The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

American Exceptionalism was nowhere more evident than in California as it grew into the natural resources, manufacturing, and technology behemoth that powered the country. You name it, and California had it in abundance. Add the incredible physical beauty of its beaches, mountains, deserts, and rivers, and its moniker "The Golden State" was well deserved.

So what happened? Is Chaucer correct?

But at the laste, as every thing hath ende,
She took hir leve, and nedes wolde wende.

How California's Paradise Become Our Purgatory

California has become a test case of the suicide of the West. Never before has such a state, so rich in natural resources and endowed with such a bountiful human inheritance, self-destructed so rapidly.
How and why did California so utterly consume its unmatched natural and ancestral inheritance and end up as a warning to Western civilization of what might be in store for anyone who followed its nihilism?

That's exactly correct..."nihilism," and it is rooted in the cultural miasma emanating from the 1960s rebellion against...what? Tradition? Excellence? Religion's rational control of behavior? Allowing adults to tell children what to do?

Destroying all of those things played perfectly with the progressive desire to rebuild society...after it tears it down. And the idiocy and destructiveness of the 1960s radicals has subsumed the Democrat party, or perhaps that movement exposed the Democrat party's traditional leaning!

Regardless, it found fertile soil in California, and after two generations it has overwhelmed California and turned it into a cesspit of rabid progressive ideas and policies. The fever dreams of the 1960s radicals are now public policy in California, and nothing is too insane!

Sadly it has also embraced the other less savory aspects of progressivism (as if there are any savory aspects!). Racial division, class division, religious division...all are now front and center in what used to be a state whose horizons were limited only by one's imagination. Now it is a sclerotic, bureaucratic nightmare that has rigid social structures promoted and maintained by its government! It is dirty, dangerous, overflowing with the contents of central American prisons, and wholly unfit for traditional American families.

It exports its nonsense to its neighbors, and its federal legislators are infected with the lunacy of the state government. Observe any of the nuttier bills put forth in the United States Congress and the odds are that it comes from or is supported by the California Congressional delegation!

Is it time to force California to grow up? Yes, but it needs to fail before anything substantive can be done. Luckily, the people of California are casually going about their business as if nothing is awry, and that will hasten its downfall. The good people are leaving, and soon California will be left without a middle class...just the robber barons in their gated estates and an ocean of workers... many illegal... supporting them.

Hopefully the rest of the country won't have to pay for the bail out, but I'm not holding my breath!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter]

Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2024 11:00 AM (kgE5c)

2 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 11:01 AM (J2vNu)

3 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2024 11:01 AM (kgE5c)

4 Empht.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2024 11:02 AM (3Fz6p)

5 CBD Johnson is right!

Wasn't it YD who had a site about ejecting CA from statehood not too long ago?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 25, 2024 11:03 AM (llON8)

6 Name one progressive state or city that has had to pay the piper.
The BBB bailed out IL state retirement system.
Cal got $100 B in CV money and is now $90 B in deficit.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 11:03 AM (ENQN6)

7 Any sort of recovery - national or limited to California - will be accompanied by copious quantities of tears and blood.

Posted by: BUTCH at June 25, 2024 11:04 AM (0APJ3)

8 I got to see some of LA and Malibu, Venice, and Santa Monica in Sept. 2014. It still seemed nice, but then I was only visiting and not living there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 11:04 AM (J2vNu)

9 Mass insanity. Complete collapse of the education system and the embrace of magical thinking.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 25, 2024 11:04 AM (2Sy3+)

10 The Oakland Hilton just closed after 56 years.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 11:05 AM (ENQN6)

11 >>> 10 The Oakland Hilton just closed after 56 years.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 11:05 AM (ENQN6)

Top.Men.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at June 25, 2024 11:05 AM (llON8)

12 >> Yes, but it needs to fail before anything substantive can be done. Luckily, the people of California are casually going about their business as if nothing is awry, and that will hasten its downfall. T

Not before the idiots who caused this infect many other states, sowing the seeds for their eventual downfall, too.

Posted by: Colorado, aspiring to be Cali 2.0 at June 25, 2024 11:05 AM (cCVOS)

13 Will Rogers could have said this about the California legislature, but he didn't - "Whenever they pass a law, it's a joke, and any time they make a joke, it's a law."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 11:06 AM (Q0kLU)

14 9 Mass insanity. Complete collapse of the education system and the embrace of magical thinking.
Posted by: Pete Bog at June 25, 2024 11:04 AM (2Sy3+)

Education Degrees have almost zero to do with mastering English or Math or History.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 11:06 AM (ENQN6)

15 How and why did California so utterly consume its unmatched natural and ancestral inheritance and end up as a warning to Western civilization of what might be in store for anyone who followed its nihilism?

On the other hand they saved the sea otters. That sort of gets close to even, amirite?

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at June 25, 2024 11:06 AM (W3n7o)

16 But Gavin Newsome’s hair is fabulous!

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 25, 2024 11:06 AM (v6JzV)

17 Venezuela was one of the richest countries in the world, and it was gone in just a few years.

Commie shithole gonna commie shithole.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2024 11:07 AM (ugRIO)

18 I spent the 70's in California. I didn't like it then, but the people weren't insane at that time.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2024 11:07 AM (pohLc)

19 To me being a military history buff, American exceptionalism is beating down Totalitarians and let people be free., at a very costly endeavor to American lives.

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2024 11:07 AM (wKStU)

20 >>and after two generations it has overwhelmed California and turned it into a cesspit of rabid progressive ideas and policies.

Much like my shit is overwhelming San Diego beaches right now.

Posted by: The Tijuana River at June 25, 2024 11:07 AM (Y1sOo)

21 Went to SoCal in 2011 for a visit. After spending some time on the freeways, I made a pact w/the Lord. If he got me home safely, I'd never go back.

Posted by: BignJames at June 25, 2024 11:07 AM (AwYPR)

22 Downfall began with the inexplicable election of Brown Junior, who undid pretty much all of his father's forward-looking infrastructure initiatives.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2024 11:07 AM (3Fz6p)

23 California used to have the top performing schools in the country; now they are at the bottom. California has one third of the bums of the entire country. California has more than a quarter of all illegal aliens. California had an infrastructure plan in place to ensure enough water, but now is facing dire shortages.

What caused this plummet? The only change is that one political party has run the state for over thirty years.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 25, 2024 11:08 AM (lTGtQ)

24 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

25 Hope they haven’t effed up the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 25, 2024 11:08 AM (v6JzV)

26 California has an awesome high-speed rail line. You can travel from one end to the other in under three minutes!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 25, 2024 11:08 AM (Jv1VF)

27 accompanied by copious quantities of tears and blood.
Posted by: BUTCH at June 25, 2024 11:04 AM (0APJ3)

Are we talking about California, or Biden's sex life in his heyday.

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2024 11:08 AM (ugRIO)

28 The $20/hr wage is just the latest symptom of the Progressive Disease that has turned California into the 'sick man' of the Union.

The policies of the Democrat Party in the past forty plus years has either ground into oblivion businesses or driven them out of state. When the last C-17 was built it marked the end of the aviation industry in California; because there were no more aviation manufacturers left in the state. One of the flocks of Goden Geese that made California had been killed.

So now the state government is basically owned by the few remaining big companies like Google. And the Federal government.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2024 11:08 AM (IqZMy)

29
401 Noodus Simianus.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2024 11:01 AM (kgE5c)

402 Noodus simianus
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 11:01 AM (J2vNu)

Impressive stuff, that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

30 The universities played a huge role in this. And the folks still there seem so completely clueless as to why the state is a mess.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 25, 2024 11:09 AM (xjTDL)

31 Morning.

It's see the update about JT in the sidebar.

Hopefully it's not bad and he'll be here with a hearty "Hiya!" soon enough.

Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2024 11:09 AM (HY+Ws)

32 15 On the other hand they saved the sea otters. That sort of gets close to even, amirite?

don't forget us!

Posted by: delta smelt at June 25, 2024 11:10 AM (sGtp+)

33 But I thought it was all worth it because you have the privilege of eating at the sacred Inn 'N' Out burger joint.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at June 25, 2024 11:10 AM (dg+HA)

34 Venezuela was one of the richest countries in the world, and it was gone in just a few years.

Argentina did that twice.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2024 11:10 AM (IqZMy)

35 Hopefully the rest of the country won't have to pay for the bail out, but I'm not holding my breath!

As long as Cali gets to count non-citizen bodies for their share of federal power, the rest of the country will be on the hook for their stupid.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2024 11:10 AM (U7wke)

36 10 The Oakland Hilton just closed after 56 years.
Posted by: rhennigantx

That is because they are greedy. NOT $20/hour min wage. Or that no one wants to be a tourist in San Fran because you need waders to walk down the sidewalk. Maybe a machete.

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 11:10 AM (pZEOD)

37 The $50k study group on Reparation for Sa Fran needs $2 Million to continue for next 2 years.

Black advocates are in agreement following last weekend’s announcement that the state will earmark $12 million over the next year to launch reparations — the money is a good start, but not nearly enough.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAJViuC7Ppk

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 11:10 AM (ENQN6)

38 What about us?

Posted by: Spotted Owls at June 25, 2024 11:11 AM (ZTJjv)

39 401 Noodus Simianus.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2024 11:01 AM (kgE5c)

402 Noodus simianus
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 11:01 AM (J2vNu)

Impressive stuff, that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)

90% of the Horde is just one man with a raging case of Split Personality Disorder.

Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2024 11:11 AM (HY+Ws)

40
California will not recognize the disaster they've created nor will they respond constructively to solve it. They are like the Sicilians the Prince of Sedara describes in Lampedusa's Il gattopardo. They imagine themselves perfect, thus nothing needs to change.

In the minds of the Democratic ruling class, all they have to do is extract more money from the populace. Doesn't it all belong to the government anyway?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 25, 2024 11:11 AM (MoZTd)

41 But Gavin Newsome’s hair is fabulous!
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at June 25, 2024 11:06 AM (v6JzV)

You'd think the 'Just Stop Oil' people would be hosing him down with orange powder daily.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2024 11:12 AM (U7wke)

42 Ned Ryun @nedryun 13h
This was from the AHCCCS; Arizona Medicaid. The AHCCCS is sending out voter registration forms. In these forms in the instructions it states non citizens can vote on federal ballots. Pretty sure this is in violations of state and federal statutes and constitutions.

https://tinyurl.com/4ek73u9s
screencap

Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 25, 2024 11:12 AM (ZdexC)

43 What about us?
Posted by: Spotted Owls at June 25, 2024 11:11 AM (ZTJjv)
--------
Preserve our precious paper resources: wipe your ass on a spotted owl.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 25, 2024 11:12 AM (3Fz6p)

44 On the other hand they saved the sea otters. That sort of gets close to even, amirite?

don't forget us!
Posted by: delta smelt at June 25, 2024 11:10 AM (sGtp+)

Bruh...

Posted by: Snail Darters at June 25, 2024 11:13 AM (HY+Ws)

45 And I'm starting to feel that having tech companies in your state is a curse.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 25, 2024 11:13 AM (xjTDL)

46 Lol, I just a clip of a Jamaal Bowman campaign event on the Carolla show (he was interposing it with clips of President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho).

That douchebag is a fucking retard, and his voters are even stupider than him.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2024 11:13 AM (0FoWg)

47 Impressive stuff, that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)
----
Hordemind is real and it's spectacular!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at June 25, 2024 11:13 AM (7fElN)

48 How California's Paradise Become Our Purgatory
______
An ignorant use of "Purgatory."

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2024 11:14 AM (1bNHn)

49 California - The Granola State

Land of fruit, flakes & nuts.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 11:14 AM (1UfpD)

50 I had a few good times in California. I remember standing in the Yuba river, reeling in 10-15 pound shad one after another and nobody else around. That was memorable.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2024 11:14 AM (pohLc)

51 Nuke the unborn baby whales for Jesus!

Posted by: Subaru bumper sticker at June 25, 2024 11:14 AM (dg+HA)

52
That douchebag is a fucking retard, and his voters are even stupider than him.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2024 11:13 AM (0FoWg)

But AOC was dancin' n' shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:14 AM (Zz0t1)

53 401 Noodus Simianus.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 25, 2024 11:01 AM (kgE5c)

402 Noodus simianus
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 11:01 AM (J2vNu)

Our monkeys here not only throw shit
But now they keep score

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 11:14 AM (ENQN6)

54 >>How and why did California so utterly consume its unmatched natural and ancestral inheritance and end up as a warning to Western civilization of what might be in store for anyone who followed its nihilism?

Didn't mass immigration usher in a one-party state, then the Democrats implemented every radical, stupid policy that crossed their minds?

Colorado is now a one-party state and the Democrats here are doubling down on stupid/radical, too. Amazing how quickly things can be destroyed with a Democrat super-majority in the statehouse.

Posted by: Colorado, aspiring to be Cali 2.0 at June 25, 2024 11:14 AM (cCVOS)

55 Spotted owls were never at risk. Their main habitat in Canada is fine. They were being driven out of their sothern range by larger owls.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 25, 2024 11:14 AM (xjTDL)

56 The Left never rests and they never admit defeat. They can't stop because (despite all evidence) they believe in their own righteousness--it's their duty to spread their poison.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 25, 2024 11:15 AM (mlQIE)

57 Chuck roast at Sams went from $4.98 a pound to $6.24 a pound in less than a week. Inflation is insane and still out of control. And anyone who tells you that is it "coming down" is a liar and/or a politician.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2024 11:15 AM (QNSds)

58 Venezuela was one of the richest countries in the world, and it was gone in just a few years.

Argentina did that twice.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2024 11:10 AM (IqZMy)

Orrale! By the time I'm done they'll do it a third time.

Posted by: Presidente Javier Milei at June 25, 2024 11:15 AM (HY+Ws)

59
Land of fruit, flakes & nuts.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 11:14 AM (1UfpD)

My dad used to call it the "land of fruits, nuts and the whispering bush: "Pssst. Hey buddy. Wanna buy a watch?""

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:15 AM (Zz0t1)

60 Great post CBD. This all emanates from the Frankfurt School and the communist tactic of deconstructionism. It infested the 60s and has only metastasized since. Break down everything traditions, the family , science, history and nothing remains but the revolution. As Alinsky said "the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2024 11:15 AM (N+p0+)

61 Chuck roast at Sams went from $4.98 a pound to $6.24 a pound in less than a week. Inflation is insane and still out of control. And anyone who tells you that is it "coming down" is a liar and/or a politician.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2024 11:15 AM (QNSds)

"Best economy ever, Jack!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:16 AM (Zz0t1)

62 But all the tech giants are there!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2024 11:16 AM (63Dwl)

63 Ned Ryun @nedryun 13h
This was from the AHCCCS; Arizona Medicaid. The AHCCCS is sending out voter registration forms. In these forms in the instructions it states non citizens can vote on federal ballots. Pretty sure this is in violations of state and federal statutes and constitutions.

https://tinyurl.com/4ek73u9s
screencap

Posted by: andycanuck

I'm pretty sure that is covered by the latest amnesty by executive decree, or the next one coming soon. All 7+ million illegals that have come in the past three years will be voting, and the DOJ will be rigorously enforcing that.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at June 25, 2024 11:16 AM (lTGtQ)

64 Spotted owls have smaller owls upon their backs to bite 'em...

Posted by: Wait. That's not right at June 25, 2024 11:16 AM (dg+HA)

65 On the other hand they saved the sea otters. That sort of gets close to even, amirite?

don't forget us!
Posted by: delta smelt at June 25, 2024 11:10 AM (sGtp+)

Bruh...
Posted by: Snail Darters

Clubbed baby seal sammiches with a side of spotted owl au jus.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 11:16 AM (1UfpD)

66 https://tinyurl.com/4ek73u9s
screencap
Posted by: andycanuck (ZdexC) at June 25, 2024 11:12 AM (ZdexC)

In cal go to DL site
Select voter reg
Select no DL #
Select no SS #
It lands you on reg page

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 11:17 AM (ENQN6)

67 I lived in CA for about a decade... 2000 - 2013. The slide was happening. The state's intrusion into daily life was accelerating. People, especially the natives were becoming more socialist. More willing to confront you for not following the herd.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2024 11:17 AM (Q4IgG)

68 The good people are leaving, and soon California will be left without a middle class...just the robber barons in their gated estates and an ocean of workers... many illegal... supporting them.

.. isn't that the definition of Socialism ?

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 11:18 AM (RHGPo)

69 Went to SoCal in 2011 for a visit. After spending some time on the freeways, I made a pact w/the Lord. If he got me home safely, I'd never go back.
Posted by: BignJames at June 25, 2024

***
My driving was done on a Sunday, and it was still crowded. Coming back from the Malibu area on the Pacific Coast Highway, I wanted to turn left (to the inland side) to grab some lunch. The cars came so thick and fast I couldn't manage it. I drove on and accidenally got myself onto the very beginning of Interstate 10. I got off that and picked my way through Venice and back to Culver City, where I was staying. Took a while.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 11:18 AM (J2vNu)

70 >>And I'm starting to feel that having tech companies in your state is a curse.

THIS

See "'The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care" book. It was four people - three of them tech millionaires + a medical equipment heiress who flipped CO to Democrat.

Posted by: Colorado, aspiring to be Cali 2.0 at June 25, 2024 11:18 AM (cCVOS)

71 35% of all Student Loans go for degree programs with ZERO or negative ROI.

So negative ROI means that those 4 years of not working will never be recovered for working the rest of your life.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 11:19 AM (ENQN6)

72 28 There was a sitcom, late 50s, early 60s called "The Life of Riley". William Bendix starred. It was about a family, living a modest but good life in SoCal. Nice neighborhood, nice home, nothing fancy, and the dad was an aircraft industry employee.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2024 11:19 AM (V5eKu)

73 I remember hunting Mountain and Valley quail in the deep desert, chasing Chuckers up and down the mountain. Shooting doves so thick your shotgun barrel would burn blister on your hand.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2024 11:20 AM (pohLc)

74 Chuck roast at Sams went from $4.98 a pound to $6.24 a pound in less than a week. Inflation is insane and still out of control. And anyone who tells you that is it "coming down" is a liar and/or a politician.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at June 25, 2024 11:15 AM (QNSds)

"Best economy ever, Jack!"
Posted by: Sponge

FML. 90/10 ground WAS $3.30, then $3.98, then $4.24, and now $4.48.

Whole tenderloins holding at $18.98 lb. Still $4 higher than it should be.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 11:20 AM (1UfpD)

75 The good people are leaving, and soon California will be left without a middle class...just the robber barons in their gated estates and an ocean of workers... many illegal... supporting them.

.. isn't that the definition of Socialism ?
Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 11:18 AM (RHGPo)

I believe that's serfdom.

Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2024 11:20 AM (+eM1Z)

76 Question: How will they manage to give Biden a teleprompter during the debates?

Personally, I am among those who think most on the right are over-optimistic about Biden's expected collapse.

1. The Ds will have no compunction about how far they drug him to keep him awake and semi-alert. If it kills him, great, they get to pick someone else.

2. It does aid them in their inevitable praise for his performance.

3. If all else fails, he can decide for health reasons that he needs to spend more time showering with his family. (Little Navy doesn't know how lucky she is. Unfortunately, in a few years, Old Gropy Grandpa will want to get to know her better.)

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2024 11:20 AM (1bNHn)

77 Directions to Malibu:

Take the Pacific Coast Highway until you hit Ben Vereen

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 11:21 AM (RHGPo)

78 We also can't overlook the massive immigration to California of dirt-poor peasants from 4th world countries eager for a nice fat handout and a place to dump out offspring like rats. Add to that an influx of poor blacks wrecked by liberal policies into generations of welfare freeloaders.

Reagan won California easily, and this was 20 years after the 1960s leftist suicide kicked in. There's no way on Earth that would ever happen now. The demographics have been radically changed.

Demographics is destiny.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 11:21 AM (iFTx/)

79 The San Andreas faultline is really falling down on the job here.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez fuck cancer at June 25, 2024 11:21 AM (OUMaO)

80 The universities played a huge role in this. And the folks still there seem so completely clueless ~~as to why the state is a mess~~.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at June 25, 2024 11:09 AM (xjTDL)

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2024 11:21 AM (U7wke)

81 Argentina. 3rd wealthiest on the planet at one time, depending on who ya asked. Detroit may well have been the wealthiest city in the world for a time.

One thing I noticed, people act like these things are computer re-spawn games. Burn down town, another one pops up right away. It doesn't work like that.

My smallish hometown was urban rust belt enough, barely, to see rioting in 1968. There are still yet today, boarded up buildings. It takes generations to build things up, only minutes to destroy.

That's why back in the day "even" the Democrats used to issue "shoot to wound" orders for looters, and "shoot to kill" orders for arsonists. No matter what the cause, the folks urging you to burn shit down are not on your side.

Tolerance for arsonists is disturbing especially. It is a capital offense and should be treated that way.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 25, 2024 11:21 AM (16bRC)

82 And my folks retired there despite my best efforts.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2024 11:21 AM (99eI0)

83 72 28 There was a sitcom, late 50s, early 60s called "The Life of Riley". William Bendix starred. It was about a family, living a modest but good life in SoCal. Nice neighborhood, nice home, nothing fancy, and the dad was an aircraft industry employee.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2024 11:19 AM (V5eKu)
________
A bit earlier, and Bendix was the 2nd Riley. The first was Jacky Gleason.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2024 11:23 AM (1bNHn)

84 I believe that's serfdom.
Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2024 11:20 AM (+eM1Z)

In the book, Hayek "[warns] of the danger of tyranny that inevitably results from government control of economic decision-making through central planning."[1] He further argues that the abandonment of individualism and classical liberalism inevitably leads to a loss of freedom, the creation of an oppressive society, the tyranny of a dictator, and the serfdom of the individual.

Hayek challenged the view, popular among British Marxists, that fascism (including Nazism) was a capitalist reaction against socialism. He argued that fascism, Nazism, and state-socialism had common roots in central economic planning and empowering the state over the individual.

CRT is has the same common roots.
So does TRANS right.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 11:23 AM (ENQN6)

85 Grew up in a small town in Northern California. Lumber industry supported a thriving area economy. Having killed the lumber industry the town is filled with boarded up stores and a population of meth heads.

Lumber companies managed the forests and provided tremendous resources for fire fighting. Now the taxpayers get to pick up the tab for a job done poorly.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at June 25, 2024 11:24 AM (ZTJjv)

86 Deer season was perilous, as the mountains would fill up with yoyos from LA who had not fired a rifle in a year, slinging lead all over the mountains. Saw one idiot shoot a fawn right on the road. He ran off but we got his plate and turned his ass in.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2024 11:24 AM (pohLc)

87 58 Venezuela was one of the richest countries in the world, and it was gone in just a few years.

Argentina did that twice.
Posted by: Anna Puma at June 25, 2024 11:10 AM (IqZMy)

Orrale! By the time I'm done they'll do it a third time.
Posted by: Presidente Javier Milei at June 25, 2024 11:15 AM (HY+Ws)
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If Brandon wins or cheats his way back in, we'll be in no position to criticize them. We may even end up envying Haiti.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2024 11:25 AM (1bNHn)

88 Lex Luthor had the right idea. So sad that Superman fucked it all up.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 11:26 AM (iFTx/)

89 We may even end up envying Haiti.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2024 11:25 AM (1bNHn)

*Salutes President Barbecue*

Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2024 11:27 AM (+eM1Z)

90 The "spotted" owl looks an awful lot like a subspecies of the barred owl. The barred owl moves in and replaces the spotted owl.

How come there aren't any environmental impact statements required for displacing all those jobs and white people? They killed the logging industry over bullshit. All they have left is soy boys fighting over game boys. No caulked boots on the wooden barroom floor, no sir.

Everything is bullshit anyway.

Posted by: Common Tater at June 25, 2024 11:27 AM (16bRC)

91 83 Didn't know that. I only remember Bendix.Did a quick look, and Gleason was on in the early, early days of TV, around 1950. I remember Mom and Dad watching the show when you only had three channels to choose from.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2024 11:27 AM (V5eKu)

92 Great post CBD. This all emanates from the Frankfurt School and the communist tactic of deconstructionism. It infested the 60s and has only metastasized since. Break down everything traditions, the family , science, history and nothing remains but the revolution. As Alinsky said "the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution"
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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I would take it back even further to Rousseau, or at least Comte.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2024 11:27 AM (Dm8we)

93 The Uniparty has a lot more to ruin here.

If our ruling class ran Venezuela, every living thing there would have perished by now. Just an expanse of dirt left behind.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2024 11:27 AM (0FoWg)

94 58 Venezuela was one of the richest countries in the world, and it was gone in just a few years.

"OK, we have a good climate, decent middle class and abundant natural resources. What if we add just a tiny bit of socialsm-DAMMIT!"

Posted by: NR Pax at June 25, 2024 11:27 AM (99eI0)

95 Bruh...
Posted by: Snail Darters at June 25, 2024 11:13 AM (HY+Ws)

It's always about you, isn't it?

Posted by: Delhi Sands flower-loving fly at June 25, 2024 11:27 AM (VGRuw)

96 I would have left CA a few years ago, but back "home" is Illinois outside of Chicago. Out of the frying pan, into the fire... So might as well stay and fight.

Posted by: PJU at June 25, 2024 11:27 AM (G1dq6)

97 Holy cow......Thank The Lord.

Wife just got the results of her cancer genetic test and it came back negative for any abnormalities.

Phew......I wasn't looking forward to the days if it found something........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

98 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2024 11:28 AM (wKStU)

99 Both Californua and Colorado are overflowing with an abundance of natural beauty and stupid people. Does one attract the other? I have seen the stupid run strong in Yellowstone, one of the mist beautiful places on earth.

Posted by: Megthered at June 25, 2024 11:28 AM (49Sxk)

100 59 My dad used to call it the "land of fruits, nuts and the whispering bush: "Pssst. Hey buddy. Wanna buy a watch?""

i'm'a just assume the watch was $20, same as downtown

Posted by: cheap fake anachronda at June 25, 2024 11:28 AM (sGtp+)

101 I would have left CA a few years ago, but back "home" is Illinois outside of Chicago. Out of the frying pan, into the fire... So might as well stay and fight.
Posted by: PJU at June 25, 2024 11:27 AM (G1dq6)

I have family still in Chicago. Some of them are reaching retirement age and may be moving to Texas shortly after that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

102 Slightly off topic, but related. Hooters is closing forty locations. I'll place my address and phone number on their message board if the waitresses need comforting

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2024 11:28 AM (N+p0+)

103 People Surprised And Worried By UK Army Ad Showing Exclusively White People

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 11:29 AM (RHGPo)

104 86 Deer season was perilous, as the mountains would fill up with yoyos from LA who had not fired a rifle in a year, slinging lead all over the mountains. Saw one idiot shoot a fawn right on the road. He ran off but we got his plate and turned his ass in.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2024 11:24 AM (pohLc)

The pot farmers are another hazard. They were bad back in the late 60s. Can’t imagine it’s gotten better since then.

Posted by: DJ Jazzy Mel at June 25, 2024 11:29 AM (ZTJjv)

105 97 Holy cow......Thank The Lord.

Wife just got the results of her cancer genetic test and it came back negative for any abnormalities.

Phew......I wasn't looking forward to the days if it found something........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

Very happy for you. Very good news.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 11:29 AM (ynpvh)

106 How did California get here?

Republicans who refused to fight culture wars.
But, those are all just liberals.
So the answer is still liberals.

Adam Smith saying, "there is a lot of ruin in a nation" is abstract.
We are seeing it play out. Not just CA but nationwide.

And we're no where near the bottom.
See also, Venezuela still hasn't collapsed.
So ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2024 11:29 AM (pt57y)

107 Congrats Sponge!

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2024 11:29 AM (pohLc)

108 It breaks my heart to see what California has become. Living there since the age of 3 all through when I enlisted in the USCG in 1984, it was truly paradise. A place where even low to middle income families could afford a home and the schools were great no matter what neighborhood you lived in. It was a state that Ronald Regan was Governor of from 1967 - 1975.

It can come back again but by who? What leader can inspire and run that state as it should? Where is the DeSantis for CA?

Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2024 11:29 AM (oiNtH)

109 California today to me is the apex example of a cancerous hubris. Within two generations of the Greatest Generation a significant part of the nation became a soft and silly people that embraced the false idea that government can improve the citizens lives with sufficient programs instead of making sure that conditions exist and nothing more that individual initiative is the best program. The insidious part is when the first takes root it begins to attract like minded people until a leftist mono culture, a political and social kudzu, is all that remains. Structural failure seems to be the only solution that will bring about the potential for a rational rebuilding.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at June 25, 2024 11:29 AM (W3n7o)

110 Very happy for you. Very good news.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 11:29 AM (ynpvh)

It is, thank you.

And I won't have to worry about my daughter going hysterical over it as well. Win win.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:29 AM (Zz0t1)

111 California needs a 12 Step Program.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at June 25, 2024 11:30 AM (Rbu5d)

112
A bit earlier, and Bendix was the 2nd Riley. The first was Jacky Gleason.
Posted by: Eeyore

What a revolting development.

https://tinyurl.com/3v4jcans

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2024 11:30 AM (63Dwl)

113 A bit earlier, and Bendix was the 2nd Riley. The first was Jacky Gleason.

Posted by: Eeyore

Had to look this up...it started on radio with Bendix as Riley, then in the movie, which kept Bendix from playing Riley on TV because contracts, so...actually reversed.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez fuck cancer at June 25, 2024 11:30 AM (OUMaO)

114 @92 Biff, agreed but the Frankfurt School put it into action.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at June 25, 2024 11:30 AM (N+p0+)

115 88 Lex Luthor had the right idea. So sad that Superman fucked it all up.

indeed.

Posted by: otisberg chamber of commerce at June 25, 2024 11:30 AM (sGtp+)

116 I've retold this story here before, several times;

We have a daughter in CA. Her husband is a native and until recently could not imagine living anywhere else. Things have gotten so tenuous for them that our daughter has agreed to take a job in our area and the entire family is likely to move out of CA this summer.

I am somewhat surprised that her husband has acknowledged the situation they find themselves in. He had been unwilling to leave. His friends, family are all locals. But even this diehard Californian has had enough of their shit and is leaving.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at June 25, 2024 11:30 AM (Q4IgG)

117 @visegrad24
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Follow
BREAKING:

The Taliban have demanded that Afghan woman are not allowed to attend to upcoming UN conference on Afghanistan in Qatar on June 20th.

The Taliban also demanded that all discussions about women’s’ right are removed from the agenda.

The UN has agreed to the demands

https://instapundit.com/655052/

What purpose does the UN serve anymore?

Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2024 11:30 AM (+eM1Z)

118 16
‘ But Gavin Newsome’s hair is fabulous!’
Has anyone else noted that he looks like Patrick Bateman from American Psycho?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at June 25, 2024 11:30 AM (jbnUc)

119 I'm of the belief that in the West, we are all fucked. Defence of our Tradition and Excellence cannot be stated without being met with nonsense arguments of colonialism and privilege, and claims on (white) superiority. This, despite the fact that the desire of the third world to get here might give us a clue as to what is good and bad civilizations. We are loading our countries up with people who dislike us, our culture and our identity. They just happen to temporarily align with the marxists that crave to destroy society and remake it in their own shitty way.

I'm done paying for it as well, I'm maxing my pension contributions,paying as little tax as possible for a few years until I can retire and keep paying as little tax as possible while I watch the ship sink.

Posted by: Political McGuffin at June 25, 2024 11:31 AM (nGP9S)

120 So we now have the Californian Exodus to match the Yankee Exodus. Where do they run next?

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 25, 2024 11:31 AM (n17eQ)

121 108 It can come back again but by who? What leader can inspire and run that state as it should?

tanned, rested, and ready

Posted by: the gubernator at June 25, 2024 11:31 AM (sGtp+)

122 Good news for the First Lady, Sponge.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 11:32 AM (tT6L1)

123 I don't believe talk of letting CA fail is really relevant, because I believe it's a done deal that those who are culturally American will cede control in the future, willingly or not, to foreigners.

It's going to (continue to) fail. Those living there when it does aren't going to rebuild jack shit. Nothing is going to get better unless someone else rolls in and kicks them out or conquers them. That's how these things work, and the 21st century is not some special post-history situation where the normal rules of play are suspended.

I get really frustrated with older relatives from CA who *should* have an understanding of what is going on, but in reality they just try to hunker down in their little bubble/enclaves and pretend they don't see what is happening. Then invest quite a bit of effort trying to convince others that where they live isn't any "really" any better than CA.

Posted by: somedood at June 25, 2024 11:32 AM (128Ty)

124 Immigration And The Economy: A Complicated Picture

Highly-educated immigrants bring bulk of benefits to U.S. economy, new study suggests

.. but we had that before Biden was in the White House

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 11:32 AM (RHGPo)

125 Biff, agreed but the Frankfurt School put it into action.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
_________

I'd argue the French Revolution put it into action.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2024 11:32 AM (Dm8we)

126 Slightly off topic, but related. Hooters is closing forty locations.
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Best economy in 50 years, jack.
Can't even sell sex ....

Also, Big Lots is likely to file bankruptcy soon.
Bidenomics!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2024 11:32 AM (pt57y)

127 111 California needs a 12 Step Program.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at June 25, 2024 11:30 AM (Rbu5d)

Hmmm. A series of a dozen high-yield hydrogen bombs buried along the San Andreas fault, and fired in sequence to send southern CA out to sea.

Your idea is audacious, but intriguing!

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2024 11:32 AM (0FoWg)

128 tech has been compromised; it is now an oligarchy profiting from the forever war

Posted by: yoeman at June 25, 2024 11:33 AM (j1QfB)

129 111 California needs a 12 Step Program.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at June 25, 2024 11:30 AM (Rbu5d)

Step 1: hang all the politicians
Step 2: hang all the judges
Step 3: hang all the lawyers...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 11:33 AM (ynpvh)

130 What purpose does the UN serve anymore?
Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2024 11:30 AM (+eM1Z)
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3 squares for their Blue Helmets Brigades with a side of rape and pilage?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 11:33 AM (tT6L1)

131 Good news for the First Lady, Sponge.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 11:32 AM (tT6L1)

Thank you.

I'm hoping that takes a tremendous weight off her back and she can feel better about things going forward.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:33 AM (Zz0t1)

132 Joe Friday and Gannon, Reed and Malloy, Ponch and Jon, Gage and Desoto, all retired. Of course California has gone to shit!

Posted by: It Was Inevitable at June 25, 2024 11:33 AM (V5BDR)

133 126 Slightly off topic, but related. Hooters is closing forty locations.
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Best economy in 50 years, jack.
Can't even sell sex ....

Also, Big Lots is likely to file bankruptcy soon.
Bidenomics!

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2024 11:32 AM (pt57y)

99¢ stores are closing. My nephew lost his job there.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 11:34 AM (ynpvh)

134 The UN has agreed to the demands

https://instapundit.com/655052/

What purpose does the UN serve anymore?
Posted by: Robert

Perpetuating and spreading antisemitism through barely concealed anti-Israel rhetoric?

Posted by: UN at June 25, 2024 11:34 AM (JCZqz)

135 USMC days,, there was a time when I was flying a lot on the MARLOG. Wound up in El Toro for the weekend, ran into a friend from boot, ITR, and later Cherry Point. He invited me to stay the weekend with him and the wife. Little very modest house in Laguna Beach, back of the place facing the beach. Had to cross PCH to get to the beach. He was upset as the landlord was putting it up for sale, and the base housing list was long. I suggested buying the place, and he said "the guy wants over $25K for this dump". I wonder how much just the dirt would be worth.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2024 11:34 AM (V5eKu)

136 The Taliban have demanded that Afghan woman are not allowed to attend to upcoming UN conference on Afghanistan in Qatar on June 20th.

The Taliban also demanded that all discussions about women’s’ right are removed from the agenda.

The UN has agreed to the demands

https://instapundit.com/655052/

What purpose does the UN serve anymore?
Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2024 11:30 AM (+eM1Z)

Not much different than the Trans Rights movements here.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 11:34 AM (ENQN6)

137 I am somewhat surprised that her husband has acknowledged the situation they find themselves in. He had been unwilling to leave. His friends, family are all locals. But even this diehard Californian has had enough of their shit and is leaving.
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In the 90's during the Clinton Mortgage Ponzi Scheme I notice a shit ton of Californians moving to Yuma, AZ, to be out of California but near their children. Jeebus, Yuma is quite a step down from the California coast.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 25, 2024 11:34 AM (n17eQ)

138 130 What purpose does the UN serve anymore?
Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2024 11:30 AM (+eM1Z)
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3 squares for their Blue Helmets Brigades with a side of rape and pilage?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 11:33 AM (tT6L1)

to give antisemitism an air of legality?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 11:35 AM (ynpvh)

139 Retirement Nightmare! Hordes Of Older Americans May Need To Go Back To Work Just To Survive

Joe Biden will have to resume being a school crossing guard

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 11:35 AM (RHGPo)

140 What purpose does the UN serve anymore?
Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2024 11:30 AM (+eM1Z)
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The same function that the EU serves - to castrate nations.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 25, 2024 11:35 AM (n17eQ)

141 137 I am somewhat surprised that her husband has acknowledged the situation they find themselves in. He had been unwilling to leave. His friends, family are all locals. But even this diehard Californian has had enough of their shit and is leaving.
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In the 90's during the Clinton Mortgage Ponzi Scheme I notice a shit ton of Californians moving to Yuma, AZ, to be out of California but near their children. Jeebus, Yuma is quite a step down from the California coast.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 25, 2024 11:34 AM (n17eQ)

Not if you lived next door in El Centro.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 11:35 AM (ynpvh)

142 Step 1: hang all the politicians
Step 2: hang all the judges
Step 3: hang all the lawyers...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 11:33 AM (ynpvh)

you said hang 3 times

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 11:35 AM (ENQN6)

143 99¢ stores are closing. My nephew lost his job there.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I don't know if they existed before, but suddenly im seeing a lot of "5 Below" stores, with prices under $5. Bidenomics, baby!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2024 11:36 AM (JCZqz)

144 When even major coke head Don Henley splits and moves to east fricking Texas, you know it's bad.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 25, 2024 11:36 AM (wRpxi)

145 142 Step 1: hang all the politicians
Step 2: hang all the judges
Step 3: hang all the lawyers...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 11:33 AM (ynpvh)

you said hang 3 times

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 11:35 AM (ENQN6)

it if works, don't break it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 11:36 AM (ynpvh)

146 Holy cow......Thank The Lord.

Wife just got the results of her cancer genetic test and it came back negative for any abnormalities.

Phew......I wasn't looking forward to the days if it found something........

Posted by: Sponge

What does this mean specifically? Is she cancer free?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 11:36 AM (1UfpD)

147 A bit earlier, and Bendix was the 2nd Riley. The first was Jacky Gleason.

IIRC, the show was originally written with Groucho Marx in mind.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at June 25, 2024 11:37 AM (Q0kLU)

148 "119 We are loading our countries up with people who dislike us, our culture and our identity. They just happen to temporarily align with the marxists that crave to destroy society and remake it in their own shitty way.
Posted by: Political McGuffin at June 25, 2024 11:31 AM (nGP9S)"

The next big leg down is the blue states out west all switching over to hiring illegals for their police forces. THIS was one of the primary drivers for the Brown/Martin/Floyd riots and the anti-cop rhetoric - driving normie-Americans out of policing. (some may remember abortive, but clearly pre-preared attempts to push bills to federalize all policing after Brown). It's only "defund the police" until their people are the ones toting the guns.

Combine third world gangs with police forces staffed with third worlders and you are in for a world of shit, especially considering the larger forces are basically standing armies.

Posted by: somedood at June 25, 2024 11:37 AM (128Ty)

149 I don't know if they existed before, but suddenly im seeing a lot of "5 Below" stores, with prices under $5. Bidenomics, baby!
Posted by: Moron Analyst

We've had them for years.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 11:37 AM (1UfpD)

150 I lived in Cali from 1970-1989. I loved it. Last went back in 2017 for a funeral. The decline was very noticeable and depressing.

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 25, 2024 11:37 AM (5K+bg)

151 What purpose does the UN serve anymore?
Posted by: Robert at June 25, 2024 11:30 AM

Mass transfer of wealth to poorer nations is the guise - lining their pockets is the win.

Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2024 11:38 AM (oiNtH)

152

What does this mean specifically? Is she cancer free?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 11:36 AM (1UfpD)

No. Still has to deal with the breast cancer, but genetic cancer possibilities going forward are nil, supposedly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:38 AM (Zz0t1)

153 Happy news, indeed, Sponge!

Posted by: Paco at June 25, 2024 11:38 AM (njExo)

154 143 99¢ stores are closing. My nephew lost his job there.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I don't know if they existed before, but suddenly im seeing a lot of "5 Below" stores, with prices under $5. Bidenomics, baby!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2024 11:36 AM (JCZqz)

2-buck Chuck is now 4-buck Chuck, for all those wine drinkers.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 11:38 AM (ynpvh)

155 So what happened? Is Chaucer correct?

But at the laste, as every thing hath ende,
She took hir leve, and nedes wolde wende.

Where'd this Chaucer guy learn to spell?! Gees.

Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm at June 25, 2024 11:38 AM (kBHM9)

156 Liberal stronghold falls in Toronto by-election: Boy-Emperor Trudeau in big trouble

Canada's Liberals are in big trouble after an upset win by Conservatives in the Toronto-St. Pauls by-election.

Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 11:38 AM (RHGPo)

157 There was a sitcom, late 50s, early 60s called "The Life of Riley". William Bendix starred. It was about a family, living a modest but good life in SoCal. Nice neighborhood, nice home, nothing fancy, and the dad was an aircraft industry employee.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2024

***
Was that set in SoCal? I never realized that when I watched it as a kid.

Highway Patrol was set there too, though not always in the L.A. area.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 11:38 AM (J2vNu)

158 Yay, Sponge! Super happy dance happening here in lower Alabama!

Posted by: Piper at June 25, 2024 11:39 AM (pZEOD)

159 No. Still has to deal with the breast cancer, but genetic cancer possibilities going forward are nil, supposedly.
Posted by: Sponge

That's great news. No surprises. Still praying for her.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 11:39 AM (1UfpD)

160
2-buck Chuck is now 4-buck Chuck, for all those wine drinkers.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 11:38 AM (ynpvh)

Two Buck Chuck. Now with more Bucks!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

161 152

What does this mean specifically? Is she cancer free?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 11:36 AM (1UfpD)

No. Still has to deal with the breast cancer, but genetic cancer possibilities going forward are nil, supposedly.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:38 AM (Zz0t1)

Gotta keep an eye on it. My wife had no familial predisposition to breast cancer, but got it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 11:39 AM (ynpvh)

162 The decline was obvious in our former home town, Bakersfield. It was amazing to see the homeless slowly migrate west toward where we lived. We went from homeless free to having the homeless take a dump behind mailboxes in our neighborhood within 3 years or so.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 11:40 AM (tT6L1)

163 99¢ stores are closing. My nephew lost his job there.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

I don't know if they existed before, but suddenly im seeing a lot of "5 Below" stores, with prices under $5. Bidenomics, baby!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at June 25, 2024

***
Dollar Tree is still stumping along, but its base price is now $1.25, and there are $3, $4, and $5 grocery items in the freezer.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 11:40 AM (J2vNu)

164 160
2-buck Chuck is now 4-buck Chuck, for all those wine drinkers.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 11:38 AM (ynpvh)

Two Buck Chuck. Now with more Bucks!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

Out: More Bang for your Buck
In: More Bucks for your Bang.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 11:40 AM (ynpvh)

165 What does this mean specifically? Is she cancer free?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 11:36 AM (1UfpD)

No. Still has to deal with the breast cancer, but genetic cancer possibilities going forward are nil, supposedly.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:38 AM (Zz0t1)

If you get the bad result then treatment is more. My wife wasn't slated to get chemo but... And she's in the middle of having to take pills for 10 years. Still, she's 6 years out from treatment and still cancer-free so there's that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2024 11:41 AM (U7wke)

166 Beau died defending the.99 cent stores. My word as a Biden.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at June 25, 2024 11:41 AM (wRpxi)

167 16. But Gavin Newsome’s hair is fabulous! -Bulgaroctonus

Yes, but his head looks like an eraser on a No. 2 pencil.

Posted by: Paco at June 25, 2024 11:41 AM (njExo)

168 167 16. But Gavin Newsome’s hair is fabulous! -Bulgaroctonus

Yes, but his head looks like an eraser on a No. 2 pencil.

Posted by: Paco at June 25, 2024 11:41 AM (njExo)

They don't drill for oil in Kalifornia for the masses; it goes into Gavin's hair.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 11:41 AM (ynpvh)

169 Day 2 without home internet. So far so good. I shall finally conquer my 24/7 internet addiction.

Posted by: gp At Library at June 25, 2024 11:41 AM (NLkgW)

170
That's great news. No surprises. Still praying for her.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 11:39 AM (1UfpD)

Very much appreciated, sir.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:41 AM (Zz0t1)

171 160
2-buck Chuck is now 4-buck Chuck, for all those wine drinkers.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 11:38 AM (ynpvh)

Two Buck Chuck. Now with more Bucks!!!
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There will always be Carlo Rossi jug wine. Go with the Burgundy for the win.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 25, 2024 11:42 AM (n17eQ)

172 Two Buck Chuck. Now with more Bucks!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:39 AM (Zz0t1)

Under Trump your fuel tank could only hold $40 of gas. Now it can hold $60 worth! Progress, Jack!

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at June 25, 2024 11:42 AM (VGRuw)

173 157 Fun fact about Highway Patrol. Didja ever notice scenes with Broderick Crawford in a car pursuit are always on dirt roads? Reason was ol' Broderick had chalked up so many DWIs in the golden state they said no way this drunk can be on our highways, even for filming.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2024 11:43 AM (V5eKu)

174 Pfft, you kids and your Two Buck Chuck. In my day, we had Gallo Hearty Burgundy and liked it!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 11:43 AM (tT6L1)

175 you said hang 3 times
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 11:35 AM

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He's well hung.

Posted by: Darth Randall at June 25, 2024 11:44 AM (f1kZG)

176
Gotta keep an eye on it. My wife had no familial predisposition to breast cancer, but got it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at June 25, 2024 11:39 AM (ynpvh)

She will go through the process for this round, then won't be taking any hormone therapy drugs as she was previously, then will just go on with her annual mammograms as before.

Hopefully, this process is as quick and painless as it can be......She's got enough on her plate with other family.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:44 AM (Zz0t1)

177 Took a trip to LA bay area 97 I think, got to see some things won't ever see again

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2024 11:44 AM (wKStU)

178 Highway Patrol was set there too, though not always in the L.A. area. Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

HP and Broderick Crawford are one of my favorite shows of all time. Crawford was drunk all the time and on one occasion he couldn't stand up next to a filing cabinet to film an intro/conclusions scene. The crew ended up laying him and the filing cabinet on the ground and shot the scene from above looking directly down on the two.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at June 25, 2024 11:44 AM (W3n7o)

179 Why Trump's VP will probably be Doug Burgum. Burgum is the perfect ambassador to the only group Trump really cares about in this race. He may reportedly be only a hundred-millionaire, but he made his money buying into and then later, as its president, selling an accounting software firm. This makes Burgum exactly the kind of faux tech bro who fits in at the pro-Trump gatherings being hosted by billionaires Elon Musk and Nelson Peltz.

Trump depends on enormous checks from billionaires to propel his campaign, and the only person that really counts, is the one who best clicks with Elon. No one checks that box as well as Burgum.

Trump may enjoy the idea of seeing just how much humiliation Sen. Tim Scott can absorb. He may relish the idea of ordering Sen. Marco Rubio to surrender his seat and his state for a spot on the ticket. But Burgum has given a clear signal that he’s willing to lie for Trump, be his bagman, and never step near the spotlight. That’s a combination that no other hopeful seems to match.

Posted by: Intercepted Daily Kos Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at June 25, 2024 11:44 AM (JCZqz)

180 Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 11:43 AM (tT6L1)

Ahem.....

Posted by: Boone's Farm Strawberry Wine at June 25, 2024 11:44 AM (wRpxi)

181 I was born in Ca. in the town I presently live in... Spent 5 years in Texas as a child... My City and State are totally unrecognizable.. If we weren't so ancient and didn't have Our entire Family here we would be gone

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2024 11:44 AM (Akjoo)

182 Day 2 without home internet. So far so good. I shall finally conquer my 24/7 internet addiction.
Posted by: gp At Library at June 25, 2024 11:41 AM (NLkgW)

*fistbump*

*pat on back*

You caan DOOO eeeet!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)

183 Where'd this Chaucer guy learn to spell?! Gees.
Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm
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See: swich licour

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2024 11:45 AM (XeU6L)

184 IT WAS ALL FAKE

Biden and Garland sent the FBI to raid Trump's home armed with props used to create damning photos leaked to the media. Jack Smith now admits that the FBI planted coversheets with classified markings on top of the documents found in Trump's home.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 11:45 AM (ENQN6)

185 --------------
There will always be Carlo Rossi jug wine. Go with the Burgundy for the win.
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 25, 2024 11:42 AM (n17eQ)

Last I heard, it was $11 a gallon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:45 AM (Zz0t1)

186 Biden and Garland sent the FBI to raid Trump's home armed with props used to create damning photos leaked to the media. Jack Smith now admits that the FBI planted coversheets with classified markings on top of the documents found in Trump's home.
Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 11:45 AM (ENQN6)

Yet he still brought the case. Election interference. Treason. Try him, convict him, hang him by the neck until dead.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)

187 Last I heard, it was $11 a gallon.
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Worth every penny.

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 25, 2024 11:47 AM (n17eQ)

188 I've looked at areas of the country that are most favorable if you suffer from bad arthritis, and San Diego comes up. Been there, and the climate is beautiful. Current situation in CA says stick to Aleve.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2024 11:47 AM (V5eKu)

189 He's well hung.
Posted by: Darth Randall at June 25, 2024 11:44 AM (f1kZG)

/punchline

wish I was hung like...

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 11:47 AM (ENQN6)

190 Yet he still brought the case. Election interference. Treason. Try him, convict him, hang him by the neck until dead.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:46 AM (Zz0t1)

I want them to bring back the Guillotine

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2024 11:47 AM (Akjoo)

191 Day 2 without home internet. So far so good. I shall finally conquer my 24/7 internet addiction.
Posted by: gp
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Heh. Because the library closes at 6:00 p.m., right?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2024 11:47 AM (XeU6L)

192 There is no way the FBI should survive a Trump second term. They are a menace and require eradication.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2024 11:47 AM (pohLc)

193 It's pleasing to see open acknowledgement of the exceptionalism of my beloved country to counter the incessant drumbeat of negativity.

Again, the definition of it as the most exceptional, populated by an extraordinary people governed, NOT RULED by a political system unique in history rings true and not refutable. Be thankful this is so and that continuing the struggle of our predecessors to ensure our Republic endures has become our heritage.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at June 25, 2024 11:48 AM (hKoQL)

194 Where'd this Chaucer guy learn to spell?! Gees.
Posted by: Live from Madhouse Farm
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Took a course on Chaucer in college. Got an A+ on the pronunciation quiz, but the spelling always gave me a headache.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 25, 2024 11:48 AM (T+Iwg)

195 If women cross their legs, get up, fall down, up again and hop away from California.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 25, 2024 11:48 AM (J8LnB)

196 "Jack Smith now admits that the FBI planted coversheets with classified markings on top of the documents found in Trump's home.
Posted by: rhennigantx "

Gee, seems like some heads should roll.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 11:48 AM (vFG9F)

197 On of my close mates in England in USAF was from Bakersfield, though his roommate who email or talk to every once in awhile said he is a raving Leftist.

Posted by: Skip at June 25, 2024 11:48 AM (wKStU)

198 Fun fact about Highway Patrol. Didja ever notice scenes with Broderick Crawford in a car pursuit are always on dirt roads? Reason was ol' Broderick had chalked up so many DWIs in the golden state they said no way this drunk can be on our highways, even for filming.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2024

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Yeah, looking at the reruns on MeTV in the morning, I get the impression everything the HP does with Dan Mathews (BC's character) takes place in more rural areas.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 11:48 AM (J2vNu)

199 196 "Jack Smith now admits that the FBI planted coversheets with classified markings on top of the documents found in Trump's home.
Posted by: rhennigantx "

Is this new ?

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2024 11:49 AM (Akjoo)

200 HP and Broderick Crawford are one of my favorite shows of all time. Crawford was drunk all the time and on one occasion he couldn't stand up next to a filing cabinet to film an intro/conclusions scene. The crew ended up laying him and the filing cabinet on the ground and shot the scene from above looking directly down on the two.
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram

LOL.

Fell in love with HP during an especially nasty bout of insomnia during a divorce.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 11:49 AM (1UfpD)

201 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:28 AM (Zz0t1)

Awesome news!

Posted by: ... at June 25, 2024 11:49 AM (ugRIO)

202 For Cali government, knowing that normals are fleeing seems to be part of the kink

Posted by: 2009Refugee at June 25, 2024 11:49 AM (XdvLq)

203 124...Highly-educated immigrants bring bulk of benefits to U.S. economy, new study suggests
...
Posted by: SMOD at June 25, 2024 11:32 AM (RHGPo)

Too bad the 'immigrants' pouring over the southern border are chinese agents, gang members, and uneducated peasants carrying disease.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at June 25, 2024 11:49 AM (Rbu5d)

204 Reorganize CA as a territory and readmit it as a state once it has gotten its shit together again.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 25, 2024 11:49 AM (kIGcT)

205 There will always be Carlo Rossi jug wine. Go with the Burgundy for the win.
Posted by: Pudinhead
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4 gal. case, Paisano

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2024 11:50 AM (XeU6L)

206 157 There was a sitcom, late 50s, early 60s called "The Life of Riley". William Bendix starred. It was about a family, living a modest but good life in SoCal. Nice neighborhood, nice home, nothing fancy, and the dad was an aircraft industry employee.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2024

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Was that set in SoCal? I never realized that when I watched it as a kid.

Highway Patrol was set there too, though not always in the L.A. area.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 11:38 AM (J2vNu)
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Well, they had Joe Friday keeping the crooks in line.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2024 11:50 AM (1bNHn)

207 @Surgeon_General
·
4h
NEW: Today, for the first time in the history of our office, I am issuing a Surgeon General’s Advisory on Firearm Violence. Firearm violence is a public health crisis in America that poses a serious threat to the health and well-being of our country.

My Sig just jumped off the nightstand and kicked me in the nutz.

Posted by: rhennigantx at June 25, 2024 11:50 AM (ENQN6)

208 There is no way the FBI should survive a Trump second term. They are a menace and require eradication.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2024 11:47 AM (pohLc)

They are a criminal organization but they own Congress. Nothing will happen.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at June 25, 2024 11:51 AM (U7wke)

209 Sponge, that's good news. Dog knows we could use some.

Posted by: creeper at June 25, 2024 11:51 AM (M6moH)

210 This still makes me incredibly sad. I loved LA and I still miss it at times, but we had to move. There was no indication that things were going to go back to normal. They were still masking at work until October of 2022. The kids were still required to get the shot for school (which we avoided). Now there's keeping secrets from parents at school and other insanity.

Not to mention the traffic. We cut down in activities because it was so hard to get anywhere. You'd have to leave really early if you wanted to do anything.

We're growing into our new life in AZ, But I'm still sad about it all.

Posted by: InZona at June 25, 2024 11:51 AM (g6tlb)

211 Fell in love with HP during an especially nasty bout of insomnia during a divorce.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024

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There was an ep with Barbara Eden in one of her first speaking roles. And Stuart Whitman played a recurring role as a uniformed HP cop.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 11:52 AM (J2vNu)

212 207 @Surgeon_General
·
4h
NEW: Today, for the first time in the history of our office, I am issuing a Surgeon General’s Advisory on Firearm Violence. Firearm violence is a public health crisis in America that poses a serious threat to the health and well-being of our country.

What a crock of shit... Guns don't cause violence... People do....Should issue an "Advisory" on people violence

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2024 11:52 AM (Akjoo)

213 Fun fact about Highway Patrol. Didja ever notice scenes with Broderick Crawford in a car pursuit are always on dirt roads? Reason was ol' Broderick had chalked up so many DWIs in the golden state they said no way this drunk can be on our highways, even for filming.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2024

***
Yeah, looking at the reruns on MeTV in the morning, I get the impression everything the HP does with Dan Mathews (BC's character) takes place in more rural areas.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Since he was the detective, why didn't they have a patrolman assigned as his driver?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 11:52 AM (1UfpD)

214 " Today, for the first time in the history of our office, I am issuing a Surgeon General’s Advisory on Firearm Violence. Firearm violence is a public health crisis in America that poses a serious threat to the health and well-being of our country."

They want to put warning labels on firearms.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 11:52 AM (vFG9F)

215
Awesome news!
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2024 11:49 AM (ugRIO)

Agreed. Thank you. Sincerely.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:52 AM (Zz0t1)

216 The surgeon general being used to do an end run around Second Amendment.

Didn't see that one coming, at all.

....psst, buddy, care to buy a bridge? I've got one cheap, barely collapsed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 11:52 AM (tT6L1)

217 They should put warning labels on people.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 11:53 AM (vFG9F)

218 Helen Broderick was a fine actress, best in comedic roles as a wisecracking best friend, kinda like Eve Arden. She was Broderick Crawford's mom.

Posted by: Hollywood Hystery at June 25, 2024 11:53 AM (V5BDR)

219 217 They should put warning labels on people.
Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 11:53 AM (vFG9F)

What you said

Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2024 11:53 AM (Akjoo)

220 We're growing into our new life in AZ, But I'm still sad about it all.
Posted by: InZona at June 25, 2024 11:51 AM (g6tlb)
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Same.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 11:53 AM (tT6L1)

221 Look at the current mayor of Oakland CA as an example of a typical CA Democrat. She's a crook and a thief who blames Republicans for noticing that she's a crook and a thief.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at June 25, 2024 11:53 AM (MeG8a)

222 215
Awesome news!
Posted by: ... at June 25, 2024 11:49 AM (ugRIO)

Agreed. Thank you. Sincerely.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:52 AM (Zz0t1)

Feeling a bit better?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 11:53 AM (KbCG3)

223 Well, they had Joe Friday keeping the crooks in line.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2024

***
Along with Bob Ironside among the pro cops, and Frank Cannon, Joe Mannix, and Barnaby Jones among the private eyes!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 11:53 AM (J2vNu)

224 And Stuart Whitman played a recurring role as a uniformed HP cop.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 11:52 AM (J2vNu)

Watched him and the Duke in "The Comancheros" the other evening. That's a fun one.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at June 25, 2024 11:53 AM (T+Iwg)

225 210 Three or four years ago I was in Yuma. Most insane traffic I have ever seen. Lots of CA tags on cars. This was during a period of wildfires in CA but the locals said it was getting to be an everyday thing.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2024 11:54 AM (V5eKu)

226 Fell in love with HP during an especially nasty bout of insomnia during a divorce.
Posted by: rickb223
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I still want his car, pic:
https://tinyurl.com/247u79dt

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2024 11:54 AM (XeU6L)

227 1. Judges
2. Politicians
3. Lawyers
FIFY

Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2024 11:54 AM (4780s)

228 There will always be Carlo Rossi jug wine. Go with the Burgundy for the win.
Posted by: Pudinhead

$16.99 4/liter at Kroger.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 11:54 AM (1UfpD)

229 219 217 They should put warning labels on people.
Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 11:53 AM (vFG9F)

What you said
Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2024 11:53 AM (Akjoo)

Considering their tats, piercings and hair colorings, I feel like most people put warning labels on themselves.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 11:54 AM (KbCG3)

230 Hmmm. A series of a dozen high-yield hydrogen bombs buried along the San Andreas fault, and fired in sequence to send southern CA out to sea.

Your idea is audacious, but intriguing!
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at June 25, 2024 11:32 AM (0FoWg)

Or just send us on an odyssey.

Posted by: Moon Base Alpha at June 25, 2024 11:55 AM (kIGcT)

231 "Considering their tats, piercings and hair colorings, I feel like most people put warning labels on themselves.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer"

The haircut favored by illegals from Columbia and Venezuela are exactly that.

Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 11:55 AM (vFG9F)

232 ....psst, buddy, care to buy a bridge? I've got one cheap, barely collapsed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

Only got hit by shipping once...

Posted by: Brother Tim sez fuck cancer at June 25, 2024 11:55 AM (OUMaO)

233 They should put warning labels on people.
Posted by: fd
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Tattoos and hair dye are tells.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2024 11:55 AM (XeU6L)

234
Feeling a bit better?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 11:53 AM (KbCG3)

Yes. I was more worried about the test coming back positive than the current situation, honestly. Now that that's past, we can concentrate on the present.

She's had conversations, some I've been witness to, with ladies that have had stage 4 and such that are cancer free and doing fine years later, so it's calmed my nerves a bit and given her confidence going into treatment. Surgery is already scheduled for next month. We just have to decide what exactly she's wanting to have done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)

235 Since he was the detective, why didn't they have a patrolman assigned as his driver?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024

***
I think Stuart Whitman, who played a uniformed patrolman, did drive him now and then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 11:55 AM (J2vNu)

236 214 " Today, for the first time in the history of our office, I am issuing a Surgeon General’s Advisory on Firearm Violence. Firearm violence is a public health crisis in America that poses a serious threat to the health and well-being of our country."

They want to put warning labels on firearms.
Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 11:52 AM (vFG9F)

Plagiarist.

Posted by: Gov Lujan Grisham, NM SSR at June 25, 2024 11:56 AM (kIGcT)

237 I think Stuart Whitman, who played a uniformed patrolman, did drive him now and then.
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What was Robin doing in the Batmobile? What would say he did in the Bat Cave?

Posted by: Pudinhead at June 25, 2024 11:57 AM (n17eQ)

238 Fell in love with HP during an especially nasty bout of insomnia during a divorce.
Posted by: rickb223
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I still want his car, pic:
https://tinyurl.com/247u79dt
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2024

***
A Buick (note the portholes, a postwar trademark for Buicks)!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 11:57 AM (J2vNu)

239 Tattoos and hair dye are tells.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 25, 2024 11:55 AM (XeU6L)

Along with various metals embedded in the face.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2024 11:57 AM (pohLc)

240 How it happened is like everywhere, one party rule destroys absolutely.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2024 11:57 AM (17s+e)

241 There will be blood pudding.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 25, 2024 11:57 AM (J8LnB)

242 Highway Patrol - Powerful patrol cars, fast motorcycles, and superheterodyne two-way radios combine to fight crime on the rural highways of America's wide open spaces.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 11:58 AM (1UfpD)

243 Remember: “firearm violence” is bad, violence by all other means is perfectly OK. Gangbangers, switch to knives. That makes your violence acceptable.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 25, 2024 11:58 AM (kIGcT)

244 228 USMC weekend before payday favorite. You get one or two bottles of jug wine (depending on number of thirsty mouths) a big can of some kind of fruit juice from your buddy at the mess hall, a couple pints of Everclear, ice, mix, enjoy.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2024 11:58 AM (V5eKu)

245 92 Great post CBD. This all emanates from the Frankfurt School and the communist tactic of deconstructionism. It infested the 60s and has only metastasized since. Break down everything traditions, the family , science, history and nothing remains but the revolution. As Alinsky said "the issue is never the issue, the issue is always the revolution"
Posted by: Smell the Glove
________

I would take it back even further to Rousseau, or at least Comte.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2024 11:27 AM (Dm8we)
_______
Why no love for William of Ockham?

Scruton's Fools, Frauds, and Firebrands has background on them, but also on the French input, like Sartre and Foucault. It took many to build this tower of s**t.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2024 11:58 AM (1bNHn)

246 What the heck does nedes wolde wende mean?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2024 11:58 AM (63Dwl)

247 Yes. I was more worried about the test coming back positive than the current situation, honestly. Now that that's past, we can concentrate on the present.

She's had conversations, some I've been witness to, with ladies that have had stage 4 and such that are cancer free and doing fine years later, so it's calmed my nerves a bit and given her confidence going into treatment. Surgery is already scheduled for next month. We just have to decide what exactly she's wanting to have done.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:55 AM (Zz0t1)

I'll celebrate any good news for you. Continued prayers, brother.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 11:59 AM (KbCG3)

248
I'll celebrate any good news for you. Continued prayers, brother.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 11:59 AM (KbCG3)

Thank you. Most appreciated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)

249 I live in Laguna Hills CA in a modest 3200 sq.ft. home, but the back yard is gorgeous, particularly this time of year. The jasmine scent, the bougainvillea bushes and jacaranda trees, our rose garden. It is breathtaking. The temperature is perfect almost year round. We are 10 minutes from the coast, just far enough that the gloom burns off before noon. I am approaching retirement (29yrs) and nothing would be more pleasant than to spend my golden years in my back yard weeding my one acre hillside and jogging the horse trails with my golden retrievers.

Life is perfect.

But I still owe $900k on my home. It is worth $2.8m. So, I could cash out and live like a king anywhere, but where to go? How could I replicate what I have now? The weather, the beauty, the beach, the mountains, the desert, everything.

Posted by: tommylotto at June 25, 2024 12:00 PM (6QQM8)

250 I like the term "tackle box face."

Posted by: It's a good descriptor at June 25, 2024 12:00 PM (dg+HA)

251 Compare gun violence deaths to covid vaccine deaths. See which is higher.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at June 25, 2024 12:00 PM (17s+e)

252 What was Robin doing in the Batmobile? What would say he did in the Bat Cave?
Posted by: Pudinhead at June 25, 2024 1

***
Robin was old enough to drive, wasn't he? And -- if I'd been writing Batman as a comic -- I'd have shown the young Dick Grayson studying, and as Robin, boning up on criminology, basic forensic chemistry, the elements of ballistics, and the like. Batman was supposed to be a kind of Sherlock Holmes in a cape and mask, with all sorts of esoteric knowledge tucked away in his brain, or knowing where to look something up. Robin should have been learning some of that too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 12:00 PM (J2vNu)

253 What the heck does nedes wolde wende mean?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2024 11:58 AM (63Dwl)

She won't be coming back......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:00 PM (Zz0t1)

254 Joe Mannix was knocked out a total of 93 times, most by violence and some by drugs, and shot a total of 18 times in the course of the series. What a guy!

Posted by: Quinn Martin (Irwin Cohn) at June 25, 2024 12:01 PM (V5BDR)

255 Carlo Rossi Burgundy 12 bucks a gallon here.

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at June 25, 2024 12:01 PM (8ZuHs)

256 Look at the current mayor of Oakland CA as an example of a typical CA Democrat. She's a crook and a thief who blames Republicans for noticing that she's a crook and a thief.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

At her press conference recently, she gave a few (insincere) words regarding the Lake Merritt shooting and instead used this time to proclaim her innocence. The NAACP issued a statement that she should resign. When you've lost the NAACP...

Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2024 12:02 PM (oiNtH)

257 246 What the heck does nedes wolde wende mean?

i'm presuming something like "needs would wend"; you'd just have to figure out how to deal with life afterward.

Posted by: cheap fake anachronda at June 25, 2024 12:02 PM (sGtp+)

258 I blame it on the assholes who went to Berkeley.

Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2024 12:02 PM (4wq+Z)

259 Robin was old enough to drive, wasn't he? And -- if I'd been writing Batman as a comic -- I'd have shown the young Dick Grayson studying, and as Robin, boning up on criminology, basic forensic chemistry, the elements of ballistics, and the like. Batman was supposed to be a kind of Sherlock Holmes in a cape and mask, with all sorts of esoteric knowledge tucked away in his brain, or knowing where to look something up. Robin should have been learning some of that too.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Robin should have been boning up on computers for crime solving.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 12:03 PM (1UfpD)

260 ut I still owe $900k on my home. It is worth $2.8m. So, I could cash out and live like a king anywhere, but where to go? How could I replicate what I have now? The weather, the beauty, the beach, the mountains, the desert, everything. Posted by: tommylotto

3 out 5 is doable. If you take up drinking you won't miss the other two. This may or may not be based on actual experience.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at June 25, 2024 12:03 PM (W3n7o)

261 Joe Mannix was knocked out a total of 93 times, most by violence and some by drugs, and shot a total of 18 times in the course of the series. What a guy!
Posted by: Quinn Martin

And through all of this, he has remained one of our most prolific posters at the HQ!

Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2024 12:03 PM (oiNtH)

262 Growing up in the Napa Valley was wonderful. You couldn't pay me to go back for a visit now

Posted by: Ben HaduButker made the speech at a CATHOLIC at June 25, 2024 12:04 PM (8ZuHs)

263 What the heck does nedes wolde wende mean?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 25, 2024 11:58 AM (63Dwl)

Google translated it to "nedes wolde wende", which was helpful.

MS' Copilot AI says it means "had to go".

Posted by: spindrift at June 25, 2024 12:04 PM (OguvZ)

264 248
I'll celebrate any good news for you. Continued prayers, brother.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 11:59 AM (KbCG3)

Thank you. Most appreciated.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:59 AM (Zz0t1)
_______
Seconded. At 12:30 I have to take my wife for more tests. At least we know it's not cancer.

This is the only time in my life when I've had to drive over an hour for medical stuff. Grew up in NY suburbs. Then Charlottesville and Richmond.

But it's nice living in a town were the big crime news is often that some vandal turned on a spigot at the library, flooding the parking lot.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2024 12:04 PM (1bNHn)

265
Destroying all of those things played perfectly with the progressive desire to rebuild society...after it tears it down.

Rebuild society? It's so cute that you think the Donk commie cocksuckers actually want to build something. Their goal is simply the destruction of Western Civilization. Destruction is the point. They literally don't care about what comes afterwards.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 25, 2024 12:04 PM (n+4am)

266 At her press conference recently, she gave a few (insincere) words regarding the Lake Merritt shooting and instead used this time to proclaim her innocence. The NAACP issued a statement that she should resign. When you've lost the NAACP...
Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2024 12:02 PM (oiNtH)
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The NAACP needs to shut up. The current mayor of Oakland is the result of policies the NAACP advocated for.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at June 25, 2024 12:04 PM (tT6L1)

267 Those nairobi protests sound almost as bad as J6. Why hasn't Trump told the kenyan protesters to stand down?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at June 25, 2024 12:04 PM (rsqyi)

268 229 219 217 They should put warning labels on people.
Posted by: fd at June 25, 2024 11:53 AM (vFG9F)

What you said
Posted by: It's me donna at June 25, 2024 11:53 AM (Akjoo)

Considering their tats, piercings and hair colorings, I feel like most people put warning labels on themselves.

like the far side cartoon "how nature says 'don't touch'"

Posted by: cheap fake anachronda at June 25, 2024 12:04 PM (sGtp+)

269 Not a muthafuckin nickel to CA. If they do, I'll be on the news.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 25, 2024 12:05 PM (ewjUl)

270 This is the only time in my life when I've had to drive over an hour for medical stuff. Grew up in NY suburbs. Then Charlottesville and Richmond.

But it's nice living in a town were the big crime news is often that some vandal turned on a spigot at the library, flooding the parking lot.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2024 12:04 PM (1bNHn)

Prayers to you and the missus as well.

Godspeed.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 12:05 PM (Zz0t1)

271 Joe Mannix was knocked out a total of 93 times, most by violence and some by drugs, and shot a total of 18 times in the course of the series. What a guy!
Posted by: Quinn Martin (Irwin Cohn) at June 25, 2024

***
I've noticed that in the early days of Barnaby Jones, which are running on MeTV now, the slant was much more cerebral, Columbo-like if you will, than it came to be later. The creator, writers, and producers were smart enough to know that while it might be fun to show Mannix being clubbed, and Frank Cannon acting like an action hero, that was out of the question for Ebsen as Barnaby. So they made him a elderly Columbo type. We still saw the murder and knew who it was -- but the fun was in watching the wily Jones outwit and trap his quarry.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 12:05 PM (J2vNu)

272
Virginia makes wine.
Napa makes auto parts.

Posted by: Fun bumper sticker at June 25, 2024 12:06 PM (dg+HA)

273 I would take it back even further to Rousseau, or at least Comte.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at June 25, 2024 11:27 AM (Dm8we)
_______
Why no love for William of Ockham?

Scruton's Fools, Frauds, and Firebrands has background on them, but also on the French input, like Sartre and Foucault.

I recommend Paul Johnson's Intellectuals. It's a series of bios on some of the most reprehensible people imaginable, and certainly nobody you'd want designing society. Rousseau and Sartre are included.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 12:06 PM (xCA6C)

274 The Black Box and House Wine boxed wines are quite good for the money. They're a step above jug wine, and a step below truly good 750ml bottled wine. It's the sweet spot for me unless I want something special for a special occasion.

I rarely spend money on white wine. What's the point? But I'll open up the wine racks for a monster red now and again.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 12:06 PM (iFTx/)

275 HP car looks like 56 Buick Special. My older brother had one in mid sixties, without the markings. Gave six to eight people a ride to HS on rainy days.

Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2024 12:06 PM (4780s)

276 259 Robin should have been boning up on computers for crime solving.

punching cards. patching paper tape by hand. toggling programs into the front panel. you know, high-tech stuff.

Posted by: cheap fake anachronda at June 25, 2024 12:07 PM (sGtp+)

277 @221

>>She's a crook and a thief who blames Republicans for noticing that she's a crook and a thief.

These are of course spectral and imaginary Republicans from far-off realms, as there are no Republicans elected to anything in Oakland or most of California.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2024 12:07 PM (XV/Pl)

278 Robin should have been boning up on computers for crime solving.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024

***
In the TV show, yes, where they had a Bat-Computer. In the comics the Cave had files and info cards like a library.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 12:08 PM (J2vNu)

279 punching cards. patching paper tape by hand. toggling programs into the front panel. you know, high-tech stuff.
Posted by: cheap fake anachronda

The whole bat cave could have been an IBM monster.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024 12:08 PM (1UfpD)

280 Modest 3200sf?

Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2024 12:08 PM (4780s)

281 I sometimes watch The First 48. But not often, as I find it depressing that so many people murder so many people for no reason or a stupid reason. Also, the people getting murdered are usually doing shit and going places that might well get them murdered. Dope dealing is a fast way to get planted.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2024 12:09 PM (pohLc)

282 But I still owe $900k on my home. It is worth $2.8m. So, I could cash out and live like a king anywhere, but where to go? How could I replicate what I have now? The weather, the beauty, the beach, the mountains, the desert, everything.
Posted by: tommylotto at June 25, 2024 12:00 PM

If you stick around much longer, the value is going to start dropping. If you value freedom and safety over the aforementioned items you should move. No place is perfect, but CA is on the edge IMHO.

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 25, 2024 12:09 PM (ewjUl)

283 punching cards. patching paper tape by hand. toggling programs into the front panel. you know, high-tech stuff.

Posted by: cheap fake anachronda at June 25, 2024 12:07 PM (sGtp+)

I remember paper tape....then....floppies.

Posted by: BignJames at June 25, 2024 12:09 PM (AwYPR)

284 The NAACP needs to shut up. The current mayor of Oakland is the result of policies the NAACP advocated for.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker

Agree. Her check must have bounced.

Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2024 12:09 PM (oiNtH)

285 How can there still be a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People if there aren't any more colored people?

Posted by: Maybe I shouldn't ask at June 25, 2024 12:09 PM (dg+HA)

286 259 Robin should have been boning up on computers

Call me!

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at June 25, 2024 12:10 PM (w9Wax)

287 223 Well, they had Joe Friday keeping the crooks in line.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2024

***
Along with Bob Ironside among the pro cops, and Frank Cannon, Joe Mannix, and Barnaby Jones among the private eyes!

don't forget ernest borgnine and his robot partner

Posted by: cheap fake anachronda at June 25, 2024 12:10 PM (sGtp+)

288 How can there still be a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People if there aren't any more colored people?

Right? Race is just a social construct.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 12:10 PM (xCA6C)

289 punching cards. patching paper tape by hand. toggling programs into the front panel. you know, high-tech stuff.

Posted by: cheap fake anachronda at June 25, 2024 12:07 PM (sGtp+)
________
I wonder why Jack Aubrey never ordered Warp factor 10.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2024 12:10 PM (1bNHn)

290 California has about as much of a chance of a rebirth as I do in recouping my heavy investment in flash bulbs and VCRs.

Posted by: Not So Savvy Investor at June 25, 2024 12:10 PM (V5BDR)

291 Modest 3200sf?
Posted by: From about That Time at June 25, 2024 12:08 PM (4780s)

I think that's what's called the humblebrag.

Posted by: spindrift at June 25, 2024 12:11 PM (OguvZ)

292 199 196 "Jack Smith now admits that the FBI planted coversheets with classified markings on top of the documents found in Trump's home.
Posted by: rhennigantx "

Is this new ?
---
Yes because before they had only admitted that they merely removed the classified docs and had put placeholders in the boxes.
When they admitted they lost the order and box number.

This is an admission that none of the docs they said were classified had "classified" marked on them.
So Trump, the valet, and everyone else Jack has charged were supposed to intuit--without even knowing what was in the boxes-- that ordinary looking docs were actually classified.
Again: Without ever seeing or looking at the docs.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2024 12:11 PM (ogaqr)

293 punching cards. patching paper tape by hand. toggling programs into the front panel. you know, high-tech stuff.
Posted by: cheap fake anachronda
*
The whole bat cave could have been an IBM monster.
Posted by: rickb223 at June 25, 2024

***
Someday I'll write an Ellery Queen story, time-shifted to 1990, where he is first learning about computers and word processing on an early PC.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 12:11 PM (J2vNu)

294 Poetry. Robin should have been boning up on Longfellow.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at June 25, 2024 12:11 PM (yMhwm)

295 281 I sometimes watch The First 48. But not often, as I find it depressing that so many people murder so many people for no reason or a stupid reason. Also, the people getting murdered are usually doing shit and going places that might well get them murdered. Dope dealing is a fast way to get planted.

Posted by: Xipe Totec at June 25, 2024 12:09 PM (pohLc)

Watching that show will kill your faith in humanity. How most of those people lived as long as they did is impressive.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 12:11 PM (KbCG3)

296 Questions We're Not Allowed To Ask for $400, Alex.

Posted by: Ken Jennings at June 25, 2024 12:11 PM (dg+HA)

297 287 223 Well, they had Joe Friday keeping the crooks in line.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2024

***
Along with Bob Ironside among the pro cops, and Frank Cannon, Joe Mannix, and Barnaby Jones among the private eyes!

don't forget ernest borgnine and his robot partner
Posted by: cheap fake anachronda at June 25, 2024 12:10 PM (sGtp+)
________
But of course, SF in the 70s was the safest of all, with Harry Callahan on the job.

Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2024 12:12 PM (1bNHn)

298 TY, CBD, for the update on JT. One assumes a disappearance is health related, but always hope there might be another reason. Many prayers going his way.

Posted by: EveR at June 25, 2024 12:12 PM (MUpk6)

299 Is this new ?
---
Yes because before they had only admitted that they merely removed the classified docs and had put placeholders in the boxes.
When they admitted they lost the order and box number.

This is an admission that none of the docs they said were classified had "classified" marked on them.
So Trump, the valet, and everyone else Jack has charged were supposed to intuit--without even knowing what was in the boxes-- that ordinary looking docs were actually classified.
Again: Without ever seeing or looking at the docs.

I'd say unbelievable, but sadly, it's all too believable.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 12:12 PM (xCA6C)

300 New one. Wuhan.

Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 12:12 PM (xCA6C)

301 But of course, SF in the 70s was the safest of all, with Harry Callahan on the job.
Posted by: Eeyore at June 25, 2024 12:12 PM

Especially if you were trying to rob a diner!

Posted by: Minnfidel at June 25, 2024 12:13 PM (ewjUl)

302 California, here they come, right back where they started from.

No power , no water that's what we're on about.

Posted by: Eratosthenes at June 25, 2024 12:13 PM (eEIvI)

303 299 Is this new ?
---
Yes because before they had only admitted that they merely removed the classified docs and had put placeholders in the boxes.
When they admitted they lost the order and box number.

This is an admission that none of the docs they said were classified had "classified" marked on them.
So Trump, the valet, and everyone else Jack has charged were supposed to intuit--without even knowing what was in the boxes-- that ordinary looking docs were actually classified.
Again: Without ever seeing or looking at the docs.

I'd say unbelievable, but sadly, it's all too believable.
Posted by: Archimedes at June 25, 2024 12:12 PM (xCA6C)

Well of course they had to make it up. TRUMP FLUSHED THE REAL CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS! - DU, probably

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at June 25, 2024 12:13 PM (KbCG3)

304 At her press conference recently, she gave a few (insincere) words regarding the Lake Merritt shooting and instead used this time to proclaim her innocence. The NAACP issued a statement that she should resign. When you've lost the NAACP...
Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2024 12:02 PM (oiNtH)
_______

NAACP was probably embarrassed by the police video of her antics and arrest and aftermath. She looked, talked, and acted like an illiterate junkie hood rat whore. Since when did wealthy, privileged blacks in prestigious positions start talking like filthy scumbags? They seem to all do that now. This is a new thing.

Posted by: Elric Blade at June 25, 2024 12:13 PM (iFTx/)

305 There was a later story in one of the DC Comics where Dick had gone out on his own as "Nightwing." In it he probes the mysterious suicide of a young woman he has known. At one point he reflects, "Since I was supposed tobe the teenage Ellery Queen, how come I wasn't coming up with neat deductions?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 12:14 PM (J2vNu)

306 We moved away from the foothills of the Rockies to a location not known for being spectacular (but it is quite pretty) and we have found the improved culture to be so refreshing and affirming that we hardly miss the mountains.

Posted by: Emmie at June 25, 2024 12:14 PM (Sf2cq)

307 Noodus ace bat-virus

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 25, 2024 12:14 PM (J2vNu)

308 How can there still be a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People if there aren't any more colored people?
Posted by: Maybe I shouldn't ask at June 25, 2024 12:09 PM (dg+HA)

I was watching a video on YouTube yesterday which included someone reading a civil war era newspaper article. The article referred to blacks using the vernacular of that era: negros…. YouTube beeped out that word every single time.

I understand it’s not current but this was reading a newspaper article from the 1860s. Am I so fragile that I’ll be damaged if I hear the word negro in that context? And yet we still have the NAACP

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2024 12:14 PM (SlNuN)

309 Californiacation

Posted by: Archer at June 25, 2024 12:15 PM (eEIvI)

310 A popular song in SF was "Sugar in my coffee, ketchup on my hot dog, I'm gonna blow your brains out" by Harry Callahan and the Model 29s.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2024 12:15 PM (V5eKu)

311 I'm considering the purchase of an historical 48 star flag as I no longer consider California or New York to part of our country but rather enemy territory. Some other states are on the bubble too: looking at you Washington and Oregon.

Posted by: Blast Hardcheese at June 25, 2024 12:15 PM (PWI4f)

312 @249

>>But I still owe $900k on my home. It is worth $2.8m. So, I could cash out and live like a king anywhere, but where to go? How could I replicate what I have now? The weather, the beauty, the beach, the mountains, the desert, everything.

My bet is things get sporty before you can pay that note off and if you got the kind of bread and skills to pay a 900k note, you can pretty much move to wherever you want.

But I understand where you're coming from, psychically, I cannot leave the North East as leftist as it is, and the only place that I could imagine myself moving to would be the Pacific North West, which in many ways, is even more leftist than the North East.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 25, 2024 12:15 PM (XV/Pl)

313 LA grandson, 5, was playing with his matchbox cars, arranging them in a close grid on the carpet.
"Are you making a parking lot, D?"
"No, traffic."

Posted by: sal: tolle adversarium et afflige inimicum at June 25, 2024 12:15 PM (y7DxH)

314 The Hodge twins use the word, negro all the time on you tube without any bleeps.

Posted by: Archer at June 25, 2024 12:17 PM (eEIvI)

315 I blame it on the assholes who went to Berkeley.
Posted by: nurse ratched at June 25, 2024 12:02 PM (4wq+Z)

Don’t discount their value as a reliable conference win for the Huskies. Alas no more. They can Duke it out with Notre Dame.

Posted by: Pete Bog at June 25, 2024 12:18 PM (2Sy3+)

316 Been in California since the 1960's. Not leaving.
What's going to straighten out California is the same thing that will straighten out Washington.... money.

California has hit the wall sooner than Washington because it can't print money.
California has used every accounting trick it can to push costs into the future and income into the present.

Posted by: torabora at June 25, 2024 12:18 PM (0Gnoc)

317 I understand it’s not current but this was reading a newspaper article from the 1860s. Am I so fragile that I’ll be damaged if I hear the word negro in that context? And yet we still have the NAACP
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at June 25, 2024 12:14 PM (SlNuN

I always thought that "negro" was a very dignified-sounding term. If fact, it was the preferred term when I was a youngster.

Posted by: Emmie at June 25, 2024 12:19 PM (Sf2cq)

318 So basically, Jack Smith grabbed a bunch of "classified" cover sheets.
Riffled through the boxes. And slapped classified willy-nilly.

This goes back to the surprise of Trump's lawyers at the raid, why they were confused it escalated so quickly-- when they were fully cooperating!

Because Smith feared the agreement would be reached to remove them--including inspection under the supervision of Trump's attorneys.
And that would have been the death knell of his case.
Because no reasonable person would have thought the docs removed were classified.
And, the only docs that were, were the ones sent in the second tranch--packed under and by the Archives. Who were the ones who deliberately hid classified docs in the boxes for Smith to "find."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2024 12:20 PM (ogaqr)

319 Since when did wealthy, privileged blacks in prestigious positions start talking like filthy scumbags? They seem to all do that now. This is a new thing.
Posted by: Elric Blade

It is definately a thing now. Bad grammar, misspelled words, profanity laced throughout seems to be championed in some circles. Great role models for kids to emulate along with looking and acting like whores and street thugs are to further the decline of America.

Posted by: Cheri at June 25, 2024 12:22 PM (oiNtH)

320 California is a financial zombie.
Ahnuld promised to break open all zee boxezz. But all he did was borrow $36 billion at 6%>believe it or not Governor Brown paid that off. But the legislators borrowed many times more than 36 billion more. Mostly for consumables like illegal alien care. And some for useless stuff like trains to nowhere. But the income needed to support the borrowing decreased over time as the highest state taxes drove earners away and replaced with poverty stricken third workers that contribute next to nothing. Stores closed because of soft on crime. Emptied prisons to fuel crime. It's Dante's outer circle 🔴 of Hell . Not Hell yet but we're going there.

Posted by: torabora at June 25, 2024 12:25 PM (0Gnoc)

321 Recall also that Smith has fought tooth and nail to prevent Trump's attorneys from seeing the actual, original "classified" documents.
In fact, I think they still haven't been allowed access.

Because he desperately needed the valet to plead guilty to mishandling first.
So he can bootstrap that onto Trump--without ever having to produce the actual documents.
Make Trump guilty by imputing the guilty plea of another onto him--guilt by association.
Just like they did in NY.

But Trump is the dictator and threat to justice ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at June 25, 2024 12:25 PM (ogaqr)

322 One Sunday morning while living in Erie PA, the kid called and was going to be passing through, spend the night. No beer in the house, I drove over to western NY to pick up some (PA you had to wait until 1100 and only at bars. Paying for the beer, I realized reflex action had me stick my little Beretta in my hip pocket. Got out of NY state carefully. Anyway, on a road trip I was in Bullhead City, went for a drive about and wound up in Needles CA after kinda getting lost. Had a gun on me, another in the car and got terrified. Any state that can deprive you of a basic right is no bueno.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at June 25, 2024 12:26 PM (V5eKu)

323 Really sad to see the downfall of the state of California. I have posted before how it was a strong red state from 1960 through 1992, with one exception of voting Democrat in 1964.

Presidential voting results in CA:

1960: GOP +0.5%
1964: DEM +18.3%
1968: GOP +3.1%
1972: GOP + 13.5%
1976: GOP +1.8%
1980: GOP +16.8%
1984: GOP +16.1%
1988: GOP +3.6%
1992: DEM +13.4%

1996 D+12.9%, 2000 D+11.8%, 2004 D+9.9%, 2008 D+24.1%, 2012 D+23.1%, 2016 D+30.1%, 2020 D+29.2%.

The state of Illinois has followed a similar trend. Texas is sadly following the same trend now as well.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 25, 2024 12:27 PM (P5BPp)

324 I have family still in Chicago. Some of them are reaching retirement age and may be moving to Texas shortly after that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at June 25, 2024 11:28 AM

I was born and raised south side of Chicago. Only family still alive who still lives there is my middle brother, my dad and my cousins. I moved to SE Michigan after graduating college in 1999. Youngest brother has been all around world with Army since 2011. Grandparents have all passed away. Two uncles have passed away. And my mom retired and moved to Arizona in 2014.

Back then, Arizona was somewhat sane. 10 years later, it seems as corrupt as Chicago. In retrospect, Florida may have been the better retirement location choice.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 25, 2024 12:31 PM (P5BPp)

325 These little robots fly around and when you say a bad word it flies into your face and blows up.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at June 25, 2024 12:48 PM (J8LnB)

326 Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

My family there has moved to Indiana. I may end up there too.

Posted by: PJU at June 25, 2024 12:55 PM (G1dq6)

327 The state of Illinois has followed a similar trend. Texas is sadly following the same trend now as well.
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 25, 2024 12:27 PM (P5BPp)

All you know is being a defeatist and constant whining that the end of this state is absolutely inevitable. We should just all stop voting and sit around and pout and whine as well. Let’s just stop trying, because based on voting numbers from back in the 1980# our doom is inevitable.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 25, 2024 01:07 PM (JKPiI)

328 All you know is being a defeatist and constant whining that the end of this state is absolutely inevitable.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at June 25, 2024 01:07 PM

At no time have I ever stated that things are inevitable. I have pointed out the trends as a warning for people to not make the same mistakes as Democrats did in 2016 assuming that states which voted long-time for one side were going to continue to do so.

Also, we should be learning from the history of California and Illinois as the same trend is happening in Texas. It is not too late to stop the trend. But the first thing that must happen is to acknowledge it is happening and make a plan to stop it. Not complain about people who are pointing out facts and reality.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 25, 2024 01:15 PM (P5BPp)

329 ". . . the idiocy and destructiveness of the 1960s radicals has subsumed the Democrat party, or perhaps that movement exposed the Democrat party's traditional leaning!"

What's for sure, not perhaps, is that in addition to the long march into academia and K-12 education, and from there into media local, state, and federal bureaucracies, the 1960s radicals took over the Democrat party starting at the local level: the Democratic Clubs in each city and the county committees.
They got themselves elected to city councils and school boards, and took it from there.

Posted by: Peter B at June 25, 2024 01:31 PM (sCwkm)

330 Excellent post! Thanks, CBD.

Posted by: one-eyed cat peeping in the seafood store at June 25, 2024 02:15 PM (Ybhj0)

331 California = Venezuela
Same political "leadership", same outcome.

Posted by: Uncle Jefe at June 25, 2024 04:04 PM (gAuAm)

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