Overnight Open Thread - 5/15/2024<br><i>[Roger Ball]</i>

Overnight Open Thread - 5/15/2024
[Roger Ball]

Greetings, oh, great Horde of Spades! As a humble ONT, I offer the classic story of the Boeing 314 “Pacific Clipper”, piloted by Pan Am Captain John Ford. The Pacific Clipper started it’s ‘round the world journey with a regular scheduled flight to New Zealand. On December 7th, 1941, they were on their way back home, but “some people did something”.
Below are several links from many of the available sources. Many publications have recounted this incredible story. If you have any interest in history, it’s worth a look and a listen.

First:The PAN AM Podcast: Episode 44: Capt. Robert Ford and the Long Way Home

"In this special episode we will be exploring the incredible life of Pan Am Captain Robert Ford, a trailblazing flyingboat aviator that found international fame with an unscheduled flight round the globe. And we welcome back tothe program Pan Am 747 Captain John Marshall that knew Pan Am legend Captain Robert Ford and recorded aninterview with him in 1994 shortly before he died."
"Excerpts of this rare interview are played and you will get to hear the actual voice of Captain Ford talking about this aviation career in the late 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s!"

Next, a post from the Pan Am historic preservation site:

Pan Am's Pacific Clipper Journey in World War 2

The calm serenity of the flight deck early on this spring morning was suddenly shattered by the crackling of the radio. Radio Operator John Poindexter clamped the headset to his ears as he deciphered the coded message…Pearl Harbor had been attacked by Japanese war planes and had suffered heavy losses; the United States was at war...They realized that their route back to California was irrevocably cut, and there was no going back. Ford ordered radio silence, and then posted lookouts in the navigator's blister. Two hours later, the Pacific Clipper touched down smoothly on the waters of Auckland harbor. The odyssey was just beginning.

Finally, here's an interesting blog published by a young Aussie history enthusiast:

The Long Way Back: The Farthest Flight of the Pacific Clipper

Two hours after receiving the world-changing news that the naval base at Pearl Harbor had been blasted by the Japanese, Captain Ford and his crew executed a landing off the coast of New Zealand, taxiing up to Auckland and tying off. Passengers and cargo were offloaded and the plane was prepared for…well…they weren’t exactly sure what for…but they wanted to be prepared at the very least!

So that’s how they did it in the olden days. If you want to see how it’s done today, this is an excellent video from a wife/husband team flying an Aer Lingus A-321NeoLR from Dublin to Newark and back. (Wife/husband because, though they are both captains, she’s in the left set. That’s why we call her “boss”!) You’ll see some great views of Manhattan which I’m pretty sure are much better than from street level. Delightful accents and 4 days on, 4 days off is a pretty nice duty rig.

As far as careers in aviation history are concerned, we know that all the service academies have been going through the DEI gender grinder [i.e. Destroy Every Institution]. I mean,
remember this traitor? But kudos to the ZOOMIES because they made recent history by graduating the new Miss America. Even better, Madison is actually a pilot. The media doesn’t have to lie about that. Now, she holds just a Private ASEL certificate, but she has been pretty busy, what with post-grad and pageants and such.

For those rightly concerned about doxing, that is not it. Airman certificate information is not classified. Although, I think Madison should have opted out from allowing her address to be shown, like I did. You could look up my info if I gave you basic information, but that information is classified. (jk) In any case, we should have all seen the pictures by now.

I can’t seem to find her class ranking, but a BS in Astrophysics clearly puts her out of my league, I was so hoping. But then, she’s going to the Harvard Kennedy School for post-grad work.‘The Sky is Not the Limit’

In her four years at the Academy, Marsh rose to the rank of Second Lieutenant, was selected as an air force pilot, earned a degree in physics with a focus on astronomy, gained admission to the Harvard Kennedy School — and became a pageant queen.

“Rose to the rank of Second Lieutenant”? Oh, aren’t civilians adorable? “Selected as an air force pilot”? See? No training required now! One is just “selected” as a pilot. I will admit, that will save a whole bunch of training costs, but there may be other, uh, issues. They use the words but they don’t know what they mean. I hope the “Harvard” brand (or stink) doesn’t mean that she must vote demokkkrat from now on, does it? In all sincerity, I wish her the best of luck and fortune. As far as flying airplanes though, a Private certificate is a long, long way from an F-35 ejection seat.

John Sailer: The DEI Rollback (The Free Press)

“We’re using identitarianism to force people into boxes, and into victimhood, and I just don’t think that’s helpful atall. In fact, I think it’s harmful.”

"identitarianism"? I learned a new word!

"Lawmakers in more than a dozen red states have either passed or proposed sweeping* higher education reform packages curtailing DEI initiatives. Florida banned state funding for DEI programs. Texas banned DEI offices outright. Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt signed an executive order in December that prohibited funding DEI initiatives not just at universities but within all state agencies."

*I hate that word, mostly because of demokkkrats.
Well, Texas, Florida, Oklahoma? I mean, duh. BUT, read on!

"Things are different in blue America. But there are a few signs even in these states that the mood has shifted. For the fall 2023 hiring cycle, for example, the University of Massachusetts Boston quietly eliminated its diversity statement requirement."

Even the Peoples Republic of Massachusetts??!?!?! Dogs and cats living together!

I mean, sometimes you just gotta laugh: “God steps in to stop her lies.”

Keeping on the light and fluffy trail, you probably thought Michael Ramirez just drew great cartoons!

Well, you're right! He is an American treasure. But he also creates with words.
Michael Ramirez Essay: Open Borders

"It is quite remarkable when you think of the current technology that we have, the simple task of securing the border, processing legal immigration, setting up a competent guest worker program and making our Homeland “secure” is beyond the grasp of the Secretary of Homeland Security."

"In The Sun article, the robot says, “I spend a lot of time thinking and processing the information I receive as I am not your typical robot. I am an adaptive learning robot, meaning I learn from humans and the resources they put before more.”

"It’s too bad we can’t say the same for Secretary Mayorkas or President Biden."

Yeah, I’ll second that, Michael. Thank you for sharing your talent and voice with us.

Be careful out there, oh Great Horde of Ace! Roger, out.

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Comments

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1 Palette stine?

Posted by: Ciampino - Titbit #01 at May 15, 2024 10:00 PM (qfLjt)

2 Yay, Nylon Stockings Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 15, 2024 10:00 PM (dZVON)

3 Good evening horde!

Posted by: TRex at May 15, 2024 10:00 PM (IQ6Gq)

4 #1?

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at May 15, 2024 10:00 PM (duT0u)

Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2024 10:00 PM (/7KEl)

6 Thanks for being here, Roger.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 15, 2024 10:01 PM (cY4QW)

7 Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ 8h
EXCLUSIVE: Internal CBP data I obtained via FOIA request reveals 13 years of known gotaways data at the border, showing gotaways have *exploded* under the Biden admin compared to the Trump & Obama years.
This is the first time these numbers have ever been revealed.

FY2010 155,599
FY2011 86,226
FY2012 105,105
FY2013 171,663
FY2014 162,071
FY2015 101,495
FY2016 106,643
FY2017 104,294
FY2018 128,679
FY2019 151,466
FY2020 136,808
FY2021 387,398
FY2022 606,131
FY2023 670,674

For perspective, in the decade of FY 2010 through FY 2020 under both Obama & Trump, CBP recorded over 1.4 million known gotaways.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 15, 2024 10:01 PM (ZdexC)

8 Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_ 8h
In the three years of FY 2021 through FY 2023, CBP recorded over 1.6 million known gotaways.

A reminder, @PressSec has previously claimed that Biden has “done more than anybody” to secure the border.

Known gotaways are illegal aliens seen or detected via cameras, sensors, footsign, etc, but are never apprehended.

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 15, 2024 10:01 PM (ZdexC)

9 Rats - not first!

Hello, Horde 😊♥️

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies Brigade, plucky comic relief at May 15, 2024 10:01 PM (SRRAx)

10 Not first, I’m guessing.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 15, 2024 10:01 PM (sbjzZ)

11 Yay Roger

Bringing the ONT!

Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at May 15, 2024 10:01 PM (YoS4M)

12 So did Boeing blow the doors off of the competition?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2024 10:01 PM (4UhNi)

13 First debate, Trump's first question: "So, Joe, how many times did you grab Ashley by the pussy while you were in the shower with her?"

Posted by: fly gal at May 15, 2024 10:01 PM (6CtMt)

14 Goodnight all

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 15, 2024 10:02 PM (JMAcK)

15 In before 100!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 15, 2024 10:02 PM (w6EFb)

16 Nope, not even close.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 15, 2024 10:02 PM (sbjzZ)

17 And here I thought aer lingus meant going down on her mid-flight.

Posted by: Dagwood at May 15, 2024 10:04 PM (CC0N1)

18 Thanks for the dandy ONT, Roger Ball!

Great stories this evening, as usual!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at May 15, 2024 10:05 PM (U3L4U)

19 In before 100!
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 15, 2024 10:02 PM (w6EFb)

20 down, 980 to go!

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 15, 2024 10:05 PM (0eaVi)

20 The guy who shot Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico earlier today has been identified as 71-year-old Juraj Cintula, a poet and former chairman of a literary club.

He is also apparently the co-founder of a movement called "The Movement Against Violence," whose stated goal is to "prevent the spread of violence in society."

Status: Not Successful

Posted by: Dr. T at May 15, 2024 10:06 PM (g0Y4p)

21 WEF approved Pink Floyd lairs

Eat yer bugs!
How can you have any water if you don't eat your bugs!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 10:08 PM (VNX3d)

22 The guy who shot Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico earlier today has been identified as 71-year-old Juraj Cintula, a poet and former chairman of a literary club.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 15, 2024 10:06 PM (g0Y4p)

Don't look at us!

Posted by: A Literary Horde at May 15, 2024 10:08 PM (0eaVi)

23 “Rose to the rank of Second Lieutenant”? Oh, aren’t civilians adorable? “Selected as an air force pilot”? See? No training required now! One is just “selected” as a pilot.

-

It stinks to acknowledge, but this isn't necessarily wrong. I guarantee she'd get the nod over John Nobody from Bumfunk, Alabama with the same (or higher) scores.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't be too sad, Steve Buscemi donated his acting talent to elect Biden at May 15, 2024 10:08 PM (f6xX0)

24 Pooky has circled the globe at least twice. I know he was somewhat miserable when his plane broke down in Diego Garcia (probably because he could only email his wife and he was used to USAF internet connections), but the place had gorgeous beaches, snorkeling, warm rain showers, $5 rum pitchers, and a giant poisonous spider living in the back of the van that he made friends with. Other than the last item, it sounded like heaven to me and I wish I could put it on my bucket list.

Posted by: pookysgirl likes beaches but can't really swim at May 15, 2024 10:08 PM (dtlDP)

25 The guy who shot Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico earlier today has been identified as 71-year-old Juraj Cintula, a poet and former chairman of a literary club.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 15, 2024 10:06 PM (g0Y4p)

Don't look at us!

Posted by: A Literary Horde

I'd just like to point out that it has been at least 3 weeks since anyone was shot on the Sunday Book Thread.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2024 10:08 PM (CsUN+)

26 I almost bought a book of vintage airline-route maps once.

Wish now I’d given into that impulse.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 15, 2024 10:09 PM (sbjzZ)

27 He is also apparently the co-founder of a movement called "The Movement Against Violence," whose stated goal is to "prevent the spread of violence in society."

Status: Not Successful
Posted by: Dr. T

Perhaps it was a mostly peaceful assassination attempt.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 15, 2024 10:09 PM (vJiyU)

28 I wish I could put it on my bucket list.
Posted by: pookysgirl

You *can* put it on your bucket list... just not fulfil it...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 15, 2024 10:09 PM (cY4QW)

29 The guy who shot Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico earlier today has been identified as 71-year-old Juraj Cintula, a poet and former chairman of a literary club.

He is also apparently the co-founder of a movement called "The Movement Against Violence," whose stated goal is to "prevent the spread of violence in society."

Status: Not Successful
Posted by: Dr. T

Oh, but he was! The goal is violence for the members, but no one else.

Unless you mean that he's a failed poet.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 10:10 PM (VNX3d)

30 It stinks to acknowledge, but this isn't necessarily wrong. I guarantee she'd get the nod over John Nobody from Bumfunk, Alabama with the same (or higher) scores.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't be too sad, Steve Buscemi donated his acting talent to elect Biden at May 15, 2024 10:08 PM (f6xX0)

And John Nobody would look at a picture of her and say, "Okay, then I want to be on the top of... the next list. Yeah, the list. I'LL BE IN MY BUNK!"

Posted by: pookysgirl knows pilots at May 15, 2024 10:10 PM (dtlDP)

31 Good evening morons and thanks roger for the ont

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2024 10:10 PM (RIvkX)

32 Sorry I'm late, I grabbed the derby instead of the fedora.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2024 10:11 PM (0ICVB)

33 I'd have to bet the Pan Am Clipper crew was tired of the drone of the four engines by the time they got back to USA. That's a long way home at a cruising speed of about 185 MPH.

Posted by: Half Deaf Myself at May 15, 2024 10:12 PM (V5BDR)

34 When I see 'Aer Lingus', I always remember Imus' little problem back in the '70s. He was reading an ad for Aer Lingus, ending with an ad lib, 'Protestants sit in the back of the plane.' Caused quite a ruckus. For that he got shipped to Cleveland. Later, in the early '80s when he came back to the NY market, he did a commercial for the station, ending with 'Anything but Cleveland!' It became a running gag.

Posted by: RickZ at May 15, 2024 10:12 PM (emlEe)

35 Status: Not Successful
Posted by: Dr. T

Oh, but he was! The goal is violence for the members, but no one else.

Unless you mean that he's a failed poet.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 10:10 PM (VNX3d)

I mean, I haven't actually read any of his poetry, because a) it's probably in Slovak and b) it's poetry.

But he shot the guy five times at point-blank range and didn't manage to kill him, so I'm guessing he's probably not very good at anything, writing included.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 15, 2024 10:13 PM (g0Y4p)

36 Unless you mean that he's a failed poet.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 10:10 PM (VNX3d)

Failed poets write free verse, because nobody will pay them for it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2024 10:14 PM (TNJzY)

37 32 Sorry I'm late, I grabbed the derby instead of the fedora.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2024 10:11 PM (0ICVB)

That's just fine as long as neither is a product of the Susquehanna Hat Company.

Posted by: Little Girls With Little Curls at May 15, 2024 10:14 PM (V5BDR)

38 5
Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2024 10:00 PM

Very well stated.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2024 10:16 PM (0ICVB)

39 Thanks for the ONT, RB! Back to the content.

Posted by: Iris, Team Hedgehog at May 15, 2024 10:17 PM (n3DL0)

40 Sorry I'm late, I grabbed the derby instead of the fedora.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2024 10:11 PM (0ICVB)

That's just fine as long as neither is a product of the Susquehanna Hat Company.
Posted by: Little Girls With Little Curls

When I tell people I'm sick of beaver pelts, they look at me funny.

Posted by: The Mad Hatter. Now with less mercury. at May 15, 2024 10:17 PM (vJiyU)

41 Imus' little problem back in the '70s. He was reading an ad for Aer Lingus, ending with an ad lib, 'Protestants sit in the back of the plane.' Caused quite a ruckus. For that he got shipped to Cleveland. . . .
Posted by: RickZ

His 'Judge Hang'em' character while there was a scream.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2024 10:17 PM (F6McX)

42 I am trying to write something witty but I have a monster sized black cat laying on my arm and covering 1/2 my face. These are tough conditions to work through.

Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2024 10:17 PM (QzINz)

43 Sorry I'm late, I grabbed the derby instead of the fedora.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2024 10:11 PM (0ICVB)

That's just fine as long as neither is a product of the Susquehanna Hat Company.
Posted by: Little Girls With Little Curls

When I tell people I'm sick of beaver pelts, they look at me funny.
Posted by: The Mad Hatter. Now with less mercury

Unless he grabbed the Kentucky Derby, horses, jockeys, and all. That would beat beaver pelts.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 10:18 PM (VNX3d)

44 I am trying to write something witty but I have a monster sized black cat laying on my arm and covering 1/2 my face. . . . . .
Posted by: Piper

Only because you are a esteemed 'Ette shall I let this hanging fastball pass. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2024 10:18 PM (F6McX)

45 Thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 15, 2024 10:19 PM (75/Pp)

46 Many products are improved by the secretions of the Beaver anal glands. My people used ALL of the Beaver.

Posted by: Grey Beaver from Massachusetts at May 15, 2024 10:20 PM (V5BDR)

47 thanks- a lot of thought went into that

Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2024 10:20 PM (/7KEl)

48 I am trying to write something witty but I have a monster sized black cat laying on my arm and covering 1/2 my face. These are tough conditions to work through.
Posted by: Piper

Cat sleep on chest, unexpected LOUD sneeze and.....geez that's a lot of blood.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 15, 2024 10:20 PM (vJiyU)

49 Loved the Aer Lingus pilots. Modern cockpits sure are different.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 15, 2024 10:20 PM (w6EFb)

50 Goodnight, All. Big day tomorrow taking the kid back home for the last time from VA Tech.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 15, 2024 10:21 PM (sbjzZ)

51 Sorry I'm late, I grabbed the derby instead of the fedora.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2024 10:11 PM (0ICVB)

Sooooo....my cape is overdoing it?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2024 10:22 PM (W/lyH)

52 42
' I have a monster sized black cat laying on my arm '

What is it about an arm that is so gosh darn appealing to cats to use as a bed?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 15, 2024 10:22 PM (roH4R)

53 38 5
Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2024 10:00 PM

Very well stated.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 15, 2024 10:16 PM (0ICVB)

Yes, I never looked at that way before, very insightful!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 15, 2024 10:23 PM (hOUT3)

54 Goodnight, All. Big day tomorrow taking the kid back home for the last time from VA Tech.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 15, 2024 10:21 PM (sbjzZ)

Awwww....
In a month, granddaughter of Diogenes makes her first trip to VA Tech.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2024 10:24 PM (W/lyH)

55 ' I have a monster sized black cat laying on my arm '

What is it about an arm that is so gosh darn appealing to cats to use as a bed?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 15, 2024 10:22 PM (roH4R)

It's not so much the arm itself as the fact that it's a huge inconvenience to the owner.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 15, 2024 10:24 PM (g0Y4p)

56 What did this Slovakian PM do that was so violent the the Movement Against Violence was moved to violence?

I haven't heard of any wars or unrest associated with Slovakia in my lifetime.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2024 10:24 PM (0FoWg)

57 And in before 54 ;-)

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ Next year in Corsicana - again! ~ at May 15, 2024 10:24 PM (hOUT3)

58 I am trying to write something witty but I have a monster sized black cat laying on my arm and covering 1/2 my face. These are tough conditions to work through.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2024 10:17 PM (QzINz)

If you are at home and it is your cat, this is just an inconvenience. If otherwise, you may have a problem.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 15, 2024 10:25 PM (anFBA)

59 I keep looking, but I cannot find the route used by a group of B-17s that were flown from the US to India, to be used for an attack on Japan. I think it's listed in the book "God is My Co-Pilot", by Robert Lee Scott, Jr.,

I _think_ it's close to the route taken by the Clipper above, at least for that part of its trip.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 10:25 PM (VNX3d)

60 Here is the money.

Take it.

It is yours.

It is Evil Capitalist Monopoly Money, but it is yours.

Posted by: World Economic Forum per Miklos at May 15, 2024 10:25 PM (Mxkdu)

61 "What is it about an arm that is so gosh darn appealing to cats to use as a bed?"

Don't ask me, I'm stumped.

Posted by: Michelle Fields at May 15, 2024 10:25 PM (SYTee)

62 What is it about an arm that is so gosh darn appealing to cats to use as a bed?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 15, 2024 10:22 PM (roH4R)

The Cat in an Anchor.

Just like cars announce "the door is a jar."

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 10:27 PM (VNX3d)

63 Failed poets write free verse, because nobody will pay them for it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2024 10:14 PM (TNJzY)

Well, nobody pays me for rhyme/meter poetry. And that can be work.

I did write a 'free-form' poem, but I still followed a rule. The poem is 26 words, each word a letter of the alphabet, starting with 'a'.

"A brisk chill does evoke fanciful games,
Hidden in January's keen light. . . ."

I took poetic license with the letter 'x', using the word 'examine'.

Posted by: RickZ at May 15, 2024 10:27 PM (emlEe)

64 What did this Slovakian PM do that was so violent the the Movement Against Violence was moved to violence?

I haven't heard of any wars or unrest associated with Slovakia in my lifetime.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2024 10:24 PM (0FoWg)

He thought the war in Ukraine was supporting neo nazis, it was a waste of money and lives, and that Ukraine had no place in NATO, and that question was what drove Russia to invade.

You know, mad things like that.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2024 10:28 PM (D7oie)

65 I haven't had the chance to read the Pan Am link as yet, but I'm looking forward to the doing!

Great aviation stories are worth waiting for a quiet room and undistracted time.

I don't know if the story covers it or not? But, I'm imagining the sheer WORK that Pan Am would've had to have done, to get MONEY wired to various banks or embassies, all along the planned route(s), to allow that pilot to buy fuel, food, maintenance and lodgings.

Hell, the telegraph bills alone, had to have been epic, in and of themselves.

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 15, 2024 10:29 PM (e6UQI)

66 Haha Tonypete!

I am giving up. I have an early class tomorrow and on top of my big cat who is now snoring, I now have my polka dotted cat seriously considering attacking the first cat’s tail. I am confident I am about to be a casualty. Good night, y’all!

Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2024 10:29 PM (QzINz)

67 That flying boat up top is pretty cool. You can picture yourself on some adventure to an exotic land in the days before everything was so "connected" and you really could get away by jumping on a plane.

Posted by: PabloD at May 15, 2024 10:30 PM (f7a6n)

68 You know, mad things like that.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2024 10:28 PM

Well, I highly doubt a crunchy 71 year old hippie "poet" was an agent of Ukraine or her Western masters, so I'm going with "agitprop-crazed NPC lunatic" on this one.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2024 10:31 PM (4W/ON)

69 Don't ask me, I'm stumped.
Posted by: Michelle Fields

Truly, a profile in courage. You have endeavoured to persevere against incredible odds. An inspiration to all.

Posted by: A Farewell to Arms at May 15, 2024 10:31 PM (V5BDR)

70 He thought the war in Ukraine was supporting neo nazis, it was a waste of money and lives, and that Ukraine had no place in NATO, and that question was what drove Russia to invade.

You know, mad things like that.
Posted by: Kindltot

If the US is attacked, precisely what could or would Slovakia do?

Posted by: Miklos, who spent a lot of time in Slovakia at May 15, 2024 10:31 PM (Mxkdu)

71 He thought the war in Ukraine was supporting neo nazis, it was a waste of money and lives, and that Ukraine had no place in NATO, and that question was what drove Russia to invade.

-

(looks around nervously)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Little girls dreamt of being moms, women told them not to follow their dreams at May 15, 2024 10:32 PM (8DAzZ)

72 Wasn't Roger Ball the leader of the Average White Band?

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 15, 2024 10:32 PM (CHHv1)

73
Nice ONT, Roger. Makes me want to go back to reading Fate is the Hunter, possibly the best book written about aviation. Captures the discomfort, tedium and occasional terror of flying in the early '40s.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2024 10:33 PM (MoZTd)

74 That flying boat up top is pretty cool. You can picture yourself on some adventure to an exotic land in the days before everything was so "connected" and you really could get away by jumping on a plane.
Posted by: PabloD

Yes, a trip via flying boat would have been cool. Would love to be able to afford a small flying boat. (Not float plane!)

Posted by: Some Rat at May 15, 2024 10:33 PM (vJiyU)

75 I am trying to write something witty but I have a monster sized black cat laying on my arm and covering 1/2 my face. These are tough conditions to work through.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2024 10:17 PM (QzINz)

Luxury! When I was a lad, working in the mines, the giant pit cats would tear off our arms, gnaw off our faces, and carry off the three-year--old miners whole. Plus, we had to pay three quid, two bob, and a farthing for the privilege!

Posted by: A Yorkshireman at May 15, 2024 10:34 PM (anFBA)

76 China Nookie>> China Clipper

Posted by: Ching Chow at May 15, 2024 10:35 PM (V5BDR)

77 My cat doesn't use my arm as a bed. He uses my arm as a treat-delivery system. Also, part of the undeserved-petting mechanism.

I'd actually love it if my cat wanted to lie physically against me. He seems to regard that as a bridge way too far.

Before you ask, yes, adopting him was a Big Mistake.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 15, 2024 10:35 PM (CHHv1)

78 He thought the war in Ukraine was supporting neo nazis, it was a waste of money and lives, and that Ukraine had no place in NATO, and that question was what drove Russia to invade.

You know, mad things like that.
Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2024 10:28 PM (D7oie)

He also criticized the WHO's global vaccine mandate, er I mean accord.

Posted by: Dr. T at May 15, 2024 10:35 PM (g0Y4p)

79 If the US is attacked, precisely what could or would Slovakia do?

Posted by: Miklos, who spent a lot of time in Slovakia at May 15, 2024 10:31 PM (Mxkdu)

. . . Seize and hold Montenegro?

Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2024 10:35 PM (D7oie)

80 Nice ONT, Roger.

Roger Roger.

What's your vector, Victor?

Posted by: Miklos, who chose the right week to not quit anything at May 15, 2024 10:36 PM (Mxkdu)

81 Leftist poet is my bet . Since most assassinations are committed by Leftists not that risky a bet,

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 10:36 PM (MNhXM)

82
If the US is attacked, precisely what could or would Slovakia do?

__________

What the EU always does: earn big coin playing footsie with our enemy.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2024 10:37 PM (MoZTd)

83 You could buy a surplus Grumman Goose for a few thousand bucks after the war.

Posted by: Make A Splash at May 15, 2024 10:37 PM (V5BDR)

84 Seize and hold Montenegro?
Posted by: Kindltot

"Montenegro" is clearly Rayciss

Posted by: Miklos, who has never been to there at May 15, 2024 10:38 PM (Mxkdu)

85 Back in the '70's, did a trip from Vancouver to the village of Tahsis, on Vancouver Island, in a Grumman Mallard amphibian. Takeoff from Vancouver was on wheels; at Tahsis, we landed on the inlet, then dropped the wheels and trundled up the ramp. Big sheet of spray past the window as we touched down on the water.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2024 10:38 PM (2iPee)

86 79 If the US is attacked, precisely what could or would Slovakia do?
------------

Remember, if they land on our Southern beaches, three days later when the Marines arrive all they will find is beer cans and shotgun shells.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 15, 2024 10:39 PM (lCWOD)

87 Shot him five times without killing him?

Is the PM that tough? Or did the shooter use a 9mm?

Posted by: davidt at May 15, 2024 10:39 PM (SYTee)

88 Seize and hold Montenegro?
Posted by: Kindltot

"Montenegro" is clearly Rayciss
Posted by: Miklos, who has never been to there at May 15, 2024 10:38 PM (Mxkdu)

Black Mountain would be a good pro wrestler name.

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 10:39 PM (MNhXM)

89 I used to think I was born too early, because I looked at things like Star Trek and thought "wow, the future will be so great!"

Now, I think I was born too late....

Posted by: PabloD at May 15, 2024 10:40 PM (f7a6n)

90 34 When I see 'Aer Lingus', I always remember Imus' little problem back in the '70s. He was reading an ad for Aer Lingus, ending with an ad lib, 'Protestants sit in the back of the plane.' Caused quite a ruckus. For that he got shipped to Cleveland. Later, in the early '80s when he came back to the NY market, he did a commercial for the station, ending with 'Anything but Cleveland!' It became a running gag.
Posted by: RickZ at May 15, 2024 10:12 PM (emlEe)

I couldn't stand Imus. Never thought he was funny, and from listening to some of the people who worked for him back in the day (I'm thinking Sid Rosenberg and Bernie McGuirk) who said that he was a thoroughly miserable person, I was rooting for Howard Stern to triumph over him on morning radio. I couldn't stand Stern either, but for me it was like Iran v. Iraq, and I was rooting for Iraq.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 15, 2024 10:41 PM (r8eww)

91 I am trying to write something witty but I have a monster sized black cat laying on my arm and covering 1/2 my face. These are tough conditions to work through.
Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2024 10:17 PM (QzINz)

Luxury! When I was a lad, working in the mines, the giant pit cats would tear off our arms, gnaw off our faces, and carry off the three-year--old miners whole. Plus, we had to pay three quid, two bob, and a farthing for the privilege!
Posted by: A Yorkshireman at May 15, 2024 10:34 PM (anFBA)
***

Sheesh!
You first world Yorkies.
I had to siphon diesel from parked trucks in darkened truck stops just to get the cat running long enough to scrape the dirt enough to start a mine.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2024 10:41 PM (W/lyH)

92
Shot him five times without killing him?

Is the PM that tough? Or did the shooter use a 9mm?
Posted by: davidt

_________

"He's still alive. They hit him with five shots, and he's still alive! Well, that's bad luck for me, and bad luck for you if you don't make that deal!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2024 10:41 PM (MoZTd)

93
The naem "Black Mesa" has already been taken

Posted by: Kindltot at May 15, 2024 10:41 PM (D7oie)

94 How cool is that big bellied seaplane? Boeing a symbol of America's greatness. Howard Hughes owned Pan Am, I believe.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 15, 2024 10:42 PM (lCWOD)

95 77 regard that as a bridge way too far.

Before you ask, yes, adopting him was a Big Mistake.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 15, 2024 10:35 PM (CHHv1)

No kitty is a mistake. Cats normal temp is between 100 and 102. They are hot. He is trying to do you a favor.

Posted by: Piper at May 15, 2024 10:42 PM (pRpzT)

96 It's so easy to answer questions directly when you aren't lying.

https://tinyurl.com/3t3spckp

Posted by: Archimedes at May 15, 2024 10:42 PM (CsUN+)

97 Before the war, there were Wall Street people commuting in seaplanes from Shelter Island or Montauk on Long Island, pulling right up on a ramp in the East River near Water Street.

Posted by: High Rollers at May 15, 2024 10:42 PM (V5BDR)

98 There was a darkly amusing movie called "Montenegro" from the early 80s.

Posted by: Miklos, vaguely recalling some amusement at May 15, 2024 10:43 PM (Mxkdu)

99 Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 15, 2024 10:41 PM (r8eww)

He did get screwed for the nappy hair comment.

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 10:43 PM (MNhXM)

100
If the US is attacked, precisely what could or would Slovakia do?

. . . Seize and hold Montenegro?

Hold until relieved

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2024 10:43 PM (63Dwl)

101 94 How cool is that big bellied seaplane? Boeing a symbol of America's greatness. Howard Hughes owned Pan Am, I believe.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 15, 2024 10:42 PM (lCWOD)

Hughes owned TWA. Juan Trippe founded PanAm.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at May 15, 2024 10:43 PM (r8eww)

102 Is the PM that tough? Or did the shooter use a 9mm?
Posted by: davidt at May 15, 2024 10:39 PM (SYTee)

OH!
Snap!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2024 10:44 PM (W/lyH)

103 Leftist poet is my bet . Since most assassinations are committed by Leftists not that risky a bet,
Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 10:36 PM (MNhXM)

Perhaps. He sounds like an old hippie poet, so it's likely.

But Slovakia is in the EU, so I'm willing to bet its media is as uniformly globalist as most member states (and ours). And if the guy was anti-Ukraine and a COVID skeptic, they've probably spent a good deal of effort to demonize him and terrify people.

My guess: a left-leaning kooky NPC in some stage of senescence spent too much time reading the daily hate screeds on the pocket-sized mind-control device, and popped a logic circuit.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2024 10:44 PM (0FoWg)

104 How cool is that big bellied seaplane? Boeing a symbol of America's greatness. Howard Hughes owned Pan Am, I believe.
Posted by: Braenyard

Trans World (TWA)

Posted by: Miklos, whose Frequent Flyer Points just disappeared at May 15, 2024 10:44 PM (Mxkdu)

105
Howard Hughes owned Pan Am, I believe.
Posted by: Braenyard

________

*polite cough*

Juan Trippe

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2024 10:44 PM (MoZTd)

106 Trump needs to wear body armor when he’s in public .

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 10:46 PM (MNhXM)

107
Avs score, lead 5-3 with 3:10 left.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2024 10:48 PM (MoZTd)

108 Trump has probably been wearing body armor since he came down that escalator.

Posted by: davidt at May 15, 2024 10:48 PM (SYTee)

109 Trump needs to wear body armor when he’s in public .
Posted by: polynikes

Hell, he'd need to wear body armor if in any Federal building.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 15, 2024 10:48 PM (F6McX)

110 Oh look! A train!!

Posted by: Brandon at May 15, 2024 10:49 PM (llON8)

111 Trump needs to wear body armor when he’s in public .
Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 10:46 PM (MNhXM)

When I heard this morning that the PM was shot, that was my first thought. The media made a point of pointing out he was the Slovakian Trump.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2024 10:49 PM (W/lyH)

112 Trump needs to wear body armor when he’s in public .
Posted by: polynikes

Or use Adam Schiff as a human shield.

Or both.

Posted by: Miklosian suggestifications at May 15, 2024 10:49 PM (Mxkdu)

113 There is a compelling murder mystery set on a Boeing 314 as shown at the top of the thread, titled "Night Over Water" by Ken Follett. Meticulously researched, it really takes you into that really interesting time.

Posted by: Retief at May 15, 2024 10:49 PM (s7AMs)

114 Body armor does nothing about a head shot.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2024 10:51 PM (TdjBW)

115 Body armor does nothing about a head shot.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2024 10

Or a groin shot, in some cases.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 10:52 PM (VNX3d)

116 Or knives

Posted by: Braenyard at May 15, 2024 10:53 PM (lCWOD)

117 Nice job
Thanks for the Ont

Posted by: Muddy Waters at May 15, 2024 10:53 PM (QXQ4l)

118
Or a groin shot, in some cases.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

____________

"Shot off? Completely?"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2024 10:54 PM (MoZTd)

119 Chain mail and leather collars

Posted by: Braenyard at May 15, 2024 10:54 PM (lCWOD)

120 There is a compelling murder mystery set on a Boeing 314 as shown at the top of the thread, titled "Night Over Water" by Ken Follett. Meticulously researched, it really takes you into that really interesting time.
Posted by: Retief

Thank you.

I just bought that for four whole dollars.

Posted by: Miklos, who reads at or above grade level at May 15, 2024 10:54 PM (Mxkdu)

121 Hour of the wolf, exactly. A femoral artery shot will blld out in minutes.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2024 10:54 PM (TdjBW)

122 Trump needs to wear body armor when he’s in public .
Posted by: polynikes

Or use Adam Schiff as a human shield.

Or both.
Posted by: Miklosian suggestifications at May 15, 2024 10:49 PM (Mxkdu)

You can't use Adam Schiff as a human shield! Not without testing!

Posted by: Dr. T at May 15, 2024 10:54 PM (g0Y4p)

123 "Shot off? Completely?"
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

please no

Posted by: hanging chads at May 15, 2024 10:55 PM (Mxkdu)

124 Or use Adam Schiff as a human shield.

Or both.
Posted by: Miklosian suggestifications at May 15, 2024 10:49 PM (Mxkdu)

Neck shots would be fatal.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2024 10:56 PM (W/lyH)

125 thread takes disturbing turn

Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2024 10:56 PM (/7KEl)

126 Or use Adam Schiff as a human shield.

Or both.
Posted by: Miklosian suggestifications at May 15, 2024 10:49 PM (Mxkdu)

You can't use Adam Schiff as a human shield! Not without testing!
Posted by: Dr. T

You'd get better results with a helium balloon - or a full diaper. Either one is easier to handle than the slimy Adam Schiff.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 10:56 PM (VNX3d)

127
Schiff's neck doesn't pretend much of a aiming cross section, I don't think. Too thin.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2024 10:56 PM (w6EFb)

128
Now, those bug eyes do show up pretty good, though.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2024 10:57 PM (w6EFb)

129 Wouldn't Adam Schiff be more of a demon shield?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2024 10:57 PM (2iPee)

130 Best start to a Trump-Biden debate: repeating a handful of tongue-twisters, and see who's brain short circuits.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 10:59 PM (VNX3d)

131 Honestly, it doesn't much surprise me that Slovakia would elect a Russia-friendly leader at this point. It seems Ukraine is likely to collapse at some point pretty soon. If that happens, the Russians will look to economically and diplomatically chastise Ukraine's allies, and the EU won't much care to help little Slovakia, if they're even able to. They'll, as always, be preoccupied with addressing the interests of Germany and France in a postwar scenario like that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2024 10:59 PM (0FoWg)

132 Ann Coulter did a good chapter in one of her books about the political leanings of most of the infamous assassins.

I think the Japanese sword guy might be one of the few that could be said to be politically far right.

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 11:00 PM (MNhXM)

133 You can't use Adam Schiff as a human shield! Not without testing!
Posted by: Dr. T

Heh! "Well, he did ok on the pellet gun, let's try the .50 cal."

Posted by: Some Rat at May 15, 2024 11:00 PM (vJiyU)

134 Zelensky walks out Ukraine witn10 billion.

Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2024 11:01 PM (TdjBW)

135 >> repeating a handful of tongue-twisters,

I propose:

Theophilous Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of this thumb.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2024 11:01 PM (w6EFb)

136 Or use Adam Schiff as a human shield.

Or both.

Posted by: Miklosian suggestifications at May 15, 2024 10:49 PM

If the bullet travels through Schiff's neck, then it would impact Trump at full velocity.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at May 15, 2024 11:02 PM (HlyYF)

137 Posted by: Ben Had

{{{}}} Hey buddy! Ben a while.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 15, 2024 11:02 PM (vJiyU)

138 repeating a handful of tongue-twisters,

I propose:

Theophilous Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of this thumb.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2024 11:01 PM (w6EFb)
***

Jill!!!
I just thit my pants!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2024 11:02 PM (W/lyH)

139 Some Rat, hugs darlin. See you soon

Posted by: Ben Had at May 15, 2024 11:03 PM (TdjBW)

140 The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.

Supposedly the world’s toughest tongue twister.

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 11:04 PM (MNhXM)

141 You know, I think PanAm's Pacific Clipper could have just made it home by way of Papeete, Tahiti, then Easter Island, and then Lima, Peru. I don't think the Japs were active in that region of the Pacific at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2024 11:04 PM (2iPee)

142 Posted by: Ben Had

{{{}}} Hey buddy! Ben a while.
Posted by: Some Rat

Do NOT accept Free Ponies from Ben Had

Posted by: Miklos was Disappoint at May 15, 2024 11:04 PM (Mxkdu)

143 Japanese sword guy

-----

Otoya Yamaguchi. I'm not sure that "revanchist Shinto imperialism" fits neatly into the left-right political paradigm, but he gutted that dirty fuckin' Communist like the pig he was and effectively ended the movement in Japan, so I'll chalk it up as a win for the right, in any event.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2024 11:05 PM (0FoWg)

144 He also criticized the WHO's global vaccine mandate, er I mean accord.

He also denounced the EUs new migration pact, which imposes huge fines if you don't take your share of "refugees".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 15, 2024 11:05 PM (uxCna)

145
Another of my favorites:

A flea and fly in a flue were entrapped, so what could they do? Said the flea, "Let us fly!" Said the fly, "Let us flee". So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2024 11:05 PM (w6EFb)

146 Fa'a'a Airport

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2024 11:05 PM (RIvkX)

147 One does not use Adam Schiff as a "Human Shield", for anything.

First. He's something other than Human.

Second. He's best used for a DECOY. Something to draw the hasty assassin to reveal position, and intent.

A sacrificial component in the tactical situation, if you will.

Like a B&D drug test kit that a cop uses to confirm the presence of cocaine, or other drugs. Single use item, dispose of properly.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 15, 2024 11:06 PM (e6UQI)

148 repeating a handful of tongue-twisters,

I propose:

Theophilous Thistle, the successful thistle sifter, in sifting a sieve of unsifted thistles, thrust three thousand thistles through the thick of this thumb.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2024 11:01 PM (w6EFb)
***

Jill!!!
I just thit my pants!
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2024 11:02 PM (W/lyH)

It would work, unless Biden's fitted with his new remote-controlled exoskeleton with the tongue add-on. At that point, I expect a conflict between various groups on who has the remote....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 11:06 PM (VNX3d)

149 The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick.

Supposedly the world’s toughest tongue twister.
Posted by: polynikes

Barely an inconveineth

Posted by: Zorro de Mikloso with the Cathtillian lisp at May 15, 2024 11:06 PM (Mxkdu)

150 UC Irvine protest & cops

https://www.twitch.tv/smokenscan

Posted by: Ciampino - Titbit #03 at May 15, 2024 11:06 PM (qfLjt)

151 what about the Copper Clapper Caper

Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2024 11:07 PM (/7KEl)

152 You know, I think PanAm's Pacific Clipper could have just made it home by way of Papeete, Tahiti, then Easter Island, and then Lima, Peru. I don't think the Japs were active in that region of the Pacific at all.

There was a lot of panic in the Pacific in December, 1941.

They probably didn't want to take any chances of running into an unexpected Japanese operation.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 15, 2024 11:07 PM (uxCna)

153 A big black bug bit a big black bear and the big black bear bled blood.

Posted by: Studebts of Miklos had to do this at May 15, 2024 11:08 PM (Mxkdu)

154 Florida Muslim School Accused of Training 'Future Terrorists'

https://tinyurl.com/4csmsmvm

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine at May 15, 2024 11:09 PM (qfLjt)

155 what about the Copper Clapper Caper
Posted by: Don Black

*hearty guffaw*

Posted by: Ed NcMiklos-Mahon at May 15, 2024 11:10 PM (Mxkdu)

156 ou know, I think PanAm's Pacific Clipper could have just made it home by way of Papeete, Tahiti, then Easter Island, and then Lima, Peru. I don't think the Japs were active in that region of the Pacific at al…

Heh you reminded me that Peru had a Japanese-Peruvian as their Prime Minister once.

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 11:10 PM (MNhXM)

157 You know, I think PanAm's Pacific Clipper could have just made it home by way of Papeete, Tahiti, then Easter Island, and then Lima, Peru. I don't think the Japs were active in that region of the Pacific at all.

There was a lot of panic in the Pacific in December, 1941.

They probably didn't want to take any chances of running into an unexpected Japanese operation.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

They might not have been able to use Easter Island until Easter, delaying their return.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 11:10 PM (VNX3d)

158 Brazen shoplifting couple wander out of store with CASH register and run straight into police officer in Dem-run, crime-ravaged Seattle

https://mol.im/a/13422849

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #01 at May 15, 2024 11:10 PM (qfLjt)

159 There was a lot of panic in the Pacific in December, 1941.

They probably didn't want to take any chances of running into an unexpected Japanese operation.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 15, 2024 11:07 PM (uxCna)

Well, it might have been an unknown, I guess. But Java and the Indian Ocean were literal hotbeds of Jap activity at that time.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2024 11:10 PM (2iPee)

160 150 UC Irvine protest & cops

https://www.twitch.tv/smokenscan
Posted by: Ciampino - Titbit #03 at May 15, 2024 11:06 PM (qfLjt)
***

All i see is some.dude driving on the freeway.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2024 11:10 PM (W/lyH)

161 I clicked on your link and am watching commercials

no mayhem

Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2024 11:11 PM (/7KEl)

162 Rugger baby bruggie bonkers

Posted by: Joe Biden at May 15, 2024 11:11 PM (63Dwl)

163 All i see is some.dude driving on the freeway.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2024 11:10 PM (W/lyH)

In a white Bronco?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2024 11:12 PM (2iPee)

164 Driver in horror Florida bus crash that killed eight migrant workers and injured 45 admits he had mixed pot oil with medication before getting behind the wheel - but pleads not guilty to DUI manslaughter

https://mol.im/a/13422997

But grass is so safe!

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #02 at May 15, 2024 11:12 PM (qfLjt)

165 Do NOT accept Free Ponies from Ben Had
Posted by: Miklos
---
She has a way of gifting people with "free" animals...

Posted by: lin-duh at May 15, 2024 11:13 PM (PZo5T)

166 All i see is some.dude driving on the freeway.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2024 11:10 PM (W/lyH)

In a white Bronco?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2024 11:12 PM (2iPee)

Naaaa.
The car is in the HOV lane and doing at least 70.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2024 11:13 PM (W/lyH)

167 exciting live shot of some people drinking in a bar

Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2024 11:13 PM (/7KEl)

168 I suspect that very few of the guys who maintained and repaired highly complex aircraft engines in WWII went to Harvard.

Posted by: Miklos, hazarder of Guesses at May 15, 2024 11:14 PM (Mxkdu)

169 She has a way of gifting people with "free" animals...
Posted by: lin-duh at May 15, 2024 11:13 PM (PZo5T)
===

Otters? Pandas?
/hopefully

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2024 11:14 PM (RIvkX)

170 I like Finger Frida fantastically for five forenights freely .

Posted by: Joey two fingers Biden at May 15, 2024 11:15 PM (MNhXM)

171 hockey game is over and this thread is on life support

out

Posted by: Don Black at May 15, 2024 11:15 PM (/7KEl)

172 In a white Bronco?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 15, 2024 11:12 PM (2iPee)

That white Bronco's gotta be seriously heat-discolored by this point.

Posted by: RickZ at May 15, 2024 11:15 PM (emlEe)

173 Teacher fired over preferred pronouns gets $360K from district

https://mol.im/a/13422437

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #03 at May 15, 2024 11:15 PM (qfLjt)

174 All i see is some.dude driving on the freeway.
Posted by: Diogenes

Looking for Adventure?

Posted by: Miklos, Born to be Wild at May 15, 2024 11:15 PM (Mxkdu)

175 Just as I posted that UC Irvine link, the streamer lost his sources on campus.

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #04 at May 15, 2024 11:17 PM (qfLjt)

176 Teacher fired over preferred pronouns gets $360K from district

https://mol.im/a/13422437
Posted by: Ciampino

*sigh*

Posted by: the taxpayers of that district at May 15, 2024 11:17 PM (Mxkdu)

177
I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit. Upon the slitted sheet I sit.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2024 11:17 PM (w6EFb)

178 Superman's hometown of Metropolis at war with librarians who parents say are pushing their religion on kids and stripping out any books about being gay

https://mol.im/a/13422511

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #05 at May 15, 2024 11:18 PM (qfLjt)

179 There was not a whole lot to see at UC Irvine. Just a lot of cops and a lot of people being arrested.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2024 11:18 PM (RIvkX)

180 suspect that very few of the guys who maintained and repaired highly complex aircraft engines in WWII went to Harvard.
Posted by: Miklos, hazarder of Guesses at May 15, 2024 11:14 PM (Mxkdu)

My great uncle did not go to Harvard.

Say hello to my mom for me Uncle Frank.

Posted by: Joey two fingers Biden at May 15, 2024 11:18 PM (MNhXM)

181 Survivor of Mao's political purge in China says she's got PTSD watching history repeat on US college campuses

https://mol.im/a/13422889

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #06 at May 15, 2024 11:19 PM (qfLjt)

182 Off you perverted sock.

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 11:19 PM (MNhXM)

183 Like a true nature's child
I was born, born to be wild

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2024 11:20 PM (RIvkX)

184 Paul A. Szypula @Bubblebathgirl 7h
Joe Biden just made his speech to police officers about him.

Biden said he knows what it’s like to lose a son in the line of duty because he lost his son Beau.

Beau dįed from brain cancer in 2015.

He served in Iraq until 2008.

Biden is lying again.
https://tinyurl.com/3fc2s9sy
29 seconds; does says with cancer though.

RNC Research @RNCResearch
Biden trips (again) as he's led on stage at the national Peace Officers Memorial Service
https://tinyurl.com/588rcptm
12 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at May 15, 2024 11:21 PM (ZdexC)

185 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 15, 2024 11:21 PM (iNUL3)

186 It’s still possible Hunter might die doing a line.

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 11:22 PM (MNhXM)

187 I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit. Upon the slitted sheet I sit.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Te tetted e tettetett tettet? Tettetett tettek tettese, te!

Posted by: Miklos is mildly provoked, invokes Hungarian at May 15, 2024 11:22 PM (Mxkdu)

188 Well now,

So Joe has agreed to debate Pres. Trump.

So many things are permutating in my mind yet,

I am suspect of this sudden change of strategy by team FJB.

I wonder large...

Posted by: Nightwatch at May 15, 2024 11:22 PM (TDvv2)

189
carter death watch

Prediction: Soon

Probably won't make it until sunrise.

Posted by: Soothsayer at May 15, 2024 11:22 PM (ptpoT)

190 It’s still possible Hunter might die doing a line.
Posted by: polynikes

And lie about it

Posted by: Miklos thinks so at May 15, 2024 11:23 PM (Mxkdu)

191 On that 'He flew around the world' map, there is a country called 'Ceylon'. WTF...never heard of it.

Posted by: A Millennial at May 15, 2024 11:23 PM (XeU6L)

192
Probably won't make it until sunrise.
Posted by: Soothsayer

May God rest his soul soon.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 15, 2024 11:23 PM (u95ui)

193 This is hard to fathom. I would kill the kidnapper and he'll probably get 'deaded' since it's Algeria.

https://mol.im/a/13422609

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #07 at May 15, 2024 11:24 PM (qfLjt)

194 The Secretary of State brought his guitar to Kiev.

It can only mean the war has entered its final stages.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2024 11:24 PM (RIvkX)

195 What lies will Biden tell about his relationship with Carter?

I expect it will have something to do with the Camp David accords.

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 11:25 PM (MNhXM)

196 I am suspect of this sudden change of strategy by team FJB.

I wonder large...
Posted by: Nightwatch

The lab boys must have achieved a breakthrough.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 15, 2024 11:26 PM (vJiyU)

197 Has Hunter been there? Investigation underway after bag with cocaine residue found on the floor inside United States Capitol Police (USCP) headquarters

https://tinyurl.com/4xptkckj

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #08 at May 15, 2024 11:26 PM (qfLjt)

198 The Secretary of State brought his guitar to Kiev.

It can only mean the war has entered its final stages.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2024 11:24 PM (RIvkX)

And played it at a Kiev nightclub. Hell of a war zone.

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 11:26 PM (MNhXM)

199 I am suspect of this sudden change of strategy by team FJB.

-----

Me too. I have a hard time seeing what they have to gain by him getting mauled in a debate. Jake Tapper can't save the old wreck from that humiliation. Brandon's handlers are working some angle, but I can't figure it out yet.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2024 11:26 PM (0FoWg)

200 "When we were preparing to leave Bahrain we were warned by the British authorities not to fly across Arabia," said Ford.

"The Saudis had apparently already caught some British fliers who had been forced down there. The natives had dug a hole, buried them in it up to their necks, and just left them."
_Saga of the Pacific Clipper

Posted by: Braenyard at May 15, 2024 11:27 PM (lCWOD)

201 BREAKING

Jimmy Carter showered with a pre-teen Joe Biden

Posted by: MiklosWatch at May 15, 2024 11:27 PM (Mxkdu)

202 Te tetted e tettetett tettet? Tettetett tettek tettese, te!
Posted by: Miklos is mildly provoked, invokes Hungarian at May 15, 2024 11:22 PM (Mxkdu)
===

Don't make me break out the Magyar Translation Device.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2024 11:27 PM (RIvkX)

203 We flew for several hours before there was a break in the clouds below us, and damned if we weren't smack over the Mosque at Mecca! I could see the people pouring out of it, it was just like kicking an anthill. They were probably firing at us, but at least they didn't have any anti-aircraft."

Posted by: Braenyard at May 15, 2024 11:28 PM (lCWOD)

204 iPhone glitch causes pictures that were deleted YEARS ago to resurface

https://mol.im/a/13421829

It's 'The CLOUD' man .... LOL
All your porn pictures are back. I bet this glitch is actually an FEEEB backdoor that was poorly coded.

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #09 at May 15, 2024 11:29 PM (qfLjt)

205
carter death watch

Prediction: Soon

Probably won't make it until sunrise.
Posted by: Soothsayer

________

Sad. He'll go withour seeing his life's goal accomplished: Israel wiped off the map.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 15, 2024 11:29 PM (MoZTd)

206 Jimmy Carter showered with a pre-teen Joe Biden
Posted by: MiklosWatch at May 15, 2024 11:27 PM (Mxkdu)

Lol

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2024 11:29 PM (0FoWg)

207 e too. I have a hard time seeing what they have to gain by him getting mauled in a debate. Jake Tapper can't save the old wreck from that humiliation. Brandon's handlers are working some angle, but I can't figure it out yet.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2024 11:26 PM (0FoWg)

He won’t answer the questions, reply with canned attacks on Trump and laugh like a crazy guy at any Trump push back.

It worked against Ryan,

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 11:29 PM (MNhXM)

208 The Secretary of State brought his guitar to Kiev.

It can only mean the war has entered its final stages.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 15, 2024 11:24 PM (RIvkX)

What, James Taylor was busy?

Posted by: RickZ at May 15, 2024 11:29 PM (emlEe)

209 And played it at a Kiev nightclub. Hell of a war zone.
Posted by: polynikes

I met Winken, Blinken and Nod a couple of times when his father was ambassador to Hungary.

Was not impressed

Posted by: Miklos has no reason to modify first impressions at May 15, 2024 11:30 PM (Mxkdu)

210 FJB: Jimmy Carter once launched me out of a submarine's torpedo tube. It was a blast, and was I loaded!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 11:30 PM (VNX3d)

211 If the Lieutenant was "selected to be an Air Force pilot" then she's not going to any post-grad work. It's most likely that she went through the pre-pilot-training program at the Academy. It's not a rigorous entry system (basically physically qualified and you got into the Academy), but it does wash people out (who then go on to other careers in the AF if they otherwise graduate).

Pilot training is basically a year, though. Post-grad work is generally starting at the beginning of the next academic year for those sorts of programs. So you have to put off one or the other.

Posted by: GWB at May 15, 2024 11:30 PM (1zxQh)

212 59 I keep looking, but I cannot find the route used by a group of B-17s that were flown from the US to India, to be used for an attack on Japan. I think it's listed in the book "God is My Co-Pilot", by Robert Lee Scott, Jr.,

I _think_ it's close to the route taken by the Clipper above, at least for that part of its trip.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 10:25 PM (VNX3d)

I believe the unit you're recollecting was the Halverson Detachment.

https://tinyurl.com/mryze48a

Twenty-three B-24s led by USAAF Col. Harry Halverson. The original plan was for the detachment to get to bases in China to bomb the Japanese Home Islands. Via North Africa, Middle East, and India. Departed the USA on May 22, 1942. But by the time the planes got to Egypt, the Japanes had captured those Chinese airfields. So they stayed in Egypt and made the first USAAF attack on the Ploesti, Rumania, oil refineries on June 11, more than 13 months before the famous mass low-level Plosti raid by B-24s on August 1, 1943. The detachment ended up as part of the 376th Bomb Group.

Posted by: Gref at May 15, 2024 11:30 PM (5fDan)

213 American couple is trapped in Brazil fighting court's bizarre reason for stopping them getting a passport for their baby after she was born three months prematurely while on vacation

https://mol.im/a/13422071

So the unborn baby was on vacation. Hmm.

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #10 at May 15, 2024 11:31 PM (qfLjt)

214 It worked against Ryan,
Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 11:29 PM (MNhXM)

Trump ain't Ryan. He's not under orders to throw the fight, and wouldn't do it if he were. They might as well send the dotard up there to debate a hungry bear.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2024 11:32 PM (0FoWg)

215 Wait... maybe Tapper will play the role of the Slovakian poet!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2024 11:33 PM (0FoWg)

216 That was a great ONY Roger. I haven't been here for a while. But an ONT worthy of a smart military blog. Thank you. Actually bookmarked this for the podcasts. Incredible story.

Just watched 'Voyagers' on Amazon Prime. 'Lord of the Flies' in space. Earth is in trouble. There's a planet 64 years away. They use artificial insemenation in factories to breed the best and brightest, raise them alone not letting them know anything about Earth so they won't be discouraged during the trip.

They're the first generation during the flight. The next generations will be bred through artificial insemination too. The third generation will land. They take off but when the 30 kids are teens, a few of them discover the blue liquid is to make them more compliant, and to dull all ambition and sexual desires. A few go off the drink and crap breaks loose.

Okay, I taught in South Korea, broke my arm and was in the hospital for 17 days in a room with 7 other guys. GREAT CARE! But everyday, we got packets of pills to take with meals...3 times a day. The Koreans are incredibly logical. I really think there was something in the pills to prevent erections.

Posted by: Stateless at May 15, 2024 11:35 PM (jvJvP)

217 That movie reminded me of that.

Posted by: Stateless at May 15, 2024 11:36 PM (jvJvP)

218 I believe the unit you're recollecting was the Halverson Detachment.

https://tinyurl.com/mryze48a

Twenty-three B-24s led by USAAF Col. Harry Halverson. The original plan was for the detachment to get to bases in China to bomb the Japanese Home Islands. Via North Africa, Middle East, and India. Departed the USA on May 22, 1942. But by the time the planes got to Egypt, the Japanes had captured those Chinese airfields. So they stayed in Egypt and made the first USAAF attack on the Ploesti, Rumania, oil refineries on June 11, more than 13 months before the famous mass low-level Plosti raid by B-24s on August 1, 1943. The detachment ended up as part of the 376th Bomb Group.
Posted by: Gref

You might be right. It's been a while since I read the book, or even watched the movie.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 11:36 PM (VNX3d)

219 Should be for the Pet Thread: man rescues nine cats and a dog from submerged home as he carries them through the killer flood waters in Brazil that have left 149 dead

https://mol.im/a/13421475

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #11 at May 15, 2024 11:38 PM (qfLjt)

220 Well, we will see in June with the 1st. debate

I'm even more concerned that FJB is willing to go with 2 debates...

Something is up and I am not liking it.

Posted by: Nightwatch at May 15, 2024 11:38 PM (TDvv2)

221 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2024 11:32 PM (0FoWg)

Did you watch the debates in 2020?

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 11:38 PM (MNhXM)

222
The giant ass in Gaffney, SC got soaked this afternoon. 4" fell in 90 minutes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2024 11:39 PM (w6EFb)

223 In her four years at the Academy, Marsh rose to the rank of Second Lieutenant...

-----

Uh, like every graduate of every service academy. Unless...they mean Cadet 2nd Lt., or in Army parlance, platoon leader.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2024 11:39 PM (XeU6L)

224 Of all the idiots in the media, Tapper is the most self-regarding of the bunch. He *would* be the guy. Just tell him "we've always known you were hewn of heroic timber. Only you can save Our Sacred Democracy, Jake. Put this samurai sword behind the podium. When he says a disinformation you know what to do. Do it for the news, Jake. You ARE the news!"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2024 11:39 PM (0FoWg)

225
The giant ass in Gaffney, SC got soaked this afternoon. 4" fell in 90 minutes.
Posted by: publius
----

It's a peach , dammit!

Posted by: Gaffney Chamber of Commerce at May 15, 2024 11:41 PM (XeU6L)

226 The giant ass in Gaffney, SC got soaked this afternoon. 4" fell in 90 minutes.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Peach Punch for Everybody!

Posted by: Miklos has other more adult-type beverages at May 15, 2024 11:41 PM (Mxkdu)

227 Well, we will see in June with the 1st. debate

I'm even more concerned that FJB is willing to go with 2 debates...

Something is up and I am not liking it.
Posted by: Nightwatch

Best guess, they're planning something in the New York courtroom that will see the judge throw Trump into jail until after the dates of all debates.

Second best, they have this generation's John Hinckley prepped and ready to go.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 11:42 PM (VNX3d)

228 Well, we will see in June with the 1st. debate

I'm even more concerned that FJB is willing to go with 2 debates...

Something is up and I am not liking it.
Posted by: Nightwatch at May 15, 2024 11:38 PM (TDvv2)
***

Biden needs the debates.
Trump does not.
Would not bet against the fix being in and Trump is jailed by the fucktard judge from the trial.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2024 11:42 PM (W/lyH)

229 Hey, is there going to be a 1000 post Friday? And maybe Saturday?

The last huge post I was involved in was during the 2020 'elections' when suddenly at 3 or 4 am, several polling places in several places got tired, and even though Trump was up by 100,000's, they'd finish the next day, when damn, suddenly Biden pulled ahead.

Tons of people need to flood any polling station that closes early. Blow a few heads off. Send a message.

Posted by: Stateless at May 15, 2024 11:43 PM (jvJvP)

230 The giant ass in Gaffney, SC got soaked this afternoon. 4" fell in 90 minutes.
Posted by: publius
----

It's a peach , dammit!

Glad you clarified. For a moment I thought Biden had made an actual campaign stop.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 15, 2024 11:43 PM (dZVON)

231 Of all the idiots in the media, Tapper is the most self-regarding of the bunch.

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Fake Tapper at May 15, 2024 11:43 PM (Mxkdu)

232 Wow, horde mind is active.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 11:43 PM (VNX3d)

233 Did you watch the debates in 2020?

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 11:38 PM (MNhXM)

Of course not. I would never waste time on an American political debate.

But just *look* at the man. He couldn't win a debate against my twelve year old at this point. He'll be lucky to walk out of it under his own power.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2024 11:44 PM (0FoWg)

234 Wow, horde mind is active.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 11:43 PM (VNX3d)

No kidding!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2024 11:44 PM (W/lyH)

235 No kidding!
Posted by: Diogenes

ONT is the GOAT

Posted by: sez Pedro y Miklos anyway at May 15, 2024 11:46 PM (Mxkdu)

236 But just *look* at the man. He couldn't win a debate against my twelve year old at this point. He'll be lucky to walk out of it under his own power.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

If they screw up his amphetamine dose, we could see a massive stroke live!

Posted by: Some Rat at May 15, 2024 11:46 PM (vJiyU)

237 >> fighting court's bizarre reason for stopping them getting a passport for their baby

I read a little on this story. In Brazil, you have to a birth certificate to get a passport. Kid was born in Brazil, so Brazil must issue the birth certificate. But, you need the name of the grandparents on the certificate.

To get that, they have to get US documents, which Brazil will officially recognize, but to do that, the kid needs a birth certificate....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2024 11:47 PM (w6EFb)

238 Nice ONT Roger

Hi everyone.

Go Avs

What did I miss?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 15, 2024 11:47 PM (991eG)

239 American Eagle announces it's closing store at San Francisco's dying downtown mall - with 52 staff set to lose jobs - citing 'crime and neglect'

https://mol.im/a/13421795

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #12 at May 15, 2024 11:47 PM (qfLjt)

240 Did you watch the debates in 2020?

Posted by: polynikes at May 15, 2024 11:38 PM (MNhXM)

Of course not. I would never waste time on an American political debate.

But just *look* at the man. He couldn't win a debate against my twelve year old at this point. He'll be lucky to walk out of it under his own power.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

That's it! Biden will have the Christopher Pike chair from Star Trek! Roll him on and off stage, and have someone hidden light the Yes and No lights.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 11:47 PM (VNX3d)

241 If they screw up his amphetamine dose, we could see a massive stroke live!

You know, this is the one situation where Hunter's actual field of knowledge might come into play.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at May 15, 2024 11:48 PM (dZVON)

242 What did I miss?
Posted by: Muldoon

*notes fresh bullet hole"

Not much

Posted by: Miklos is Fine at May 15, 2024 11:49 PM (Mxkdu)

243 After attempting to lie, HHS Secretary Becerra says the quiet part out loud. Joe Biden’s government will withhold funds from religious hospitals that refuse to provide sex-change operations for young children.

https://tinyurl.com/t7net6mj

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #13 at May 15, 2024 11:50 PM (qfLjt)

244
The bottom fell out here briefly, which my new weather station recorded. It said the peak rainfall rate was 3.85"/hr (that's right at DVIP level 4, as my cousin would say).

The heaviest lasted only about 5 minutes. The station total did undercount a bit. The regular gauge said a hair about 1" total (including about 1/4" from earlier). The last 0.7" or so fell rapidly.

That's the problem with the tipping buckets. They will undercount at very high rainfall rates.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at May 15, 2024 11:51 PM (w6EFb)

245 How 'Never Trump' donors are considering abandoning BIDEN because of his 'betrayal' of Israel... and doing the unthinkable in 2024

https://mol.im/a/13421057

Now pull the other one.

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #14 at May 15, 2024 11:52 PM (qfLjt)

246 Maybe the cabal has given up on Joe and has already set a date, prior to the first debate, for his replacement.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at May 15, 2024 11:52 PM (anFBA)

247 Via Valor Guardians from X:
“Youth commit to working towards LGBTQIA+ allyship, anti-racism, and anti-oppression. If you are someone who is not open to participating in anti-racism and LGBTQIA + Allyship work, our camp programs are not a good fit for you and your child.” - Girl Scouts

My emphasis.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 15, 2024 11:53 PM (XeU6L)

248 Just to get away from politics for a while, who knows a reliable source of information about SpaceX's Starship program? I see a lot of speculation, but nothing I'd trust.

I'm really curious about the fourth test flight, and when it might happen. I don't want to miss it.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 15, 2024 11:53 PM (VNX3d)

249 That's the problem with the tipping buckets. They will undercount at very high rainfall rates.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

Huh

The Federal Reserve just said the same thing.

Posted by: Miklos will figure it out tomorrow at May 15, 2024 11:53 PM (Mxkdu)

250 Man suspected of punching Boardwalk Empire star Steve Buscemi in random NYC attack

https://mol.im/a/13419459

So now he's even 'funnier looking'?

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #16 at May 15, 2024 11:54 PM (qfLjt)

251 Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #13 at May 15, 2024 11:50 PM (qfLjt)

Our government is evil.

I have little sympathy for church hospitals that didn't see this coming.

Any church organization that touches their blood money should have their hands break out in sores.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2024 11:54 PM (0FoWg)

252 My emphasis.

Posted by: Mike Hammer

Even I am disgusted.

Posted by: the Cookie Monster at May 15, 2024 11:55 PM (Mxkdu)

253 What did I miss?
Posted by: Muldoon

Well, Ciampino wanted to ask Nurse to the prom, but she holding out for Miklos. (No one knows why). So Ciampino was hitting on Piper, but her Cessna broke down. Meanwhile publius made dinner for Miley only to discover he didn't include okra (makes him a hero in my book) and she is now.considering a separate vacation soon to the Watermelon Festival in Water Valley Mississippi. And on top of all that, Mike Hammer challenged YD to a chess match...loser buys the winner an upgrade to a tinfoil membership.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2024 11:57 PM (W/lyH)

254 Man suspected of punching Boardwalk Empire star Steve Buscemi in random NYC attack

https://mol.im/a/13419459

So now he's even 'funnier looking'?
Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine

The alleged assailant's face was artificially darkened.

Posted by: Jake Fapper at May 15, 2024 11:57 PM (Mxkdu)

255
If they screw up his amphetamine dose, we could see a massive stroke live!
Posted by: Some Rat

A coronary mass ejection.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2024 11:58 PM (63Dwl)

256 Mike Hammer challenged YD to a chess match...loser buys the winner an upgrade to a tinfoil membership.
Posted by: Diogenes

And sliders at Applebee's

Posted by: Miklos knows not why neither at May 15, 2024 11:58 PM (Mxkdu)

257 Mike Hammer challenged YD to a chess match...loser buys the winner an upgrade to a tinfoil membership.
Posted by: Diogenes

And sliders at Applebee's
Posted by: Miklos knows not why neither

If they haven't closed down, like Red Lobster.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 16, 2024 12:00 AM (VNX3d)

258 A coronary mass ejection.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Sexy!!!!

Posted by: E. Jean Carroll at May 16, 2024 12:00 AM (Mxkdu)

259 *notes fresh bullet hole"

Not much
Posted by: Miklos is Fine

*******

Hopefully in your seat cushion and not your fourth left intercostal space.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 12:00 AM (991eG)

260 an upgrade to a tinfoil membership.
Posted by: Diogenes

Sigh....to dream the impossible dream.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 16, 2024 12:00 AM (vJiyU)

261 Trying to watch Maris the Chojo and wishing for every copy to vanish. I guess even Takahashi Rumiko has off days with the writing gig which gives me hope as a writer.

I should go and watch Dragon Half or maybe All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 16, 2024 12:01 AM (2IHsC)

262 Man suspected of punching Boardwalk Empire star Steve Buscemi in random NYC attack

https://mol.im/a/13419459

So now he's even 'funnier looking'?
Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #16 at May 15, 2024 11:54 PM (qfLjt)

Buscemi was looking down and texting on his phone in the middle of the sidewalk when he was sucker punched.

If he was a aos reader he would not have been doing that and would have maintained situational awareness.

Head on a swivel could be the aos motto,

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2024 12:01 AM (MNhXM)

263 Biden mysteriously drops dead during the debates....

Michelle Obama bravely steps forward...

Posted by: Stateless at May 16, 2024 12:02 AM (jvJvP)

264 Roger Ball

First sentence, John Ford was a Hollywood director. The pilot of the Boeing Pan Am Clipper was Robert Ford.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 16, 2024 12:03 AM (2IHsC)

265 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 15, 2024 11:54 PM (0FoWg

They don't have a lot of options; what this means is the government won't pay the Medicare/Medicaid/VA stuff

Which means people will not be able to go to these hospitals for their medical needs if Medicare, Medicaid and some sort of VA or TriCare is what they have for insurance.

Medicare in particular is a huge chunk of most hospitals income, in many areas.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at May 16, 2024 12:03 AM (Vvh2V)

266 If they screw up his amphetamine dose, we could see a massive stroke live!
Posted by: Some Rat

Don't tease me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 16, 2024 12:03 AM (7hNYp)

267 Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2024 11:57 PM (W/lyH)

**********

Dang. Wednesdays are always eventful.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 12:03 AM (991eG)

268 Pulls out her penis...

Posted by: Stateless at May 16, 2024 12:03 AM (jvJvP)

269 Biden mysteriously drops dead during the debates....

Michelle Obama bravely steps forward...

Posted by: Stateless

... and trips over Kamala Harris running for the mike, cackling.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 16, 2024 12:04 AM (VNX3d)

270 Biden mysteriously drops dead during the debates....

Michelle Obama bravely steps forward...

After body checking Kamala Harris into the Beast followed by a Bollard Suplex.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 16, 2024 12:04 AM (2IHsC)

271 Biden mysteriously drops dead during the debates....

Michelle Obama bravely steps forward...

Posted by: Stateless at May 16, 2024 12:02 AM (jvJvP)

Who was surprisingly in the building at the time in the studio just next door!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 16, 2024 12:05 AM (W/lyH)

272 Hopefully in your seat cushion and not your fourth left intercostal space.
Posted by: Muldoon

Right through the middle of a Highly Collectible plate from the Franklin Mint.

Posted by: Somebody owes Miklos some moneys at May 16, 2024 12:05 AM (Mxkdu)

273 Well, Ciampino wanted to ask Nurse to the prom, but she holding out for Miklos. (No one knows why). So Ciampino was hitting on Piper, but her Cessna broke down. Meanwhile publius made dinner for Miley only to discover he didn't include okra (makes him a hero in my book) and she is now.considering a separate vacation soon to the Watermelon Festival in Water Valley Mississippi. And on top of all that, Mike Hammer challenged YD to a chess match...loser buys the winner an upgrade to a tinfoil membership.
Posted by: Diogenes at May 15, 2024 11:57 PM (W/lyH)

Sigh, the cool kids are so dreamy. I wish I could be one someday.

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 16, 2024 12:05 AM (2nuRE)

274 Hopefully in your seat cushion and not your fourth left intercostal space.
Posted by: Muldoon

Right through the middle of a Highly Collectible plate from the Franklin Mint.
Posted by: Somebody owes Miklos some moneys

Was it the Snoopy acorn plate, or the Snoopy Frenchman with a beret plate?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 16, 2024 12:06 AM (VNX3d)

275 213 American couple is trapped in Brazil fighting court's bizarre reason for stopping them getting a passport for their baby after she was born three months prematurely while on vacation

https://mol.im/a/13422071

So the unborn baby was on vacation. Hmm.
Posted by: Ciampino
===========

Apparently Brazil has always been shit. When the Clipper landed in Brazil, crew was told the plan had to be fumigated. When they returned they found that money, charts and other items were stolen.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 16, 2024 12:06 AM (lCWOD)

276 Who was surprisingly in the building at the time in the studio just next door!
Posted by: Diogenes

Not me

Posted by: L. Harvey Oswald Jr. at May 16, 2024 12:07 AM (Mxkdu)

277 Posted by: nurse ratched

Hey you! What's this about emergency appendectomy?
Everything ok?

Posted by: Some Rat at May 16, 2024 12:07 AM (vJiyU)

278 So, I got a clean bill of health at the oncologist's office today, so that was cool.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 12:09 AM (991eG)

279 First sentence, John Ford was a Hollywood director. The pilot of the Boeing Pan Am Clipper was Robert Ford.
Posted by: Anna Puma at May 16, 2024 12:03 AM (2IHsC)

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Was that before or after he shot Jesse James in the back?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 16, 2024 12:09 AM (bo7UB)

280 So, I got a clean bill of health at the oncologist's office today, so that was cool.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 12:09 AM (991eG)

Great news!!!
So very glad to hear.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 16, 2024 12:09 AM (W/lyH)

281 Sigh, the cool kids are so dreamy. I wish I could be one someday.
Posted by: Pete Bog

*offers Pete the juice box from his lunch tray*

Posted by: shy but kind Miklos at May 16, 2024 12:10 AM (Mxkdu)

282 Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at May 16, 2024 12:03 AM (Vvh2V)

I understand that.

But I also understand that the US government has a singleminded obsession with murdering and mutilating babies and children, and an implacable will to power that won't let them allow anyone who takes their filthy lucre the freedom of their conscience.

They understand that too.

So the option is simple: forgo the income or don't be a religious institution. Can't have it both ways.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 16, 2024 12:10 AM (0FoWg)

283 Hollywood director John Ford as he was filming the Japanese attack on Midway received a shrapnel wound from one of the bombs. And he kept filming.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 16, 2024 12:11 AM (2IHsC)

284 Sigh, the cool kids are so dreamy. I wish I could be one someday.
Posted by: Pete Bog

*offers Pete the juice box from his lunch tray*
Posted by: shy but kind Miklos

Wow, you got a lunch try? All I got was an old sock.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 16, 2024 12:11 AM (VNX3d)

285 Very cool, indeed, Muldoon! A quick prayer of thanks just went up. I hadn't known you needed an oncologist.

Is there any news on Mr. Sefton?

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at May 16, 2024 12:11 AM (Vvh2V)

286 280 So, I got a clean bill of health at the oncologist's office today, so that was cool.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 12:09 AM (991eG)
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Best news one can receive.
applause, applause

Posted by: Braenyard at May 16, 2024 12:11 AM (lCWOD)

287 Happy for you Muldoon!
Going to bed on that happy note!

Posted by: Stateless at May 16, 2024 12:12 AM (jvJvP)

288 the Snoopy Frenchman with a beret plate?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

I use that one as the cheese plate.

Posted by: Le Mikleuse at May 16, 2024 12:12 AM (Mxkdu)

289 So now Maris the Chojo has turned into a female wrestling match...

Wanna Bes was way better.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 16, 2024 12:12 AM (2IHsC)

290 255
If they screw up his amphetamine dose, we could see a massive stroke live!
Posted by: Some Rat

A coronary mass ejection.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 15, 2024 11:58 PM (63Dwl)
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So he's a projectile vomiter like one of my cats?

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #17 at May 16, 2024 12:13 AM (qfLjt)

291 Posted by: Muldoon

Excellent news good sir!

Posted by: Some Rat at May 16, 2024 12:13 AM (vJiyU)

292 278 So, I got a clean bill of health at the oncologist's office today, so that was cool.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 12:09 AM (991eG)

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"Maybe I can help you with that hump."

Posted by: Doctor Frohnkenshteen at May 16, 2024 12:13 AM (bo7UB)

293 Good news, Muldoon!

Good evening , chef!

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 16, 2024 12:13 AM (1JnfY)

294 A coronary mass ejection.

You mean Joey is gonna blow out his hair plugs?

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 16, 2024 12:15 AM (2IHsC)

295 All I got was an old sock.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

I can help with socks

Posted by: Miklos, shamed on a regular basis at May 16, 2024 12:15 AM (Mxkdu)

296 So, I got a clean bill of health at the oncologist's office today, so that was cool.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 12:09 AM (991eG)

Now being doctors and all, did he tell you this good news on the front nine, or the back nine?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 16, 2024 12:15 AM (W/lyH)

297 Can candy canner Ken can candy cannery canners?

Yes. Candy canner Ken can can candy cannery canners.

He's the boss, after all.

Evening, Horde!

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at May 16, 2024 12:16 AM (iRX3h)

298 Clap your hands everyone!

Cancel Culture Disney has come for Tinkerbell.

Disney Delenda Est.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 16, 2024 12:18 AM (2IHsC)

299 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 16, 2024 12:10 AM (0FoWg)

I agree wholeheartedly, but fear the worst. I can see Francis caving, on the grounds that it would be catastrophic for Catholic hospitals to close.

Perhaps I'm too cynical.

I also think The Supremes would stop it. Maybe even unanimously.

Now I'm being naive. Ha!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at May 16, 2024 12:19 AM (Vvh2V)

300

Gonna crack my knuckles and jump for joy
I got a clean bill of health from Dr. McCoy.

Posted by: Space Hippie at May 16, 2024 12:19 AM (63Dwl)

301 Possible Online dating intro-

Gonna lift you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna tell a lie
And hurt you

I figure the younger chicks will have no clue

Posted by: Miklos, shamelessly manipulating cross-generational cultural divides at May 16, 2024 12:20 AM (Mxkdu)

302 offers Pete the juice box from his lunch tray*
Posted by: shy but kind Miklos at May 16, 2024 12:10 AM (Mxkdu)

I’m too enamored with the cool kids to tell anyone he had already drank the juice but demanded my full juice box in return. As well as my medicinal flask.

But that’s okay. You gotta pay your dues

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 16, 2024 12:22 AM (2nuRE)

303 DC hosted voting registration training for illegal immigrants

https://tinyurl.com/yv97hdbh

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #18 at May 16, 2024 12:22 AM (qfLjt)

304 Now being doctors and all, did he tell you this good news on the front nine, or the back nine?
Posted by: Diogenes

*******

Funny thing. We spent about 25 minutes of a 30 minute visit updating him on the situation with my F-I-L, which we had filled him in on last time I saw him. His medical assistant, a "kid" who wants to be a PA was trying hard to look like he was transcribing my visit, but he was all ears about the missing person and cadaver dogs. At the end, the kid asked me "is there a podcast about that case?" I said no, but gave him the url for the Curious Disappearance blog. He said he has a friend who works cold cases for the CBI, but is not one of the agents on our case. He was all into it.

A podcast? C'mon man, do you think this is 2014?

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 12:23 AM (991eG)

305 But that’s okay. You gotta pay your dues
Posted by: Pete Bog

Pete is now a Made Man-kid

Posted by: Don Miklos di Miklosio-Gotti at May 16, 2024 12:24 AM (Mxkdu)

306 Good news Muldoon. Hopefully many happy returns.

Ben Had you’re up late.. hang around awhile.

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 16, 2024 12:25 AM (2nuRE)

307 A podcast? C'mon man, do you think this is 2014?
Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 12:23 AM (991eG)

Reading is, like, just so, you know, _hard_, with all those letters and stuff. Hearing is easier.

( Not listening; hearing)

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 16, 2024 12:26 AM (VNX3d)

308 No one told me there were juice boxes...

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 12:27 AM (991eG)

309 No one told me there were juice boxes...
Posted by: Muldoon

WHAT?

Posted by: Miklos with very loud boom box at May 16, 2024 12:28 AM (Mxkdu)

310 Officials searching for a missing diver in Florida recover another body instead

https://tinyurl.com/bddmmphn

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #19 at May 16, 2024 12:28 AM (qfLjt)

311 No one told me there were juice boxes...
Posted by: Muldoon

That's too bad. Nurse got the last one.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 16, 2024 12:29 AM (VNX3d)

312 301 Possible Online dating intro-

Gonna lift you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna tell a lie
And hurt you

I figure the younger chicks will have no clue
Posted by: Miklos

That was my niece's 8th grade graduation song last year. Fr. Was scowling and seething because he thought it was going to be a different tube.

Posted by: nurse ratched at May 16, 2024 12:29 AM (MMzZ/)

313 Nashville hotel faces legal scrutiny for canceling pro-Israel summit over 'safety' concerns

https://tinyurl.com/3y8u36ct

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #20 at May 16, 2024 12:30 AM (qfLjt)

314 No one told me there were juice boxes...
Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 12:27 AM (991e

We kno Who told you about Momma’s squeeze box

She wears it on her chest

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 16, 2024 12:30 AM (2nuRE)

315 So apparently it's the Biden team that's submitted a list of debate restrictions before it's finalized.

Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2024 12:30 AM (inGXk)

316 So apparently it's the Biden team that's submitted a list of debate restrictions before it's finalized.
Posted by: polynikes at May 16, 2024 12:30 AM (inGXk)

Ah.

Now I see the angle they're working.

Submit a list of unacceptable demands, and blame Trump when he won't accept them.

I see they've been paying attention to Hamas.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 16, 2024 12:32 AM (0FoWg)

317 No, I was fortunate to have had a baseball sized lump removed from my mediastinum last fall, found totally incidentally while being Worked up for my heart valve replacement. Turned out to be technically a malignancy but a very non-aggressive type for which surgical resection is generally curative. No need for chemo or radiation or immunotherapy. Just periodic surveillance scans.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 12:32 AM (991eG)

318 ...Reading is, like, just so, you know, _hard_, with all those letters and stuff. Hearing is easier.

( Not listening; hearing)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 16, 2024 12:26 AM (VNX3d)

Nah. I can read what needs to be "said" in about 1/3 the time the speaker takes to say it.

And that's without any "speed reading" technique. But, I just naturally read very, very swiftly.

Unless I get a particularly engaging book or article. Then, I'll shift into low, and savor it as would one with a fine steak dinner. And even then, the print is always better than the sqwaker.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 16, 2024 12:32 AM (e6UQI)

319 I volunteer to moderate any Presidential or Vice-Presidential debate.

Posted by: Miklos is an actually accredited and Diplomafied Political Scientist at May 16, 2024 12:34 AM (Mxkdu)

320 Night all!

Posted by: Diogenes at May 16, 2024 12:34 AM (W/lyH)

321 310 Officials searching for a missing diver in Florida recover another body instead

https://tinyurl.com/bddmmphn
Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #19 at May 16, 2024 12:28 AM (qfLjt)

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Back in the water, boys.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 16, 2024 12:35 AM (bo7UB)

322 303 DC hosted voting registration training for illegal immigrants

https://tinyurl.com/yv97hdbh
Posted by: Ciampino

We'z disirve tu bee ah stAte!!!

Posted by: Mayor Dumbitch Halfwit at May 16, 2024 12:35 AM (iNUL3)

323 ...No, I was fortunate to have had a baseball sized lump removed from my mediastinum last fall, found totally incidentally while being Worked up for my heart valve replacement. Turned out to be technically a malignancy but a very non-aggressive type for which surgical resection is generally curative. No need for chemo or radiation or immunotherapy. Just periodic surveillance scans. Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 12:32 AM (991eG)

A rare member of the Lucky Cancer Club.

I'll raise a toast you sir. Well Deserved, on all counts!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 16, 2024 12:36 AM (e6UQI)

324 Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 12:32 AM

A wonderful outcome!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at May 16, 2024 12:36 AM (Vvh2V)

325 Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim

Jim read the entire course before we could process the payment.

Had to book it as a "scholarship".

Posted by: Evelyn Wood at May 16, 2024 12:36 AM (Mxkdu)

326 You want a juice box
You'd settle for a pine box
You'll get Bruce Boxleitner

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 12:36 AM (991eG)

327 Glad to hear that, Muldoon!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 16, 2024 12:36 AM (0FoWg)

328 So apparently it's the Biden team that's submitted a list of debate restrictions before it's finalized.
Posted by: polynikes

"Trump will not mention joey's last four years."
"Trump will not state facts about joey."
"Trump will not scream 'MY GOD! WHAT IS THAT SMELL!' while around joey."
and so forth.

Posted by: Some Rat at May 16, 2024 12:37 AM (vJiyU)

329 Trump will not snort when Joe brings up Beau's heroic death

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 16, 2024 12:39 AM (bo7UB)

330 We kno Who told you about Momma’s squeeze box

She wears it on her chest
Posted by: Pete Bog

FUN FACT

"Bimbo" is an actual word in Hungarian, and it means-

-Brussels Spouts

and

-Nipples, like the girl kind

Posted by: Miklos the best Hungarian teacher you are likely to get at this hour at May 16, 2024 12:40 AM (Mxkdu)

331
"Trump must wear a ball gag throughout the debate, and wear a Build Back Better shirt."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 16, 2024 12:40 AM (0FoWg)

332 Trump will not snort when Joe brings up Beau's heroic death
Posted by: Cicero

Trump should start talking to Beau.

Posted by: Miklos thinks hilarity would ensue at May 16, 2024 12:43 AM (Mxkdu)

333 "Trump must stab himself in the nuts with an icepick while ripping his eyes out with a fork."

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 16, 2024 12:44 AM (iNUL3)

334 Jim SND, I see my sarcasm is getting more subtle, even when I go for biting.

I'm the same way with reading. In high school, in one of my classes, we were given time to read for book reports. I'd have to get books like Shogun or War and Peace just to fill enough time in class.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 16, 2024 12:44 AM (VNX3d)

335 You'll get Bruce Boxleitner

He was alright as John Sheridan on Babylon 5.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 16, 2024 12:45 AM (iNUL3)

336 So, I got a clean bill of health at the oncologist's office today, so that was cool.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 12:09 AM (991eG)

The offcologist was unavailable for comment.

Posted by: JT at May 16, 2024 12:46 AM (T4tVD)

337 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 16, 2024 12:47 AM (T4tVD)

338 Thanks for the chat. Good night y'all goofballs.

Endeavor to persevere.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 16, 2024 12:47 AM (991eG)

339 Hour of the Wolf.

All through secondary ed, I'd read the WHOLE History Book, by the end of the 2nd week of the semester.

And that's just reading IN CLASS.

I could snooze through the "classes", and still ace the tests. Drove the teachers NUTS.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 16, 2024 12:47 AM (e6UQI)

340 The offcologist was unavailable for comment.
Posted by: JT

Hold this and cough

Posted by: Recent Medical Gradumate at May 16, 2024 12:47 AM (Mxkdu)

341 332 Trump will not snort when Joe brings up Beau's heroic death
Posted by: Cicero

Trump should start talking to Beau.

Posted by: Miklos thinks hilarity would ensue at May 16, 2024 12:43 AM (Mxkdu)
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So he should bring an Ouija board to the debate?

Posted by: Ciampino - Palette Stine #21 at May 16, 2024 12:48 AM (qfLjt)

342 'Nite Muldoon
sleep well
don't let da bedbugs yell.

Posted by: JT at May 16, 2024 12:49 AM (T4tVD)

343 hiya
Posted by: JT

BED TIME

Have you and Skip been texting under the covers again?

Posted by: Auntie Miklos, having an Irish Coffee at May 16, 2024 12:49 AM (Mxkdu)

344 Trump should bait Potatohead by mentioning that he used to like showering with young girls.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 16, 2024 12:51 AM (bo7UB)

345 341 332 Trump will not snort when Joe brings up Beau's heroic death
Posted by: Cicero

Trump should start talking to Beau.

Posted by: Miklos thinks hilarity would ensue at May 16, 2024 12:43 AM (Mxkdu)
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So he should bring an Ouija board to the debate?
Posted by: Ciampino

LOL!! YES!!! DO IT!!!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 16, 2024 12:52 AM (iNUL3)

346 So he should bring an Ouija board to the debate?
Posted by: Ciampino

Just say "Beau" in anything Trump says.

Frizz out the remaining wiring in Biden's vacuum tube of a brain.

Posted by: Miklos would totally do that at May 16, 2024 12:52 AM (Mxkdu)

347 My entire texting career consisted of one NO.

ONCE !

Posted by: JT at May 16, 2024 12:52 AM (T4tVD)

348 Trump should always refer to Biden as the Big Guy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 16, 2024 12:53 AM (bo7UB)

349 My entire texting career consisted of one NO.

ONCE !
Posted by: JT

Non, je ne regret
Non, rien de rien

Posted by: It was a hot French chick at May 16, 2024 12:54 AM (Mxkdu)

350 ONCE !
Posted by: JT

En mi lengua , se significa 11 times

Posted by: Los Snoperos, chekkers de factos at May 16, 2024 12:56 AM (Mxkdu)

351 Hold this and cough
Posted by: Recent Medical Gradumate

Ooh, an icky white person! Nobody told me I'd have to take care of THEM!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 16, 2024 12:57 AM (VNX3d)

352 The real fun in high school is telling the teacher they're doing the math wrong. After a few minutes, they realize they did the math wrong.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 16, 2024 12:58 AM (VNX3d)

353 Just say "Beau" in anything Trump says.

Mix it up with a coupla Boos and Bahs.....

Posted by: JT at May 16, 2024 01:01 AM (T4tVD)

354 Just say "Beau" in anything Trump says.

Mix it up with a coupla Boos and Bahs.....
Posted by: JT at

Or ask Joe Biden who was the better driver, Bo Duke or Luke Duke, and see if he says it was his son, Beau.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 16, 2024 01:03 AM (VNX3d)

355 Or ask Joe Biden who was the better driver, Bo Duke or Luke Duke, and see if he says it was his son, Beau.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Or ask why his wife was drunk driving an Amazon delivery truck

Posted by: Miklos volunteers to be Bitem's debate coach at May 16, 2024 01:06 AM (Mxkdu)

356 Five cuts for Brandon to copy Eastwood, then talk shit about Wednesday. What a dirtbag. And what dirtbags are the elder abusers propping him up.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 16, 2024 01:11 AM (as3uC)

357 Five cuts for Brandon to copy Eastwood, then talk shit about Wednesday. What a dirtbag. And what dirtbags are the elder abusers propping him up.
Posted by: Hokey Pokey

Now why was Joey talking about Wednesday Addams? Wishful thinking?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at May 16, 2024 01:14 AM (VNX3d)

358 I"ll bet Brandon"s handlers already have book deals. Who can say.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 16, 2024 01:15 AM (as3uC)

359 Good one, Wolf!

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at May 16, 2024 01:16 AM (as3uC)

360 It would only be fitting if FJB's last day on earth.

Fell on a Wednesday.

I'd laff!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 16, 2024 01:16 AM (e6UQI)

361 There's a possibility Trump will play nice guy and sucker Joe into talking too much. Just set up Joe to be Joe all the more.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 16, 2024 01:19 AM (lCWOD)

362 Good evening

After attempting to lie, HHS Secretary Becerra says the quiet part out loud. Joe Biden’s government will withhold funds from religious hospitals that refuse to provide sex-change operations for young children.

Hospitals, schools and other institutions that desire to act according to their conscience are going to have to make a choice: take the king's money or trust God.

The other side of that coin, is that those of us who use such services will have to search to find institutions that are not owned by the government.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 16, 2024 01:26 AM (S5+ge)

363 Thought the Supremes said he couldn't do that.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 16, 2024 01:28 AM (lCWOD)

364 Well, time for me to get some sleep. Got the grass in the immediate vicinity of the house all mowed down. Ran over a tree branch, and the blades snagged it, and threw the end up into the fuel elbow on the carb, and broke it. So I have a small repair on my hands before mowing can resume. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 16, 2024 01:31 AM (C4m9I)

365 I'm very surprised to see that debates are being talked about. I can't imagine PDT agreeing to limitations on speech and I can't imagine Bai-din being coherent.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 16, 2024 01:33 AM (S5+ge)

366 During last night's ONT, I confused Placido Domingo and Julio Iglesias. My apologies to both singers, and to anybody who saw.my comment and was similarly confused as a result.

Please forgive me.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 16, 2024 01:37 AM (SiVdt)

367 363 Thought the Supremes said he couldn't do that.
Posted by: Braenyard

How many army divisions do the Supremes have?

-Stalin, more or less.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 16, 2024 01:37 AM (iNUL3)

368 During last night's ONT, I confused Placido Domingo and Julio Iglesias. My apologies to both singers, and to anybody who saw.my comment and was similarly confused as a result.

Very minor error in the grand scheme of things. I'm sure it is already forgotten.

Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 16, 2024 01:39 AM (S5+ge)

369 "When your son Beau died in Iwo Jima, Joe, of course you remember that..." ~ Trump.

Posted by: fly gal at May 16, 2024 01:41 AM (6CtMt)

370 During last night's ONT, I confused Placido Domingo and Julio Iglesias. My apologies to both singers, and to anybody who saw.my comment and was similarly confused as a result.

I thought they were the same person.

Now I"M confused !

Posted by: JT at May 16, 2024 01:42 AM (T4tVD)

371 Very minor error in the grand scheme of things. I'm sure it is already forgotten.
Posted by: AmericanKestrel at May 16, 2024 01:39 AM (S5+ge)

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Minor? I didn't get a wink of sleep last night because of it.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at May 16, 2024 01:42 AM (bo7UB)

372 367 363 Thought the Supremes said he couldn't do that.
Posted by: Braenyard

How many army divisions do the Supremes have?

-Stalin, more or less.

Posted by: Puddleglum
------------------------------

Cutting of money to hospitals will be more of a legal action than military. There's not much the military can do about the money flow.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 16, 2024 01:44 AM (lCWOD)

373 Now I"M confused !
Posted by: JT
---------------------------

It could have been Dialdo Romano.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 16, 2024 01:45 AM (lCWOD)

374 367 363 Thought the Supremes said he couldn't do that.
Posted by: Braenyard

Diana Ross & Co. said Ixnay on atthay ?

Posted by: JT at May 16, 2024 01:49 AM (T4tVD)

375 It could have been Dialdo Romano.
Posted by: Braenyard at May 16, 2024 01:45 AM (lCWOD)

I thought that was a kind of cheese ?

Posted by: JT at May 16, 2024 01:50 AM (T4tVD)

376 Everyone's playing difficult tonight. Maybe the moon.

SCOTUS

Posted by: Braenyard at May 16, 2024 01:51 AM (lCWOD)

377 He was a Placido Domingo wanna be, he played the B circuit.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 16, 2024 01:53 AM (lCWOD)

378 Sort of like Lanie Kazan, always a bridesmaid.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 16, 2024 01:54 AM (lCWOD)

379 Well that' four.
Adidas

Posted by: Braenyard at May 16, 2024 01:56 AM (lCWOD)

380 I knew it was only Wednesday. But the skell outside screeched that it was Bloody Monday....

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 16, 2024 02:14 AM (IG4Id)

381 Geez, was it something Miklos said.

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 16, 2024 02:27 AM (It/G1)

382 As a child, I once flew on a Lockheed Constellation, A.K.A. “Connie”. I have also flown Aer Lingus once. I thought of building a model of a Connie and applying Aer Lingus livery decals. That would be the “ Connie of Lingus”. My brother works in an aviation related business, but I don’t dare give him that for a desktop decoration. I did give him an A-10 model with Piedmont Airlines markings to celebrate the AF reserve/ Piedmont pilot who shot down an Iraqi helicopter.

Posted by: Fenderbender at May 16, 2024 02:30 AM (VmQEe)

383 Englebert Humperdink?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at May 16, 2024 02:48 AM (75/Pp)

384 Tap-Tap-Tap.....

Is this thing on ?

Posted by: JT at May 16, 2024 03:23 AM (T4tVD)

385 Shh, don't wake Skip.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at May 16, 2024 03:30 AM (iNUL3)

386 The blueberries are huddling in fear.
They know they're DOOMED !

Posted by: JT at May 16, 2024 03:36 AM (T4tVD)

387 I thought I posted a hour ago but didn't take

Posted by: Skip at May 16, 2024 03:46 AM (fwDg9)

388 We can keep poking it.

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 16, 2024 04:13 AM (It/G1)

389 >>>I mean, sometimes you just gotta laugh: “God steps in to stop her lies.”

LOL

Posted by: m at May 16, 2024 04:20 AM (o3SCB)

390 Good job, Roger Ball!

Posted by: m at May 16, 2024 04:20 AM (o3SCB)

391
I am quiescent, but I am not a frozen confection.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at May 16, 2024 04:24 AM (w6EFb)

392 Pixy's nood

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 16, 2024 04:27 AM (ju2Fy)

393 vbjgynoFPupq

Posted by: SXtJgMpzvomFOBwK at May 16, 2024 09:19 AM (WKCXh)

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Overnight Open Thread - 5/15/2024
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