.

well one is Jeff Van Drew (who notably switched parties in NJ) and he says b/c of the cost to the American people?

Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 19, 2022 02:17 PM (w0NJk)

281 nd AOC arrested [??] at Supreme Court demonstration:

https://twitter.com/DouglasKBlair/status/
1549445391585878022

Includes video if not linked above. Apologies if redundant.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 19, 2022 02:12 PM (yikp0)

PRETENDING to be arrested

Posted by: JoeF. at July 19, 2022 02:17 PM (mR6Gs)

282 I saw 660 Feet Think open for Nine Inch Nails at the Rosemont Horizon in '90.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

283 This busty black lady in workout clothes is glad that the fire is out:
https://is.gd/iyuYB9
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2022 02:10 PM (WWh8n)

Why, yes my Resting Bitch Face is worthy of a selfie!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 19, 2022 02:17 PM (QSjkU)

284 Art Fleming! Now there's a name I haven't heard in a long long time. I grew up with the original daytime Jeopardy! with him as the host.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 19, 2022 02:17 PM (txdEq)

285 Send in Pizzaman.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 19, 2022 01:55 PM (U3uv2)

*******(*(

Yes! Call pizzaman!

Posted by: The Hanso Brothers, whlie enjoying their stay in the penalty box at July 19, 2022 02:17 PM (K5kOC)

286 So why did 18 republicans vote against fin-swede joining nato? Anyone know?

NATO should be disbanded, not expanded.

Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2022 02:17 PM (ZGrMX)

287 City of Boulder City seems slightly redundant.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 01:57 PM (Zz0t1)

why?

Posted by: the Los Angeles Angels at July 19, 2022 02:17 PM (X5xXa)

288 The base of the dam is 660 feet think. A nuke probably could not take it out
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 19, 2022 02:16 PM (flINI)

Are those American feet or metric?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 19, 2022 02:17 PM (guGkK)

289 I'm going with a Johnson Rod failure.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (es0Dj)

Nothing that Viagra couldn't fix.

Posted by: Reuben Hick at July 19, 2022 02:18 PM (AHeqJ)

290 Nice work, Joe M.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2022 02:18 PM (OTzUX)

291 The base of the dam is 660 feet think. A nuke probably could not take it out
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 19, 2022 02:16 PM (flINI)

*smiles*

Posted by: Tsar Bomba at July 19, 2022 02:18 PM (v0R5T)

292 An early example of extreme Democrat vindictiveness and partisanship:

The dam was referred to as Hoover Dam after President Herbert Hoover in bills passed by Congress during its construction, but was named Boulder Dam by the Roosevelt administration. The Hoover Dam name was restored by Congress in 1947.

Posted by: Gref at July 19, 2022 02:18 PM (AMIL/)

293 I'm going with Hoover Damm, AZ.

Posted by: Paladin at July 19, 2022 02:18 PM (+Ivv+)

294 The bald guy in the dress over at the Atomic Energy Commission is still trying to figure out whether he should be doing anything.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 19, 2022 02:15 PM (guGkK)
---
Uvalde transfer?

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 02:18 PM (krQz2)

295 Maintenance crews too stoned to do proper work.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 19, 2022 02:19 PM (yikp0)

296 nd AOC arrested [??] at Supreme Court demonstration:

https://twitter.com/DouglasKBlair/status/
1549445391585878022

Includes video if not linked above. Apologies if redundant.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 19, 2022 02:12 PM (yikp0)

Because protest and rebellion is teh awesomesauce until Trump supporters do it.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 02:19 PM (Zz0t1)

297 So why did 18 republicans vote against fin-swede joining nato? Anyone know?

NATO should be disbanded, not expanded.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 19, 2022 02:17 PM (ZGrMX)

Its going to be another United Nations.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 19, 2022 02:19 PM (AiZBA)

298 Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2022 02:15 PM (OTzUX)

Worked better than the government could ever hope. And because of the incentives, so many innovations were developed.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 19, 2022 02:19 PM (IeQbT)

299 So why did 18 republicans vote against fin-swede joining nato? Anyone know?

NATO should have grabbed USC and UCLA while they had the chance.

Posted by: t-bird at July 19, 2022 02:19 PM (ugV9/)

300 The Hover Dam was built as part of our responsibility under the Inner Space Interspecies Non-aggression Treaty.
At the base of the water side is the Europa Embassy.

Of course, the declining water level has reduced the required pressure and, unable to reach any of the current idiots running this country, they've resorted to sabotage to return the water level to minimum.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at July 19, 2022 02:19 PM (cWen1)

301 Get someone from Indiana there pronto and they'll get it figured out. They have been pretty on the ball lately.

Posted by: Cheri at July 19, 2022 02:20 PM (oiNtH)

302 This busty black lady in workout clothes is glad that the fire is out:
https://is.gd/iyuYB9
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2022 02:10 PM (WWh8n)

Why, yes my Resting Bitch Face is worthy of a selfie!
Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 19, 2022 02:17 PM (QSjkU)

***

Black? I dunno... she looks Asian

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 19, 2022 02:20 PM (flINI)

303 I expect the cost and time to repair to exceed the original cost and timeline of construction of the dam.

Posted by: Bang-a-gong at July 19, 2022 02:20 PM (Qc+Wp)

304
The Hoover Dam name was restored by Congress in 1947.
Posted by: Gref at July 19, 2022 02:18 PM (AMIL/)

_________

The 80th Congress. Republican.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 19, 2022 02:20 PM (/U27+)

305 I'm sure this happens all the time. Transformers are like light bulbs. You run 'em until they blow up and scatter hot oil and shrapnel all over the place.
Posted by: fd at July 19, 2022 02:13 PM (sn5EN)
++++
What kind of crazy light bulbs do you use?
Posted by: Joe Mannix
_______________________

He lives in a groovy Greg Brady bachelor pad lit with lava lamps.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 19, 2022 02:20 PM (es0Dj)

306 Good thing Joey B's puppeteers have decided to declare a Climate Emergency!!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 19, 2022 02:21 PM (llON8)

307 235 And AOC arrested [??] at Supreme Court demonstration:

https://twitter.com/
------------------------

Everyone's in shirtsleeves except
AOC's wearing a long coat and scarf around her neck.
She's Getting Fat.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 19, 2022 02:21 PM (PNb1b)

308 I see AOC was ready for her close-up.

Posted by: Gloria Swanson at July 19, 2022 02:21 PM (oTZbj)

309 Another distraction from Joe's plans!

He had all these hopes and plans--and then what happened?

Some things.

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 02:21 PM (krQz2)

310 Black? I dunno... she looks Asian

Agreed.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2022 02:21 PM (1Gz/l)

311 Explosion?

Clearly the result of breakfast tacos.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 19, 2022 02:21 PM (fBY/Q)

312 Breakfast Taco's dead.

Posted by: flight-commander jill biden at July 19, 2022 02:21 PM (yikp0)

313 Hoover?

What the hell we 'spose to do, ya Morons?

Posted by: Stork, which is basically Miklos at July 19, 2022 02:21 PM (4g4yr)

314 Looks like a transformer.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 19, 2022 02:22 PM (vcv8B)

315 I guess I am not paying attention, but I thought the Republicans still stood for a strong defense, especially against Ruskies.

I understand being against the war. And I definitely understand being against the cash pipeline to the dems laundry service, but NATO seems useful again and since the Left wants to believe that Trump (and the right) are russian stooges, this only hurts the Right by supporting that false narrative.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 19, 2022 02:22 PM (X5xXa)

316 Creepy trailer for android mail-order bride movie called "Wifelike":

https://youtu.be/ibUtvyPORsI

Posted by: Sharkman at July 19, 2022 02:22 PM (FmMvr)

317 Wow, somebody actually voted against this idiotic NATO expansion? Astonished. However will they explain this to the brain-dead press and many of their brain-dead constituents, who've never had the slightest understanding of NATO's origins or purpose, and how it's been an inertial piece of junk and money sink and instrument for continued European infantilization for decades?

Funniest part is the reeee-ing about Sweden from ignorant russophobes, who of course have no understanding of post-war or NATO history, and don't know Sweden has always been counted as a de facto NATO member for war-time planning by Moscow (for good reason).

Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2022 02:22 PM (OTzUX)

318 >>>I'm sure this happens all the time. Transformers are like light bulbs. You run 'em until they blow up and scatter hot oil and shrapnel all over the place.

You'd be surprised. A lot of times the decision is made to "run it until you can't keep temperatures below the trip setpoint" which is really running the risk of sudden degradation and explosion.

Posted by: mikethemoose at July 19, 2022 02:22 PM (T/vhV)

319 Black? I dunno... she looks Asian
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 19, 2022 02:20 PM (flINI)
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Looks mixed.

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 02:22 PM (krQz2)

320
Explosion at the Hoover Damn.
Posted by: lowandslow
https://is.gd/V3SV9A

Well, let's hope that isn't some kind of catastrophe with a clock ticking down.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
==================
Peaceful activism by Democrats? Well, then, no prosecution.
Posted by: Merrick Garland

Colbert Commandos

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 19, 2022 02:22 PM (63Dwl)

321 "Why, yes my Resting Bitch Face is worthy of a selfie!"

Now that it's morning, she first perceives the tackiness of the Wyndham Suite penthouse I took her to. She's used to better than this.

Posted by: Durable Yet Minimal gp-Based Barrier at July 19, 2022 02:22 PM (qpX6U)

322 Dem Pro-Abortion Witness Suggests It's Better For Black Americans To Be Aborted Than Born - WZ

Posted by: Comrade flounder, wrecker, hoarder, saboteur at July 19, 2022 02:22 PM (U3uv2)

323 The dam was referred to as Hoover Dam after President Herbert Hoover in bills passed by Congress during its construction, but was named Boulder Dam by the Roosevelt administration. The Hoover Dam name was restored by Congress in 1947.
Posted by: Gref at July 19, 2022 02:18 PM (AMIL/)

I'm in the middle of a great book called Stalin's War, the thesis of which is--roughly-- that whatever happened during WW2 worked in Stalin's favor. A BIG reason for that is that Roosevelt was such a dickwad, giving Stalin EVERYTHING he wanted--and that old Georgian wanted EVERYTHING-- without asking for anything in return.

Roosevelt was such a jerkoff

Posted by: JoeF. at July 19, 2022 02:22 PM (mR6Gs)

324 Everyone's in shirtsleeves except
AOC's wearing a long coat and scarf around her neck.

That's not going to make Joe Mannix' feed. C'mon, AOC, try harder!

Posted by: t-bird at July 19, 2022 02:22 PM (ugV9/)

325 Everyone's in shirtsleeves except
AOC's wearing a long coat and scarf around her neck.
She's Getting Fat.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 19, 2022 02:21 PM (PNb1b)

No choice. She has already taken stupid to the limits of nature, so personal growth must be outward.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 19, 2022 02:23 PM (QSjkU)

326 >>>Get someone from Indiana there pronto and they'll get it figured out. They have been pretty on the ball lately.

>Mayor Bootyjudge will just tell you to go solar.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 19, 2022 02:23 PM (0ocXn)

327 I hope AOC can afford any fines on her Congressional salary.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 19, 2022 02:23 PM (yikp0)

328 If I could write short stories, this would be about Bob and Irene Cummings, life-long residents of Las Vegas. Bob is an electrician and Irene worked in the library. But in reality they were Oskar and Svetlana Karcov of Leningrad, deep sleeper agents of the GRU. After Irene died last year of breast cancer, Bob was doubly alone...abandoned by his partner for so many years, and also by the communications lines to his handler, silent since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Stricken with grief, and knowing he is on limited time due to his own onset of Alzheimer's, Bob decides to end it all in a final act of communist defiance. He goes to their remote hide site where their weapons and munitions had been stored since the 60's. Pulling it all together, he sets out to attack their primary target.
Little does Bob know that his final act will lead to a genera BLM/Antifa uprising and set the summer of '22 in America on fire.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2022 02:24 PM (anj39)

329 If Ukraine joined NATO, we could lend them the money to pay their 2%.

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 02:24 PM (krQz2)

330 I imagine transformers that size are made with weak points so they will self destruct in a somewhat predictable way.

Posted by: fd at July 19, 2022 02:24 PM (sn5EN)

331 probably a dam pizza deiivery

Posted by: REDACTED at July 19, 2022 02:24 PM (us2H3)

332 Creepy trailer for android mail-order bride movie called "Wifelike":

https://youtu.be/ibUtvyPORsI
Posted by: Sharkman at July 19, 2022 02:22 PM (FmMvr)

Not a thing.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)

333 What do you mean, "Cunning Stunt??"

Posted by: AOC at July 19, 2022 02:24 PM (oTZbj)

334 I think it's so nice that people can take selfies of themselves in their awesomeness and blast it out to people for money.

And yes, the woman is very attractive.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 19, 2022 02:24 PM (PrR4G)

335 >>> 88
That doesn't look remotely close to big enough to cause any kind of critical damage to the dam. If that's terrorism, something either went really wrong with the explosive charges, or the bomber has a serious problem understanding the scale of his target.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 19, 2022 01:55 PM (Zhwz2)

"It was supposed to be 18 FEET!!!"

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 19, 2022 02:24 PM (llON8)

336
Asian-Black Girl in Workout Clothes >>>>> Asian-Black Kamala Harris

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 19, 2022 02:24 PM (/U27+)

337 Are those American feet or metric?
Posted by: Cicero
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ssssssssssssssssssssssssss

Posted by: Braenyard at July 19, 2022 02:24 PM (PNb1b)

338 AOC arrested [??] at Supreme Court demonstration
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Notice that the cop is 100% in on the act. How does that happen?

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 19, 2022 02:24 PM (sWM8x)

339 the Left wants to believe that Trump (and the right) are russian stooges, this only hurts the Right by supporting that false narrative.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 19, 2022 02:22 PM (X5xXa)

That's the beauty of the plan. You set up a false narrative that guarantees that any disagreement will result in the Right being exposed as traitors. Perfect.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at July 19, 2022 02:25 PM (AiZBA)

340 I see AOC was ready for her close-up.
Posted by: Gloria Swanson at July 19, 2022 02:21 PM (oTZbj)

pretending to be hand cuffed by hiding her hands behind her back, but she's so satisfied with herself that she couldn't resist raising her fist, thus destroying her own subterfuge

Posted by: JoeF. at July 19, 2022 02:25 PM (mR6Gs)

341 Everyone's in shirtsleeves except
AOC's wearing a long coat and scarf around her neck.
She's Getting Fat.

She's engaged. It's time.

Posted by: brak at July 19, 2022 02:25 PM (j5Tg0)

342 Little does Bob know that his final act will lead to a genera BLM/Antifa uprising and set the summer of '22 in America on fire.
Posted by: Diogenes

Is Bronson in for the reboot?

Posted by: Miklos, wondering if it will be called iFon at July 19, 2022 02:25 PM (4g4yr)

343 AOC arrested [??] at Supreme Court demonstration
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Notice that the cop is 100% in on the act. How does that happen?
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 19, 2022 02:24 PM (sWM8x)

And she gives the 'fist of power' lift at the end of the video.

DIAF, you lousy cuunt.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

344 RUMOR: From the campaign I’m supporting — Biden to issue a Climate Emergency EO tomorrow ending all oil drilling on federal lands.

Again it’s a rumor — but I pray it’s false.

Posted by: Squid at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (LSRK6)

345 What do you mean, "Cunning Stunt??"
Posted by: AOC at July 19, 2022 02:24 PM (oTZbj)

***

Exactly what I said...

Posted by: Cunning Runt at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (flINI)

346 Russia hasn't even objected to Finland and Sweden to NATO.

I assume because the Nordic countries are all run by women.

As an American, however, I don't see why taking on the military liabilities of even more bullshit countries improves my protection in rural East Tennessee.

Moar Team America World Police, where I'm forced to fund rocket systems to Finland over a lutefisk crisis between two countries I don't care about.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (1Gz/l)

347 Everyone's in shirtsleeves except
AOC's wearing a long coat and scarf around her neck.
She's Getting Fat.

She's engaged. It's time.
Posted by: brak

Time for her to eat a slice of sex repellent.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (1x9G1)

348 JoeF., funny, I'm about one third into the same book. Sean makes some fairly outlandish claims at points, seemingly to buttress his thesis, but that's OK as his main points seem solid.

Actually never knew how much I didn't know about the diplomatic goings-on just before Sept. 1 1939.

His fantasy about an anti-totalitarian "axis" including the western allies and Italy and Japan in that period seems pretty unpersuasive, however.

Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (OTzUX)

349 It depends on what it is. If it's a transformer, probably a couple of months if I had to make a wild, uneducated guess. Those power plant transformers are *huge." The plant up the road from me got new transformers this year and it required road closures, de-energizing power lines along the route, police convoys, etc. to deliver them. Big operation, and those were for a midsized power plant. I don't imagine transformers that big are sitting around waiting to be sold, they're probably build to order.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (WWh8n)

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It'll be outsourced to China, with a 10% kick-back to the Big Pedo.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (lFJm1)

350 AOC arrested [??] at Supreme Court demonstration
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Throw her in the DC gulags for "Insurrection".

She actually probably did more than Brandon Straka on Jan 6.

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (krQz2)

351 If Ukraine joined NATO, we could lend them the money to pay their 2%.
Posted by: Axeman

90% of the 2%

Posted by: the Big Guy's manager at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (4g4yr)

352 Notice that the cop is 100% in on the act. How does that happen?
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Promised BJ in the squad-car.

Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (yikp0)

353 Spent an undergrad summer cleaning transformers like those for the local utility company.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (vcv8B)

354 Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2022 02:24 PM (anj39)

Dude, you just wrote a short story. How long is a short story supposed to be? :-)

Posted by: Gref at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (AMIL/)

355 So when was that Coffer guy President?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 19, 2022 02:27 PM (atmen)

356 I would have voted against NATO membership based on what the Swedish prime minister said about conservatives in the USA. F'ing British pronounced Can't.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 19, 2022 02:27 PM (IeQbT)

357 So why did 18 republicans vote against fin-swede joining nato? Anyone know?

Because some people don't want to commit the United States to using nuclear weapons to defend Helsinki?

Of course, the United States is already committed to using nuclear weapons to defend Riga, so perhaps it's too late to lock the barn door.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 19, 2022 02:27 PM (I2/tG)

358 I'm going with a Johnson Rod failure.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 19, 2022 02:05 PM (es0Dj)

The Paolo, he does not - how you say? - concern himself with rod failure.

Posted by: The Paolo at July 19, 2022 02:27 PM (AW0uW)

359 Fire is out. Everyone go home.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 19, 2022 02:27 PM (IEa8U)

360 I spent some time in the attic yesterday. This is the wrong time of year to do shit like that.

When it was all said and done, my clothes weighed 6 lbs. from the sweat.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 02:27 PM (Zz0t1)

361 More proof electricity is smoke. When the smoke leaves something electric, it stops working.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at July 19, 2022 02:27 PM (AEKr/)

362 Roosevelt was such a dickwad, giving Stalin EVERYTHING he wanted--and that old Georgian wanted EVERYTHING-- without asking for anything in return.

Roosevelt was such a jerkoff
Posted by: JoeF. at July 19, 2022 02:22 PM (mR6Gs)

But he was convinced he was the smartest guy in the room.

Posted by: Dr. Mabusette at July 19, 2022 02:28 PM (rEXI5)

363 RUMOR: From the campaign I’m supporting — Biden to issue a Climate Emergency EO tomorrow ending all oil drilling on federal lands.

Oh, goody. Except for the radical Green crowd his numbers will tank even further.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 19, 2022 02:28 PM (PrR4G)

364 140 Hey, I remember this mission from GTA: San Andreas!
Posted by: The Chap in the Deerstalker Cap at July 19, 2022 01:59 PM (N/KJF)

Pretty sure it was Strike Commander. The video caught the explosion, but missed the F-16 squadron heading up the canyon.

Posted by: Half Dozen at July 19, 2022 02:28 PM (dJs6r)

365 They're full of oil, which is why they burn so nicely.

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 19, 2022 02:28 PM (vcv8B)

366 344 RUMOR: From the campaign I’m supporting — Biden to issue a Climate Emergency EO tomorrow ending all oil drilling on federal lands.

Again it’s a rumor — but I pray it’s false.
Posted by: Squid at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (LSRK6)

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I pray it's true. It's most likely unconstitutional because it conflicts with statute that doesn't give the executive that kind of leeway. After the EPA slapdown, SCOTUS isn't going to be amendable to allowing this kind of overreach.

Also, it'll be political suicide.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 19, 2022 02:28 PM (LvTSG)

367
The Paolo, he does not - how you say? - concern himself with rod failure.
Posted by: The Paolo at July 19, 2022 02:27 PM (AW0uW)

Oh, you will.....

Posted by: Father Time at July 19, 2022 02:28 PM (Zz0t1)

368 Hoover?

I hardly knew her...

Posted by: Archer at July 19, 2022 02:28 PM (gmo/4)

369
Is Bronson in for the reboot?
Posted by: Miklos, wondering if it will be called iFon at July 19, 2022 02:25 PM (4g4yr)

I'm seeing a three-movie deal!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2022 02:28 PM (anj39)

370 The cop should be working AOC over with a night stick, like they would if she was a Trump supporter.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at July 19, 2022 02:28 PM (QSjkU)

371 Dude, you just wrote a short story. How long is a short story supposed to be? :-)
Posted by: Gref at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (AMIL/)
++++
500 pages, which covers the morning hours.

Posted by: Marcel Proust at July 19, 2022 02:28 PM (WWh8n)

372 I pray it's true. It's most likely unconstitutional because it conflicts with statute that doesn't give the executive that kind of leeway. After the EPA slapdown, SCOTUS isn't going to be amendable to allowing this kind of overreach.

Also, it'll be political suicide.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 19, 2022 02:28 PM (LvTSG)
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Let's hope it doesn't take until next June, though.

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 02:29 PM (krQz2)

373 >>>I imagine transformers that size are made with weak points so they will self destruct in a somewhat predictable way

You might wish that but the answer is no. What keeps a transformer safe is all of that massive power that comes in, goes back out. When a large portion or all of that power doesn't go back out.......well what am I saying there is no WAY all that power *doesn't* go back out, so yes all that power is going to go back out of the transformer, it's just not going out as electricity powering the grid, it's going out in a much more violent and unpredictable way.

Posted by: mikethemoose at July 19, 2022 02:29 PM (T/vhV)

374 [io]RUMOR: From the campaign I’m supporting — Biden to issue a Climate Emergency EO tomorrow ending all oil drilling on federal lands.

Again it’s a rumor — but I pray it’s false.
Posted by: Squid at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (LSRK6)

Doing this 2 days after flying around the world and BEGGING the Saudi's to drill for more seems, well, incredibly dumbfuck ignorant.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

375 , this only hurts the Right by supporting that false narrative.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 19, 2022 02:22 PM (X5xXa)

Nornally I wouldn't give a fuck about that because what's right is right. But what is the list of names? Are they *trying* to oopsie support the Narrative? Or are they voting for reals? I mean it's the national GOP, I don't believe they pass gas without a monetary reason.

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2022 02:29 PM (gIS16)

376 Just more evidence that these dams must be de-commissioned.

Posted by: A Greenie at July 19, 2022 02:29 PM (LUJEW)

377 JUST IN - Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has been arrested in D.C.

https://bit.ly/3aWjILv

U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota) has been arrested in Washington, D.C.

Omar's staff confirmed her arrest Tuesday afternoon.

Earlier in the day, Omar's office said the Congresswoman would be participating in an event at the United States Supreme Court Tuesday to protest the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 19, 2022 02:29 PM (Do5/p)

378 More proof electricity is smoke. When the smoke leaves something electric, it stops working.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions

Um..., yeah. Go with that.

Posted by: rickb223 at July 19, 2022 02:29 PM (1x9G1)

379 A certain religion of peace likes using truck bombs.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (WKPeU)

Pretty sure the area of the explosion is closed to the general public, so if it was a terrorist act, the perps infiltrated somehow.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 19, 2022 02:29 PM (4/Jpp)

380 372 Let's hope it doesn't take until next June, though.
Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 02:29 PM (krQz2)

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Suits would be filed before the end of the day by large corporations with lots of money for lawyers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 19, 2022 02:29 PM (LvTSG)

381 36 28 Why was there a Tesla down there?
Posted by: davidt at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM (oTZbj)

*golfclap*
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 19, 2022 01:50 PM

Twitter is pissed that Musk is backing out of the deal, hurting stock value. A high-profile Tesla conflagration would be sweet revenge...

Posted by: Tin Foil hat aficionado at July 19, 2022 02:30 PM (JCZqz)

382 But he was convinced he was the smartest guy in the room.
Posted by: Dr. Mabusette at July 19, 2022 02:28 PM (rEXI5

Stalin was because he bugged Roosevelt's room at Yalta.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 19, 2022 02:30 PM (IeQbT)

383 374 Doing this 2 days after flying around the world and BEGGING the Saudi's to drill for more seems, well, incredibly dumbfuck ignorant.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at July 19, 2022 02:29 PM (Zz0t1)

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His administration is a series of competing progressive interests without a head.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 19, 2022 02:30 PM (LvTSG)

384
Dude, you just wrote a short story. How long is a short story supposed to be? :-)
Posted by: Gref at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (AMIL/)

Long enough to get $300 from Reader's Digest?

Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2022 02:30 PM (anj39)

385 The Paolo, he does not - how you say? - concern himself with rod failure.
Posted by: The Paolo at July 19, 2022 02:27 PM (AW0uW)

Oh, you will.....
Posted by: Father Time at July 19, 2022 02:28 PM (Zz0t1)

***

Now THIS is the kind of cruelty that keeps me coming back. Nothing like a trip to The Church of the Painful Truth

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at July 19, 2022 02:30 PM (flINI)

386 Also, it'll be political suicide.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 19, 2022 02:28 PM (LvTSG)

They're already talking about him in the past tense. Maybe he's intentionally being used to settle leftard family business before VP Hoover takes over.

Posted by: ... at July 19, 2022 02:31 PM (gIS16)

387 Or maybe it was one of these:

https://youtu.be/xFoBu7P_Kwc?t=174

Posted by: Don at July 19, 2022 02:31 PM (Uf4pd)

388 Oh, Bitter Clinger - wanted to tell you we just missed out on a property in Washington County. Too bad as we really liked it but, we'll keep looking.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 19, 2022 02:31 PM (fBY/Q)

389 386 Also, it'll be political suicide.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 19, 2022 02:28 PM (LvTSG)

They're already talking about him in the past tense. Maybe he's intentionally being used to settle leftard family business before VP Hoover takes over.
Posted by: ... at July 19, 2022 02:31 PM (gIS16)

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They know that the house is falling. They want to be kings of the rubble.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 19, 2022 02:32 PM (LvTSG)

390 Is AOC leading with her vagina again?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at July 19, 2022 02:32 PM (0ocXn)

391 Why is @AOC pretending to be detained when she is escorted by police away from the Supreme Court?

https://bit.ly/3OjjQm2

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at July 19, 2022 02:32 PM (Do5/p)

392 His fantasy about an anti-totalitarian "axis" including the western allies and Italy and Japan in that period seems pretty unpersuasive, however.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (OTzUX)

Yes, but he's such a good writer--and he piles up the stats and anecdotes too. For instance, I had NO idea that Japan--while at war with us---didn't molest our ships bringing Stalin's aid through Vladiostok.

Also, always knew he was a monster, but man, what a heartless, cruel system Communism truly was.
No wonder the Ukranians welcomed Hitler--1,500,000 of them (plus Poles and others) JOINED the Wehrmacht rather than go back to Russia

Posted by: JoeF. at July 19, 2022 02:32 PM (mR6Gs)

393 Remember when it comes to SCOTUS decisions...last I heard DC hadn't let Heller (of the Heller decision) own a gun in DC yet. 14 years (and counting) from the decision.

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 02:32 PM (krQz2)

394 So why did 18 republicans vote against fin-swede joining nato? Anyone know?

Because some people don't want to commit the United States to using nuclear weapons to defend Helsinki?

Of course, the United States is already committed to using nuclear weapons to defend Riga, so perhaps it's too late to lock the barn door.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

This isn't a real consideration. NATO = US + pussy countries with underfunded military.

So what happens when pussy country is attacked and comes crying to the US, and the US says "eh, you're not worth it".

Pussy countries then attack US?

Posted by: quantum mechanic at July 19, 2022 02:32 PM (vcv8B)

395 I think Cherry 2000 showed the way forward

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo, food, water at July 19, 2022 02:33 PM (XvPQV)

396 I pray it's true. It's most likely unconstitutional because it conflicts with statute that doesn't give the executive that kind of leeway. After the EPA slapdown, SCOTUS isn't going to be amendable to allowing this kind of overreach.

Also, it'll be political suicide.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 19, 2022 02:28 PM (LvTSG)

It will not be political suicide with the Loony Left. Joe may be doing this to stop losing support from at least some groups on the Left.

Posted by: Gref at July 19, 2022 02:33 PM (AMIL/)

397 Nood, if no one called.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 19, 2022 02:33 PM (dNqv+)

398 Dem Pro-Abortion Witness Suggests It's Better For Black Americans To Be Aborted Than Born - WZ

So?

If your default position is that America is an awful, racist country where blacks are hunted down for sport, then aborting them at will is the only logical position for a Democrat to have.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2022 02:33 PM (AW0uW)

399 UGH -- Currently suffering through a webinar on regulatory compliance re: distance education.

The presenter sounds like he wrote the federal regulations (very dry, uninteresting delivery). It's required for my job, though, so I feel obligated to watch...*sigh*

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 19, 2022 02:33 PM (K5n5d)

400
RUMOR: From the campaign I’m supporting — Biden to issue a Climate Emergency EO tomorrow ending all oil drilling on federal lands.

________

The Reichstag Heat Wave

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 19, 2022 02:33 PM (/U27+)

401 Hoover damn!

Posted by: The Penguins at July 19, 2022 02:33 PM (RkC6l)

402 Stalin was because he bugged Roosevelt's room at Yalta.
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All Slavs want to bug you.

Posted by: Puddinhead at July 19, 2022 02:34 PM (HTCOy)

403 I don't imagine transformers that big are sitting around waiting to be sold, they're probably build to order.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at July 19, 2022 01:56 PM (WWh8n)

They are build to order and before the current abnormal lead times it was 4-6 months for one.
This is incidentally what makes large cities incredibly vulnerable. As taking out say the cooling in a large transformer or two that services a large metropolis might mean black outs for extensive lengths of time.

Posted by: Inogame at July 19, 2022 02:34 PM (53oGX)

404 396 It will not be political suicide with the Loony Left. Joe may be doing this to stop losing support from at least some groups on the Left.
Posted by: Gref at July 19, 2022 02:33 PM (AMIL/)

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Sure. He keeps Leftist Twitter on his side.

All while oil shoots up $20 a barrel just on the news.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 19, 2022 02:34 PM (LvTSG)

405 Well, I see NATO as a potential counter to European infantalization. The problem is not adding European members, the problem is that the US should get out and let them twist in the wind on their own.

That was impossible because the main project of "keeping Germany down" has been a total failure. Germany runs the continent, and they want Russia in, and US out, and NATO is our defense against that.

Or am I missing something? However bad EU is, it still beats Russia and China's view of society and what their plans are for us.

Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 19, 2022 02:34 PM (X5xXa)

406 It is over 90 degrees in DC today. Why is AOC wearing a coat and long pants?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 19, 2022 02:34 PM (Y+l9t)

407 From the campaign I’m supporting — Biden to issue a Climate Emergency EO tomorrow ending all oil drilling on federal lands.

And over fifty percent of this godforsaken country will tell you that a POTUS has no control at all over gasoline prices and anyway, it's all the fault of Trump, white supremacy and Big Oil.

Trust me. I exist in MA.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2022 02:34 PM (AW0uW)

408 UGH -- Currently suffering through a webinar on regulatory compliance re: distance education.

The presenter sounds like he wrote the federal regulations (very dry, uninteresting delivery). It's required for my job, though, so I feel obligated to watch...*sigh*
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 19, 2022 02:33 PM

Sounds like the guy who does conflict of interest training up here in MA. Makes drying paint seem exciting by comparison.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 19, 2022 02:35 PM (RkC6l)

409 Caesar's Legion or NCR?

Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 19, 2022 02:35 PM (Nf3zW)

410 RUMOR: From the campaign I’m supporting — Biden to issue a Climate Emergency EO tomorrow ending all oil drilling on federal lands.

Oh, goody. Except for the radical Green crowd his numbers will tank even further.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 19, 2022 02:28 PM (PrR4G)
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So is this a not so subtle indication that Biden has decided not to run so he's going to shove all the Progressives unpopular polices down America's collective throat so the Kamala doesn't have to take the heat?

I think it might.

Posted by: WisRich at July 19, 2022 02:35 PM (G0vdT)

411 Global Warming Alert

XL Bully dog that grabbed mother-of-two around the throat before mauling her to death had snapped and turned mad in the heat, family says _DM

Posted by: Braenyard at July 19, 2022 02:35 PM (PNb1b)

412 Build Back Better

See, we need to get that money to fix that.....Joe Biden and Nancy. Do it now.

Posted by: Colin at July 19, 2022 02:35 PM (nXQ1m)

413 And over fifty percent of this godforsaken country will tell you that a POTUS has no control at all over gasoline prices and anyway, it's all the fault of Trump, white supremacy and Big Oil.

Trust me. I exist in MA.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2022 02:34 PM

Can confirm. Although up here that number is probably way north of 50%.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 19, 2022 02:36 PM (RkC6l)

414 Moar Team America World Police, where I'm forced to fund rocket systems to Finland over a lutefisk crisis between two countries I don't care about.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at July 19, 2022 02:26 PM (1Gz/l)

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This is how the world ends, not with a whimper -- but with a clang.

Posted by: ShainS -- Welcome to the boneyard, it gets worse here every day at July 19, 2022 02:36 PM (lFJm1)

415 Long enough to get $300 from Reader's Digest?
Posted by: Diogenes at July 19, 2022 02:30 PM (anj39)

When I was a kid I tried multiple times to 'win' money from RD by submitting to Things Kids Say.

Admittedly most were probably lacking but I thought I had a winner with : Grandpa was trying to explain optimism to his grandson and asked whether the glass was half full or half empty. The grandson replied ' depends if you're filling it up or pouring it out '

Alas not a winner.

Posted by: Anti doesn't matter at July 19, 2022 02:36 PM (IeQbT)

416 The spot where Puddinhead fell off his bike has been labeled "Brandon Falls" on Google Maps. Commenters are having fun with it.

https://tinyurl.com/mpcap4md

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 19, 2022 02:37 PM (sWM8x)

417 It is over 90 degrees in DC today. Why is AOC wearing a coat and long pants?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 19, 2022 02:34 PM (Y+l9t)

She was told to look modest. Can't have her tits and ass hanging out at such a serious, solemn, occasion

Posted by: JoeF. at July 19, 2022 02:37 PM (mR6Gs)

418 His administration is a series of competing progressive interests without a head.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Biden is the purple helmet.

Posted by: In Miklosian Opinion at July 19, 2022 02:37 PM (4g4yr)

419 404 396 It will not be political suicide with the Loony Left. Joe may be doing this to stop losing support from at least some groups on the Left.
Posted by: Gref at July 19, 2022 02:33 PM (AMIL/)

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Sure. He keeps Leftist Twitter on his side.

All while oil shoots up $20 a barrel just on the news.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, learning the value of horror with Wes Craven at July 19, 2022 02:34 PM (LvTSG)

I didn't say it would be a smart move by Joe. A smart move by Joe will require a miracle!

Posted by: Gref at July 19, 2022 02:37 PM (AMIL/)

420 Why is AOC wearing a coat and long pants?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Because it's all theater to her and she is just not that smart.
But, mostly it's because she dumb as a post.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 19, 2022 02:38 PM (cM9SK)

421 Sounds like the guy who does conflict of interest training up here in MA. Makes drying paint seem exciting by comparison.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 19, 2022 02:35 PM (RkC6l)
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It's all about the requirement for faculty to provide "regular and substantive interaction" in their courses to be considered a "distance" or "blended" course, according to the federal government (has financial aid implications)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 19, 2022 02:39 PM (K5n5d)

422 It is over 90 degrees in DC today. Why is AOC wearing a coat and long pants?
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This is very common among mental patients.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at July 19, 2022 02:39 PM (sWM8x)

423 But, mostly it's because she dumb as a post.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 19, 2022 02:38 PM

Madam, we protest this libel!

Posted by: Posts everywhere at July 19, 2022 02:40 PM (RkC6l)

424 Madam, we protest this libel!
Posted by: Posts everywhere at July 19, 2022 02:40 PM

Or sir. What do we know? We're posts.

Posted by: Posts everywhere at July 19, 2022 02:40 PM (RkC6l)

425 But, mostly it's because she dumb as a post.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 19, 2022 02:38 PM

Madam, we protest this libel!
Posted by: Posts

I think I've heard: It isn't libel if it's true.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 19, 2022 02:41 PM (cM9SK)

426 Important to note southern Nevada is going through a pretty bad heatwave right now. Multiple days of 110-plus temperatures. I'm thinking it's just an overstressed generator.

Posted by: Lament for a Fallen Nation at July 19, 2022 02:41 PM (LS6i5)

427 >>> 315 I guess I am not paying attention, but I thought the Republicans still stood for a strong defense, especially against Ruskies.

I understand being against the war. And I definitely understand being against the cash pipeline to the dems laundry service, but NATO seems useful again and since the Left wants to believe that Trump (and the right) are russian stooges, this only hurts the Right by supporting that false narrative.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is junta manifest at July 19, 2022 02:22 PM (X5xXa)

Being Not A Fan of ex-KGB Putin does not require you to swallow the media BS that "we" should hate Russia Russia Russia because it *used to be* the Soviet Union, and automatically support whatever our feralgov tells us we should do to oppose them.

Also, since when the fck do we need Japan, South Korea and I forget which other Pacific country also to be in NATO? Like *many* of our once-useful institutions, it's a relic and probably a huge source for kickbacks.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 19, 2022 02:42 PM (llON8)

428 "The presenter sounds like he wrote the federal regulations (very dry, uninteresting delivery). It's required for my job, though, so I feel obligated to watch...*sigh*
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at July 19, 2022 02:33 PM
"

Has anyone hear seen Perfessor Squirrel? Anyone? Anyone? Seen Perfessor Squirrel?

Posted by: Ben Stein at July 19, 2022 02:46 PM (pCXlW)

429 "370 The cop should be working AOC over with a night stick, like they would if she was a Trump supporter."

It's the Big Boss Man? AOC is starting a new stable?

Posted by: goodluckduck at July 19, 2022 02:51 PM (pCXlW)

430 "Trust me. I exist in MA.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at July 19, 2022 02:34 PM
Can confirm. Although up here that number is probably way north of 50%.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at July 19, 2022 02:36 PM (RkC6l) "

here in Very Rural WI things are very, very different

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - ultra MAGA FTW ! at July 19, 2022 02:53 PM (tNU8M)

431 Has anyone hear seen Perfessor Squirrel? Anyone? Anyone? Seen Perfessor Squirrel?
Posted by: Ben Stein at July 19, 2022 02:46 PM (pCXlW)
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What did Moose our front say about Squirrel?

Posted by: Axeman at July 19, 2022 02:59 PM (krQz2)

432 Creepy trailer for android mail-order bride movie called "Wifelike":

https://youtu.be/ibUtvyPORsI
Posted by: Sharkman at July 19, 2022

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I have a horrible suspicion that it will be anti-male, the the grieving widower will be painted as a total loser.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 19, 2022 03:01 PM (txdEq)

433 Also, since when the fck do we need Japan, South Korea and I forget which other Pacific country also to be in NATO? Like *many* of our once-useful institutions, it's a relic and probably a huge source for kickbacks.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 19, 2022

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Wasn't there a counterpart to NATO there -- SEATO, or something like that? Did it evaporate?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at July 19, 2022 03:03 PM (txdEq)

434 I have a horrible suspicion that it will be anti-male, the the grieving widower will be painted as a total loser.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Most likely.

Posted by: Sharkman at July 19, 2022 03:03 PM (FmMvr)

435 406 It is over 90 degrees in DC today. Why is AOC wearing a coat and long pants?
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 19, 2022 02:34 PM (Y+l9t)

hmm

Posted by: m at July 19, 2022 03:09 PM (QPyqx)

436 Congresswoman would be participating in [s\]an event a photo-op at the United States Supreme Court Tuesday to protest the overturn of Roe v. Wade.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 19, 2022 03:18 PM (YsLD1)

437 Ooops. Tempted the barrel....

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 19, 2022 03:18 PM (YsLD1)

438 Hoover Dam Explosion = Global Warming is the Cause !!

Also Trump was reportedly in the area at the time .......

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at July 19, 2022 03:37 PM (B/7uq)

439 "Some 5 million barrels of cement and 45 million pounds of reinforced steel were used to build the dam, a five-year undertaking completed in 1936." -- New York Post

Back in the days when men were real men and doing remarkable engineering.

Posted by: WillyStark at July 19, 2022 03:57 PM (WfYU6)

440 Was the exploding transformer G1 Wheelie? I hope it wasn't a cool one like Optimus Prime or Starscream.

Posted by: Mozam at July 19, 2022 04:24 PM (ea+OK)

441 Many radical Eco-Freaks want Dams on rivers torn down as part of the Wildlands Project

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 19, 2022 06:45 PM (wGqjj)

442 I get paid more than $85 every hour for working on the web. I found out about this activity 3 months prior and subsequent to joining this I have earned effectively $15k from this without having internet working abilities. Simply go to the BELOW SITE and start your work... Www.SalaryCash1.Com

Posted by: Sarah at July 19, 2022 07:27 PM (L3wcL)

443 Given that Keystone pipeline suffered sabotage to one of their feeder transformers in the last few days, you can't rule out the same here

Posted by: JD at July 20, 2022 12:40 PM (2JnDM)

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