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aceofspadeshq at gee mail.com CBD: cbd at cutjibnewsletter.com Buck: buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com joe mannix: mannix2024 at proton.me MisHum: petmorons at gee mail.com J.J. Sefton: sefton at cutjibnewsletter.com | The Morning Rant: Minimalist EditionA law passed by the state legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) in 2021 is set to take effect in the new year , mandating “gender-neutral” toy sections in large toy retail stores. As the Washington Examiner reported after Newsom signed the bill, “Retail stores that fail to comply with the mandate risk being penalized with $250 fines for initial violations and $500 fines for all subsequent violations.” Where does the California legislature and their Brylcreem boy in the governor's mansion get the authority to dictate how stores set up their sales displays? Is this some imagined power, or does the California Constitution actually grant complete control over private industry? Never mind...don't answer that question. With an unassailable majority in the legislature, the Democrat/socialist junta can do whatever the f*ck they please, and be damned with those pesky and outdated ideas of freedom and liberty. “Keeping similar items that are traditionally marketed either for girls or for boys separated makes it more difficult for the consumer to compare the products and incorrectly implies that their use by one gender is inappropriate,” the legislation says . The lawmakers who advanced this bill were very clear that gender ideology was driving their decision-making. “The segregation of toys by a social construct of what is appropriate for which gender is the antithesis of modern thinking,” said Assemblyman Evan Low, who sponsored the bill. “We need to stop stigmatizing what’s acceptable for certain genders and just let kids be kids.” Social engineering! Ain't it grand! And by an entitled little snot who is, of course, "openly gay!" Because that is just so brave and special in California in 2023. What's next? Maybe Evan Low can mandate a certain percentage of dolls must have epicanthic folds? And how about breasts AND a penis? Wouldn't that be even more inclusive? How about interchangeable genitalia for the gender-fluid kids? But in the end, the people of California have voted for this sh*t, and they are getting what they deserve. One day the remaining Californians will wake up and discover that the conversion of what once was the greatest state in the nation into a third-world shithole...with walled communities, a subservient underclass, no middle class, rampant crime, no functioning infrastructure, and no recourse to the rule of law...will be complete, and there will be nothing they can do about it. It would take a heart of stone not to laugh! Comments(Jump to bottom of comments)1
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Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:00 AM (CIS44) 2
1st?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 12, 2023 11:00 AM (JrojV) 3
hath nooded
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:01 AM (CIS44) 4
Not 1st.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 12, 2023 11:01 AM (JrojV) 5
SPONGE!!!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2023 11:01 AM (Wnv9h) 6
Hey! Hey! It's the Monkey!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2023 11:01 AM (PTdof) 7
Kalifornia doesn't want confusion when the little "boys" and "girls" decide if a dildo is for their front hole or back hole...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:01 AM (ynpvh) 8
So just stock all the toys together in no particular order and all is well. I've not seen gendered sections in the toys department in like ever. Everything is just there.
Posted by: nckate at December 12, 2023 11:02 AM (SnxUt) 9
We need to neutralize the genders of Newsome and the California legislature.
Posted by: henry at December 12, 2023 11:02 AM (c9De5) 10
A law passed by the state legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) in 2021 is set to take effect in the new year , mandating “gender-neutral” toy sections in large toy retail stores. As the Washington Examiner reported after Newsom signed the bill, “Retail stores that fail to comply with the mandate risk being penalized with $250 fines for initial violations and $500 fines for all subsequent violations.”
++++ Wal-Mart and Target keep closing stores. What are we to do to prevent these wicked corporations from creating retail deserts? Posted by: California Policy Debate, 2025 at December 12, 2023 11:03 AM (zxP/x) 11
But this one may be the pinnacle of the stupid, authoritarian, post-modern, woke foolishness that oozes from Sacramento.
------------ Until tomorrow. Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 12, 2023 11:03 AM (pY2b9) 12
Hey it's Californiacation. I am surprised they haven't mandated an adult toy section.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2023 11:03 AM (bqazj) 13
It's good they fixed all the other problems.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 12, 2023 11:03 AM (R4t5M) 14
What is gender?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 12, 2023 11:03 AM (sWy2N) 15
never seen a boy toy section or a girl toy section in a store, just toys grouped by what they are, LEGO, action figures, dolls, squirt guns, cars etc. Maybe they should stop assuming who wants to play with what and leave the kids alone.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:03 AM (CIS44) 16
You think that's idiotic?
Until a federal court struck it down last year, the CA legislature had arrogated to itself the right to dictate what percentages of oppressed minorities would have to be included in the makeup of the boards of directors of supposedly private companies. Unbelievable. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 12, 2023 11:03 AM (bo7UB) 17
Gender neutral toys ? WTF ? Kids will let you know what they want. They don't need Gavin to tell them...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2023 11:03 AM (n2vyf) 18
How long before CA runs out of other peoples' money ..??
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2023 11:03 AM (V13WU) 19
“The segregation of toys by a social construct of what is appropriate for which gender is the antithesis of modern thinking,” said Assemblyman Evan Low, who sponsored the bill.
++++ He's actually correct. Now, as a thought exercise, consider the value of "modern thinking." Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:04 AM (zxP/x) 20
California is a serious place, rite?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2023 11:04 AM (iDpzk) 21
9 We need to neutralize the genders of Newsome and the California legislature.
Posted by: henry A truly eunuch idea! Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 12, 2023 11:04 AM (w9Wax) 22
How about interchangeable genitalia for the gender-fluid kids?
++++ "Mr. Potato Head" sure has changed since I was a boy... Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:04 AM (zxP/x) 23
Every store will have to hire a "compliance officer"....w/a law degree.
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2023 11:04 AM (AwYPR) 24
12 Hey it's Californiacation. I am surprised they haven't mandated an adult toy section.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2023 11:03 AM (bqazj) Well, it might be if a adult's age indentity is that of a child... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:05 AM (ynpvh) 25
hiya
Posted by: JT at December 12, 2023 11:05 AM (T4tVD) 26
What's the punishment for not queering all toys? Who arrests you for not queering all toys? How many queers does California have?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2023 11:05 AM (iDpzk) Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 12, 2023 11:05 AM (bo7UB) 28
Morning.
Posted by: Robert at December 12, 2023 11:05 AM (GZplb) 29
>>>It would take a heart of stone not to laugh!
That, or remembering the strong likelihood of following CA into the cesspool ourselves. Posted by: Dr. T at December 12, 2023 11:06 AM (bhRsz) Posted by: Pink Floyd, prabably at December 12, 2023 11:06 AM (w9Wax) 31
But in the end, the people of California have voted for this sh*t, and they are getting what they deserve.
-- Did they though? Hard to tell, anymore. Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 12, 2023 11:06 AM (sWy2N) 32
14 What is gender?
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 12, 2023 11:03 AM (sWy2N) That question engenders mixed feelings. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:06 AM (ynpvh) 33
How about interchangeable genitalia for the gender-fluid kids?
++++ "Mr. Potato Head" sure has changed since I was a boy... Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:04 AM Man look at the huge cock and tits on the potatoe! Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2023 11:06 AM (bqazj) 34
How about interchangeable genitalia for the gender-fluid kids?
++++ "Mr. Potato Head" sure has changed since I was a boy... Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) He's got balls and twats and funny hoses, you can put them in so many poses...... Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 12, 2023 11:06 AM (R4t5M) 35
>> mandating “gender-neutral” toy sections in large toy retail stores.
Um, when have toy sections *not* been gender neutral? Never seen a section called "Girls Toys" or "Boys Toys" they just group them by toys typically liked by either sex. No one is stopping anyone from browsing or buying from any toy section -- there's no "You Must Be A Boy to Purchase a Lego Set" or "You Must Be A Girl to Purchase a Doll" rules of signage, for pete's sake. Kids have been enjoying whatever toys they like, from whatever aisle, forever. This stupidity is so affected it's insulting. This is not even a silly "first world problem," this is an imaginary problem that everyone knows is an imaginary problem that insists we should all take seriously. No clothes on that emperor Newsom. Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2023 11:06 AM (izj35) 36
Universities gonna UN:
Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 11h SCOOP: This week @Yale changed the name of a popular food item in their dining halls which has been on the menu for years. It’s called “Israeli Couscous Salad” and they removed the word “Israeli.” Why would they do that? Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2023 11:06 AM (PTdof) 37
One day the remaining Californians will wake up and discover that the conversion of what once was the greatest state in the nation into a third-world shithole...with walled communities, a subservient underclass, no middle class, rampant crime, no functioning infrastructure, and no recourse to the rule of law...will be complete, and there will be nothing they can do about it.
++++ Just as a reminder: A French national railroad company left California’s high-speed rail project to pursue other work in North Africa — and has already completed a project in Morocco. SNCF, the French national railroad, was one of the original operators to come to California in the early 2000s to help develop the state’s “bullet train” that would run from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The rail company, however, opted to leave for the war-torn, yet “less politically dysfunctional,” North African country. “There were so many things that went wrong,” SNCF Project Manager Dan McNamara told the New York Times. “SNCF was very angry. They told the state they were leaving for North Africa, which was less politically dysfunctional. They went to Morocco and helped them build a rail system.” Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:06 AM (zxP/x) Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2023 11:07 AM (63Dwl) 39
Hey it's Californiacation. I am surprised they haven't mandated an adult toy section.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2023 11:03 AM (bqazj) Well, it might be if a adult's age indentity is that of a child... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:05 AM Oh, that's next. Guaranteed. Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2023 11:07 AM (bqazj) 40
20 California is a serious place, rite?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2023 11:04 AM (iDpzk) Yes. Seriously deranged. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:07 AM (ynpvh) 41
Gender-bending dolls - why hasn't some clever toy designer come out with a Mr. Potato head-type doll that you can plug boobs and/or a penis onto?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 12, 2023 11:07 AM (f1Vqw) 42
Would have bet that Scott Wiener would have been the sponsor on this bit of idiocy. So there's more than one gay , leftist loon in the he Cali legislature
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2023 11:07 AM (IZPBd) 43
Now would be the perfect time to offer a full set of Waffen SS Panzer toys.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2023 11:07 AM (iDpzk) 44
First they came for the tobacco use areas in restaurants, but I wasn’t a smoker…
Posted by: Rex B at December 12, 2023 11:07 AM (Ro3yS) 45
CA is a cautionary tale.
And increasingly there you cannot do anything in your business without going through the police. (The police elsewhere already set prices among other things, but CA of course is a more extreme example.) Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at December 12, 2023 11:08 AM (FgV+x) 46
But in the end, the people of California have voted for this sh*t, and they are getting what they deserve.
-- Did they though? Hard to tell, anymore. Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 12, 2023 11:06 AM (sWy2N) Tiny concentrations of Blue in the coastal cities seem to have total control over a state that is almost entirely Red. It's indeed very strange how this works. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 12, 2023 11:08 AM (bo7UB) 47
... mandating “gender-neutral” toy sections in large toy retail stores.
- Mr. and Mrs. Potatohead least hit. Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2023 11:08 AM (PTdof) 48
27 Buttplugs: Girl toys or boy toys?
It's so confusing. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 12, 2023 11:05 AM (bo7UB) Covers the entire gender rainbow. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:08 AM (ynpvh) 49
You think that's idiotic?
Until a federal court struck it down last year, the CA legislature had arrogated to itself the right to dictate what percentages of oppressed minorities would have to be included in the makeup of the boards of directors of supposedly private companies. Unbelievable. == I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up agains the tyranny of DEI .... Posted by: runner at December 12, 2023 11:08 AM (V13WU) 50
My Grand Daughter had a My Little pony castle I gave her ... When she outgrew it My 5 year old Grandson liked to play with it... Of course it was more of a destruction derby for him.. Little pony's catapulted out of the castle.. So I guess it was gender neutral
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2023 11:08 AM (n2vyf) 51
" But this one may be the pinnacle of the stupid, authoritarian, post-modern, woke foolishness that oozes from Sacramento."
Quibbling perhaps, but I've heard people say "It's not Wokeness, it is (social?) Marxism". But that is not it either, imo. "Woke" is a tactic of the Commie/Marxist/Oligarch attack on free peoples everywhere. It may have first come out of the USSR, with efforts to undermine the family and Christian values (the foundation of America the Beautiful). Or much earlier, the "Red" influencers infiltration of Lincoln and his cabinet. (or before that, but I don't have the history chops to speak to that). "Woke" is a weapon of mass destruction ... the "commies" don't have it in their own countries (much), it is a weapon meant to destroy societies. And not foolish, but very effective. (yes, most of the people that worship Wokeness are foolish, but they are the controlled masses). Posted by: illiniwek at December 12, 2023 11:08 AM (Cus5s) 52
But in the end, the people of California have voted for this sh*t...
This has been common knowledge for some time. As the days go by, however, I begin to wonder more and more if this is actually the case. Probably, given that lefties have a remarkable ability to ignore reality but I still wonder. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2023 11:08 AM (GYIa4) 53
...[the Left's] belief that they have some Gaiaiaia-granted right to dictate how we live every aspect of our lives, how commerce is conducted, and the direction that the country MUSt take is immutable.
You can find the same absolute drive for total power on the Right. The "cover motivation" is less important than the seeker's prioritization of power. Trust not in princes nor in would-be princes. Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at December 12, 2023 11:08 AM (Nmmyc) 54
FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:08 AM (Zz0t1) 55
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok 11h SCOOP: This week @Yale changed the name of a popular food item in their dining halls which has been on the menu for years. It’s called “Israeli Couscous Salad” and they removed the word “Israeli.” Why would they do that? Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2023 11:06 AM From the almond slivers to the Seven Seas! Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2023 11:09 AM (bqazj) 56
I don't know what gender neutral toys are. Sandbox dump trucks? Are little boys banned from making motor noises when playing with toy trucks?
Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 12, 2023 11:09 AM (hCt6Y) 57
Congratulations, California. I have no desire to ever visit your state ever again.
And I have family there. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:09 AM (Zz0t1) 58
41 Gender-bending dolls - why hasn't some clever toy designer come out with a Mr. Potato head-type doll that you can plug boobs and/or a penis onto?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at December 12, 2023 11:07 AM (f1Vqw) Barbie pegs Ken who now wears a dress. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:09 AM (ynpvh) 59
The over correction to the madness is coming. But before it does, don't let ANY fleeing Californians voting rights in your respective states for at least 10 years. Give them time to detox and prove themselves worth to influence the governments in your states.
Posted by: itzWicks at December 12, 2023 11:09 AM (jrKun) 60
Didn't Toys R Us go bankrupt? Are Hot Wheels still a thing? I have no idea what kids play with these days.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2023 11:09 AM (iDpzk) 61
“The segregation of toys by a social construct of what is appropriate for which gender is the antithesis of modern thinking," ...
------------- Well, it's a post, post, post, post, post, post, post, post Post, post-modern world ... Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 12, 2023 11:09 AM (pY2b9) 62
Newsome is getting awfully close to taunting Happy Fun Ball...
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 12, 2023 11:09 AM (JrojV) 63
... Until a federal court struck it down last year, the CA legislature had arrogated to itself the right to dictate what percentages of oppressed minorities would have to be included in the makeup of the boards of directors of supposedly private companies.
Unbelievable. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 12, 2023 11:03 AM (bo7UB) ++++ Not unprecedented. South Africa has a scheme they call "Black Economic Empowerment," or BEE. BEE rules do things like this - some number of managers, directors, etc. must be black if the company is to operate in the country. They impose these requirements on foreign firms looking to do business in ZA. One foreign firm that refused to bend the knee is - in a dramatic example of irony - Starlink. Starlink is not for sale in Musk's birth country - a country that desperately needs a grid-independent communications system because of how disastrous all the rest of the policies are - because it does not conform with BEE rules. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:09 AM (zxP/x) 64
Barbie pegs Ken who now wears a dress.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at Decem I think this was always the case Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:10 AM (CIS44) 65
46 But in the end, the people of California have voted for this sh*t, and they are getting what they deserve.
-- Did they though? Hard to tell, anymore. Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at December 12, 2023 11:06 AM (sWy2N) Tiny concentrations of Blue in the coastal cities seem to have total control over a state that is almost entirely Red. It's indeed very strange how this works. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 12, 2023 11:08 AM (bo7UB) Jungle primaries. mail ballots to everyone. Lots of illegal immigrants. Counties with >100% voter registration. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:10 AM (ynpvh) 66
60 Didn't Toys R Us go bankrupt? Are Hot Wheels still a thing? I have no idea what kids play with these days.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2023 11:09 AM (iDpzk) Me either... My youngest Grandchild is 15 Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2023 11:10 AM (n2vyf) 67
I don't know what gender neutral toys are.
You can still sell lightsabers but now they have to have a vibrating feature. for the ladies. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at December 12, 2023 11:10 AM (bo7UB) 68
Didn't Toys R Us go bankrupt? Are Hot Wheels still a thing? I have no idea what kids play with these days.
Posted by: Pudinhead a Yup and Yup Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:10 AM (CIS44) 69
Cabbage Snatch Kids
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 12, 2023 11:10 AM (R4t5M) 70
"Mr. Potato Head" sure has changed since I was a boy...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:04 AM Man look at the huge cock and tits on the potatoe! Posted by: Minnfidel More like a Mr. Potato instruction manual: "Mrs. Potato (points down), head!" Posted by: Pink Floyd, prabably at December 12, 2023 11:10 AM (w9Wax) 71
Wal-Mart and Target keep closing stores. What are we to do to prevent these wicked corporations from creating retail deserts?
Posted by: California Policy Debate, 2025 at December 12, 2023 11:03 AM (zxP/x) That's what they'll say publicly but they'll keep cashing the checks from Amazon to enact policies which cause these issues. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2023 11:10 AM (GYIa4) Posted by: olddog in mo at December 12, 2023 11:11 AM (ViCCR) 73
Not even close to my favorite CA folly of late.
Because the State is in such fantastic shape, they're focusing on smaller issues. Like bull riding. Which they want to ban because of animal cruelty. But only for whites. There's a special cutout for "Hispanic livestock herding traditions." Posted by: Yudhishthira Florian Maria Hohenzollern von Schloengishugen, Liechtensteinian Usurper at December 12, 2023 11:11 AM (0FoWg) 74
Homos rule!
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 12, 2023 11:11 AM (++4z6) 75
49 You think that's idiotic?
Until a federal court struck it down last year, the CA legislature had arrogated to itself the right to dictate what percentages of oppressed minorities would have to be included in the makeup of the boards of directors of supposedly private companies. Unbelievable. == I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up agains the tyranny of DEI .... Posted by: runner at December 12, 2023 11:08 AM (V13WU) Also at least one woman on every board. Now, if that woman happens to have a dick... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:11 AM (ynpvh) 76
It's odd how far we have come down this road that the state dictating kink in the children's toy department isn't really surprising.
It is mildly surprising that Claudine Gay is apparently safe at Harvard. I guess a $53 billion dollar endowment can see you through a few lean fundraising years. Posted by: Oglebay at December 12, 2023 11:11 AM (ogTiX) 77
At which point, the various businesses need to band together as one, and Just Say NO! to this silly shit.
Kind of like how AR-15 owners in New York State "complied" with the registrations laws, at about a 0.05% rate, or such. And Californians of all ages, ethnicities and interests, all need to have a Grill Out California Day, and EVERYONE runs the BBQ for Lunch *and* dinner that day, East to West and North to South. Why? Because, Leftist Tears, is why. Plus, yummy, delicious, flame seared MEAT! Which makes for even MORE Liberal Tears. And not a can of Bud Light to be seen. Jim Sunk New Dawn Galveston, TX Posted by: Jim at December 12, 2023 11:11 AM (e6UQI) 78
First they came for the tobacco use areas in restaurants, but I wasn’t a smoker…
Posted by: Rex B at December 12, 2023 11:07 AM (Ro3yS) I went to a pizza joint in Anaheim, California years ago shortly after they instituted that ban. There was smoking inside. "I thought smoking in restaurants was banned?" "Owner's customers smoke. So he pays the fine and gives his customers what they want." Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:11 AM (Zz0t1) 79
It’s called “Israeli Couscous Salad” and they removed the word “Israeli.” Why would they do that?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2023 11:06 AM (PTdof) —————- Well, Israeli couscous has cooties, regular couscous does not. Science! Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 12, 2023 11:11 AM (u73oe) 80
If your in Leftifornia get out now
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2023 11:11 AM (X/la8) 81
My Grand Daughter had a My Little pony castle I gave her ... When she outgrew it My 5 year old Grandson liked to play with it... Of course it was more of a destruction derby for him.. Little pony's catapulted out of the castle.. So I guess it was gender neutral
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2023 11:08 AM Young boys are good at destroying shit. It's how we learn to rebuild though. Yet many of green Army men met their fate in our sandbox battles with dad's Zippo. lighter. It was always the guy with the radio. Always. Of course we had no idea at the age of 8 how important comms were in battle. Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2023 11:11 AM (bqazj) 82
Poopchutes and Ladders
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 12, 2023 11:11 AM (R4t5M) 83
How long before CA runs out of other peoples' money ..??
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2023 11:03 AM (V13WU) Decades, at least. -- DC Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2023 11:12 AM (GYIa4) 84
Old and Busted: Israeli Couscous Salad
New Hotness: Jihad Couscous Salad ! Posted by: runner at December 12, 2023 11:12 AM (V13WU) 85
Do kids even play with toys now or are they all just glued to screens?
Posted by: nckate at December 12, 2023 11:12 AM (SnxUt) 86
Are little boys banned from making motor noises when playing with toy trucks?
Hope not. It's good practice for when they start playing with other things. Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 12, 2023 11:12 AM (JrojV) 87
Congratulations, California. I have no desire to ever visit your state ever again.
And I have family there. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 *** I'm glad I got to see some of the southern part, Culver City, Venice, Santa Monica, and up to Malibu, in 2014. I can just imagine what a horror it's like now. So I'll use my memories and pics to furnish my mental scenes when I re-read Raymond Chandler. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2023 11:12 AM (J2vNu) 88
There's a special cutout for "Hispanic livestock herding traditions."
Posted by: Yudhishthira Florian Maria Hohenzollern von Schloengishugen, Liechtensteinian Usurper at December 12, 2023 11:11 AM (0FoWg) There's a reason they now call the PBR "Pro Brazilian Rodeo." Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:12 AM (Zz0t1) 89
My eyes! My eyes!
Posted by: Mz Potato Head at December 12, 2023 11:12 AM (63Dwl) 90
... "Woke" is a tactic of the Commie/Marxist/Oligarch attack on free peoples everywhere. It may have first come out of the USSR, with efforts to undermine the family and Christian values (the foundation of America the Beautiful). Or much earlier, the "Red" influencers infiltration of Lincoln and his cabinet. (or before that, but I don't have the history chops to speak to that). ...
Posted by: illiniwek at December 12, 2023 11:08 AM (Cus5s) ++++ Woke is woke, and it's called that because it isn't exactly the other things. There are of course similarities with the others, but is its own thing, developed by western academics for subjugation in the west. Its closest analogue is in my opinion Maoism (of the Cultural Revolution era), but it isn't an exact fit. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:12 AM (zxP/x) 91
Barbie pegs Ken who now wears a dress.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at Decem I think this was always the case Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:10 AM (CIS44) Yep. Ken always struck me as a closet turd tamper too. Posted by: Xipe Totec at December 12, 2023 11:12 AM (pohLc) 92
50 My Grand Daughter had a My Little pony castle I gave her ... When she outgrew it My 5 year old Grandson liked to play with it... Of course it was more of a destruction derby for him.. Little pony's catapulted out of the castle.. So I guess it was gender neutral
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2023 11:08 AM (n2vyf) And that's what normally happens (if parents don't "mold" their children into being a sexual identity different than the bits they were born with). Boy take dolls and make them smash and fight each other. Girls treat trucks to a nice tea... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:12 AM (ynpvh) 93
“The segregation of toys by a social construct of what is appropriate for which gender is the antithesis of modern thinking,” said Assemblyman Evan Low, who sponsored the bill. “We need to stop stigmatizing what’s acceptable for certain genders and just let kids be kids.”
Well, I was told yesterday that believing husbands and wives each have duties to one another was also the antithesis of modern thinking, so insanity isn't only the province of the left. It's just a matter of whose ox is getting gored for just how much of that backwards wisdom and common sense needs to be thown out as "outdated thinking". Posted by: Formerly Virginian at December 12, 2023 11:12 AM (N1DT3) 94
most of those big toy stores are already struggling financially.
Fuck California. There should be mass non-compliance with laws like this. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 12, 2023 11:12 AM (xcxpd) 95
Cicero, a xylophone , writing tablets and sand. I looked it up.
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2023 11:13 AM (j01Dw) 96
How about interchangeable genitalia for the gender-fluid kids?
---------- * Mx. Potato Head has entered the chat * Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 12, 2023 11:13 AM (MCAUk) 97
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Not unprecedented. South Africa has a scheme they call "Black Economic Empowerment," or BEE. BEE rules do things like this - some number of managers, directors, etc. must be black if the company is to operate in the country. They impose these requirements on foreign firms looking to do business in ZA. One foreign firm that refused to bend the knee is - in a dramatic example of irony - Starlink. Starlink is not for sale in Musk's birth country - a country that desperately needs a grid-independent communications system because of how disastrous all the rest of the policies are - because it does not conform with BEE rules. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:09 AM (zxP/x) NO!! NOT THE BEEEEEEE!!!!!! Posted by: Nick Cage at December 12, 2023 11:13 AM (N3zMI) 98
They are trying to get the Trannie pushing from the state to the parents
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2023 11:13 AM (X/la8) 99
Not even close to my favorite CA folly of late.
Because the State is in such fantastic shape, they're focusing on smaller issues. Like bull riding. Which they want to ban because of animal cruelty. But only for whites. There's a special cutout for "Hispanic livestock herding traditions." Posted by: Yudhishthira Florian Maria Hohenzollern von Schloengishugen, Liechtensteinian Usurper at December 12, 2023 11:11 AM (0FoWg) ++++ Explicit racial cutouts in law. There was a time when that would have made for fun litigation. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:14 AM (zxP/x) 100
50 My Grand Daughter had a My Little pony castle I gave her ... When she outgrew it My 5 year old Grandson liked to play with it... Of course it was more of a destruction derby for him.. Little pony's catapulted out of the castle.. So I guess it was gender neutral
Posted by: It's me donna If he was saying *Fechez la ache", then this boy is a future Moron. Posted by: Pink Floyd, prabably at December 12, 2023 11:14 AM (w9Wax) 101
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I'm glad I got to see some of the southern part, Culver City, Venice, Santa Monica, and up to Malibu, in 2014. I can just imagine what a horror it's like now. So I'll use my memories and pics to furnish my mental scenes when I re-read Raymond Chandler. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2023 11:12 AM (J2vNu) I have video of my last trip to San Francisco, also years ago, where the homeless guy is camouflaging himself with tree branches next to a trash can and harassing women when they walked by. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:14 AM (Zz0t1) 102
NO!! NOT THE BEEEEEEE!!!!!!
Posted by: Nick Cage at December 12, 2023 11:13 AM (N3zMI) ++++ That shit's funny right there. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:14 AM (zxP/x) Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:15 AM (CIS44) 104
She-Man and the Bastards of the Universe.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 12, 2023 11:15 AM (R4t5M) 105
One foreign firm that refused to bend the knee is - in a dramatic example of irony - Starlink. Starlink is not for sale in Musk's birth country - a country that desperately needs a grid-independent communications system because of how disastrous all the rest of the policies are - because it does not conform with BEE rules. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:09 AM (zxP/x) "To free South Africa, you dumb son of a bitch!!!" - - - - Unwanted Politics in Movies Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:15 AM (Zz0t1) 106
I have family in California. They're not part of the nutters there. But the thing is they can't conceive of living anywhere else. They're friends are all there, some family is there, all sorts of things they do and the kids do is all right there.
They certainly didn't vote for what's happening to the state. Likely there are millions of others in a similar situation. They'll have a hard choice to make if they want to stay. Not to mention the state's accelerated slide into insanity. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2023 11:15 AM (Q4IgG) 107
84 Old and Busted: Israeli Couscous Salad
New Hotness: Jihad Couscous Salad ! Posted by: runner at December 12, 2023 11:12 AM (V13WU) Now with more blood and screams! Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:15 AM (ynpvh) 108
86 Are little boys banned from making motor noises when playing with toy trucks?
Hope not. It's good practice for when they start playing with other things. Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 12, 2023 11:12 AM (JrojV) Big boys make motorboating noises on some occasions too... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:15 AM (ynpvh) 109
Anything happens to my son or mother there. I may be gone for a while.
Posted by: DOYLE at December 12, 2023 11:15 AM (Z8Yh2) 110
Another said that, “It’s all so confusing for the kids. No one is comfortable. Everybody is accepting of all people but them swimming against our kids and being in the locker room with them is not appropriate.”
And that's exactly why they continue to do it to you....... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:16 AM (Zz0t1) 111
"Walled communities"? Hell wall the whole state off.
Posted by: Wally walrus at December 12, 2023 11:16 AM (yKIGD) 112
It would take a heart of stone not to laugh!
Little Nell showed some nice titties in Rocky Horror. Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 12, 2023 11:17 AM (CnLzB) 113
43 Now would be the perfect time to offer a full set of Waffen SS Panzer toys.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2023 11:07 AM (iDpzk) I used to have plastic army men in German gray as well as US green... Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 12, 2023 11:17 AM (xcxpd) 114
Likely there are millions of others in a similar situation.
----- There are, and they need to flee. Get out while the getting is... possible. Posted by: Yudhishthira Florian Maria Hohenzollern von Schloengishugen, Liechtensteinian Usurper at December 12, 2023 11:17 AM (0FoWg) 115
Having never been to California, this new law apparently would have me believe that contrary to any toy retailer I've ever seen, the ones in California have a "boys section" and a "girls section" explicitly marked and not, you know, everything just organized by the type of toy like it is everywhere else. I don't remember ever seeing a sign saying "these are the boy legos! Girl legos are across the store!"
It would also have me believe that California consumers are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. And, well, they do live in California, so I guess that part is justifiable. Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at December 12, 2023 11:17 AM (zSw70) 116
There are, and they need to flee. Get out while the getting is... possible.
Posted by: Yudhishthira Florian Maria Hohenzollern von Schloengishugen, Liechtensteinian Usurper Are you taking refugees in Liechtenstein? Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 12, 2023 11:18 AM (JrojV) 117
They certainly didn't vote for what's happening to the state. Likely there are millions of others in a similar situation.
They'll have a hard choice to make if they want to stay. Not to mention the state's accelerated slide into insanity. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2023 11:15 AM (Q4IgG) ++++ Then they will have made the choice to stay when they're finally ground into meat. I understand attachment to a place. I do not understand attachment to a place that is destroying you. I love the Colorado of my memory. It was a wonderful place. It became a place that destroys you. I left. It was hard to leave, but it had to be done. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:18 AM (zxP/x) 118
most of those big toy stores are already struggling financially.
Fuck California. There should be mass non-compliance with laws like this. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 12, 2023 11:12 AM (xcxpd) The ONLY way California learns is by LEAVING. If all those companies shutter their doors and move, MAYBE that state will learn a lesson. If there's no one there to pay your exorbitant taxes......... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:19 AM (Zz0t1) 119
115 Having never been to California, this new law apparently would have me believe that contrary to any toy retailer I've ever seen, the ones in California have a "boys section" and a "girls section" explicitly marked and not, you know, everything just organized by the type of toy like it is everywhere else. I don't remember ever seeing a sign saying "these are the boy legos! Girl legos are across the store!"
It would also have me believe that California consumers are the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet. And, well, they do live in California, so I guess that part is justifiable. Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at December 12, 2023 11:17 AM (zSw70) ======= I would fully expect toy sections in CA to be like everywhere else: broken out by type and brand. This is just CA solving all the world's problems having solved the big things and doing the final steps of ushering in utopia. All progressives should move there. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 12, 2023 11:19 AM (GBKbO) 120
Califzuela will likely one day be renamed Norte México, purchased for 1 Peso, and be run by The Cartels.
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 12, 2023 11:19 AM (MCAUk) 121
Having never been to California, ...
Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at December 12, 2023 11:17 AM (zSw70) ++++ If you ever go, remember that the US Dollar is only worth about $0.70 California Dollars. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:19 AM (zxP/x) 122
I see it every election. If a vote is close, in the waning hours of the a.m. the vote tallies from the ghettos and barrios suddenly turn the tide left. There plenty of cheating happening, and the Repubs are ineffectual court eunichs here.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:19 AM (ynpvh) 123
If there's no one there to pay your exorbitant taxes.........
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden a They'll just tax the fuck out of the people that left as punishment. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:19 AM (CIS44) Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 12, 2023 11:20 AM (enJYY) 125
117 Then they will have made the choice to stay when they're finally ground into meat. I understand attachment to a place. I do not understand attachment to a place that is destroying you.
I love the Colorado of my memory. It was a wonderful place. It became a place that destroys you. I left. It was hard to leave, but it had to be done. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:18 AM (zxP/x) ======== "I just love my house in Moscow too much to leave. This communism thing will pass." Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 12, 2023 11:20 AM (GBKbO) 126
Kevin McCarthy could well be the next governor of California. That which cannot continue, such as madness, will not.
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2023 11:20 AM (HjfVN) 127
I love the Colorado of my memory. It was a wonderful place. It became a place that destroys you. I left. It was hard to leave, but it had to be done.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:18 AM (zxP/x) Ditto for me. In my case it was central NY. Beautiful country. I'm glad I left. Posted by: Archer at December 12, 2023 11:20 AM (gmo/4) 128
I would fully expect toy sections in CA to be like everywhere else: broken out by type and brand. This is just CA solving all the world's problems having solved the big things and doing the final steps of ushering in utopia.
All progressives should move there. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 12, 2023 11:19 AM (GBKbO) ++++ It usually *is* broken out informally. The Disney Princess and Barbie sections are for girls, and will be near other girly toys. The Lego and action figure sections are for boys, and will be near other boy toys. I am sure CA will go after these practical informal layouts under the law. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:20 AM (zxP/x) 129
126 Kevin McCarthy could well be the next governor of California. That which cannot continue, such as madness, will not.
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2023 11:20 AM (HjfVN) ======== He very much could, especially when he completes his journey of personal pique and switches parties. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 12, 2023 11:20 AM (GBKbO) 130
126 Kevin McCarthy could well be the next governor of California. That which cannot continue, such as madness, will not.
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2023 11:20 AM (HjfVN) Nah, he's too far right... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:21 AM (ynpvh) 131
One foreign firm that refused to bend the knee is - in a dramatic example of irony - Starlink. Starlink is not for sale in Musk's birth country - a country that desperately needs a grid-independent communications system because of how disastrous all the rest of the policies are - because it does not conform with BEE rules.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:09 AM (zxP/x) Sounds like a great place to sell bootleg Starlink receivers. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2023 11:21 AM (QIhXQ) 132
So dildos with and without glitter.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 12, 2023 11:21 AM (bqazj) 133
They'll just tax the fuck out of the people that left as punishment. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:19 AM (CIS44) I know if the citizens move out of state, the state fines them pretty heavily. I don't quite know how that's enforceable..... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:21 AM (Zz0t1) 134
128 It usually *is* broken out informally. The Disney Princess and Barbie sections are for girls, and will be near other girly toys. The Lego and action figure sections are for boys, and will be near other boy toys.
I am sure CA will go after these practical informal layouts under the law. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:20 AM (zxP/x) ======== Government has every right to get between a consumer and his toy section! Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 12, 2023 11:21 AM (GBKbO) 135
The Lego and action figure sections are for boys, and will be near other boy toys.
then why are the Friends and Princess LEGO with the Star Wars and Technic LEGO? Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:21 AM (CIS44) 136
@paulsperry_
DEVELOPING: The Washington Post, which had to retract several false Russiagate stories after winning a Pulitzer, has quietly without explanation removed its entire historic archive from the Lexis-Nexis database. All articles have vanished without a trace.Not even abstracts remain Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2023 11:22 AM (ZLI7S) 137
Ditto for me. In my case it was central NY. Beautiful country. I'm glad I left.
Posted by: Archer at December 12, 2023 11:20 AM (gmo/4) ++++ I was never in that part of the country (SNY) when it was good, so I will take your word for it. I lived there for a while, but was not sad to leave and go back home to CO. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:22 AM (zxP/x) 138
I live in the more normal part of PA and can't wait to get the fuck outta here.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 12, 2023 11:22 AM (R4t5M) 139
On the bright side, shoplifting toys for any gender will still be totes OK, as long as less that $1000.
Posted by: Ripley at December 12, 2023 11:22 AM (JojsZ) 140
They'll just tax the fuck out of the people that left as punishment.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:19 AM (CIS44) Yup... Sales tax in My County is just under 10%...Love to move but we are up in years and Our entire Family are here... Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2023 11:22 AM (n2vyf) 141
Little Nell showed some nice titties in Rocky Horror. Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 12, 2023 11:17 AM Nell? :: ears perk up :: Posted by: Snidely Whiplash at December 12, 2023 11:22 AM (enJYY) 142
135 The Lego and action figure sections are for boys, and will be near other boy toys.
then why are the Friends and Princess LEGO with the Star Wars and Technic LEGO? Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:21 AM (CIS44) ======= Because in order for LEGO to secure SEG financing, they had to put more resources into selling girl-themed LEGO sets that tend to stay on the shelves longer than the cars and such. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 12, 2023 11:22 AM (GBKbO) 143
136 @paulsperry_
DEVELOPING: The Washington Post, which had to retract several false Russiagate stories after winning a Pulitzer, has quietly without explanation removed its entire historic archive from the Lexis-Nexis database. All articles have vanished without a trace.Not even abstracts remain Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2023 11:22 AM (ZLI7S) Almost 1984-style editing of the past. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:22 AM (ynpvh) 144
DEVELOPING: The Washington Post, which had to retract several false Russiagate stories after winning a Pulitzer, has quietly without explanation removed its entire historic archive from the Lexis-Nexis database. All articles have vanished without a trace.Not even abstracts remain
!!!!! Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2023 11:23 AM (AcWfM) 145
There is no chance CA elects a Republican next goober election.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 12, 2023 11:23 AM (KAi1n) 146
They stay for the Tex-Mex! Or is it the Asian food that's better than any other place in the world...haven't talked to a CaliTard in awhile.
Posted by: Wally walrus at December 12, 2023 11:23 AM (yKIGD) 147
I was never in that part of the country (SNY) when it was good, so I will take your word for it. I lived there for a while, but was not sad to leave and go back home to CO.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) I worked there for a few years. It's a depressing place. Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 12, 2023 11:23 AM (R4t5M) 148
Now would be the perfect time to offer a full set of Waffen SS Panzer toys.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2023 *** I think the Tamiya Corp. from Japan, and maybe some other companies, still make 1/35 scale model kits of WWII German Panzers and other equipment. Each usually comes with one or two scale soldiers. Of course you have to paint and assemble the models, which is not immediate gratification for the youngsters like already complete figures and toys, but it's still possible. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2023 11:23 AM (J2vNu) 149
136 @paulsperry_
DEVELOPING: The Washington Post, which had to retract several false Russiagate stories after winning a Pulitzer, has quietly without explanation removed its entire historic archive from the Lexis-Nexis database. All articles have vanished without a trace.Not even abstracts remain Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2023 11:22 AM (ZLI7S) Stalin smiles Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 12, 2023 11:23 AM (xcxpd) 150
And with the Legislature, wouldn't matter.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 12, 2023 11:23 AM (KAi1n) 151
146 They stay for the Tex-Mex! Or is it the Asian food that's better than any other place in the world...haven't talked to a CaliTard in awhile.
Posted by: Wally walrus at December 12, 2023 11:23 AM (yKIGD) Don't look at me; I ain't (too) retarded. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:23 AM (ynpvh) 152
Love to move but we are up in years and Our entire Family are here...
Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2023 11:22 AM (n2vyf) Pick your favorite. Beg them to extend your life and enhance their inheritance by moving with you. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:23 AM (Zz0t1) 153
The desirability, or lack there if, can be found in the cost that people are willing to pay to live there. Cali house prices are super high
Posted by: Paul at December 12, 2023 11:23 AM (AIaKW) 154
>One foreign firm that refused to bend the knee is - in a dramatic example of irony - Starlink. Starlink is not for sale in Musk's birth country - a country that desperately needs a grid-independent communications system because of how disastrous all the rest of the policies are - because it does not conform with BEE rules.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:09 AM (zxP/x) Elon quite personally knows how bad they are. Saw an interview where he talked about getting his ass kicked in school multiple times there in ZA, the implication being that it was the diversity what done it. Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at December 12, 2023 11:24 AM (pD+uO) 155
"To free South Africa, you dumb son of a bitch!!!"
- - - - Unwanted Politics in Movies Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:15 AM (Zz0t1) In fairness, the people apparently wanted to live in a shithole. Who are we to deny them their dreams. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2023 11:24 AM (GYIa4) 156
A long time ago some stores might have had toy aisles labeled (think I remember some I saw as a kid). That's been long gone, and in any case no one ever monitored what parents bought their kids. I'm an 'ette, and yet i had a telescope and a chemistry set by the time I was 14 back in the late sixties. In any case, the 80's and the 90's ALSO declared that kids could play with whatever toy they wanted.
Posted by: Lirio100 at December 12, 2023 11:24 AM (I5U35) 157
then why are the Friends and Princess LEGO with the Star Wars and Technic LEGO?
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:21 AM (CIS44) ++++ Because most retailers assign shelf space to brands, and places brands together per their agreements with the brands. The parent going to buy some Legos for Junior might also see them for Juniorella, or Juniorella's parents will go looking for the Princess Lego. But generally, the point will hold. More girly stuff together, more boy stuff together. There will always be intra-brand crossover and adjacent shelves. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:24 AM (zxP/x) 158
Because in order for LEGO to secure SEG financing, they had to put more resources into selling girl-themed LEGO sets that tend to stay on the shelves longer than the cars and such.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watch but why are they placed with the 'boy' LEGO? maybe theyd sell better if they were put in this 'girl' section Ive never seen. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:24 AM (CIS44) 159
150 And with the Legislature, wouldn't matter.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 12, 2023 11:23 AM (KAi1n) ======= And with mandatory mail in voting, no where close to reality. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 12, 2023 11:24 AM (GBKbO) 160
There is no chance CA elects a Republican next goober election.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 12, 2023 11:23 AM (KAi1n) Didn't they vote to recall Newsom, then followed that up by voting overwhelmingly for him in the recall election? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:24 AM (Zz0t1) 161
Pick your favorite. Beg them to extend your life and enhance their inheritance by moving with you.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:23 AM (Zz0t1) LOL... One of Our Kids almost moved to Idaho and we were tempted... Didn't work out Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2023 11:24 AM (n2vyf) 162
150 And with the Legislature, wouldn't matter.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 12, 2023 11:23 AM (KAi1n) Yeah, supermajorities kinda get their way. Now, how those supermajorities came to be is another question... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:24 AM (ynpvh) 163
Because most retailers assign shelf space to brands, and places brands together per their agreements with the brands. The parent going to buy some Legos for Junior might also see them for Juniorella, or Juniorella's parents will go looking for the Princess Lego.
But generally, the point will hold. More girly stuff together, more boy stuff together. There will always be intra-brand crossover and adjacent shelves. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) So toys are grouped together by type and brand, not gender. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:25 AM (CIS44) 164
158 but why are they placed with the 'boy' LEGO? maybe theyd sell better if they were put in this 'girl' section Ive never seen.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:24 AM (CIS44) ======== Because Target is fiercely dedicated to gender norms and differences between boys and girls, and the CA government should punish them ruthlessly. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 12, 2023 11:25 AM (GBKbO) Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 12, 2023 11:25 AM (Zz0t1) 166
Fuck California. There should be mass non-compliance with laws like this. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards Seems like a slam dunk 1st Amendment suit should be teeing up for Jan 1st to me. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 12, 2023 11:25 AM (h63Gh) 167
As a kid in a toy store, I went to the part of the store that had the toys I was interested in. If they had put the Barbie dolls right next to the Transformers, I still would have walked right past the Barbie dolls paying them no mind, just as I actually did when they were in their own section.
I suppose the actual goal of this experiment is: STEP 1: Put Barbie dolls right next to Transformers in toy store STEP 2: Boys start to buy Barbie dolls instead of Transformers STEP 3: ???? STEP 4: Boys are now gay Posted by: landrath at December 12, 2023 11:25 AM (s/s6s) 168
160 There is no chance CA elects a Republican next goober election.
Posted by: SFGoth at December 12, 2023 11:23 AM (KAi1n) Didn't they vote to recall Newsom, then followed that up by voting overwhelmingly for him in the recall election? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:24 AM (Zz0t1) I believe he did NOT lose the recall, but yes, also got the majority of the replacement vote too, as I recall. Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:26 AM (ynpvh) 169
Does the law say how large the gender-neutral section has to be or the number of toys in it? I could imagine a store with one shelf, 2 feet wide with a selection of 1/2 inch wide neutral color plastic rings.
Of course, like many government edicts, this would soon become a full-employment act for the thousands of lawyers that are churned out each year. Posted by: JB1000 at December 12, 2023 11:26 AM (QkwU6) 170
@paulsperry_
DEVELOPING: The Washington Post, which had to retract several false Russiagate stories after winning a Pulitzer, has quietly without explanation removed its entire historic archive from the Lexis-Nexis database. All articles have vanished without a trace.Not even abstracts remain Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2023 11:22 AM (ZLI7S) ++++ I doubt this has anything to do with politics and everything to do with money. LexisNexis probably didn't want to pay the price demanded by WaPo, and so the content was pulled. Like when Disney-owned channels were pulled from Charter over a price dispute earlier this year. Like that case, LexisNexis and the WaPo will probably reach an agreement - or LexisNexis users will discover that they don't miss the WaPo archives and so WaPo will just permanently lose the revenue. I suspect the former. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:26 AM (zxP/x) 171
Seems like a slam dunk 1st Amendment suit should be teeing up for Jan 1st to me.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 12, 2023 11:25 AM (h63Gh) Lawfare in CA is like a crap shoot, only with worse odds. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 12, 2023 11:26 AM (xcxpd) 172
160 Didn't they vote to recall Newsom, then followed that up by voting overwhelmingly for him in the recall election?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:24 AM (Zz0t1) They thought that Chairman Xi was going to be on the ticket, and when he wasn't... Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2023 11:27 AM (sm6Pk) 173
167 As a kid in a toy store, I went to the part of the store that had the toys I was interested in. If they had put the Barbie dolls right next to the Transformers, I still would have walked right past the Barbie dolls paying them no mind, just as I actually did when they were in their own section.
I suppose the actual goal of this experiment is: STEP 1: Put Barbie dolls right next to Transformers in toy store STEP 2: Boys start to buy Barbie dolls instead of Transformers STEP 3: ???? STEP 4: Boys are now gay Posted by: landrath at December 12, 2023 11:25 AM (s/s6s) Or the boys are making 7-of-9s... Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:27 AM (ynpvh) 174
I wonder how many companies are reevaluating their California business. Is the compliance costs of dealing with all the mandates (look at "may cause cancer" labeling requirements) worth it? HEB (Texas grocery chain) will ship to 49 states. They will not ship to California.
Posted by: Stacy0311 at December 12, 2023 11:27 AM (MNlW6) 175
"In fairness, the people apparently wanted to live in a shithole. Who are we to deny them their dreams."
Sam Kinison had something to say about that. Posted by: You could look it up at December 12, 2023 11:27 AM (NBVIP) 176
Jeff Spicoli was a movie character, yes?
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 11:27 AM (PCK5/) Posted by: runner at December 12, 2023 11:27 AM (V13WU) 178
No one will make Johnny Eagle Lieutenant M-14 Rife and .45 1911 pistols sets for boys to play with anymore.
Posted by: Archer at December 12, 2023 11:28 AM (gmo/4) 179
>>The desirability, or lack there if, can be found in the cost that people are willing to pay to live there. Cali house prices are super high
And for the first time in the state's history California is losing population. See if you can figure out why you drooling tard. Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2023 11:28 AM (ZLI7S) 180
So toys are grouped together by type and brand, not gender.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:25 AM (CIS44) ++++ Yes - but shockingly, it turns out that brands target certain markets, and so will lend themselves to thematic placement in the stores. It isn't a formal "boy section" and "girl section," but they're often distributed roughly along those lines because it makes sense to do so. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:28 AM (zxP/x) 181
Having never been to California, this new law apparently would have me believe that contrary to any toy retailer I've ever seen, the ones in California have a "boys section" and a "girls section" explicitly marked...
Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at December 12, 2023 11:17 AM (zSw70) Not only are they in separate aisles, the aisles are walled off with armed guards to ensure the incorrect gender doesn't see toys not meant for them. Of course, the guards aren't permitted to question the declared gender of any child so it's all kind of pointless. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2023 11:28 AM (GYIa4) 182
Somebody here back during the 2020 Summer of Mostly Peaceful Love, Tyranny, Burning, Looting, Murdering, et. al. would note that if you were a conservative in California, you were like a Jew in 1936 Berlin.
Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 12, 2023 11:28 AM (MCAUk) 183
174 I wonder how many companies are reevaluating their California business. Is the compliance costs of dealing with all the mandates (look at "may cause cancer" labeling requirements) worth it? HEB (Texas grocery chain) will ship to 49 states. They will not ship to California.
Posted by: Stacy0311 at December 12, 2023 11:27 AM (MNlW6) ========= "We can't cut off -Most corporations Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 12, 2023 11:28 AM (GBKbO) 184
Russia-Gate is a figment of MAGA imagination!!
--WaPO Posted by: runner at *deletes all Russia-Gate archives* -Also WaPo Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:28 AM (CIS44) 185
With an unassailable majority in the legislature, the Democrat/socialist junta can do whatever the f*ck they please, and be damned with those pesky and outdated ideas of freedom and liberty.
Dictatorship of the majority. Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2023 11:28 AM (W/lyH) 186
Lawfare in CA is like a crap shoot, only with worse odds. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards It's a Fed case and although the 9th is in the way it would not stand in the way of a 1st A win on this one. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 12, 2023 11:28 AM (h63Gh) 187
Sounds like a great place to sell bootleg Starlink receivers.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon Look at me. Look at me. I am the Internet now. Posted by: SA Pirate Internet Service at December 12, 2023 11:28 AM (hCzfy) 188
I suppose the actual goal of this experiment is: STEP 1: Put Barbie dolls right next to Transformers in toy store STEP 2: Boys start to buy Barbie dolls instead of Transformers STEP 3: ???? STEP 4: Boys are now gay Posted by: landrath at December 12, 2023 11:25 AM (s/s6s) I think it was a Tar gay commercial where a young black boy is looking for something as a gift and is walking around the store. They have him walk by this huge Barbie display where he shields his vision from it, as if he'd be tempted to stop and browse the vast collection of Barbie Dolls available......... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:29 AM (Zz0t1) 189
Every store will have to hire a "compliance officer"....w/a law degree.
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2023 11:04 AM Damn it! He broke the code. - 3rd Tier Law Schools for Hack Politicians Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2023 11:29 AM (Wnv9h) 190
I think california is the reason my dishwasher detergent now sucks. Why laundry detergent now sucks. Etc.
Posted by: nckate at December 12, 2023 11:29 AM (SnxUt) 191
Is there a soome kind of contest to see which advertiser can produce the grossest picture in their ad? Does anyone actually click on any of these disgusting ads?
Rhetorical question I know. Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 12, 2023 11:29 AM (t/2Uw) 192
If you doubtd me about Little Nelll's tits:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/ tumblr_ljq2t0vF981qditd8o1_500.gifv nsfw GIF. remove space. Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 12, 2023 11:29 AM (CnLzB) 193
178 No one will make Johnny Eagle Lieutenant M-14 Rife and .45 1911 pistols sets for boys to play with anymore.
Posted by: Archer at December 12, 2023 11:28 AM (gmo/4) Expensive playset... Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 12, 2023 11:29 AM (xcxpd) 194
I used to watch election results back in the day and would marvel at the fact that year after year California would go blue in every office that was up for grabs. But the thing I noticed most was that 10 million votes went for Republicans and they still didn't have enough to win in that state. That is 2 average sized States worth of people that got dragged down by the definition of their borders.
These people could move to Oregon*, Washington, Arizona and Nevada and make them solid red. That is 8 senators. *Oregon's election have been rigged since we instituted mail in voting back in the 80s. The democrat wins by just over the minimum amount to avoid a recount every single year even though the population and demographics have changed the margins remain the same Posted by: Lemmiwinks at December 12, 2023 11:29 AM (qopQA) 195
Jeff Spicoli was a movie character, yes?
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 11:27 AM (PCK5/) https://youtu.be/n7zfnbdyAW8 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:30 AM (Zz0t1) 196
I think california is the reason my dishwasher detergent now sucks. Why laundry detergent now sucks. Etc.
Posted by: nckate many states have a 'as goes CA, so go we' law. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:30 AM (CIS44) 197
Maybe someone can convince Tisas to start selling M-14's....hmmm
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 12, 2023 11:30 AM (xcxpd) 198
Did he not go to Hebrew school? Every Jewish kid on the planet knows the story of Hanukkah!. [CBD]
--------- Come on, CBD. Mr Harris didn't go to shul every week like Joe Biden did to debate with the rabbis like young Jesus. Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 12, 2023 11:30 AM (krqg6) 199
Good morning Horde. I swear...I forgot how much a pain getting married was (service, reception, etc). WeirdDave mentioned the moron getting married, it was me. He and Gingy were there for the ceremony.
Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:30 AM (FrHBa) 200
The ONLY way California learns is by LEAVING. If all those companies shutter their doors and move, MAYBE that state will learn a lesson.
If there's no one there to pay your exorbitant taxes......... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:19 AM (Zz0t1) CA People's Grocery. CA People's Clothier. CA People's Toy Store. It's what they dream of. Choices limited, and pricing determined, by your social credit score. The members of the legislature masturbate furiously to the thought. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2023 11:31 AM (GYIa4) 201
Good morning Horde. I swear...I forgot how much a pain getting married was (service, reception, etc). WeirdDave mentioned the moron getting married, it was me. He and Gingy were there for the ceremony.
Posted by: redchief a congrats! Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:31 AM (CIS44) Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 12, 2023 11:31 AM (krqg6) 203
Bring back toy guns. I loved little silver toy cap guns - along with my cowgirl outfit - as a child. Oh, no! Not allowed!?
Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head. Slinky; jacks; pickup sticks; dominoes, tidily winks, decks of game cards, blocks and building sets, art products, Playdoh, balls, pails, rock tumbling, etc. California is just being silly & attention grabbing. It had better not be running the fancy makeup ads in which only the male models are all dolled up. Posted by: L - They don't have to outrun the bear, they only need to outrun us - for now at December 12, 2023 11:31 AM (GshMh) 204
199 Congratulations to you and the Mrs., Red Chief!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 12, 2023 11:32 AM (JrojV) 205
CA People's Grocery. CA People's Clothier. CA People's Toy Store. It's what they dream of. Choices limited, and pricing determined, by your social credit score. The members of the legislature masturbate furiously to the thought. Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2023 11:31 AM (GYIa4) I mean, the North Korean lifestyle is awfully tempting...... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:32 AM (Zz0t1) 206
California has streamlined ballot harvesting, where Dem party operatives are allowed to pick up hundreds of blank ballets, fillthem out themselves, and turn them in themselves. They really don't even need to hand them to the supposed voters anymore.
and this really isn't an exaggeration. This is why it's ridiculous to think there will ever be an honest election in California again, and why the only solution I can see is for me an d my state not to be part of the same country as that shithole anymore. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2023 11:32 AM (i9ffA) 207
196 I think california is the reason my dishwasher detergent now sucks. Why laundry detergent now sucks. Etc.
Posted by: nckate many states have a 'as goes CA, so go we' law. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:30 AM (CIS44) Buy a bag of TSP from Lowes and add that into the mix. Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:32 AM (FrHBa) 208
CA People's Grocery. CA People's Clothier. CA People's Toy Store. It's what they dream of. Choices limited, and pricing determined, by your social credit score.
The members of the legislature masturbate furiously to the thought. Posted by: I used to have a different nic a Bernie Sanders now has to go change his pants. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:32 AM (CIS44) 209
Good morning Horde. I swear...I forgot how much a pain getting married was (service, reception, etc). WeirdDave mentioned the moron getting married, it was me. He and Gingy were there for the ceremony.
Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:30 AM Congrats to you and the new Mrs. redchief! Coincidentally, I have two chuck roasts sous viding as we speak for a dinner on Saturday. Lots of rosemary, lots of garlic. Thanks again for that technique! Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2023 11:32 AM (Wnv9h) 210
199 Good morning Horde. I swear...I forgot how much a pain getting married was (service, reception, etc). WeirdDave mentioned the moron getting married, it was me. He and Gingy were there for the ceremony.
Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:30 AM (FrHBa) congrats and I'm sorry Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 12, 2023 11:32 AM (xcxpd) 211
There plenty of cheating happening, and the Repubs are ineffectual court eunichs here.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at December 12, 2023 11:19 AM (ynpvh) I believe the term you're looking for is "in on the con". Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2023 11:32 AM (GYIa4) 212
Good morning Horde. I swear...I forgot how much a pain getting married was (service, reception, etc). WeirdDave mentioned the moron getting married, it was me. He and Gingy were there for the ceremony.
Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:30 AM (FrHBa) Congratulations! Welcome to the party, pal..... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:32 AM (Zz0t1) 213
199 Good morning Horde. I swear...I forgot how much a pain getting married was (service, reception, etc). WeirdDave mentioned the moron getting married, it was me. He and Gingy were there for the ceremony.
Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:30 AM (FrHBa) Congratulations, RedChief!!! You deserve a good break. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2023 11:33 AM (i9ffA) 214
osted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 12, 2023 11:29 AM (t/2Uw)
i I get an ad-and I'm guessing other people do as well- where a grimacing man is showing his new teeth. The man looks rather like a much better preserved Hunter Biden. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2023 11:33 AM (RSbhh) 215
Congrats to you and the new Mrs. redchief!
Coincidentally, I have two chuck roasts sous viding as we speak for a dinner on Saturday. Lots of rosemary, lots of garlic. Thanks again for that technique! Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2023 11:32 AM (Wnv9h) Great to hear. I did 3 for Saturday night. 48hours @ 138, finished on a grill. Wish I did a fourth for leftovers. Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:33 AM (FrHBa) 216
They have doubled down on the black, gay and mixed race couples centric commercials if that's even possible. It's like it is a California mandated law for the nation. They are even doing it with animated commercials. I call it Commercial Gaslighting .
Posted by: Drive By redo at December 12, 2023 11:34 AM (CjGGv) 217
Good morning Horde. I swear...I forgot how much a pain getting married was (service, reception, etc). WeirdDave mentioned the moron getting married, it was me. He and Gingy were there for the ceremony.
Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:30 AM (FrHBa) Congratulations! Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2023 11:34 AM (QIhXQ) 218
This bikini blonde in blue now suns herself on Florida beaches instead of California beaches:
https://is.gd/7Cpq2w Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:34 AM (zxP/x) 219
Congrats Redchief.
Hope the honeymoon made up for it. Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2023 11:34 AM (W/lyH) 220
195 Jeff Spicoli was a movie character, yes?
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 11:27 AM (PCK5/) https://youtu.be/n7zfnbdyAW8 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:30 AM (Zz0t1) Ah.. thanks Sponge. Sean Penn. He had an unfortunate face, even back then.. never saw the movie.. is it any good? Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 11:34 AM (PCK5/) 221
If you doubtd me about Little Nelll's tits:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/ tumblr_ljq2t0vF981qditd8o1_500.gifv nsfw GIF. remove space. Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 12, 2023 11:29 AM *gives an evil wink* Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2023 11:34 AM (Wnv9h) 222
Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:30 AM (FrHBa)
Congratulations and God bless you both. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2023 11:35 AM (RSbhh) 223
192 If you doubtd me about Little Nelll's tits:
https://64.media.tumblr.com/ tumblr_ljq2t0vF981qditd8o1_500.gifv nsfw GIF. remove space. Posted by: Bandersnatch at December 12, 2023 11:29 AM (CnLzB) Nipples Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 12, 2023 11:35 AM (xcxpd) 224
No one will make Johnny Eagle Lieutenant M-14 Rife and .45 1911 pistols sets for boys to play with anymore.
Posted by: Archer at December 12, 2023 *** I had one of their .45s! Plus a lot of the Mattel Shootin' Shell pistols, the Single Action Army revolver and "Detective" snub-nosed .38, the Winchester '73 rifle, and even the "Rolling Block" rifle. My brother and I quickly lost the little "bullets," the gray plastic noses that clipped into the brass cartridge and which flew from the barrel when the hammer hit the cartridge -- much like the real thing. But we continued to put the little bang caps on the empty cartridges and happily blasted away. Never for a second did I ever want a Barbie doll or even a Ken. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2023 11:35 AM (J2vNu) 225
The ONLY way California learns is by LEAVING. If all those companies shutter their doors and move, MAYBE that state will learn a lesson.
If there's no one there to pay your exorbitant taxes......... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:19 AM (Zz0t1) But cities haven't learned from the massive loss of tax revenue from businesses that have moved to other locales. Why would that lesson land effectively on states? Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:35 AM (KiP3I) 226
196 many states have a 'as goes CA, so go we' law.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:30 AM (CIS44) Which SHOULD be illegal, but alas... Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2023 11:35 AM (sm6Pk) 227
Maybe Evan Low can mandate a certain percentage of dolls must have epicanthic folds? And how about breasts AND a penis? Wouldn't that be even more inclusive?
Sir, you want the futa section. Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2023 11:35 AM (CsUN+) 228
CA People's Grocery. CA People's Clothier. CA People's Toy Store. It's what they dream of. Choices limited, and pricing determined, by your social credit score.
----- GUM-CA, comrades. Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 12, 2023 11:35 AM (krqg6) 229
218 This bikini blonde in blue now suns herself on Florida beaches instead of California beaches:
https://is.gd/7Cpq2w Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:34 AM (zxP/x) Nice rack. Yeah, a lot of hotties go for Miami now instead of LA Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 12, 2023 11:35 AM (xcxpd) 230
Ah.. thanks Sponge. Sean Penn. He had an unfortunate face, even back then.. never saw the movie.. is it any good?
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 11:34 AM O_o Phoebe Cates. Pool scene. *drops mike* Brb. Bunk. Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2023 11:36 AM (Wnv9h) 231
Time for EVERY business in California to shut down, pack up, and move to Idaho.
Posted by: Spamf Roming at December 12, 2023 11:36 AM (Ntfez) 232
WeirdDave mentioned the moron getting married, it was me. He and Gingy were there for the ceremony. Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:30 AM Congratulations. I finally paid off my daughters wedding this year. Her oldest son turned 21 this month. The second mortgage from hell under O'Biden. Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 12, 2023 11:36 AM (enJYY) 233
Ah.. thanks Sponge. Sean Penn. He had an unfortunate face, even back then.. never saw the movie.. is it any good? Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 11:34 AM (PCK5/) It's the only role Penn was mean to play because it's perfect for him. The movie is a cult classic, but based in a California high school, so there's teenage sex, abortion and drugs. Overall, watchable, even if for only to get some of the jokes of the horde, since there's a few in there. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:36 AM (Zz0t1) 234
California may be on to something! Why stop at "gender neutral toy displays"?! Shouldn't the legislature also decide other important questions, like how many detergent ads can run during soap operas, and what color cars sold in the state should be? What about models for the SI swimsuit issue? If Sports Illustrated wants to sell in California, the models should "reflect the diversity of the state"? Or something.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 12, 2023 11:36 AM (X59pf) 235
Hope the honeymoon made up for it.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2023 11:34 AM (W/lyH) Honeymoon isnt till Feb. We got married on Sunday and yesterday had to take both my kids back to the airport in Dallas so they could fly home. We ended up seeing Godzilla Minus One. It was her idea to see the movie after dropping the kids off. Yea, I got it right this time. Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:36 AM (FrHBa) 236
Great to hear. I did 3 for Saturday night. 48hours @ 138, finished on a grill.
Wish I did a fourth for leftovers. Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:33 AM *fistbump* Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2023 11:37 AM (Wnv9h) 237
said Assemblyman Evan Low, who sponsored the bill. “We need to stop stigmatizing what’s acceptable for certain genders and just let kids be kids.”
Instead let's start stigmatizing politicians for being the dictatorial assholes that they are. Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2023 11:37 AM (W/lyH) 238
The only thing that will save California is if it becomes two states. Then the good state will balance out the bad state at least at the Federal level. Then the bad state will have to fund it's own stupid ideas.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 12, 2023 11:37 AM (t/2Uw) 239
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Did you serve traditional Native American crab-cakes at the reception, redchief??
And congratulations. Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 12, 2023 11:37 AM (krqg6) 241
Can heterosexual couples still get legally married in California?
Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 12, 2023 11:37 AM (hCt6Y) 242
>I think the Tamiya Corp. from Japan, and maybe some other companies, still make 1/35 scale model kits of WWII German Panzers and other equipment.
They make the best glue for warhammer minis. Right now I am getting into unpainted RPG board games. Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 12, 2023 11:38 AM (44ww/) 243
Then the bad state will have to fund it's own stupid ideas.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) a *Federal Bailouts have entered the chat* Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:38 AM (CIS44) 244
Coincidentally, I have two chuck roasts sous viding as we speak for a dinner on Saturday. Lots of rosemary, lots of garlic. Thanks again for that technique!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2023 11:32 AM (Wnv9h) Reminds me of the documentary I saw on the USS George Bush where a obvious low IQ sailor working in the mess was told to put the sous vids roasts in the commercial boiling pots and when his Chief came back he found the sailor had opened all the plastic bags and dumped the roasts into the boiling water. Posted by: Drive By redo at December 12, 2023 11:38 AM (CjGGv) 245
But cities haven't learned from the massive loss of tax revenue from businesses that have moved to other locales. Why would that lesson land effectively on states? Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:35 AM (KiP3I) Must you golden shower on my parade? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:39 AM (Zz0t1) 246
Overall, watchable, even if for only to get some of the jokes of the horde, since there's a few in there.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden Dude! Posted by: Surf Nazis at December 12, 2023 11:39 AM (wAZ5s) 247
238 The only thing that will save California is if it becomes two states. Then the good state will balance out the bad state at least at the Federal level. Then the bad state will have to fund it's own stupid ideas.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 12, 2023 11:37 AM (t/2Uw) Two isnt enough. 4 or 5 will work (North, central coast, central inland, Southern) Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:39 AM (FrHBa) 248
Can heterosexual couples still get legally married in California?
Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 12, 2023 11:37 AM (hCt6Y) I hear there's an excessive fine that must be paid. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:39 AM (Zz0t1) 249
*Federal Bailouts have entered the chat*
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:38 AM (CIS44) ++++ MUAHAHAHAHAHA Posted by: The Bond Market at December 12, 2023 11:39 AM (zxP/x) 250
How long before CA runs out of other peoples' money ..??
Posted by: runner at December 12, 2023 11:03 AM (V13WU) == I saw their deficit is up to about 59 Billion. SO I think with the fading of the tech sector, they already have run out of other people's money. Posted by: Black JEM at December 12, 2023 11:39 AM (GZYu7) 251
Next up, California will ban gender specific clothing. Tunics and sandals for everyone.
Posted by: TC at December 12, 2023 11:39 AM (FjlUt) Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 12, 2023 11:40 AM (Zz0t1) 253
Must you golden shower on my parade?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:39 AM It's just raining. Posted by: Democrats at December 12, 2023 11:40 AM (Wnv9h) 254
How about a big "Toys for All Children" section that has NOTHING but Trump 2024 stickers, flags, mugs, jigsaw puzzles, and action figures. Trump on everything. And a few ashtrays with Gavin Nuisance's face on the center.
Posted by: Spamf Roming at December 12, 2023 11:40 AM (Ntfez) Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 12, 2023 11:40 AM (FVME7) 256
I'd like to see America 2.0 include a concept for city-states.
Something like increased influence within their borders for decreased influence outside of them, such as: A city-state is allowed to send representatives to the state legislature, but they are not allowed to vote for governor. In order to vote for governor, a city-state must abandon its mantle as city-state. A city-state's internal powers will include things like complete control of every aspect of human life, if they so choose. I dunno. I just shat it out. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 12, 2023 11:40 AM (GBKbO) 257
240 Did you serve traditional Native American crab-cakes at the reception, redchief??
And congratulations. Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 12, 2023 11:37 AM (krqg6) Nope. Tacos. Because Tacos are the ultimate food. Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:40 AM (FrHBa) 258
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Position description When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, thecreators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next… From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive. We are the now and the next. The power behind the people building the future. We are born from the spirit of innovation. We are created from the idea that people around the world want more, need more, deserve more. We are the home of the global digital revolution. We are CNN. Wow, someone's a bit disconnected from reality. Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2023 11:40 AM (CsUN+) 259
Redchief -- congratulations, brother!
A bottle of bourbon awaits for such time when I see you next. Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:40 AM (KiP3I) 260
Look, I TRIED to fix all this for you, but noooooooo.....
Posted by: Lex Luthor at December 12, 2023 11:40 AM (N3zMI) 261
Next up, California will ban gender specific clothing. Tunics and sandals for everyone.
Posted by: TC And then...mandatory flip-flops! Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 12, 2023 11:40 AM (JrojV) 262
Next up, California will ban gender specific clothing. Tunics and sandals for everyone.
Posted by: TC Man, all the movies I saw as a kid promised silver jumpsuits. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:40 AM (CIS44) 263
Opportunity knocks, Mr. Spades
Lead Senior Editorial Producer, The Lead with Jake Tapper http://tinyurl.com/w2cdfa9w Posted by: Ever Helpful Miklos at December 12, 2023 11:37 AM (wAZ5s) Oh, this would be EPIC. It. Must. Happen. Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (Zz0t1) 264
251 Next up, California will ban gender specific clothing. Tunics and sandals for everyone.
Posted by: TC at December 12, 2023 11:39 AM (FjlUt) Nah, they'll do it like this. Ugly and bald people have to wear men's clothing. Attractive people have to wear women's clothing. Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (sm6Pk) 265
"We can't cut off
-Most corporations Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 12, 2023 11:28 AM (GBKbO) Furthermore, we shall enforce those rules, and pass the costs, on other states... which don't want them... because the California customer base is just so very, very important. -- those same corporations Posted by: I used to have a different nic at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (GYIa4) 266
Good morning Horde. I swear...I forgot how much a pain getting married was (service, reception, etc). WeirdDave mentioned the moron getting married, it was me. He and Gingy were there for the ceremony.
Posted by: redchief Yes weddings are a pain, after paying for them of course, they are worth it! Congrats! Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (h63Gh) 267
113 43 Now would be the perfect time to offer a full set of Waffen SS Panzer toys.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2023 11:07 AM (iDpzk) I used to have plastic army men in German gray as well as US green... ------------- Yeah, me too. Did you ever notice there were no Japanese soldiers to kill? My Dad was a Marine but his son practiced killing NAZIs with all the other Marine/Sailor kids. We played a shit ton of war. Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (ntk8v) 268
Allow heterosexuality between consenting adults!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (FVME7) 269
It was her idea to see the movie after dropping the kids off.
Yea, I got it right this time. Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:36 AM (FrHBa) You chose...wisely. - Grail Knight Posted by: Archer at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (gmo/4) 270
Crap.....Strike One.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (Zz0t1) 271
Funny, isn't it, how resistant some folks are to pulling up stakes and moving on to greener pastures, considering that nearly all of us are descended from people who left their homeland because conditions for them there were becoming untenable, and opted for an uncertain future in North America?
I think in many cases, we are tied down by our "stuff". Possessions that we worked hard to get, and which now encumber us, and make moving difficult. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (QIhXQ) 272
259 Redchief -- congratulations, brother!
A bottle of bourbon awaits for such time when I see you next. Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:40 AM (KiP3I) Thank you Doof. And if you find the 136 Proof Old Forrester, let me know. Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (FrHBa) 273
Harder to get the neighbor's boy to put on a dress as you molest him if he things dresses are girly things...
Posted by: Your Western Elites at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (XqcwY) Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (JrojV) 275
But cities haven't learned from the massive loss of tax revenue from businesses that have moved to other locales. Why would that lesson land effectively on states?
Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:35 AM (KiP3I) Must you golden shower on my parade? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:39 AM (Zz0t1) Yes. This shouldn't surprise you. Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:42 AM (KiP3I) 276
"Until a federal court struck it down last year, the CA legislature had arrogated to itself the right to dictate what percentages of oppressed minorities would have to be included in the makeup of the boards of directors of supposedly private companies."
As with gun laws and abortion laws, I wonder just how the federal government manages in intervene in ("sovereign") state laws. It has been explained before here, in comments, but I forget those SCOTUS details. I think "they" somehow managed to include the Bill of Rights as a limit on "State Sovereignty". Not sure what the "right" position is on that, but being stuck in Marxist run Illinois, am hoping for SOTUS intervention on the current "register your AR-15" law. Posted by: illiniwek at December 12, 2023 11:42 AM (Cus5s) 277
Can heterosexual couples still get legally married in California?
Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suck Only if mixed race,multiple ethnicities and or pansexual, bisexual or asexual. Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 12, 2023 11:42 AM (t/2Uw) 278
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http://tinyurl.com/w2cdfa9w Posted by: Ever Helpful Miklos at December 12, 2023 11:37 AM (wAZ5s) Oh, this would be EPIC. It. Must. Happen. Posted by: Jeff Spicoli at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (Zz0t1 Eric Ericsson just ejaculated in his pants. Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2023 11:42 AM (i9ffA) 279
Man, all the movies I saw as a kid promised silver jumpsuits.
------------- And flying cars. We got jipped. Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2023 11:42 AM (ntk8v) 280
271 Funny, isn't it, how resistant some folks are to pulling up stakes and moving on to greener pastures, considering that nearly all of us are descended from people who left their homeland because conditions for them there were becoming untenable, and opted for an uncertain future in North America?
I think in many cases, we are tied down by our "stuff". Possessions that we worked hard to get, and which now encumber us, and make moving difficult. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (QIhXQ) Sort of like “ the Chains we forge in life”… Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 11:42 AM (PCK5/) 281
And Mattel, I think, offered a .45 Thompson machine gun toy! Scaled down a little for kids, and it didn't fire actual "bullets" like the Western SAA did, but just banged away from a roll of caps. Still it was fun.
Remember, in the early '60s, war -- as shown on TV in shows like Combat! and The Gallant Men, and later Rat Patrol -- was still popular. You could buy plastic Army helmets and mess kits and toy grenades. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2023 11:42 AM (J2vNu) 282
This idiotic decree implies that there are still toy stores in existence. It also implies that parents are too stupid to do basic research on toys before they show up at a store.
Posted by: NR Pax at December 12, 2023 11:42 AM (4olE8) 283
274 Tacos. Because Tacos are the ultimate food.
They're also sandwiches. Fight me. Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (JrojV) Oh...its on. Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:43 AM (FrHBa) 284
And then...mandatory flip-flops! Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 12, 2023 11:40 AM (JrojV) OWT..... Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:43 AM (Zz0t1) 285
It was her idea to see the movie after dropping the kids off.
Yea, I got it right this time. Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:36 AM (FrHBa) Just like the rest of us. Her idea. You agree. ;-) Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2023 11:43 AM (W/lyH) 286
Yes. This shouldn't surprise you. Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:42 AM (KiP3I) Your point is valid. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:43 AM (Zz0t1) 287
Redchief -- congratulations, brother!
A bottle of bourbon awaits for such time when I see you next. Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:40 AM (KiP3I) Thank you Doof. And if you find the 136 Proof Old Forrester, let me know. Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (FrHBa) Those single barrel offerings seem to be readily available. But some of them I've seen are "only" 129 proof. OK for guys who's balls haven't fully dropped, I guess. Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:43 AM (KiP3I) 288
Yeah, me too. Did you ever notice there were no Japanese soldiers to kill? My Dad was a Marine but his son practiced killing NAZIs with all the other Marine/Sailor kids. We played a shit ton of war.
I had a Mt Suribachi toy and green army men for the US and yellow ones for Japan. I'm sure that's terribly racist or something unlike the grey Germans. Posted by: Your Western Elites at December 12, 2023 11:43 AM (XqcwY) 289
199 Good morning Horde. I swear...I forgot how much a pain getting married was (service, reception, etc). WeirdDave mentioned the moron getting married, it was me. He and Gingy were there for the ceremony.
Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:30 AM (FrHBa) You didn't have to do it! We would've raised money for the ransom! Posted by: We still might! at December 12, 2023 11:44 AM (wtpA4) 290
Not only did I have both the M-14 and 1911 Johnny Eagle set, I also remember having a Man from UNCLE gun set and other gun sets. Remember greeny stick 'em caps?
Kids today don't know what they missed. Posted by: Archer at December 12, 2023 11:44 AM (gmo/4) Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:44 AM (FrHBa) 292
Because, apparently, modern thinkers are too stupid to buy toys for their kids without the appropriate signage.
Posted by: Just Lily at December 12, 2023 11:44 AM (yLTiL) 293
Nobody's leaving California except people who want to, have the means to leave and somewhere else to go.
In this day and age that is a tall order to leave almost anywhere, let alone a zoo like CA. Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2023 11:44 AM (Q4IgG) 294
[Tangentially related, from a couple weeks ago:]
A new (Tranny Tyranny, natch) HHS Rule by The Junta would effectively ban Christians, Jews, Muslims, and literally All Sane People from participating in fostering and adopting children . The rule would require foster or adoptive parents to support a child’s gender “transition.” The caretakers would have to affirm a child’s preferred pronouns, their “chosen name,” and “allow the child to dress in a way that reflects that gender identity.” "GOP Rep. Jim Banks (IN) has unveiled a new bill that would cut off federal funding for child welfare agencies who discriminate against Christians and other people of faith." [Daily Wire:] https://is.gd/MFMFZj Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 12, 2023 11:44 AM (I9ivA) 295
Target probably consulted the CA legislators on this law.
Posted by: Drive By redo at December 12, 2023 11:45 AM (CjGGv) 296
245 Must you golden shower on my parade?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:39 AM (Zz0t1) The King of the Mountain gets to piss on all the little people from his palace at the summit. Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2023 11:45 AM (sm6Pk) 297
Her Majesty is under a lot of strain right now. Not enough sleep due to the puppy watch, pain from a knee that needs replacing and now worry over Delilah's condition and future. For you praying types, please spare some room in your intentions. Thanks. Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2023 11:45 AM (9mNHV) 298
Thank you Doof. And if you find the 136 Proof Old Forrester, let me know. Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (FrHBa) *hides trash cans* *locks camper door* Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:45 AM (Zz0t1) 299
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@townhallcom Families of American Israeli hostages held captive in Gaza asked the White House for an invitation to a Hanukkah celebration. Joe Biden's White House did not respond to the request. - Biden didn't want to cheapen Hanukkah with a bunch of Jewish crap. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 12, 2023 11:45 AM (FVME7) 300
Thank you Doof. And if you find the 136 Proof Old Forrester, let me know.
Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (FrHBa) *hides trash cans* *locks camper door* Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden *snort* Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:45 AM (CIS44) 301
But it is also a cautionary tale of what may very well be coming down the pike for the rest of the country.
The taint of Kalifornia IS upon us. Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2023 11:46 AM (a3Q+t) 302
299 Biden didn't want to cheapen Hanukkah with a bunch of Jewish crap.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 12, 2023 11:45 AM (FVME7) What would the Muslims think? *gasp* Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2023 11:46 AM (sm6Pk) 303
In this day and age that is a tall order to leave almost anywhere, let alone a zoo like CA.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2023 11:44 AM (Q4IgG) The stats indicate people are trying or doing their best to leave. Posted by: Drive By redo at December 12, 2023 11:46 AM (CjGGv) 304
"GOP Rep. Jim Banks (IN) has unveiled a new bill that would cut off federal funding for child welfare agencies who discriminate against Christians and other people of faith."
Its a good start, but what we NEED is a executive that would then use the list compiled under Biden to start prosecuting parents that did "transition" their kids. Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2023 11:46 AM (XqcwY) 305
OK for guys who's balls haven't fully dropped, I guess.
Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:43 AM (KiP3I) I have a special bottle of EverClear for you. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2023 11:47 AM (sM1IA) 306
"Woke is woke, and it's called that because it isn't exactly the other things. There are of course similarities with the others, but is its own thing, developed by western academics for subjugation in the west.
Its closest analogue is in my opinion Maoism (of the Cultural Revolution era), but it isn't an exact fit." Posted by: Joe Mannix Maybe a good topic for your next post here? In my view, destruction of the family was a theme of the 60's -- free love, turn on, tune out, drop out, or whatever. The trans crap (and global warming, and the rest) is just the crazier end of the road development. I don't see anything about Woke that is so unique, except it is gaining "critical mass" to be its own religion. Posted by: illiniwek at December 12, 2023 11:47 AM (Cus5s) Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2023 11:47 AM (ZLI7S) 308
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv JUST IN - Harvard board "unanimously stand in support" of Claudine Gay. - Harvard: The Hunter Biden of Universities! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 12, 2023 11:47 AM (FVME7) 309
It's like online ordering isn't a thing in California.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:47 AM (Zz0t1) 310
Were cap guns and cowboy hats gender neutral?
Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 12, 2023 11:48 AM (hCt6Y) 311
"Until a federal court struck it down last year, the CA legislature had arrogated to itself the right to dictate what percentages of oppressed minorities would have to be included in the makeup of the boards of directors of supposedly private companies."
As with gun laws and abortion laws, I wonder just how the federal government manages in intervene in ("sovereign") state laws. It has been explained before here, in comments, but I forget those SCOTUS details. I think "they" somehow managed to include the Bill of Rights as a limit on "State Sovereignty". Not sure what the "right" position is on that, but being stuck in Marxist run Illinois, am hoping for SOTUS intervention on the current "register your AR-15" law. Posted by: illiniwek at December 12, 2023 11:42 AM (Cus5s) == It's the first strike at Affirmative Action, which violates the CRA of 64. The next boulder to fall was the school admissions case. The next one coming is private employer DEI set asides which will gut affirmative action. Posted by: Black JEM at December 12, 2023 11:48 AM (GZYu7) 312
I have a special bottle of EverClear for you. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2023 11:47 AM (sM1IA) Tennessee or Kentucky Moonshine > Everclear Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:48 AM (Zz0t1) 313
279 Man, all the movies I saw as a kid promised silver jumpsuits.
------------- And flying cars. We got jipped. Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2023 11:42 AM (ntk8v) I have a robot vacuum I named Rosie. Not what I was led to expect in a robot servant. Not a single wisecrack from it the whole time I have owned it. Posted by: Just Lily at December 12, 2023 11:48 AM (yLTiL) 314
Did you ever notice there were no Japanese soldiers to kill? My Dad was a Marine but his son practiced killing NAZIs with all the other Marine/Sailor kids. We played a shit ton of war.
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2023 *** Soldier and war toys were big until the late '60s, when the Vietnam protests began. Of course by that time I was in high school and had no interest in such toys, but everything in media had shifted to "War is not good for children and other living things" and "What if they gave a war and nobody came?" Now that you mention it, I don't recall "Jap" or "Nip" soldier figures offered by Marx or other toy companies. American and German, and of course we had Western figures with cowboys and Indians galore. But no Japanese. Aurora and other companies did issue the Japanese Zero plane as a model kit, but the German Focke-Wulf and Messerschmitt were much easier to find. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2023 11:48 AM (J2vNu) 315
Must you golden shower on my parade?
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:39 AM You have a parade??? Luxury!!!!! Most of us just get to mill around, and scuff the dirt with our shoe, if we're lucky enough to have them. Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2023 11:48 AM (a3Q+t) 316
304 Its a good start, but what we NEED is a executive that would then use the list compiled under Biden to start prosecuting parents that did "transition" their kids.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2023 11:46 AM (XqcwY) Prosecute, Execute. Potato, Po-tah-to. Posted by: XTC at December 12, 2023 11:49 AM (sm6Pk) 317
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv JUST IN - Harvard board "unanimously stand in support" of Claudine Gay. - Harvard: The Hunter Biden of Universities! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 12, 2023 11:47 AM (FVME7) Unfortunately Harvard has FU money in their endowment fund. Posted by: Drive By redo at December 12, 2023 11:49 AM (CjGGv) 318
But here's the LexisNexis thing: it is a legal research tool, universally accepted to a Perry Mason degree. You don't file class action suits without LexisNexis files. For WaPo to want out of that game is an admission that they no longer wish to compete to be the "official journal" of anything (like, for instance, the US government -- which they actually were at one time). All those legal notices and official corporate statements you may or may not see in the inside pages of WSJ or NYT are there (and paid for) because they are an official posting place for legally actionable information. Once WaPo is out of that, they are not One of America's Newspapers any more.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2023 11:49 AM (FCs/J) 319
Having never been to California, ...
Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at December 12, 2023 11:17 AM (zSw70) Liquor in grocery stores...that surprised me. Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2023 11:49 AM (AwYPR) 320
And Mattel, I think, offered a .45 Thompson machine gun toy! Scaled down a little for kids, and it didn't fire actual "bullets" like the Western SAA did, but just banged away from a roll of caps. Still it was fun.
Remember, in the early '60s, war -- as shown on TV in shows like Combat! and The Gallant Men, and later Rat Patrol -- was still popular. You could buy plastic Army helmets and mess kits and toy grenades. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2023 11:42 AM (J2vNu) I think I had one. Maybe not Mattel. It was a Thompson, I am pretty sure, with a stick magazine. You pulled back the charging handle, and when you squeezed the trigger, a clockwork-like mechanism slowly relaxed the spring with a loud series of clacks. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2023 11:49 AM (QIhXQ) 321
You have a parade??? Luxury!!!!! Most of us just get to mill around, and scuff the dirt with our shoe, if we're lucky enough to have them. Posted by: Duncanthrax at December 12, 2023 11:48 AM (a3Q+t) *Dons one man band outfit* *Parades around living room* Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:49 AM (Zz0t1) 322
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at December 12, 2023 11:45 AM (9mNHV)
Of course. It sounds stressful for both of you. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2023 11:49 AM (RSbhh) 323
I would like to point out that Legos are the most gender neutral toys. Most Legos have both plugs and holes. (Yet Lego says the want to be more gender neutral)
Posted by: Tmitsss at December 12, 2023 11:49 AM (I2+mj) 324
Taxing University endowments…
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 11:50 AM (PCK5/) 325
Were cap guns and cowboy hats gender neutral?
Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 12, 2023 *** Why not? I didn't have any girl playmates in grammar school, so I don't know what they played with at home. In the yard at recess, it seemed, they mostly played hopscotch. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2023 11:50 AM (J2vNu) 326
Zelensky has arrived in Congress to beg for more of our money.
This war is going swimmingly. Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2023 11:47 AM (ZLI7S) Maybe he can give a nice ringing endorsement of the necessity of securing our borders. Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at December 12, 2023 11:50 AM (zSw70) 327
I assume after three hundred comments that someone has already asked if this applies to adult toy stores?
Gender neutral dildos are probably a real hoot. Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at December 12, 2023 11:50 AM (z+89e) 328
310 Were cap guns and cowboy hats gender neutral?
------------- Yeah they were. Just like guns today are gender neutral. Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2023 11:50 AM (ntk8v) 329
While the law is idiotic, it shouldn't be hard to get around.
Just take down any signs that say "boys" or "girls" and leave all the toys exactly where they are. then, if someone complains that all the "boy's toys" are together, tell them they are mistaken, those are the girl's toys and vice versa. Posted by: I forgot my name b/c I haven't posted in 6 months at December 12, 2023 11:50 AM (ky+MF) 330
Reminds me of the documentary I saw on the USS George Bush where a obvious low IQ sailor working in the mess was told to put the sous vids roasts in the commercial boiling pots and when his Chief came back he found the sailor had opened all the plastic bags and dumped the roasts into the boiling water.
---- Sous-vide à la CBD??? Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (krqg6) 331
Disclose.tv
@disclosetv JUST IN - Harvard board "unanimously stand in support" of Claudine Gay. - Harvard: The Hunter Biden of Universities! Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 12, 2023 11:47 AM (FVME7) == Until a large donor decides they don't. That is coming. She won't survive for long. Posted by: Black JEM at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (GZYu7) 332
Is this the "guy who lives in New Jersey throws rocks at California" thread?
Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (MeG8a) Posted by: Notorious BFD at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (V8he0) 334
The stats indicate people are trying or doing their best to leave.
Posted by: Drive By redo at December 12, 2023 11:46 AM (CjGGv) ++++ U-Haul Index. 26' "Super Mover" truck for a one-way move, pick up on January 6: San Jose to Atlanta: $6,181 Atlanta to San Jose: $3,415 The theme applies generally. Outbound from CA is expensive as shit regardless of destination. Inbound to CA is much cheaper regardless of origin. U-Haul - that is, middle-class moves - is almost all outflow and the company will give you the truck at damn near cost just for driving it to CA for them. Same for places like Denver. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (zxP/x) 335
Zelensky has arrived in Congress to beg for more of our money.
Its all the downside of wasting your money on hookers and blow with none of the upside... Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (XqcwY) 336
319 Having never been to California, ...
Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at December 12, 2023 11:17 AM (zSw70) Liquor in grocery stores...that surprised me. Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2023 11:49 AM (AwYPR) Where do they not do that? Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (PCK5/) 337
Liquor in grocery stores...that surprised me.
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2023 11:49 AM (AwYPR) They sell that in WA now too. It was an adjustment but prices are lower on some of my favorite bourbons there. Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (xcxpd) 338
I have a special bottle of EverClear for you. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2023 11:47 AM Here in the People's Republic of Pennsylvania I asked a state store clerk Karen why they don't stock EverClear. Her reply was, 'Nobody needs alcohol with that high a proof'. I mansplained to her that with summer slurpie type drinks it is the best. They have since started carrying it. Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (enJYY) 339
*hides trash cans*
*locks camper door* Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:45 AM *hands Sponge a mop* Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (Wnv9h) 340
I think I had one. Maybe not Mattel. It was a Thompson, I am pretty sure, with a stick magazine. You pulled back the charging handle, and when you squeezed the trigger, a clockwork-like mechanism slowly relaxed the spring with a loud series of clacks. Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2023 *** That sounds right, though I think I recall mine fired caps from a roll. Maybe not. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (J2vNu) 341
The big present for the whole family is the Hogwarts Express train:
https://amzn.to/41nCmlh It's nearly 4 feet long and will wipe out that much shelf space for my movies. I am torn on it. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (GBKbO) 342
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok 11h SCOOP: This week @Yale changed the name of a popular food item in their dining halls which has been on the menu for years. It’s called “Israeli Couscous Salad” and they removed the word “Israeli.” Why would they do that? Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2023 11:06 AM ISWTDT Posted by: SturmToddler at December 12, 2023 11:52 AM (nXhwP) 343
Thank you Doof. And if you find the 136 Proof Old Forrester, let me know.
Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:41 AM (FrHBa) *hides trash cans* *locks camper door* Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden *snort* Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:45 AM (CIS44) That was an epic night. Sponge-bro doesn't know the meaning of "moderation"!! Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:52 AM (KiP3I) 344
For you praying types, please spare some room in your intentions.
Thanks. Posted by: Hadrian You and yours have our prayers. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 12, 2023 11:52 AM (h63Gh) 345
>>>the California legislature and their Brylcreem boy in the governor's mansion
They're so awful. Posted by: m at December 12, 2023 11:52 AM (ANXUW) 346
Did you ever notice there were no Japanese soldiers to kill? My Dad was a Marine but his son practiced killing NAZIs with all the other Marine/Sailor kids. We played a shit ton of war.
- I remember a conversation among the neighborhood kids when I was 10 or 12. The big problem with playing Japanese was we didn't know any Japanese names. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 12, 2023 11:52 AM (FVME7) 347
The big present for the whole family is the Hogwarts Express train:
https://amzn.to/41nCmlh It's nearly 4 feet long and will wipe out that much shelf space for my movies. I am torn on it. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more B I got Rivendell yesterday on 2x points day. Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:53 AM (CIS44) 348
OK for guys who's balls haven't fully dropped, I guess.
Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:43 AM (KiP3I) I have a special bottle of EverClear for you. Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2023 11:47 AM (sM1IA) Age it a new charred American oak barrel, and I'll give it a go! Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:53 AM (KiP3I) 349
But here's the LexisNexis thing: it is a legal research tool, universally accepted to a Perry Mason degree. You don't file class action suits without LexisNexis files. For WaPo to want out of that game is an admission that they no longer wish to compete to be the "official journal" of anything (like, for instance, the US government -- which they actually were at one time). All those legal notices and official corporate statements you may or may not see in the inside pages of WSJ or NYT are there (and paid for) because they are an official posting place for legally actionable information. Once WaPo is out of that, they are not One of America's Newspapers any more.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2023 11:49 AM (FCs/J) ++++ Which is why I suspect this is a cost dispute and not something more. WaPo will be back in Lexis as soon as they work out a price. I think it's much more likely that this is just an example of "playing hardball." I also suspect it will go Lexis' way, rather than WaPo's. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:53 AM (zxP/x) 350
There are places in California I've always wanted to see- Yosemite, Joshua Tree, the redwoods- but I will never go to CA because the impression I get is that everything is against the law
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2023 11:53 AM (geLO8) 351
That was an epic night. Sponge-bro doesn't know the meaning of "moderation"!! Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:52 AM (KiP3I) I did say there would be one night he 'cut loose' as it'd been a rough go as of late....... I grossly misjudged. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:53 AM (Zz0t1) 352
One of the weirder things about the Claudine Gay plagiarism controversy is that the woman she plagiarized fro is Black. You would think that would negate some of the "have to stand behind our DEI pick" hubris.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 12, 2023 11:53 AM (t/2Uw) 353
We started losing the game when the government banned candy cigarettes. 😀
Posted by: Drive By redo at December 12, 2023 11:53 AM (CjGGv) 354
I have fond memories of firecrackers.
Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 12, 2023 11:54 AM (hCt6Y) 355
There are places in California I've always wanted to see- Yosemite, Joshua Tree, the redwoods- but I will never go to CA because the impression I get is that everything is against the law
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2023 11:53 AM (geLO ++++ Yosemite is spectacular. So is Big Sur. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 11:54 AM (zxP/x) Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:54 AM (Zz0t1) 357
347 I got Rivendell yesterday on 2x points day.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2023 11:53 AM (CIS44) ======== If I wanted to turn my whole house in to a movie-themed LEGO museum, I...would experience serious pushback from the wife. I already have the promise of getting the Ornithopter. I need more shelf space. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 12, 2023 11:54 AM (GBKbO) 358
Ah fireworks… the stands around here pop up like flowers in June…
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 11:54 AM (PCK5/) 359
That was an epic night. Sponge-bro doesn't know the meaning of "moderation"!!
Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:52 AM (KiP3I) I did say there would be one night he 'cut loose' as it'd been a rough go as of late....... I grossly misjudged. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:53 AM (Zz0t1) "Grossly" is an appropriate choice of word Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:55 AM (KiP3I) 360
26' "Super Mover" truck for a one-way move, pick up on January 6:
San Jose to Atlanta: $6,181 Atlanta to San Jose: $3,415 How much to move from San Jose to Santa Clara and return the truck with 6000 miles on it? Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2023 11:55 AM (HjfVN) 361
It's the first strike at Affirmative Action, which violates the CRA of 64. The next boulder to fall was the school admissions case. The next one coming is private employer DEI set asides which will gut affirmative action.
So let it be written, so let it be done! Posted by: Archimedes at December 12, 2023 11:55 AM (CsUN+) 362
One of the weirder things about the Claudine Gay plagiarism controversy is that the woman she plagiarized fro is Black. You would think that would negate some of the "have to stand behind our DEI pick" hubris.
- Yeah, but her twitter profile has “conservative” so she’s not a *real* person of color. Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at December 12, 2023 11:55 AM (zSw70) 363
One of the weirder things about the Claudine Gay plagiarism controversy is that the woman she plagiarized fro is Black. You would think that would negate some of the "have to stand behind our DEI pick" hubris.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at December 12, 2023 11:53 AM (t/2Uw) Your inherent racism is showing. *giggles* Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:55 AM (Zz0t1) 364
299 Townhall.com
@townhallcom Families of American Israeli hostages held captive in Gaza asked the White House for an invitation to a Hanukkah celebration. Joe Biden's White House did not respond to the request. - Biden didn't want to cheapen Hanukkah with a bunch of Jewish crap. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 12, 2023 11:45 AM (FVME7) LOL Posted by: m at December 12, 2023 11:55 AM (ANXUW) 365
We started losing the game when the government banned candy cigarettes. 😀
Posted by: Drive By redo at December 12, 2023 11:53 AM (CjGGv) == Still available. Posted by: Black JEM at December 12, 2023 11:55 AM (GZYu7) 366
354 I have fond memories of firecrackers.
--------------- M80s with a trash can lid. Good times. Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2023 11:55 AM (ntk8v) 367
293 Nobody's leaving California except people who want to, have the means to leave and somewhere else to go.
In this day and age that is a tall order to leave almost anywhere, let alone a zoo like CA. I left back in 99. I got rid of everything I could and hopped on a plane to escape. Took me a few years to rebuild and I regret nothing. Posted by: NR Pax at December 12, 2023 11:56 AM (4olE8) 368
Here in the People's Republic of Pennsylvania I asked a state store clerk Karen why they don't stock EverClear. Her reply was, 'Nobody needs alcohol with that high a proof'.
I mansplained to her that with summer slurpie type drinks it is the best. They have since started carrying it. Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (enJYY) It's mandatory for Jungle Juice, Hunch Punch, and Purple Jesus. Posted by: Simply a must at December 12, 2023 11:56 AM (wtpA4) 369
"Grossly" is an appropriate choice of word Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:55 AM (KiP3I) Glad someone noticed. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:56 AM (Zz0t1) 370
That sounds right, though I think I recall mine fired caps from a roll. Maybe not.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (J2vNu) Yes and you take an entire roll, put it on the sidewalk and smash it with a hammer to get a firecracker sized bang. Posted by: Drive By redo at December 12, 2023 11:56 AM (CjGGv) 371
>Yosemite is spectacular. So is Big Sur.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) --- No doubt- but it's California. I'd end up in jail for possessing a plastic bottle or something. Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2023 11:57 AM (geLO8) 372
Where do they not do that?
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (PCK5/) S.C....they have "package stores"...can't sell liquor and beer in the same space. Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2023 11:57 AM (AwYPR) 373
Here in the People's Republic of Pennsylvania I asked a state store clerk Karen why they don't stock EverClear. Her reply was, 'Nobody needs alcohol with that high a proof'.
I mansplained to her that with summer slurpie type drinks it is the best. They have since started carrying it. Posted by: Divide by Zero at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (enJYY) It's mandatory for Jungle Juice, Hunch Punch, and Purple Jesus. Posted by: Simply a must at December 12, 2023 11:56 AM (wtpA4) Not purple DRANK?? Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:57 AM (KiP3I) 374
EverClear sounds like something you rub on your face to get rid of blemishes.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2023 11:57 AM (RSbhh) 375
372 Where do they not do that?
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (PCK5/) S.C....they have "package stores"...can't sell liquor and beer in the same space. Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2023 11:57 AM (AwYPR) Did not know that.. thanks. Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 11:57 AM (PCK5/) Posted by: Drive By redo at December 12, 2023 11:57 AM (CjGGv) 377
Where do they not do that?
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (PCK5/) Texas. You can get beer and wine in grocery stores daily (after 12:00 PM on Sundays). Liquor must be in a separate facility, which aren't open on Sundays or select holidays. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:58 AM (Zz0t1) 378
Half an hour to lunch.
Figures: Nowadays they are marketed as "action figures," but in the early '60s Hartland had a whole range of Western TV heroes in plastic, painted, many of them mounted on a horse. There was also the Gunslinger line, standing figures with swiveling arms and detachable hats and guns. Paladin, Wyatt Earp, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Jim Hardie, Dan Troop the Lawman and his deputy Johnny McKay. The best was Bat Masterson: He not only had his derby hat, but a crossdraw holster with his gun, and his silver-headed cane! I had most of the range, and my mother kept them in storage until her passing. I kick myself every day that I didn't take a few of them with me. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2023 11:58 AM (J2vNu) 379
EverClear sounds like something you rub on your face to get rid of blemishes.
Well, yeah, once the skin peels off the blemishes tend to go with it. Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 12, 2023 11:58 AM (dZVON) 380
374 EverClear sounds like something you rub on your face to get rid of blemishes.
--------------- Its the critical ingredient in making Purple Jesus. Posted by: Pudinhead at December 12, 2023 11:58 AM (ntk8v) 381
375 S.C....they have "package stores"...can't sell liquor and beer in the same space.
Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2023 11:57 AM (AwYPR) Did not know that.. thanks. Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 11:57 AM (PCK5/) ======== They all close at 7 and are closed on Sundays. At least in NC, they're open past 7. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 12, 2023 11:59 AM (GBKbO) 382
EverClear sounds like something you rub on your face to get rid of blemishes.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2023 11:57 AM (RSbhh) Also a non-distinct, typical mediocre 90s band. Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:59 AM (KiP3I) 383
Having never been to California, ...
Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at December 12, 2023 11:17 AM (zSw70) Liquor in grocery stores...that surprised me. Posted by: BignJames The Denny's in Monterey has a bar. At least, it used to. Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 12, 2023 11:59 AM (JrojV) 384
Lawn darts are gender neutral.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 12, 2023 11:59 AM (u73oe) 385
Not purple DRANK??
Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:57 AM (KiP3I) Purple drank (a/k/a lean or sizzurp) is not made with alcohol but rather codeine-based cough syrup. Posted by: That's a whole other sort of liquid evil at December 12, 2023 11:59 AM (wtpA4) 386
There are places in California I've always wanted to see
There are certain parts of California I would advise you to invade. Posted by: Ricardo de Blaine-o at December 12, 2023 12:00 PM (wAZ5s) 387
All future GI Joe Dolls will be gender fluid. And have pink hair.
Posted by: California Legislature at December 12, 2023 12:00 PM (KLYFW) 388
How much to move from San Jose to Santa Clara and return the truck with 6000 miles on it?
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2023 11:55 AM (HjfVN) ++++ U-Haul "local" moves (which is what you're describing) are paid by the day plus miles. $50/day plus $1.20/mile. So assuming eight days - tight, but doable - it comes to $7,540. Conversely, doing the same move from Atlanta would cost $40/day and $0.99/mile - or a total of $6,260. It is not quite enough cheaper to fly out and do it that way, assuming zero time cost. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 12:00 PM (zxP/x) 389
At festival time in Quebec a drink something called Caribou, which is red wine mixed with Everclear. It is ideally served in a container made out of ice.
Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 12, 2023 12:00 PM (hCt6Y) 390
377 Where do they not do that?
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 11:51 AM (PCK5/) Texas. You can get beer and wine in grocery stores daily (after 12:00 PM on Sundays). Liquor must be in a separate facility, which aren't open on Sundays or select holidays. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 11:58 AM (Zz0t1) Wow! Did not know that either…. then again, I could fill volumes with what I do not know, Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 12:00 PM (PCK5/) 391
How much to move from San Jose to Santa Clara and return the truck with 6000 miles on it?
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2023 *** More important, do you know the way *to* San Jose? Posted by: Dionne Warwick at December 12, 2023 12:00 PM (J2vNu) 392
They all close at 7 and are closed on Sundays. At least in NC, they're open past 7. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 12, 2023 11:59 AM (GBKbO) Last time in Myrtle Beach, the convenience store clerk told us that they can open and sell any time they want. It's owner's choice on when they're open to sell and when they're not. Is that not the case? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 12:00 PM (Zz0t1) Posted by: Miklos would only serve Doof the Good Stuff at December 12, 2023 12:00 PM (wAZ5s) 394
Good news, everybody!
The Hill @thehill "Age jokes can’t diminish Biden’s unrivaled experience and wisdom" Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 12, 2023 12:00 PM (FVME7) 395
Do these fvckin fascists ever go to a real toy store?
They really expect the products to be randomly distributed throughout the store? Traditional layout is just fine - Toys in pink boxes in aisles starting at that end, toys in blue boxes starting over there... stuff in green/yellow boxes in the middle. Sometimes broke by age group too... Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 12, 2023 12:00 PM (cgzxW) 396
Nood Massholes
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 12, 2023 12:01 PM (xcxpd) 397
Last time in Myrtle Beach, the convenience store clerk told us that they can open and sell any time they want. It's owner's choice on when they're open to sell and when they're not.
Is that not the case? Posted by: Sponge Beer and wine only. Posted by: Miklos knows about this at December 12, 2023 12:01 PM (wAZ5s) 398
392 Last time in Myrtle Beach, the convenience store clerk told us that they can open and sell any time they want. It's owner's choice on when they're open to sell and when they're not.
Is that not the case? Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 12:00 PM (Zz0t1) ======== If that's the case for liquor stores in SC, I've never seen one take advantage of it. All closed at 7. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 12, 2023 12:01 PM (GBKbO) 399
@thehill
"Age jokes can’t diminish Biden’s unrivaled experience and wisdom" Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 12, 2023 12:00 PM (FVME7) ++++ The fact that he's always been a witch's brew of corruption and stupidity that has only gotten worse with the onset of dementia, however, do. Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 12, 2023 12:01 PM (zxP/x) 400
Also a non-distinct, typical mediocre 90s band. Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:59 AM (KiP3I) I can't imagine why they didn't pop into my mind........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 12:01 PM (Zz0t1) 401
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They all close at 7 and are closed on Sundays. At least in NC, they're open past 7. Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at December 12, 2023 11:59 AM (GBKbO) Has this reduced the amount of drunkenness? Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 12:01 PM (PCK5/) 402
Only people that "buy" toys in a "store" are the poors in Da Ghetto.
And by "buy" I mean "steal". Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 12, 2023 12:01 PM (mQ8ar) 403
…. then again, I could fill volumes with what I do not know,
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 12:00 PM (PCK5/) I'm not sure that's how that works Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 12:02 PM (KiP3I) 404
The Denny's in Monterey has a bar. At least, it used to.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at December 12, 2023 *** Now that sounds *right*! Posted by: Mack and the Boys in Cannery Row at December 12, 2023 12:02 PM (J2vNu) 405
The best was Bat Masterson: He not only had his derby hat, but a crossdraw holster with his gun, and his silver-headed cane!
I had most of the range, and my mother kept them in storage until her passing. I kick myself every day that I didn't take a few of them with me. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2023 11:58 AM (J2vNu) I remember the Bat Masterson TV show, starring Gene Barry, who was a classy actor, IIRC. Seems it tends to get forgotten a lot, scarcely ever mentioned here. And I think there was a real historical sherriff Bat Masterson? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2023 12:02 PM (QIhXQ) 406
Beer and wine only. Posted by: Miklos knows about this at December 12, 2023 12:01 PM (wAZ5s) Ah....Ok. Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 12:02 PM (Zz0t1) 407
No doubt- but it's California. I'd end up in jail for possessing a plastic bottle or something.
Posted by: Don Black There is so much of California that is not what you see on TV. You would not regret visiting, unless maybe your dream is to walk the streets of Oakland. Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2023 12:02 PM (HjfVN) 408
199 Good morning Horde. I swear...I forgot how much a pain getting married was (service, reception, etc). WeirdDave mentioned the moron getting married, it was me. He and Gingy were there for the ceremony.
Posted by: redchief at December 12, 2023 11:30 AM (FrHBa) Congratulations! Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 12, 2023 12:02 PM (5QIi3) 409
Also a non-distinct, typical mediocre 90s band.
Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:59 AM (KiP3I) I can't imagine why they didn't pop into my mind........ Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 12, 2023 12:01 PM (Zz0t1) I already forgot who I was talking about Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 12:02 PM (KiP3I) 410
Also a non-distinct, typical mediocre 90s band.
Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 11:59 AM Smells like a teen spirit! Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 12, 2023 12:02 PM (Wnv9h) 411
403 …. then again, I could fill volumes with what I do not know,
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 12:00 PM (PCK5/) I'm not sure that's how that works Posted by: Doof at December 12, 2023 12:02 PM (KiP3I) Well, it was fun to write.. Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2023 12:03 PM (PCK5/) 412
Buy a bag of TSP from Lowes and add that into the mix.I work PT at Lowes. They changed it all to TSP-Substitute, sometime last summer. All phosphate free. Amazon is the next place to try.
One would think the pro painters would be pissed. Posted by: NoLongerintheBellyoftheBeast at December 12, 2023 12:03 PM (5XUmo) 413
I remember the Bat Masterson TV show, starring Gene Barry, who was a classy actor, IIRC. Seems it tends to get forgotten a lot, scarcely ever mentioned here. And I think there was a real historical sherriff Bat Masterson? Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2023 *** Grit is showing the episodes on weekday afternoons. Yes, William Barclay "Bat" Masterson was a real person, acted as a lawman in Dodge City, knew and worked with the Earps, etc. He wound up his career as a sportswriter, of all things. Posted by: Mack and the Boys in Cannery Row at December 12, 2023 12:04 PM (J2vNu) Posted by: zombie sigmund freud at December 12, 2023 12:04 PM (krqg6) 415
The people pushing this are not just fascist perverts with a little too much interest in children's toys. Prolly think gender-nuetral is code for dildos in children's sizes because NOT pushing pedos on kids is a 'construct'.
To the chippers with them all. Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at December 12, 2023 12:06 PM (cgzxW) 416
396 Nood Massholes
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, anti-Marxist, buy ammo at December 12, 2023 12:01 PM (xcxpd) Posted by: m at December 12, 2023 12:06 PM (ANXUW) 417
Barbie only comes with GIJoe
Posted by: Don Black at December 12, 2023 12:07 PM (geLO8) 418
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@RNCResearch Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy claims if Republicans don't give up their push for border security "in the next 24 to 48 hours," then "Russia is going to march into Ukraine" and "China is going to be given a green light to invade Taiwan" - I'm going to have to see your work on that. Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Abandon All Hope Ye Who Enter Here at December 12, 2023 12:09 PM (FVME7) 419
And I think there was a real historical sherriff Bat Masterson?
Aha, more of that legendarily sneaky Canadian PR. Bartholomew Masterson was a Canadian. Well, Quebecker. He covered the Willard-Dempsey fight in Toledo in 1919! Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2023 12:15 PM (FCs/J) 420
EverClear sounds like something you rub on your face to get rid of blemishes.
Fen, top-roping again. It's true: it works for that, too. Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 12, 2023 12:17 PM (FCs/J) 421
349 But here's the LexisNexis thing: it is a legal research tool, universally accepted to a Perry Mason degree. You don't file class action suits without LexisNexis files.
What are "LexisNexis files" in this context? Most gov't agencies I know use Westlaw, not LexisNexis. Some have both. But most attorney/firms use one or the other, not both. Posted by: I forgot my name b/c I haven't posted in 6 months at December 12, 2023 12:18 PM (ky+MF) 422
CA suffersu under a super-majority of Dems. The legislature can literally do anything it wants.
And I think not 1 in 5 voters understands this. Posted by: PJ at December 12, 2023 12:19 PM (G1dq6) 423
I suppose it would anger the PTB if the pool noodles were labeled such and placed in a box in the back alley with a "beware of leopard" sign.
Posted by: Maynard G Krebbs at December 12, 2023 12:23 PM (wNeXH) 424
L.A. Its illegal to hunt moths under the Streetlights. Chico will fine you $500 for setting of a Nuclear device Santa Barbra will give you a year in Jail for serving a drink with Plastic Straw without asking the costumer Pacific Grove its illegal to disturb the Butterflies Baldwin Park its unlawful to ride a Bicycle in a a Swimming Pool
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Paul Anka Haiku Contest Announcement Integrity SAT's: Entrance Exam for Paul Anka's Band AllahPundit's Paul Anka 45's Collection AnkaPundit: Paul Anka Takes Over the Site for a Weekend (Continues through to Monday's postings) George Bush Slices Don Rumsfeld Like an F*ckin' Hammer Top Top Tens
Democratic Forays into Erotica New Shows On Gore's DNC/MTV Network Nicknames for Potatoes, By People Who Really Hate Potatoes Star Wars Euphemisms for Self-Abuse Signs You're at an Iraqi "Wedding Party" Signs Your Clown Has Gone Bad Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up Signs of Hip-Hop Influence on John Kerry NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?" Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance Collective Names for Groups of People John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive" Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments John Edwards Campaign Excuses John Kerry Pick-Up Lines Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney Torments in Dog-Hell Greatest Hitjobs
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny More Margaret Cho Abuse Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed" Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means Wonkette's Stand-Up Act Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report! Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet The House of Love: Paul Krugman A Michael Moore Mystery (TM) The Dowd-O-Matic! Liberal Consistency and Other Myths Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate "Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long) The Donkey ("The Raven" parody) News/Chat
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