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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread (7/3/24)
Sore loser laws? It's a left coast issue I guess.
July 2 (UPI) -- A primary election in Oregon was resolved with a coin flip under state law -- but the winner of the flip was ineligible to run. The 8th House District in Eugene, which skews heavily Democratic, had no Republicans on the primary ballot last week, so the race came down to write-in votes.
'Anything but neighborly': Without permit, church charges ahead with religious festivalWhatever happened to love thy neighbor as you love yourself?
MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. —
As the music emanating from Coraopolis Heights Road gets louder, so does the uproar. "What has happened with this group is anything but neighborly," said Kevin Rooney, one of dozens of Moon Township residents who attended a township supervisors' meeting Monday. Rooney and others took turns during the meeting's public comment period to complain about the loud noise at 1442 Coraopolis Heights Road, where a church is holding a weeklong religious festival.
Why ruin a good walk when you can duke it out?
Altercation between 'numerous' golfers on B.C. course broken up by RCMPThere goes the theory Canadians are so nice.
*SIMPLE TRUTH 1:*Lovers help each other undress before sex. After sex, they always dress on their own. Moral of the story -- In life, no one helps you once you're screwed. *SIMPLE TRUTH 2:*When a woman is pregnant, all her friends touch her stomach and say, "Congratulations." But none go up to the man, touch his penis and say, "Good Job." Moral of the story -- Hard work is rarely appreciated. *SIX RULES TO REMEMBER IN LIFE:* 1. Money can't buy happiness - but it's far more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than on a bicycle. 2. Forgive your enemy - but* remember the asshole's name*. 3. If you help someone when they're in trouble - they will remember you when they're in trouble again. 4. Alcohol does not solve any problems - but then, neither does milk. *5*. Many people are alive only because it's illegal to shoot them. 6. No matter how rich you are, no matter how generous you are, no matter how good you look. The number of people who attend your funeral will depend on the weather, *unless there's an open bar.* *BONUS RULES:* 1. Condoms do not guarantee safe sex! A friend of mine was wearing one when he was shot by the woman's husband. 2. I think all politicians should wear uniforms. You know, like NASCAR drivers, so we could identify their corporate sponsors. 3. Also, all politicians should serve only two terms -- one in office and one in prison. *This was a public service announcement**.*
Bear tranquilized, captured after unusual sighting in Chatsworth
CHATSWORTH, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A bear that was spotted roaming the Los Angeles neighborhood of Chatsworth was tranquilized and captured after it spent the night in an area that doesn't often experience such sightings. The collared and tagged bear was first seen Monday night in an industrial area near De Soto Avenue and Lassen Street. Los Angeles police officers responded to the area and watched the bear as it meandered between industrial buildings and parking lots, but they eventually left the animal to keep wandering. By Tuesday morning, the bear was seen nestled high up in a tree on nearby Independence Avenue.
Yes the USA has its problems. However, we still remain the city shining on a hill. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.
THORNTON, Ill. - There’s a new roof going up on a house in south suburban Thornton. Normally, that’s not big news. But under this new roof, a remarkable story played out involving a military veteran with an ill granddaughter who got a helping hand from a local contractor.
El Paso police scrambled when a woman called 911 on Sunday claiming her small child was inside a vehicle that was reportedly stolen. Police officials said it turned out the child did not exist. Stacie Dashay Marie Smith, 19, of East El Paso, was arrested on a charge of making a false report or alarm following an investigation by detectives with the Crimes Against Persons Unit, which handles kidnappings along with other major crimes.
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Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 03, 2024 10:03 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 03, 2024 10:03 PM (7+K68)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 03, 2024 10:03 PM (FK/Hs)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 03, 2024 10:03 PM (VSht7)
A new one!!!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 03, 2024 10:03 PM (FK/Hs)
Hello AZ
They are new each night.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 03, 2024 10:04 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 03, 2024 10:04 PM (zhMsg)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 03, 2024 10:02 PM (dZVON
I'm sure you feel like you're first, but you obviously forgot your TPS cover sheet.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 03, 2024 10:05 PM (7+K68)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 03, 2024 10:05 PM (dZVON)
A physical impossibility. Not nearly enough cloth exists.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 03, 2024 10:05 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 03, 2024 10:05 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 03, 2024 10:05 PM (7+K68)
I never watch tv anymore. However, I was treated to the experience this evening while out for supper at a tavern. I saw a Biden commercial and I learned the following: Apparently, the high gas prices are due solely to corporate greed and gouging. But if we simply re-elect Joe he will rein in those nefarious oil conglomerate CEOs and undo all the evil they have loosed upon us.
I don't know about you but I am convinced!
Posted by: Tonypete at July 03, 2024 10:06 PM (WXNFJ)
This is a great idea. At least we could know who we are being sold out to.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 03, 2024 10:06 PM (rQBJ9)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 03, 2024 10:06 PM (8sMut)
https://tinyurl.com/mry2rcds
Posted by: tankdemon at July 03, 2024 10:06 PM (VSht7)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 03, 2024 10:05 PM (kpS4V)
Thank you Eris.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at July 03, 2024 10:06 PM (QXQ4l)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 03, 2024 10:06 PM (kpS4V)
i think the police should investigate the murder of proper nouns.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 03, 2024 10:06 PM (8sMut)
what's wrong with not using capital letters for proper nouns? or with not using them at all for that matter...
Posted by: e.e. cummings at July 03, 2024 10:07 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 03, 2024 10:07 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: TRex at July 03, 2024 10:07 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 03, 2024 10:07 PM (tq6v2)
That Lincoln could really turn a phrase.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 03, 2024 10:07 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 03, 2024 10:07 PM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2024 10:08 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 03, 2024 10:08 PM (kpS4V)
Hi, good evening all. I'll be in as soon as I finish paying bills.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 03, 2024 10:07 PM (lCWOD)
__________
I got some you can take care of too.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2024 10:08 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 03, 2024 10:09 PM (zhMsg)
Posted by: John Adams (1735-1826) at July 03, 2024 10:09 PM (8sMut)
i think the police should investigate the murder of proper nouns.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
Capitalization is earned, not given!
Gosh I hate joey b.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 03, 2024 10:09 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2024 10:10 PM (1Nxff)
Posted by: Oddbob at July 03, 2024 10:10 PM (/y8xj)
Posted by: jimmy at July 03, 2024 10:10 PM (AVyeO)
Dandy fireworks photo up top.
Happy Birthday to the greatest nation on God's green earth! May we continue to receive God's blessings.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 03, 2024 10:10 PM (U3L4U)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 03, 2024 10:10 PM (7+K68)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 03, 2024 10:11 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2024 10:11 PM (1Nxff)
Hi you guys!
Posted by: COMountainMarie
Sometimes not being the first one out of the landing craft is good.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 03, 2024 10:11 PM (vJiyU)
We are 2 years from this country (defeatists notwithstanding) turning 250 years old. Who would YOU rather have in office on Saturday, July 4, 2026?
Do you want people who are predisposed to hate the country in office then (or ever, but especially not on that day)?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 03, 2024 10:11 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 03, 2024 10:12 PM (U3L4U)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 03, 2024 10:08 PM (kpS4V)
Biden't keen eye is the astrolabe of the substantive Sun - his truth discerning heart is the celestial observatory of Attributes -
Posted by: Abul Fazl at July 03, 2024 10:13 PM (8sMut)
They think I'll watch a 30 second ad because they promise there will be less of them.
No, YouTube. I will exit the video and start it again and search for where I was before. And if that takes 45 seconds, I consider that a-ok!
I hate ads. Above all things, advertisers suck the worst.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 03, 2024 10:13 PM (7+K68)
Sorry, this is Light Raillery Night.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2024 10:11 PM (1Nxff)
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*leaves large economy-size bag of bon mots in the car*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 03, 2024 10:13 PM (zhMsg)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient
MisHum does the homework so we can fart around at the back of the classroom.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 03, 2024 10:14 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 03, 2024 10:15 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Piper at July 03, 2024 10:15 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 03, 2024 10:16 PM (i4fVr)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 03, 2024 10:07 PM (RIvkX)
Lincoln, Churchill and Reagan.
The three greatest phrase turners of modern Anglo politicians.
Posted by: jimmy at July 03, 2024 10:16 PM (AVyeO)
Hi you guys!
Posted by: COMountainMarie
Sometimes not being the first one out of the landing craft is good.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 03, 2024 10:11 PM (vJiyU)
That's right. The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 03, 2024 10:17 PM (AayhI)
Hi you guys!
Alcohol does not solve any problems - but then, neither does milk.
In life, no one helps you once you're screwed.
If you help someone when they're in trouble - they will remember you when they're in trouble again.
So many words of wisdom🙃
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 03, 2024 10:17 PM (tq6v2)
Posted by: TRex at July 03, 2024 10:17 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 03, 2024 10:09 PM (zhMsg)
Some nights we even achieve repartee.
By "we," I mean you guys I'm just a huckster.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 03, 2024 10:18 PM (VSht7)
The Babylon Bee had a joke that is all the funnier for being true:
"Canadians try to live as close as possible to the United States.
Americans try to live as far away as possible from Canada."
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 03, 2024 10:18 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Leftist at July 03, 2024 10:18 PM (0eaVi)
--
So truel
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 03, 2024 10:18 PM (Ka3bZ)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 03, 2024 10:09 PM (zhMsg)
I am still waiting for the night when we have goodinage!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 03, 2024 10:19 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 03, 2024 10:18 PM (Ka3bZ)
You know, if that's not a real word, it should be.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 03, 2024 10:20 PM (AayhI)
He stayed very disciplined during the debate, and he is keeping his mouth shut as the Democratic Party tears itself apart.
It's almost as if he's learned something from the last two Presidential campaigns.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 03, 2024 10:21 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: davidt at July 03, 2024 10:21 PM (SYTee)
Gosh I hate joey b.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 03, 2024 10:09 PM (vJiyU)
We may have a career for you. Please upload to us a sample editorial about why the United States needs to kill every single member and supporter of that illegal political organisation, the Republicans, and become a unitary Socialist state, and how this will benefit America and the world. As we are a newspaper as violently opposed to freedom and capitalism as we are to the concepts of good writing and capitalised proper nouns, you sound like a good fit.
Posted by: The Economist at July 03, 2024 10:21 PM (8sMut)
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Also black and non-binary.
Posted by: Google Gemini at July 03, 2024 10:22 PM (iZbyp)
Great celebration and if you ever find yourself near Boston on the 4th highly recommended.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2024 10:22 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: GWB at July 03, 2024 10:23 PM (AWrpC)
The Babylon Bee had a joke that is all the funnier for being true:
"Canadians try to live as close as possible to the United States.
Americans try to live as far away as possible from Canada."
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 03, 2024 10:18 PM (uxCna)
Poor Mexico! So far from God, so close to the United States.
Posted by: Porfirio Diaz at July 03, 2024 10:23 PM (8sMut)
The fireworks have begun. Glad Daisy Dog doesn't seem to be too rattled by them. Probably because she has such thunderous barkage, herself.
Speaking of Amurica, tonight we finished watching The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming. The standoff scene between the Soviet submarine and a town full of armed Americans remains amazing. Also amazing, WW3 never did start… back then.
Posted by: mindful webworker - independently at July 03, 2024 10:23 PM (nXyct)
I'm shaking here. Literally shaking. It's not B.C. you churchists. It's B.C.E!!
Posted by: Another Leftist at July 03, 2024 10:24 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 03, 2024 10:24 PM (tq6v2)
Posted by: ALH at July 03, 2024 10:24 PM (xJEPL)
Posted by: GWB at July 03, 2024 10:23 PM (AWrpC)
And is a demonstration of how cannons make great musical instruments.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 03, 2024 10:25 PM (8sMut)
A “Fun Size!” Primary. I’m sure nothing could go wrong.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 03, 2024 10:25 PM (mHaWC)
God Bless America
P.S. (...and God bless irongrampa)
Posted by: muldoon at July 03, 2024 10:25 PM (uCfKO)
Posted by: The Economist
My views on capitalism.
You send me the check, I will submit editorial.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 03, 2024 10:25 PM (vJiyU)
"Every Democrat who is calling on Crooked Joe Biden to quit was once a supporter of Biden and his failed policies that lead to extreme inflation, an open border, and chaos at home and abroad. Make no mistake that Democrats, the main stream media, and the swamp colluded to hide the truth from the American public - Joe Biden is weak, failed, dishonest, and not fit for the White House. Every one of them has lied about Joe Biden’s cognitive state and supported his disastrous policies over the past four years, especially Cackling Copilot Kamala Harris.
President Trump will beat any Democrat on November 5th because he has a proven record and an agenda to Make America Great Again."
Posted by: Piper at July 03, 2024 10:26 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: davidt at July 03, 2024 10:26 PM (SYTee)
That prayer of Lincoln's is a keeper.
Happy Fourth, all! The Horde is an American treasure.
Posted by: sal at July 03, 2024 10:26 PM (y7DxH)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
Wonder how you tune a cannon!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 03, 2024 10:26 PM (hOUT3)
A “Fun Size!” Primary. I’m sure nothing could go wrong.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 03, 2024 10:25 PM (mHaWC)
Lulz. I am totally watching every minute of the DNC this year.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 03, 2024 10:26 PM (7+K68)
A “Fun Size!” Primary. I’m sure nothing could go wrong.
Posted by: Common Tater
The dims practicing shrinkflation, how ironic.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 03, 2024 10:27 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 03, 2024 10:08 PM (1Nxff)
Please clap.
Posted by: Jeb! Bush at July 03, 2024 10:27 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: John Adams (1735-1826
Ah, but tell them the date you're talking about, John. It might prove to be surprising.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 03, 2024 10:27 PM (tmPIh)
"Every Democrat who is calling on Crooked Joe Biden to quit was once a supporter of Biden and his failed policies that lead to extreme inflation, an open border, and chaos at home and abroad. Make no mistake that Democrats, the main stream media, and the swamp colluded to hide the truth from the American public - Joe Biden is weak, failed, dishonest, and not fit for the White House. Every one of them has lied about Joe Biden’s cognitive state and supported his disastrous policies over the past four years, especially Cackling Copilot Kamala Harris.
President Trump will beat any Democrat on November 5th because he has a proven record and an agenda to Make America Great Again."
Posted by: Piper at July 03, 2024 10:26 PM (QzINz)
So. Trump is not familiar with N. Bonaparte, I see.
Good.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 03, 2024 10:27 PM (AayhI)
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 03, 2024 10:27 PM (tq6v2)
Posted by: Piper at July 03, 2024 10:26 PM (QzINz)
Remember remember the Fifth of November
Posted by: Guy Fawkes Day at July 03, 2024 10:28 PM (8sMut)
250 years in perspective:
Rome lasted 1229 years, i.e., if one uses the traditional dates for the founding of the City in 751 BC, to the deposition of the last emperor (Romulus Augustulus) in 476 AD.
Byzantium lasted 1100 years.
Easy to get gloomy, isn't it? Especially for senior citizens who've watched the entire progression, from Dwight Eisenhower to you-know-who.
Posted by: mnw at July 03, 2024 10:28 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Don Black at July 03, 2024 10:28 PM (/7KEl)
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 03, 2024 10:28 PM (6if7h)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2024 10:28 PM (SbmsJ)
Test fire a whiff of grapeshot in the general direction of commies.
Posted by: PabloD at July 03, 2024 10:28 PM (ohsd/)
BWAHAHAHAHA!!
There it is, Trump's official nickname for Kamala.
Posted by: davidt at July 03, 2024 10:28 PM (SYTee)
And was such an atheist he never referred to a higher power in any of his speechs or writings.
Posted by: jimmy at July 03, 2024 10:28 PM (AVyeO)
I see no reason why Democrat treason should ever be forgot.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 03, 2024 10:29 PM (dZVON)
God Bless America
P.S. (...and God bless irongrampa)
Posted by: muldoon at July 03, 2024 10:25 PM (uCfKO)
* * * *
Amen! Very well stated, as always, Muldoon!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 03, 2024 10:29 PM (U3L4U)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 03, 2024 10:27 PM (tmPIh)
The Twoth of July
Posted by: John Adams (1735-1826) at July 03, 2024 10:29 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 03, 2024 10:29 PM (2NHgQ)
It won't last long, though--they're cats after all--so you'd better be ready with your questions and they need to be PRECISE question. I mean, if you ask about raisins in brownies, the spell is going to shatter so hard you might get blisters on your fingertips.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 03, 2024 10:29 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: All Hail Eris
It's just a reminder to people that he screwed up last Thursday. Every time I see one I chuckle to myself. What I can't stand is that da** Whitmer. She's running them more than Biden. She needs to cut back on the hair dye. Everyone knows witches hair doesn't look like that.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 03, 2024 10:30 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: TRex at July 03, 2024 10:30 PM (IQ6Gq)
How many candidates will be coming down with "sweating sickness"?
Posted by: element-33 at July 03, 2024 10:30 PM (gKWVE)
And Colin mentioned that as part of the atheist movement had seen something similar come into his movement before gender/trans stuff went became our cultural focus.
He stated that Atheism had been focused on disbelief and then a group of people started advocating for "atheism plus", the plus here being basically woke politics. And soon after that all atheist events became atheist plus events.
Joe isn't a hostile interviewer and so they went on to other topics, but it would have been interesting to ask non-gender nut Colin if he feels any connection between his original atheist movement and the rise of the woke movement that would then cancel him for speaking basic biological truths.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2024 10:30 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 03, 2024 10:31 PM (Ka3bZ)
That was a good statement. Trump obviously had better people on his re-election team than does Biden.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2024 10:31 PM (SbmsJ)
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at July 03, 2024 10:29 PM (2NHgQ)
That's terrible. So sorry for him.
Posted by: ALH at July 03, 2024 10:31 PM (xJEPL)
That possessive apostrophe is in the wrong place, it should be assholes'. You're assuming a person only has one asshole enemy. Not in these days and times they don't.
Posted by: RickZ at July 03, 2024 10:32 PM (gKDq2)
What a retard. Didn't Lincoln know that "Diversity Is Our Strength"™ ?
(if you are of the demonic underworld, then "Our" in that context makes perfect sense)
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 03, 2024 10:32 PM (rHxhM)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 03, 2024 10:33 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: LRob in OK at July 03, 2024 10:33 PM (TSQkU)
Posted by: John Adams (1735-1826)
Yes, the great patriotic holiday of July 2! The reason why we have observances on the Fourth of July? It turns out to partially due to poor memory and partially due to the early Democratic Party trying to find something to associate with their founder, Thomas Jefferson.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 03, 2024 10:33 PM (tmPIh)
You send me the check, I will submit editorial.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 03, 2024 10:25 PM (vJiyU)
We are a news provider of great renown and you simply demand we become your backer? we will become your backer when we say we want to be your backer, not when you demand we become your backer. We might become your backer when you, the editorial provider, gives us, the news provider nad potential career provider, your writing sample. You do this, and we may become your backer. Not before then. And you should feel honoured to have us extend this offer to you. Ingratitude does not suit you.
Posted by: The Economist at July 03, 2024 10:33 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3)
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Speaking of opposites, it occurred to me earlier today that I have never heard of something being old-fangled.
Posted by: muldoon at July 03, 2024 10:33 PM (uCfKO)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 03, 2024 10:33 PM (K+Odn)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Oh my!!
(Every Knights of Columbus Council worldwide)
Posted by: Tonypete at July 03, 2024 10:33 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 03, 2024 10:34 PM (2AUjo)
Francis Scot Keys Star Spangled Banner details.
https://youtu.be/YaxGNQE5ZLA
What a 4th of July video.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 03, 2024 10:34 PM (FK/Hs)
The last "funeral "not the lady funeral although she was a lady on the old fashioned sense of that word.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2024 10:34 PM (SbmsJ)
Posted by: GWB at July 03, 2024 10:34 PM (AWrpC)
Isn't "long in the tooth" pretty much the same thing?
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 03, 2024 10:35 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: TRex at July 03, 2024 10:30 PM (IQ6Gq)
* * * *
Yay! What award do I win? I sure hope it's something classy, as befits this joint...
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 03, 2024 10:35 PM (U3L4U)
You send me the check, I will submit editorial.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 03, 2024 10:25 PM (vJiyU)
We are a news provider of great renown and you simply demand we become your backer? we will become your backer when we say we want to be your backer, not when you demand we become your backer. We might become your backer when you, the editorial provider, gives us, the news provider nad potential career provider, your writing sample. You do this, and we may become your backer. Not before then. And you should feel honoured to have us extend this offer to you. Ingratitude does not suit you.
Posted by: The Economist at July 03, 2024 10:33 PM (8sMut)
And let's not forget that you won't get any named credit for your submission. That selfish individualist stuff is for the hoi polloi.
- The Economist
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 03, 2024 10:36 PM (AayhI)
It's almost as if he's learned something from the last two Presidential campaigns.
Posted by: The ARC
He did an excellent job of looking concerned.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 03, 2024 10:36 PM (0Htd1)
250 years in perspective:
Rome lasted 1229 years, i.e., if one uses the traditional dates for the founding of the City in 751 BC, to the deposition of the last emperor (Romulus Augustulus) in 476 AD.
Byzantium lasted 1100 years.
Easy to get gloomy, isn't it? Especially for senior citizens who've watched the entire progression, from Dwight Eisenhower to you-know-who.
Posted by: mnw at July 03, 2024 10:28 PM (NLIak)
Defeatist cynicism is the arrogance that we know an outcome - we do not. Our Creator expects us to fight for good until HE ends the game, not us.
Posted by: Robert W. Pratt at July 03, 2024 10:36 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2024 10:37 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Megthered at July 03, 2024 10:37 PM (jNg9D)
Posted by: A New Prayer for the Nation at July 03, 2024 10:37 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: muldoon at July 03, 2024 10:33 PM (uCfKO)
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You know what they say, the fangles are the first things to go.
Posted by: Pennsyltucky at July 03, 2024 10:37 PM (2AUjo)
Posted by: vmom stabby
********
I was merely referencing his memorable words of wisdom and inspiration here through the years.
Posted by: muldoon at July 03, 2024 10:38 PM (uCfKO)
It was interesting for me to see Mr. Trump driving his golf cart and the rest of it. Can you imagine Joe trying to golf?
Should be the minimum test, and not intrusive or objectionable, if candidate age is a factor in decision making for voters. Golf really is almost unique and really great in that it is a sport one can play well in the twilight years.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 03, 2024 10:38 PM (mHaWC)
- The Economist
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 03, 2024 10:36 PM (AayhI)
This is correct. We reject disgusting concepts like individualism, as much as we do disgusting things like capitalism, freedom, good writing, and the capitalisation of proper nouns. Just as our backers want.
Posted by: The Economist at July 03, 2024 10:38 PM (8sMut)
Bed wetter Brigade?
Is the White House projecting? Does the Potato of the US have an incontinence problem also?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 10:38 PM (yZBeD)
There are some problems money can straight out solve. It isn't all problems by any means, but if you can afford to solve a broken water heater, a tooth cavity, or a cracked phone your life is going to be less bad when they happen then if you didn't.
Money also opens up more opportunities for diversion.
So money doesn't buy happiness but everything else being equal you will be more happy with money then without.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2024 10:38 PM (oZhjI)
Conspiracy Theorists Think Biden Was Hit With Directed-Energy Weapons During Debate
Social media users are convinced Biden's stumbles might be evidence of Havana Syndrome.
https://tinyurl.com/4ct4kswr
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 03, 2024 10:39 PM (63Dwl)
PLEASE LIKE US!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Amazon.com at July 03, 2024 10:39 PM (8sMut)
Overall, well done lads and ladies, well done. Thank you for the magnificent gift you have given me. I truly appreciate it, warts and all.
Posted by: RickZ at July 03, 2024 10:40 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 03, 2024 10:35 PM
***
I think it is a virtual gold star that goes in your permanent record and can be applied towards a virtual cardboard membership card. That's classy, right?
Posted by: TRex at July 03, 2024 10:40 PM (IQ6Gq)
Those sure look like enlisted navy collar insignia; but, my dress whites sure didn't look like those.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 03, 2024 10:40 PM (FK/Hs)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Portland has a Greek festival every year at the Greek Orthodox cathedral, and they get a temporary permit to serve wine and beer during the festival.
They also have a big sign up saying:
NO DRINKING ALCOHOL AWAY FROM CHURCH GROUNDS
which I took a picture of, since it is hilarious.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 03, 2024 10:40 PM (uxCna)
We all have both eyes, hearing intact and all our fingers. Zero supervision. I was the oldest. I remember at age 10 being "in charge" of my brother and boy cousins (who were absolute maniacs). Fun times.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 03, 2024 10:40 PM (JNQCZ)
Posted by: Blanco Basura
*******
Ooooh Blanco! Well played!!
Posted by: muldoon at July 03, 2024 10:40 PM (uCfKO)
Posted by: pookysgirl, listening for the booms at July 03, 2024 10:41 PM (dtlDP)
Rogan would basically let both of them talk and the people watching to decide. Which would make for a good debate but not what the FNM wants.
I was watching Rogan moderate a sort of debate between Eric Weinstein and Terence Howard and even though the former was right and the latter wrong, objectively, it was interesting watching him handle it without really taking sides.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2024 10:41 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 10:41 PM (yZBeD)
Biden campaign blew through 1/3 of a billion dollars in the last quarter. They spent most of it on advertising telling everyone Trump is a convicted felon.
The result of this advertising was to cause Trump to receive 1/4 of a billion dollars in donations, while improving his poll numbers.
I think it is a reasonable tactic to have the FEC charge Trump with a violation for receiving an undeclared in-kind donation from the Biden campaign.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 03, 2024 10:41 PM (5p7BC)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
Wow, what a great video, well worth watching, thanks AZ deplorable moron!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 03, 2024 10:42 PM (hOUT3)
Or maybe an 81 year old man with a history of aneurysms has been visibly running out of brain.
Posted by: Captain Obvious at July 03, 2024 10:42 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at July 03, 2024 10:42 PM (8sMut)
Quite edifying.
https://youtu.be/EEQLWKEX0eY
He's lost all of his hesitation over Trump.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 03, 2024 10:42 PM (6JcJC)
Social media users are convinced Biden's stumbles might be evidence of Havana Syndrome.
IT'S RUSSIA'S FAULT! I KNEW IT!
Posted by: Rachel Maddow! at July 03, 2024 10:42 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at July 03, 2024 10:43 PM (dZVON)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 03, 2024 10:40 PM (JNQCZ)
***
In other words, nothing like being here, right?
Posted by: TRex at July 03, 2024 10:43 PM (IQ6Gq)
This is another one of those things the founding fathers just wouldn't be happy about...
You let your government ban setting off fireworks to celebrate us getting rid of our tyrannical government? Well you moderns, time to get a little of that spirit of '76...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2024 10:43 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: TRex at July 03, 2024 10:40 PM (IQ6Gq)
* * * *
Very classy! Thanks!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 03, 2024 10:43 PM (U3L4U)
Or maybe an 81 year old man with a history of aneurysms has been visibly running out of brain.
Posted by: Captain Obvious at July 03, 2024 10:42 PM (gKWVE)
You fucking disgusting liar. You purveyor of disinformation. Mr. Biden is the DEFINITION of health unlike that bastard Trump.
Posted by: U.S. Media at July 03, 2024 10:44 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: The ARC
He did an excellent job of looking concerned.
Posted by: nerdygirl
Do you folks think President Trump saw and heard joey shamble out and thought. "Hell, I just stand here and watch the fire with everyone else."
Posted by: Some Rat at July 03, 2024 10:44 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2024 10:44 PM (oUxZc)
The guy has to have brains in the first place that can be cooked.
He's been eating out his brains for years.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 10:44 PM (yZBeD)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2024 10:44 PM (zTh/f)
I guess its a plan.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2024 10:44 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: TRex at July 03, 2024 10:40 PM (IQ6Gq)
* * * *
Very classy! Thanks!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 03, 2024 10:43 PM (U3L4U)
I don't know. My life was destroyed by bad marks on my Permanent Record. Time to be marched off to reform school.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 03, 2024 10:45 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 03, 2024 10:45 PM (RIvkX)
A quick look at Biden's current plan it is:
1) Talk about lowering prices
2) Give more welfare to illegals
And just like his last inflation reduction act this one would also increase inflation
Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2024 10:45 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 03, 2024 10:46 PM (mHaWC)
I would expect that churches that regularly have wine during their Eucharist/Lord's Supper services have less of a problem with this.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2024 10:46 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: e.e. cummings at July 03, 2024 10:07 PM (8sMut)
e.e. would have been totally forgotten if he had used capitals. His poetry was crap.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2024 10:46 PM (zTh/f)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 03, 2024 10:26 PM (7+K6
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It's gonna be a combination of Burning Man, The Manchurian Candidate, and Soylent Green, and I am all in.
The scoops WILL be deployed!
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 03, 2024 10:46 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2024 10:44 PM (zTh/f)
I saw a few trucks heading north on I-27 today with AB tags. Maybe heading home.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 03, 2024 10:46 PM (8sMut)
Last Sunday, we sang 'America' in church. The congregation was fine form.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 03, 2024 10:46 PM (XeU6L)
Which political cartoon still fits?
https://annapuna.blogspot.com/
2010/10/political-cartoons-1995.html
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 10:47 PM (yZBeD)
Social media users are convinced Biden's stumbles might be evidence of Havana Syndrome.
IT'S RUSSIA'S FAULT! I KNEW IT!
Posted by: Rachel Maddow! at July 03, 2024 10:42 PM (uxCna)
I think it was Israel
Posted by: Future Speaker AOC at July 03, 2024 10:47 PM (Dnobf)
Posted by: AlaBAMA at July 03, 2024 10:26 PM (7+K6
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It's gonna be a combination of Burning Man, The Manchurian Candidate, and Soylent Green, and I am all in.
The scoops WILL be deployed!
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 03, 2024 10:46 PM (kpS4V)
Chicago WILL declare all out nuclear war on itself.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 03, 2024 10:47 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 03, 2024 10:08 PM (kpS4V)
Grifters gotta grift.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2024 10:47 PM (zTh/f)
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
Wow, what a great video, well worth watching, thanks AZ deplorable moron!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar
Yeah, never having heard the story behind the composition, having it narrated and put to old art. Pretty outstanding.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 03, 2024 10:47 PM (FK/Hs)
P.S. (...and God bless irongrampa)
Posted by: muldoon at July 03, 2024 10:25 PM (uCfKO)
This.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 03, 2024 10:48 PM (W/lyH)
The result of this advertising was to cause Trump to receive 1/4 of a billion dollars in donations, while improving his poll numbers.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 03, 2024 10:41 PM (5p7BC)
It's like they're believing their own gaslighting, that somehow saying over and over Trump's a convicted felon will hurt him. Like that mug shot. {A Nelson Muntz laugh for that.) Ha! Ha! They really should read replies to their inane posts on X. They don't. They are above it all, only pontificating turgid pearls of wisdom to the great unwashed. They really need to get out more. Or read how they are really perceived, not how they perceive each other.
Posted by: RickZ at July 03, 2024 10:48 PM (gKDq2)
Social media users are convinced Biden's stumbles might be evidence of Havana Syndrome.
Step off, beoych. Me and Bat Boy are working this corner.
Posted by: Weekly World News at July 03, 2024 10:48 PM (6if7h)
I vaguely remember a few years ago a story about a bounce house that got caught by the wind and thrown into the air and the owners claimed their kid was in it.
After it came down the responders found no kid and soon that the supposed missing kid had been in the parents house the whole time.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2024 10:48 PM (oZhjI)
God Bless America
P.S. (...and God bless irongrampa)
Posted by: muldoon
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Amen
Posted by: Braenyard at July 03, 2024 10:48 PM (lCWOD)
Posted by: Common Tater at July 03, 2024 10:46 PM (mHaWC)
Find new material.
Posted by: When Dream and Day Unite at July 03, 2024 10:49 PM (8sMut)
After it came down the responders found no kid and soon that the supposed missing kid had been in the parents house the whole time.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2024 10:48 PM (oZhjI)
Remember: YOU are the First Responder. Not us.
Posted by: Emergency Personnel at July 03, 2024 10:49 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: RickZ at July 03, 2024 10:48 PM (gKDq2)
They DO BELIEVE and they always have. The propaganda just becomes part of the dogma.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 03, 2024 10:50 PM (6JcJC)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2024 10:43 PM (oZhjI)
The only time I can see the wisdom of a fireworks ban was when we were in San Antonio during a two-year drought. The radio station was giving daily aquifer level updates and honestly, if a scrub brush fire broke out and swept into the city, I'm not sure the city could have put it out quickly. It didn't stop everyone from lighting them off, but the military bases were fairly strict about it.
Posted by: pookysgirl, listening for the booms at July 03, 2024 10:50 PM (dtlDP)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2024 10:50 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 03, 2024 10:50 PM (kpS4V)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2024 10:46 PM (zTh/f)
Archy did it better.
Posted by: Mrs Lovett at July 03, 2024 10:50 PM (D7oie)
My patriotism now is, shall we say, nuanced.
This is entirely because of the left.
They took something that was once pure and almost completely degraded it.
Posted by: jimmy at July 03, 2024 10:51 PM (AVyeO)
In Iowa, sometime in the 1930s or 1940s, nobody would s really sure, perhaps a little kid set off a firework inside a Ben Franklin store or whatever. In turn the whole display went up, and the building. Then the whole block. When it was over the whole small town was leveled, and the Iowa legislature banned everything except sparklers for 80 years. Everything is legal again, for now.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 03, 2024 10:51 PM (mHaWC)
Posted by: RickZ
Once you become a cargo cult, it is hard to break the addiction
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 10:51 PM (yZBeD)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2024 10:51 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 03, 2024 10:51 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 03, 2024 10:41 PM (5p7BC)
Why when we can imprison Trump for looking at Biden wrong?
Posted by: U.S. Government at July 03, 2024 10:52 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 10:52 PM (yZBeD)
Why it's almost like a Pistons game.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 03, 2024 10:52 PM (0Htd1)
I think ace just blew his own margins.
Great video, however.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 03, 2024 10:52 PM (AayhI)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 03, 2024 10:50 PM (kpS4V)
Very nice.
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 03, 2024 10:53 PM (6JcJC)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2024 10:43 PM (oZhjI)
***
We were in LA when they cancelled all the public fireworks displays for COVID. The populace more than made up for the lack of public displays with their own efforts. I was briefly proud of the LA population for the brief show of defiance.
Posted by: TRex at July 03, 2024 10:53 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 10:53 PM (yZBeD)
Posted by: Mrs Lovett at July 03, 2024 10:50 PM (D7oie)
Until I flattened him.
Posted by: My Left Foot at July 03, 2024 10:53 PM (8sMut)
Plus: The LED crotch is easy to read and generally informative.
The clown shield prevents most clown intrusions. (Class 5 clowns need the subscription.)
Cons: random noises make the Echo want to play games. I don't want to play those games. And the "shut up" option only works on visitors. Needs to have a more easily removable power supply to stop the damned entreaties.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 03, 2024 10:53 PM (CHHv1)
Posted by: Independence Day Regulator and Part Time Bounty Hunter at July 03, 2024 10:53 PM (2UBPP)
Posted by: RickZ
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Once you become a cargo cult, it is hard to break the addiction
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 10:51 PM (yZBeD)
Even a good drug dealer knows not to sample his own product. That is, if he wants to keep his head in the game.
Posted by: RickZ at July 03, 2024 10:54 PM (gKDq2)
I think ace just blew his own margins.
Great video, however.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
I'll bet Taylor Made wants that video seen by every golfer in the world!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 03, 2024 10:54 PM (FK/Hs)
You too?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 03, 2024 10:54 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 03, 2024 10:55 PM (WEqNk)
Yup, I grew up in an Iowa without unofficial fireworks. We moved back right after the ban was lifted, and as I said upthread, hearing them for days is weird to me. I also know what a Ben Franklin store is.
Posted by: pookysgirl lives a few blocks from one at July 03, 2024 10:55 PM (dtlDP)
Posted by: TRex
The videos of those displays were GREAT!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 03, 2024 10:55 PM (FK/Hs)
Heck yeah. The problem isn't that he has cognitive issues, it's that the public found out in a way that can't be denied.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 03, 2024 10:55 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2024 10:55 PM (SHMXB)
NOBODY has ever implied I'm into "defeatist cynicism" before.
You don't know me.
161 Fen
Don't you remember the Inflation Reduction Act? That WAS the plan.
Posted by: mnw at July 03, 2024 10:55 PM (NLIak)
It will! Ha, ha ha!
Posted by: Independence Day Regulator and Part Time Bounty Hunter at July 03, 2024 10:53 PM (2UBPP)
Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a FOOL or a COWARD. Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both. It is COWARDLY to seek police protection or to dial 911.
Posted by: Omerta at July 03, 2024 10:56 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 10:56 PM (yZBeD)
Yup, I grew up in an Iowa without unofficial fireworks. We moved back right after the ban was lifted, and as I said upthread, hearing them for days is weird to me. I also know what a Ben Franklin store is.
Posted by: pookysgirl lives a few blocks from one at July 03, 2024 10:55 PM (dtlDP)
Same here. I know that Sam Walton ran a bunch of them before he started WalMart.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 03, 2024 10:57 PM (AayhI)
Posted by: pookysgirl lives a few blocks from one
Are they like, a hundred times better than a dollar store?
Posted by: Some Rat at July 03, 2024 10:57 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 03, 2024 10:51 PM (63Dwl)
Bob Mortimer burned his house down at the age of seven:
https://youtu.be/qZo5VUJVGxk
Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at July 03, 2024 10:57 PM (6JcJC)
INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!
Yay!
Enjoy the wonderfulness of America tomorrow you guys!
Eat lots of meat, and have a beer or two😊🙃😍
Good night...
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 03, 2024 10:58 PM (tq6v2)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 03, 2024 10:58 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 03, 2024 10:58 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: polynikes
Them and the Women's Hockey team. Hope they depart the USA.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 03, 2024 10:58 PM (FK/Hs)
Posted by: Blanco Basura
************
Let me give you an assist:
Indentured Gratitude. - a limerick
I sat in the dentist chair all entangled
while my three remaining molars loosely dangled
but now I'm ready for adventures
with my nicely fitted dentures
"Thanks Doc. It's nice to finally be new fangled!"
Posted by: muldoon at July 03, 2024 10:58 PM (uCfKO)
Fvck them for that.
Posted by: jimmy at July 03, 2024 10:59 PM (AVyeO)
NOBODY has ever implied I'm into "defeatist cynicism" before.
You don't know me.
Point of order! MANY people hear are into defeatist cynicism.
"You don't know me". Yet you type here...
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 03, 2024 10:59 PM (8sMut)
No; I don't remember that name.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2024 10:59 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 03, 2024 10:59 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 03, 2024 10:59 PM (XeU6L)
Fvck them for that.
Posted by: jimmy at July 03, 2024 10:59 PM (AVyeO)
Fuck em. Especially tomorrow.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 03, 2024 10:59 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2024 10:59 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 03, 2024 11:00 PM (kpS4V)
No; I don't remember that name.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2024 10:59 PM (oUxZc)
I do!!!
Posted by: Eric Arthur Blair at July 03, 2024 11:00 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: TRex at July 03, 2024 10:53 PM (IQ6Gq)
Speaking of LA and fireworks: "Los Angeles to pay $21M to settle claims over botched fireworks detonation by police 3 years ago"
https://t.ly/12DLj
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 03, 2024 11:00 PM (6if7h)
Social media users are convinced Biden's stumbles might be evidence of Havana Syndrome."
I'll add this to the list of 'explanations, not excuses' per KJP, for Biden performing like the real Joe Biden in the debate.
Havana Syndrome
He had a Cold
He had jet lag
He'd done a lot of travel in the preceding weeks
Presidents running for re-election always have a bad first debate
I expect KJP will add more 'explanations, not excuses' in the coming days.
By the way, KJP is trying really hard to keep Old Joe afloat, because she's previously been a key staff member on three big-time washed-up campaigns:
John Edwards for POTUS
Anthony Weiner for NYC Mayor
Kamala Harris for POTUS
Good Night, y'all.
Posted by: Gref at July 03, 2024 11:00 PM (5fDan)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 03, 2024 11:01 PM (8sMut)
This day is our celebration from tyranny. Halalooya.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 03, 2024 11:01 PM (WEqNk)
Posted by: Mrs Lovett at July 03, 2024 10:50 PM (D7oie)
Well, he did have a typing handicap. But he was a better writer, nonetheless.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2024 11:02 PM (On+XH)
Here AI does a better job of adapting anime than Hollyweird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lt4Wkzn5Tc
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 11:02 PM (yZBeD)
"What's insane is a ten-percent levy on baked goods. You do realize the Revolutionary War began on less than two percent—how is the public not flocking to the streets in outrage?! We must do something."
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 03, 2024 11:02 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Key Biden Advisor at July 03, 2024 11:02 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Eric Arthur Blair at July 03, 2024 11:00 PM (8sMut
I may have deliberately put this out of my mind, as I can imagine people getting paid large amounts of money to come up with stupid names for bills or program that don't solve what the claim they will.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2024 11:03 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 03, 2024 11:03 PM (WEqNk)
Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2024 11:03 PM (SHMXB)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2024 10:43 PM (oZhjI)
***
We were in LA when they cancelled all the public fireworks displays for COVID. The populace more than made up for the lack of public displays with their own efforts. I was briefly proud of the LA population for the brief show of defiance.
Posted by: TRex
LOL! I remember that. The video of the local media clutching their pearls while neighborhoods all over LA were lighting up the skies with Freedom was beautiful!!
'murica!
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 03, 2024 11:04 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Blanco Basura
************
Let me give you an assist:
Indentured Gratitude. - a limerick
I sat in the dentist chair all entangled
while my three remaining molars loosely dangled
but now I'm ready for adventures
with my nicely fitted dentures
"Thanks Doc. It's nice to finally be new fangled!"
Posted by: muldoon at July 03, 2024 10:58 PM (uCfKO)
OK, now I'm really impressed.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 03, 2024 11:04 PM (AayhI)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2024 10:46 PM (oUxZc)
Ours doesn't allow alcohol on church grounds and we use real wine. Prolly Manischewitz.
Posted by: Another Leftist at July 03, 2024 11:04 PM (0eaVi)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
Oh my!!
(Every Knights of Columbus Council worldwide)
Posted by: Tonypete
Some parishes have backed off on beer tents at parish festivals. Sad really.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 03, 2024 11:05 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Omerta
>I'm just paraquoting some of the lyrics from one of my favorite American bands, the original, spectacular, one-of-a-kind, Molly Hatchet.
Posted by: Independence Day Regulator and Part Time Bounty Hunter at July 03, 2024 11:05 PM (2UBPP)
Or Dark Shadows and Barnabas Collins sees the golden arches of McDonalds and thinks it is a sign of Mephistopheles
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 11:05 PM (yZBeD)
I hope the next excuse will involve aliens and requires pictures of them looking like the ones from the movie "Mars Attacks!"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2024 11:05 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: Braenyard
Shockingly, it did none of those things.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 03, 2024 11:05 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: pookysgirl, listening for the booms at July 03, 2024 10:50 PM (dtlDP)
San Antonio has ALWAYS had a fireworks ban. And, I don't know if they still do this, but they (at least at one time) spied on people buying fireworks outside of city limits. Once you crossed back into town, you got stopped for having fireworks. (Which for me was nauseating in the extreme for countless reasons.)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 03, 2024 11:05 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
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Not a dirge for the 4th.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 03, 2024 11:05 PM (WEqNk)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2024 11:06 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: muldoon
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Phew!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at July 03, 2024 11:06 PM (Ka3bZ)
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) was Biden'e multi-trillion dollar national debt spending bomb.
The title was as Orwellian as anything any Congress ever passed. The idea was that "we'll make up for all this deficit spending NOW by passing revenue enhancements & budget cuts oner the next 15 years."
Posted by: mnw at July 03, 2024 11:06 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Some Rat at July 03, 2024 10:57 PM (vJiyU)
Yes! Ours got rebranded as Crafts Central, but I still buy odds and ends there. They have lots of fabric, and my only complaint about the yarn is that their supplier is out-of-date and therefore I often can't get all the yarn I need to finish a project. But that's a minor quibble.
Posted by: pookysgirl lives a few blocks from one at July 03, 2024 11:06 PM (dtlDP)
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at July 03, 2024 11:06 PM (cOq4q)
I feel so violated.
Posted by: Piper at July 03, 2024 11:07 PM (QzINz)
The other night Congressman Wesley Hunt shared the story during and interview. And now there is this.
The left wins by influencing people who don't care about politics at all. They change culture. This is the way.
https://tinyurl.com/ntuhz5j5
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2024 11:07 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Independence Day Regulator and Part Time Bounty Hunter at July 03, 2024 11:05 PM (2UBPP)
That's quite alright. I think Omerta is, in part, inspired by the Lamb of God song.
"THIS IS WHAT HAS BEEN WROUGHT FOR 30 PIECES OF SILVER..."
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 03, 2024 11:07 PM (8sMut)
So her polls end up in the toilet too.
Do the Dems switch her out?
Posted by: gKWVE at July 03, 2024 11:07 PM (gKWVE)
Sheesh. They outta try that on Geezer Golf Tuesday. Half those old bastards are packing.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 03, 2024 11:08 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Miklos has lovely blue eyes, but no Miority benfits from that at July 03, 2024 11:08 PM (XIkHl)
"What's insane is a ten-percent levy on baked goods. You do realize the Revolutionary War began on less than two percent—how is the public not flocking to the streets in outrage?! We must do something."
Posted by: John Drake
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I do. I loved the first season, and that was one of the best moments.
They really lost their way quickly with that show, but it was great fun for awhile. Also, Tom Mison as Ichabod was very nice to look at...
Posted by: screaming in digital at July 03, 2024 11:08 PM (iZbyp)
The title was as Orwellian as anything any Congress ever passed. The idea was that "we'll make up for all this deficit spending NOW by passing revenue enhancements & budget cuts oner the next 15 years."
Posted by: mnw at July 03, 2024 11:06 PM (NLIak)
America's Congress always makes me proud. I wear a bit of a smug face thanks to them.
Posted by: Eric Arthur Blair at July 03, 2024 11:09 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Miklos has lovely blue eyes, behind which lies suspicion at July 03, 2024 11:09 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 11:09 PM (yZBeD)
Posted by: polynikes at July 03, 2024 11:09 PM (SHMXB)
Sheesh. They outta try that on Geezer Golf Tuesday. Half those old bastards are packing.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 03, 2024 11:08 PM (W/lyH)
It's Burnaby. I think the official language there is Punjabi.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2024 11:09 PM (On+XH)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 03, 2024 11:09 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: nerdygirl
WHAT!!!!
Honest to God, we have beer in the fridge in the Parish Hall kitchen all the time. Wine also - not the altar wine but rather refreshments for our wine and cheese, bingo, Kentucky Derby parties and the like.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 03, 2024 11:10 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: muldoon
We like pithy
Posted by: Miklos has linguistic preferences at July 03, 2024 11:11 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Miklos has lovely blue eyes, behind which lies suspicion at July 03, 2024 11:09 PM (XIkHl)
Bob Dole approves of you referring to yourself in the third person as Bob Dole does.
Posted by: Bob Dole at July 03, 2024 11:11 PM (8sMut)
I feel so violated.
Posted by: Piper
Imagine how I feel! You didn't even knock. Just walked right in like I wasn't there. Jerk!
Posted by: Palmetto bug at July 03, 2024 11:11 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: mnw at July 03, 2024 11:06 PM (NLIak)
Kicking the can down the road is the hallmark of our do-nothing but enrich themselves Congress.
Posted by: RickZ at July 03, 2024 11:11 PM (gKDq2)
Fvck them for that.
Posted by: jimmy at July 03, 2024 10:59 PM (AVyeO)
Fuck em. Especially tomorrow.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
No, thanks. I have better taste!
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 03, 2024 11:11 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2024 11:05 PM (oUxZc)
ACK! ACK!
Posted by: Kindltot at July 03, 2024 11:12 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2024 11:12 PM (v6JzV)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUMDcVMiduY
Posted by: Anna Puma
Contender
Posted by: Miklos, taking the skinheads bowling at July 03, 2024 11:12 PM (XIkHl)
Thanks, and thanks to Irongrandpa as well.
Good night everyone.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2024 11:12 PM (oUxZc)
Posted by: A Plametto Bug at July 03, 2024 11:13 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 03, 2024 11:13 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Bob Dole
Priceless
Posted by: Miklos, angling for a pre-paid AMEX card and lifetime Viagra at July 03, 2024 11:14 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Some Rat
Okay, I'm going to use a word you aren't supposed to use, but I can't come up with a better way of saying it. Trump realized that people don't want to see someone ridiculing a retard.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 03, 2024 11:14 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Anna Puma
Definitely not the product placement Mickey D's was looking for.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 03, 2024 11:14 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: A Valerie Plametto Bug at July 03, 2024 11:14 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mnw at July 03, 2024 11:16 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Piper at July 03, 2024 11:17 PM (QzINz)
Patriotism can't bring that country back to life. Meanwhile, we're stuck with the rotting corpse until we can finally bring ourselves to bury it.
It's our 21st century rendition of "A Rose for Emily."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 03, 2024 11:18 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Miklos agrees with addendum at July 03, 2024 11:18 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 03, 2024 11:18 PM (0Htd1)
The Usama bint Bedliner treatment?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 11:18 PM (yZBeD)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2024 11:19 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: mnw at July 03, 2024 11:19 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Anna Puma
I used to hurry home from school to see Dark Shadows.
Posted by: Miklos now just turns on CNN at July 03, 2024 11:19 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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It *was* great. Enthusiastic reverence, I would say.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 03, 2024 11:19 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2024 11:19 PM (v6JzV)
seemed a bit of a psycho
Posted by: runner at July 03, 2024 11:21 PM (V13WU)
What's not been proposed, is this:
Trump should offer up a cool million, for "Naming Rights" on the mission. The Launch Area and Mission Control festooned with Trump 2024 flags. A small version of the flag to fly on the mission, and be displayed aboard the ISS.
Said flag to be autographed by the Starship and ISS Crews.
And Musk will present that flag to Trump at a Trump Rally.
I can hear the worldwide howls of the left, even now!
*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 03, 2024 11:21 PM (e6UQI)
What? No.
She actually looks like a bug.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 03, 2024 11:21 PM (LkLld)
The scoops WILL be deployed!
Posted by: All Hail Eris at July 03, 2024 10:46 PM (kpS4V)
Chicago WILL declare all out nuclear war on itself.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
I wonder if AAA will be advising tourists to stay away from Grant Park.
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 03, 2024 11:21 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 11:22 PM (yZBeD)
Posted by: TRex
The videos of those displays were GREAT!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
Omg. They were a highlight in a most depressing year. Thanks for. Reminding me of that!
And TRex, I guess hanging out with you hooligans isn't that different than managing my kid cousins.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 03, 2024 11:22 PM (68lhN)
Posted by: jimmy at July 03, 2024 11:23 PM (AVyeO)
They really lost their way quickly with that show, but it was great fun for awhile. Also, Tom Mison as Ichabod was very nice to look at...
Posted by: screaming in digital
It was great when they allowed Ichabod Crane to be a full-on, flat-out visitor from the 18th Century and react to 2014 the way someone from that era truly would. Lines like: "And, when did it become acceptable for ladies to wear trousers?" or on seeing the ubiquity of Starbucks: " And that building is also a Starbucks? Well, how many of them are there? Is there a law?"
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 03, 2024 11:24 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Orson at July 03, 2024 11:24 PM (dIske)
One has the Dragon lifeboat. The other has the Boeing capsule.
Want to bet no one in Houston really wants to trust an unmanned remote undocking of the Boeing capsule?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 11:24 PM (yZBeD)
Posted by: Miklos is one of those "persuadables" at July 03, 2024 11:24 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 11:26 PM (yZBeD)
Posted by: Miklos would pass at July 03, 2024 11:26 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Miklos is one of those "persuadables" at July 03, 2024 11:24 PM (XIkHl)
It's the open bar, right?
Posted by: RickZ at July 03, 2024 11:26 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: jimmy
You misspelled LeeLee Sobieski in "Eyes Wide Shut".
Posted by: Tonypete at July 03, 2024 11:26 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: muldoon at July 03, 2024 11:27 PM (uCfKO)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 03, 2024 11:28 PM (Sgq8y)
Joey is going to posthumously award two Medals of Honor to two Union soldiers who stole a Confederate train?
Come on Joey, give up on the train fascination already.
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 11:28 PM (yZBeD)
Posted by: nerdygirl
Jeepers! Not mine. We are a whole herd of drunks. You should see the school auctions. The parents all get lit and spend a bunch of money. Even our parish priest gets in on the action.
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 03, 2024 11:28 PM (//4FP)
Would Owlbert eat it? Do owls like bugs?
Posted by: mnw at July 03, 2024
They do eat bugs, but it doesn’t matter. It was murderized and sent swirling. I remain traumatized. I pay for an exterminator because I don’t do bugs. They need to respray Friday.
Posted by: Piper at July 03, 2024 11:29 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2024 11:29 PM (v6JzV)
Scooter Libby (VP Cheney's chief of staff) was convicted of perjury back in 2003 or so, IIRC. Trump pardoned him 15 years later.
And we've seen how The Family Cheney has reciprocated Trump's kindness.
Posted by: mnw at July 03, 2024 11:29 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Miklos likes the food too, gonna drink, need food at July 03, 2024 11:30 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 03, 2024 11:30 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2024 11:32 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Piper at July 03, 2024 11:33 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2024 11:19 PM (v6JzV)
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I liked the way she maintained her deep spy, er, deepness by appearing on the cover of New Yorker magazine.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 03, 2024 11:33 PM (jdHxK)
One has the Dragon lifeboat. The other has the Boeing capsule.
Want to bet no one in Houston really wants to trust an unmanned remote undocking of the Boeing capsule?
Posted by: Anna Puma
I'm guessing the odds are the same for a manned undocking. Perhaps the best thing to do is jettison it and, once it's at a safe distance, let it try an unmanned re-entry. To speed it on its way, perhaps an EVA could attach some suit thruster packs.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 03, 2024 11:34 PM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Piper at July 03, 2024 11:34 PM (QzINz)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 03, 2024 11:34 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: muldoon
They both knew in an instant
They were both quite insistent
After 39 years
Laughter and tears
Love remains quite persistent
Posted by: Miklos likes reasons to celebrate at July 03, 2024 11:34 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2024 11:35 PM (v6JzV)
I was off work early for our Independence Day celebrations tomorrow and I came home and this desire to raise the flag at sunset was just...enveloping me.
I pulled out a 500 watt work light, rigged the power cable and about an hour before sunset...raised the colors which at the Nightwatch castle includes the "Blood Chit" of the USMC just below and then lit it up.
And by the Dawn's Early Light...so Proudly will it wave come sunrise tomorrow.
Have a Blessed and Happy 4th of July Horde...Remember America the Beautiful.
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 03, 2024 11:35 PM (TDvv2)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 03, 2024 11:34 PM (gKWVE)
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The drummer for Rush???
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 03, 2024 11:35 PM (jdHxK)
Posted by: jimmy at July 03, 2024 11:35 PM (AVyeO)
Posted by: nerdygirl at July 03, 2024 11:14 PM (0Htd1)
This "nerdygirl" has been arrested and will never be seen or heard from ever again.
Posted by: PC Police at July 03, 2024 11:36 PM (8sMut)
Congrats. All the best to you both.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 03, 2024 11:36 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 03, 2024 11:37 PM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 03, 2024 11:35 PM (jdHxK)
Professor. Get it straight.
Posted by: Professor Neil E. Peart, world renowned Canadian poet and percussionist (1952-2020) at July 03, 2024 11:37 PM (8sMut)
The problem was that Tarantino had reached a state of intoxication not too far from alcohol poisoning, and everybody watching it could see it, not least Leno, who was pissed off to the extreme. Tarantino spent the next few minutes speaking about how cool the cane was, while Leno kept drumming his fingers on the desk, waiting for a commercial. It's available on Youtube, and worth watching.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 03, 2024 11:37 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Miklos did not know that at July 03, 2024 11:37 PM (XIkHl)
It's how CIA "spies" function these days - you live in Northern Virginia, and spend a few weeks a year in your Area of Operations.
"You don't really expect me to live in Kyrgyzstan, do you?"
I'm sure the professional Russian spies in the SVR (the CIA equivalent) are laughing their asses off.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 03, 2024 11:37 PM (uxCna)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 03, 2024 11:37 PM (0FoWg)
Yeah, but I'm blind, so therefore easily poisoned.
Posted by: Homer at July 03, 2024 11:38 PM (8sMut)
She sure was an A-list celebrity on the Georgetown cocktail party circuit.
The intended endgame of the Plame affair was to put VP Cheney in prison, & hopefully the scandal would result in W's impeachment, too.
It's forgotten now, but the same DEMs going after Trump now used to scream "Bush Chimpy Hitler!" too, back in the day.
The only difference is that it's gotten worse.
Posted by: mnw at July 03, 2024 11:39 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Homer
One man's poison is another man's poisson.
Posted by: Blind French Speaking Monk Miklos of Shaolin at July 03, 2024 11:40 PM (XIkHl)
Want to bet no one in Houston really wants to trust an unmanned remote undocking of the Boeing capsule?
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 03, 2024 11:24 PM (yZBeD)
That ain't a lifeboat...that is MY DOMAIN!!!
Posted by: The monster from the Space: MCMXCIX episode Dragon's Domain at July 03, 2024 11:41 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Even Blind Monk Miklos of Shaolin has noticed at July 03, 2024 11:42 PM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2024 11:42 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 03, 2024 11:42 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 03, 2024 11:43 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Orson at July 03, 2024 11:24 PM (dIske)
Eerily...IIRC, Moon Township is where PIT is.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 03, 2024 11:43 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Orson
Moon Township is in Allegheny County, near Pittsburgh International Airport. It's not exactly a small rural area anymore. So, no, 12 mosques there doesn't surprise me. Also, the noise complaints. Lots more people live there now. I read the article (didn't see any mosques attendees were interviewed), and the usual suspects of grievance junkies were complaining. On the other hand, maybe they were really loud. Hard to say.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 03, 2024 11:44 PM (sAmhv)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 03, 2024 11:44 PM (4MGnT)
Posted by: GWB at July 03, 2024 10:23 PM (AWrpC)
I'm always amazed at the strange attachment that Americans have for the 1812 Overture and its connection with the 4th of July. It's almost as if they forget that this music commemorates the defeat by the Russians of an ally of the Americans, who were involved in a World War at the time. I can see how Canadians, British, Prussians, and Russians would celebrate, but Americans?
Posted by: MichiCanuck at July 03, 2024 11:46 PM (vbH4y)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2024 11:46 PM (JU3gk)
Anyone who uses the word "gouging" or the phrase "price gouging" does not know or understand me.
Posted by: The Dismal Science at July 03, 2024 11:47 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 03, 2024 11:46 PM (JU3gk)
You rang?
Posted by: Dexter Morgan at July 03, 2024 11:48 PM (6if7h)
Posted by: MichiCanuck at July 03, 2024 11:46 PM (vbH4y)
You are reading too much into it. I doubt any connection would exist if it lacked cannons.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 03, 2024 11:49 PM (8sMut)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
Nics are now covered under California plastic straw rules.
And COVID rules.
Comments and nics may only be consumed or made available under California law and regulations.
Posted by: The State of California believes that Miklosian comments are known to cause crazy people to go crazi at July 03, 2024 11:49 PM (XIkHl)
The intended endgame of the Plame affair was to put VP Cheney in prison, & hopefully the scandal would result in W's impeachment, too.
posted by: mnw
I still remember seeing the photo shoot that she and her publicity-hungry husband, Joseph Wilson, did for one of the remaining big magazine outlets - Vanity Fair, maybe? At the same time that Plame and Wilson were complaining bitterly about her being outed as a Langley employee, they did a photo shoot. Because those two things are perfectly consistent.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 03, 2024 11:49 PM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 03, 2024 11:50 PM (pIfcn)
Don’t get me wrong. I love the 1812. But it has no inherent connection with our Independence Day.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2024 11:50 PM (v6JzV)
I may have misconstrued a line or two - limerick vows
It was twue love right from the start
Missus M. came along and stole my heart
Whether its by doggerel or verse
We're in it for better or worse
At least until death does its part!
Posted by: muldoon at July 03, 2024 11:52 PM (uCfKO)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2024 11:52 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Miklos has linguistic preferences at July 03, 2024 11:11 PM (XIkHl)
This seems like the proper time for a Mike Tyson comment.
If only I had a sense of humor.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 03, 2024 11:53 PM (FCbAQ)
Yeah, I know, he promised not to do that. Pinky-swore, I expect.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 03, 2024 11:56 PM (gKWVE)
be autographed by the Starship and ISS Crews.
And Musk will present that flag to Trump at a Trump Rally.
I can hear the worldwide howls of the left, even now!
*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!
Jim
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It appears the smaller Europe countries are being pushed around by Germany and France. Half of Spain is for trump, Meloni is a Trumper (Nationalist Italian) and Hungary. Poland and England are full of Trumpers. Germany and France will re think their positions too.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 03, 2024 11:56 PM (WEqNk)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2024 11:58 PM (v6JzV)
Posted by: jimmy at July 03, 2024 11:58 PM (AVyeO)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
**********
You might as well ask the Great and Powerful Oz how he manipulates all those levers and the smoke show. Sometimes it's best not to peek behind the curtain.
Posted by: muldoon at July 03, 2024 11:58 PM (uCfKO)
Posted by: The monster from the Space: MCMXCIX episode Dragon's Domain at July 03, 2024 11:41 PM (8sMut)
Wasn't there a sci-fi short story that involved an overprotective lifeboat?
Posted by: pookysgirl has tried to find it back and failed at July 04, 2024 12:00 AM (dtlDP)
Posted by: MichiCanuck at July 03, 2024 11:46 PM (vbH4y)
You are reading too much into it. I doubt any connection would exist if it lacked cannons.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33
Replace it with this:
https://youtu.be/NCwUirA35HU?si=J8nhnfallHdda6eP
It has cannons too. I had friends that went to this concert. Queensryche, Motley Crue, Metallica, The Black Crowes, and AC/DC. Not a bad lineup in 1992.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 04, 2024 12:01 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2024 12:02 AM (v6JzV)
Don’t get me wrong. I love the 1812. But it has no inherent connection with our Independence Day.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2024 11:50 PM (v6JzV)
Putin lovers all! Those bastards.
I mean, if they can pull down perfectly lovely statues, . . . .
The Party line narrative is very serpentine.
Posted by: RickZ at July 04, 2024 12:02 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Preznit Joey B. at July 04, 2024 12:03 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2024 12:04 AM (v6JzV)
If only I had a sense of humor.
Posted by: OneEyedJack
How about the Adult Swim series "Mike Tyson Mysteries"? It's got some of the last voice acting work of Norm MacDonald, who plays an alcoholic pigeon beloved by Tyson but despised by everyone around him. One of their best episodes was when Mike had to move out of his mansion and live with his cousin, Neil deGrasse Tyson.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024 12:04 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 04, 2024 12:04 AM (WEqNk)
I wonder if Ft. McCoy still accompanies performances of the 1812 Overture for Independence Day.
As for America's love for Tchaikovsky, I think we view him as just mad enough to be One Of Us.
Posted by: pookysgirl heard Pookette play part of Swan Lake today at July 04, 2024 12:05 AM (dtlDP)
Posted by: muldoon
Especially if it's Darleen half-nekkid back in there.
Posted by: Miklos issues serious advice at July 04, 2024 12:05 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 04, 2024 12:06 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2024 12:06 AM (uCfKO)
Posted by: Miklos inspects invite list at July 04, 2024 12:07 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Miklos
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Spaghetti lunches.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 04, 2024 12:07 AM (WEqNk)
Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2024 12:06 AM (uCfK
?
Posted by: Joe at July 04, 2024 12:08 AM (SHMXB)
Guy was a fag, but he wrote some seriously great music.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2024 12:08 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2024 12:02 AM (v6JzV)
This is an "active week," and he figured out how to kick the seatbelt when I don't quite have it in the right position. He's going to be a handful, but with his genetics, he never had a choice!
Posted by: pookysgirl hets a second opinion constantly at July 04, 2024 12:08 AM (dtlDP)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
"Implores*
Oh Uncle Palp, return in this time of Greatest Need, in accordance with the Slav-O-Prophecy
Posted by: Miklosov Miklosevich at July 04, 2024 12:09 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Joe at July 04, 2024 12:12 AM (SHMXB)
Whenever there were thunderstorms, lightning would rain down on Lion's Head, so I would take a bottle of Wild Turkey and a pack of Marlboro Reds out there, and blast Tchaikovsky out of those speakers, and brood well into the night.
Good times.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 04, 2024 12:12 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 04, 2024 12:12 AM (VNX3d)
...and that's just the employees.
Posted by: LenNeal at July 04, 2024 12:12 AM (bFId9)
Posted by: jimmy at July 04, 2024 12:12 AM (AVyeO)
He’s turned out to be a good guy, though. So here’s hoping yours will be, too.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2024 12:14 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 04, 2024 12:15 AM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Cicero
I was a roady for that tour, Fat!
Played drums too
Posted by: Joe's med, um, a, uma dulla at July 04, 2024 12:18 AM (XIkHl)
*******
I would say a good percentage of Americans never heard of either.
Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2024 12:19 AM (uCfKO)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2024 12:19 AM (v6JzV)
The English Language, and especially the American English Language, is notorious for stealing words, phrases, expressions and idioms from every OTHER language on the face of the planet.
Why should it be any different for music?
Thus, I hereby declare the 1812 Overature STOLEN, and duly appropriated to commemorate the War of 1812.
So let it be written, so let it be DONE!
By my hand, this Lord's Day of 3 July 24.
Your humble servant,
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 04, 2024 12:19 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 03, 2024 10:28 PM (SbmsJ)
Yet another reason to be Catholic....
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 04, 2024 12:20 AM (sRfrW)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2024 12:20 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Miklos inspects invite list
That is the only gag they didn't do in four complete seasons. I fully expected it, but nope. And this was an animated series that featured an alcoholic, depraved pigeon and the ghost of the Marquess of Queensberry as Tyson's sidekicks.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024 12:20 AM (tmPIh)
*******
I would say a good percentage of Americans never heard of either.
Posted by: muldoon
I suspect that a large percentage of Americans like the sound of large guns.
Posted by: Miklos notes lack of posts from WWII journals at July 04, 2024 12:21 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2024 12:22 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Miklos notes lack of posts from WWII journals at July 04, 2024 12:21 AM (XIkHl)
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It's no Anvil Chorus from Il Trovatore.
Anvils.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 04, 2024 12:23 AM (jdHxK)
Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2024 12:19 AM (uCfKO)
The real question is, do I care? Damned fine music, and awesome on the 4th of July.
Americans these days are illiterate, idiotic, ignorant, and useless.
Do I care? No. I'm done with people in general. To hell with the folks I never have to deal with again.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 04, 2024 12:23 AM (sRfrW)
7/3/2024, 10:56:34 PM · by SeekAndFind · 10 replies
_Fox News
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Like Fox and California always calls 'em right.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 04, 2024 12:24 AM (WEqNk)
Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2024 12:24 AM (uCfKO)
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I hears ya. Misanthropy is the new black.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 04, 2024 12:24 AM (jdHxK)
Jim
Actually, Stalin signed over the rights to the 1812 Overture as part of the Lend-Lease military agreement in exchange for 500,000 Studebaker trucks and 5 million pounds of butter.
Posted by: Miklos is amazed at the amount of butter the US sent to the USSR at July 04, 2024 12:26 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 04, 2024 12:26 AM (WEqNk)
*salutes*
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 04, 2024 12:27 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2024 12:24 AM (uCfKO)
Oh my goodness! Haven't thought of that for years. My dad had it on vinyl.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 04, 2024 12:27 AM (sRfrW)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2024 12:28 AM (v6JzV)
Now he's Abu Nomore.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2024 12:28 AM (gKWVE)
I would put that number very near 100% of the young people currently being "educated" in public schools.
Posted by: jimmy at July 04, 2024 12:29 AM (AVyeO)
Posted by: Leopold Miklostokowski at July 04, 2024 12:29 AM (XIkHl)
Teachers? Employer costs from the BLS, chart by Mish Teachers make $37.90 per hour in direct wages. But they make a whopping $79.38 per hour in total benefits.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 04, 2024 12:29 AM (WEqNk)
Posted by: Miklos is amazed at the amount of butter the US sent to the USSR at July 04, 2024 12:26 AM (XIkHl)
I was just explaining the significance of Hangar One at Ladd Field in Fairbanks, AK to my summer intern. Half of it was American land, the other half was designated Russian, so lend-lease was nominally legal.
Building is still there, historical and all, but certainly not used as a hangar any more.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 04, 2024 12:29 AM (sRfrW)
- - - - -
Yes, because JB will put the oil companies out of business, and you won't have to pay high taxes on gas because there won't be any! ;-)
Posted by: As not seen on TV at July 04, 2024 12:30 AM (JhWkQ)
Posted by: Miklos, tits calmed at July 04, 2024 12:30 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 04, 2024 12:31 AM (jdHxK)
Don’t get me wrong. I love the 1812. But it has no inherent connection with our Independence Day.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2024 11:50 PM (v6JzV
It’s good music! And it has cannons! What more do you want?
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 04, 2024 12:32 AM (S6gqv)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 04, 2024 12:26 AM (WEqNk)
Allah's supply of virgins must be running real low by now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 04, 2024 12:32 AM (JU3gk)
Teachers? Employer costs from the BLS, chart by Mish Teachers make $37.90 per hour in direct wages. But they make a whopping $79.38 per hour in total benefits.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 04, 2024 12:29 AM (WEqNk)
This is utterly nonsense when you get to professionals such as engineers and architects. We earn considerably less than the private sector. We just work 8-8hour days, instead of the slave labor in the private sector that requires 9-10 hour days routinely. Paid less, but work less. Work-life balance, not something taking into consideration in the private sector. I've worked both.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at July 04, 2024 12:32 AM (sRfrW)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 03, 2024 11:50 PM (v6JzV
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FUN FACT: Cossacks played almost no role in the American Revolution.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 04, 2024 12:33 AM (jdHxK)
Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2024 12:24 AM (uCfKO)
Oh my goodness! Haven't thought of that for years. My dad had it on vinyl.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief
Now THAT would be fun to watch in a concert hall!
And just imagine how many victim groups would get pissed at the same time.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 04, 2024 12:33 AM (VNX3d)
Posted by: Cicero
Russia
Half was wasted, half was stolen, the remainder was consumed by the Workers, Soldiers, and Collective Farm Worker-Peasants.
Posted by: Miklosov Miklosevich at July 04, 2024 12:34 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 04, 2024 12:33 AM (VNX3d)
A potato gun made from a stuffed gator would be a real crowd-pleaser.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 04, 2024 12:35 AM (JU3gk)
Posted by: muldoon
And when Old Hickory touched that powder off, the gator lost his mind. The great Johnny Horton - anybody remember "Sink the Bismarck"?
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024 12:36 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 04, 2024 12:36 AM (S6gqv)
Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2024 12:37 AM (uCfKO)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
What with all the South American illegals, probably true
Posted by: Miklos does not do any MATHS at July 04, 2024 12:37 AM (XIkHl)
https://tinyurl.com/6y566mb8
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*steeples fingers*
All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
Posted by: Emperor DJT at July 04, 2024 12:37 AM (jdHxK)
… “ This is a precautionary notice to all customers to boil water that may be ingested due to water of unknown quality.
_lysergic acid diethylamide?
Posted by: Braenyard at July 04, 2024 12:38 AM (WEqNk)
Endeavor to persevere!
Posted by: muldoon
IN BASTILLE DAY MONTH!!??!!
Posted by: Le Mikleuse mes chers amis at July 04, 2024 12:38 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2024 12:38 AM (v6JzV)
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Greusome and Whitmer strangely silent.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 04, 2024 12:39 AM (WEqNk)
Posted by: Cicero
I assess this as TRUE
Posted by: casimir Pulaski, Father of the American cavalry at July 04, 2024 12:40 AM (XIkHl)
https://tinyurl.com/6y566mb8
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*steeples fingers*
All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
Posted by: Emperor DJT at July 04, 2024 12:37 AM (jdHxK)
Need to have a cartoon with the Donk governors lined up, daggers in hand, to cornhole Joe, and stab him in the back. Gretchen Whitmer with the strap-on.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 04, 2024 12:41 AM (JU3gk)
Posted by: John Drake
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The Hood found the Bismarck
And on that fatal day
The Bismarck started firing
Fifteen miles away
We gotta sink the Bismarck
Was the battle sound
But when the smoke had cleared away
The mighty Hood went down
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 04, 2024 12:41 AM (XeU6L)
*salutes*
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 04, 2024 12:42 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Braenyard at July 04, 2024 12:42 AM (WEqNk)
Sounds like a massive malarkey breach.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2024 12:42 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 04, 2024 12:43 AM (XeU6L)
Y'all are going to make me dig this up, aren't you?
Posted by: pookysgirl, forced into research at July 04, 2024 12:44 AM (dtlDP)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2024 12:44 AM (v6JzV)
_lysergic acid diethylamide?
Posted by: Braenyard
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That would explain a lot.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 04, 2024 12:45 AM (XeU6L)
But now when they are weaker and much less of a threat I am supposed to totally hate and fear them.
Posted by: jimmy at July 04, 2024 12:45 AM (AVyeO)
He also says the efforts of Marines will be in conjunction with other branches of the US military.
Those forces will use rocket systems to prevent China from using the seas beyond its territory...
_USNI News...
How about islands South East of Japan?
Posted by: Braenyard at July 04, 2024 12:45 AM (WEqNk)
Posted by: Miklos sees odd historical parallels at July 04, 2024 12:45 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: mnw at July 04, 2024 12:47 AM (NLIak)
Posted by: pookysgirl, forced into research
No, just buy rockets and stuff, if it doesn't bother Mr. Pook.
Posted by: Miklos likes the sight and sound at July 04, 2024 12:47 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 04, 2024 12:48 AM (D7oie)
Do as you please. It makes no difference, in any case.
Posted by: Russians at July 04, 2024 12:48 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 04, 2024 12:36 AM (S6gqv)
Huh. So *that's* what that theme was. Every time I heard it I assumed it was an excerpt or homage to the War of 1812.
Posted by: pookysgirl, forced into research at July 04, 2024 12:49 AM (dtlDP)
Posted by: Miklos the Surveyor at July 04, 2024 12:49 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2024 12:49 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: mnw
There's always opium, my dear boy.
Posted by: the at July 04, 2024 12:51 AM (gKWVE)
Posted by: Miklos would have taken that deal at July 04, 2024 12:52 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Miklos likes the sight and sound at July 04, 2024 12:47 AM (XIkHl)
He's fine, the service dog isn't. It's not that the service dog gets scared, he just needs to make sure his "pack" is okay and is very insistent about it.
Posted by: pookysgirl, official fireworks lighter at July 04, 2024 12:52 AM (dtlDP)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2024 12:53 AM (gKWVE)
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Greusome and Whitmer strangely silent.
Posted by: Braenyard
I didn't know that the Dem governors were cannibals.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 04, 2024 12:54 AM (VNX3d)
… “ This is a precautionary notice to all customers to boil water that may be ingested due to water of unknown quality.
_lysergic acid diethylamide?
Posted by: Braenyard
NOBODY who works in The Pentagon drinks the water there. Either you drink it after it's been filtered, or you drink bottled water.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 04, 2024 12:54 AM (sAmhv)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2024 12:53 AM (gKWVE)
Creative license!
Posted by: pookysgirl, with the standard artists' excuse at July 04, 2024 12:55 AM (dtlDP)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2024 12:57 AM (v6JzV)
1812???? How about some better sounds...
Copeland comes to mind. He had a much better sense of "The American Landscape" especially in the 30's going forward Fanfare for the Common Man, Billy the Kid, Hoedown from Rodeo, Our Town...just name a few.
This man created the AMERICANA sound after all..
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 04, 2024 12:57 AM (TDvv2)
President Biden displays vim and vigor by personally signing Medical Powers of Attorney with 14 Democratic Governors
Posted by: MiklosWatch at July 04, 2024 12:58 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2024 12:49 AM (v6JzV)
He was going to use, "My Talking Dog, Napoleon" by Ken Colman, but it hadn't been written yet.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 04, 2024 12:58 AM (JU3gk)
"They wanted me to be another Washington (referring to the manner in which Washington stepped down from command of the Continental Army and retired to Mount Vernon) but that was impossible."
He goes on to note that, given the state of affairs in France, he could "only be a crowned Washington." The idea of leading a revolution and not becoming a dictator was unthinkable in European affairs of that age.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024 12:59 AM (tmPIh)
Masters of the Air (the book) covers that aspect of the war.
Sleepy East Anglia overrun with B-17 & B-24 bases, & tens of thousands of AAF airmen with money to spend.
"Did you hear about the new high speed knickers? One yank and they're off!"
Posted by: mnw at July 04, 2024 01:00 AM (NLIak)
Prior to it, he wrote Marche Slave in the heat of the moment as Chernyayev was engaged in the noble and timeless endeavor of smashing filthy Turks. It's a more urgent and turgid piece, and better.
Posted by: Russians at July 04, 2024 01:02 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2024 01:03 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 04, 2024 01:03 AM (gKWVE)
Catchy tune, though.
The Guitar chick was an actual Jewish refugee.
https://tinyurl.com/pnanzwm2
Posted by: Miklos, who came here for the waters at July 04, 2024 01:04 AM (XIkHl)
Its slow suicide now is the legacy of existential shame.
Posted by: jimmy at July 04, 2024 01:05 AM (AVyeO)
"He's a composer, and he's OK!
...
He puts on women's clothing and hangs around in bars!"
Posted by: mnw at July 04, 2024 01:05 AM (NLIak)
Posted by: Pussy Galore at July 04, 2024 01:07 AM (MB784)
Wrapping it up for Independence Day Eve. Lately, I've been saying goodnight with a YouTube music link... and sometimes on the music threads, I dare to link to some song of my own. For this day, I say goodnight with a link to an old song of my own. Just having fun.
🎶 🎹 amateur hour again
The Great American Song
It's what every patriotic songsmith wishes to write. Or is it? An old quasi-political crooning.
Link in nic. Should play from 10:06 to 13:13 in the vid.
A cut from Mindful Webworkshop #11, 2016 Oct 21
🌅
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - pledging allegiance at July 04, 2024 01:07 AM (nXyct)
Fitting also that the struggle of our predecessors has become OUR heritage, to ensure our Republic endures.
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 04, 2024 01:08 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2024 01:10 AM (v6JzV)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
It is interesting to compare the advice GW gave to his stepson to the relationship between Joe and Hunter.
GW was Biden's polar opposite.
Posted by: Miklos, who paid for a degree in history and actually read all the books at July 04, 2024 01:12 AM (XIkHl)
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To its further shame, French troops opened fire on Anglo-British forces landing in Tunisia during Operation Torch in '43.
Fortunately, since they were French, nobody got hurt.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 04, 2024 01:13 AM (jdHxK)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 04, 2024 01:13 AM (jdHxK)
Posted by: jimmy at July 04, 2024 01:14 AM (AVyeO)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 04, 2024 01:16 AM (0FoWg)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
There's a story that Gouverneur Morris, the man who drafted most of the US Constitution in 1787, once made a bet during the Constitutional Convention.
Seeing George Washington from a distance speaking with fellow delegates, Morris, a fun-loving larger-than-life ladies' man, bet that he could come up from behind and slap Washington on the back and greet him with a hearty "Hello, George!"
Morris made his way over to Washington, but before he could do anything, Washington turned and looked at him. That one look lost the bet - Morris apologized for being intrusive and made himself scarce.
Think of any other leader in American history - were any of them so formidable that one look from them took all the wind out of everybody's sails?
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024 01:16 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2024 01:23 AM (v6JzV)
Fortunately, since they were French, nobody got hurt.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43
Reminds me of how they depicted that landing in "The Big Red One." The French offer their surrender, but a ranking officer, using a bull-horn, says "We do not accept your surrender. If you are Vichy, fight us. If you are Frenchmen, join us!" And there follows this joyous scene, where the French rush over to do just that. Sad that particular film is mostly forgotten. Probably one of Lee Marvin's best roles.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024 01:24 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: John Drake
*checks Amazon for powdered wigs*
Posted by: Miklos2027! at July 04, 2024 01:24 AM (XIkHl)
Trump on the golf course today, referring to POTATUS.
I liked it better while he was letting the situation speak for itself.
Trump has an impressive spare tire around his midsection, btw. A white, knit golf shirt shows it off to full advantage!
Posted by: mnw at July 04, 2024 01:25 AM (NLIak)
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at July 04, 2024 01:25 AM (v6JzV)
They were both much taller than average in their time.
And both had the kind of physical strength that came from the exertion of manual labor.
They both possessed a physical strength that would be unmatched by the public figures of today.
Posted by: jimmy at July 04, 2024 01:32 AM (AVyeO)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024
Lee Marvin's best role(s), were the Desert Motorcycle Races in which he competed, in the '50s and '60s.
Mexico, Vegas, Mojave, he rode 'em all. And on stripped down, 300+ lbs Brit bike "Desert Sleds".
Steve McQueen rode a lot of the same races, but a few years later. Marvin was of the Brit vertical twin era. McQueen rode those, but blossomed on the Husquvarna 400 single two-stroke, which was the Giant Killer of it's day.
Short day it was. Maico with their 501, and then the Japanese Invasion.
Me, with my Hodaka Ace 100? Didn't register 0.0000000000001 on the motorcycle richter scale.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 04, 2024 01:32 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 04, 2024 01:32 AM (2WRlI)
Posted by: DaveA at July 04, 2024 01:40 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Preidebt Miklos is going Old Skool at July 04, 2024 01:40 AM (XIkHl)
Y'all are going to make me dig this up, aren't you?
Posted by: pookysgirl, forced into research at July 04, 2024 12:44 AM (dtlDP)
We had no cannons with our Marseillaise.
Posted by: Rick's Place at July 04, 2024 01:42 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Jim
I had no idea he raced - this would have been before he teamed up with Richard Burton for the exploitation movie "The Klansman." By that time, Marvin had made drinking his whole profession, and Burton was almost continually intoxicated while they were shooting. A few years after the fact, the two were surprised to hear that they had done a movie together. The booze was strong on those two.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024 01:50 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: Bert G at July 04, 2024 01:50 AM (VARTN)
Posted by: Rick's Place
I had a "French 75" at Harry's bar in Paris.
Was about 14 bucks at he time.
Posted by: Miklosadmits to having been young and stupid at July 04, 2024 01:51 AM (XIkHl)
That hateful pos has done his best to put him in prison.
I would expect Trump to have nothing but the same hatred going back.
Posted by: jimmy at July 04, 2024 01:55 AM (AVyeO)
Lee Marvin was also a Combat Veteran Marine, having been in on the invasion(s) of the Island Hopping Campaigns in the Pacific.
McQueen was a post-war kicked out of the Marines. Because he was too incorrigible for their Corps Discipline.
Both were proven, badass don't fuck with 'em beat you into the dirt, mofos.
One of the best Hollywood insults ever in print? A wag once said of James Coburn. "He is a poor man's Lee Marvin."
Ow. Chhh.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 04, 2024 01:56 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Rick's Place at July 04, 2024 01:42 AM (w6EFb)
I've been hanging out with you guys too long-I actually got that joke despite never watching the movie.
Posted by: pookysgirl, off to see if Lil Pooky will let her sleep at July 04, 2024 01:57 AM (dtlDP)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 04, 2024 01:59 AM (i4fVr)
Posted by: Bert G
I wouldn't "prank" Hillary with Bill's mis-shapened dick
Posted by: Miklos notes official court testimony at July 04, 2024 01:59 AM (XIkHl)
Was about 14 bucks at he time.
Posted by: Miklosadmits to having been young and stupid
I remember the ads for Harry's Bar back in the day. where they said to tell the cab driver to take them to "sank roo doe noo."
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024 02:00 AM (tmPIh)
Ow. Chhh.
Jim
Disagree
As "Our Man Flint" he was a poor man's funny James Bond.
Posted by: Miklos has Opinions at July 04, 2024 02:01 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Nightwatch at July 04, 2024 02:02 AM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 04, 2024 02:05 AM (i4fVr)
Posted by: raimondo at July 04, 2024 02:06 AM (BN6l3)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024 02:07 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: torabora at July 04, 2024 02:08 AM (RfWYJ)
Yet even without Washington I have no doubt that the others would have stepped up.
I believe that group were called for a purpose.
Posted by: jimmy at July 04, 2024 02:10 AM (AVyeO)
One was a legit badass, the other only played one on the screen.
That said? Coburn had more range as an actor, to be sure.
But honestly. A percentage of his roles were him playing a smaller version of the Lee Marvin profile.
Or, show me a hit role with Coburn in other than white hair, and we'll start at that?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 04, 2024 02:11 AM (e6UQI)
I have to now take back and revoke my ENTIRE diatribe as to the James Coburn film heritage.
My mistake, my BAD MEMORY, my all around Mea Culpa.
It just rang in my noggin that that that quote was that GEORGE KENNEDY was the poor man's Lee Marvin.
Makes more sense that, too.
Couldn't act his way out of a paper bag, relied on his BIG TEETH, too, a-la Coburn, and was a Clumsy Oaf of an actor on screen, in the bargain.
Miklos.
APOLOGIES!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 04, 2024 02:17 AM (e6UQI)
Obviously because white guys.
Posted by: jimmy at July 04, 2024 02:19 AM (AVyeO)
By the way, Liam Nielsen will be playing Frank Drebin's son in a new Naked Gun film coming out in 2025.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024 02:26 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024 02:28 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024 02:26 AM (tmPIh)
'Is this some kind of bust' gag with a tranny with falsies.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 04, 2024 02:29 AM (i4fVr)
They'd damn well best be slippin' some "Taken" dialogue into that script as "straight lines".
The format DEMANDS it !!!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 04, 2024 02:30 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop
Nope, Neeson is signed up to play Frank Drebin Junior. Now how that will go over in La-La Land, hard to say.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024 02:33 AM (tmPIh)
APOLOGIES!
Generously accepted.
With chits for whiskeys when Hurricane Miklos hits the Texas coast.
Posted by: Miklos grew big, wears glasses because he needs 'em, and smokes 'em if he got 'em at July 04, 2024 02:35 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024 02:28 AM (tmPIh)
Anti Gun guy, tries to cash in on the NAKED GUN franchise...
Nuff.... said...
Posted by: Romeo13 at July 04, 2024 02:36 AM (xaFKb)
The format DEMANDS it !!!
Posted by: Jim
I have a feeling that they will incorporate that in some way. Seth MacFarlane, by the way, does an incredibly funny bit with Kermit the Frog delivering those iconic lines. It's from the Graham Norton Show at this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsu8vL2YyPQ
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024 02:39 AM (tmPIh)
Fk'n 1 ft waves and 2 ft. tides, again!?
I'd be more scared of a Tropical Stormy Daniels.
She, at least, has the force of the Fraudulent Feds behind her.
They wield a far greater power than those Forecast Fraudulents!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston,TX
Posted by: Jim at July 04, 2024 02:41 AM (e6UQI)
It is almost always blacks, but even when not, some other people of indeterminate origin, yet certainly not only white.
The message is that whites never gather together because that would be inherently racist.
Posted by: jimmy at July 04, 2024 02:41 AM (AVyeO)
Obviously because white guys.
Posted by: jimmy
*quietly kills the DEI people*
Posted by: Miklos Michael Caine at July 04, 2024 02:44 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: jimmy at July 04, 2024 02:41 AM (AVyeO)
Three or more are plotting for sure.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 04, 2024 02:44 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at July 04, 2024 02:47 AM (Sgq8y)
Jim
Darleen, Marleen, and Charleen will have a word.
Don't think a double wide caint move.
Posted by: Miklos done got hitched at July 04, 2024 02:48 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at July 04, 2024 02:48 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz
I take precisely no credit for that.
Sweet dreams
Posted by: Miklos sings in best Patsy Cline voice at July 04, 2024 02:50 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Miklos thinks that used to be a Thing at July 04, 2024 02:51 AM (XIkHl)
BE a Conspiracy of ONE.
"comms" are ALL compromised. Control and Coordination, are impossible to contain, much less achieve.
Determine what you've gotta do, and then set out to DO, and get it done.
And don't tell a single fuckin' SOUL, and take the knowledge to your grave.
You want COMSEC, this is how it's done in the Present Age.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at July 04, 2024 02:52 AM (e6UQI)
Posted by: jimmy at July 04, 2024 02:53 AM (AVyeO)
Posted by: jimmy
Remember that song.
One was a guy and one was a girl.
Hard to tell who was what, because Scandinavians of some generic sort
Posted by: Miklos shrugs like he learnt in France at July 04, 2024 02:58 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: jimmy at July 04, 2024 02:41 AM (AVyeO)
Three or more are plotting for sure.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
"For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”
Posted by: Unworried Miklos at July 04, 2024 03:01 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 04, 2024 03:03 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA
There is iron in Grampa's words
Posted by: Respected Elder Miklos at July 04, 2024 03:06 AM (XIkHl)
Posted by: Gallagher at July 04, 2024 03:12 AM (XIkHl)
We shall grill out tomorrow and avoid most of the Petunia Day festivities. Play w/ the dogs and try to teach 11 mo Flash, the Gordon Setter, how to become a better behaved adult dog.
It will be fun to watch his older sister, 9 yo Kahlua the big lab, to teach him to continue to fetch the orange ball.
Posted by: Farmer at July 04, 2024 03:28 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Gallagher
Please, not that! It may summon Carrot Top!
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024 03:34 AM (tmPIh)
Honestly, anyone catching sight of Carrot Top unawares couldn't really be blamed for the occasional freaking out.
Posted by: John Drake Is Somewhat Impressed By The Astrakhan Kremlin at July 04, 2024 03:39 AM (tmPIh)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 04, 2024 03:55 AM (hKoQL)
Posted by: Adriane the Geeky Geek Critic . . . at July 04, 2024 04:13 AM (TX4bP)
How are you doing lately?
Oh we have had a blast teaching Flash, had him since he was very young, smart as a whip. He has this interesting habit of cocking his head when you ask him a question, like he's working hard to understand you.
He's a sweetheart w/ too much energy. Thankfully his older sister loves to fight/play to wear him out.
Posted by: Farmer at July 04, 2024 04:17 AM (55Qr6)
Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 04, 2024 04:23 AM (i4sOa)
Posted by: Xokrebs v Xocarnot: My Authenticity is Off the Charts (TM)! at July 04, 2024 04:33 AM (i4sOa)
I've always insisted on my dogs being well behaved citizens, they're no different than kids in that respect. the difference is the behavior is always that of a child.
Posted by: irongrampa at July 04, 2024 05:00 AM (hKoQL)
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