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Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.

It's likely that Revere would have shouted “The Regulars are coming out!” rather than “The British are coming”. The later makes no sense considering that the Colonies considered themselves British. It wasn't until the next day, at Lexington and Concord, that they became Americans.

This Is Bizarre

This may be the strangest story I've read in a while.

21-year-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing hands

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Explaining the shift, Pune-based physiotherapist Ketaki Doke, who has been working with Shreya, says behind this could be the muscle reconditioning itself to the new host. “The nerve begins to send signals, it is called reinnervation, and the muscles function according to body needs. A man will have muscle function different from a woman. The muscles in her hand may have started adapting to a female body,” says Doke, adding, “It was still not anticipated that her hands will transform so much.”
In the last 3-4 months, Shreya’s mother Suma noticed that her fingers were becoming leaner, slightly longer. “I see her hand every day. The fingers have become like a woman’s, the wrist is smaller. These are remarkable changes,” she says.
Iyer, from Amrita Institute, says they never anticipated such changes. “This is our first case of male-to-female hand transplant. We can only guess that female hormones have led to the change but assessing the exact cause is difficult,” he says.

So the transplanted hands were beefier and more muscular, because the donor was male, and also had much darker skin. Over time, the skin tone lightened to match her natural color, and the hands themselves became more slender and feminine. That's just amazing.

Journalism By Bot

The best restaurant for Tex-Mex in Tyler, according to diners—plus, see the runners-up

The article is crap – 2 of the 12 restaurants are fast food and there's no mention of places that are actually good like El Norteno, Jalpita's or Ruby's, but if you read between the lines it becomes apparent what they did. They wrote an intro paragraph and then had a bot collect the 12 highest rated places in the Tex Mex category on Yelp. Boom! Instant content. Wish I could figure out how to automate the ONT like that.

Meet The Press

Tucker Carlson’s Turn

So what the hell happened to Tucker Carlson?
The skepticism that served him well in the Trump years when much of the fourth estate behaved like an opposition political party has led him all the way around the horseshoe. His opposition to the people he hates—liberals and neocons—has turned him into Noam Chomsky in a bow tie.

I'm of two minds here. Yes, Tucker can get out on the fringes sometimes. Some of his recent blatherings about how wonderful the Potempkin village the Russians showed him were just embarrassing. But the main beef the author of this piece seems to have with Tucker is that he has interviewed people he doesn't like. That should be the job of journalists. Interviewing Putin gives us a chance to see the man and hear what he has to say. That's information, and the job of the news should be to inform. Also, since in the article the author openly poo-poos the idea that the FBI influenced the Jan 6 demonstrators in any way or that the 2020 election was anything other than squeaky clean, I don't think he has much room to talk about people not being grounded in reality.

Just The Tax, Ma'am

Here are the massive tax increases coming your way in a second Biden term

Biden’s written plan calls for a small business tax hike, a corporate tax hike, a capital gains and dividends tax hike, income tax hikes, energy tax hikes and even a second Death Tax on top of the first one.
Biden would increase the corporate income tax from today’s 21% to 28%. That’s a higher tax rate than communist China and France and the U.K., each at 25%.
Now add the average state corporate income tax at 4% and the average combined Biden rate would be 32%. That would be the second-highest corporate income tax in the developed world. Just below Colombia.
Biden promises to impose a tax on "unrealized gains." If your land or stock account has increased in value in the last year you would pay taxes on the unrealized gain. You have not sold the property; you do not have the income. It isn’t "real." Yet you will be taxed as if you had made the sale and received the income.

And to think our founders rebelled and founded this country in protest over a 2% tax on tea. How low we have fallen.

And Now For A Different Perspective

It's called the Ames Room, and it was invented by American ophthalmologist Adelbert Ames, Jr. in 1946 to screw with your brain

[? La casa De La Ciencia]pic.twitter.com/s4T4QaUBs4
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) April 13, 2024

What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing

America Is Now in the Business of Losing Wars

Obviously, America ought not involve itself in foreign conflicts in which we are unwilling to stay the course. American interests dictate pragmatism. But we've gone far beyond that. Now we're telling our allies that they can't win victories in conflicts in which they are willing to stay the course and in which they can win.
We will actively step in to prevent victory.
And so our enemies grow stronger. They have no such Hamlet-like moral qualms. They push where there is mush. Should Israel accede to America's request to leave Hamas in place in Rafah, Hezbollah will challenge Israel in the north; Iranian proxies will challenge Israel in the West Bank; Iran will up the ante in Yemen and the Red Sea. Israel and Saudi Arabia will be forced to search for new allies and new weapons. The world will significantly become more dangerous.
It turns out that the alternative to an America confident in its own moral role -- and an America willing to stand with its allies -- is a world of chaos. We are now living in that world. And things will get much, much worse before the end of this era of moral vacillation and cowardice in the face of evil.

There's only one way to win a war and achieve a lasting peace. You have to kill the enemy, and keep killing them until they have had enough and say “No more”. Then and only then can you start defining a post-war world. If the enemy doesn't believe that they have been defeated, all you do is give them a chance to rearm and regroup, and sooner or later start fighting again. Not only is this endlessly bloody, it is ultimately immoral and in the long run far costlier.

The Face Of Evil

Texas gender clinic dubbed 'Frankenstein's lab' performs hundreds of experimental surgeries each year - including giving patients a penis AND vagina and 'Barbie-dolling' clients by removing both

No comment. But I pray there will come a reckoning. And that it will be unbelievably harsh.

Good Advice

For many Gen Z students, skipping college for a trade may be their best bet

The median pay for new construction hires was $48,089 last year, compared to $39,520 for new hires in professional services. According to payroll-services provider ADP, pay for new hires in construction increased 5.1% last year, nearly double the increase for professional services.
Trade jobs are also less subject to replacement by AI and other technologies. Some tech exec might make good money before student loan payments, but he’ll pay some kid a fortune to unclog his toilet.
If there’s a dummy in that scenario, it ain’t the kid.

We were extremely pleased when Little said he wanted to go into the trades. He's finishing his first year in the welding program at the local junior college, and doing quite well. All this and no student loans to worry about.

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by radial power:

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Comments

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1 Yp

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 18, 2024 10:00 PM (3CVIc)

2 1st

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at April 18, 2024 10:00 PM (IL8pV)

3 Yeet!

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 18, 2024 10:00 PM (+HHs+)

4 Oy

Posted by: Muchas buchas at April 18, 2024 10:00 PM (sRqeR)

5 Hello!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 18, 2024 10:00 PM (w6EFb)

6 Dang

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at April 18, 2024 10:00 PM (IL8pV)

7 Iran has a few more smokers now.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 18, 2024 10:01 PM (3CVIc)

8 Horse looks like it's bottoming out.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2024 10:01 PM (63Dwl)

9 close enough for me!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 18, 2024 10:01 PM (hOUT3)

10 That's a twofer.

I can retire on top now.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 18, 2024 10:01 PM (3CVIc)

11 Yoot !

Posted by: JT at April 18, 2024 10:01 PM (T4tVD)

12 I'm mystified by "yeet" - I've heard it used to mean getting kicked out.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 18, 2024 10:01 PM (w6EFb)

13 Good evening horde. Have a good ONT. Thanks WD.

Posted by: TRex at April 18, 2024 10:02 PM (IQ6Gq)

14 Sorry I'm late, I was ordering take-oit from New Guinea.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 18, 2024 10:02 PM (6h8c9)

15 Wish I could figure out how to automate the ONT like that.
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I thought the ONTs *were* automated...You and MisHum just tell AceGPT what to crank out for your ONTs and the engine takes care of the rest...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2024 10:03 PM (BpYfr)

16 Texas gender clinic dubbed 'Frankenstein's lab' performs hundreds of experimental surgeries each year - including giving patients a penis AND vagina and 'Barbie-dolling' clients by removing both

Well, it all averages out, doesn't it?

Posted by: "Drs. Frankenstein" at April 18, 2024 10:03 PM (DgGvY)

17 Why didn't Paul Revere simply post to all of his followers on Tik ToK?

--- The generations coming behind us

Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2024 10:03 PM (WXNFJ)

18 I was going to excuse my tardiness this evening but saying some weirdo on horseback was causing a commotion, but the first story kind of ruined it.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 18, 2024 10:04 PM (6h8c9)

19 >>It's likely that Revere would have shouted “The Regulars are coming out!” rather than “The British are coming”. The later makes no sense considering that the Colonies considered themselves British. It wasn't until the next day, at Lexington and Concord, that they became Americans.

Someone has done the Freedom Trail tour.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2024 10:04 PM (LkLld)

20 It's a midnight ride, but the chickens are wandering about the yard?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 18, 2024 10:04 PM (CsUN+)

21 That's a twofer.
I can retire on top now.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Hopefully because you were also first in another thread, and not because you were at the Texas frankenstein clinic.

Posted by: mikeski doubles the double entendres at April 18, 2024 10:05 PM (DgGvY)

22 Consider the source of the Tucker Carlson article. Eli Lake.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2024 10:05 PM (63Dwl)

23 That Tax article is infuriating.

It will absolutely destroy this country.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 18, 2024 10:06 PM (3CVIc)

24 Wasssssuuuuuppp Hordelings?!?!

Posted by: Doof at April 18, 2024 10:06 PM (RFPHU)

25 The radial powered pickup truck is bonkers. Wonder if it really works. #engineering

Posted by: TRex at April 18, 2024 10:06 PM (IQ6Gq)

26 so..it's WWIII..but localized....

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:07 PM (V13WU)

27 Shiny truck.

Posted by: davidt at April 18, 2024 10:07 PM (SYTee)

28 Unrealized gains? What if you are forced to pay the tax on a stock that went up, but then it plummets to a huge loss on paper? do you get a refund?

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at April 18, 2024 10:07 PM (duT0u)

29 The radial powered pickup truck is bonkers. Wonder if it really works. #engineering
Posted by: TRex at April 18, 2024 10:06 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Are we sure it's not a nuclear reactor under the hood? Maybe it's RADIUM-powered...(if that's such a thing...)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2024 10:08 PM (BpYfr)

30 Unrealized gains? What if you are forced to pay the tax on a stock that went up, but then it plummets to a huge loss on paper? do you get a refund?

==

NO REFUNDS!

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:08 PM (V13WU)

31 Miley,
To yeet is to throw something. Like chucking shit at a fan and seeing where it scatters.

I used to meep meep like the roadrunner when Trump would consistently make the Dems look like idiots.

Now I throw shit at the fan.

I hope to meep again.

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 18, 2024 10:08 PM (+HHs+)

32 It was the “French and Indian war” that really created America.

Posted by: Allen at April 18, 2024 10:08 PM (r6Z36)

33

How come my boogers taste like poop?

Posted by: Paul's Tijuana Drag Sow at April 18, 2024 10:08 PM (3/uDj)

34 And Now For A Different Perspective
They had one of those at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington (the only real Six Flags) for decades. It was fun unless your eyes refused to believe the illusion anymore.

They also had a thing where you rolled a ball uphill. And other illusions.

Posted by: GWB at April 18, 2024 10:08 PM (1zxQh)

35 What if you are forced to pay the tax on a stock that went up, but then it plummets to a huge loss on paper? do you get a refund?
Posted by: Admiral Spinebender

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*deep breath*
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
-- 80,000 new IRS agents

Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2024 10:09 PM (WXNFJ)

36 Oy Vey, Thursday…

Posted by: Adriane the Green Tea Ice Cream Critic . . . at April 18, 2024 10:09 PM (4Winp)

37 23 That Tax article is infuriating.

It will absolutely destroy this country.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 18, 2024 10:06 PM (3CVIc)

To be fair, Joey B and the Yellen bitch have been pointing out for quite some time that this is the legal way to crush the peasants, all in the name of doing good for the commoners!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 18, 2024 10:09 PM (hOUT3)

38 Great. I will have to pay more property tax next year AND tax on the increased value because people moved to this area to escape taxes high-rent blue areas!

Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 18, 2024 10:09 PM (DBQwY)

39 JackStraw -- I heard from a mutual hockey nerd friend (browndog) that you and I have opposing rooting interests in Round 1.

Posted by: Doof at April 18, 2024 10:09 PM (RFPHU)

40 Taxing unrealized gains is the same as arresting people for thinking about murder.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 18, 2024 10:09 PM (3CVIc)

41 so..it's WWIII..but localized....
Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:07 PM (V13WU)

Just like the nuclear fallout will be localized . . . .

Posted by: RickZ at April 18, 2024 10:10 PM (emlEe)

42 21-year-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing hands

Um, that wasn't a hand transplant, it was a double lower-arm transplant...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:10 PM (ynpvh)

43 Another historic anniversary. On this date in 1943, Army Air Force P-38s ambushed and killed Admiral Yamamoto. Sucked to be him.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 18, 2024 10:11 PM (FVME7)

44 Nice radial engine. Certainly not a Mazda.
I still prefer Fat Albert's friend's car, though, with the turbine engine in it.

Posted by: GWB at April 18, 2024 10:11 PM (1zxQh)

45 Biden assures me that nobody earning less than $400,000 will pay any extra taxes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2024 10:11 PM (63Dwl)

46 May words to Israel tonight is........

Don't ................ Don't............ Don't Shit your pants like I do !!!!!

Posted by: President Reverend at April 18, 2024 10:11 PM (BSF0H)

47

America Is Now in the Business of Losing Wars

..

Let's show some pride in our L's!

Lot's more to come!

Posted by: Speaker MAGA Mike at April 18, 2024 10:11 PM (ENXQd)

48 Taxing unrealized gains is the same as arresting people for thinking about murder.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

There was a case in Ohio 10 years or so ago where a guy was convicted of child pronography for writing trash in his diary. He did not publish the diary in any way.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2024 10:11 PM (WXNFJ)

49 Just like the nuclear fallout will be localized . . . .

===

In Iran, price of iodine just went up...

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:11 PM (V13WU)

50 >>JackStraw -- I heard from a mutual hockey nerd friend (browndog) that you and I have opposing rooting interests in Round 1.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Seriously, good luck. Should be a fun series.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2024 10:11 PM (LkLld)

51 Well, when PR was alive, men had balls and morals. Today? Not so much.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at April 18, 2024 10:12 PM (Aoykm)

52 21-year-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing hands

Um, that wasn't a hand transplant, it was a double lower-arm transplant...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:10 PM (ynpvh)

*makes Call Me motion*

Posted by: Michelle Fields at April 18, 2024 10:12 PM (4I/2K)

53 Um, that wasn't a hand transplant, it was a double lower-arm transplant...
Posted by: jim

Still, you have to hand it to them.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2024 10:12 PM (WXNFJ)

54 I imagine our state taxes will go up also to pay for the "free" food and housing for immigrants.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at April 18, 2024 10:12 PM (DBQwY)

55 That's a bad configuration for a radial engine. The rear facing cylinders get very little air flow, and will tend to overheat.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at April 18, 2024 10:12 PM (XMwZJ)

56 or is it iodine pills ??

*drinking iodine does not do much does it ?

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:12 PM (V13WU)

57 40 Taxing unrealized gains is the same as arresting people for thinking about murder.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 18, 2024 10:09 PM (3CVIc)

And the kicker will be when the unrealized gains are calculated based on the peak value of your stocks during the preceding year...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 18, 2024 10:12 PM (hOUT3)

58 Jay Leno has a single room in his garage that is dedicated almost exclusively to cars with airplane engines. It is gloriously mad.

Posted by: TRex at April 18, 2024 10:13 PM (IQ6Gq)

59 That Tax article is infuriating.

It will absolutely destroy this country.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 18, 2024 10:06 PM (3CVIc)
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To be fair, Joey B and the Yellen bitch have been pointing out for quite some time that this is the legal way to crush the peasants, all in the name of doing good for the ~~commoners~~ illegals!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 18, 2024 10:09 PM (hOUT3)

Fixed for accuracy.

Posted by: RickZ at April 18, 2024 10:13 PM (emlEe)

60 It's likely that Revere would have shouted “The Regulars are coming out!” rather than “The British are coming”.

I had heard it was likely "The Redcoats are coming!" They were actually known as that, particularly among those who didn't think pleasantly of them.

Posted by: GWB at April 18, 2024 10:13 PM (1zxQh)

61 There was a case in Ohio 10 years or so ago where a guy was convicted of child pronography for writing trash in his diary. He did not publish the diary in any way.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2024 10:11 PM (WXNFJ)
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Nowadays, with the right publisher, he could probably get it sent out to every public school library in America...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2024 10:13 PM (BpYfr)

62 >>Miley,
To yeet is to throw something. Like chucking shit at a fan and seeing where it scatters.

Ah, then to get "yeeted out" of a place is to get thrown out. Gotcha. Thanks nurse!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 18, 2024 10:14 PM (w6EFb)

63 The median pay for new construction hires was $48,089 last year, compared to $39,520 for new hires in professional services.

Rule of thumb... not exact... but take the hourly pay... double it... make it thousands... and you have the pay scale...

So... 40K per year.... is $20 per hour... or what a fuckin McD's employee now makes in Clownifornia.

$48 K per year.... $24 per hour?

Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2024 10:14 PM (xaFKb)

64 45 Biden assures me that nobody earning less than $400,000 will pay any extra taxes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2024 10:11 PM (63Dwl)

Except inflation under Biden will eventually make a $50K/yr household of 2020 into a $500K/yr household in 2028...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:15 PM (ynpvh)

65 59 That Tax article is infuriating.

It will absolutely destroy this country.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at April 18, 2024 10:06 PM (3CVIc)
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To be fair, Joey B and the Yellen bitch have been pointing out for quite some time that this is the legal way to crush the peasants, all in the name of doing good for the ~~commoners illegals~~ newcomers!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 18, 2024 10:09 PM (hOUT3)

Fixed for accuracy.
Posted by: RickZ at April 18, 2024 10:13 PM (emlEe)

Fixed for political correctness!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 18, 2024 10:15 PM (hOUT3)

66 Fine no more taxes....however, we will fee and license your ass back to the stone age.

Posted by: joey b the "b" stands for braindead at April 18, 2024 10:15 PM (vJiyU)

67 53 Um, that wasn't a hand transplant, it was a double lower-arm transplant...
Posted by: jim

Still, you have to hand it to them.
Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2024 10:12 PM (WXNFJ)

You are all cruel bastards!

Posted by: Michelle Fields... at April 18, 2024 10:16 PM (xaFKb)

68 No one will be willing to work hard with those tax rates.

Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at April 18, 2024 10:16 PM (s6PBU)

69 I'm sorry for your loss.

Seriously, good luck. Should be a fun series.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2024 10:11 PM (LkLld)

Should be good for sure. NYR certainly had the better overall season. But in each teams final 22 games, they each had the same number of regulation / OT wins (12). This series might be closer than a lot of people think. Plus -- the Presidents' Trophy curse is real!!!

Posted by: Doof at April 18, 2024 10:16 PM (RFPHU)

70 53 Um, that wasn't a hand transplant, it was a double lower-arm transplant...
Posted by: jim

Still, you have to hand it to them.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2024 10:12 PM (WXNFJ)

Well, from the article, that hospital had an arm-up on the competition.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:18 PM (ynpvh)

71 >>Jay Leno has a single room in his garage that is dedicated almost exclusively to cars with airplane engines. It is gloriously mad.

Leno has a home here in Newport and does a Cars and Coffee video thing with another a guy who works for another gazilllionaire who has a local car museum in the summers. They also do amateur car shows at the various mansions.

If you think his cars are mad you should see his Newport home. J Gatsby would say "Dude, dial it back".

Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2024 10:18 PM (LkLld)

72 No one will be willing to work hard with those tax rates.

Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at April 18, 2024 10:16 PM (s6PBU)

High taxes drive an underground economy. Ask Sweden.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 18, 2024 10:18 PM (w6EFb)

73 68 No one will be willing to work hard with those tax rates.
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at April 18, 2024 10:16 PM (s6PBU)

Yes, and it is perfect, because everyone will be totally dependent of government largesse (subject of course to their Google social credit score)!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 18, 2024 10:18 PM (hOUT3)

74 Think anyone woke Biden up to tell him Israel is striking Iran? Can you just see Jill shaking her fists in anger they defied he…..him?

Posted by: Piper at April 18, 2024 10:19 PM (ZdaMQ)

75 Should be good for sure. NYR certainly had the better overall season. But in each teams final 22 games, they each had the same number of regulation / OT wins (12). This series might be closer than a lot of people think. Plus -- the Presidents' Trophy curse is real!!!
Posted by: Doof at April 18, 2024 10:16 PM (RFPHU)

Rangers in 5.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 10:19 PM (R4t5M)

76 73 68 No one will be willing to work hard with those tax rates.
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at April 18, 2024 10:16 PM (s6PBU)

Yes, and it is perfect, because everyone will be totally dependent of government largesse (subject of course to their Google social credit score)!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 18, 2024 10:18 PM (hOUT3)

And remember: we'll own nothing and ~~like~~ take it. Or at least that's the goal.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:19 PM (ynpvh)

77 My brother teaches HVAC at a tech college in Texas. Many of his students cannot read well or do basic math. They also can't put their phones down long enough to do the work.

Posted by: huerfano at April 18, 2024 10:19 PM (VGOMa)

78 And now for something completely different, Orthodox Mark Knopfler.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6OqSvtz16O4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 18, 2024 10:19 PM (FVME7)

79 Evenin’, All.

Doof!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:20 PM (9yWhg)

80 21-year-old student from Pune and the curious case of her changing hands

The donor was from Tang...

Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2024 10:20 PM (W/lyH)

81 I had heard it was likely "The Redcoats are coming!" They were actually known as that, particularly among those who didn't think pleasantly of them.
Posted by: GWB at April 18, 2024 10:13 PM (1zxQh)

In Boston and surround New England, they were also known as Lobsterbacks, for obvious local ocean cuisine reasons. But I think Revere, et.al., were warning of the Regulars coming.

It's like they didn't say, when in battle line, 'ready aim, fire!' They were smooth bore muskets, there was no 'aiming'. The actual order was 'ready, level, fire!' Then hope you hit someone.

Posted by: RickZ at April 18, 2024 10:21 PM (emlEe)

82 Looks like Israel hit Iran's nuclear sites, and got clearance from Jordan and Saudi to do so.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2024 10:21 PM (PMWNp)

83 In three days there were fires at the 155mm artillery ammunition plants in the US, the UK, and Germany.
"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action." Auric Goldfinger.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at April 18, 2024 10:21 PM (uqx1e)

84 Israel attacked Iran, apparently.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2024 10:21 PM (ufFY8)

85 I would tend to stay with "The British are coming!!"

We have had enough of revisionist history and removal of historic statues and Marxists/Commies running this Republic into the ground.

Oh...Where is Berry OBAMA these days...my friends want to know.

Is he stateside? Is he HUNKERING DOWN in some European SPA with his manwife?

Curious minds want to know...

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 18, 2024 10:22 PM (TDvv2)

86 No one will be willing to work hard with those tax rates.
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen

No one is going to pay them. There aren't enough prison cells.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2024 10:22 PM (PMWNp)

87 Taxes? We don’t need no taxes! We ain’t got no stinking taxes!

Keep the printers running! Turn those printers back on!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2024 10:23 PM (VNX3d)

88 Watching The Enforcer, on utube.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2024 10:23 PM (ufFY8)

89 82 Looks like Israel hit Iran's nuclear sites, and got clearance from Jordan and Saudi to do so.

I understand the Saudis ordered several tons of popcorn recently

Posted by: Johnny at April 18, 2024 10:23 PM (PmiZd)

90 Taxing unrealized gains is the same as arresting people for thinking about murder.
Posted by: AlaBAMA

Seriously, if you're Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, etc etc, how do you even pay a tax like that? And 90% of those dorks are on the Demofascist side.

Biden wants the "unrealized gains" to be taxed like any other long-term capital gains. So at 20% for the guys in their tax bracket.

As an example, Bezos owns 55M shares of Amazon. It appreciated about $80 per share over the last 12 months, from about $100 to about $180.

If he has to pay 20% of that gain to the government, he has to come up with $880,000,000 in cash. Just for his Amazon stock, never mind anything else he owns.

So everyone in the country has to liquidate 20% of their holdings every year to come up with the cash to pay their taxes. That certainly won't crash the stock market.

Bezos is going to have Biden assassinated if he tries this. He might do it personally.

Posted by: mikeski at April 18, 2024 10:23 PM (DgGvY)

91 @84 Deplorable Ian Galy-Yep. Rumors are they hit some critical nuclear facilities.

Posted by: JROD at April 18, 2024 10:23 PM (IlL6s)

92 No one will be willing to work hard with those tax rates.
Posted by: BarcelonaCarmen at April 18, 2024 10:16 PM (s6PBU)

Yes, and it is perfect, because everyone will be totally dependent of government largesse (subject of course to their Google social credit score)!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 18, 2024 10:18 PM (hOUT3)

And remember: we'll own nothing and like take it. Or at least that's the goal.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:19 PM (ynpvh)
***

Start planning your tea party now!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2024 10:23 PM (W/lyH)

93 Evenin’, All.

Doof!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:20 PM (9yWhg)

Howdy, brother!

Posted by: Doof at April 18, 2024 10:24 PM (RFPHU)

94 For Democrats, taxes are now merely punitive on their political enemies or to discourage behaviors they don't like.

Democrats currently believe in the related concepts of Modern Monetary Theory and that deficits just don't matter.

However, if deficits don't matter, then there is no reason for taxes and the millions of man-hours wasted every year for businesses to comply with the tax accounting rules.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 18, 2024 10:24 PM (HlyYF)

95 There was a young lady from Pune
Who chopped off her hand in a loom
They attached a man's hand
Which she really can't stand
Cause it gropes her all over the room

Posted by: Dr. Frank N. Furter at April 18, 2024 10:24 PM (FxINA)

96 So everyone in the country has to liquidate 20% of their holdings every year to come up with the cash to pay their taxes. That certainly won't crash the stock market.

Bezos is going to have Biden assassinated if he tries this. He might do it personally.
Posted by: mikeski at April 18, 2024 10:23 PM (DgGvY)
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I'm sure exceptions will be made for certain citizens...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2024 10:24 PM (BpYfr)

97 He can't raise taxes by executive order. It seems unlikely that the DEMs will get the trifecta of Biden's re-election, plus control of both the House & Senate.

Still, it's a warning of what they'll do if they get the chance.

Opposition to Biden's tax hikes is probably the only remaining thing that the entire GOP in Congress can agree on.

Posted by: mnw at April 18, 2024 10:25 PM (NLIak)

98 82 Looks like Israel hit Iran's nuclear sites, and got clearance from Jordan and Saudi to do so.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2024 10:21 PM (PMWNp)

I would think the Saudis would have asked for the Israelis to do a little something to Iran's oil export capabilities.

Posted by: tankdemon at April 18, 2024 10:25 PM (6h8c9)

99 Israel attacked Iran, apparently.

Should we be shopping for refrigerators?

Posted by: Some Rat at April 18, 2024 10:25 PM (vJiyU)

100 Um, that wasn't a hand transplant, it was a double lower-arm transplant...
Posted by: jim

Still, you have to hand it to them.
Posted by: Tonypete

They get two thumbs up from me!

Posted by: mikeski at April 18, 2024 10:25 PM (DgGvY)

101 Hello, Horde! ❤😊

Things getting frisky over in the ME again. Must be a day that ends in "y"....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at April 18, 2024 10:26 PM (SRRAx)

102 US refueling planes over Iraq.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2024 10:26 PM (PMWNp)

103 Israel has hit Iran.

Posted by: Anna at April 18, 2024 10:26 PM (FnSbk)

104 If ISRAEL attacked iran...well.. purely military sites and a few upper level apartments with key political players thinking they are just having tea...KABOOM!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 18, 2024 10:26 PM (TDvv2)

105 They do transplants??

Posted by: Michelle Fields at April 18, 2024 10:27 PM (SYTee)

106 95 There was a young lady from Pune
Who chopped off her hand in a loom
They attached a man's hand
Which she really can't stand
Cause it gropes her all over the room

Posted by: Dr. Frank N. Furter at April 18, 2024 10:24 PM (FxINA)

Nice, but twas a bus accident. And both hands (lower arms). I I bet they grab her boobs from time to time...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:27 PM (ynpvh)

107 Things getting frisky over in the ME again. Must be a day that ends in "y"....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas, AOS Ladies Brigade, Plucky Comic Relief at April 18, 2024 10:26 PM (SRRAx)
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I do find it interesting that the Iranians attacked Israel on a Saturday (Jewish Sabbath) and Israel is returning the favor by attacking on a Friday (Islamic holy day of the week).

I don't believe that's a coincidence.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2024 10:28 PM (BpYfr)

108 iran will be weeping their folly now.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 18, 2024 10:28 PM (TDvv2)

109 Um, that wasn't a hand transplant, it was a double lower-arm transplant...
Posted by: jim

Still, you have to hand it to them.
Posted by: Tonypete

They get two thumbs up from me!
Posted by: mikeski at April 18, 2024 10:25 PM (DgGvY)
***
Some.imoressive prestidigatation!

Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2024 10:28 PM (W/lyH)

110 They do transplants??
Posted by: Michelle Fields

Yep - hand over fist!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2024 10:28 PM (WXNFJ)

111 KC135s are refueling Israeli planes over Iraq.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2024 10:28 PM (PMWNp)

112 The market is yawning only down 1%.

Posted by: Not voting our way out at April 18, 2024 10:29 PM (ENXQd)

113 There was a young lady from Pune
Who chopped off her hand in a loom
They attached a man's hand
Which she really can't stand
Cause it gropes her all over the room
Posted by: Dr. Frank N. Furter

Nice, but twas a bus accident. And both hands (lower arms). I I bet they grab her boobs from time to time...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Have you checked for lumps today? We should check for lumps today.

Posted by: the hands at April 18, 2024 10:29 PM (DgGvY)

114 I do find it interesting that the Iranians attacked Israel on a Saturday (Jewish Sabbath) and Israel is returning the favor by attacking on a Friday (Islamic holy day of the week).

I don't believe that's a coincidence.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2024 10:28 PM (BpYfr)

Concur.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2024 10:29 PM (W/lyH)

115 104 If ISRAEL attacked iran...well.. purely military sites and a few upper level apartments with key political players thinking they are just having tea...KABOOM!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 18, 2024 10:26 PM (TDvv2)

...and Iran says as a "result" of the Israeli "attack" they may revise their "nuclear doctrine".
Gonna take a pretty fat Arab or Persian to carry one of those in their ass...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:29 PM (ynpvh)

116 Where is OBAMA?

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 18, 2024 10:29 PM (TDvv2)

117 Rest In Peace Dicky Betts

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at April 18, 2024 10:30 PM (sJHOI)

118 >>It's like they didn't say, when in battle line, 'ready aim, fire!' They were smooth bore muskets, there was no 'aiming'. The actual order was 'ready, level, fire!' Then hope you hit someone.

Every year there is a re-enactment of the battle at the Lexington and Concord. Those of us who grew up around the area used to visit back when we did things like history and school field trips.

One of the defining parts of those fights and a big reason the vastly outnumbered and out trained citizens were able to beat back the British is because they used what were essentially guerrilla tactics. Hiding in the woods and shooting at the British who were marching in formation in their red coats.

Pissed the Brits off but that was a big talk to the hand moment.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2024 10:30 PM (LkLld)

119 Apparently Israel used stand-off missiles in the attack, so there were no IAF planes over Iran, at least not on bombing runs. Good.

Posted by: mnw at April 18, 2024 10:30 PM (NLIak)

120 KC135s are refueling Israeli planes over Iraq.

Posted by: Thomas Paine

======

Which would mean the Iranians knew ahead of time.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 18, 2024 10:30 PM (8AONa)

121 "Announcements in Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport tell travelers that all flights are canceled, and instructs passengers to leave the airport, in footage circulating on Iranian social media.

Flights coming into Tehran have also been turning around"

Your vacation in Isfahan is postponed !

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:30 PM (V13WU)

122 113
...

Have you checked for lumps today? We should check for lumps today.

Posted by: the hands at April 18, 2024 10:29 PM (DgGvY)

LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:31 PM (ynpvh)

123 How are things, Doof?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:32 PM (9yWhg)

124 I'm sure exceptions will be made for certain citizens...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2024 10:24 PM (BpYfr)

The Panera Bread people.

Posted by: RickZ at April 18, 2024 10:32 PM (emlEe)

125 Gender is a social construct!

Posted by: Ribbed at April 18, 2024 10:32 PM (CLmzh)

126 Caryn Ann Harlos
@carynannharlos
On train again, abusive drug addled bum started yelling at a woman. Men did nothing.

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Go figure.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 18, 2024 10:32 PM (FVME7)

127

Poooon Tang...

Posted by: Animal at April 18, 2024 10:32 PM (3/uDj)

128 121 "Announcements in Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport tell travelers that all flights are canceled, and instructs passengers to leave the airport, in footage circulating on Iranian social media.

Flights coming into Tehran have also been turning around"

Your vacation in Isfahan is postponed !

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:30 PM (V13WU)

There's always Kabul...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:32 PM (ynpvh)

129 125 Gender is a social construct!

Posted by: Ribbed at April 18, 2024 10:32 PM (CLmzh)

Yes. Construction done in hospitals...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:33 PM (ynpvh)

130 There was a young lady from Pune
Who chopped off her hand in a loom
They attached a man's hand
Which she really can't stand
Cause it gropes her all over the room
Posted by: Dr. Frank N. Furter
---
"Idle hands are the Devil's plaything." -- proverb I heard one time...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2024 10:33 PM (BpYfr)

131 F35's>>>>>Russian S-300SAMs

Especially when flown by Israeli pilots.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * expert procrastinator at April 18, 2024 10:33 PM (yps4S)

132 Gravity is a social construct! Ban scales!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 18, 2024 10:33 PM (FVME7)

133 Yet the hands didn't seem to be confused which body they were attached to.

Posted by: Ribbed at April 18, 2024 10:34 PM (CLmzh)

134 It’s not still Friday in Iran, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:34 PM (9yWhg)

135 I do find it interesting that the Iranians attacked Israel on a Saturday (Jewish Sabbath) and Israel is returning the favor by attacking on a Friday (Islamic holy day of the week).

Actually, the more amusing piece of misdirection is that various people were explaining online that Israel was unlikely to strike before April 22, which is when the traditional Passover seder occurs.

Guess not...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2024 10:34 PM (YAtuc)

136 130 There was a young lady from Pune
Who chopped off her hand in a loom
They attached a man's hand
Which she really can't stand
Cause it gropes her all over the room
Posted by: Dr. Frank N. Furter
---
"Idle hands are the Devil's plaything." -- proverb I heard one time...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2024 10:33 PM (BpYfr)

So when Masturbatin' Pete is busy doing his...business...at least one of them ain't idle, right? Or is it still the Devil's plaything?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:34 PM (ynpvh)

137 Weird Dave: My oldest granddaughter elected not to go to college even though I had been telling her for years that she should at least go to an art school. Instead, she apprenticed herself to a tattoo shop. Today, she is making good money, even paying rent to her parents. She has no school debt or any other debt I am aware of. I'm very proud of her taking that initiative.

The only thing I worry about is that I doubt there is a street corner in Omaha without a tattoo parlor, and maybe another one in the middle of the block.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at April 18, 2024 10:34 PM (ET1Q8)

138 in the article the author openly poo-poos the idea that the FBI influenced the Jan 6 demonstrators

Eli Lake is in love with both foreign tyrants (Zelenskyy) but also domestic tyrants (FBI, Biden Junta, the MIC) Lake is also needing to explain why Speaker Johnson was "Border First" and after a couple sessions with the IC, is now "What Border? The Ukrainian Border? Sure! What debt? Who The Fuck is America and Why Should America Have a Recognizable Border?"

The two possible explanations are Johnson has always been a snake just waiting for his opportunity to strike, or as MTG suggests, the IC showed pictures of child pr0n on Johnson's personal computer.

Eli Lake has Stockholm Syndrome and with a bad case of Crab Bucket Syndrome with Tucker.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 18, 2024 10:34 PM (4HcMG)

139 "Ban scales!"

Fish hardest hit.

Posted by: Ribbed at April 18, 2024 10:34 PM (CLmzh)

140 71 Leno has a home here in Newport and does a Cars and Coffee video thing with another a guy who works for another gazilllionaire who has a local car museum in the summers. They also do amateur car shows at the various mansions.

If you think his cars are mad you should see his Newport home. J Gatsby would say "Dude, dial it back".

Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2024 10:18 PM
***
One wild thing about the mansion is that it is divided into five condos. He bought four of them. Another owner remains in the fifth. Jay is probably happy to have someone around the place. I think he paid $13.5m which must have looked like a bargain compared to CA real estate prices.

Posted by: TRex at April 18, 2024 10:34 PM (IQ6Gq)

141 132 Gravity is a social construct! Ban scales!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 18, 2024 10:33 PM (FVME7)

Do that and fish will need bicycles...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:35 PM (ynpvh)

142 I'm imagining a Hitler Downfall parody video...

"Steiner's air defenses will knock them out of the sky!"

"Mein Imam..."

Posted by: davidt at April 18, 2024 10:35 PM (SYTee)

143 It’s not still Friday in Iran, though.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Isn't it around 0605am tomorrow there now?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2024 10:35 PM (WXNFJ)

144 I would think the Saudis would have asked for the Israelis to do a little something to Iran's oil export capabilities.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 18, 2024 10:25 PM (6h8c9)

Kharg Island was a target, so...?

The mullahs should get into Vault 666.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2024 10:35 PM (ufFY8)

145 134 It’s not still Friday in Iran, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:34 PM (9yWhg)

6:05 a.m. Friday...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:35 PM (ynpvh)

146 I'm of two minds here. Yes, Tucker can get out on the fringes sometimes. Some of his recent blatherings about how wonderful the Potempkin village the Russians showed him were just embarrassing. But the main beef the author of this piece seems to have with Tucker is that he has interviewed people he doesn't like. That should be the job of journalists.

The irony here is that if Tucker had given the exact same interview and said the exact same things in 2012 that the FNM would love him.

And as a point to consider, it is not that Russia has become a wonderful place overnight, though there are small improvements, is that urban America has become the kind of shithole we complained about in other countries a generation ago.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2024 10:35 PM (ibTVg)

147 112

NOT yawning. Oil (WTI) up 3.75%.

Futures losses aren't decimal dust, either, esp considering the recent S&P losing streak.

Posted by: mnw at April 18, 2024 10:35 PM (NLIak)

148 all holidays are postponed !

--IDF

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:35 PM (V13WU)

149 Gravity is a social construct! Ban scales!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals

We need common sense gravity laws. Or a way to tax it.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 18, 2024 10:35 PM (vJiyU)

150 Should be good for sure. NYR certainly had the better overall season. But in each teams final 22 games, they each had the same number of regulation / OT wins (12). This series might be closer than a lot of people think. Plus -- the Presidents' Trophy curse is real!!!
Posted by: Doof at April 18, 2024 10:16 PM (RFPHU)

Its been Friday.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 10:35 PM (R4t5M)

151 117

AH...yes indeed...Southern Fried ROCK at it's very best.

Don't have bands like The ALLMAN BROTHERS any more!!!

That was a time.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 18, 2024 10:36 PM (TDvv2)

152 Allegedly a building in Teheran blew up where a meeting of high-ranking IRGC officers was taking place.

These things happen...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2024 10:36 PM (YAtuc)

153 The two possible explanations are Johnson has always been a snake just waiting for his opportunity to strike, or as MTG suggests, the IC showed pictures of child pr0n on Johnson's personal computer.

Remember how the FNM/IC invented child molestation charges out of whole cloth against Judge Roy Moore? I said at the time allowing them to get away with it was a dumb dumb idea...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2024 10:37 PM (ibTVg)

154 Markets roiled !!

---Day ending in a "Y"

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:37 PM (V13WU)

155 Israel attacked Iran, apparently.

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They ignored Biden?!!! Inconceivable!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 18, 2024 10:37 PM (FVME7)

156 It's likely that Revere would have shouted “The Regulars are coming out!” rather than “The British are coming”. The later makes no sense considering that the Colonies considered themselves British. It wasn't until the next day, at Lexington and Concord, that they became Americans.

Someone has done the Freedom Trail tour.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2024 10:04 PM (LkLld)

I thought "Americans" was in common use to refer to colonial residents in the decades before the Revolutionary War?

Posted by: just the punchline at April 18, 2024 10:38 PM (tkR6S)

157 If ISRAEL attacked iran...well.. purely military sites and a few upper level apartments with key political players thinking they are just having tea...KABOOM!!!

Personally, I would prefer that random Iranian mullahs (and the State Department co-conspirators) just keep disappearing without any explanation or clues. Keep the leadership of Iran and the traitors in the US State Department guessing and constantly looking over their shoulders afraid of their own shadow.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 18, 2024 10:38 PM (4HcMG)

158 Apparently it is some mullah's birthday.
Didn't catch who they said it was.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2024 10:38 PM (ufFY8)

159 153 The two possible explanations are Johnson has always been a snake just waiting for his opportunity to strike, or as MTG suggests, the IC showed pictures of child pr0n on Johnson's personal computer.

Remember how the FNM/IC invented child molestation charges out of whole cloth against Judge Roy Moore? I said at the time allowing them to get away with it was a dumb dumb idea...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2024 10:37 PM (ibTVg)

Even if he didn't have any...ask Sharyl Attkisson what the Gov't did to HER computer...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:38 PM (ynpvh)

160 Good night, y’all. Early day tomorrow.

Posted by: Piper at April 18, 2024 10:39 PM (ZdaMQ)

161 Dear iran,

please immediately UN-FUCK YOURSELVES or suffer further pain and degradation until you are nothing more than the sands of time...

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 18, 2024 10:39 PM (TDvv2)

162 Oops! I was thinking that today was Friday! Belay my last stupid comment.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:39 PM (9yWhg)

163 154 Markets roiled !!

---Day ending in a "Y"

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:37 PM (V13WU)

In Spanish, that doesn't work:
Domingo
Lunes
Martes
Miercoles
Jueves
Viernes
Sabado

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:40 PM (ynpvh)

164 In Spanish, that doesn't work:
Domingo
Lunes
Martes
Miercoles
Jueves
Viernes
Sabado
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:40 PM (ynpvh)

spanish markets don't count

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:40 PM (V13WU)

165 One of the defining parts of those fights and a big reason the vastly outnumbered and out trained citizens were able to beat back the British is because they used what were essentially guerrilla tactics. Hiding in the woods and shooting at the British who were marching in formation in their red coats.

Pissed the Brits off but that was a big talk to the hand moment.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2024 10:30 PM (LkLld)

The Colonials learned to fight like Indians. Add to that The Kentucky Long Rifle, with actual rifling in the barrel, for accurate shots. At one point, the British had called a parlay because the Rebels were shooting their officers with alarming frequency. The British thought that terribly unfair and wanted their officers to face random death on the battlefield like the average soldier and not specifically targeted. No agreement came from the parlay.

Posted by: RickZ at April 18, 2024 10:41 PM (emlEe)

166 158 Apparently it is some mullah's birthday.
Didn't catch who they said it was.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2024 10:38 PM (ufFY

Did he go out with a bang?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:41 PM (ynpvh)

167

I hope my Iranian sodobuddies are okay! When they aren't with me they're usually underneath livestock, so they are probably shielded...

Posted by: Paul's Tijuana Drag Show at April 18, 2024 10:41 PM (3/uDj)

168 163 All the more reason not to speak Spanish.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:41 PM (9yWhg)

169 Biden promises to impose a tax on "unrealized gains." If your land or stock account has increased in value in the last year you would pay taxes on the unrealized gain. You have not sold the property; you do not have the income. It isn’t "real." Yet you will be taxed as if you had made the sale and received the income

And remember this ignores inflation which is running at around 10% (real rate).

So buy $1000 in stock and watch it go to $1100 with still the real purchasing power of $1000 but now you'll own the Junta $20 or $30 dollars for the mistake of investing your money...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2024 10:41 PM (ibTVg)

170 'Night, Piper.

Owlbert's workday has just begun, though.

Posted by: mnw at April 18, 2024 10:41 PM (NLIak)

171 Nice radial engine. It is.
The NSU/Mazda is a "rotary" engine. But there is another rotary, too -- WWI Rhone airplane engines are the oddest thing ever.
Propeller is attached to the block; crank and pistons are stationary, part of the plane. The whole mass of the motor rotates. They didn't even try to throttle them. On, or off.

When there were lots of surplus radials around, they were used for some stationary power applications. You can see them at antique tractor meets. They're better in free air, or driving a fan -- but the big drawback is how much oil they fling, and the shorter TBOH due to the big thermal differences. Loose as a goose cold, and the rings snug up as the engine heats up.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 18, 2024 10:42 PM (zdLoL)

172 Israel took out the Iranian early warning system in Syria first.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2024 10:42 PM (PMWNp)

173 >>>> Texas gender clinic dubbed 'Frankenstein's lab' performs hundreds of experimental surgeries each year - including giving patients a penis AND vagina and 'Barbie-dolling' clients by removing both
============

So, Texas Children's is at it again?

Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2024 10:42 PM (s9Dvd)

174 165
...
No agreement came from the parlay.

Posted by: RickZ at April 18, 2024 10:41 PM (emlEe)

Well, one British sniper had Washington in his sites at one point, but didn't fire...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:42 PM (ynpvh)

175 I stumbled across the first trailer for Transformer One.. The article around it insists it is the most anticipated movie of the fall. Not by me it's not. Thank heaven I have at least twenty years of DVDs stored away. I have the feeling its going to be a long, long time til I trot out to a theater. The only thing that interests me is that Alamo Roadhouse reruns older movies that would be great to see on the big screen again.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at April 18, 2024 10:42 PM (ET1Q8)

176 Of course taxes are going to go up. We have millions of freeloaders here illegally costing us billions every month. Somebody's got to lay up. And those student loans weren't forgiven. They were merely transferred to us.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2024 10:42 PM (W/lyH)

177 All things considered, at least I've restocked my Strategic Booze Reserves.

So that's nice.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 18, 2024 10:42 PM (XV/Pl)

178 172 Israel took out the Iranian early warning system in Syria first.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 18, 2024 10:42 PM (PMWNp)

Wouldn't that, in itself, be a warning?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:43 PM (ynpvh)

179 And as a point to consider, it is not that Russia has become a wonderful place overnight, though there are small improvements, is that urban America has become the kind of shithole we complained about in other countries a generation ago.

Just traveling around the globe through either Dubai or Doha and you realize that the US international airports are shitholes. That is the Great Entryway into the US from abroad and it sort of sets the expectations when they get into Gangland America where every blue city looks like WW2 Dresden or Beirut.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 18, 2024 10:43 PM (4HcMG)

180 Que sabroso~

@ReduxxMag
🚨MEET MEXICO'S NEW "FEMALE" POLITICAL CANDIDATES🚨

Four men in San Luis de Potosí have self-identified as "women" in order to secure nominations in the upcoming municipal election.
twitter.com/ReduxxMag/status/1780998600241057919

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 18, 2024 10:43 PM (IG4Id)

181 152 Allegedly a building in Teheran blew up where a meeting of high-ranking IRGC officers was taking place.

These things happen...
Posted by: The ARC of History

I wonder if the Imams lay awake at night, puckered, because they know they can't hide from Mossad.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * expert procrastinator at April 18, 2024 10:43 PM (yps4S)

182 Cyber attack on Iran too.

LOL

Stuxnet v2.0?

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2024 10:43 PM (ufFY8)

183 We need common sense gravity laws. Or a way to tax it.
Posted by: Some Rat at April 18, 2024 10:35 PM (vJiyU)

Rat, I think you broke the code, the IRS could use a man like you in their innovative tax creation department!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 18, 2024 10:44 PM (hOUT3)

184 WAIT! WAAAIIT!! does Iran have an airforce ???

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:44 PM (V13WU)

185 One of the defining parts of those fights and a big reason the vastly outnumbered and out trained citizens were able to beat back the British is because they used what were essentially guerrilla tactics.

This is true but it undersells that Washington was strategically brilliant. He use those guerilla tactics, the lay of the land, and his understanding of how the British worked to beat them.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 18, 2024 10:44 PM (ibTVg)

186 176 Of course taxes are going to go up. We have millions of freeloaders here illegally costing us billions every month. Somebody's got to lay up. And those student loans weren't forgiven. They were merely transferred to us.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2024 10:42 PM (W/lyH)

Wait until they start drawing social security...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:44 PM (ynpvh)

187 Judging by the illustration above...

For a silversmith, he sure rides like a no-hands rodeo star.

Posted by: mnw at April 18, 2024 10:44 PM (NLIak)

188 Our glorious judicial system.

Nicholas Fondacaro
@NickFondacaro
Former federal prosecutor Sunny Hostin fears a Trump supporter will "sneak onto that jury."
She suggests the surefire way to get onto the jury is to say "I hate Trump."
She's not worried about a Trump hater sneaking onto the jury.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 18, 2024 10:44 PM (FVME7)

189 181 152 Allegedly a building in Teheran blew up where a meeting of high-ranking IRGC officers was taking place.

These things happen...
Posted by: The ARC of History

So, some people did some things...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 18, 2024 10:45 PM (hOUT3)

190 @165 The Ferguson breech-loader is coming to the chat.
A British sniper once had G.Wash in his sights. Noblesse oblige, he didn't have the heart. What a gent.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 18, 2024 10:45 PM (zdLoL)

191
Cyber attack on Iran too.

===

Israel telling Iran, "We gonna fk you up !"

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:45 PM (V13WU)

192 180 Que sabroso~

@ReduxxMag
🚨MEET MEXICO'S NEW "FEMALE" POLITICAL CANDIDATES🚨

Four men in San Luis de Potosí have self-identified as "women" in order to secure nominations in the upcoming municipal election.
twitter.com/ReduxxMag/status/1780998600241057919

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 18, 2024 10:43 PM (IG4Id)

The small Kalifornian bordertown of Calexico recalled its trans mayor.
https://tinyurl.com/ycsxhumt

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:45 PM (ynpvh)

193 157

Oh yes that would apply to the current FJB administration as there are PLENTY of MOSSAD operatives flowing about Maryland and Virginia that the CIA have lost track of...

But where is Berry?

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 18, 2024 10:45 PM (TDvv2)

194 Times of Israel: "As Israel reportedly strikes Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei marks his 85th birthday."

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 18, 2024 10:46 PM (MvF+J)

195 Isfahan, Shiraz and Tehran all hit.

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:46 PM (V13WU)

196 As Israel reportedly strikes Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei marks his 85th birthday."
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 18, 2024 10:46 PM (MvF+J)

Hope it's his last.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 10:47 PM (R4t5M)

197 185 I’ve heard it said that Washington, though not a flawless military commander, never made the same mistake twice. Dude learned from his mistakes.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:47 PM (9yWhg)

198 I wonder if the Imams lay awake at night, puckered, because they know they can't hide from Mossad.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * expert procrastinator at April 18, 2024 10:43 PM (yps4S)
---
Let's hope they haven't had a good night's sleep in 30 years...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2024 10:47 PM (BpYfr)

199 169 Biden promises to impose a tax on "unrealized gains." ... So buy $1000 in stock and watch it go to $1100 with still the real purchasing power of $1000 but now you'll own the Junta $20 or $30 dollars for the mistake of investing your money...
Posted by: 18-1

Gonna be a lot of stocks falling out of the canoe and into the lake!

Posted by: IRS meet ATF at April 18, 2024 10:48 PM (FxINA)

200 Times of Israel: "As Israel reportedly strikes Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei marks his 85th birthday."
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 18, 2024 10:46 PM (MvF+J)

At least he is not blowing out nuclear candles.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2024 10:48 PM (ufFY8)

201

The Israelis blew up Shiraz?

*sobs*

Posted by: Wine Snob at April 18, 2024 10:48 PM (3/uDj)

202 Sorry, leftist site. Stuff in it was absolute Bullshit. Here's a better one:

https://tinyurl.com/5bmy86xs

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:48 PM (ynpvh)

203 178 172 Israel took out the Iranian early warning system in Syria first.

Posted by: Thomas Paine
------------------

Thought you said, 'took out Syria first', that would have been nice.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2024 10:48 PM (s9Dvd)

204 Of course taxes are going to go up.

There are some asshats, who've been around awhile, who have proposed taxing employer provided health care benefits. It never stays on the table long. Wondering if it will this time?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * expert procrastinator at April 18, 2024 10:48 PM (yps4S)

205 29 The radial powered pickup truck is bonkers. Wonder if it really works. #engineering
Posted by: TRex at April 18, 2024 10:06 PM (IQ6Gq)
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Are we sure it's not a nuclear reactor under the hood? Maybe it's RADIUM-powered...(if that's such a thing...)

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2024 10:08 PM (BpYfr)
----
Well in the 30s-50s radium, Ra, could do everything so we had Ra enemas, Ra added to 'elixirs', and of course glow-in-the-dark everything.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #12 at April 18, 2024 10:49 PM (qfLjt)

206 Cyber attack on Iran too.

===

Israel telling Iran, "We gonna fk you up !"
Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:45 PM (V13WU)
----
I suspect by the time the Israelis are done, the message will be, "We can reach out and touch you anytime, anywhere, in any manner we choose...Sleep tight!"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2024 10:49 PM (BpYfr)

207 As Israel reportedly strikes Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei marks his 85th birthday."
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 18, 2024 10:46 PM (MvF+J)

Hope it's his last.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 10:47 PM (R4t5M)

We replaced the regular candles on his cake with those trick candles that constantly relight themselves. He'll blow out a pulmonary artery trying to blow out all the candles.

Posted by: The Mossad at April 18, 2024 10:49 PM (4I/2K)

208 Even worse, there are reports that the Israelis are marching into Haifa, despite Biden's order that they not do that.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2024 10:50 PM (YAtuc)

209 I think you broke the code, the IRS could use a man like you in their innovative tax creation department!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~

40 years ago my Uncle said "The only thing they don't tax is the air you breathe, and someday, they'll get around to that."
The man was a freaking prophet.

Posted by: Some Rat at April 18, 2024 10:50 PM (vJiyU)

210 Well in the 30s-50s radium, Ra, could do everything so we had Ra enemas, Ra added to 'elixirs', and of course glow-in-the-dark everything.
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #12 at April 18, 2024 10:49 PM (qfLjt)
----
Heh. I'd forgotten about that. Didn't that also lead to an exciting new array of diseases?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2024 10:50 PM (BpYfr)

211 >>One wild thing about the mansion is that it is divided into five condos. He bought four of them. Another owner remains in the fifth. Jay is probably happy to have someone around the place. I think he paid $13.5m which must have looked like a bargain compared to CA real estate prices.

I've heard it's been redone back into a single mansion. But all the mansions in Newport have full time staff to keep them up. They have to because of the North Atlantic and just the immense size of the place. It's like owning a stone hotel with acres of land on the ocean because that's what it is.

I spent most of my life fishing in the ocean right in front of the place. It's spectacular. Leno is originally from the Boston area, I've never met him but locals who have say he's a really nice guy.

A bit about the place.

https://tinyurl.com/5473ustw

Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2024 10:50 PM (LkLld)

212 Even worse, there are reports that the Israelis are marching into Haifa, despite Biden's order that they not do that.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2024 10:50 PM (YAtuc)

Well, Haifa is in Israel, so...

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2024 10:51 PM (ufFY8)

213 60 It's likely that Revere would have shouted “The Regulars are coming out!” rather than “The British are coming”.

I had heard it was likely "The Redcoats are coming!" They were actually known as that, particularly among those who didn't think pleasantly of them.
Posted by: GWB at April 18, 2024 10:13 PM (1zxQh)

-----------

Lobsterbacks?
George's Poofters?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2024 10:51 PM (H22GW)

214 Even if he didn't have any...ask Sharyl Attkisson what the Gov't did to HER computer...

That is what I mean. When Schumer told us that the IC has "Six Ways From Sunday of Getting Back At You", he started from the position of a dirty fighter who believes in By Any Means Necessary to maintain power - which would include framing, inventing crimes, lawfare, debanking, and outright assassination - character or physical - if needed.

So when he is in awe of the utter corruption and evil of the IC, we need to know its real.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 18, 2024 10:51 PM (4HcMG)

215 this looks a little dated ..

"US approves Rafah op. in exchange for no Israeli counter-strikes on Iran - report
Israel allegedly obtained approval for an operation in Rafah as long as it doesn't strike Iran, according to Qatari reports."

I guess Israel will have to live with US disapproval.

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:51 PM (V13WU)

216 We may have a terror cell activation in our near future.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 10:51 PM (R4t5M)

217 IRGC says they shot down three "small birds".

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2024 10:51 PM (ufFY8)

218 When there were lots of surplus radials around, they were used for some stationary power applications. You can see them at antique tractor meets. They're better in free air, or driving a fan -- but the big drawback is how much oil they fling, and the shorter TBOH due to the big thermal differences. Loose as a goose cold, and the rings snug up as the engine heats up.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 18, 2024 10:42 PM (zdLoL)

That truck with the radial looks unfinished; no pipes to the exhaust ports.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2024 10:51 PM (tkR6S)

219 Biden promises to impose a tax on "unrealized gains." ... So buy $1000 in stock and watch it go to $1100 with still the real purchasing power of $1000 but now you'll own the Junta $20 or $30 dollars for the mistake of investing your money...
Posted by: 18-1

Gonna be a lot of stocks falling out of the canoe and into the lake!
Posted by: IRS meet ATF at April 18, 2024 10:48 PM (FxINA)
***

Gonna be even more politicians falling out of canoes...with concrete galoshes.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2024 10:51 PM (W/lyH)

220 IRGC says they shot down three "small birds".
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt

Laden or Unladen?

Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2024 10:52 PM (WXNFJ)

221 208 Even worse, there are reports that the Israelis are marching into Haifa, despite Biden's order that they not do that.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2024 10:50 PM (YAtuc)

Yeah, old news. They did that in 1948. They did that 4000 years ago too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:52 PM (ynpvh)

222 53 Um, that wasn't a hand transplant, it was a double lower-arm transplant...
Posted by: jim

Still, you have to hand it to them.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2024 10:12 PM (WXNFJ)
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Gives a different meaning to shoulder arms.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #13 at April 18, 2024 10:52 PM (qfLjt)

223 SS Agent #1: Wake up the POTUS Israel just hit Iran... What's that horrible smell ???

SS Agent #2: Smells like Shit !!!!!!!!

SS Agent #1: Son of Bitch that Old Fart Shit in the bed again..... I am not cleaning it up again. That's three times today.

SS Agent #2: Screw that Crap I am not cleaning it up..... Get that little idiot KJP or Cumstain Sullivan...

Posted by: SNL Live from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave at April 18, 2024 10:53 PM (BSF0H)

224 and of course glow-in-the-dark everything.

Posted by: Ciampino -
-----------------------

Chrysler had a three dimensional instrument cluster. It was simply marvelous.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2024 10:53 PM (s9Dvd)

225 210 Well in the 30s-50s radium, Ra, could do everything so we had Ra enemas, Ra added to 'elixirs', and of course glow-in-the-dark everything.
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #12 at April 18, 2024 10:49 PM (qfLjt)
----
Heh. I'd forgotten about that. Didn't that also lead to an exciting new array of diseases?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2024 10:50 PM (BpYfr)

A great deal of the radium watch assembly girls would have attested to that, except many lost their tongues, and mouths, and died for aweful cancers.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:53 PM (ynpvh)

226 Yeah, old news. They did that in 1948. They did that 4000 years ago too.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:52 PM (ynpvh)

LOL
We are assholes.
I assume he means Rafah.

Still...we are assholes.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2024 10:54 PM (ufFY8)

227 Hi there! Do you use Twitter? I'd like to follow you if that
would be okay. I'm definitely enjoying your blog and look
forward to new updates.

==

Just don't wonder into the comments section. You will thank me later....

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:54 PM (V13WU)

228 Khamenei is 85. That other old bastard lived to 86.

I blame the teetotalism.

Posted by: mnw at April 18, 2024 10:54 PM (NLIak)

229 Sad to hear about Dickey Betts. Glad I saw ABB when I did (1995). Great show! He made it to 80 and considering his lifestyle, that's pretty good.

https://youtu.be/68X8o0S7vJc?si=vEtuG12jzvA7nqUG

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 18, 2024 10:54 PM (xA5g+)

230

Israeli spy pigeons executed in Tehran central square by elite Quds Force snipers!

Posted by: Film at 11:00! at April 18, 2024 10:54 PM (3/uDj)

231 213 60 It's likely that Revere would have shouted “The Regulars are coming out!” rather than “The British are coming”.

I had heard it was likely "The Redcoats are coming!" They were actually known as that, particularly among those who didn't think pleasantly of them.
Posted by: GWB at April 18, 2024 10:13 PM (1zxQh)

-----------

Lobsterbacks?
George's Poofters?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2024 10:51 PM (H22GW)

"Yo, Paul R., Are those faggots those redcoats are eating over there?"

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:54 PM (ynpvh)

232 I stumbled across the first trailer for Transformer One.

-
Videogame sequel Kingdom Come II was announced today. I was a great game although very hard. You learned a lot about life in 14th century and it wasn't just all fighting. You haggled with merchants, went to church, gathered resources and crafted things etc.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0tUq1uQKSZg&t=175s

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 18, 2024 10:54 PM (FVME7)

233 216 We may have a terror cell activation in our near future.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner

Come on man, that be like crazy talk, there's no way Iranian terrorists could get into this country...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 18, 2024 10:55 PM (hOUT3)

234 A great deal of the radium watch assembly girls would have attested to that, except many lost their tongues, and mouths, and died for aweful cancers.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:53 PM (ynpvh)

I saw that a number of years ago on some show about poisons.
Horrible.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2024 10:55 PM (ufFY8)

235 Even worse, there are reports that the Israelis are marching into Haifa, despite Biden's order that they not do that.

Remember when Biden bragged about having the most comprehensive voter fraud schemes in place? When he hinted that Putin should invade Ukraine and when Iran should attack Israel directly? Those were covered up as slips, but they also were foreshadowing. When Biden bragged about knowing about the location of the Top Secret Presidential Bunker by telling everyone where it was?

When Biden talked about Haifa, that was foreshadowing of a false flag to be staged in Haifa.

Bank on it. It was brought up in a Briefing and he has fantasized about it since then and has no filters to keep secrets to himself.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at April 18, 2024 10:56 PM (4HcMG)

236 Of course taxes are going to go up.

There are some asshats, who've been around awhile, who have proposed taxing employer provided health care benefits. It never stays on the table long. Wondering if it will this time?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * expert procrastinator at April 18, 2024 10:48 PM (yps4S)

Here's another oldie. I'm waiting for the nationalization of 401(k)s and IRAs. Looking at the current landscape, is that really too far fetched now? The governments are bankrupt and illegals are going to start rioting soon over lack of being giving enough free shit while blacks will riot because their free shit is going to the illegals. Somebody has to pay. So who needs Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class? Just take everything from them. Their, businesses, their homes, their savings. Why it's a communist Utopia for illegals and The Free Shit Army!

Posted by: RickZ at April 18, 2024 10:56 PM (emlEe)

237 Hope it's his last.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 18, 2024 10:47 PM (R4t5M)

Would be real nice, it would.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2024 10:56 PM (tkR6S)

238 227 Yeah, old news. They did that in 1948. They did that 4000 years ago too.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:52 PM (ynpvh)

LOL
We are assholes.
I assume he means Rafah.

Still...we are assholes.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2024 10:54 PM (ufFY

Yeah, true, but Beau was there for both events...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:56 PM (ynpvh)

239 Enough of this geopolitical falderal. Let’s get to the important stuff: What does Tay-Tay think of Sydney Sweeney’s boobs?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:57 PM (9yWhg)

240 Sources say Israel says this is a "limited response".

LOL

Alarms going off in northern Israel.
They are guessing the proxies are fucking around, i.e. Hezbollah.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2024 10:57 PM (ufFY8)

241 "It's likely that Revere would have shouted “The Regulars are coming out!” rather than “The British are coming”. The later makes no sense considering that the Colonies considered themselves British. It wasn't until the next day, at Lexington and Concord, that they became Americans."

Sounds like WeirdDave has either attended an Appleseed or read some David Hackett Fischer, or both. Bravo!

Posted by: Pennsyltucky at April 18, 2024 10:57 PM (2AUjo)

242 217 IRGC says they shot down three "small birds".
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2024 10:51 PM (ufFY

Birds aren't real!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 18, 2024 10:57 PM (hOUT3)

243 Enough of this geopolitical falderal. Let’s get to the important stuff: What does Tay-Tay think of Sydney Sweeney’s boobs?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:57 PM (9yWhg)
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At last! A serious topic worthy of Horde discussion!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 18, 2024 10:58 PM (BpYfr)

244 56 or is it iodine pills ??

*drinking iodine does not do much does it ?

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 10:12 PM (V13WU)
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Iodine solution is not good!!
(Potassium) iodide for thyroid protection, if it works.
And iodine is pronounced iodeen not iodyne. You know just like chlorine, fluorine, bromine, astatine.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #14 at April 18, 2024 10:58 PM (qfLjt)

245 Looking at war news on Jerusalem Post. They have toenail fungus ads too. Who knew?

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 18, 2024 10:58 PM (MvF+J)

246 (z4PA

Commie Fag spammer at 222 needs to be nuked. it's link is probably full of malware.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2024 10:58 PM (tkR6S)

247 241 Sources say Israel says this is a "limited response".

LOL

Alarms going off in northern Israel.
They are guessing the proxies are fucking around, i.e. Hezbollah.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2024 10:57 PM (ufFY

Time for FAFO the clown to honk their noses.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 10:59 PM (ynpvh)

248 216;234

Look on the bright side.

At least we're safe from school board dissidents and anti-abortion pickets.

Posted by: mnw at April 18, 2024 11:00 PM (NLIak)

249 246 Looking at war news on Jerusalem Post. They have toenail fungus ads too. Who knew?

Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 18, 2024 10:58 PM (MvF+J)

No, those just follow you from this site.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 11:00 PM (ynpvh)

250 Looking at war news on Jerusalem Post. They have toenail fungus ads too. Who knew?
Posted by: Peel gp A Grape at April 18, 2024 10:58 PM (MvF+J)

But do they have King Harv?

Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2024 11:01 PM (W/lyH)

251 I hope this is just the beginning of Iran's destruction by Israel. Make the ground bounce.

Posted by: With Extreme prejudice at April 18, 2024 11:01 PM (vJj6V)

252 211 Leno is originally from the Boston area, I've never met him but locals who have say he's a really nice guy.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2024 10:50 PM
***
Can confirm. He'll talk cars all day but is a somewhat reluctant celebrity. I've spent time with him but never dreamed of asking for a photo.

Posted by: TRex at April 18, 2024 11:02 PM (IQ6Gq)

253 18, 19, and 20 April are heavy days in history. Article coming.
Sure, a lot of modern oddities are just because of anniversary dates, but -- the discovery of Australia? Try to plan that!

So close to Hitler's birthday...

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 18, 2024 11:02 PM (zdLoL)

254 You're spot on Dave, that list is crap! Any list that doesn't have Tacqueria Lugar on it is trash! I do like Posado's a lot, so that's one they got.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 18, 2024 11:02 PM (S6gqv)

255 >The later makes no sense considering that the Colonies considered themselves British.

Well if they talked about "the British", (IDK, I won't stake my history knowledge against any hordemember in good standing), then they were separate.
It's funny how people use "us" and "them" and unconsciously group things in ways that are more truthful than any geography or law.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 18, 2024 11:02 PM (lhenN)

256 Sonobi!

Posted by: Ghost of Sonobi at April 18, 2024 11:02 PM (V13WU)

257 249 216;234

Look on the bright side.

At least we're safe from school board dissidents and anti-abortion pickets.

Posted by: mnw at April 18, 2024 11:00 PM (NLIak)

https://youtu.be/jHPOzQzk9Qo&t=30s

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 11:02 PM (ynpvh)

258 Look on the bright side.

At least we're safe from school board dissidents and anti-abortion pickets.
Posted by: mnw at April 18, 2024 11:00 PM (NLIak)

And we're monitoring those menacing Catholic terrorists with their Latin trash talk.

Posted by: RickZ at April 18, 2024 11:03 PM (emlEe)

259 Time for FAFO the clown to honk their noses.
Posted by: jim

*snort

FAFO the Clown

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2024 11:03 PM (HGv4O)

260 Good evening morons and thank you wd

I agree it's important to interview distasteful people. The problem is TuCa is not asking the right questions, the tough questions. He gave Putin a pass. He gave the Bethlehem priest a pass.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2024 11:03 PM (RIvkX)

261 And we're monitoring those menacing Catholic terrorists with their Latin trash talk.
Posted by: RickZ

But it is not a problem when the "newcomers" cannot speak a word of English...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 18, 2024 11:04 PM (hOUT3)

262 How’s Leno doing since his accident a year or two ago?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 11:05 PM (9yWhg)

263

Well, I'd suck their brains out with a straw, sell the widows and orphans and go into South American zinc...

Posted by: City Gent at April 18, 2024 11:06 PM (3/uDj)

264
We've got a sanctified shit ton of green lacewings around here now. Adults. They are good guys. They eat other bugs, which eat garden vegetables.

But there is a swarm of 'em here. A bunch are in the house. And they stink when smashed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 18, 2024 11:06 PM (w6EFb)

265 258 Look on the bright side.

At least we're safe from school board dissidents and anti-abortion pickets.
Posted by: mnw at April 18, 2024 11:00 PM (NLIak)

And we're monitoring those menacing Catholic terrorists with their Latin trash talk.
Posted by: RickZ at April 18, 2024 11:03 PM (emlEe)

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We should all be grateful the FBI doesn't squander any of its precious resources looking into the 'Death to America' crowd that's showing up at all the anti-Jew protests.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2024 11:06 PM (H22GW)

266 The Sherman Tank was most often powered by a 9 cyl radial engine, adapted from an airplane engine design.

Whether Pratt or Wright, I don't recall at the moment.

Don't know how the ducted the cooling fans, but it seems to have worked well enough. Until the Sherman took a German shell, and then the fan would only make the Ronson Flame all the more happy to burn.

And, here's hoping the Israelis did Great Haram to the Mullahs and their enterprises.

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 18, 2024 11:06 PM (e6UQI)

267 Thanks for nuking the spammer! Some of those fuckers are dangerous to your computer's health.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2024 11:06 PM (tkR6S)

268 261 Comers of new
Comers experiencing newness

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 11:07 PM (9yWhg)

269 "What does Tay-Tay think of Sydney Sweeney’s boobs?"

Jealousy. And keeping an eye on Travis' browser history.

Posted by: davidt at April 18, 2024 11:07 PM (SYTee)

270 We've got a sanctified shit ton of green lacewings around here now. Adults. They are good guys. They eat other bugs, which eat garden vegetables.

But there is a swarm of 'em here. A bunch are in the house. And they stink when smashed.
Posted by: publius

Um, don't smash'em?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 18, 2024 11:07 PM (HGv4O)

271 Catholic terrorists with their Latin trash talk.

Gutter Italian. I've known people who could converse in classical Latin. Nobody understands Churchlatin. It's...vulgar.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 18, 2024 11:08 PM (zdLoL)

272 269 "What does Tay-Tay think of Sydney Sweeney’s boobs?"

Jealousy. And keeping an eye on Travis' browser history.

Posted by: davidt at April 18, 2024 11:07 PM (SYTee)

LOL, I read that as "Trouser History"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 11:08 PM (ynpvh)

273 I'm hoping the XO and I will be able to avoid a lot of the new taxes. The day after Zero won the presidency, I talked the XO into cashing in every none ash financial instrument we owned. The only thing we have now are a checking account and an interest bearing savings account he can write three checks a month. We own absolutely nothing the Feds can make us pay accrued but not realized profit on. We sold the house and moved into an apartment. We owe nothing on any of the three vehicles -- A Subaru Croschek, A 20 year old Rogue, and a 2001 Suzuki Vitara. The Vitara really should be put out of its misery. We've been holding on to it simply because it's an SUV. The XO occasionally takes it for a drive to keep the battery charged. The Rogue goes back to my daughter when her oldest turns 16. All we'll have is the Subaru. Two creaking antiques don't need more than one vehicle. So, all-in-all, I think we're in not perfect, but a fairly safe spot.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at April 18, 2024 11:08 PM (ET1Q8)

274 But it is not a problem when the "newcomers" cannot speak a word of English...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 18, 2024 11:04 PM (hOUT3)

To do anything about that would be a friggin' hate crime. And require an update to telephone trees everywhere.

Posted by: RickZ at April 18, 2024 11:08 PM (emlEe)

275
*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim

==============

Cheers! Sipping a little wine myself. I'm so tired, it could put me down in half an hour.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2024 11:08 PM (ny95y)

276 >> Um, don't smash'em?

Inadvertently mashed, as in flying between one's fingers and the door handle. One's fingers then stink.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 18, 2024 11:09 PM (w6EFb)

277 Thanks for nuking the spammer! Some of those fuckers are dangerous to your computer's health.

==

so, who do you think it was ?? The Russians ? Bulgarian mafia? Chicoms?? IRG ??

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 11:09 PM (V13WU)

278 Unrealized gains? What if you are forced to pay the tax on a stock that went up, but then it plummets to a huge loss on paper? do you get a refund?

Posted by: Admiral Spinebender at April 18, 2024 10:07 PM (duT0u)

What it will do, mostly, is force everyone into Treasuries, which will support the valuation of Treasuries until they become as collectible as beanie babies or shares in John Law's Mississippi Company

then, as they meme from South Park has it "It's gone"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2024 11:09 PM (D7oie)

279

Dash those green lace wigs!

Posted by: City Gent at April 18, 2024 11:09 PM (3/uDj)

280 277 Thanks for nuking the spammer! Some of those fuckers are dangerous to your computer's health.

==

so, who do you think it was ?? The Russians ? Bulgarian mafia? Chicoms?? IRG ??

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 11:09 PM (V13WU)

Gay Chinese Muslims?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 11:10 PM (ynpvh)

281 >>Can confirm. He'll talk cars all day but is a somewhat reluctant celebrity. I've spent time with him but never dreamed of asking for a photo.

I had a very good family friend who was exactly like that. Also a car guy and his weakness was Ferraris. Opened up his own business restoring them and did most of the work himself

Well known musician and hated the celebrity but would talk enthusiastically with anyone who knew anything about Italian cars or any cool cars. Got him to come evaluate my first used Porsche. He basically told me I was a moron for buying it but I bought it anyway. He was right of course.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2024 11:11 PM (LkLld)

282 https://images.app.goo.gl/cWmQdp8JBdCYdakW6

Sydney Sweeney and a couple things.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 18, 2024 11:11 PM (ufFY8)

283

so, who do you think it was ?? The Russians ? Bulgarian mafia? Chicoms?? IRG ??

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 11:09 PM (V13WU)

Gay Chinese Muslims?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 11:10 PM (ynpvh)

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It's the damn PNG cannibals again.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2024 11:11 PM (H22GW)

284 Gutter Italian. I've known people who could converse in classical Latin. Nobody understands Churchlatin. It's...vulgar.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

Oh, you've known them? I suppose you have black friends too.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 18, 2024 11:11 PM (IG4Id)

285
Book banning?

I remember when a smarmy Massachusetts school librarian returned some Dr. Seuss books to Melania Trump because of their unsuitable content.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2024 11:12 PM (ny95y)

286 Everybody talkin' about the Israeli strike on Iran... except the Israelis. "Missile strike? All we know is what the Americans are saying."

The best, fastest reporting is in the Brit tabloids, as always.

Posted by: mnw at April 18, 2024 11:13 PM (NLIak)

287 285
Book banning?

I remember when a smarmy Massachusetts school librarian returned some Dr. Seuss books to Melania Trump because of their unsuitable content.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2024 11:12 PM (ny95y)

Why? the Libb-rarian would rather have to kids read explicit books about Paedophilic gay relationships?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 11:13 PM (ynpvh)

288 282 https://images.app.goo.gl/cWmQdp8JBdCYdakW6

Sydney Sweeney and a couple things.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 18, 2024 11:11 PM (ufFY

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Patriots, this is why we fight.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2024 11:13 PM (H22GW)

289 when a smarmy Massachusetts school librarian

Bitch needs to be smacked upside the head with a hardcover Huckleberry Finn.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 18, 2024 11:14 PM (ufFY8)

290 >>> The Vitara really should be put out of its misery.
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Don't say that about Suzy.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2024 11:14 PM (s9Dvd)

291 It's the damn PNG cannibals again.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2024 11:11 PM (H22GW)

Or the FBI.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2024 11:14 PM (tkR6S)

292 Israel does not "punch" they drill down through iranian nut sack.

FJB did not get the memo on this raid because...fjb. They do not trust this POS.

Posted by: Nightwatch at April 18, 2024 11:14 PM (TDvv2)

293 271 -- Thank you for that. The XO and I have been fighting over that for years. I went to a public school and learned how to pronounce it properly. He went to a Catholic school and learned Church Latin, which I'd just gussied up Italian.

Weni, wedi, weki vs veni, vedi, vichi.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at April 18, 2024 11:15 PM (ET1Q8)

294 Flipping around radio in car...what is this sportsball event that the announcers are yelling about...I listen for a minute to get the terms. Professional Womens Volleyball..on the radio. Not optimal

Posted by: a dude in MI at April 18, 2024 11:15 PM (+I6Y/)

295 288 282 https://images.app.goo.gl/cWmQdp8JBdCYdakW6

Sydney Sweeney and a couple things.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 18, 2024 11:11 PM (ufFY

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Patriots, this is why we fight.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2024 11:13 PM (H22GW)

For her and her bosom buddies?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 11:15 PM (ynpvh)

296 So... 40K per year.... is $20 per hour... or what a fuckin McD's employee now makes in Clownifornia.

$48 K per year.... $24 per hour?
Posted by: Romeo13 at April 18, 2024 10:14 PM (xaFKb)

35 hours a week because if you go higher the employer owes you health care
52 weeks in a year, and the total is 36.400. Of course if you take a second job and are working 45-50 hours a week then you are screwed

Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2024 11:15 PM (D7oie)

297 "Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB is citing “reliable sources” as saying that the nuclear facilities in Isfahan are “completely safe”"

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 11:16 PM (V13WU)

298 222 Bot-like...

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 18, 2024 11:16 PM (w6EFb)

299 Great White covers Zeppelin

https://theferalirishman.blogspot.com/2024/04/nailed-it.html

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 18, 2024 11:17 PM (/QIWP)

300 297 "Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB is citing “reliable sources” as saying that the nuclear facilities in Isfahan are “completely safe”"

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 11:16 PM (V13WU)

For Israel?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 11:17 PM (ynpvh)

301 I am sure that Iran's state broadcaster is as good as the North Korean state broadcaster...

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 11:18 PM (V13WU)

302 297

So is Pompeii.

Posted by: mnw at April 18, 2024 11:18 PM (NLIak)

303 281
I had a very good family friend who was exactly like that. Also a car guy and his weakness was Ferraris. Opened up his own business restoring them and did most of the work himself

Well known musician and hated the celebrity but would talk enthusiastically with anyone who knew anything about Italian cars or any cool cars.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2024 11:11 PM
***
Freeze frame? Centerfold?

Posted by: TRex at April 18, 2024 11:18 PM (IQ6Gq)

304 282 https://images.app.goo.gl/cWmQdp8JBdCYdakW6

Sydney Sweeney and a couple things.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop
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Ha! I thought she was one of Trump's persecutors.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2024 11:19 PM (s9Dvd)

305 282 … Sydney Sweeney and a couple things.
Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop

Two thumbs up!

Posted by: Man hands in Puma at April 18, 2024 11:19 PM (QaHqQ)

306 Great White:

I've always thought "Once Bitten Twice Shy" would be GREAT walk-up music for Trump at a rally.

Posted by: mnw at April 18, 2024 11:20 PM (NLIak)

307 Great White covers Zeppelin

Oh, the humanity!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 18, 2024 11:20 PM (4I/2K)

308 "Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB is citing “reliable sources” as saying that the nuclear facilities in Isfahan are “completely safe”"

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 11:16 PM (V13WU)

They must be completely safe. We haven't had any messages to the contrary. No messages at all, in fact.

Posted by: Reliable sources at April 18, 2024 11:21 PM (tkR6S)

309 Israel strikes back at Iran: Explosions are reported near bases housing Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities as Netanyahu defies Biden days after unprecedented missile barrage on Jewish state

https://tinyurl.com/yd8bsdmr

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #15 at April 18, 2024 11:21 PM (qfLjt)

310 I am sure that Iran's state broadcaster is as good as the North Korean state broadcaster...
Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 11:18 PM (V13WU)

Baghdad Al is the greatest of all time.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 18, 2024 11:21 PM (4I/2K)

311 308 "Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB is citing “reliable sources” as saying that the nuclear facilities in Isfahan are “completely safe”"

Posted by: runner at April 18, 2024 11:16 PM (V13WU)

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Tehran Tom?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2024 11:21 PM (H22GW)

312 But there is a swarm of 'em here. A bunch are in the house. And they stink when smashed.
Posted by: publius

Well, put the cap back on the liquor bottles.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2024 11:22 PM (W/lyH)

313 I've always thought "Once Bitten Twice Shy" would be GREAT walk-up music for Trump at a rally.
Posted by: mnw at April 18, 2024 11:20 PM (NLIak)

concur.

Posted by: Reliable sources at April 18, 2024 11:22 PM (tkR6S)

314 301 I am sure that Iran's state broadcaster is as good as the North Korean state broadcaster...
Posted by: runner

They might even be more reliable than our mainstream media reporting.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2024 11:22 PM (VNX3d)

315 However, if deficits don't matter, then there is no reason for taxes and the millions of man-hours wasted every year for businesses to comply with the tax accounting rules.
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at April 18, 2024 10:24 PM (HlyYF)

aaakchually, MMT requires taxes to "destroy" wealth so that inflation is controlled.

an alternate plan, of course, is to create either rationing or shortages (or both) so there is nothing to do with the extra money other than put it in the bank or invest it. Under draconian taxation then they go where no taxes are taken, like in state bonds or the equivalent of "Liberty bonds" or Treasuries.

the fact that this collapsed the USSR through massive discontent, and then through hyper inflation when Gorbachev tried to open the soviet economy is llost on these idiots without history before the first gulf war.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2024 11:22 PM (D7oie)

316 Baghdad Al is the greatest of all time.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 18, 2024 11:21 PM (4I/2K)

Baghdad Bob.

Posted by: RickZ at April 18, 2024 11:23 PM (emlEe)

317 "The only thing that interests me is that Alamo Roadhouse reruns older movies that would be great to see on the big screen again."

The weekend of April 27, Stephen Soderberg's "The Mummy" from 1998 (the version starring Brendan Frazier) will be back in theaters for a week-long run to celebrate its 25th anniversary. It's an old-fashioned adventure flick, lots of fun. My wife and I will be going to see it - and it takes a lot to get her into a movie theater these days!

Posted by: Nemo at April 18, 2024 11:23 PM (S6ArX)

318

Y'all a bunch of flaming heterosexuals...

Posted by: Ped Xing at April 18, 2024 11:23 PM (3/uDj)

319 307 Great White covers Zeppelin

Oh, the humanity!

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 18, 2024 11:20 PM (4I/2K)

LOL. Here more:
https://youtu.be/8CwNgsChUpQ

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 11:24 PM (ynpvh)

320 I would think the Saudis would have asked for the Israelis to do a little something to Iran's oil export capabilities.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 18, 2024 10:25 PM (6h8c9)

The Israelis may be willing to play both ends against the middle as well.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2024 11:24 PM (D7oie)

321 >>Freeze frame? Centerfold?

https://tinyurl.com/2w3hcjca

Gotta do what you gotta do to make a buck.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 18, 2024 11:24 PM (LkLld)

322 Sydney Sweeney and a couple things.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop

Is she confronting Crazy Eyes Hope over RJ? Where do Nice Bod Brooke and Big Tit Donna fit into this story arc?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 11:25 PM (9yWhg)

323 Is Isfahan burning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2024 11:25 PM (RIvkX)

324 Baghdad Bob.
Posted by: RickZ at April 18, 2024 11:23 PM (emlEe)

Bob, Al, whatever it takes.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 18, 2024 11:25 PM (4I/2K)

325 >>>> as Netanyahu defies Biden
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puts him in a headlock, gives him a knuckle rub saying, you know I love you Joey.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2024 11:25 PM (s9Dvd)

326 We bought a Bowflex for Little a few years back when he was playing football. He never used it, he preferred to work out at the school gym. I decided to use it because I want to work out more, and I gotta say, it's no joke. I'm drenched in sweat after each workout. I do about 25 minutes per day, one day arms, the next legs, skip a day, repeat. I've also started walking a mile and a half every day it isn't raining (can't stand treadmills). We'll see what happens to my fat ass.

Posted by: Weirddave at April 18, 2024 11:26 PM (NGHju)

327 Y'all a bunch of flaming heterosexuals...
Posted by: Ped Xing at April 18, 2024 11:23 PM (3/uDj)

Yep, with our own red, white and blue hate-crime flag.

Posted by: RickZ at April 18, 2024 11:26 PM (emlEe)

328
A great deal of the radium watch assembly girls would have attested to that, except many lost their tongues, and mouths, and died for aweful cancers.
Posted by: jim

That's what you get for licking the brush.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2024 11:26 PM (63Dwl)

329 320 I would think the Saudis would have asked for the Israelis to do a little something to Iran's oil export capabilities.
Posted by: tankdemon at April 18, 2024 10:25 PM (6h8c9)

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I'm betting there's a sudden surge of activity at some remote airbases in the Empty Quarter right about now.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2024 11:26 PM (H22GW)

330 They might even be more reliable than our mainstream media reporting.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2024 11:22 PM (VNX3d)

Hell. My parent's parry line was more reliable than our media.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2024 11:26 PM (W/lyH)

331 A great deal of the radium watch assembly girls would have attested to that, except many lost their tongues, and mouths, and died for aweful cancers.
Posted by: jim

That's what you get for licking the brush.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2024 11:26 PM (63Dwl)

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Pikers.

Posted by: The Mad Hatters at April 18, 2024 11:27 PM (H22GW)

332 276 >> Um, don't smash'em?

Inadvertently mashed, as in flying between one's fingers and the door handle. One's fingers then stink.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 18, 2024 11:09 PM (w6EFb)

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Look, Fat, having some stinkfinger just means it was a good day with the kids. C'mon, man!

Posted by: F. Joe Biden, President of..you know, the thing. at April 18, 2024 11:27 PM (2AUjo)

333 Back in the day, Israel published a photo of Yasser Arafat sitting on the crapper.

Message: "You can't hide from us anywhere."

Posted by: mnw at April 18, 2024 11:27 PM (NLIak)

334 There was a time when Longfellow's poem was memorized and recited by students.

But then, there was a time when students recited the Pledge of Allegiance.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 18, 2024 11:28 PM (XeU6L)

335 That's what you get for licking the brush.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2024 11:26 PM (63Dwl)

Word. Oh, wait.

Posted by: Michael Douglas at April 18, 2024 11:28 PM (tkR6S)

336 >>> That's what you get for licking the brush.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
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You don't get the happy dance today.
And I imagine it goes both ways.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2024 11:29 PM (s9Dvd)

337 Another thing about the illustration above:

That's one really well-dressed chicken plucker.

Posted by: mnw at April 18, 2024 11:30 PM (NLIak)

338 as Netanyahu defies Biden
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puts him in a headlock, gives him a knuckle rub saying, you know I love you Joey.
Posted by: Braenyard

Some long distance noggies ala Todd (Bill Murray).

Posted by: Tonypete at April 18, 2024 11:30 PM (WXNFJ)

339 326 We bought a Bowflex ...I'm drenched in sweat after each workout. ...

Posted by: Weirddave at April 18, 2024 11:26 PM (NGHju)

I do the Potato Exercise
Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side.
With a 5-lb potato bag in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, and then relax.Each day you'll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer. After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb potato bags.Then try 50-lb potato bags and then eventually try to get to where you can lift a 100-lb potato bag in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute. (I'm at this level.)After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each bag.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 11:31 PM (ynpvh)

340 Is she confronting Crazy Eyes Hope over RJ? Where do Nice Bod Brooke and Big Tit Donna fit into this story arc?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 11:25 PM (9yWhg)

Sydney Sweeney >> Nice Bod Brooke >> Big Tit Donna >> Crazy Eyes Hope.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at April 18, 2024 11:31 PM (ufFY8)

341 "Netanyahu defies Biden"

Horrors!

Posted by: davidt at April 18, 2024 11:31 PM (SYTee)

342
We'll see what happens to my fat ass.
Posted by: Weirddave

=============

Keep us posted. I like gaaaaiiiinzzz stories.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2024 11:31 PM (ny95y)

343 What do you think of my housecoat?

Posted by: Mrs. Loopner at April 18, 2024 11:31 PM (RIvkX)

344 328
A great deal of the radium watch assembly girls would have attested to that, except many lost their tongues, and mouths, and died for aweful cancers.
Posted by: jim

That's what you get for licking the brush.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2024 11:26 PM (63Dwl)

Twas the easiest way to put the radium in the watches...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 11:31 PM (ynpvh)

345

Iran and Syria need Atomic Wedgies. We can always slant drill under the glass to get the oil...

Posted by: Ped Xing at April 18, 2024 11:32 PM (3/uDj)

346 My WWII-issue M29 Weasel has radium paint on the instruments. But only up to 30 MPH on the speedometer, although the speedometer itself goes to 40 MPH. I can go out to the dark shop at night, and see the numbers faintly glimming away.

Posted by: Michael Douglas at April 18, 2024 11:32 PM (tkR6S)

347 After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each bag.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

* rim shot *

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 18, 2024 11:32 PM (IG4Id)

348 LOL. Here more:
https://youtu.be/8CwNgsChUpQ
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Thanks. I didn't realize they did a whole cover set, just found the one on my daily Feral Irishman visit. Cool beans, they really do nail it.

Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at April 18, 2024 11:32 PM (/QIWP)

349 My WWII-issue M29 Weasel has radium paint on the instruments. But only up to 30 MPH on the speedometer, although the speedometer itself goes to 40 MPH. I can go out to the dark shop at night, and see the numbers faintly glimming away.
Posted by: Michael Douglas

Now the cancer scare makes sense.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 18, 2024 11:33 PM (IG4Id)

350 78 And now for something completely different, Orthodox Mark Knopfler.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6OqSvtz16O4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals at April 18, 2024 10:19 PM (FVME7)
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That was very good but the best one is Dire Straits live album 'Alchemy'. The riff starting at around 6:56 to the end is magical.
https://youtu.be/8Pa9x9fZBtY

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #16 at April 18, 2024 11:33 PM (qfLjt)

351 (I'm at this level.)After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each bag.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 11:31 PM (ynpvh)

LOL! Well played.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2024 11:33 PM (tkR6S)

352 All the more reason not to speak Spanish.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:41 PM (9yWhg)

Spanish is a lovely language, except for the way Mexicans and American English speakers speak it. Oh, and have I bitched about Madrilleño accents recently? And Puerto Rican is understandable but sooooo . . . Anoyeeeeeng!

Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2024 11:33 PM (D7oie)

353 349 My WWII-issue M29 Weasel has radium paint on the instruments. But only up to 30 MPH on the speedometer, although the speedometer itself goes to 40 MPH. I can go out to the dark shop at night, and see the numbers faintly glimming away.
Posted by: Michael Douglas

Now the cancer scare makes sense.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 18, 2024 11:33 PM (IG4Id)

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Probably best to get a monthly chest x-ray. I mean, you can't be too careful.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 18, 2024 11:34 PM (H22GW)

354
Iran and Syria need Atomic Wedgies. We can always slant drill under the glass to get the oil...
Posted by: Ped Xing

We have plenty of oil and gas right here. If we could only use it.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2024 11:34 PM (63Dwl)

355 >> Well, put the cap back on the liquor bottles.

It took me a bit too long to get that. Maybe I need some of them brain pills they're advertising....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 18, 2024 11:36 PM (w6EFb)

356
Why? the Libb-rarian would rather have to kids read explicit books about Paedophilic gay relationships?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

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She sniffed that school kids these days are much too sophisticated for such retrograde drivel. One of the books she ceremoniously returned was The Cat in the Hat. A photo of her from may be a year prior was later uncovered in which she is in the middle of some library event wearing a Cat in the Hat costume.

So basically, the anwer is Bad Orange Man's Wife Bad, Too.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2024 11:36 PM (ny95y)

357 I can’t stand Spanish anymore. Make all the werbacks learn Russian, just so that their heads will explode.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 11:37 PM (9yWhg)

358 I had an aunt! She’d work in factories and we used to call her Rosie the Riveter!
I also had an uncle that crashed landed on a south Pacific beach. They called him Bosey the Rib du jour. Fact!

Posted by: Joe Joe at April 18, 2024 11:37 PM (DC9IU)

359 Look, Bibi. Don't escalate my bluff! No, I mean, uh, don't bluff an attack to keep me from escalating against Irandiana...no, wait, that's not right, uh, don't fake my bluff or uh, well, anyway, just DON'T!!! DON'T!!!!

Posted by: Joe, nephew of a jet fighter pilot roasted alive by cannibals at April 18, 2024 11:37 PM (5fDan)

360 Iran and Syria need Atomic Wedgies. We can always slant drill under the glass to get the oil...
Posted by: Ped Xing

We have plenty of oil and gas right here. If we could only use it.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 18, 2024 11:34 PM (63Dwl)

Turning the dirt to glass would be a great way to prospect for oil and other valuable minerals. Just fly low over it in an airplane. "Hey, Look! Oil over there to the right; looks like it's a bout 2000 feet down."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2024 11:38 PM (tkR6S)

361 Israel giving the middle finger to Biden is amusing...how far we have fallen in the eyes of the world. Well done IC

Posted by: a dude in MI at April 18, 2024 11:38 PM (+I6Y/)

362 352 All the more reason not to speak Spanish.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 10:41 PM (9yWhg)

Spanish is a lovely language, except for the way Mexicans and American English speakers speak it. Oh, and have I bitched about Madrilleño accents recently? And Puerto Rican is understandable but sooooo . . . Anoyeeeeeng!

Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2024 11:33 PM (D7oie)

https://youtu.be/bFqu9YVuAgI

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 18, 2024 11:38 PM (ynpvh)

363 Well, put the cap back on the liquor bottles.

It took me a bit too long to get that. Maybe I need some of them brain pills they're advertising....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 18, 2024 11:36 PM (w6EFb)
***

Heh.
That's ok, it took me awhile to write it. Krappy Kindle.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 18, 2024 11:40 PM (W/lyH)

364 I am a mother pheasant plucker
I pluck mother pheasants
I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker
that ever plucked a mother pheasant

Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2024 11:40 PM (s9Dvd)

365 Russkiy yazyk >>>>> Ispanskiy yazyk

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 11:42 PM (9yWhg)

366 And iodine is pronounced iodeen not iodyne. You know just like chlorine, fluorine, bromine, astatine.
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #14 at April 18, 2024 10:58 PM (qfLjt)

tell me how you pronounce "skeletal", "diplodicus" and "sloth"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2024 11:42 PM (D7oie)

367 280 -- The Vitara has been broken into at least three times, damaging the fold back top which is currently being held together and almost in place with a handful of rivets. It needs a ton of work -- at least twice what the damn thing is worth. It has one good feature: it can turn on a dime and give you at least a nickel back in change. Oh, and also, it can squeeze into really, really tight spots.

If we really need to go somewhere during a blizzard, our oldest son owns a Tahoe, the youngest a Jeep, and the son-in-law a monster pickup. Not to mention Bellevue's second fire station is right across the streets and the EMTs are a really nice bunch.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I stand with Israel and all Jews everywhere at April 18, 2024 11:42 PM (ET1Q8)

368 Oh sure. Give Revere all the credit. You know, I bet he stopped for beer along the way.

Posted by: William Dawes at April 18, 2024 11:42 PM (W/lyH)

369 BREAKING: Iranian official claims Israeli attempts 'failed and were humiliating' and all its assets were 'shot down'.

Well, I guess that's it, then.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2024 11:46 PM (YAtuc)

370 Paul and his horse got into a crash. Because he changed lanes and forgot to check his revere mirror.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 18, 2024 11:46 PM (9yWhg)

371 She sniffed that school kids these days are much too sophisticated for such retrograde drivel. One of the books she ceremoniously returned was The Cat in the Hat. A photo of her from may be a year prior was later uncovered in which she is in the middle of some library event wearing a Cat in the Hat costume.

So basically, the anwer is Bad Orange Man's Wife Bad, Too.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 18, 2024 11:36 PM (ny95y)

Somebody needs to start a Stuntogram service. (a contraction of stunned c***ogram). For $150, they will send 3 people to knock on the victim's door, and when the victim opens up, they sing, in perfect harmony, "gee, ___ ___, you sure are a stunned c***". And then slowly walk away. You could get up the buck fifty with only thirty five-dollar donations.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2024 11:46 PM (tkR6S)

372 >>>>Not to mention Bellevue's second fire station is right across the streets and the EMTs are a really nice bunch.

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin
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So, donuts every other month?
Buddy moved to the new neighborhood about two blocks from the sheriff's station. He took donuts, fresh Kolaches and introduced himself.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2024 11:48 PM (s9Dvd)

373 You missed me. You missed me. Now you got to kiss me!

Posted by: Iran at April 18, 2024 11:48 PM (63Dwl)

374 tell me how you pronounce "skeletal", "diplodicus" and "sloth"
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2024 11:42 PM (D7oie)

I don't pronounce "sloth". Too much like work.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 18, 2024 11:48 PM (tkR6S)

375 I agree it's important to interview distasteful people. The problem is TuCa is not asking the right questions, the tough questions. He gave Putin a pass. He gave the Bethlehem priest a pass.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2024 11:03 PM (RIvkX)

and Copernicus did not dispose of the question of epicycles in planetary orbits (or fully describe Gresham's law on the Polish Silver Penny) and Kepler did not deduce general relativity from Brahe's observations on planetary motions.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2024 11:49 PM (D7oie)

376 Reason Jr. wants to become a mechanic. Mrs. Reason is apprehensive. Her 1st husband was a Diesel mechanic and a codependent flake who couldn't stay grounded and stable. I am trying to convince her those were character traits completely unrelated to his career.

I am still pushing Jr. to get a business degree along with whatever trade certification he wants. Learn the skills but also learn how to run a business so someday when your hands and back get creaky you can manage the shop and delegate the physically demanding stuff.

That C10 is gorgeous.

Posted by: reason at April 18, 2024 11:50 PM (wa6DW)

377 Paul Revere a celebrated Silversmith of his time, was hear to yell into the night as he put spurs to his horse.

Hi Yo Silver, my Trade!

Which greatly annoyed his horse, Triggered.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 18, 2024 11:53 PM (e6UQI)

378 BREAKING: Iranian official claims Israeli attempts 'failed and were humiliating' and all its assets were 'shot down'.
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Amateur. He didn't call them pig-dogs! He didn't even disparage their mothers' choice of footwear!

1/5 stars.

Posted by: Baghdad Bob at April 18, 2024 11:56 PM (wa6DW)

379 Paul Revere a celebrated Silversmith of his time, was hear to yell into the night as he put spurs to his horse.

Hi Yo Silver, my Trade!

Which greatly annoyed his horse, Triggered.

Jim

Unfortunately, his trusted Indian sidekicks, Pinto and Flounder, were on an ale run for Bluto.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 18, 2024 11:56 PM (VNX3d)

380 Happy Admiral Yamamoto shoot down day!!

April 18, 1943

Posted by: Archer at April 18, 2024 11:56 PM (rskKm)

381 The Navy revealed that one of the ships it deployed to support the mission of building a pier to deliver aid to {{{starving}}} residents in Gaza was forced to turn back last week after it suffered a fire in its engine room.
_military.com

experts say there are other delays and problems cropping up with the mission

Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2024 11:58 PM (s9Dvd)

382 and Copernicus did not dispose of the question of epicycles in planetary orbits (or fully describe Gresham's law on the Polish Silver Penny) and Kepler did not deduce general relativity from Brahe's observations on planetary motions.
Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2024 11:49 PM (D7oie)
===
¿qué?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2024 11:59 PM (RIvkX)

383 I like big copper bottom pots and I can not lie
You other chef brothers cannot deny.

Posted by: Sir Revere*Ware-a-lot at April 18, 2024 11:59 PM (4I/2K)

384 "Some of these buggers would kark it if someone broke wind unexpectedly."

LOL

Aussie slang on Blue Heelers.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 19, 2024 12:00 AM (ufFY8)

385 380 Happy Admiral Yamamoto shoot down day!!

April 18, 1943
Posted by: Archer at April 18, 2024 11:56 PM (rskKm)

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I'd celebrate with a 'nip' of Japanese whiskey if I had some in the house.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 12:00 AM (H22GW)

386 Reason Jr. wants to become a mechanic. Mrs. Reason is apprehensive. Her 1st husband was a Diesel mechanic and a codependent flake who couldn't stay grounded and stable. I am trying to convince her those were character traits completely unrelated to his career.

I am still pushing Jr. to get a business degree along with whatever trade certification he wants. Learn the skills but also learn how to run a business so someday when your hands and back get creaky you can manage the shop and delegate the physically demanding stuff.

That C10 is gorgeous.
Posted by: reason at April 18, 2024 11:50 PM (wa6DW)

Mechanic-ing is a great trade. The big drawback is that nearly all of your clients come to you with a problem, and want to unload on you. And a subset of those are convinced you want to defraud them.

I would like to suggest auto upholstery. All cars have seats, and nearly all, if kept long enough, will need seat repairs. And the customers see that, and know that, so it's not such a hard sell. And some of your customers will be looking for show-quality custom interiors, and will pay the big bucks it takes to get them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 12:01 AM (tkR6S)

387 more... Sal Mercogliano, an academic and shipping expert, noted to Military.com on Wednesday that one of the Army Landing Craft Utility ships, the Wilson Wharf, seems to be stuck in Tenerife -- a small island that is part of the Canary Islands cluster off the west coast of Africa. Plus, the Army's Logistics Support Vessel General Frank S. Besson spent a week in the Azores before finally making it to the Navy's base at Souda Bay in Greece.

Mercogliano said such a long stay may indicate the ship had an engineering issue.

A retired Army chief warrant officer who has significant experience in the Army's watercraft community also told Military.com in an interview Wednesday that "if those boats don't have multiple major mechanical failures -- I mean 'dead in the water' mechanical failures -- I will be shocked."

"They're horrendously maintained. I've got videos of these things falling apart," the retired officer added.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 12:02 AM (s9Dvd)

388 You can settle for Copernicus but you I bet you really want Ptolemy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 12:03 AM (H22GW)

389 ..I'd celebrate with a 'nip' of Japanese whiskey if I had some in the house. Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 12:00 AM (H22GW)

Careful. Those ethnic puns are a very Slippery Slope. One careless move, and you can Zip right over the line.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 19, 2024 12:04 AM (e6UQI)

390 the Army's Logistics Support Vessel General Frank S. Besson spent a week in the Azores before finally making it to the Navy's base at Souda Bay in Greece.

Mercogliano said such a long stay may indicate the ship had an engineering issue.

I saw his video this morning.
The guy knows his shit.

What's Going On With Shipping is the utube channel.

Bab El Mandab! (drink!)

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 19, 2024 12:04 AM (ufFY8)

391 366 And iodine is pronounced iodeen not iodyne. You know just like chlorine, fluorine, bromine, astatine.
Posted by: Ciampino - Update #14 at April 18, 2024 10:58 PM (qfLjt)

tell me how you pronounce "skeletal", "diplodicus" and "sloth"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 18, 2024 11:42 PM (D7oie)

What is James Carville, Lizzo, and Michael Moore?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2024 12:04 AM (ynpvh)

392 there's no way Iranian terrorists could get into this country...
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at April 18, 2024 10:55 PM (hOUT3)

I noticed Schlicter didn't attack Corsicana in The Attack. Even though it was not in October. He knows how that would go.

Posted by: GWB at April 19, 2024 12:05 AM (1zxQh)

393 They could build that Gaza dock with scrap steel from the Francis Scott key bridge.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 12:05 AM (tkR6S)

394 369 BREAKING: Iranian official claims Israeli attempts 'failed and were humiliating' and all its assets were 'shot down'.

Well, I guess that's it, then.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2024 11:46 PM (YAtuc)

Yup. Those explosions in Iran proper were all part of Iran's plan to MAKE it look like the Israelis were successful...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2024 12:06 AM (ynpvh)

395 >>I am still pushing Jr. to get a business degree along with whatever trade certification he wants. Learn the skills but also learn how to run a business so someday when your hands and back get creaky you can manage the shop and delegate the physically demanding stuff.

I have a business degree. I think one of the biggest fallacies and one of the reasons we have an imbalance in our workforce is because we have too many business majors and not enough of skilled craftsmen.

I took a year off from college after my sophomore year and worked and then worked 30 hours my last 2 years. Biggest lesson I learned is that learning how to run a business without knowing how a business really runs is stupid.

By all means encourage him to take a couple accounting and other relevant courses but learning a trade in an industry he loves is far more important. Learning how to run a business is easier than learning what make a business.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 12:06 AM (LkLld)

396 369 BREAKING: Iranian official claims Israeli attempts 'failed and were humiliating' and all its assets were 'shot down'.

Well, I guess that's it, then.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2024 11:46 PM (YAtuc)

It was much worse and more expensive than our clusterfuck last week...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2024 12:07 AM (di6C2)

397 350:That was very good but the best one is Dire Straits live album 'Alchemy'. The riff starting at around 6:56 to the end is magical.
https://youtu.be/8Pa9x9fZBtY
Posted by: Ciampino

Also, from 'Alchemy': Telegraph Road, which I can listen to on a loop. All 13+ Glorious minutes of it! The studio version is great too. 'Alchemy' is a wonderful live album. One of the best.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 19, 2024 12:08 AM (xA5g+)

398 Saw a reference upstream to the oft-repeated thesis that during the Revolution, American use of guerrilla warfare tactics gave them a huge advantage over the British tactic of fighting in ranks and files.

There's little doubt that guerrilla actions were effective against the Redcoats, but contrary to the view that even the NPS was regurgitating years ago, all the major battles of the American Revolution featured the eighteenth-century European model of firing by ranks, then files, with the aim of creating a wall of death at the enemy, who was attempting to do the same.

In fact, it was the difficulty of mastering these methods of making war that put America at a significant disadvantage early in the Revolutionary War. That's one of the reasons why Baron von Steuben (who was certainly not a baron and likely never held a rank above that of a NCO) was so valuable to the Continental Army - he was able to get the principles of European drill across to the troops.

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Posted by: John Drake at April 19, 2024 12:09 AM (9Uomk)

399 You can settle for Copernicus but you I bet you really want Ptolemy.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 12:03 AM (H22GW)

My Mama done Ptolemy:

https://youtu.be/zBfnCnwDpKA

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 12:09 AM (tkR6S)

400 388 You can settle for Copernicus but you I bet you really want Ptolemy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 12:03 AM (H22GW)

Who a tolla you I wanna Ptolemy?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2024 12:10 AM (ynpvh)

401 Motorhead school mate received a double major, math and music.
He went to work as a mechanic at a Ford dealership. Now, he owns one.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 12:12 AM (s9Dvd)

402 396 369 BREAKING: Iranian official claims Israeli attempts 'failed and were humiliating' and all its assets were 'shot down'.

Well, I guess that's it, then.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 18, 2024 11:46 PM (YAtuc)

It was much worse and more expensive than our clusterfuck last week...

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 19, 2024 12:07 AM (di6C2)

We only have one CF every week? I thought it was more frequent that that.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2024 12:13 AM (ynpvh)

403
I'd celebrate with a 'nip' of Japanese whiskey if I had some in the house.
Posted by: Cicero
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[eyes sealed bottle of Suntory Old Whisky]

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2024 12:15 AM (XeU6L)

404 ... "if those boats don't have multiple major mechanical failures -- I mean 'dead in the water' mechanical failures -- I will be shocked." "They're horrendously maintained. I've got videos of these things falling apart," the retired officer added. Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 12:02 AM (s9Dvd)

I just enjoyed a visit with my USCG ex neighbor, who was in town on a short leave. He'll be separating from the service, retiring, having put in his twenty.

His ship has been "pinned" in Baltimore Harbor since the bridge collapse, as it was in for repairs at the time.

The ship? Is Sixty Five Years old. I suspect most of her "structural integrity" consists of layers of paint and rust.

Historical Fact. The Queen Mary (the one docked at Long Beach). One of her funnels (smokestacks) is a modern reproduction, fabricated and welded-in, on site.

Her original stack Really Was standing ONLY because of the multiple layers of paint and rust. A paper thin layer of steel at the core, was all that remained.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 19, 2024 12:16 AM (e6UQI)

405 ¿qué?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 18, 2024 11:59 PM (RIvkX)

Before Copernicus went to Rome to develop and posthumously release his theory on planetary motion, he was asked by his archbishop why all the good Polish pennies were going out of circulation, while all the German pennies that were debased with lead were in circulation everywhere in Poland.
He determined it was because everyone knew the pure pennies had more value than the debased ones, and since the face value was what was counted, everyone spent those and kept the Polish pennies in a sock under the mattress.
I am not sure what they did with this information, I suspect the Polish mints started debasing their pennies to match the german ones.
However, that is Gresham's law in a nutshell.

Tucker did what no other western journalist wanted to do, and everyone is dumping on him or not doing enough. Tucker stated ahead of time he was not doing it to get that scorching interview, but to get AN interview, to give a point of view that has not been heard except as being described as an aberrant and absolute lie.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2024 12:16 AM (D7oie)

406 404 ... "if those boats don't have multiple major mechanical failures -- I mean 'dead in the water' mechanical failures -- I will be shocked." "They're horrendously maintained. I've got videos of these things falling apart," the retired officer added. Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 12:02 AM (s9Dvd)

I just enjoyed a visit with my USCG ex neighbor, who was in town on a short leave. He'll be separating from the service, retiring, having put in his twenty.

His ship has been "pinned" in Baltimore Harbor since the bridge collapse, as it was in for repairs at the time.

The ship? Is Sixty Five Years old. I suspect most of her "structural integrity" consists of layers of paint and rust.

Historical Fact. The Queen Mary (the one docked at Long Beach). One of her funnels (smokestacks) is a modern reproduction, fabricated and welded-in, on site.

Her original stack Really Was standing ONLY because of the multiple layers of paint and rust. A paper thin layer of steel at the core, was all that remained.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 19, 2024 12:16 AM (e6UQI)

Theseus' Naval vessels...discuss...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2024 12:19 AM (ynpvh)

407 Tucker's a good man.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 12:19 AM (s9Dvd)

408 The ship? Is Sixty Five Years old. I suspect most of her "structural integrity" consists of layers of paint and rust.

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Supposedly the hull is so far gone that there's no way a renovation would ever make economic sense. Ordinarily it would be headed for the ship breakers in Turkey but years ago someone got the clever idea to enclose it in a rock jetty.

Now its just going to dissolve in place, lacking any better plan.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 12:20 AM (H22GW)

409 Wasn't it Copernicus who said "And yet it moves."?

So, the C man is a Moron at heart!

Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2024 12:22 AM (WXNFJ)

410
I had forgotten that Copernicus dabbled in monetary theory. The internet says he was the first to clearly articulate the "Quantity Theory of Money".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 19, 2024 12:22 AM (w6EFb)

411 bookkeeping and sales to go along with mechanics and computing

Most cars are now computer controlled and understanding more than how to plug the tester in might be important.

Sales is important, and there are people who teach nothing but that. It is a very important skill.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2024 12:23 AM (D7oie)

412 To beat a foe like the British, whose drill and fire discipline allowed an individual soldier to get off three shots in a minute under most conditions, not to mention the Hessians (mercenaries, but closer to what Philip of Macedon did in terms of how they were brought into another country's service), you had to train to match them.

By 1777 onwards, there was more or less a working doctrine of war for the Continental Army (and the varied State militias that sometimes fought in concert with them) that differed little from that dominated battlefields in Europe and would continue to do so into the early decades of the nineteenth century.

Individual commanders showed a learning curve, so that, for example at the Battle of Cowpens, Daniel Morgan positioned state militia troops, who had a reputation for retreating before British fire, in a central position, keeping selected sharp-shooters and veteran Continental troops more to the flank and rear.
The Royal Army also knew the tendency of militia to retreat and panic, and when they saw the first signs of just that, they advanced rapidly ... into a double envelopement.

2/

Posted by: John Drake at April 19, 2024 12:23 AM (9Uomk)

413 >>Supposedly the hull is so far gone that there's no way a renovation would ever make economic sense. Ordinarily it would be headed for the ship breakers in Turkey but years ago someone got the clever idea to enclose it in a rock jetty.

If only someone with a management degree could untie this Gordian knot.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 12:24 AM (LkLld)

414 The Royal Army also knew the tendency of militia to retreat and panic, and when they saw the first signs of just that, they advanced rapidly ... into a double envelopement.

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*fistbump*

Posted by: Hannibal Barca at April 19, 2024 12:25 AM (H22GW)

415 413 >>Supposedly the hull is so far gone that there's no way a renovation would ever make economic sense. Ordinarily it would be headed for the ship breakers in Turkey but years ago someone got the clever idea to enclose it in a rock jetty.

If only someone with a management degree could untie this Gordian knot.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 12:24 AM (LkLld)

Put the word out that it's loaded with copper wiring. Next day, it'll be stripped and scuttled...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2024 12:25 AM (ynpvh)

416 I would like to suggest auto upholstery. All cars have seats, and nearly all, if kept long enough, will need seat repairs. And the customers see that, and know that, so it's not such a hard sell. And some of your customers will be looking for show-quality custom interiors, and will pay the big bucks it takes to get them.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 19, 2024 12:01 AM
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good call. I like that.

Posted by: reason at April 19, 2024 12:25 AM (wa6DW)

417 “The British are coming!”
“Um, dude, yeah. You’re a Brit.”

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 19, 2024 12:26 AM (8sMut)

418 417 “The British are coming!”
“Um, dude, yeah. You’re a Brit.”

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 19, 2024 12:26 AM (8sMut)

Is today's version, "The Trannies are coming"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2024 12:28 AM (ynpvh)

419 Galileo said "e' pua se mouve" or something like that in Romance Italian

And yet it moves. Unlike Galileo, Copernicus released his theory postumously because he knew it would cause a political firestorm, and he could not defend it. Galileo released theories on sunspots, planetary motion and the rotation of the Earth based on observations on pendulums and wound up on the Vatican's Index and under threat of execution.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2024 12:28 AM (D7oie)

420 Trex, are you from RI or did you met Jay Leno in LA? Had lunch with Donald Osborne at a mutual friend’s house in RI and was surprised to learn that he trained as an opera singer before getting involved with cars…

Posted by: Slash Buzz at April 19, 2024 12:29 AM (qVs5k)

421 Put the word out that it's loaded with copper wiring. Next day, it'll be stripped and scuttled...

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If only the hull was made of platinum.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 19, 2024 12:30 AM (H22GW)

422 I had to read the article on the evil TX clinic because I figured it could be on one place: Dallas. Haha, who am I kidding? AUSTIN. Of course. Fucking Austin.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 19, 2024 12:30 AM (8sMut)

423 Is today's version, "The Trannies are coming"?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Well, they would if their addadicktomes or gangrenous slash holes worked properly.

But they don't.

Posted by: Tonypete at April 19, 2024 12:30 AM (WXNFJ)

424 419 Galileo said "e' pua se mouve" or something like that in Romance Italian

And yet it moves. Unlike Galileo, Copernicus released his theory postumously because he knew it would cause a political firestorm, and he could not defend it. Galileo released theories on sunspots, planetary motion and the rotation of the Earth based on observations on pendulums and wound up on the Vatican's Index and under threat of execution.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 19, 2024 12:28 AM (D7oie)

Index Librorum Prohibitorum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_Librorum_Prohibitorum

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2024 12:30 AM (ynpvh)

425 “The British are coming!”
“PHRASING!!!”

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 19, 2024 12:31 AM (8sMut)

426 To put it another way, Morgan and other Continental Army commanders had mastered enough of the British way of war that they were able to use it against them, even to the point of taking advantage of the Royal Army's contempt for colonials who broke under fire and exploiting that to demolish the Redcoats.

Obviously other factors played into American victory, not least the direct support of the French and the indirect efforts by the Dutch and the Spanish, and that's only the beginning of accounting for one of the most significant triumphs in world history. Yes, there were Americans who employed guerrilla tactics, snipers as well as skirmishers had their place, but it all comes down to the fact that the U.S. soldier could and did match his Royal Army counterpart on his own terms, the lethal, close-range, coordinated volleys by rank and file.

3/fin

Posted by: John Drake at April 19, 2024 12:31 AM (9Uomk)

427 Individual commanders showed a learning curve, so that, for example at the Battle of Cowpens, Daniel Morgan positioned state militia troops, who had a reputation for retreating before British fire, in a central position, keeping selected sharp-shooters and veteran Continental troops more to the flank and rear.
The Royal Army also knew the tendency of militia to retreat and panic, and when they saw the first signs of just that, they advanced rapidly ... into a double envelopement.

They re-enacted that in The Patriot

Posted by: Weirddave at April 19, 2024 12:31 AM (NGHju)

428 The problem for Iran Tom is that if you feed the population pure drizzly green liquid horsezh*t long enough, then pretty soon the people ignore it & start seeking out more reliable foreign news sources.

Happens in every modern-era war. During WW I on the Western front, Swiss newspapers were treasured, and every issue passed through hundreds of hands in the trenches, even if it was three weeks old. During WW II, the people in occupied Europe routinely risked their lives to listen to the BBC.

So... keep telling them you're winning, guys.

Posted by: mnw at April 19, 2024 12:33 AM (NLIak)

429 By all means encourage him to take a couple accounting and other relevant courses but learning a trade in an industry he loves is far more important. Learning how to run a business is easier than learning what make a business.
Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 12:06 AM
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Thanks man. I appreciate the perspective.

Posted by: reason at April 19, 2024 12:34 AM (wa6DW)

430 I had to read the article on the evil TX clinic because I figured it could be on one place: Dallas. Haha, who am I kidding? AUSTIN. Of course. Fucking Austin.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 19, 2024
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I coulda been a contender...

Posted by: Denton at April 19, 2024 12:37 AM (wa6DW)

431 Yup. Those explosions in Iran proper were all part of Iran's plan to MAKE it look like the Israelis were successful...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2024 12:06 AM (ynpvh)

Potemkin explosions. No actual buildings were harmed.

Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2024 12:39 AM (emlEe)

432 430 I had to read the article on the evil TX clinic because I figured it could be on one place: Dallas. Haha, who am I kidding? AUSTIN. Of course. Fucking Austin.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 19, 2024
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I coulda been a contender...

Posted by: Denton at April 19, 2024 12:37 AM (wa6DW)

Hey, Houston's gotta be a contender too.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2024 12:39 AM (ynpvh)

433 >>>Haha, who am I kidding? AUSTIN. Of course. Fucking Austin.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 19, 2024

Gangrenous Slashholes 'R' Us

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 19, 2024 12:39 AM (w6EFb)

434 431 Yup. Those explosions in Iran proper were all part of Iran's plan to MAKE it look like the Israelis were successful...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2024 12:06 AM (ynpvh)

Potemkin explosions. No actual buildings were harmed.

Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2024 12:39 AM (emlEe)

Who was that guy that got into a fight with Mike Tyson (on the street) and got beat up badly, but claimed Mike Tyson, who showed not damage, had run off like a "pussy"?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2024 12:40 AM (ynpvh)

435 tell me how you pronounce "diplodicus"

You know what I'm going to say, don't you.
Just look it up once, and you'll see.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 19, 2024 12:41 AM (zdLoL)

436 You know what I'm going to say, don't you.
Just look it up once, and you'll see.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver
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Does it AMEWSE YEW...
when I ssspeak of my fwend...
Biguss...
Dikkuss?

Posted by: Denton at April 19, 2024 12:45 AM (wa6DW)

437 ...off, dang UNT sock....

Posted by: reason at April 19, 2024 12:47 AM (wa6DW)

438 Hey, Houston's gotta be a contender too.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2024 12:39 AM
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true

Posted by: reason at April 19, 2024 12:48 AM (wa6DW)

439 While Saratoga was a major morale-building victory and Yorktown ended it all, I have read many an article describing Cowpens as the Continental Army's best battle with the best generalship. And that's not to knock Washington and Trenton, and the whole 'Father Of Our Nation' thingy. Cowpens was just the perfect battle for the Rebels, an amazing and overwhelming victory.

Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2024 12:50 AM (emlEe)

440 Go ahead. Look up "diplodicus." Or, try. You'll get it.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 19, 2024 12:51 AM (zdLoL)

441 According to the ToI, Israeli officials have informed their U.S. counterparts that Israel did NOT strike any Iranian nuclear facilities-- only conventional military sites & army bases.

Posted by: mnw at April 19, 2024 12:51 AM (NLIak)

442 Yes, there were Americans who employed guerrilla tactics, snipers as well as skirmishers had their place, but it all comes down to the fact that the U.S. soldier could and did match his Royal Army counterpart on his own terms, the lethal, close-range, coordinated volleys by rank and file.
>>>

Them Yanks even used a gator as a canon! Kilt, wounded, or captured over 2,000 of us in just 30 minutes, including me!

Posted by: British Commander Major General Sir Edward Pakenham, 8 January, 1815, New Orleans at April 19, 2024 12:51 AM (4I/2K)

443 >>Thanks man. I appreciate the perspective.

My wisdom is as deep as a thimble but good luck to both of you.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 12:54 AM (LkLld)

444 They re-enacted that in The Patriot
Posted by: Weirddave

That they did, and quite well too! There's been some surprising accuracy in films about eighteenth century warfare over the last few decades. One day, maybe some director will feature the staff that NCOs carried in European forces up to the 1730s-1740s that were long enough that they could press almost an entire rank of troops forward, to ensure that they maintained formation and didn't break and run.

It would be great as well to see the real "fog of war" that gunpowder weapons created, where commanders had to take suicidally forward positions to be able to direct their forces. Washington was especially known for this, and the fact that he had horses shot out from under him and his uniform riddled with bullets but never suffered a scratch is one of the miracles of all time.

Posted by: John Drake at April 19, 2024 12:54 AM (9Uomk)

445 364 I am a mother pheasant plucker
I pluck mother pheasants
I am the most pleasant mother pheasant plucker
that ever plucked a mother pheasant

Posted by: Braenyard at April 18, 2024 11:40 PM (s9Dvd)
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Very good. Passed on already.

Say quickly and repeatedly: Yellow lorry Red Lorry

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #17 at April 19, 2024 12:55 AM (qfLjt)

446
This prompted me to read up a bit on the history of Copernicus, Galileo and on to Kepler, and figuring out the motions of the solar system.

One article got me to thinking. Knowing what we know, you tend to laugh and ask "how could they have been so dumb" and not see what was right before their faces. Well, it pointed it, "seeing what is before your face" depends on Newton, and other things since. They didn't exist then.

So, we'd all have been likely as "dumb" as they were.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at April 19, 2024 12:58 AM (w6EFb)

447 dunning kruger effect examples Israel has called Iran's bluff now we will see if it is a paper tiger or puts more chips on the table of war.

Posted by: raimondo at April 19, 2024 12:58 AM (2TdiS)

448 The brand new FOX News polls are out tonight for 4 of the swingers. Mostly benign for MAGA, & no big surprises.

In sum, IIRC:

Trump up yuuge in GA.

Trump up +3 in The Biggest Enchilada of Them ALL (MI).

Tied in PA & WI.

With the 3rd party candidates included, Trump improves a point of two everywhere except WI, in which Biden goes from tied to Biden +2.

Posted by: mnw at April 19, 2024 01:01 AM (NLIak)

449 raimondo, are you feeling well? You're not quite yourself this evening.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 01:04 AM (s9Dvd)

450 retardo works nights. Gets bonus, I imagine.

Posted by: mnw at April 19, 2024 01:05 AM (NLIak)

451 tis about time for me to sleep. Busy day tomorrow. Night.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2024 01:06 AM (ynpvh)

452 All flights have been diverted away from Iran as another IRGC headquarters meeting has been hit south of Baghdad Iraq. EWS sites have been knocked out in Syria.
_enforcerYoutobe.
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Don't know these people but it sounds good.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 19, 2024 01:08 AM (s9Dvd)

453 Frustrated women demand trans-women in public restrooms STOP leaving the toilet seat up.

/humor

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #18 at April 19, 2024 01:09 AM (qfLjt)

454 >>There's little doubt that guerrilla actions were effective against the Redcoats, but

But, that's exactly what happened at the battle of Lexington and Concord.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 01:10 AM (LkLld)

455 “The Regulars are coming out!”

Given that, what does "well regulated" mean ?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 19, 2024 01:10 AM (cOq4q)

456 Israeli govt is saying nothing whatsoever. Perhaps while they await reports on the success (or not) of their missile/drone attacks.

Posted by: mnw at April 19, 2024 01:12 AM (NLIak)

457 Them Yanks even used a gator as a canon! Kilt, wounded, or captured over 2,000 of us in just 30 minutes, including me!
Posted by: British Commander Major General Sir Edward Pakenham, 8 January, 1815, New Orleans

Yep, they filled his head with cannonballs and powdered his behind, and when they touched the powder off, the gator lost his mind.

And remember, Jackson's men only took a little bacon and a little beans before they caught the bloody British at the town of New Orleans.

Posted by: John Drake at April 19, 2024 01:12 AM (9Uomk)

458 And to think our founders rebelled and founded this country in protest over a 2% tax on tea. How low we have fallen.

You ain't seen nothin' yet.

Posted by: Notorious BTO at April 19, 2024 01:12 AM (V8he0)

459 Yesterday JJ had a link to a NASA article under Science. This is an excerpt from it.
What the heck is a transmasculine?

NASA has a team that will update everything for the lunatic’s “current genders, names and pronouns” (which may or may not change on a biweekly basis) and then deploy a “workplace gender transition plan” that is only a little less complicated than the original moon landings.

“When I first came out, I did not come out as nonbinary at work. I wasn’t sure that people would accept that, so I came out as transmasculine and am only recently being completely authentic about it, like, ‘Actually, I’m nonbinary, and my pronouns are they/them,’” Mars “research scientist” Silas J. Ralston explains in a special NASA feature.

https://tinyurl.com/4vy2mm7d

Now if I were saddled with the job to colonize another planetary body I would do my damnest to make sure there were no 'A B Normals' in the group, starting with queers and pronouners. Also no one with a propensity to cut off heads, thus no mohammedans.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #19 at April 19, 2024 01:15 AM (qfLjt)

460 Tax increases?

I think not!

Posted by: The Big Orange (mnw) at April 19, 2024 01:15 AM (NLIak)

461 It'll be interesting in the next few days, to see which sources or outlets actually produce valid Satellite Imaging of Iranian Damages, vs. which ones suppress, and fail to publish, the same.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 19, 2024 01:16 AM (e6UQI)

462 Was about to go to bed when I saw these two headlines:

1) "Iran evacuates Hezbollah, IRGC commanders from Syria amid fears of Israeli retaliation"

2) "Israel strikes Iran, IRGC troops evacuated from Syria"

LOL

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2024 01:16 AM (ynpvh)

463 Night.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at April 19, 2024 01:17 AM (ynpvh)

464 Night, Jim.

Posted by: mnw at April 19, 2024 01:19 AM (NLIak)

465 New Orleans:

The first time it was tea that beat the British. The second time it was Coffee.

Posted by: mnw at April 19, 2024 01:23 AM (NLIak)

466 But, that's exactly what happened at the battle of Lexington and Concord.
Posted by: JackStraw

Lexington was a face-off between colonial militia led by a veteran of the French and Indian War against the marching column of Redcoats moving from Boston to Concord. By all accounts, the Minutemen were arrayed in something close to the rank and file formation that was the norm of the day, and the larger Royal Army force broke their column and formed ranks. (The intent of the Minutemen is unclear - they may have intended their formation as a demonstration of resolve, or as a way to buy time for Concord to secure their armament, or both.) Then that mysterious shot rang out, and the Brits opened fire. There were a few return shots from the Minutemen, but they dispersed as the British moved forward with bayonets.

Concord was a different matter. The forces there had time to prepare, and what ensued was a combination of urban warfare and conventional eighteenth century tactics that flung the defeated British into a hurried retreat. They were sniped at and attacked on the way back to Boston, where guerrilla tactics did come into display, but the battle had effectively ended by then.

Posted by: John Drake at April 19, 2024 01:24 AM (9Uomk)

467 This certainly is a military blog tonight.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at April 19, 2024 01:27 AM (w6EFb)

468 Jim in KA.

.... And I'll lay odds that the Israelis had actual TRACKING DEVICES salted all into the fleeing Iranian possessions and equipment of those forces, as they fled.

Fish. Barrel. Shootings. Some assembly required.

And, accomplished.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 19, 2024 01:28 AM (e6UQI)

469 John Drake at April 19, 2024 01:24 AM (9Uomk)

Yea, I grew up there and know it all.

Posted by: JackStraw at April 19, 2024 01:30 AM (LkLld)

470
Who was that guy that got into a fight with Mike Tyson (on the street) and got beat up badly, but claimed Mike Tyson, who showed not damage, had run off like a "pussy"?
Posted by: jim
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'I hit him several times on his fist with my face.'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2024 01:30 AM (XeU6L)

471 467 Miley

Well... war.

Posted by: mnw at April 19, 2024 01:36 AM (NLIak)

472 Nytol

Posted by: mnw at April 19, 2024 01:37 AM (NLIak)

473 Rep. Ilhan Omar's daughter, 21, is arrested along with 108-strong anti-Israel mob as NYPD smashes protest encampment at Columbia University: Squad member's wayward child was suspended from college hours earlier

https://mol.im/a/13326333

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #20 at April 19, 2024 01:38 AM (qfLjt)

474 Palestine activists praise Hamas in NYC as Columbia students stage second day of 'Gaza solidarity' camp

https://mol.im/a/13323635

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #21 at April 19, 2024 01:39 AM (qfLjt)

475 Reports of explosions in Syria and Iran.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #22 at April 19, 2024 01:42 AM (qfLjt)

476 I have to laugh a bit. When we talk of guerrilla tactics, we were a bunch of farmers or sailors or businessmen with only some having French and Indian War experience (which was not traditional European rank-and-file style fighting anyway) now up against the best army in the world where standing in rank and firing volleys was the order of war of the day, against soldiers who could fire three volleys in a minute. I'd do some guerrilla tactics, myself, under those circumstances.

This is where any comparison to the Vietnam War ends. Yes, the VC were guerrillas, but they were well-supplied and supported. Our army, not so much, as Washington's correspondence attests. Yet it was our traditional Army, more battle-hardened and organized, which won in the end, not the guerrilla tactics.

Posted by: RickZ at April 19, 2024 01:48 AM (emlEe)

477 447 dunning kruger effect examples Israel has called Iran's bluff now we will see if it is a paper tiger or puts more chips on the table of war.

Posted by: raimondo at April 19, 2024 12:58 AM (2TdiS)
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Mitt Romney has entered the chat.

Posted by: As not seen on TV at April 19, 2024 01:48 AM (j2as6)

478 474 Palestine activists praise Hamas in NYC as Columbia students stage second day of 'Gaza solidarity' camp
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It would be interesting to get a breakdown of the demonstrators, firstly how many are actually not students; secondly what school (Arts, STEM, etc.); thirdly what actual majors.
My personal experience as an undergrad in South Africa in the turbulent 60s was that the BA, BEd and BCom students had time to demonstrate while the Science and Engineering students were too busy with serious classes and labs every day to be able to afford taking time to cause trouble.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #23 at April 19, 2024 01:55 AM (qfLjt)

479 Atlanta or Afghanistan? Wild shootout breaks out at gas station with one gunman wielding an AK-47: Three bystanders are wounded and just one arrest is made

https://mol.im/a/13325763

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #24 at April 19, 2024 01:59 AM (qfLjt)

480 Yea, I grew up there and know it all.
Posted by: JackStraw

Then you understand that the skirmish at Lexington and the battle that developed so poorly for the British at Concord (a vicious struggle in which Redcoats, in torching an outstructure that had once held weapons, formed bucket brigades to put out those houses that caught fire as an indirect result of their action) began and concluded in conventional (per 18th century military doctrine) forms of combat.

The tactics of irregular warfare make their appearance on the doomed British retreat back to Boston, and these harrying guerrilla tactics put the fleeing Redcoats into disarray, ultimately requiring another British force to rush out of Boston to secure their flanks and retreat into the city right before the militia forces sealed them inside. Had the irregulars (guerrillas) organized their attacks more efficiently, they could have greatly reduced the strength of the Lobsterbacks, maybe even fixing them in place where they could have been swarmed and several of them taken (permanently) out of service. As it was, though, the Royal Army marched double-quick base to their secured base, and the guerrillas only sped them up.

Posted by: John Drake at April 19, 2024 02:04 AM (9Uomk)

481 Laura Loomer on X: An illegal alien was just arrested outside of the Roosevelt Hotel in NYC after he assaulted both me and @anjewla90 and tried to steal our phones because we were recording the illegals.

https://tinyurl.com/39e7wsf2

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #25 at April 19, 2024 02:06 AM (qfLjt)

482 Nigeria's army rescues woman abducted a decade ago as a schoolgirl, and her 3 children. This is one of the girls abducted by Boka Haram which Michelle Obama held up that ridiculous sign 'to bring back the girls'.

https://tinyurl.com/2szcmnxy

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #26 at April 19, 2024 02:11 AM (qfLjt)

483 WATCH: Every single moment of Biden's "visit" to this Philadelphia Wawa was carefully choreographed and scripted — down to the cashier's tip

https://tinyurl.com/yc6u5ujn

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #27 at April 19, 2024 02:15 AM (qfLjt)

484 The radial engine mounted horizontally looks cool but way too many problems running that (cooling, vibration, transition connection, etc) to ever get that running down the road. Guarantee it. You'll prob never see a video of that even idling.

Posted by: Son of Dad at April 19, 2024 02:17 AM (8JB5s)

485 Kaylee Gain is walking again and 'greatly improved' less than two months after schoolyard bully attacked and slammed her head against the cement

https://mol.im/a/13323777

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #28 at April 19, 2024 02:18 AM (qfLjt)

486 Toronto Airport gold heist was an inside job: Air Canada workers among nine arrested for $20million theft of bars from plane that had just flown in from Zurich

https://mol.im/a/13324185

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #29 at April 19, 2024 02:20 AM (qfLjt)

487 The radial engine mounted horizontally looks cool but way too many problems running that (cooling, vibration, transition connection, etc) to ever get that running down the road. Guarantee it. You'll prob never see a video of that even idling.
Posted by: Son of Dad
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If it has to be an aircraft engine, Merlin is the way to go.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2024 02:22 AM (XeU6L)

488 484
Also I'm dubious as to the strength of the chassis to stand up to the torque and vibration without falling apart.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #30 at April 19, 2024 02:23 AM (qfLjt)

489 Iran hints it will build a NUKE if Netanyahu carries out a strike on its atomic sites - and target Israel's nuclear facilities

https://mol.im/a/13323985

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #31 at April 19, 2024 02:25 AM (qfLjt)

490 John Galvin, a noted USAR General and a veteran of some of the most nasty adventures we had in East Asia, used his interest from having grown up in the country surrounding Lexington and Concord and a natural gift for historical research and writing to produce one of the best volumes on the subject The Minutemen: The First Fight: Myths and Realities of the American Revolution (2006). It's a masterful treatise on the creation and organization of the Minutemen and other allied colonial militia and how they were deployed in actions against Indians and other opponents, culminating in Lexington and Concord. He, along with Charles Shy, A People Numerous and Armed: Reflections on the Military Struggle for American Independence (1990) and Arnold Bemtom Rourtellot, Lexington and Concord: The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution (2000) are all brilliant summaries of the events in question that combine extensive research with compelling insights that provide a synthesis of all that we've been able to verify about those two pivotal days of April 18/19, 1775,

Posted by: John Drake at April 19, 2024 02:27 AM (9Uomk)

491 Zelensky assassination plot arrest in Poland: Man is held for 'passing on airport details to Russian security services planning to kill Ukrainian president'

https://mol.im/a/13324459

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #32 at April 19, 2024 02:27 AM (qfLjt)

492 Son of Dad.

Dig hard enough, and there's a video of a chopped, H-D style motorcycle, with a small-enough, 7 cyl, Russian radial engine facing "face forward" into the wind, driving a transmission and BMW shaft final drive to the rear wheel.

As I posted earlier, the Sherman Tank was powered by a Radial Aircraft derived engine.

There's no reason the C-10 won't run, other than completion. And, every Deuce n' a Half 6x6, and most Cement Mixers, have upward facing differentials, feeding from a bevel gear, from the driveshaft, above.

The C-10 can be engineered to completion. One poster mentioned cooling, and that'll be the biggest challenge to success.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at April 19, 2024 02:28 AM (e6UQI)

493 EXCLUSIVE Young people are now identifying as 'gender season' - meaning their gender changes with time of year: 'I feel more masculine in the summer!'

https://mol.im/a/13323887

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #33 at April 19, 2024 02:29 AM (qfLjt)

494 13 Democrats and 1 Republican vote AGAINST resolution condemning Iran's 'brazen' assault on Israel with over 350 missiles and drones fired as pro-Gaza 'Squad' member Cori Bush slams Israel for taking out Iranian target in Syria

https://mol.im/a/13324415

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #34 at April 19, 2024 02:31 AM (qfLjt)

495 Drive by Howdy to the Horde. Off to bed soon.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 19, 2024 02:32 AM (Sgq8y)

496 Scratch built , beautiful 10 cyl. radial motorcycle
https://tinyurl.com/3r7tvbne

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 19, 2024 02:33 AM (XeU6L)

497 Chicago residents in MAGA hats tear into Democrat mayor for allotting $70million to migrants: 'We need the money more than they do!'

https://mol.im/a/13324975

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #35 at April 19, 2024 02:35 AM (qfLjt)

498 Dead man wheeled in to a Brazilian bank by his niece was malnourished and may have been POISIONED

https://mol.im/a/13324487

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #36 at April 19, 2024 02:36 AM (qfLjt)

499 Bank trip at Bernies. Night, Horde, sweet dreams.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at April 19, 2024 03:01 AM (Sgq8y)

500 Ciampino that still didn't stop.the withdraw did I t?
I mean the guy showed up in person

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 03:13 AM (fwDg9)

501 103 Israel has hit Iran.

Was there an Earth-Shattering KABOOM?

Posted by: Marvin the Martian at April 19, 2024 03:19 AM (y7zkd)

502 In honor of Lexington and Concord, let us consider an American badass.

https://youtu.be/rDo6x0MhERE?si=Ea87O15Ll6kRoUBU

Get off his lawn.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 19, 2024 03:20 AM (Wnv9h)

503 I didn't have to get up until 4

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 03:32 AM (fwDg9)

504 Mornin' Skip.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 19, 2024 03:37 AM (xA5g+)

505 Sundowner has always been a old style Marxist, make the " rich" pay their "fair" share.

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 03:40 AM (fwDg9)

506 Morning, fellow insomaniacals! Slept (with a couple of interruptions) until the alarm. Now I have to kick myself finto going to work out.

But -- it's FRIDAY!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2024 03:59 AM (omVj0)

507 French Toast today, wish had sausages

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 04:02 AM (fwDg9)

508 500 Ciampino that still didn't stop.the withdraw did I t?
I mean the guy showed up in person

Posted by: Skip at April 19, 2024 03:13 AM (fwDg9)
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But he didn't stand up for his rights.

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #37 at April 19, 2024 04:06 AM (qfLjt)

509 Noodus pixyana

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 19, 2024 04:11 AM (omVj0)

510 Particle Physics: Consider a vaporized mohammedan

Posted by: Ciampino - Update #38 at April 19, 2024 04:11 AM (qfLjt)

511 WeirdDave!

Posted by: Candidus at April 19, 2024 09:35 AM (hbkSB)

512 "Over time, the skin tone lightened to match her natural color, and the hands themselves became more slender and feminine."

But male/female is just a social construct.

Posted by: Simon Jester at April 19, 2024 09:50 AM (BSu3l)

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