Saturday Overnight Open Thread (7/27/24)

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The Saturday Night Joke

A man is laying in the hospital, waiting to be the first person in history to receive a brain transplant.

A doctor comes in and says, "Congratulations! But unfortunately, since this is a new procedure, your insurance isn't going to cover it all. So we're going to give you 3 choices for brains and you can decide which you can afford."

The man says to the doctor, "Okay, what are they?"

The doctor says, “Well, first there's the engineer brain, that's $100 an ounce. Then there's the astrophysicist brain, that'll cost you $200 an ounce. Finally, there's the politician brain. That's the most expensive at $1000 an ounce."

The man looks at the doctor, surprised… “that's absurd! Why is the politician brain so expensive?"

The doctor turns to him and says, “Sir, do you have any idea how many politicians it takes to get an ounce of brain?" (H/T Hrothgar)

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I've never heard of the following restaurant let alone eat at one. I have no idea if they are top 10 material or not.

Del Taco has been named by USA TODAY as America's No. 1 fast food restaurant, ending Chick-fil-A's nearly decade run as the top chain.
The Mexican restaurant chain was selected by readers as the nation's best, followed by KFC and Chick-fil-A.
"This popular taco stop, which serves all kinds of satisfying Mexican fare including burritos, quesadillas, and nachos, also offers burgers and fries. In addition, Del Taco has a dedicated breakfast menu, as well as a vegan and vegetarian menu," USA TODAY wrote.
Del Taco, which is based in California. is reported to have 594 total locations in just 18 U.S. states. USA TODAY's full list of America's top 10 best fast food restaurants is included below:

I suppose if QDPSteve were lurking he would know.

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There are plenty of things to do in North Dakota. North Dakotans disagree with me.

A new map offers an intriguing glimpse into the beer-loving culture that thrives in throughout America, showcasing a significant variance in consumption from state to state.

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The ONT Musical Interlude & Eulogy Emporium

John Mayall was a great musician. And many of his band mates went onto bigger stardom such as Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page. RIP John Mayall.

I received the following note earlier this week.

MH,
John Mayall has passed. The NY Times wrote a lovely obit about Mr. Mayall.
He truly was a Blues and Rock and Roll titan.
I first encountered him through the Bluesbreakers with Clapton album. My friends and I literally wore out few copies of it while learning the music. It was life changing and became a musical anchor point over the decades.
Many years later, when I was living in downtown Seattle in a small studio apartment, I would often walk to Jazz Alley to hear many memorable musicians such Chick Corea, Dr. John, Christian McBride, and of course, Mr. Mayall. It was a lovely venue, two tiers, all seats up close or on top of the bands. The audiences were all smart, civil, and knew their stuff - the exact opposite of drunk shitheads that go to clubs and arenas and spend their entire time watching the show through their cell phones.
Mr. Mayall came through every June or July for 4 nights, 2 show each night, and I made it a point to hit a show a day, sometimes both. Over the years I lived there and before I moved to New Mexico, I must have seen him 20 times. The bands were always tight as hell and during each set there would be moments of stunning greatness where everything fell apart, got loose, stopped being music, and become pure sound energy that reached right into you – Mayall got that out his bands, it was stunning.
The Jazz Alley merch table was located right where patrons would enter the main floor. Each night before the show, there would be Mr. Mayall at the merch table, his mind a million miles away with his eyes blank, until somebody would come up, far fewer that you would expect, and he would then instantly spring to life. He would personally sell them a CD, autograph it, have a few nice words, take a pic with the fan and as soon as they left, he would revert to that other state. I came to love watching that part of the show and sometimes I would hang back in the shadows soaking in those moments.
I only approached him one time at the merch table, and it was to thank him for that album, how I wore out a few copies as a youth, how it completely changed how I thought about blues and rock and roll, and that I still pull it out with some regularity. Instead of snapping to life as I have explained he sort of pulled back, slightly shocked, slightly not sure what to do, he then said, “you don’t want a picture with me?” I replied, “Mr. Mayall, not needed, I am just happy to have had this moment to share with you how much I have appreciated your work over the decades, and that I get to come to Jazz Alley every night you are in Seattle.” He didn’t directly reply, instead he looked down for a moment in thought, paused for a few seconds, and then his head came up and uttered, to me, the ever-immortal words, “It did have some energy, didn’t it?” I agreed, shook his hand and found my seat.
About mid-way through that set, he stopped to discuss that next song was one he hadn’t played for a live audience for decades and that he hoped we wouldn’t mind listening to something that old. He then counted off, 1, 2, 3, 4 and the band launched into a blistering extended version of “All Your Love” from that album. It was then my turn came to be shocked and not sure what to do; I do recall having a few tears right there on the main floor at Jazz Alley, a couple tables back from the band. That is the only time he ever called a tune off that album in all the shows I got attend. It was a moment.
Great live performance can be like that.
Regards,
Altaria Pilgram, formerly known as the artist, Lost in Space.

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Before saving his next basement, he became tonight's: Genius Award Winner.

‘He was struggling’: Firefighter crashes fire engine, admits to drinking 18 beers before shift
PETERSBURG, Va. (WWBT/Gray News) - A Virginia firefighter is on administrative leave following a crash involving a fire engine he was driving and a parked car.
The reported collision occurred Tuesday afternoon when a fire engine being driven by 34-year-old Petersburg firefighter Aaron Michael Hinspater crashed into a parked car near the intersection of Sycamore and Bank Streets

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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Creative Graffiti.

Notice: Posted with permission by the Ace Media Empire & AceCorp, LLC. A surprise inspection was held by upper management. Do not, I repeat do not say the following, "Ok, I'll be peace and you can be quiet."

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:02 PM

Comments

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1 the direction

Posted by: Ciampino - ONT titbits #36 at July 27, 2024 10:02 PM (qfLjt)

2 !

Posted by: barbarausa at July 27, 2024 10:02 PM (enw9G)

3 Early

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2024 10:02 PM (XeU6L)

4 Early?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 27, 2024 10:03 PM (XeU6L)

5 Sorry I'm late, I was teaching some chubby marsupials how to shoot, move and communicate on the battlefield.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2024 10:03 PM (R256O)

6 Taste the rainbrew!

Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2024 10:03 PM (DgGvY)

7 Del Taco is the McDonalds of Taco shops.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 27, 2024 10:03 PM (+H2BX)

8 First again hey hey!

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT titbits #02 at July 27, 2024 10:04 PM (qfLjt)

9 Evening greeting

Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 10:04 PM (/7KEl)

10 *Looks at top picture*
*wipes tear*

It's beautiful man!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 10:04 PM (W/lyH)

11 Great joke. I laughed.

Then I thought about it and cried.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2024 10:05 PM (R256O)

12 Yay ONT

Posted by: PaleRider at July 27, 2024 10:05 PM (wTs+0)

13 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 10:05 PM (6WCwE)

14 Thanks for the ONT!

Posted by: Toni at July 27, 2024 10:05 PM (ugzWe)

15 Word is, the IOC hired a radical homo activist to come up with that opening ceremony

they meant to do that shite

Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 10:06 PM (/7KEl)

16 MHSAONT
Woot!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 27, 2024 10:06 PM (hOUT3)

17 Trump is still at the podium talking away.

Good Evening

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 10:07 PM (y/M9h)

18 Yes, John Mayall died the day after Duke Fakir of the Four Tops. Not a good week for classic music.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2024 10:07 PM (R256O)

19 Sir, do you have any idea how many politicians it takes to get an ounce of brain?

And then there's the tithe to the priests to have it exorcised.....

Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2024 10:07 PM (DgGvY)

20 Del Taco is the McDonalds of Taco shops.
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They have El Big Mac

Posted by: Jules W. at July 27, 2024 10:07 PM (Dnobf)

21
Astros, down 5-0 to the Dodgers going into the 6th, come back and walk it off 7-6.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2024 10:07 PM (1Nxff)

22 Del Taco is the McDonalds of Taco shops.

That's not fair. The Wendy's of taco shops, maybe.

Posted by: Oddbob at July 27, 2024 10:08 PM (/y8xj)

23 Thanks MisHum, Hrothgar and Altaria Pilgram. Much appreciated.

Posted by: TRex at July 27, 2024 10:08 PM (IQ6Gq)

24 Word is, the IOC hired a radical homo activist to come up with that opening ceremony

they meant to do that shite
Posted by: Don Black

Stan smiles at how easy it is to get leftists to do his work. he saves the biggest laughs however, for how shocked they are going to be when their final judgement is decided.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 10:09 PM (6WCwE)

25
Word is, the IOC hired a radical homo activist to come up with that opening ceremony

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Didn't watch it. Was the Last Supper parody televised or was the broadcast elsewhere?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2024 10:09 PM (1Nxff)

26 Del Taco is better than Taco Bell. That's all it has going for it. It's a sack of dog food you eat when you're too drunk to brown ground beef yourself.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 10:10 PM (0FoWg)

27
People named Stan must be ticked at autocorrect.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2024 10:10 PM (1Nxff)

28 contemporary Christianity never fights back

Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 10:11 PM (/7KEl)

29 15 Word is, the IOC hired a radical homo activist to come up with that opening ceremony

they meant to do that shite
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 10:06 PM (/7KEl)

It's no fun being a member of the ruling elite, unless you can mock every fundamental belief of the peasants without any consequences!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 27, 2024 10:11 PM (hOUT3)

30 Thank you for the John Mayall, MisHum!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2024 10:11 PM (qOVyZ)

31 There are some Del Tacos in Texas, but do they have any Doritos Locos Tacos Supremes? No Sir they do not. No restaurant can ever claim to be the Best Fast Food Restaurant in America without Doritos Locos Tacos Supremes!

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2024 10:12 PM (8kFa7)

32 Checking in, MisHum. Don't have much to say, though.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2024 10:12 PM (0eaVi)

33 contemporary Christianity never fights back
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 10:11 PM (/7KEl)

Why would they? Modern Christuanity is all in on the current ~~thing~~ bullshit.

Posted by: RickZ at July 27, 2024 10:13 PM (gKDq2)

34 Hadrian
I only know what I've read in news reports, but apparently the backlash is pretty bad and the Paris Olympic people are trying to get the worst of the videos taken down, claiming copyright violations

Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 10:13 PM (/7KEl)

35
contemporary Christianity never fights back
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 10:11 PM (/7KEl)

_________

After anti-Catholic riots in NYC in the 1840s, Archbishop John Hughes warned, "If a single Catholic church is burned, New York will be a second Moscow."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2024 10:13 PM (1Nxff)

36
Word is, the IOC hired a radical homo activist to come up with that opening ceremony

they meant to do that shite
Posted by: Don Black

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Thomas Jolly. His pic is on the internet. He's made up like John Wayne Gacy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 27, 2024 10:13 PM (lCaJd)

37 Thanks Mishum. Some things in this world are consistently excellent. Your ONT's are one of them.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Atavistic at July 27, 2024 10:13 PM (HLfHQ)

38 contemporary Christianity never fights back
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 10:11 PM (/7KEl)

Could always dress up like the local LGBQ and mock Mohammed. Well, only if you have shoes that go with my outfit.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 10:14 PM (W/lyH)

39 I don't really like any fast food besides McD's sausage & egg muffin, and Krystal's spicy chicken sandwich. But CFA is better than Del Taco. Practically everything is.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 10:14 PM (0FoWg)

40 Wow!
Look at the N.H beer consumption per capita!!! And they have no taste in beer, just like CA, and OR!

New Hampshire
Gallons Per Capita: 43.9
Preferred Brand: Budweiser

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2024 10:14 PM (qOVyZ)

41 To be honest, the local family run joint in an old fast station, Los Guerros, does better fast mescan food than any chain restaurant standing. So does Tacqueria Lugar.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2024 10:15 PM (8kFa7)

42 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 27, 2024 10:15 PM (gllTv)

43 Evening everyone. Going to try to not hang out until 3AM this time 😎

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 10:16 PM (3981M)

44 Word is, the IOC hired a radical homo activist to come up with that opening ceremony

they meant to do that shite
Posted by: Don Black

Just hearing about this convinced me to not watch one minute of this crap fest.

Posted by: Some Rat at July 27, 2024 10:16 PM (x0fbL)

45 Another Olympics I'll miss every minute of...

Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at July 27, 2024 10:16 PM (qzqnT)

46 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 10:16 PM (hCl2q)

47 contemporary Christianity never fights back
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It's been feminized like everything else in Western Civilization. It's all about being nice and accepted rather than confronting sin (which is the necessary first step before repentance is even possible).

Posted by: Methos at July 27, 2024 10:16 PM (Dnobf)

48 37 Thanks Mishum. Some things in this world are consistently excellent. Your ONT's are one of them.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Atavistic at July 27, 2024 10:13 PM

Thank you

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 27, 2024 10:16 PM (QXQ4l)

49 Does Vance still hang out with trannies?

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but? at July 27, 2024 10:16 PM (bILdU)

50
Didn't watch it. Was the Last Supper parody televised or was the broadcast elsewhere?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

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Apparently it was televised since it was considered some sort of triumph. There are still clips on X, but the posters are being threatened with copyright suits. The vid has been taken off YouTube.

What utter asses. This is the "wardrobe malfunction" redux, except 10x worse and they didn't even see it coming.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 27, 2024 10:17 PM (lCaJd)

51 The problem with the Olympics is the same as the NBA. If I'm going to watch rigged sports, I'll watch WWE. They're at least upfront about the fix.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 10:17 PM (0FoWg)

52 Budweiser is a beer for people who really dislike beer but are heavily controlled by advertising. They think all beer sucks, but they think it’s popular to drink so they drink the most heavily marketed piss beer they can find.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2024 10:18 PM (8kFa7)

53 Misanthropic Humanitarian

My wife will like this joke. Especially since I am an ex-elected official.

You continue to amuse with your creative disclaimers.

Thank you so much for adding smiles and good content to my life.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at July 27, 2024 10:18 PM (u82oZ)

54 Thanks for another great ONT, Mis Hum!

Great Saturday night joke!

That top photo looks like several "flights" of beer waiting to be sampled.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 27, 2024 10:18 PM (1MvZI)

55 As referenced in a previous thread in re:
138 Mitt Romney in Paris... as a mime.
Posted by: davidt at July 27, 2024 09:05 PM (i0F8b)

This made me think of some mental perambulations I had been on before, which lead me to the conclusion that Marcel Marceau is the most talented entertainer to ever live. Why would I make such a statement? Because Marcel Marceau was a world famous mime.

Let that sink in a moment.

World Famous Mime.

That is a phrase, like "leftover bacon," "illegal knife," or "Marxist government" that should not only have never been coined in any language, but should also be totally alien to human capacity to create. Mimes have always rightfully been the targets of derision, yet, there's Marcel, the World Famous Mime, master of his craft, happily entertaining the masses.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2024 10:18 PM (R256O)

56 Del Taco has been named by USA TODAY as America's No. 1 fast food restaurant, ending Chick-fil-A's nearly decade run as the top chain.

USA Today? Somehow my BS meter.is jumping.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 10:19 PM (W/lyH)

57 Yes eaten in Del Taco. Didn't know they were amazing. We have one in my little town, I'll have to report on it for the Horde.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 10:19 PM (3981M)

58 May all the cretins at NBC die in a fire.

https://youtu.be/33JP2-vOulw

Chick commenting didn't recognize the band. That's fine. Just shut the fuck up.

Here's the audio.

https://youtu.be/a6fob05bobQ

Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 10:19 PM (hCl2q)

59 Well now

Posted by: Huck Folkywood at July 27, 2024 10:19 PM (X2UBQ)

60 We have Del Taco around these parts. Since I always just get the crunchy tacos, I can't see any difference between them and Taco Bell. Guess I will have to check out their burgers. Sometimes Mexican food places have the best hamburgers!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 27, 2024 10:20 PM (1MvZI)

61 I thought the punch line would be "But Sir, the brain is unused".

Posted by: Miklos mis-anticipated at July 27, 2024 10:20 PM (1CnH+)

62
Even absent the opening ceremony horror, I don't think I'd watch much. What's the coverage nowadays except fawning profiles interspersed with a bit of the action? How many times can we hear about Simone Biles?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 27, 2024 10:20 PM (1Nxff)

63 Alright then

Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 10:20 PM (/7KEl)

64 Posted by: Not trying to be mean

You haven't seen him in your groups, right?
Therefor no.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2024 10:20 PM (qOVyZ)

65 15 Word is, the IOC hired a radical homo activist to come up with that opening ceremony

they meant to do that shite

Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 10:06 PM (/7KEl)

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Here you go (repost)
The artistic director responsible for the Paris opening ceremony says he mocked 2.4 billion Christians with drag queens so “everybody feels represented.”

https://tinyurl.com/2hs2cyxm

Also apparently this: the opening ceremony had the Statue of Liberty filled with bullet holes.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT titbits #03 at July 27, 2024 10:20 PM (qfLjt)

66 Mitt Romney as a mime is awesome stuff. I'm all in favor.

Posted by: Huck Folkywood at July 27, 2024 10:21 PM (X2UBQ)

67 I live in a place where even the shittiest restaurant serves tacos better than anything from a garbage fast food taco joint.

As annoying as Jill Biden is she wasn't wrong about the tacos.

Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 10:21 PM (hCl2q)

68 My favorite Onion headline was when the mime died:

"Marcel Marceau Trapped In Real Box, This Time"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 10:21 PM (0FoWg)

69 MH, excellent editing. Thanks. No, really.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 10:21 PM (G8tt9)

70 Hello Salty

Thanks for the kind words.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 27, 2024 10:21 PM (QXQ4l)

71 Word is, the IOC hired a radical homo activist to come up with that opening ceremony

Just a way-station enroute to the French Caliphate.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 27, 2024 10:22 PM (uxCna)

72 Lucky Marcel Marceau never got an MBA.

Stayed thinking inside the box.

Posted by: Miklos with Synergies at July 27, 2024 10:22 PM (1CnH+)

73 Even absent the opening ceremony horror, I don't think I'd watch much. What's the coverage nowadays except fawning profiles interspersed with a bit of the action? How many times can we hear about Simone Biles?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I was probably 60% checked out of watching when they decided break dancing was a sport...the homo stuff sealed the deal.

Posted by: Some Rat at July 27, 2024 10:22 PM (x0fbL)

74 Wait, wait! I don't understand. When you get a brain transplant, doesn't that mean it's not your mind or personality anymore? And if you're still you, do you suddenly have astrophysicist ability? How does this work? Does the politician brain have many disparate and conflicting thoughts? I need a brain transplant to understand!

Meanwhile, howdy, y'all. Howdy, Mis Hum. Now to look at <Paul Harvey voice> the rest of the content. </voice>

Posted by: mindful webworker - I don't get it! at July 27, 2024 10:22 PM (0H07d)

75 Also apparently this: the opening ceremony had the Statue of Liberty filled with bullet holes.
Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT titbits #03 at July 27, 2024 10:20 PM (qfLjt)

Ironic since it was gifted to us from the French.

Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 10:22 PM (hCl2q)

76 Chevy had ads with the tagline "we want you for keeps".
Frequently changed to
"We want you fuck ups"
.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 27, 2024 10:22 PM (MLCjJ)

77 The artistic director responsible for the Paris opening ceremony says he mocked 2.4 billion Christians with drag queens so “everybody feels represented.”
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I don't feel represented. Burn it all to the ground and I'll feel a bit more included.

Posted by: Huck Folkywood at July 27, 2024 10:22 PM (X2UBQ)

78 The Last Supper insult was a sideshow. People seem to be unaware that what they were doing was recreating a Dionysiun drunken orgy, with a little girl right in the middle of it, standing next to a guy with his junk hanging out, while ol' Dionysius himself was on the other side of her, wearing nothing but blue paint and some garlands of fake flowers, singing a song about being naked.

In all fairness, they are now claiming that what looks like testicles is merely a rip in the guys tights, and that may be true. But we still have the little child in the middle of an homage to orgies.

Then of course we had the little tableau of 3 bizarrely dressed characters, cleary strangers to each other, who meet in the library and go off to have a threesome, shutting the door to the apartment as they start groping each other and the two guys start kissing.

Can't imagine why anyone was offended by any of that!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 10:22 PM (Vvh2V)

79 "Say No To Ass Man"

There was a company I ordered parts from called Assmann
assmann-wsw.com

Good parts. Never shoved them up my ass.
Think it's pronounced Ozzman.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:23 PM (ynpvh)

80 When we were kids we'd always watch the Games so we could root for the American team, especially when we were competing directly against those commie pricks from E Germany or USSR

now- screw it
football and hockey

Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 10:23 PM (/7KEl)

81 Don't expect Christians to act like muslims when insulted. That's not happening. God will punish sinners. That's how it works. Modern Christianity is a mess. Dead in Europe, mostly dead in America, but not completely dead. There are churches that still preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world, which is the Great Commission. It's not going to get easier for Christians from this point forward. What the IOC allowed in France is the norm now. Persecution will increase. Prepare accordingly. What you see around you is explained in Romans 1:18-32.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 27, 2024 10:23 PM (gllTv)

82 Mimes have always rightfully been the targets of derision, yet, there's Marcel, the World Famous Mime, master of his craft, happily entertaining the masses.
Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2024 10:18 PM (R256O

Red Skelton once entertained the UN for over an hour and never said a word. True, universal entertainment.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 10:23 PM (W/lyH)

83 65
Not sure but I didn't see anything mocking Mohammedans, did you?

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT titbits #04 at July 27, 2024 10:23 PM (qfLjt)

84 69 MH, excellent editing. Thanks. No, really.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 10:21 PM (G8tt9

I appreciate your contribution

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at July 27, 2024 10:23 PM (QXQ4l)

85 Even absent the opening ceremony horror

Soon human sacrifice of infants?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at July 27, 2024 10:24 PM (MLCjJ)

86 Word is, the IOC hired a radical homo activist to come up with that opening ceremony

I think it is part of a concerted effort by the unhumans to destroy the West, and by putting this propaganda out there for the entire non-Western world to see is deliberate.

The Islamic world can point to this utter depravity and justify their continued assaults to save the world from these infidels, the BRICS nations can be encouraged that their main economic competitors are self-destructing and nations on the fence who are debating on whether to hedge their bets on China or the West are seeing this cultural rot and the drive towards violent totalitarian Marxism and looking at China as the better option.

I stopped watching the Olympics 40 years ago because it was no longer about sports but an endless series of emotional stories of the athletes. If I wanted that, I would subscribe to the Hallmark Channel.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2024 10:24 PM (kipvl)

87 Nice joke, nice tribute to John Mayall, no discernible Globohomo agenda, well, except for an appearance by the Ass Man.

I give it a 9.3.

Posted by: The Peeper at July 27, 2024 10:24 PM (CV8a5)

88 81 Don't expect Christians to act like muslims when insulted. That's not happening. God will punish sinners. That's how it works. Modern Christianity is a mess. Dead in Europe, mostly dead in America, but not completely dead. There are churches that still preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost and dying world, which is the Great Commission. It's not going to get easier for Christians from this point forward. What the IOC allowed in France is the norm now. Persecution will increase. Prepare accordingly. What you see around you is explained in Romans 1:18-32.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 27, 2024 10:23 PM (gllTv)

Islam: "We're the Religion of Peace™ and we'll kill you if you disagree.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:24 PM (ynpvh)

89 No. Del Taco is NOT better than Chick-Fil-A.
Oy vey. (It is arguably slightly better than Taco Bell.)

Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2024 10:24 PM (AWrpC)

90 They also have that event where they dance around waving some kind of windsock looking thing

Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 10:25 PM (/7KEl)

91 Does Vance still hang out with trannies?

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but? at July 27, 2024 10:16 PM (bILdU)

No, he fucks couches. Thank you for asking, though!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 10:25 PM (D7oie)

92 Can't imagine why anyone was offended by any of that!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 10:22 PM (Vvh2V)

Just another day in Gay Paree!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 27, 2024 10:25 PM (hOUT3)

93 USA Today? Somehow my BS meter.is jumping.

As it should. The multi-colored fish wrap of commie propaganda.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 27, 2024 10:26 PM (mH6SG)

94 Even absent the opening ceremony horror

Soon human sacrifice of infants?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle

Legal abortion up to birth is getting pretty damn close.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 10:26 PM (6WCwE)

95 87 Nice joke, nice tribute to John Mayall, no discernible Globohomo agenda, well, except for an appearance by the Ass Man.

I give it a 9.3.

Posted by: The Peeper at July 27, 2024 10:24 PM (CV8a5)

Funny.
Nevermind a brain transplant wouldn't work, unless you were transplanting the guy's brain into another body, or getting pieces of another brain grafted while retaining the frontal lobe and other parts that make you, you.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:26 PM (ynpvh)

96 So, the lights are out in Paris. All of them, apparently.

https://tinyurl.com/352vmhcz

No word on why, but Pharaoh has a guess.

Posted by: Methos at July 27, 2024 10:26 PM (Dnobf)

97 For those who didn't get the earlier reference, I was helping train a brigade of Combat Wombats.

(Yep, the explanation killed the humor, but If I cared about humor I'd probably be more punctual.)

Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2024 10:26 PM (R256O)

98 Then of course we had the little tableau of 3 bizarrely dressed characters, cleary strangers to each other, who meet in the library and go off to have a threesome, shutting the door to the apartment as they start groping each other and the two guys start kissing.

Can't imagine why anyone was offended by any of that!
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 10:22 PM (Vvh2V)

I'll say, that poor girl probably got no action while the two dudes were getting busy with each other.

Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 10:27 PM (hCl2q)

99 It's Beer night on the ONT!

Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2024 10:27 PM (xJEPL)

100 USA Today? Somehow my BS meter.is jumping.

As it should. The multi-colored fish wrap of commie propaganda.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

So is it the CNN or MSNBC of bird cage liners?

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

101 Daughter loved the creative graffiti pic. Said she'd give the perp $20 for his creative efforts even if he was a commie leftist.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Atavistic at July 27, 2024 10:27 PM (HLfHQ)

102 Apparently it was televised since it was considered some sort of triumph. There are still clips on X, but the posters are being threatened with copyright suits. The vid has been taken off YouTube.

What utter asses. This is the "wardrobe malfunction" redux, except 10x worse and they didn't even see it coming.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 27, 2024 10:17 PM (lCaJd)

They just want equality. I'm sure the next time they'll have a dozen Christians mock transgenders.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 27, 2024 10:27 PM (pIfcn)

103 100

Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2024 10:27 PM (xJEPL)

104 89 No. Del Taco is NOT better than Chick-Fil-A.
Oy vey. (It is arguably slightly better than Taco Bell.)

Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2024 10:24 PM (AWrpC)

The "Toes" places: Albertos, Rigobertos, Adalbertos, Analbertos (Yes, there was one in San Diego) and so forth taste more authentic than Taco Hell or Hell Taco.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:28 PM (ynpvh)

105 I watched Trump's speech in Minnesota. Fired up crowd, full arena and another 25K outside.

He has smoothly pivoted to hitting Kamala where it hurts, without missing a beat. He calls her Border Czar Kamala.

Also noted he did Kirk's faith conference in Palm Beach last night, Bitcoin this afternoon, and University of Minnesota tonight. Harris was at a senior center in Philadelphia with 60 attendees.

He is smoking her.

He's also right up front saying the Dems are going to rig the election, if you don't vote they are going to cheat.

Very good retooling of the stump speech.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 10:28 PM (3981M)

106 I'm sure the next time they'll have a dozen Christians mock transgenders.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 27, 2024 10:27 PM (pIfcn)

Those Christians will be crucified when that happens.

Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2024 10:28 PM (xJEPL)

107 91 Does Vance still hang out with trannies?

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but? at July 27, 2024 10:16 PM (bILdU)

No, he fucks couches. Thank you for asking, though!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 10:25 PM (D7oie)

What if it was a couch that lost the sectional piece?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:28 PM (ynpvh)

108 Didn't watch it. Was the Last Supper parody televised or was the broadcast elsewhere?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

Saw it live as Mrs.D.wanted to watch. The NBC crew was Payton Manning, Mike Tirico, and Kelly Clarkson. I think they were as stunned as I was.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 10:29 PM (W/lyH)

109 74 Wait, wait! I don't understand. When you get a brain transplant, doesn't that mean it's not your mind or personality anymore? And if you're still you, do you suddenly have astrophysicist ability? How does this work? Does the politician brain have many disparate and conflicting thoughts? I need a brain transplant to understand!

Posted by: mindful webworker - I don't get it! at July 27, 2024 10:22 PM (0H07d)

++++

First, they have to figure out human cloning. Once they can make a clone of you, you would want to transplant your brain into your fresh, new, young body.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 27, 2024 10:29 PM (klJTj)

110 He also did a hilarious impression of Biden golfing.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 10:29 PM (5p7BC)

111 Nice ONT, MisHum. Keep it coming, love

Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2024 10:29 PM (xJEPL)

112 Its been interesting to see the reactions to the opening pagan orgy Olympic ceremony. It was so bad; it had both gays and muslims posting on X negatively about it. That's how bad it was.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 27, 2024 10:30 PM (gllTv)

113 He's also right up front saying the Dems are going to rig the election, if you don't vote they are going to cheat.

Very good retooling of the stump speech.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

An ONT and input from Dave.
Life is very good.

Posted by: Some Rat at July 27, 2024 10:30 PM (x0fbL)

114 Great Sat Night joke Mis Hum.
The slightly different version I know has a different punchline, has the as the most expensive brain because it's hardly ever been used!

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT titbits #05 at July 27, 2024 10:30 PM (qfLjt)

115 Fine ONT per usual.
Nicely done on the pic click MH....😉

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 27, 2024 10:30 PM (6JRrX)

116 Golden calf onstage at the O’s

https://tinyurl.com/yh5ms52k .Twitter

Posted by: 13times at July 27, 2024 10:30 PM (cKCY2)

117 103 100

Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2024 10:27 PM (xJEPL)

Solly, so close.
https://youtu.be/8rMkMDFjK8U&t=10s

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:31 PM (ynpvh)

118 I-15 shut down near Baker, California after lithium-ion batteries burn for second day in truck fire
KTNV Channel 13 Las Vegas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEFxRcfM3xE

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 27, 2024 10:31 PM (9aVck)

119 It was a love seat! And they shouldn't have named it that if they didn't mean it.

Posted by: Jeeves Dawson Vance at July 27, 2024 10:31 PM (pIfcn)

120 If I'm going to watch rigged sports, I'll watch WWE. They're at least upfront about the fix.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

=====

If you'd consider watching outdoor rigged sports, we'd like to offer our services

Posted by: University of Michigan Football Team at July 27, 2024 10:31 PM (8AONa)

121 the Paris Olympic people are trying to get the worst of the videos taken down, claiming copyright violations
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 10:13 PM (/7KEl)

Yep. Saw some tweets today just like that.

Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2024 10:31 PM (AWrpC)

122 So, the lights are out in Paris. All of them, apparently.

https://tinyurl.com/352vmhcz

No word on why, but Pharaoh has a guess.
Posted by: Methos at July 27, 2024 10:26 PM (Dnobf)

All I get is a black screen, so it must be true.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2024 10:32 PM (0eaVi)

123 May be the 100th person to announce this, but Cspire pulled all their ads and sponsoring of the Olympics as a result.

Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2024 10:32 PM (pZEOD)

124 118 I-15 shut down near Baker, California after lithium-ion batteries burn for second day in truck fire
KTNV Channel 13 Las Vegas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEFxRcfM3xE

Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at July 27, 2024 10:31 PM (9aVck)

Seems like terrorists can, along with sabotaging power distribution, can burn EVs on every major highway and cause additional mayhem, making EV's a national security risk

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:32 PM (ynpvh)

125 What you see around you is explained in Romans 1:18-32.

Many people in the West are at Stage IV reprobation, all that follows is death.

Dr Jason Lyle wrote an apologetic that posited that God is the quelle of wisdom, logic and reason.

For me, I extrapolated that with Romans 1 such that at each "turning over" the miseotheist distances himself from the Divine and thus is further removed from wisdom, logic and reason.

Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat "whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make insane."

And those who are most easily assumed to be demon possessed sound insane when they speak.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2024 10:32 PM (kipvl)

126 114
Curse those angle brackets > <

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT titbits #06 at July 27, 2024 10:32 PM (qfLjt)

127 122 So, the lights are out in Paris. All of them, apparently.

https://tinyurl.com/352vmhcz

No word on why, but Pharaoh has a guess.
Posted by: Methos at July 27, 2024 10:26 PM (Dnobf)

All I get is a black screen, so it must be true.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2024 10:32 PM (0eaVi)

So it isn't Kumala Harris goin' down on Willie Brown?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:33 PM (ynpvh)

128
Sometimes Mexican food places have the best hamburgers!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient

Didn't Taco Bell used to have hamburgers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2024 10:33 PM (63Dwl)

129 May be the 100th person to announce this, but Cspire pulled all their ads and sponsoring of the Olympics as a result.
Posted by: Piper

Have no clue who Cspire is...but bless 'em!

Posted by: Some Rat at July 27, 2024 10:33 PM (x0fbL)

130 Solly, so close.
https://youtu.be/8rMkMDFjK8U&t=10s
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:31 PM (ynpvh)

I try but I can't seem to get it right.

Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2024 10:33 PM (xJEPL)

131 Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 10:27 PM (hCl2q)

No doubt. It sleeves me out just thinking about it.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 10:34 PM (Vvh2V)

132 Oh, really important I forgot. He is going after Kamala as the abortion extremist. He is not shying away from his position.

Running on killing babies is not going to be the cakewalk they expect.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 10:34 PM (5p7BC)

133 Puddleglum: there are some Christians left in France. The bishops there grew a spine and denounced this mockery of the Eucharist.
For those here who are not Catholic/Orthodox, the Eucharist is e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g. to them. It's the culmination of every Mass service. Priests have been known to break into their burning churches and retrieve not the valuables, not even the Bibles but the consecrated Host.
We might expect this mockery from an avowedly antiChristian nation, but in Paris?

Posted by: gKWVE at July 27, 2024 10:34 PM (gKWVE)

134 Nice little song I rediscovered on Book of Faces.
https://tinyurl.com/bddzszky

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 27, 2024 10:34 PM (elaR+)

135 The Last Supper insult was a sideshow. People seem to be unaware that what they were doing was recreating a Dionysiun drunken orgy, with a little girl right in the middle of it, standing next to a guy with his junk hanging out, while ol' Dionysius himself was on the other side of her, wearing nothing but blue paint and some garlands of fake flowers, singing a song about being naked.

In all fairness, they are now claiming that what looks like testicles is merely a rip in the guys tights, and that may be true. But we still have the little child in the middle of an homage to orgies.

Then of course we had the little tableau of 3 bizarrely dressed characters, cleary strangers to each other, who meet in the library and go off to have a threesome, shutting the door to the apartment as they start groping each other and the two guys start kissing.

Can't imagine why anyone was offended by any of that!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 10:22 PM

You wanna see real blasphemy? Put ol' Mo on a cross and use him for the target in a javelin throw parody. The bullseye is the lower side abdomen.

Iran would take first in the 'hanging people by lifting them up by a crane' event.

Posted by: RickZ at July 27, 2024 10:35 PM (gKDq2)

136 129
Have no clue who Cspire is...but bless 'em!
Posted by: Some Rat at July 27, 2024

They are an internet provider.

Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2024 10:35 PM (pZEOD)

137 Golden calf onstage at the O’s

https://tinyurl.com/yh5ms52k .Twitter
Posted by: 13times at July 27, 2024 10:30 PM (cKCY2)

That was already addressed in a community note.

It's a bull, not a calf, and that statue is nearly a hundred years old.

In other words, it's not a statement. They haven't gone all Old Testament/Ten Commandments.

Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 10:35 PM (hCl2q)

138 So, the lights are out in Paris. All of them, apparently.

https://tinyurl.com/352vmhcz

No word on why, but Pharaoh has a guess.
Posted by: Methos

Hope the Frogs Olympic celebration is a total cluster ______.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Atavistic at July 27, 2024 10:35 PM (HLfHQ)

139 Does Vance still hang out with trannies?
Posted by: Not trying to be mean but?

No, he fucks couches. Thank you for asking, though!
Posted by: Kindltot

It was an Ottoman that identifies as a couch, h8ter!!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 10:35 PM (6WCwE)

140 126 114
Curse those angle brackets >

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT titbits #06 at July 27, 2024 10:32 PM (qfLjt)

Maybe if you used right-angle brackets: L ⅃

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:35 PM (ynpvh)

141 Cspire pulled all their ads and sponsoring of the Olympics as a result.
Posted by: Piper

Future Olympic cities should cancel... looking at you SLC!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2024 10:36 PM (qOVyZ)

142 For those who didn't get the earlier reference, I was helping train a brigade of Combat Wombats.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2024 10:26 PM (R256O)
* * * *
*SNORT*

(He who laughs last...)

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at July 27, 2024 10:36 PM (1MvZI)

143 Elon Musk won a court case against the National Labor Review Board on the basis that the NLRB is unconstitutional in that Congress has impermissibly protected both the NLRB Members and the NLRB Administrative Law Judges from the President’s Article II power of removal.
this is alongside the Chevron reversal by the Supremes.

https://tinyurl.com/4jz33655

The article talks about this, but I recently was reading into a similar complaint against the Federal Reserve, and the facts that the heads of the member banks are making decisions and creating US monetary policy while having no review, oversight or threat of removal by the President as well.

I think the world is going to be going through some very odd changes very soon. I have no idea if this means the Fed becomes the US Central bank in act and intent, or if it ends the banking cartel we have right now.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 10:36 PM (D7oie)

144 Red Skelton once entertained the UN for over an hour and never said a word. True, universal entertainment.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 10:23 PM (W/lyH)

Thanks for sharing. I am not all that familiar with Red, except his treatise on the Pledge of Allegiance.

Also want to point t out that Del Tacononly has locations in 18 states, so I am calling BS on it being the favorite fast food in America. And if you want really good Mexican food, find a taco truck.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2024 10:36 PM (R256O)

145 128
Sometimes Mexican food places have the best hamburgers!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient

Didn't Taco Bell used to have hamburgers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2024 10:33 PM (63Dwl)

Dairy Queen does. They're okay.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:36 PM (ynpvh)

146 Wow!
Look at the N.H beer consumption per capita!!! And they have no taste in beer, just like CA, and OR!

New Hampshire
Gallons Per Capita: 43.9
Preferred Brand: Budweiser
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2024 10:14 PM (qOVyZ)
***

Oregon is crazy since they brew Rogue River Dead Guy
there.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 10:37 PM (W/lyH)

147 The tranny's have overplayed their hand. Most people have a visceral reaction to them, and shoving their degeneracy in your face is generating lots of push back.

Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2024 10:37 PM (xJEPL)

148 I’m sure the small golden calf beside the huge golden bull head trophy mount was just a coincidence.

Posted by: 13times at July 27, 2024 10:37 PM (cKCY2)

149 Paris is dark. Food is running low.

God has a wonderful sense of humor.

Posted by: creeper at July 27, 2024 10:37 PM (M6moH)

150 146 Wow!
Look at the N.H beer consumption per capita!!! And they have no taste in beer, just like CA, and OR!

New Hampshire
Gallons Per Capita: 43.9
Preferred Brand: Budweiser
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2024 10:14 PM (qOVyZ)
***

Oregon is crazy since they brew Rogue River Dead Guy
there.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 10:37 PM (W/lyH)

Is a Rogue River dead guy a common occurrence?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:38 PM (ynpvh)

151 Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Creative Graffiti.
--------
The sign reads, "Say no to mass immigration" and it's from the genuinely conservative party here -- the People's Party of Canada and its leader, Max Bernier, although currently polling around 4% or so.

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 27, 2024 10:38 PM (wse2C)

152 149 Paris is dark. Food is running low.

God has a wonderful sense of humor.

Posted by: creeper at July 27, 2024 10:37 PM (M6moH)

"Let the games begin!"--"African" immigrants

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:38 PM (ynpvh)

153 It was an Ottoman that identifies as a couch, h8ter!!
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 10:35 PM (6WCwE)

Like I have said, actually he had sex ON the couch but only because the coffee table was too cluttered. And it only happened those 18 or so times because his wife was so hot.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 10:38 PM (D7oie)

154 99

Yay! I'm so there!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 27, 2024 10:38 PM (6JRrX)

155 "Say No To Ass Man"
There was a company I ordered parts from called Assmann
assmann-wsw.com
Good parts. Never shoved them up my ass.
Think it's pronounced Ozzman.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)/i]

It's never pronounced that way the first time, I'm sure.

Posted by: Mr. Dumas at July 27, 2024 10:39 PM (DgGvY)

156 For those who didn't get the earlier reference, I was helping train a brigade of Combat Wombats.

(Yep, the explanation killed the humor, but If I cared about humor I'd probably be more punctual.)
Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2024 10:26 PM (R256O)

Was one of them named Cecil?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2024 10:39 PM (dj3QO)

157 When I lived in Rio Rancho New Mexico we had a Del Taco around the corner from where I lived. I used to go there all the time when they had the value tacos on sale. They were like $0.79 each. I called them the old people meal deal. Then I moved to Las Cruces and apparently we can't have nice things here but Alamogordo can. It's not fair. They're only 1/3 size the Las Cruces. So the last time I went through Alamogordo which I try to avoid cuz they're just punks over there I stopped in at the Del Taco and they got rid of the value tacos old people meal deal. I've been depressed ever since and I blame my heavy drinking on this.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 10:39 PM (G8tt9)

158 153 It was an Ottoman that identifies as a couch, h8ter!!
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 10:35 PM (6WCwE)

Like I have said, actually he had sex ON the couch but only because the coffee table was too cluttered. And it only happened those 18 or so times because his wife was so hot.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 10:38 PM (D7oie)

Ah yes, I remember those days...there was this particular New Year's Eve at home...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:39 PM (ynpvh)

159 Hope everyone had a great Saturday and is looking forward to a great Sunday.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 27, 2024 10:39 PM (CHHv1)

160 And Pixy's one-free-formatting-mistake code saves me from the Barrel.

Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2024 10:39 PM (DgGvY)

161 Posted by: 13times at July 27, 2024 10:30 PM (cKCY2)

I take that as more Dionysius related than Golden Calf, but who knows. They're very much trying to tie it all back to ancient Greece, and claim that's what the imagery is all about. I put nothing past them.

There does seem to be some uproar about what is clearly Marie Antoinette. I mean, it's at the Concierge, even. But apparently there's some sort of symbolism about a fiery female head that I know nothing about.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 10:39 PM (Vvh2V)

162 Sometimes Mexican food places have the best hamburgers!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient

Didn't Taco Bell used to have hamburgers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

There are two Asian restaurants in town that have Mexican cooks - one Japanese and one Chinese.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 10:39 PM (6WCwE)

163 Running on killing babies is not going to be the cakewalk they expect.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 10:34 PM (5p7BC)

Keep seeing stuff like that on Roku. "The extremist anti-abortion..."

Seems to me the extremist position is wanting to kill babies.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2024 10:40 PM (0eaVi)

164
Actually, it wouldn't be a brain transplant; it would be a body transplant.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 27, 2024 10:40 PM (lCaJd)

165 124
Seems like terrorists can, along with sabotaging power distribution, can burn EVs on every major highway and cause additional mayhem, making EV's a national security risk

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:32 PM (ynpvh)
----
I agree Jim but this is not a burning EV, just a recular ICE truck carrying a cargo of Li batteries.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT AA & AAA #07 at July 27, 2024 10:40 PM (qfLjt)

166 Wisconsin being 18th per capita for beer?!
Travesty. Was a time when we'd dominate all the drinking categories.
And were mildly proud of it, despite most of the articles attaching a negative slant to drinking in general.
Oh well, the youngsters have moved on to zima, I mean, white claw, so there's that.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at July 27, 2024 10:41 PM (FCbAQ)

167 134 Erebus ex killer whale

Good link. I'd seen it before but had forgotten about it.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2024 10:41 PM (R256O)

168 163 Running on killing babies is not going to be the cakewalk they expect.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 10:34 PM (5p7BC)

Keep seeing stuff like that on Roku. "The extremist anti-abortion..."

Seems to me the extremist position is wanting to kill babies.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2024 10:40 PM (0eaVi)

Kali is okay into the period of time that happens to, legally, overlap birth. Yeah Kali...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:41 PM (ynpvh)

169 Oregon is crazy since they brew Rogue River Dead Guy
there.
Posted by: Diogenes

I've been in their brewery and sampled many of the Rogue brews. I like them.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2024 10:41 PM (qOVyZ)

170 164
Actually, it wouldn't be a brain transplant; it would be a body transplant.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 27, 2024 10:40 PM (lCaJd)

Yeah. See my #95...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:42 PM (ynpvh)

171 Dairy Queen does. They're okay.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:36 PM (ynpvh)

At three in the morning, inebriated, Dairy Queen is the bomb. (Like White Castle!)

During daylight hours? Maybe the Joe Bye-den Special: Their ice cream cone.

Posted by: RickZ at July 27, 2024 10:42 PM (gKDq2)

172 So, the lights are out in Paris. All of them, apparently.

https://tinyurl.com/352vmhcz

No word on why, but Pharaoh has a guess.
Posted by: Methos

Hope the Frogs Olympic celebration is a total cluster ______.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Atavistic

If they wanted to be the City of Lights, they should have mocked Islam. There would be plenty of light, even if the electricity was out.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2024 10:42 PM (VNX3d)

173 Paris. It's known as two things:

1.) ~~The City of Lights~~

2.) The City of Dogs With Monkeypox

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 10:42 PM (0FoWg)

174 ______.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * Atavistic at July 27, 2024 10:35 PM (HLfHQ)

Lights out in the olympic village? Bet there's a lot of ______. going on....

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2024 10:42 PM (0eaVi)

175 ALH, like the guy who was JD Vance's bff for years and then "went trans" and uploaded all their personal communications?
Like MrBeast's sidekick "Ava" Kris Tyson who "went trans", abandoned his wife and kids, and then it turned out was a massive Discord pedobear?
Like Musk's son-now-"daughter" who runs to the media all the time to rat out his dad?

Posted by: there's a demon in them at July 27, 2024 10:42 PM (gKWVE)

176 The sign reads, "Say no to mass immigration" and it's from the genuinely conservative party here -- the People's Party of Canada and its leader, Max Bernier, although currently polling around 4% or so.
Posted by: andycanuck

He's got the right idea. The other 49 US states are against Mass. immigration, too.

Posted by: mikeski at July 27, 2024 10:43 PM (DgGvY)

177 171 Dairy Queen does. They're okay.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:36 PM (ynpvh)

At three in the morning, inebriated, Dairy Queen is the bomb. (Like White Castle!)

During daylight hours? Maybe the Joe Bye-den Special: Their ice cream cone.

Posted by: RickZ at July 27, 2024 10:42 PM (gKDq2)

You order menudo from the 24-hr Mexican places to perk you up...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:43 PM (ynpvh)

178 I watched the 1968 documentary "They Saved Hitler's Brain" and it all seemed plausible to me.

Same with Rosie Greer and Ray Milland sharing a body. Science is amazing.

Posted by: Edith Head at July 27, 2024 10:43 PM (CV8a5)

179 173 Paris. It's known as two things:

1.) The City of Lights

2.) The City of Dogs With Monkeypox

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 10:42 PM (0FoWg)

And little boys...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:43 PM (ynpvh)

180 11 Great joke. I laughed.
Then I thought about it and cried

Thanks for The Bee Gees earworm!

Posted by: Final Arbiter of Reality at July 27, 2024 10:43 PM (1UudH)

181 Is a Rogue River dead guy a common occurrence?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:38 PM (ynpvh)

Every time I empty one (Dead Guy Pale.Ale) I have been heard to.say "Another dead guy!"

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 10:43 PM (W/lyH)

182 Didn’t know the golden calf was community noted - though I’m willing to pass it off as fake but accurate.

Posted by: 13times at July 27, 2024 10:44 PM (cKCY2)

183 178 I watched the 1968 documentary "They Saved Hitler's Brain" and it all seemed plausible to me.

Same with Rosie Greer and Ray Milland sharing a body. Science is amazing.

Posted by: Edith Head at July 27, 2024 10:43 PM (CV8a5)

The skull that Russia claimed was H!tler's was a woman's skull...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:44 PM (ynpvh)

184 https://tinyurl.com/4r9adu8z

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 10:44 PM (0FoWg)

185 Future Olympic cities should cancel... looking at you SLC!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2024 10:36 PM (qOVyZ)

Absolutely not!! Read my "Conservative case for doing far more at the next olympics." It's the Christian way!

Posted by: Wrong Rev David French at July 27, 2024 10:44 PM (0eaVi)

186 I've been in their brewery and sampled many of the Rogue brews. I like them. Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

I used to prefer to Deschutes Brewery in Bend, Or. Then Bend turned into a place that has all the charm of Aspen. That led to some severe depression which I dealt with by heavy drinking elsewhere.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 10:45 PM (G8tt9)

187 USA Today? Somehow my BS meter.is jumping.

Their ranking mechanism was designed to use the same algorithms as search engine link placement.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2024 10:45 PM (kipvl)

188 There does seem to be some uproar about what is clearly Marie Antoinette. I mean, it's at the Concierge, even. But apparently there's some sort of symbolism about a fiery female head that I know nothing about.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 10:39 PM (Vvh2V)

"Baphomette"

(sorry, couldn't resist the pun)

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 10:45 PM (D7oie)

189 Next up, the DNC and the Whore of Babble-on.

Posted by: Beverly at July 27, 2024 10:45 PM (Epeb0)

190 Muhammadans don't want anything to do with this farrago; besides that it's gay af, they've got a version of the Last Supper in sura 5. (Jesus miraculously presents food for his disciples.)
I do appreciate the support we're getting from the Jewish morons here, of course a mockery of the Last Supper is equally a mockery of the Pesach Seder, because that's what it was.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 27, 2024 10:46 PM (gKWVE)

191 Why can't these LGB types celebrate their "culture" without tearing down or ridiculing someone else's?

Posted by: Halfhand at July 27, 2024 10:46 PM (frIh6)

192 189 Next up, the DNC and the Whore of Babble-on.

Posted by: Beverly at July 27, 2024 10:45 PM (Epeb0)

$20, same as in town?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:46 PM (ynpvh)

193 Didn't Taco Bell used to have hamburgers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2024 10:33 PM (63Dwl)

Dairy Queen does. They're okay.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:36 PM (ynpvh)

They used to have hot dogs in my area. Now they don't.

But, they still have Reese's Peanut Butter Cup blizzards.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2024 10:46 PM (0eaVi)

194 189 Next up, the DNC and the Whore of Babble-on.
Posted by: Beverly at July 27, 2024 10:45 PM (Epeb0)

Well done, I say!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at July 27, 2024 10:46 PM (hOUT3)

195 I should stop ranting, I am just extremely angry presently.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 27, 2024 10:47 PM (gKWVE)

196 I’m sure the small golden calf beside the huge golden bull head trophy mount was just a coincidence.
Posted by: 13times at July 27, 2024 10:37 PM (cKCY2)

It's a deer.

The entire piece is called Bull And Deer by Paul Jouve. It was made in 1930.

Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 10:47 PM (hCl2q)

197 You order menudo from the 24-hr Mexican places to perk you up...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:43 PM (ynpvh)

Nah. Never liked puking in time to their music.

Posted by: RickZ at July 27, 2024 10:47 PM (gKDq2)

198 The lights are out in Paris? So I turned on France 24 and all they're showing is a news story about France beating the crap out of Fiji in rugby. Fiji. Geezh.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 10:47 PM (G8tt9)

199 156 Was one of them named Cecil?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2024 10:39 PM (dj3QO)

No, though many in attendance cited him and Kelly Grayson (who I had never heard of until Googling "Cecil wombat" three minutes ago) as inspirations.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2024 10:47 PM (R256O)

200 Next up, the DNC and the Whore of Babble-on.

Posted by: Beverly at July 27, 2024 10:45 PM (Epeb0)

$20, same as in town?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

$15, due to excessive wear and tear.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2024 10:47 PM (VNX3d)

201 I've been waiting to see who would turn out to be a troll.
I think we have a Whining Winner!
gKWVE

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2024 10:47 PM (qOVyZ)

202 190 Muhammadans don't want anything to do with this farrago; besides that it's gay af, they've got a version of the Last Supper in sura 5. (Jesus miraculously presents food for his disciples.)
I do appreciate the support we're getting from the Jewish morons here, of course a mockery of the Last Supper is equally a mockery of the Pesach Seder, because that's what it was.

Posted by: gKWVE at July 27, 2024 10:46 PM (gKWVE)

Indeed, that's exactly what the last supper was. I've participated in quite a few Seders, which included the cups (including the third cup mentioned in the New Testament). The Afikomen and how it's handled is very, very interesting...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:48 PM (ynpvh)

203 AWFLs on FB all upset over the cat lady comment. One of the particularly odious fatties posted: I prefer to call myself CHILD FREE.

I rarely post, but wanted to say: Well, there ya go! I guess she considered children equal to debt or bedbugs.

Posted by: EveR at July 27, 2024 10:48 PM (Z/h4+)

204 Taco Hell or Hell Taco.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:28 PM (ynpvh)

Oh, I'm going to have to remember that one for Del....

Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2024 10:48 PM (AWrpC)

205 Was one of them named Cecil?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2024 10:39 PM (dj3QO)

No, it was Wombat-socho.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2024 10:48 PM (0eaVi)

206 I should stop ranting, I am just extremely angry presently.
Posted by: gKWVE

It's normally CO Maries chair, but sit down right next to me.

Posted by: Some Rat at July 27, 2024 10:49 PM (x0fbL)

207 Seems to me the extremist position is wanting to kill babies.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2024 10:40 PM (0eaVi)

extremism in the defense of unborn babies is no vice!
Moderation in the pursuit of human life and dignity is no virtue!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 10:49 PM (D7oie)

208 That led to some severe depression which I dealt with by heavy drinking elsewhere.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Or you could wear out another John Mayall CD.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2024 10:49 PM (qOVyZ)

209 The entire piece is called Bull And Deer by Paul Jouve. It was made in 1930.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 10:47 PM (hCl2q)

Okay. My bad.

Posted by: 13times at July 27, 2024 10:49 PM (cKCY2)

210 He is smoking her.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 10:28 PM (3981M)

Phrasing?

Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2024 10:50 PM (AWrpC)

211 Posted by: there's a demon in them at July 27, 2024 10:42 PM (gKWVE)

You forgot to mention your mom.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 10:50 PM (D7oie)

212 210 He is smoking her.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 10:28 PM (3981M)

Phrasing?

Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2024 10:50 PM (AWrpC)

I told ya: cannibals!--Joey

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:50 PM (ynpvh)

213 Tacos are like hamburgers. They're so easy to cook, I'd never consider purchasing them. I like buying chicken sandwiches, because I don't have a deep fryer.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 10:51 PM (0FoWg)

214 213 Tacos are like hamburgers. They're so easy to cook, I'd never consider purchasing them. I like buying chicken sandwiches, because I don't have a deep fryer.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 10:51 PM (0FoWg)

Try a Monte Cristo.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:51 PM (ynpvh)

215 >Why can't these LGB types celebrate their "culture" without tearing down or ridiculing someone else's?
----

because mocking society with obscene spectacle is part of their kink

Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 10:52 PM (/7KEl)

216 What's the "cat lady comment?"

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 10:52 PM (0FoWg)

217 AWFLs on FB all upset over the cat lady comment. One of the particularly odious fatties posted: I prefer to call myself CHILD FREE.
-
I saw what I think was a cat food ad on youtube earlier tonight that proclaimed that they shouldn't be considered cat ladies, but cat godesses.

Posted by: Methos at July 27, 2024 10:52 PM (Dnobf)

218 213 Tacos are like hamburgers. They're so easy to cook, I'd never consider purchasing them. I like buying chicken sandwiches, because I don't have a deep fryer.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 10:51 PM (0FoWg)

Behold! A taco!--Diogenes

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:52 PM (ynpvh)

219 Huge UFC numbered fight going on and I'm sitting home. I may have to run down to the local Buffalo @ild Wings to catch the two championship fights. But that means going to Buffalo Wild Wings. I have found every Buffalo Wild Wings to be filthy and with minty overtones desperate Tinder hookups taking place in darker corners.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 10:52 PM (G8tt9)

220 Paris. It's known as two things:

1.) The City of Lights

2.) The City of Dogs With Monkeypox

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 10:42 PM (0FoWg)

And little boys...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Oh thank heaven....

Posted by: Miklos in best updated Maurice Chevalier voice at July 27, 2024 10:52 PM (1CnH+)

221 213 Tacos are like hamburgers. They're so easy to cook, I'd never consider purchasing them. I like buying chicken sandwiches, because I don't have a deep fryer.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024

We had tacos tonight! I thought I made enough for taco salad tomorrow, but we have a 13 year old and 16 year old.

Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2024 10:52 PM (pZEOD)

222 If it becomes legal to 'abort' a human sometime after birth, some specific folks may be very surprised to find out where I draw the line regarding age.

Hypothetically speaking of course.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 10:52 PM (6WCwE)

223 222 If it becomes legal to 'abort' a human sometime after birth, some specific folks may be very surprised to find out where I draw the line regarding age.

Hypothetically speaking of course.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024

Hmmm. Do you have to be the actual mother?

Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2024 10:53 PM (pZEOD)

224 Not sure if anyone saw this since it went on the open thread really late.

Decision Desk (yes, Meathead's place, but they have a really good poll aggregation methodology) posted a table of state poll results before and after the switch. It show that Harris is getting very little improvement over Biden.

Nationally there is no change, she picked up 2 in Georgia, 1 in Arizona, and one in Pennsylvania. That's it.

But remember this is compared to Biden's numbers AFTER the debate and after the assassination attempt.

If you compare to his numbers BEFORE the debate, she is a shitshow.

So they did a hail mary debate to try to get back into a race they thought they were losing, blew up their entire nomination process, and wasted 5 weeks of the campaign just to end up worse than where they started.

They would literally have been better off hiding Biden in the basement until November.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 10:53 PM (5p7BC)

225 Del Taco is meh. I used to like their chicken tacos, which were similar to Jack in the Box tacos in the sense that they didn't really taste like tacos, but you raved them occasionally.

El Pollo Loco is the best fast food in America. Baja Fresh was also great, not sure if they survived the plandemic, though. Been awake since I've been back to California

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 10:53 PM (Vvh2V)

226 Hmmm. Do you have to be the actual mother?

The Samuel Jackson version of "mother" will do.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at July 27, 2024 10:54 PM (kipvl)

227 72 Lucky Marcel Marceau never got an MBA.

Stayed thinking inside the box.

Posted by: Miklos with Synergies at July 27, 2024 10:22 PM (1CnH+)
----
Good point

but he should have gotten a bigger box.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT boxed set #08 at July 27, 2024 10:54 PM (qfLjt)

228 I thought I made enough for taco salad tomorrow, but we have a 13 year old and 16 year old.
Posted by: Piper

heh, heh, skin wrapped around stomachs at that age.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at July 27, 2024 10:55 PM (qOVyZ)

229 Is Vice President Kamaltoe mentioned in end time prophesy? After all, she is clearly Da Ho of Babble On.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at July 27, 2024 10:55 PM (Da7Vv)

230 225 Del Taco is meh. I used to like their chicken tacos, which were similar to Jack in the Box tacos in the sense that they didn't really taste like tacos, but you raved them occasionally.

El Pollo Loco is the best fast food in America. Baja Fresh was also great, not sure if they survived the plandemic, though. Been awake since I've been back to California

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 10:53 PM (Vvh2V)

The Crazy Chicken got damned expensive. I go to the local Mexican grocery store and get their pre-marinated chicken for $1 or $2 a pound and roast it at home. Much more cost-effective.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:55 PM (ynpvh)

231 Quantity, Quality, Price

Around here Jack n the Box and WhataBurger are neck and neck, both taste like real hamburgers. Jack Double Burger costs more but you get more and the meat tastes like real meat, it's good. The WhataBurger is cheaper but you get less but a value for the money. Haven't tried Burger King.
McDonald's sucks, sekret sauce the patty comes no where near the edge of the bun, it's thinner it doesn't taste meaty and it costs more than the WhataBurger.

McDonald's used to be my go to, never more.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 10:55 PM (N1fOF)

232 We might expect this mockery from an avowedly antiChristian nation, but in Paris?
Posted by: gKWVE at July 27, 2024 10:34 PM (gKWVE)

France (at least Paris) has been avowedly anti-Christian since the French Revolution.

Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2024 10:55 PM (AWrpC)

233 216 What's the "cat lady comment?"
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 10:52 PM (0FoWg)

JD Vance made a comment several years ago about women like Kamala being childless cat ladies, or something. They are now incensed bc the truth hurts.

Posted by: EveR at July 27, 2024 10:56 PM (Z/h4+)

234 The entire piece is called Bull And Deer by Paul Jouve. It was made in 1930.
Posted by: Robert

Okay. My bad.
Posted by: 13times

Was there any other artwork in the area that got covered up by that giant blue Olympic stage? Why only leave the golden ~~calf~~ bull piece exposed?

The age of the bull doesn't matter. Leftists love recycling.

It's of a piece with everything else they did, Trans Supper onwards. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but if it's found in a box of dildos, expect Bill Clinton.

Posted by: mikeski tortures a metaphor at July 27, 2024 10:56 PM (DgGvY)

235 They would literally have been better off hiding Biden in the basement until November.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 10:53 PM (5p7BC)

I'm seeing lots of effort to make Kamala into a superstar. I don't think it's working.
If she remains their nominee I will be surprised. Obama wants a white man (senator from AZ) to replace her.
Is it still racist if the JEF does it?

Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2024 10:56 PM (xJEPL)

236 They haven't gone all Old Testament/Ten Commandments.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 10:35 PM (hCl2q)

They haven't quite gone all Old Testament/Ten Commandments.
FIFY

Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2024 10:56 PM (AWrpC)

237 I have a family of five. When I make tacos, I do fifteen. It takes me 45mins. It might be ten minutes longer than driving to Taco Bell and back, it costs half as much, and tastes at least one million times better.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 10:56 PM (0FoWg)

238 >Why can't these LGB types celebrate their "culture" without tearing down or ridiculing someone else's?
----

because mocking society with obscene spectacle is part of their kink
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 10:52 PM (/7KEl)
***

I'm all for LGBTQ!
Liquor
Guns
Beer
Tits
Quickies

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 10:56 PM (W/lyH)

239 235 They would literally have been better off hiding Biden in the basement until November.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 10:53 PM (5p7BC)

I'm seeing lots of effort to make Kamala into a superstar. I don't think it's working.
If she remains their nominee I will be surprised. Obama wants a white man (senator from AZ) to replace her.
Is it still racist if the JEF does it?

Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2024 10:56 PM (xJEPL)

She might be on an OF page...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:57 PM (ynpvh)

240 JD Vance made a comment several years ago about women like Kamala being childless cat ladies, or something. They are now incensed bc the truth hurts.
Posted by: EveR at July 27, 2024 10:56 PM (Z/h4+)

Crazy cat ladies are always mad about something.

Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2024 10:57 PM (xJEPL)

241 WOO!!!

My shower is ready!

Shower shower shower shower showershowershower gonna get clean!!!!

Pray for hot water, Horde.

Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024 10:57 PM (hCl2q)

242 238 >Why can't these LGB types celebrate their "culture" without tearing down or ridiculing someone else's?
----

because mocking society with obscene spectacle is part of their kink
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 10:52 PM (/7KEl)
***

I'm all for LGBTQ!
Liquor
Guns
Beer
Tits
Quickies

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 10:56 PM (W/lyH)

And the BBQ is lit!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:57 PM (ynpvh)

243 I went on a carne asada Taco deep dive here in Las Cruces. You know in New Mexico, the place that's like a 2.5 World country, we're half the population speaks perfect Spanish and perfect English. Anyhow. A proper carne asada taco requires a proper taco shell, the proper sauce, an avocado slice, white onion and some cilantro, and carne asada that comes right out of some grandmothers kitchen. Out of all the Mexican restaurants in town I found two places that can do that.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 10:58 PM (G8tt9)

244 241 WOO!!!

My shower is ready!

Shower shower shower shower showershowershower gonna get clean!!!!

Pray for hot water, Horde.
Posted by: Robert at July 27, 2024

May the water be hot and not so soft as to make you feel slimy.

Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2024 10:59 PM (pZEOD)

245 206 some rat...

🤪

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 27, 2024 10:59 PM (6JRrX)

246 I keep seeing that Harris has a big lead in MN.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at July 27, 2024 10:59 PM (elaR+)

247 Taco Hell is awful shit.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at July 27, 2024 10:59 PM (4Med0)

248 I saw what I think was a cat food ad on youtube earlier tonight that proclaimed that they shouldn't be considered cat ladies, but cat godesses.
Posted by: Methos at July 27, 2024 10:52 PM (Dnobf)

Hardly goddesses, nope. More like Shub-Niggurath, amiright? Wheeee-oooooo!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 10:59 PM (D7oie)

249 243 I went on a carne asada Taco deep dive here in Las Cruces. You know in New Mexico, the place that's like a 2.5 World country, we're half the population speaks perfect Spanish and perfect English. Anyhow. A proper carne asada taco requires a proper taco shell, the proper sauce, an avocado slice, white onion and some cilantro, and carne asada that comes right out of some grandmothers kitchen. Out of all the Mexican restaurants in town I found two places that can do that.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 10:58 PM (G8tt9)

Mexican food, even in Meh-Hi-Co, is different based on where you go. Northern Mexico is more into beef. Veracruz is fish. Even here just the other side of the Kali border, Tijuana Mex food is different than Mexicali Mex Food.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:59 PM (ynpvh)

250 Well yeah. Democrat chicks are mostly cat ladies who killed their kids when their wombs were still fecund and now they derive meaning from their dead end lives by genuflecting to the Party that encouraged their poor choices.

This is known.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 10:59 PM (0FoWg)

251 245 206 some rat...

🤪
Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 27, 2024 10:59 PM (6JRrX)

I wonder if he noticed we fixed the wobbly table.

Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2024 10:59 PM (pZEOD)

252 I’m sure the small golden calf beside the huge golden bull head trophy mount was just a coincidence.
Posted by: 13times at July 27, 2024 10:37 PM (cKCY2)

That's evidently a deer.

Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2024 10:59 PM (AWrpC)

253 WOO!!!

My shower is ready!

Shower shower shower shower showershowershower gonna get clean!!!!

Pray for hot water, Horde.
Posted by: Robert

Driver, Shower #7 is now ready. All the hairballs and other grossities have been wiped up from the previous driver. Good luck!

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 11:00 PM (6WCwE)

254 248 I saw what I think was a cat food ad on youtube earlier tonight that proclaimed that they shouldn't be considered cat ladies, but cat godesses.
Posted by: Methos at July 27, 2024 10:52 PM (Dnobf)

Hardly goddesses, nope. More like Shub-Niggurath, amiright? Wheeee-oooooo!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 10:59 PM (D7oie)

Heh. Saw an Anime where a sorcerer conjured up 5 of her children...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 11:01 PM (ynpvh)

255 240 Crazy cat ladies are always mad about something.
Posted by: ALH at July 27, 2024 10:57 PM (xJEPL)

One AWFL was proclaiming that the Swifties are mad, so PDT is toast. They are insane.

Posted by: EveR at July 27, 2024 11:01 PM (Z/h4+)

256 250 Well yeah. Democrat chicks are mostly cat ladies who killed their kids when their wombs were still fecund and now they derive meaning from their dead end lives by genuflecting to the Party that encouraged their poor choices.

This is known.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 10:59 PM (0FoWg)

My turtles are good democrats; one female lays eggs, the other two turtles (one male, one female) eat them up.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 11:02 PM (ynpvh)

257 I stopped watching The Games during the Atlanta meet, when the media focused only on events that involved the USA. So as soon as the USA was eliminated then bye bye that sport.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT boxed set & match #09 at July 27, 2024 11:02 PM (qfLjt)

258
I keep seeing that Harris has a big lead in MN.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale

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

I've been seeing that, too. Concerning.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 27, 2024 11:02 PM (lCaJd)

259 I predict Kumaha will cop to having an abortion to prove her bona fides.

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 11:02 PM (6WCwE)

260 I miss poppy seed buns, hamburgers always had poppy seed buns, no more.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:03 PM (N1fOF)

261 257 I stopped watching The Games during the Atlanta meet, when the media focused only on events that involved the USA. So as soon as the USA was eliminated then bye bye that sport.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT boxed set & match #09 at July 27, 2024 11:02 PM (qfLjt)

I saw parts of the 1980 olympics on Mexican TV (lived that close to the border).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 11:03 PM (ynpvh)

262 lagunitas?

I thought we are required to lose our stuff over California stuff? What happened? Why aren't you guy barfing tomorrows ass wipe? Lagunitas is right next door to Apple FFS.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 11:03 PM (IG4Id)

263 31 There are some Del Tacos in Texas, but do they have any Doritos Locos Tacos Supremes? No Sir they do not. No restaurant can ever claim to be the Best Fast Food Restaurant in America without Doritos Locos Tacos Supremes!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2024 10:12 PM (8kFa7)

Whoever invented that is a genius. That is all I will order at a Taco Bell.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:03 PM (8sMut)

264 260 I miss poppy seed buns, hamburgers always had poppy seed buns, no more.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:03 PM (N1fOF)

Was always told to avoid poppy seeds prior to drug testing. Apparently they get false positives for opium...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 11:04 PM (ynpvh)

265 lagunitas?
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Is that another word for Hawk Tua?

Posted by: Tonypete at July 27, 2024 11:04 PM (6WCwE)

266 MH, great Mayall concert video. Heart be still. There is some dust is the air at my house right now.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 11:04 PM (G8tt9)

267 Glad to see that Del Taco has finally received the recognition it deserves.

Its Carne Asada Breakfast Burrito is the finest example of blatant cultural rape as any Mexican food I have ever eaten.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2024 11:04 PM (kbyy+)

268 It has been 10-15 years since I was in one. Don't do fast food any more cause it started not tasting the same and who knows what it is made out of with the current price pressures, but it used to basically be Taco Bell with the option of getting McDonald's burgers and fries. Useful if the group didn't all agree on burgers or tacos.

Posted by: azjaeger at July 27, 2024 11:04 PM (+xjKX)

269 258
I keep seeing that Harris has a big lead in MN.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale
-------------------------------

Did you see the crowd Trump pulled in MN tonight?
"I'm going to make the Iron Range great again" (deafening roar)

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:05 PM (N1fOF)

270 Today is Bugs Bunny's birthday. He is 84.

Posted by: A Wild Hare at July 27, 2024 11:05 PM (CV8a5)

271 238
Excellent!
🤣

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 27, 2024 11:05 PM (6JRrX)

272 263 31 There are some Del Tacos in Texas, but do they have any Doritos Locos Tacos Supremes? No Sir they do not. No restaurant can ever claim to be the Best Fast Food Restaurant in America without Doritos Locos Tacos Supremes!
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2024 10:12 PM (8kFa7)

Whoever invented that is a genius. That is all I will order at a Taco Bell.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:03 PM (8sMut)

On my way to Dallas for a wedding a few months ago, I stopped at a place called Bush's Chicken and had gizzard for the first time in ages. Liked it very much. Also got some of the chicken livers and deep-fried okra.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 11:05 PM (ynpvh)

273 I don't do tacos at home, I do burritoes. Talk about easy. Make a seasoned meat filling (I use beef or pork), mash up a can of Goya red beans adding seasoning, add sour cream, grated cheese and roll up in a tortilla. Other additions are optional; mine is sliced black olives.

Buying burritoes, like tacos, is a waste.

I agree with the earlier comment: I buy things out I can't make at home. Since I don't fry at home, that leaves a lot of other options than tacos or burritoes.

Posted by: RickZ at July 27, 2024 11:05 PM (gKDq2)

274 Any athlete with any decent morality should boycott the games.

Any half decent politician would demand that their country boycott the games.

Any real Christian should boycott the games.

Sadly I doubt we will see any of that. It's just another sign of how decadent the West has fallen.

Posted by: Nobody at July 27, 2024 11:05 PM (kB+Uw)

275 Howdy Mis Hum!
I LOL'd at your qdpsteve reference.

Posted by: Doof at July 27, 2024 11:05 PM (gw0Uf)

276 51 The problem with the Olympics is the same as the NBA. If I'm going to watch rigged sports, I'll watch WWE. They're at least upfront about the fix.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 10:17 PM (0FoWg)

How are the Olympics rigged?

Posted by: U.S. Men's Basketball Team 1972 at July 27, 2024 11:06 PM (8sMut)

277 Is that another word for Hawk Tua?
Posted by: Tonypete

No. It's clown speak for "I don't know how to pronounce Sierra Nevada.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 11:06 PM (IG4Id)

278 Word is, the IOC hired a radical homo activist to come up with that opening ceremony

they meant to do that shite

I'll admit, I didn't have "Blasphemous Drag Queen Parody of the Last Supper" on my olympics bingo card.

However, I will propose an ad:
Shot 1: Scene of hamasholes burning US flag and raising the "palestinian flag"
Shot 2: Drag Queen Last Supper

Voice-over/ text: If you like this, vote democrat.

And no, spellcheck, I am not going to capitalize either "olympics" or "palestinian"

Posted by: Chuck C at July 27, 2024 11:07 PM (yOPBE)

279 Harris average lead in MN is 2 points.

But if we are talking about Minnesota on election night, it will only be because we are trying to guess how far over 300 Trump is getting.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:07 PM (5p7BC)

280 The Mayal story is lovely. Thanks for sharing that.

Posted by: sal at July 27, 2024 11:07 PM (4lnL8)

281
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 10:55 PM (ynpvh) Jim, I can believe thst, they were a little expensive compared to other places before everything got so expensive.

No Mexican grocery stores in Podunk, alas.

I cannot believe 15 tacos can feed 5 people. I'm good for a dozen myself!

I prefer street tacos, mainly al pastor, so there's no making them here. Even the carne asada ones are hard to get right. I do make s great chicken chipotle taco. A Martha Stewart recipe, of all things. Dead easy recipe. Chicken thighs and some canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce to taste in the Crockpot for 3 hours. Recipe calls for garlic, but I have found a shit ton of garlic powder is better than fresh cloves on the Crockpot. Fry up your tortillas and don't forget to salt them. I don't add anything else. Chef's kiss!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 11:07 PM (Vvh2V)

282 They would literally have been better off hiding Biden in the basement until November.

Biden's revenge - Obama wanted to handpick a successor, Biden sabotaged that by immediately endorsing Kamala, Obama sulked for a few days, and then literally phoned it in to finally endorse Biden.

Biden and his people want to see Kamala go down in flames.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 27, 2024 11:07 PM (uxCna)

283 Why can't these LGB types celebrate their "culture" without tearing down or ridiculing someone else's?
Posted by: Halfhand at July 27, 2024 10:46 PM (frIh6)

Because that other one says they are doing wrong and should not do that. And they just cannot stand to be told that - mostly because it reminds them of the conscience they once had.

Posted by: GWB at July 27, 2024 11:07 PM (AWrpC)

284 91 Does Vance still hang out with trannies?

Posted by: Not trying to be mean but? at July 27, 2024 10:16 PM (bILdU)

No, he fucks couches. Thank you for asking, though!

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 10:25 PM (D7oie)
----
Then Vance needs to be careful around Jill B. in one of her "tapestrian" outfits.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT boxed set & match #10 at July 27, 2024 11:07 PM (qfLjt)

285 I'll admit, I didn't have "Blasphemous Drag Queen Parody of the Last Supper" on my olympics bingo card.

I'm sure Russian TV news is having a great time with this.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 27, 2024 11:08 PM (uxCna)

286 Mexican chic at the house mentions the nopalis growing outside. You eat nopalis? Sure when somebody cooks them. Silence.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:09 PM (N1fOF)

287 261 257 I stopped watching The Games during the Atlanta meet, when the media focused only on events that involved the USA. So as soon as the USA was eliminated then bye bye that sport.

OK, since you know how this game will turn out, we will move on to something else. (spits contemptuously)

Posted by: Bob Costas covering the 1992 Dream Team at July 27, 2024 11:09 PM (8sMut)

288 On my way to Dallas for a wedding a few months ago, I stopped at a place called Bush's Chicken and had gizzard for the first time in ages. Liked it very much. Also got some of the chicken livers and deep-fried okra.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 11:05 PM (ynpvh)

Okra!!??
Damn. You're lucky to have survived!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 11:09 PM (W/lyH)

289 I lost interest in certain foods when watching food preparation technicians filling taco shells with caulking guns.

Posted by: 13times at July 27, 2024 11:09 PM (wFlxQ)

290 who knows stuff about consumer computer tech

I have a tech question

Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 11:10 PM (/7KEl)

291 Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom Jul 26
.@JDVance: I know the media wants to attack me and wants me to back down on this, Megyn, but the simple point that I made is that having children, becoming a father, becoming a mother, I really do think it changes your perspective in a pretty profound way.

It's not a criticism of people who don't have children.

I explicitly said in my remarks, despite the fact the media has lied about this, that this is not about criticizing people who for various reasons didn't have kids. This is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming anti-family and anti-child.

Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 27, 2024 11:10 PM (wse2C)

292 I'm sure Russian TV news is having a great time with this.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 27, 2024 11:08 PM (uxCna)

Probably not. Blasphemy is strictly illegal in Russia. They probably just had to note it, briefly ridicule the West, and move on without showing any of the hilarious footage.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 27, 2024 11:10 PM (0FoWg)

293 279 Harris average lead in MN is 2 points.

But if we are talking about Minnesota on election night, it will only be because we are trying to guess how far over 300 Trump is getting.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:07 PM (5p7BC)

We'll fix that! Hey! A trunk full of uncounted ballots!

Posted by: Minnesota Soviet Socialist Republic at July 27, 2024 11:10 PM (8sMut)

294 The Mayal story is lovely. Thanks for sharing that.

Posted by: sal

Your welcome. Mayall was one of my favorites. His passing is a milestone.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 11:11 PM (G8tt9)

295 286 Mexican chic at the house mentions the nopalis growing outside. You eat nopalis? Sure when somebody cooks them. Silence.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:09 PM (N1fOF)

I do. I cook marinated beef first, remove it (leaving the juices and oil), cook the (rinsed and cut) nopales with equal amounts of tomatoes and onions. At the end, add an mix in the meat plus dark chile powder and paprika.
Wife used to love it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 11:11 PM (ynpvh)

296 295 286 Mexican chic at the house mentions the nopalis growing outside. You eat nopalis? Sure when somebody cooks them. Silence.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:09 PM (N1fOF)

I do. I cook marinated beef first, remove it (leaving the juices and oil), cook the (rinsed and cut) nopales with equal amounts of tomatoes and onions. At the end, add an mix in the meat plus dark chile powder and paprika.
Wife used to love it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 11:11 PM (ynpvh)

Salt to taste.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 11:11 PM (ynpvh)

297 You can just make up a mess of the chicken and use it for lots of things. It makes killer chicken tortilla soup, burritos, taco bowls, or even just on its own or with a side of rice and beans.

It completely loses it's flavor by day 3, however, so use it up quick.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 11:11 PM (Vvh2V)

298 Mexican chic at the house mentions the nopalis growing outside. You eat nopalis? Sure when somebody cooks them. Silence.
Posted by: Braenyard

Still, any food that requires a blowtorch has dude bro credits. Also, they taste like cooked grass.. which is interesting.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 11:12 PM (IG4Id)

299 288 On my way to Dallas for a wedding a few months ago, I stopped at a place called Bush's Chicken and had gizzard for the first time in ages. Liked it very much. Also got some of the chicken livers and deep-fried okra.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 11:05 PM (ynpvh)

Okra!!??
Damn. You're lucky to have survived!

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 11:09 PM (W/lyH)

Love me some good deep-fried okra. (Dot) Indians cook it so it isn't slimy by making sure it's absolutely dry before cutting it...saw that in a recipe for Bhindi Masala.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 11:12 PM (ynpvh)

300 22 So, the lights are out in Paris. All of them, apparently.

https://tinyurl.com/352vmhcz

No word on why, but Pharaoh has a guess.
Posted by: Methos at July 27, 2024 10:26 PM (Dnobf)

All I get is a black screen, so it must be true.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at July 27, 2024 10:32 PM (0eaVi)

If God is angry enough to take the light, watch for the other plagues.

Posted by: Redbanzai at July 27, 2024 11:12 PM (iqZsv)

301 Then Vance needs to be careful around Jill B. in one of her "tapestrian" outfits.
Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT boxed set & match #10 at July 27, 2024 11:07 PM (qfLjt)

that'll cure him.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 11:12 PM (D7oie)

302 In all fairness, they are now claiming that what looks like testicles is merely a rip in the guys tights, and that may be true

Sorry, my "benefit of the doubt" supply for the alphabet people has hit zero.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 27, 2024 11:13 PM (yOPBE)

303 Lagunitas was an indie craft brewery. They sold a while ago to Heineken International.

Posted by: Rex B at July 27, 2024 11:13 PM (5h/8D)

304 I have a tech question
Posted by: Don Black

This is the best and worst place to ask. So, lay it on us, brother.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 11:13 PM (IG4Id)

305 251

Probably not...I sure didn't...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 27, 2024 11:14 PM (6JRrX)

306 302 In all fairness, they are now claiming that what looks like testicles is merely a rip in the guys tights, and that may be true

Sorry, my "benefit of the doubt" supply for the alphabet people has hit zero.

Posted by: Chuck C at July 27, 2024 11:13 PM (yOPBE)

So a rip in the guy's tights showing his testicles them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 11:14 PM (ynpvh)

307 270 Today is Bugs Bunny's birthday. He is 84.
Posted by: A Wild Hare at July 27, 2024 11:05 PM (CV8a5)

Kind of funny how that cartoon changed the culture. Everybody thinks rabbits are addicted to carrots because of that cartoon, when it was added to specifically parody Clark Gable in It Happened One Night.

Also, "nimrod" is now pretty much synonymous with "loser" these days because people didn't get the reference to the biblical Hunter when Bugs saw Elmer in his hunter's gear and called him "the great Nimrod."

Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2024 11:14 PM (R256O)

308 If you compare to his numbers BEFORE the debate, she is a shitshow.

So they did a hail mary debate to try to get back into a race they thought they were losing, blew up their entire nomination process, and wasted 5 weeks of the campaign just to end up worse than where they started.

They would literally have been better off hiding Biden in the basement until November.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 10:53 PM (5p7BC)

But boy is the media ever in the 'TASS Is Authorized To Announce' propaganda spin. She is MAH-VELOUS! And don't you forget it, peasant! (We'll just sccrub her record to help you along.)

And the way the Dem rank and file just go along with all this 'selected' crap like good little sheep. Two weeks ago, Bye-den was The Man. Now, Kamalalaladingbat has Trump on the ropes! Bye-den wasn't old. But Trump now is way too old!

It's fascinating in a 'is this really happening?' way. I can only shake my head.

Posted by: RickZ at July 27, 2024 11:14 PM (gKDq2)

309 Probably not. Blasphemy is strictly illegal in Russia. They probably just had to note it, briefly ridicule the West, and move on without showing any of the hilarious footage.

It's OK when the footage is being used to show how completely degenerate the West has become.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 27, 2024 11:14 PM (uxCna)

310 beers for me tonight, like in the pic

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 27, 2024 11:15 PM (sJHOI)

311 Okra!!??
Damn. You're lucky to have survived!
Posted by: Diogenes
-----------------------------

I see that you're not from around these parts.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:15 PM (N1fOF)

312 It completely loses it's flavor by day 3, however, so use it up quick.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor

Sure, for chicken thighs. Chicken breast turns to cotton batting after the 1st day.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 11:16 PM (IG4Id)

313 If someone was going to fill Marcel Marceau's shoes, they'd have done it by now. Same with Topo Gigio, and Senor Wences.Topo Gigio had around 50 appearances on Ed Sullivan.

Posted by: Plate Spinner Union Local 257 at July 27, 2024 11:16 PM (CV8a5)

314 Sadly I doubt we will see any of that.

You'll see some of it, but not all of it.

I'm not watching but I wasn't planning too.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 27, 2024 11:16 PM (gllTv)

315 Mayall story is awesome, I'm so glad you shared it!

MisHum, been awhile since I told you what a great job you do, and how impressed I am with the way you've kept up. I was so afraid you would burn out!

Thank you, so very much!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 11:17 PM (Vvh2V)

316 Tales of the Merchandise Table-

One of our daughters met her future husband when he and his brother were doing their two-man show in Austin.
Someone told him there was a really pretty girl buying everything on the merch table and he should go say "Hi".
So he did...

Posted by: sal at July 27, 2024 11:17 PM (4lnL8)

317 You can just make up a mess of the chicken and use it for lots of things. It makes killer chicken tortilla soup, burritos, taco bowls, or even just on its own or with a side of rice and beans.

It completely loses it's flavor by day 3, however, so use it up quick.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor

I have perfected a green Chile chicken stew. Fresh roasted green chilies and red potatos, grilled chicken, grilled corn, colorful bell peppers, fresh garlic, white onions, cilantro. Some seasoning and a slower simmer for a hour or so. The second day is the best.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 11:17 PM (G8tt9)

318 Okra!!??
Damn. You're lucky to have survived!
Posted by: Diogenes
-----------------------------

I see that you're not from around these parts.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:15 PM (N1fOF)
***

Nope.
But my mom was. She'd cook it. I'd barf it.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 11:17 PM (W/lyH)

319 I'd like to fill Sophie Marceau's shoes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2024 11:18 PM (kbyy+)

320 279 But if we are talking about Minnesota on election night, it will only be because we are trying to guess how far over 300 Trump is getting.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:07 PM (5p7BC)

Dave, are there any states w an R SoS now which went D in 2020 besides GA? And, the 1 EC in NE. Any others? Don’t care about 300, just want that 270.

Posted by: EveR at July 27, 2024 11:18 PM (Z/h4+)

321 318 Okra!!??
Damn. You're lucky to have survived!
Posted by: Diogenes
-----------------------------

I see that you're not from around these parts.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:15 PM (N1fOF)
***

Nope.
But my mom was. She'd cook it. I'd barf it.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 11:17 PM (W/lyH)

So she used it as an emetic on ya?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 11:18 PM (ynpvh)

322
Still, any food that requires a blowtorch has dude bro credits. Also, they taste like cooked grass.. which is interesting.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
-----------------------------

Try 'em again with a better cook.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:18 PM (N1fOF)

323 260 I miss poppy seed buns, hamburgers always had poppy seed buns, no more.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024

Poppy seeds? Or sesame seeds?

Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2024 11:18 PM (pZEOD)

324 I want to use a laptop to run a wireless TV monitor

I want to go to a website online, and send that content to the TV

am I mad

Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 11:18 PM (/7KEl)

325 Mayall story is awesome, I'm so glad you shared it!

MisHum, been awhile since I told you what a great job you do, and how impressed I am with the way you've kept up. I was so afraid you would burn out!

Thank you, so very much!
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor

Thanks Tammy. The real kudos go to MH for publishing it and having to put up with me.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 11:18 PM (G8tt9)

326 319 I'd like to fill Sophie Marceau's shoes.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2024 11:18 PM (kbyy+)

That's a very specific kink there, fella.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 11:19 PM (ynpvh)

327 Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 11:16 PM (IG4Id)

I have not used chicken breasts for anything in years. I mean, if I make a salad, I get a rotisserie chicken, and use the breadt neat, but it's too dry to cook anything with.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 11:20 PM (Vvh2V)

328 So she used it as an emetic on ya?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 27, 2024 11:18 PM (ynpvh)

I don't think it was intentional. But it worked.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 11:20 PM (W/lyH)

329 The article talks about this, but I recently was reading into a similar complaint against the Federal Reserve, and the facts that the heads of the member banks are making decisions and creating US monetary policy while having no review, oversight or threat of removal by the President as well.

I think the world is going to be going through some very odd changes very soon. I have no idea if this means the Fed becomes the US Central bank in act and intent, or if it ends the banking cartel we have right now.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 10:36 PM (D7oie)

The Federal Reserve IS the central bank.
Money is a medium of exchange, full stop.
If People Don't Like The Medium Of Exchange, It Will Not Be Used.
If People Do Not Understand How The Medium Of Exchange Works, It Will Not Be Used.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:20 PM (8sMut)

330 Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 11:17 PM (G8tt9)

I appreciate you sharing this, and will give it a whirl, thank you!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 11:21 PM (Vvh2V)

331 Good evening y'all. Puppy made her first successful in-air Frisbee catch today.

She then immediately dropped it and chased a butterfly across the yard.

Progress.

Posted by: Muldoon RIP JNG at July 27, 2024 11:21 PM (uCfKO)

332 /adjust sock

Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2024 11:22 PM (uCfKO)

333 I want to use a laptop to run a wireless TV monitor

I want to go to a website online, and send that content to the TV

am I mad

Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 11:18 PM (/7KEl)

You can either get a bluetooth or wifi dongle (dongle is the right term for a plug in like the dohicky you put in the USB port on your wireless keyboard?)
or hard wire an ethernet cable from your laptop to your TV.
I do the second. the first is like running a firestick or a Roku

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 11:23 PM (D7oie)

334 260 I miss poppy seed buns, hamburgers always had poppy seed buns, no more.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 27,

Puppy seen buns are for hot dog. Seseme seen is for burgers.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2024 11:23 PM (R256O)

335 Good evening y'all. Puppy made her first successful in-air Frisbee catch today.

She then immediately dropped it and chased a butterfly across the yard.

Progress.
Posted by: Muldoon RIP JNG at July 27, 2024 11:21 PM (uCfKO)
***

Heh.
Reminds me of when Daughter of Diogenes #2 started playing softball. She was 6.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 11:23 PM (W/lyH)

336
Various accounts on X are showing a clip from the Athens Olympiad in 2004. Just stunning depictions of living statues doing the original Olympic sports in slo-mo. This Paris thing has disgraced the efforts of others who have done them so much credit.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 27, 2024 11:23 PM (lCaJd)

337 319 I'd like to fill Sophie Marceau's shoes.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2024 11:18 PM (kbyy+)Burgess.

Her shoes. Yep, I believe that's what you would lime to fill.

Posted by: tankdemon at July 27, 2024 11:24 PM (R256O)

338
I explicitly said in my remarks, despite the fact the media has lied about this, that this is not about criticizing people who for various reasons didn't have kids. This is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming anti-family and anti-child.
Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 27, 2024 11:10 PM (wse2C)

The Dems hate civil society for as long as civil society exists, people can turn to something other than goverment.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:24 PM (8sMut)

339 I also.caught a few pieces of the speech at Bitcoin. I've got to say, someone has brought him up to speed on it fast.

He's going to establish a 500,000 Bitcoin crypto reserve, and start it off using the Bitcoin the Feds have siezed from cartels. They liked the idea.

Biggest applause was the promise to fire Gensler on day 1. The overall plan is crypto will be mined, protected, and stored in the US.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:24 PM (5p7BC)

340 alternative answer:
why and how are you running any images over your PET/TRS 80/WIN 3.1 dialup on AOL?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 11:24 PM (D7oie)

341
That's evidently a deer.

Gnus to me.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2024 11:25 PM (63Dwl)

342 340 alternative answer:
why and how are you running any images over your PET/TRS 80/WIN 3.1 dialup on AOL?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 11:24 PM (D7oie)

Lame.

Posted by: Amiga at July 27, 2024 11:25 PM (8sMut)

343 Well, I'm gonna finish this beer, and watch the end of Svengooli (stupid show, but cool nostalgia)...
Good night sweethearts...

Posted by: COMountainMarie at July 27, 2024 11:25 PM (6JRrX)

344 I am off to bed. Nightsie noodles!

Posted by: Piper at July 27, 2024 11:26 PM (pZEOD)

345 The Olympics queer festival opening act reinforces, to me, this war being waged against individualism , does not stop at our borders. The IOC, the WEF, the UN, the EU, our Uniparty and a few I've probably missed all reside in the same circle. They all worship at the same Malthusian alter. No matter. Their true enemy is the one real God. I would counsel them to take some time and contemplate the meaning of eternity. None of us can truly grasp the meaning because we have only the metrics of man to measure it with. They should try though.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Atavistic at July 27, 2024 11:26 PM (HLfHQ)

346 Poppy seeds.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:27 PM (N1fOF)

347 339 I also.caught a few pieces of the speech at Bitcoin. I've got to say, someone has brought him up to speed on it fast.

He's going to establish a 500,000 Bitcoin crypto reserve, and start it off using the Bitcoin the Feds have siezed from cartels. They liked the idea.

Biggest applause was the promise to fire Gensler on day 1. The overall plan is crypto will be mined, protected, and stored in the US.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:24 PM (5p7BC)

That's nice, but if People Do Not Like Using Them, and Cannot Understand How It Works, all that Bitcoin is going nowhere.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:27 PM (8sMut)

348 I want to use a laptop to run a wireless TV monitor

I want to go to a website online, and send that content to

am I mad

Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 11:18 PM (/7KEl)

hdmi cable from laptop to tv or chromecast dongle

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at July 27, 2024 11:27 PM (iNp3L)

349 291 It's not a criticism of people who don't have children.

I explicitly said in my remarks, despite the fact the media has lied about this, that this is not about criticizing people who for various reasons didn't have kids. This is about criticizing the Democratic Party for becoming anti-family and anti-child.
Posted by: andycanuck (wse2C) at July 27, 2024 11:10 PM (wse2C)

Thank you, Andy. Very good response from JD.

Posted by: EveR at July 27, 2024 11:27 PM (Z/h4+)

350 It's OK when the footage is being used to show how completely degenerate the West has become.

Yep - Today's news program "Vremya" covered it about 32:00 in.

Needless to say, they contrasted the Paris opening ceremonies with the opening ceremonies in Sochi a few years ago, which featured the Bolshoi Ballet.

https://www.1tv.ru/news/issue/2024-07-27/21:00#1

Posted by: The ARC of History! at July 27, 2024 11:27 PM (uxCna)

351 Oklahoma indian folk lore: Every animal has enough brain matter to tan it's hide. Except buffalo, and some people.

Posted by: These fish sticks...on my mobile at Coronado Camp at July 27, 2024 11:28 PM (0u7Q0)

352 Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 11:18 PM (/7KEl)

Yes, you absolutely can do that. If you didn't understand whatvkm Kindltot said, I'll ask Thor what he does, because he will explain it to me like I'm 5 years old and it might make it easier for you to understand, too.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 11:29 PM (Vvh2V)

353 Was one of them named Cecil?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 27, 2024 10:39 PM (dj3QO)

No, it was Wombat-socho.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

I thought Cecil was a tortoise, not a wombat. Must be hard racing Bugs Bunny.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2024 11:30 PM (VNX3d)

354 Reminds me of when Daughter of Diogenes #2 started playing softball. She was 6.
Posted by: Diogenes

********

I once watched my son pick a dandelion at midfield during a soccer game at that age.

Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2024 11:30 PM (uCfKO)

355
I want to use a laptop to run a wireless TV monitor

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

Type "cast" in your Windows search bar down at the bottom, then choose "Connect to a wireless display," then click the button that says the same thing in the System>Display panel, then pick the monitor from the list of devices that comes up.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 27, 2024 11:32 PM (lCaJd)

356
I thought Cecil was a tortoise, not a wombat. Must be hard racing Bugs Bunny.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

He's the one who looks like Mitch McConnell.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 27, 2024 11:32 PM (63Dwl)

357 Reminds me of when Daughter of Diogenes #2 started playing softball. She was 6.
Posted by: Diogenes

********

I once watched my son pick a dandelion at midfield during a soccer game at that age.
Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2024 11:30 PM (uCfKO)
***

Heh!
Yup!
Kids.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 11:33 PM (W/lyH)

358 Posted by: These fish sticks...on my mobile at Coronado Camp at July 27, 2024 11:28 PM (0u7Q0)

One of my great grandfathers was a tanner among other things, and if you wanna talk about a stench..... my God. Brains and urine and I can't remember what all else.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 11:33 PM (Vvh2V)

359 dongle is the correct term

...there are others

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 27, 2024 11:33 PM (sJHOI)

360 Yeah I think I'd go the HDMI route

I watch live sports at various sites on the web, so I want to navigate to a site on the web but watch the action on a BAS*

*big ass screen

Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 11:33 PM (/7KEl)

361 Mitt happens...

Mitt Romney
@MittRomney
The
@Paris2024
Opening Ceremony showcased the world’s most beautiful city. Imaginative, inventive and memorable. The performance by Celine Dion touched hearts. She epitomized the Olympic spirit with her determination, courage and incomparable talent.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 27, 2024 11:34 PM (TGPs7)

362 This used to be a high class joint until people started talking about dongles in mixed company.

Posted by: Dainty Dan Dingle at July 27, 2024 11:34 PM (CV8a5)

363 I went to a Del Taco in my travels years ago.

It was all right.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 27, 2024 11:34 PM (ufFY8)

364 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 27, 2024 11:32 PM (lCaJd)

I was going to mention casting, but wasn't sure if it was just a phone/device thing.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 11:34 PM (Vvh2V)

365 muldoon

Hey, good to see you.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:34 PM (N1fOF)

366 Find it hard to believe Louisiana is not the #1 beer drinking state. I blame it on the some of the dry parishes in central Louisiana.

Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 11:36 PM (pFQ77)

367 Wouldn't want to make a career of it but tanning the occasional problem animal is interesting. 3 racoons 1 fox 1 possum so far.

Posted by: These fish sticks...on my mobile at Coronado Camp at July 27, 2024 11:36 PM (0u7Q0)

368 This used to be a high class joint until people started talking about dongles in mixed company.
Posted by: Dainty Dan Dingle

Just wait until they start saying "NI" to old women.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 11:36 PM (IG4Id)

369 Thank you all for the feedback 👍

Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 11:36 PM (/7KEl)

370 my mom told a story of watching me playing peewee baseball in the outfield and I was laying on my back, legs perpendicular to the ground, balancing my glove on feet. It wasn't like any fly balls were coming my way at that age of baseball.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 27, 2024 11:37 PM (sJHOI)

371 EvrR - Nevada I believe. Governor is now Republican.

Arizona is interesting, the entire election infrastructure R and D are under investigation, as is Abortion Mouse (for election fraud no less).

But with Trump over 51% there it's not going to be a problem for him. Lake will have a problem though, they are going to cheat like hell to make her lose.

But after that with NV, AZ, and GA, Trump is at 268.

NE CD-2 gets him to the tie. PA, MI, WI or statewide ME gets him over 270. Dems have said outright they don't like their chances in MI, and Whitmer best outcome from the election is for Harris to lose. That makes her most likely to be 2028 nominee.

And don't discount Whitmer in 2028, she is more formidable than most realize.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:37 PM (5p7BC)

372 I've never had Del Taco, but I did have a breakfast burrito from Victorico's about 3 months ago and it was pretty decent. Pricey for eggs, potatoes, and meat wrapped in a tortilla, but I was hungry and somewhat desperate. I don't eat a lot of fast food, but I suppose Chik-fil-a would by my top choice for lunch or dinner.

Posted by: PabloD at July 27, 2024 11:38 PM (yhCZc)

373 The historic parts of Paris are very pretty, but I'm not sure it's the most beautiful city in tbe world. I'd have to think about that one for awhile.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 11:38 PM (Vvh2V)

374 That Whataburger is not on the list means no one was asked in Texas .

Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 11:38 PM (pFQ77)

375 muldoon

Hey, good to see you.
Posted by: Braenyard at

*********

HowdY. What's new?

Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2024 11:38 PM (uCfKO)

376 Mitt Romney
@MittRomney
The
@Paris2024
Opening Ceremony showcased the world’s most beautiful city. Imaginative, inventive and memorable. The performance by Celine Dion touched hearts. She epitomized the Olympic spirit with her determination, courage and incomparable talent.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 27, 2024 11:34 PM (TGPs7)

hashtag#fundUkraine

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 27, 2024 11:39 PM (sJHOI)

377 Good evening morons and thanks mh

Del Taco is lower than Jack in the Box.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 11:39 PM (JvZF+)

378 I remember doing to a steel products factory' door jambs, doors, windows, in an industrial section of Brooklyn. Across the street was a one-story building that took up half a city block. It was filled with thousands of cow hides being tanned and processed. Very bad odor, to say the least.

Posted by: Pepe LePew at July 27, 2024 11:39 PM (CV8a5)

379 Del Taco is a trailer park lottery winner's version of Baker's of a meth head's version of Taco Bell.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 11:39 PM (IG4Id)

380 One of my trees fell over and left a mound of dirt where half the roof ball is. I ordered a bag of humming bird/ butterfly seeds, bought two bags of dirt. Poured out the dirt and spread the seeds.
We'll see.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:39 PM (N1fOF)

381 Wait a minute.

What the hell is Del Taco?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:40 PM (8sMut)

382 he historic parts of Paris are very pretty, but I'm not sure it's the most beautiful city in tbe world. I'd have to think about that one for awhile.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 11:38 PM (Vvh2V)

Can you believe that San Francisco used to be in consideration for one of the most beautiful cities in the world.

Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 11:40 PM (pFQ77)

383 it would be a shame if Kari doesn't win
she seems great, but if she goes 0 and 2, that's not good going forward

Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 11:40 PM (/7KEl)

384
hashtag#fundUkraine
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 27, 2024 11:39 PM (sJHOI)

How about we drill for oil, lower oil prices in so doing, attacking Russia's CoG, and thus increasing our GDP, reducing inflation AND curbing Russia's ambitions?

Too hard, Mittens???

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:42 PM (8sMut)

385 I ordered a bag of humming bird/ butterfly seeds, bought two bags of dirt. Poured out the dirt and spread the seeds. We'll see.
Posted by: Braenyard

How many humming bird kebabs are you trying for?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 11:42 PM (IG4Id)

386 This used to be a high class joint until people started talking about dongles in mixed company.
Posted by: Dainty Dan Dingle

Dangerous Dan McGrew > Dainty Dan Dingle

Posted by: Robert Service at July 27, 2024 11:42 PM (yOPBE)

387 The Federal Reserve IS the central bank.
Money is a medium of exchange, full stop.
If People Don't Like The Medium Of Exchange, It Will Not Be Used.
If People Do Not Understand How The Medium Of Exchange Works, It Will Not Be Used.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:20 PM (8sMut)

So your argument is that it does not matter whether or not something is constitutional? That force majeure and will to power is the only conditioning elements on legality? This is an odd position to take.

I don't think you would like where that leads. As a definition it doesn't appear to hold water since you don't seem to be able to tell me the difference between the current Fed system of creating money via debt and the gold standard, though I suspect you will try to work in a definition of "the velocity of money" as well as a discussion on the evils or benefits of a bimetallic monetary regime as a cautionary parable to support your explanation.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 11:42 PM (D7oie)

388 t would be a shame if Kari doesn't win
she seems great, but if she goes 0 and 2, that's not good going forward
Posted by: Don Black at July 27, 2024 11:40 PM (/7KEl)

in anything approaching a just election, Kari wins and goes far

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at July 27, 2024 11:43 PM (sJHOI)

389 Good evening morons and thanks mh

Del Taco is lower than Jack in the Box.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 27, 2024 11:39 PM (JvZF+

Jack in the Box has the best tasting tacos. I don't trust them though . They are so cheap that I don't want to know what they use for the 'meat' filling.

Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 11:43 PM (pFQ77)

390 Mirror universe Mitt is more relevant then real world Mitt.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * Atavistic at July 27, 2024 11:43 PM (HLfHQ)

391 I've got forest green.
I've got digital camo.
I've got black.

The ONE thing you need that you never knew you needed.

Come on by BIG ED's Combat Wheelbarrow Emporium.
How the hell else y'all gonna carry all that shit?

Posted by: Combat wheelbarrow salesman at July 27, 2024 11:44 PM (xcIvR)

392 Aren't these food surveys just "who paid more for us to say they are the best?"

Posted by: 18-1 at July 27, 2024 11:44 PM (oZhjI)

393 The performance by Celine Dion touched hearts. She epitomized the Olympic spirit with her determination, courage and incomparable talent.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 27, 2024 11:34 PM (TGPs7)

Mitt, that's blood trickling from my ears from hearing her screeching. Celine Dion is enough of a reason for us to invade Quebec. To Make It Stop.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:44 PM (8sMut)

394 Still discussing video game money? Crypto advocates are like EV advocates.

Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 11:45 PM (pFQ77)

395 Our local Jack in the Crack closed down because an employee lost his shit and burned the place down. It was an civic improvement.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 27, 2024 11:45 PM (IG4Id)

396 Why, oh why has Biden not resigned? Doesn't the party want a Female Person of Color to be sworn in as President of the United States?

Posted by: 80's music fan at July 27, 2024 11:45 PM (QSrLX)

397 Biggest applause was the promise to fire Gensler on day 1. The overall plan is crypto will be mined, protected, and stored in the US.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:24 PM (5p7BC)

which means we are going to have to either protect it like Disney's IP, or push cheap energy to make the US attractive for bitminers. I am for the second because I like cheap gas and cheap electricity

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 11:45 PM (D7oie)

398 Jack in the Box has the best tasting tacos. I don't trust them though . They are so cheap that I don't want to know what they use for the 'meat' filling.
Posted by: polynikes

Yes, love those! I am willing to let the "meat" part remain a mystery.

Posted by: Some Rat at July 27, 2024 11:46 PM (x0fbL)

399 Wait a minute.

What the hell is Del Taco?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

It's a restaurant Of The Taco, for the taco, and by the taco.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2024 11:46 PM (VNX3d)

400 Mitt Romney can suck my...No, no, wait Mitt, I didn't mean it, Back Off.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:46 PM (N1fOF)

401 Mirror universe Mitt

********

Now there is a blast from the past! Good old MUMR.

It's been a few years since I saw that nick. Pre-CIVID I would say. Did he get banned or just wander off into traffic one day?

Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2024 11:47 PM (uCfKO)

402 Poppy seeds.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:27 PM (N1fOF)

I seem to remember that poppy seeds go on a kaiser roll, not so much a bun.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 11:47 PM (D7oie)

403 Crypto is as good as Guld(tm) at BIG ED's Combat Wheelbarrow Emporium.

Posted by: Combat wheelbarrow salesman at July 27, 2024 11:48 PM (xcIvR)

404 I am for the second because I like cheap gas and cheap electricity
Posted by: Kindltot

From which all inexpensive consumer goods flow.

Posted by: Some Rat at July 27, 2024 11:48 PM (x0fbL)

405 I think Kari.Lake is great too, but I'm not going to be a hypocrite and not notice that the same polls showing Trump stomping Harris, also show Lake behind.

The primary is next week so looking to see if things change when (if) she's the nominee. She has been endorsed by Trump and every GOP senator, so would be a surprise if she loses next week.

After next week we will see if there is party unity or the McCain's intend to keep their feud going forever.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:48 PM (5p7BC)

406 It would be funny if Biden resigned on January 19 and made Kamala President for one day.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2024 11:48 PM (8kFa7)

407 Came across this today:
If—
By Rudyard Kipling
(‘Brother Square-Toes’—Rewards and Fairies)

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

tbc

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2024 11:49 PM (y31cs)

408 385 I ordered a bag of humming bird/ butterfly seeds, bought two bags of dirt. Poured out the dirt and spread the seeds. We'll see.
Posted by: Braenyard

How many humming bird kebabs are you trying for?
Posted by: weft cut-loop
--------------------------

Net is hung between the trees on each side. Have to see how many I can capture.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:49 PM (N1fOF)

409 (cont.)

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2024 11:49 PM (y31cs)

410 Also, thanks for the ONT.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2024 11:49 PM (y31cs)

411 Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2024 11:49 PM (y31cs)

Kipling is my choice for greatest writer in history.

Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 11:50 PM (pFQ77)

412 Lagunitas Dog Town Ale was a favorite of mine all those years ago

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 27, 2024 11:50 PM (z4hiZ)

413 402 Poppy seeds.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:27 PM (N1fOF)

I seem to remember that poppy seeds go on a kaiser roll, not so much a bun.
Posted by: Kindltot
-------------------------

Maybe it was a regional thing. Went along with a mug of Hires Root Beer.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:50 PM (N1fOF)

414 MUMR could be pretty damn funny at times. But his nick always made me think of Mum-ra.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 27, 2024 11:50 PM (8kFa7)

415 which means we are going to have to either protect it like Disney's IP, or push cheap energy to make the US attractive
---
Both Trump and Blackburn said cheap energy.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:51 PM (5p7BC)

416
So your argument is that it does not matter whether or not something is constitutional? That force majeure and will to power is the only conditioning elements on legality? This is an odd position to take.

Go cry to a federal court and see if they will hear your case.

By the way, I'm stil waiting to hear, in the simplest terms possible, how cryptocurrency can be used by schmoes like me for every day transactions. I'm realy trying to help your case for crypto, but if you won't, or can't, answer that basic question, no one can help you.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:51 PM (8sMut)

417 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 27, 2024 11:32 PM (lCaJd)

My gear is so old it doesn't have built in bluetooth and none of the monitors seem to be reachable from my tablet.
On the plus side, I pay $20 for monitors

Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 11:52 PM (D7oie)

418 I seem to remember that poppy seeds go on a kaiser roll, not so much a bun.
Posted by: Kindltot
-------------------------

Maybe it was a regional thing. Went along with a mug of Hires Root Beer.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:50 PM (N1fOF)

Wendy's kaiser roll buns had poopy seeds.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:52 PM (8sMut)

419 Wendy's kaiser roll buns had poopy seeds.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:52 PM (8sMut)
\
SMDH. POPPY seeds.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:52 PM (8sMut)

420 371 Thanks, Dave. Just hoping she doesn’t select Mark Kelley as her VP bc Cindy would twist any arms needed to get him the win, I’m afraid.

Posted by: EveR at July 27, 2024 11:52 PM (Z/h4+)

421 Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 11:40 PM (pFQ77)

Yes, and I never quite understood it. The views are pretty, and it's spread over all the hills, but it always feels cramped in to me. And I haven't been in decades, so it's probably unrecognizable now, never mind coveted in poop.

That's an issue in Paris, too, albeit not human. They don't clean up after their dogs.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 11:53 PM (Vvh2V)

422 It's a restaurant Of The Taco, for the taco, and by the taco.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2024 11:46 PM (VNX3d)

I don't think I have SEEN one, anywhere, at all.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:54 PM (8sMut)

423 “He has smoothly pivoted to hitting Kamala where it hurts, without missing a beat. He calls her Border Czar Kamala.”

And the MSM will now count that as another Trump lie every time he says it.

Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2024 11:55 PM (PTDkx)

424 Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2024 11:46 PM (VNX3d)

😂😂😂

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 11:55 PM (Vvh2V)

425 The historic parts of Paris are very pretty, but I'm not sure it's the most beautiful city in tbe world. I'd have to think about that one for awhile.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 11:38 PM (Vvh2V)

When we're talking about beautiful cities, are we talking with or without people?

Posted by: RickZ at July 27, 2024 11:55 PM (gKDq2)

426 And don't discount Whitmer in 2028, she is more formidable than most realize.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:37 PM (5p7BC)

And is she really well known outside MI?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:56 PM (8sMut)

427 The performance by Celine Dion touched hearts. She epitomized the Olympic spirit with her determination, courage and incomparable talent.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at July 27, 2024 11:34 PM (TGPs7)

Mitt, that's blood trickling from my ears from hearing her screeching. Celine Dion is enough of a reason for us to invade Quebec. To Make It Stop.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:44 PM (8sMut)
***
This.
I listened to it. It wasn't good at all. Kelly Clarkson just gushed about her. That sounded forced. Whole thing was horrible.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 27, 2024 11:56 PM (W/lyH)

428 A lot of cities would be a lot prettier if you looked at them before the 70s.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2024 11:57 PM (y31cs)

429 Doesn't the Kaiser roll have the little spike to keep your pickle in place?

Der Pickelhaube

Posted by: muldoon at July 27, 2024 11:57 PM (uCfKO)

430 Spent 2 weeks in Rome in December. Just as dog friendly as Paris, but I didn't see dog shit a single time.

I was very impressed. Seriously considering getting a place there when I retire.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:58 PM (5p7BC)

431 Jack in the Box has the best tasting tacos. I don't trust them though . They are so cheap that I don't want to know what they use for the 'meat' filling.
Posted by: polynikes at July 27, 2024 11:43 PM (pFQ77)

Uncle Bosey. Very sad.

We must have taco control NOW!

Posted by: Joe Bye-den at July 27, 2024 11:58 PM (gKDq2)

432 So, a dude I work with from time to time is from Toronto, and I yelled out "Celine Dion isn't even from Canada! She's from Quebec!!!" He couldn't believe I would dare say such a thing.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:59 PM (8sMut)

433 Posted by: RickZ at July 27, 2024 11:55 PM (gKDq2)

Excellent point! I have found Parisians to be lovely, though. Never had any bad experiences, none of the rudeness you hear so much about, just delightful, charming people.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 11:59 PM (Vvh2V)

434 Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning came on Prime, so I watched it.

Hayley Atwell +1

BUT, I can see why this one landed with a bit of a thud. The movies have always been contrived, but for some reason this one FELT like it.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 27, 2024 11:59 PM (y31cs)

435 “Budweiser is a beer for people who really dislike beer but are heavily controlled by advertising. They think all beer sucks, but they think it’s popular to drink so they drink the most heavily marketed piss beer they can find.”

Budweiser is to beer is as CNN is to news.

Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2024 11:59 PM (PTDkx)

436 Maybe it was a regional thing. [Poppy seeds] Went along with a mug of Hires Root Beer. Posted by: Braenyard

OMG. Please tell me I have completely misunderstood this.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 27, 2024 11:59 PM (G8tt9)

437 When we're talking about beautiful cities, are we talking with or without people?
Posted by: RickZ at July 27, 2024 11:55 PM (gKDq2)

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You know who liked to paint cities without people?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 27, 2024 11:59 PM (kbyy+)

438 My gear is so old it doesn't have built in bluetooth and none of the monitors seem to be reachable from my tablet.
On the plus side, I pay $20 for monitors
Posted by: Kindltot
-------------------------

You should be able to hard wire them. YouGuessedIt sells all sorts of adapter for one cable to another.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2024 12:00 AM (N1fOF)

439 >We must have taco control NOW!
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taco safety

Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2024 12:00 AM (/7KEl)

440 Catch - not really, which actually helps. She doesn't bring the baggage you get from Newsom.

And she's very popular in Michigan, which will again be a must win state for the Dems.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 28, 2024 12:01 AM (5p7BC)

441 He has smoothly pivoted to hitting Kamala where it hurts, without missing a beat. He calls her Border Czar Kamala.”

And the MSM will now count that as another Trump lie every time he says it.

Posted by: Ripley at July 27, 2024 11:55 PM (PTD

That's the best nic he has ever done. It's not a school yard taunt but rather a stinging adult rebuke.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 12:01 AM (pFQ77)

442 By the way, I'm stil waiting to hear, in the simplest terms possible, how cryptocurrency can be used by schmoes like me for every day transactions. I'm realy trying to help your case for crypto, but if you won't, or can't, answer that basic question, no one can help you.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:51 PM (8sMut)

Go ask a Salvadoran who has a Chivo wallet. Oh, and ask him why he doesn't use an El Salvadoran bank in his little town instead.
You are arguing from ignorance and disbelief. It is a logical fallacy. You can tell Socorro Maria Cuskat-Prieto that he cannot use his crypto account to buy fertilizer at the co-op because he doesn't understand it and he will tell you "sin embargo se mueve"

Then he will probably ask you to get out of his way because he actually has a life that involves real problems like leaf rust and transportation of his crop to market, and not imaginary ones like "people are using the wrong type of money"

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2024 12:01 AM (D7oie)

443 Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning came on Prime, so I watched it.

Hayley Atwell +1

BUT, I can see why this one landed with a bit of a thud. The movies have always been contrived, but for some reason this one FELT like it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Tom Cruise is a bit of nut case but that dude works hard to never disrespect his audience. I give him a pass when he whiffs from time to time.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 28, 2024 12:02 AM (G8tt9)

444 So, a dude I work with from time to time is from Toronto, and I yelled out "Celine Dion isn't even from Canada! She's from Quebec!!!" He couldn't believe I would dare say such a thing.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:59 PM (8sMut)

So...a new push for Quebec to secede? It was a fairly narrow vote last time. That would be fun.

Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2024 12:02 AM (W/lyH)

445 Hamburger with poppy seed bun with a Root Beer mug to drink.
Yeah, too bad one can't purchase good poppy seeds, Kamalala could get away with murder.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2024 12:03 AM (N1fOF)

446 And she's very popular in Michigan, which will again be a must win state for the Dems.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

Hoping her and other authoritarian govs, who went full stalin on covid restrictions, have that brought up daily.

Posted by: Some Rat at July 28, 2024 12:04 AM (x0fbL)

447 You should be able to hard wire them. YouGuessedIt sells all sorts of adapter for one cable to another.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2024 12:00 AM (N1fOF)

I hard wire everything. It is a persona foible. I only have WiFi for the house because my wife wanted Roku and the ability to connect her tablet.
I have my bad points, too.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2024 12:06 AM (D7oie)

448 The two Tom Cruise movies I enjoyed the most were Edge of Tomorrow and Color of Money.

I'm not a big MI fan though they are good movies for the most part.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 12:07 AM (pFQ77)

449 399 Wait a minute.

What the hell is Del Taco?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

It's a restaurant Of The Taco, for the taco, and by the taco.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 27, 2024 11:46 PM (VNX3d)

All restaurants are ~~Taco Bell~~ Del Taco.

Posted by: Sandra Bullock in Demolition Man at July 28, 2024 12:07 AM (ynpvh)

450 Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 27, 2024 11:58 PM (5p7BC)

I'm conflicted about Rome. I have only ever been in the summer, and it was hot amd miserable, so that doesn't help my impressions. But the only trouble I've ever had with crime in my travels has been in Rome. Not me personally, because I only take a carryon, but both times I've gone, my friends have had their luggage stolen, and were pick pocketed. I know that the pick pickets are everywhere, but Rome was by far the worst. I do think the stolen luggage is an organized gang thing.

On the other hand, they can talk about the women in Paris all they want, but in my opinion, Italian women are by far the most stylish.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:08 AM (Vvh2V)

451 Go ask a Salvadoran who has a Chivo wallet. Oh, and ask him why he doesn't use an El Salvadoran bank in his little town instead.
You are arguing from ignorance and disbelief. It is a logical fallacy. You can tell Socorro Maria Cuskat-Prieto that he cannot use his crypto account to buy fertilizer at the co-op because he doesn't understand it and he will tell you "sin embargo se mueve"

Then he will probably ask you to get out of his way because he actually has a life that involves real problems like leaf rust and transportation of his crop to market, and not imaginary ones like "people are using the wrong type of money"
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2024 12:01 AM (D7oie)

So much verbiage and vitriol to avoid saying "I don't know".

This ain't El Salvador, in case you haven't noticed. I try to ask a simple, basic question to actually help your cause and all you do is get pissy with me like a typical know-it-all Libertarian. Maybe take a break and walk away from the computer until you understand civility. If you can.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:08 AM (8sMut)

452 While I wish it wasn't the case, the covid facist governors are getting a pass and the ones who opened up early are not getting credit. The only punishment is the businesses and citizens that relocated to Texas and Florida.

I can't see that line of attack resonating in 2028.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 28, 2024 12:08 AM (5p7BC)

453 So Mitt's gone satanic?

Posted by: Enough BS at July 28, 2024 12:09 AM (2NXcZ)

454 418 I seem to remember that poppy seeds go on a kaiser roll, not so much a bun.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Maybe it was a regional thing. Went along with a mug of Hires Root Beer.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 27, 2024 11:50 PM (N1fOF)

Wendy's kaiser roll buns had poopy seeds.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 27, 2024 11:52 PM (8sMut)

Well, Germans and their kinks...

Posted by: Sandra Bullock in Demolition Man at July 28, 2024 12:09 AM (ynpvh)

455 Everything in the taco, nothing outside the taco, nothing against the taco.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2024 12:09 AM (D7oie)

456 off sock

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 12:09 AM (ynpvh)

457 24. Yes, Thomas Jolly. Completely Lgtbq

Posted by: Enough BS at July 28, 2024 12:10 AM (2NXcZ)

458 Excellent point! I have found Parisians to be lovely, though. Never had any bad experiences, none of the rudeness you hear so much about, just delightful, charming people.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 27, 2024 11:59 PM (Vvh2V)

My international travels are decades ago, Canada, Argentina and Japan (as a Boy Scout), well before the deliberate global population redistribution to bankrupt the First World. Reparations.

As a kd, Japan was astounding! That was '71. I found Montreal to be lovely when I went. I also enjoyed The Maritimes (Halifax), taking the car ferry to and from Maine. Buenos Aires is beautiful. It's called The Paris of South America for a reason. Though I might add, with the crazy paint jobs on some of the smaller buildings, there's a touch of the color of Ancient Rome, too, though that paint has long since faded. (We marvel at the beauty of those old marble statues, how pristine and captivating they are. But they would have had a serious paint job when they were made. The Romans didn't live a monochrome life.)

Posted by: Joe Bye-den at July 28, 2024 12:10 AM (gKDq2)

459 >>>Go ask a Salvadoran who has a Chivo wallet. Oh, and ask him why he doesn't use an El Salvadoran bank in his little town instead.
----------------

You are arguing against corrupt El Salvador banking not for crypto.

I don't understand the level of conversation you two are on but I'll say this. The money I have in my pocket is real, it is tangible. Albeit small the banks have a level of accountability.
If we go digital currency we will have nothing but 0s and 1s.
PIXY can tap in and be a billionaire.

Biden can tap in and wipe me out. It put total control in the hands of those who want to kill me. No thank you.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2024 12:11 AM (N1fOF)

460 So...a new push for Quebec to secede? It was a fairly narrow vote last time. That would be fun.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2024 12:02 AM (W/lyH)

When I set my VPN to "Canada" half my Ewetube pop-up ads are in French, with pretty women trying to sell me stuff. I count this as a plus.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 28, 2024 12:11 AM (dj3QO)

461 439 >We must have taco control NOW!
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taco safety

Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2024 12:00 AM (/7KEl)

Assault Tacos make you run for the border.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 12:11 AM (ynpvh)

462 So...a new push for Quebec to secede? It was a fairly narrow vote last time. That would be fun.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2024 12:02 AM (W/lyH)

Hmmm...it was a VERY narrow vote last time. I don't think the CAQ is a separatist government though. (I'm kind of embarrassed that I had to look up who is running the Quebec government.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:12 AM (8sMut)

463 I’ve been a sporadic attendee lately and missed any updates on Muldoon’s situation. Based on his nic earlier I assume the results were conclusive?

Posted by: Pete Bog at July 28, 2024 12:12 AM (z4hiZ)

464
I don't understand the level of conversation you two are on but I'll say this. The money I have in my pocket is real, it is tangible. Albeit small the banks have a level of accountability.
If we go digital currency we will have nothing but 0s and 1s.
PIXY can tap in and be a billionaire.

Biden can tap in and wipe me out. It put total control in the hands of those who want to kill me. No thank you.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2024 12:11 AM (N1fOF)

Sweden tried to go cashless, and failed. That always gives me more than hope.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:13 AM (8sMut)

465 The Mister likes Del Taco's bean burritos with green sauce. Cheap. You can also get a cup of beans with cheese as a side dish. Also rice, I think. In case you want to make burritos at home.

There is one outlet in a nearby city that does not have its act together, though. Yucky. Don't know that they do franchise evaluations regularly.

Posted by: KT at July 28, 2024 12:14 AM (rrtZS)

466 453 So Mitt's gone satanic?
Posted by: Enough BS

Gone?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 28, 2024 12:14 AM (gllTv)

467 462 So...a new push for Quebec to secede? It was a fairly narrow vote last time. That would be fun.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 28, 2024 12:02 AM (W/lyH)

Hmmm...it was a VERY narrow vote last time. I don't think the CAQ is a separatist government though. (I'm kind of embarrassed that I had to look up who is running the Quebec government.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:12 AM (8sMut)

The Quebecois are very Lefty, IIRC.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 12:14 AM (ynpvh)

468 Tammy agree on the pickpockets. It is a very European problem.

Other than that though, my wife and I felt very safe being out on the streets late into the nights. And I was running at 5am and never had any issues.

It was winter though, my plan is to arrive in October and stay until January. But then I just got back from Alaska and a summer place in Ketchican is also appesling.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 28, 2024 12:14 AM (5p7BC)

469 This ain't El Salvador, in case you haven't noticed. I try to ask a simple, basic question to actually help your cause and all you do is get pissy with me like a typical know-it-all Libertarian. Maybe take a break and walk away from the computer until you understand civility. If you can.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:08 AM (8sMut)

and gravity don't work on the Moon, either,

OK, now you have called me arrogant, and now you are calling me pissy. uncivil and a know it all because I refuse to help you sea lion.
Will you call me a racist next?

try it, it will do your argument so much more powerful,
say it with me Catch Thirty-Thr33, "Kindltot you are a racisst" See? You have now said the magic words, I will shut up out of fear, and my silence will prove to everyone that you are the bestest economist evar.
Where would you like me to mail your medal?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2024 12:15 AM (D7oie)

470 Bye, Bye-den. Maybe sooner rather than later.

Posted by: RickZ at July 28, 2024 12:15 AM (gKDq2)

471 466 453 So Mitt's gone satanic?
Posted by: Enough BS

Gone?

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 28, 2024 12:14 AM (gllTv)

Satanic Magic Underwear > Regular Magic Underwear?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 12:15 AM (ynpvh)

472 (I'm kind of embarrassed that I had to look up who is running the Quebec government.)
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:12 AM (8sMut)

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Pfft. I have no idea who's running our government.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:15 AM (kbyy+)

473 After 18 beers, I could have pissed out a four-alarm fire.

Posted by: Toad-0 at July 28, 2024 12:15 AM (cct0t)

474 Sounds like someone want to mandate that you have to accept crypto if offered .

I don't care if other parties agree to use Monopoly money to execute financial transactions but I don't want to have to accept it. Beaver pelts and tulips.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 12:16 AM (pFQ77)

475 I'm not a big MI fan though they are good movies for the most part.
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 12:07 AM (pFQ77)

I liked... Rogue Nation (first with Rebecca Ferguson*) and Fallout. They kind of blend together, to be fair.

*Interesting bit of cognitive dissonance. After Dead Reckoning, I rewatched Rogue Nation. In my memory, her dress in the opera house was green. On rewatch- kind of yellow.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 28, 2024 12:17 AM (y31cs)

476
I don't understand the level of conversation you two are on but I'll say this. The money I have in my pocket is real, it is tangible. Albeit small the banks have a level of accountability.
If we go digital currency we will have nothing but 0s and 1s.
PIXY can tap in and be a billionaire.

Biden can tap in and wipe me out. It put total control in the hands of those who want to kill me. No thank you.
Posted by: Braenyard

People love to talk about cryptocurrencies as the future and to me they are far from it.

For here's the thing: people are desperate to overcomplicate things. But truth of the matter is that no matter how much you hate central banks, the Fed, or whatever, people still use the dollar because People Like Using it. It's not rockey science. And money is JUST a medium of exchange, nothing more.

If people are unwilling to go along with changes to currency, it will not happen. Not even NORTH KOREA could do currency reform. Yes, they tried, and yes, they failed.

If people find they like cryptocurrencies and like using them, and other people like taking them for payment, and people understand fully how it works, it has a future. Not until then.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:17 AM (8sMut)

477 Catch - I'm staying out because I am pretty ignorant about the writings of crypto (irronically my specialty is cryptography though). But Trump did talk about exactly your concerns.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 28, 2024 12:18 AM (5p7BC)

478 Pfft. I have no idea who's running our government.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:15 AM (kbyy+)

TBF, does ANYBODY?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:19 AM (8sMut)

479 474 Sounds like someone want to mandate that you have to accept crypto if offered .

I don't care if other parties agree to use Monopoly money to execute financial transactions but I don't want to have to accept it. Beaver pelts and tulips.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 12:16 AM (pFQ77)

I saw Beaver Pelts & Tulips front for...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 12:19 AM (ynpvh)

480 I would like to announce that the stock seat on my 2024 Honda Trail 125 super motorcycle destroys you ass once you ride this demi-beast 52.9 miles in one session. That seat should be a crime against humanity.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 28, 2024 12:20 AM (G8tt9)

481 SpaceX Starlink launch at 1:09 AM

https://www.youtube.com/live/T9bMt4MpDVw

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 28, 2024 12:20 AM (VNX3d)

482 477 Catch - I'm staying out because I am pretty ignorant about the writings of crypto (irronically my specialty is cryptography though). But Trump did talk about exactly your concerns.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 28, 2024 12:18 AM (5p7BC)

No worries for I am done. I just cannot understand why people get pissy when I point things like this out.

Money is NOT hard to grasp. People are desperate to overcomplicate it.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:21 AM (8sMut)

483 I saw Beaver Pelts & Tulips front for...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Nice beaver!

Posted by: Frank Drebin at July 28, 2024 12:21 AM (x0fbL)

484
I was going to mention casting, but wasn't sure if it was just a phone/device thing.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor

==========

I have a casting function from my PC.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2024 12:21 AM (lCaJd)

485 478 Pfft. I have no idea who's running our government.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:15 AM (kbyy+)

TBF, does ANYBODY?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:19 AM (8sMut)

only the ones running it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 12:21 AM (ynpvh)

486 Posted by: Tammy-al Thor

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I have a casting function from my PC.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

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

P.S. I hope it works for Don.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2024 12:21 AM (lCaJd)

487 Pfft. I have no idea who's running our government.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:15 AM (kbyy+)

TBF, does ANYBODY?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

Biden and Kamala only know the first layer - who gives them their instructions. To get beyond that would require serious interrogations.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 28, 2024 12:22 AM (VNX3d)

488 Pfft. I have no idea who's running our government.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:15 AM (kbyy+)

We can tell it's not Barry, what with Bye-den shoving Kamalalaladingbat up his ass thanks to his 'endorsement'. One final asshole 'fuck you' move from ~~Dr. Dr. Jill~~ Joey. A jackal can't change its spots.

It truly is a beautiful sight to behold. The Dems, the media and the paid shills on social media are spinning faster than Iranian centrifuges.

Posted by: RickZ at July 28, 2024 12:22 AM (gKDq2)

489 Posted by: Joe Bye-den at July 28, 2024 12:10 AM (gKDq2)

I've heard wonderful things about Buenos Aires! I'm ashamed to say that South America doesn't hold much appeal for me, which is weird, because I tend to like most Latin cultures, nor does most of Africa, although I'd like to see Morocco and Egypt. I've been warned against Egypt, though, and not just by pearl-clutching ninnies. People I know who have lived there have told me they wouldn't let their daughters go anymore, even with tours, inless they went to stay with relatively wealthy friends, who have enough clout to protect them if anything goes wrong.

I really want to go to the Middle East, but no one will go with me.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:22 AM (Vvh2V)

490 Money is NOT hard to grasp. People are desperate to overcomplicate it.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:21 AM (8sMut)

There is a reason why people specifically like the American dollar.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 12:22 AM (pFQ77)

491 484
I was going to mention casting, but wasn't sure if it was just a phone/device thing.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor

==========

I have a casting function from my PC.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2024 12:21 AM (lCaJd)

You'll have to roll the dodecahedral die to find out of it hits or not.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 12:23 AM (ynpvh)

492 I would like to announce that the stock seat on my 2024 Honda Trail 125 super motorcycle destroys you ass once you ride this demi-beast 52.9 miles in one session. That seat should be a crime against humanity.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

Pegs are a dirt bike riders best friend.

Posted by: Frank Drebin at July 28, 2024 12:23 AM (x0fbL)

493 SpaceX Starlink launch at 1:09 AM

FFS they launched last night too. It's like living next to a damn airport.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 28, 2024 12:23 AM (5p7BC)

494
Bye, Bye-den. Maybe sooner rather than later.
Posted by: RickZ

==========

How many people here think he's going to complete his term?

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2024 12:23 AM (lCaJd)

495 .Montreal would be near the top of my list of beautiful cities, especially in the Fall and at Christmas!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:23 AM (Vvh2V)

496 Yeah, gonna need to drop the sock.

Posted by: Some Rat at July 28, 2024 12:23 AM (x0fbL)

497 >>>I do. I cook marinated beef first, remove it (leaving the juices and oil), cook the (rinsed and cut) nopales with equal amounts of tomatoes and onions. At the end, add an mix in the meat plus dark chile powder and paprika.
Wife used to love it.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) .
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Sounds good. There's a store in Big City not too far from here that has ladies skinning those things 8 hrs. a day. If she had said she would cook them I would drive there and buy all the ingredients she needed.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2024 12:24 AM (N1fOF)

498 Most bike seats are murder once you hit 29.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 28, 2024 12:25 AM (y31cs)

499 Bye, Bye-den. Maybe sooner rather than later.
Posted by: RickZ

==========

How many people here think he's going to complete his term?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

No bets. He finishes, dies, quits, or gets pushed out. Equal odds on all four.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 28, 2024 12:25 AM (VNX3d)

500 _ https://tinyurl.com/mpusy9fn
20 Tweets from Bad Blue

Watch Elon's Harris commercial

Posted by: Skip at July 28, 2024 12:25 AM (fwDg9)

501 How many people here think he's going to complete his term?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

I don't see it happening. They CANNOT afford to have that person make any decisions before the election.
Think barky in the Senate. Vote present.

Posted by: Some Rat at July 28, 2024 12:26 AM (x0fbL)

502 If I want to watch the French mocking Catholicism, I just pull off the shelf the DVD of Bloody Mallory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhM6H9zjrDw

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2024 12:26 AM (1/gMt)

503 Two possible SpaceX launches:

first one
New T-Zero: Liftoff is targeted for 1:09 a.m. EDT, 0509 UTC, 07:09 CEST, with backup opportunities available until 4:01 a.m. EDT. Florida
https://www.youtube.com/live/T9bMt4MpDVw

2nd one: Starlink 9-4 is scheduled for launch July 28, 12:24 a.m. PDT, 0724 UTC, 09:24 CEST. California
https://www.youtube.com/live/8MND6xOBg4c

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT boxed set & match #11 at July 28, 2024 12:26 AM (qfLjt)

504 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2024 12:21 AM (lCaJd)

Our desktop is old, I'll have to check. I know I can from my phone. But when we play sudoku, he does something with cords in back of the TV.

Does anyone here play sudoku?

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:27 AM (Vvh2V)

505 Biden can tap in and wipe me out. It put total control in the hands of those who want to kill me. No thank you.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2024 12:11 AM (N1fOF)

eh, you can be debanked tomorrow if anyone cared, and your account can be hacked and cleaned out if you have dollars and Euros, too. If there is a CBDC that really does mean your money is not yours. As it is right now, most of the money in circulation is not real bills and coins, it is digital entries on databases handled in a system that is supposed to be high trust, by actors who are very influenced by political whims. "Safe as money in the bank" has a different connotation to a Canadian Trucker Protester today.

I don't know what bug is up catch thirty-tr33s nose, but the definition of money is more to do with being a store of value and it to be universally transferable. Bitcoin and to a lesser extent Etherium seem to have the first part down, just as much as IBM stock does. You can use them in a limited way to transfer and exchange value. but cash is easier for the moment. Where there is an exchange available, crypto is faster than a bank transfer.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2024 12:27 AM (D7oie)

506 BM - in a little puzzled he hasn't resigned. Best thing for Harris to win is the be actual President now, claim first woman president role and run as incumbent.

All I can figure is the West Wing REALLY hates her, and they are giving everyone who just unemployed them the finger.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 28, 2024 12:28 AM (5p7BC)

507 Does anyone here play sudoku?
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor

Raises hand, wonders if it's a trap.

Posted by: Some Rat at July 28, 2024 12:28 AM (x0fbL)

508 goodnight

Posted by: Don Black at July 28, 2024 12:28 AM (/7KEl)

509
My gear is so old it doesn't have built in bluetooth and none of the monitors seem to be reachable from my tablet.
On the plus side, I pay $20 for monitors
Posted by: Kindltot

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Ha-ha, the only reason I recently upgraded my gear is that I produce videos from time to time and my 2015 Asus was screaming for mercy. The early morning Tech Thread is Greek to me.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2024 12:28 AM (lCaJd)

510 There are only two scenarios

1. Biden agreed to drop out only if he could remain President

2. Kamala as the default nominee is not a guarantee.

I say this because it's obvious that Kamala's chances to win would be much higher if she was the actual President for 3 months before the election. It's now looking though that #1 is the correct scenario.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 12:28 AM (pFQ77)

511 504 Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2024 12:21 AM (lCaJd)

Our desktop is old, I'll have to check. I know I can from my phone. But when we play sudoku, he does something with cords in back of the TV.

Does anyone here play sudoku?

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:27 AM (Vvh2V)

Used to, about 2 decades ago.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 12:28 AM (ynpvh)

512
BM - in a little puzzled he hasn't resigned. Best thing for Harris to win is the be actual President now, claim first woman president role and run as incumbent.

All I can figure is the West Wing REALLY hates her, and they are giving everyone who just unemployed them the finger.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

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Amazing! I, too, thought Kamala would benefit greatly from running as an incumbent, having "shone" in the office, as the MSM would insist, even as she stumbles and giggles her way through every duty.

But my God, you're right. She must be that hated.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2024 12:30 AM (lCaJd)

513 So this is Kamala's probation period.

If she tanks, they trot Joey's cadaver out.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2024 12:30 AM (1/gMt)

514 try it, it will do your argument so much more powerful,
say it with me Catch Thirty-Thr33, "Kindltot you are a racisst" See? You have now said the magic words, I will shut up out of fear, and my silence will prove to everyone that you are the bestest economist evar.
Where would you like me to mail your medal?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2024 12:15 AM (D7oie)

It's because you ARE arrogant. "Crypto will do to banking what email did to telegraph, telephone and postal services."
Posted by: Kindltot at July 27, 2024 09:16 PM (D7oie)
That right there is a statement rooted in arrogance, no?

And your posts so far are just your venting your spleen because you cannot take being questioned. (Acting just like the Leftists you claim to despise.) All I did was ask some very simple, basic questions that can help YOU with YOUR cause. Because I am not opposed to crypto. I am not sold on it and Do Not Get It, and I'm not alone. I don't see any gas stations taking crypto at the pump, or crypto at the register in the grocery store. Salvadoran farmers notwithstanding. And I have never heard of anyone in the United States using it for anything more than investment.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:30 AM (8sMut)

515 Most bike seats are murder once you hit 29.

Last time I rode a bike I was feeling pain in a part of my body I didn't realize could feel pain.

Posted by: 18-1 at July 28, 2024 12:30 AM (oZhjI)

516 Most bike seats are murder once you hit 29.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Oh. That explains a lot.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 28, 2024 12:30 AM (G8tt9)

517 Rocket attack blamed on Hezbollah kills at least 11 children and teenagers on football field at Israeli-controlled Golan Heights - hours after airstrike which targeted members of the Lebanese militant group

https://mol.im/a/13679399

I see teenagers are no longer children. I'm sure Hamas counts teens as children.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT boxed set & match #12 at July 28, 2024 12:30 AM (qfLjt)

518 How many people here think he's going to complete his term?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2024 12:23 AM (lCaJd)

Not me. Either he passes away or he gets so bad they have no choice but to 25th Amendment him, ending ~~Dr. Dr. Jill's~~ his presidency.

I'd bet is he's gone shortly after the Dem convention. Make Kamalalaladingbat the 'incumbent' presidential candidate. More talking ponts fodder for the propaganda media and the other paid shills.

Posted by: RickZ at July 28, 2024 12:30 AM (gKDq2)

519
Our desktop is old, I'll have to check. I know I can from my phone.

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I only just discovered I can do it from my new laptop! Windows 11.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2024 12:31 AM (lCaJd)

520 Bike seats are murder?

Anyone tell Chuckles?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2024 12:31 AM (1/gMt)

521 507 Does anyone here play sudoku?
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor

Raises hand, wonders if it's a trap.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 28, 2024 12:28 AM (x0fbL)

I WAS TOLD THERE WOULD BE NO MATH.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:31 AM (8sMut)

522 Olympic Boycott

https://tinyurl.com/3xw9nc6f

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT boxed set & match #13 at July 28, 2024 12:31 AM (qfLjt)

523
So this is Kamala's probation period.

If she tanks, they trot Joey's cadaver out.
Posted by: Anna Puma

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I have to run to the store for a few. Milk, eggs, popcorn.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2024 12:32 AM (lCaJd)

524 I have a bike I like to ride, and I admit one of the modifications I made was to buy a nice wide padded seat for my fat ass.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2024 12:32 AM (8kFa7)

525 441 poly

RE: "Border Czar Kamala":

Agree 100%. It's brilliant. Hope Trump & Vance lean in to that.

I'm hoping immigration/open borders may be Harris' Achilles heel.

Posted by: mnw at July 28, 2024 12:33 AM (NLIak)

526 The French revoltinaries did terrible things to nuns and priests during the revolution, and desecrated churches in obscene ways. Very ugly chapters in their history, all the way back. All countries do, of course, but the French seem to have this weird dichotomy of great artistic achievement parallel with horrendous behavior.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:33 AM (Vvh2V)

527 520 Bike seats are murder?

Anyone tell Chuckles?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2024 12:31 AM (1/gMt)

He probably gets great pleasure riding a bike without one.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 12:34 AM (ynpvh)

528 Joe Biden - 2 weeks before the election. Just think how much publicity they can milk out of a nice big state funeral. Too bad Joe doesn’t know that part of the plan.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2024 12:34 AM (8kFa7)

529 512
BM - in a little puzzled he hasn't resigned. Best thing for Harris to win is the be actual President now, claim first woman president role and run as incumbent.

All I can figure is the West Wing REALLY hates her, and they are giving everyone who just unemployed them the finger.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

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Amazing! I, too, thought Kamala would benefit greatly from running as an incumbent, having "shone" in the office, as the MSM would insist, even as she stumbles and giggles her way through every duty.

But my God, you're right. She must be that hated.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2024 12:30 AM (lCaJd)

I don't think she is a lock for the nomination either. Remember she had to drop out in 2019 before a single primary took place.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:34 AM (8sMut)

530 513 So this is Kamala's probation period.

If she tanks, they trot Joey's cadaver out.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2024 12:30 AM (1/gMt)

Like, with tampons?--Hilary Klinton

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 12:35 AM (ynpvh)

531 Joe and Jimmy

Strike while the bodies are still warm.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2024 12:35 AM (1/gMt)

532 Somali leaders from St. Cloud, Minnesota were welcomed by the #Trump2024 campaign outside Herb Brooks Arena, where the president will speak tonight at 7p.

https://tinyurl.com/4he37uje

Strange. What are Somali leaders doing in the USA? Maybe Somalian community leaders may make it more American?

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT boxed set & match #14 at July 28, 2024 12:35 AM (qfLjt)

533 I happen to be the Neil Breen of sudoku.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:35 AM (kbyy+)

534 I have a bike I like to ride, and I admit one of the modifications I made was to buy a nice wide padded seat for my fat ass.
Posted by: Tom Servo

That is going to be topic one on the various Trail 125 forums. I thought I was going to die during those last 20 miles.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 28, 2024 12:36 AM (G8tt9)

535 Posted by: Some Rat at July 28, 2024 12:28 AM (x0fbL)

No triap, no math! 😂 I was just wondering if anyone here watched Cracking the Cryptic on YouTube.

It's variant sudoku, and so much fun! I'm on a mission to get them more subscribers. It's free, and they're trying to get to a million subscribers.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:36 AM (Vvh2V)

536 3 I happen to be the Neil Breen of sudoku.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:35 AM (kbyy+)

Crap now I have to Google Neil Breen.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 12:36 AM (pFQ77)

537 Hopefully that little meeting is giving Ilham Nur a bad case of the vapors.

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2024 12:37 AM (1/gMt)

538 So this is Kamala's probation period.

If she tanks, they trot Joey's cadaver out.

Posted by: Anna Puma

Just like Dukakis in his tank.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 28, 2024 12:38 AM (VNX3d)

539 Since April I thought somewhere along the line Biden would be out and Kamela would be interim president and at the convention they (Valerie, Susan, the Clintons and ?) would pick the president and VP candidates.

It looks like Kamala has sewed up the Clinton's and Kalorama.
I was hoping for a nice old time floor fight.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2024 12:38 AM (N1fOF)

540 when I said that Crypto would do to banking what email did to telegraphs, telephone and postal services is that thing about the ease of transfer of value. Instead of giving it to the bank or Western Union to hold for 2-5 days to verify and then credit it to a ledger to a distant bank, the crypto goes peer-to-peer on a shared ledger. This is why we send texts instead of post cards today, and when we send post cards it is for a very different reason that why we sent then in 1999.
El Salvador is an interesting test case, it seems to work but not the way it is supposed to. El Salvador is terribly undercapitalized away from the main cities, and there are no banks. Everything was being done in physical dollars or barter because the local currencies were trash and dollars held value better. No financial infrastructure means everything is done by barter and IOUs in a low trust environment. Crypto takes the need to trust out of the system - The risk the money is no good is the same as before, but there is no need to trust a faceless banker in San Salvador who is a thief.
Nothing is perfect in Central America, but it seems to be less worse, and it might get better.

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2024 12:38 AM (D7oie)

541 Muldoon, come on out from the corner and get in here.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2024 12:38 AM (N1fOF)

542 Shipwreck hunters make astonishing find in Lake Michigan - wow a shipwreck.

https://mol.im/a/13679251

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT boxed set & match #15 at July 28, 2024 12:38 AM (qfLjt)

543 526 The French revoltinaries did terrible things to nuns and priests during the revolution, and desecrated churches in obscene ways. Very ugly chapters in their history, all the way back. All countries do, of course, but the French seem to have this weird dichotomy of great artistic achievement parallel with horrendous behavior.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:33 AM (Vvh2V)

526 The French revoltinaries did terrible things to nuns and priests during the revolution, and desecrated churches in obscene ways. Very ugly chapters in their history, all the way back. All countries do, of course, but the French seem to have this weird dichotomy of great artistic achievement parallel with horrendous behavior.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:33 AM (Vvh2V)

Don't forget that it is Annee 232 de la Republique, Mois de Thermidor, Decade I, Jour de Nonidi.

230 years ago today Robespierre was whacked, ending the Reign of Terror. These guys so hated religion they even devised another calendar to not use the Christian variety.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:39 AM (8sMut)

544 Somalian? Talk about a trap.....where is their pestilent congresswoman at in all this? Please God check them for weapons.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:39 AM (Vvh2V)

545 Crap now I have to Google Neil Breen.
Posted by: polynikes

You tube him! You are in for such a treat!
OMG! His movies are EPIC! In the most horrible, self serving and unintentionally funny way possible.

Posted by: Some Rat at July 28, 2024 12:39 AM (x0fbL)

546 Dukakis was just a stiff

Time for bed because I can't seem to connect Kamala with the word 'stiff'

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2024 12:39 AM (1/gMt)

547 Aetius

Sincerest condolences about Ajax. That's tough for anyone.

My 14-yr-old GF Callie is approaching the Rainbow Bridge. It hurts like hell.

Posted by: mnw at July 28, 2024 12:40 AM (NLIak)

548 Good catch, Catch 33! No pun intended, it really is interesting to note that.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:41 AM (Vvh2V)

549 Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:33 AM (Vvh2V)

As did the commies in the Spanish Civil War.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 12:41 AM (pFQ77)

550 Robespierre is non-Thermidor?

Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2024 12:41 AM (1/gMt)

551 Bike seats are murder?

Anyone tell Chuckles?

He's probably too busy trying to extract himself from that damned fence.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 28, 2024 12:42 AM (mH6SG)

552 Crypto takes the need to trust out of the system - The risk the money is no good is the same as before, but there is no need to trust a faceless banker in San Salvador who is a thief.
Nothing is perfect in Central America, but it seems to be less worse, and it might get better.
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2024 12:38 AM (D7oie)

And that's fine but still I see this as a stopgap. I think we have a LONG way to go before the crypto revolution picks up the steam you say it will for the reasons I pointed out.

But hey, the Internet began in 1969 and really didn't get going until 1994. It took 25 years for it to catch on.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:42 AM (8sMut)

553 543 526
...
Don't forget that it is Annee 232 de la Republique, Mois de Thermidor, Decade I, Jour de Nonidi.

230 years ago today Robespierre was whacked, ending the Reign of Terror. These guys so hated religion they even devised another calendar to not use the Christian variety.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:39 AM (8sMut)

I had to find a Revolutionary-to-Gregorian calendar translator as I have some ancestors who lived during those WONDERFUL times...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 12:43 AM (ynpvh)

554 happen to be the Neil Breen of sudoku.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:35 AM (kbyy+)

I do not grok what you mean by this, even after googling Mr. Breen!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:43 AM (Vvh2V)

555 Bike seats are murder?

Anyone tell Chuckles?

He's probably too busy trying to extract himself from that damned fence.
Posted by: Notorious BFD

Now we'll see Joey on his bike more often, just to get him out of office.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 28, 2024 12:44 AM (VNX3d)

556 >>>That is going to be topic one on the various Trail 125 forums. I thought I was going to die during those last 20 miles.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
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Not much of a rider. Had a Yamaha 350 as transportation for a year.
Friend said try this ElectroGlide. What a difference. And the seat.
Yeah, get a big one.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2024 12:44 AM (N1fOF)

557 I don't think she is a lock for the nomination either. Remember she had to drop out in 2019 before a single primary took place.
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:34 AM (8sMut)

Those superdelegate muckety-mucks in the Dem party will make the choice. They are cold and calculating about winning. That's why Joey is out. They knew he was going to get stomped. I think they wlll see the same unfavorables with Kamalalaladingbat. He record is, to say the least, terrible; her likeability factor is even worse. That unserious cackle! Right now, the Dem PTB are making nice with her, before giving her that fatal kiss on the cheek.

Nothing personal. It's just business.

Posted by: RickZ at July 28, 2024 12:45 AM (gKDq2)

558 I do not grok what you mean by this, even after googling Mr. Breen!
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:43 AM (Vvh2V)

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Incompetent, but with a very high regard for my own abilities?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:45 AM (kbyy+)

559 Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 12:41 AM (pFQ77)

I don't doubt that many priests were corrupt and badly behaved, but some of the things that were done to them are just sickening.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:45 AM (Vvh2V)

560 546 Dukakis was just a stiff

Time for bed because I can't seem to connect Kamala with the word 'stiff'
Posted by: Anna Puma at July 28, 2024 12:39 AM (1/gMt)

I still chuckle at Rush calling Dukakis Beetle Bailey Re: his driving the tank.

(Bush XLI had a great campaign commercial showing that and scrolling by all the defense initiatives Dukakis OPPOSED.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:45 AM (8sMut)

561 There are posters here who think the murder of Marie Antoinette (& her sons) is FUNNY, & offers a lot of opportunity for big laffs.

Posted by: mnw at July 28, 2024 12:45 AM (NLIak)

562 BTW, Neil Breen is hilarious. He has a multi-DVD set on filmmaking that belongs in the Library of Congress.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:46 AM (kbyy+)

563 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:45 AM (kbyy+)

I do not believe you're incompetent. 😊

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:46 AM (Vvh2V)

564 I don't doubt that many priests were corrupt and badly behaved, but some of the things that were done to them are just sickening.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:45 AM (Vvh2V)

Wait til you read The Black Book of Communism.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:47 AM (8sMut)

565 561 There are posters here who think the murder of Marie Antoinette (& her sons) is FUNNY, & offers a lot of opportunity for big laffs.
Posted by: mnw at July 28, 2024 12:45 AM (NLIak)

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It was barbaric.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:47 AM (kbyy+)

566 happen to be the Neil Breen of sudoku.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:35 AM (kbyy+)

I do not grok what you mean by this, even after googling Mr. Breen!
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor

If I may be as bold as to interpret:
Neil Breen believes in his vision, believes he makes great films, he sucks at it. Ditto for Cicero. (smiley face icon here)

Posted by: Some Rat at July 28, 2024 12:47 AM (x0fbL)

567 Joe resigns. Insert future Pres as VP. Liberal SCOTUS justice resigns. Kamala appoints herself to the court and resigns Presidency upon confirmation to serve on SCOTUS.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 28, 2024 12:47 AM (pIfcn)

568 Will I'm heading out, I refuse to be here until 3 this time.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 28, 2024 12:47 AM (5p7BC)

569 567 Joe resigns. Insert future Pres as VP. Liberal SCOTUS justice resigns. Kamala appoints herself to the court and resigns Presidency upon confirmation to serve on SCOTUS.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 28, 2024 12:47 AM (pIfcn)

So the Senate has already been dissolved?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 12:48 AM (ynpvh)

570 I do not believe you're incompetent. 😊
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:46 AM (Vvh2V)

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Thanks. If word ever got out I'd have to lower my hourly rate.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:48 AM (kbyy+)

571 568 Will I'm heading out, I refuse to be here until 3 this time.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at July 28, 2024 12:47 AM (5p7BC)

Night, Dave.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 12:48 AM (ynpvh)

572 570 I do not believe you're incompetent. 😊
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:46 AM (Vvh2V)

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Thanks. If word ever got out I'd have to lower my hourly rate.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:48 AM (kbyy+)

Or get into politics.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 12:49 AM (ynpvh)

573 Crypto may serve a function and as you say over time become more secure. For me, right now, I'll take the greenback and Donald Trump's petro dollar.

It's good to be at the top of the hill.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2024 12:49 AM (N1fOF)

574 For me, right now, I'll take the greenback and Donald Trump's petro dollar.

It's good to be at the top of the hill.
Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2024 12:49 AM (N1fOF)

Yeah. For me that's good enough.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:50 AM (8sMut)

575 567 Joe resigns. Insert future Pres as VP. Liberal SCOTUS justice resigns. Kamala appoints herself to the court and resigns Presidency upon confirmation to serve on SCOTUS.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 28, 2024 12:47 AM (pIfcn)

Holy crap, we may as well scrap the Constitution and start over, putting in a Parliamentary system.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:51 AM (8sMut)

576 Joe resigns. Insert future Pres as VP. Liberal SCOTUS justice resigns. Kamala appoints herself to the court and resigns Presidency upon confirmation to serve on SCOTUS.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 28, 2024 12:47 AM (pIfcn)

So the Senate has already been dissolved?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Jar Jar has spoken.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 28, 2024 12:52 AM (VNX3d)

577 Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 12:30 AM (8sMut)

why are you yelling at me and calling me names? This is not normal behavior, even for this place. I tried to explain, I tried giving you resources, I tried being so insulting you would leave me alone, and you just keep telling me I haven't made my point and you need more information.

This is verging on sea-lioning. I am not your instructor. If you are interested instead of just trying to win the Internet

Mises gives a good definition of money
Rothbard gives good case studies on money and banking in American history
Jesus Huerta de Soto gives good information on current banking and how it fails
I don't understand Bob Murphy, but maybe you will
Saifedean Ammous writes like a Djinn on Khatt but has a heavy discussion on how fiat currencies are created.
If you don't like them, they all have internet sites you can send them emails, except for Murray Rothbard, he is dead and you will have to email Tom Woods or Per Bylund.

OK?

Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2024 12:52 AM (D7oie)

578 Triggering?
Boy, 12, is found starved to death after being locked up at home

https://mol.im/a/13678793

DCFS officials need some jailtime too, taking a salary without doing their job. But they'll take your kid for not using pronouns.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT boxed set & match #16 at July 28, 2024 12:52 AM (qfLjt)

579 There are posters here who think the murder of Marie Antoinette (& her sons) is FUNNY, & offers a lot of opportunity for big laffs.
Posted by: mnw at July 28, 2024 12:45 AM (NLIak)

Too soon ?

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 12:52 AM (pFQ77)

580 But do, please, check them out! The puzzles are fun, and it's free to subscribe.
https://youtube.com/@crackingthecryptic?si=-hhWIBqIuj4PAPUO

They have an epic Patreon, with tons of puzzles, but the youtube stuff if totally free. I can seldom solve them on my own, but we livecto play together. Thors is really good!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 12:53 AM (Vvh2V)

581 There are posters here who think the murder of Marie Antoinette (& her sons) is FUNNY, & offers a lot of opportunity for big laffs.
Posted by: mnw at July 28, 2024 12:45 AM (NLIak)

The Frnech Revoltion, and its love of Madame Guillotine, is not a joking matter. At least not to me. Teaching moment? Yes. Comic fodder? No. Same with making jokes about The Holocaust. I don't get what's funny about it. Maybe that's just me, though.

Posted by: RickZ at July 28, 2024 12:55 AM (gKDq2)

582 I do get a chuckle out of Robespierre's execution. It was so well deserved.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:55 AM (kbyy+)

583
"Border Czar Kamala":

Agree 100%. It's brilliant. Hope Trump & Vance lean in to that.

I'm hoping immigration/open borders may be Harris' Achilles heel.
Posted by: mnw

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omg I didn't know about that. Brilliant! lololol

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 28, 2024 12:56 AM (lCaJd)

584 For the record...

These days in Commiefornia...the majority of remaining Conservatives in spite of Gruesome's Draconian anti 2A measures... and fuck you to hell Nancy's Bitch...

We ALL carry...come get my gun pussy.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 28, 2024 12:57 AM (TDvv2)

585 Joe resigns. Insert future Pres as VP. Liberal SCOTUS justice resigns. Kamala appoints herself to the court and resigns Presidency upon confirmation to serve on SCOTUS.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 28, 2024 12:47 AM (pIfcn)

Gawd no. That's a nightmare scenario. At least Taft was more than competent; he was sane.

Posted by: RickZ at July 28, 2024 12:58 AM (gKDq2)

586 Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2024 12:52 AM (D7oie)

Can you admit there is nothing backing crypto except unsupported perception of its value. It insists upon itself.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 12:58 AM (pFQ77)

587 Can you admit there is nothing backing crypto except unsupported perception of its value. It insists upon itself.

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See also, dollars, gold, shares of stock.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:59 AM (kbyy+)

588 I do get a chuckle out of Robespierre's execution. It was so well deserved.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:55 AM (kbyy+)

And Marat's final bath.

Posted by: RickZ at July 28, 2024 01:00 AM (gKDq2)

589 587 Can you admit there is nothing backing crypto except unsupported perception of its value. It insists upon itself.

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See also, dollars, gold, shares of stock.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:59 AM (kbyy+)

Yup. All taken on faith you can buy something with them. In the event things get really bad off, you can eat food, but you can't eat crypto, cash, or gold.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 01:01 AM (ynpvh)

590 Marie Antoinette is much maligned, horribly so. It's very sad. And her death goes to my point about the innate barbaric nastiness that seems to infest French culture now and then. The 18th century is too modern a time for them to be dragging women through the streets and chopping their heads off. I realize the guillotine was meant to be more humane, but those bastards went beyond crazy with that shit. They could have exiled her, and the others.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at July 28, 2024 01:01 AM (Vvh2V)

591 See also, dollars, gold, shares of stock.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 12:59 AM (kbyy+)

The dollar is backed by the United States . Who backs Bitcoin?

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 01:02 AM (pFQ77)

592 For me, the one critical downside of crypto is that it requires a functioning internet.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 01:02 AM (kbyy+)

593 The dollar is backed by the United States . Who backs Bitcoin?
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 01:02 AM (pFQ77)

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I love this point. How is your dollar backed by the government? Can you take it to some government office and redeem it for some guaranteed quantity of something valuable?

Not since the Nixon Administration.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 01:04 AM (kbyy+)

594 Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 01:04 AM (kbyy+)

Would you rather have your money in Pesos or Dollars? If you have a preference, why?

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 01:05 AM (pFQ77)

595 Oh and also for the record..

NBC should have riots outside of their offices with V I O L E N C E and burning of structures for their Opening Olympics Broadcast.

France you effing POS's...sorry now we saved your pathetic asses in WWII you should all DIE for THIS!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 28, 2024 01:06 AM (TDvv2)

596 why are you yelling at me and calling me names? This is not normal behavior, even for this place. I tried to explain, I tried giving you resources, I tried being so insulting you would leave me alone, and you just keep telling me I haven't made my point and you need more information.

This is verging on sea-lioning. I am not your instructor. If you are interested instead of just trying to win the Internet

OK?
Posted by: Kindltot at July 28, 2024 12:52 AM (D7oie)

Holy crap, here I was thinking, silly me, that this turned into a civil discussion. But apparently you lost all interest in that.

Money is a medium of exchange. The end.
Rothbard is your be-all and end-all. This is known.
You rail against "fiat currencies". Well, if "fiat currencies" are so horrible, ask yourself this: Why Are They Used? Answer: People Like Using Them . It makes you and your favorite economists angry, but there it is. By the way, isn't crypto by definition a "fiat corrency"? Nothing backs it.

Maybe I should just learn to accept everything you say as gospel and not ever question it.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:08 AM (8sMut)

597 Animated yawning emojis take on a different context when placed next to Kamala H's name...

Posted by: As not seen on TV at July 28, 2024 01:09 AM (+Uof+)

598 593 The dollar is backed by the United States . Who backs Bitcoin?
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 01:02 AM (pFQ77)

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I love this point. How is your dollar backed by the government? Can you take it to some government office and redeem it for some guaranteed quantity of something valuable?

Not since the Nixon Administration.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 01:04 AM (kbyy+)

Why does currency need to be backed?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:09 AM (8sMut)

599 592 For me, the one critical downside of crypto is that it requires a functioning internet.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 01:02 AM (kbyy+)

But it will always run!!!

Right???

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:11 AM (8sMut)

600 Usually when two people argue that much at night they end up having sex.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2024 01:11 AM (8kFa7)

601 Why does currency need to be backed?

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It doesn't and it isn't. It has value because people believe the next guy will think it has value.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 28, 2024 01:12 AM (kbyy+)

602 Why does currency need to be backed?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:09 AM (8sMut)

Because it determines stability. Fiat money is backed by the government who issues it and their economic strength and resources.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 01:12 AM (pFQ77)

603 We ALL carry...come get my gun pussy.
Posted by: Nightwatch
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They'll put you in jail if you use it.

LEAVE

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2024 01:12 AM (N1fOF)

604 600 Usually when two people argue that much at night they end up having sex.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 28, 2024 01:11 AM (8kFa7)

No. Don't ask me how I know.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:12 AM (8sMut)

605 Why does currency need to be backed?
Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33

I think if it's backed by hard to get "stuff" it makes inflation less likely.

Posted by: Some Rat at July 28, 2024 01:13 AM (x0fbL)

606 YEAH... AMPED UP

You all should consider a more "ROBUST POSTURE" over the next few months...

Jus sayin...

Night Horde.

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 28, 2024 01:14 AM (TDvv2)

607 For me, the one critical downside of crypto is that it requires a functioning internet.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Which also requires a reliable infrastructure. The Powers That Be seem to prefer unreliable power and communications.

This also hampers credit cards, with the new reliance on technology and lack of features to support fully offline use.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at July 28, 2024 01:15 AM (VNX3d)

608 Usually when two people argue that much at night they end up having sex. Posted by: Tom Servo

When, where, how. Time zone and GPS coordinates would be most helpful. - Asking for my friend David B.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 28, 2024 01:15 AM (G8tt9)

609
So the Senate has already been dissolved?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 12:48 AM (ynpvh)

Can the R's stop it? Can't the Dems just send it through on a party line vote?

Oh, and if anyone is feeling particularly masochistic, now imagine a deadlocked Senate with guess who casting the tie breaker.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at July 28, 2024 01:16 AM (pIfcn)

610 Because it determines stability. (No it doesn't.)Fiat money is backed by the government who issues it and their economic strength and resources. (Yeah. And?)
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 01:12 AM (pFQ77)

I see you don't like using our money. Go use gold bars instead. Or something else.

It is VERY simple. People use this icky "fiat currency" because People Like Using It. If People Didn't Like Using It We Would Switch To Currency Backed By Something.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:16 AM (8sMut)

611 Jill was promised one more WH Christmas. No way she is leaving. Why would Joe suddenly need to do anything, since he hasn’t for 3 years?

Posted by: EveR at July 28, 2024 01:17 AM (Z/h4+)

612 Lots of chatter tonight. Such a great bunch.

Heh. Went looking, as usual, for some music vid to link in my closing comment. YooToob "music" list often has something. Tonight there was "Mix - Pop music, Personalized playlist for you," and to my surprise, top of the list was this 8 years ago video by daughter, known hereabouts as 'Sugar Plum Fairy'. Poor sound quality (lyrics in description) with all the traffic on the highway nearby, but it features a guy with a classic beard, and our dear old much-missed dog Gimli. 💙

https://youtu.be/RhN8C5DGKdw

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - nostalgic sniffles. at July 28, 2024 01:17 AM (0H07d)

613 603

Is sad that but probably true.

Still...break into my castle to do harm to my family?

I will shot your "Off Button"...maybe dump a mag for good measure.

No witness to sue me that way...

Posted by: Nightwatch at July 28, 2024 01:19 AM (TDvv2)

614 SpaceX launch went great.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT boxed set & match #17 at July 28, 2024 01:19 AM (qfLjt)

615 Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:16 AM (8sMut)

Then why is the dollar the world currency. According to your view it would work the same with any country's currency.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 01:20 AM (pFQ77)

616
I think if it's backed by hard to get "stuff" it makes inflation less likely.
Posted by: Some Rat at July 28, 2024 01:13 AM (x0fbL)

Doesn't matter. Inflation will happen regardless. (Ask Spain or Egypt; they experienced inflation with gold.) There is one way to tame inflation. Spend your money on 1) a good or 2) a service. Government is neither 1 nor 2. Use government spending SPARINGLY. (This requires demanding the same level of efficiency of government people routinely demand of Apple or Samsung. But people don't do that, because It's Too Hard.)

(Sheesh. People looking for silver bullets and magic cures...)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:22 AM (8sMut)

617 Second one in about 2 hours, from Vandenberg
Starlink 9-4 is scheduled for launch July 28, 12:24 a.m. PDT, 0724 UTC, 09:24 CEST. California

https://www.youtube.com/live/8MND6xOBg4c

Keep that open in a tab as I may fall asleep and not be here to nudge you.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT boxed set & match #18 at July 28, 2024 01:23 AM (qfLjt)

618 Then why is the dollar the world currency. According to your view it would work the same with any country's currency.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 01:20 AM (pFQ77)

The U.S. dollar is still the ticket to the world's largest economy.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:24 AM (8sMut)

619 Full faith and credit, that's what backs the American dollar. The dollar is solid because America is solid. Solid despite Joe. We have been top dog since the war and our money is dependable - every nation uses it (Putin's making a good play but he knows if Trump wins it's over). Every nation uses the dollar and as long as we stay on top of the hill the dollar will too.

We lose status as king of the hill all hell will break loose more ways than one.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2024 01:24 AM (N1fOF)

620 Jill was promised one more WH Christmas. No way she is leaving. Why would Joe suddenly need to do anything, since he hasn’t for 3 years?
Posted by: EveR at July 28, 2024 01:17 AM (Z/h4+)

Well, Joe does need to keep breathing.

Weekend At Bernie's is bad enough. Weekend At Hide Bernie's Body would be catastrophic.

Posted by: RickZ at July 28, 2024 01:24 AM (gKDq2)

621 6 So, the lights are out in Paris. All of them, apparently.
https://tinyurl.com/352vmhcz
No word on why, but Pharaoh has a guess.
Posted by: Methos at July 27, 2024 10:26 PM (Dnobf)

I can't guarantee this is real, and it's a little TOO perfect. Need other sources to confirm. But...

The only lights still on in Paris might be at... the Sacre Coeur church. So a Christian church.

https://x.com/GalahadofMalta/status/
1817372460276408469?t=4YcGZiO4NPCPDneDViUcrQ&s=19

Posted by: LizLem at July 28, 2024 01:25 AM (QAK8m)

622 Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:24 AM (8sMut)

And how is that not backing the dollar?

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 01:26 AM (pFQ77)

623 I can't guarantee this is real, and it's a little TOO perfect. Need other sources to confirm. But...

The only lights still on in Paris might be at... the Sacre Coeur church. So a Christian church.

Posted by: LizLem at July 28, 2024 01:25 AM (QAK8m)

Gentech generators. For any emergency.

(Not being paid a gawddamn dime promotion.)

Posted by: RickZ at July 28, 2024 01:28 AM (gKDq2)

624 Because it determines stability. Fiat money is backed by the government who issues it and their economic strength and resources.
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 01:12 AM (pFQ77)

Another thing: let's say you're a Gold Bug (maybe you are, maybe you aren't, in reality, but for sake of argument, you are a Gold Bug.) You get the dollar backed by gold once more, and Bretton Woods make s a comeback, etc. You get upset over "fiat corrency" yet you are more than willing to turn over the control of the value of currency to the gold market. Which I would argue is just as "fiat" in a real sense as you throw the currency to the tender mercies of the gold market.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:28 AM (8sMut)

625 MOSCOW, July 26 (Reuters) - Russia's central bank hiked its key interest rate by 200 basis points to 18% on Friday, the highest level in more than two years, and vowed to continue tightening until inflation rates in an overheated economy come down.

Gosh, printing money to fund a war results in inflation. Glad the good old USA has never done that! /s

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 28, 2024 01:29 AM (dj3QO)

626 617 Second one in about 2 hours, from Vandenberg
Starlink 9-4 is scheduled for launch July 28, 12:24 a.m. PDT, 0724 UTC, 09:24 CEST. California

https://www.youtube.com/live/8MND6xOBg4c

Keep that open in a tab as I may fall asleep and not be here to nudge you.
Posted by: Ciampino -
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Missed note on the first one and I'm about to fold.
But there's always tomorrow. Keep us in mind.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2024 01:31 AM (N1fOF)

627 And how is that not backing the dollar?
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 01:26 AM (pFQ77)

So you admit the dollar is not an icky "fiat currency"?

OK, so can you PHYSICALLY get a piece of the world's largest economy as if it were a bar of gold? No. But, in theory if you have the dollar in your hand, you can go participate in the world's largest economy, even if you are, say, in ZImbabwe with no chance of going to the United States to spend the money.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:32 AM (8sMut)

628 Professor points to policy errors as Chicago braces for non-budgeted migrant surge

https://tinyurl.com/mrx834bc

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT boxed set & match #19 at July 28, 2024 01:33 AM (qfLjt)

629 Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:28 AM (8sMut)

Your problem is you think fiat currency isn't technically backed. You are thinking just in terms of precious metals. Again fiat money and its stability is based on the strength of the country issuing it.

That is why the dollar is the preferred currency to do international business.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 01:33 AM (pFQ77)

630 If someone had a link to a satellite over Europe we'd have the answer.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2024 01:34 AM (N1fOF)

631 Gosh, printing money to fund a war results in inflation. Glad the good old USA has never done that! /s
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at July 28, 2024 01:29 AM (dj3QO)

Hell, you just need good ol' government spending. You don't NEED a war.

(Imagine what the Russian inflation rate would be if the price of oil were considerably lower.)

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:34 AM (8sMut)

632 This tranny was there to be the female representative:
"There aren't enough women in the world so let's go with a fake."
https://tinyurl.com/2dm26vmd

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT boxed set & match #20 at July 28, 2024 01:38 AM (qfLjt)

633 Gold backed currency results in harsher recessions but they are shorter and fiat result it recessions that last longer but less harsh.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 01:39 AM (pFQ77)

634 Boy, 12, is found starved to death after being locked up at home

I just can't comprehend this. The evil there is sickening and sobering. RIP, little guy. You are now free from your demons.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at July 28, 2024 01:39 AM (mH6SG)

635
Your problem is you think fiat currency isn't technically backed. You are thinking just in terms of precious metals. Again fiat money and its stability is based on the strength of the country issuing it. (I still am lost as to why "fiat money" is SO HORRIBLE.)

That is why the dollar is the preferred currency to do international business. (It is the ticket to participating in the world's largest economy. Not the Euro, not the loonie, not the yen, sure as fuck NOT the RMB, and not the pound.)
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 01:33 AM
(pFQ77)

So you don't like our currency because it is "fiat" and therefore you are too good for it. Pay for things in gold coins and bars then. (I have never understood thins thinking but the way I see it, If People Like The Currency, I Will Use It. Thinking about things beyond that is overthinking. We don't need to overthink everything.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:44 AM (8sMut)

636 Old but always so cute, Baby Olympics 😂
We need a new and longer one.

https://tinyurl.com/44b4hzk3

I love the hurdles and the shoe.

Posted by: Ciampino - Sat ONT boxed set & match #21 at July 28, 2024 01:45 AM (qfLjt)

637 The French revoltinaries did terrible things to nuns and priests during the revolution, and desecrated churches in obscene ways. Very ugly chapters in their history, all the way back. All countries do, of course, but the French seem to have this weird dichotomy of great artistic achievement parallel with horrendous behavior.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor

This is wisdom - the Frogs glory in this, and deem it their Métier. For a brief time Bismarck was able to wrest Alsace-Lorraine from their grimy grasp (that is alliteration, I think) and a redemption was attempted before they were once more engulfed in the shadow of Surrender-Monkeyism. Alas.

The mimes are part of this, I think. They puzzle and unsettle Werner. Once while we were filming Nosferatu, Klaus Kinski took on the habiliments and grease paint of one of their infernal breed, and startled me awake from deep slumber to witness this atrocity. Werner, said he, Klaus has made a funny. Klaus, I said, mimes do not speak, and I shall render things such that you shall conform to their dictates. It was hammer time, and my cricket bat spoke for me. Ach, sometimes such measures are needed.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Saw The Olympics Opening Ceremony at July 28, 2024 01:45 AM (tmPIh)

638 Funny take on the Olympics controversy (wish I could find a source other than TikTok):

https://www.tiktok.com/@readchoi/video/7396469517695634718

Posted by: LizLem at July 28, 2024 01:50 AM (QAK8m)

639 633 Gold backed currency results in harsher recessions but they are shorter and fiat result it recessions that last longer but less harsh.
Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 01:39 AM (pFQ77)

I still will ponder forever why "fiat currency" is bad and why money MUST BE BACKED BY SOMETHING. Why do I want to waste a resource (gold, silver, whatever) just because MY MONEY MUST BE BACKED BY SOMETHING???

If money MUST BE BACKED BY SOMETHING, and fiat currency is so bloody horrible, why didn't the world completely go kablooey on August 16, 1971? The entire (financial/economic, at least) world should have STOPPED DEAD on that day and everywhere should be like a scene from a Mad Max movie. Yet it isn't. Why?

Because People Like Using The Currency, And Unlike You, (Sorry) People Do Not Give A Fuck About Needing Something To Back It.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:50 AM (8sMut)

640 Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:44 AM (8sMut)

I don't know how you got that out of what I posted. I disagree with Kindlot but he had a point about your comprehension.

Posted by: polynikes at July 28, 2024 01:52 AM (pFQ77)

641 Our money is backed by the country.
Our country is Exxon, Texaco, Chevron, Microsoft, Tesla, 3M, Nvidia and on and on. All of these companies are part of Full faith and Credit. All of them are in dollars and they aren't going to let the dollar fold. Most of the country is invested - has ownership in these companies. It's not fiat as long as these companies exist.

Posted by: Braenyard at July 28, 2024 02:00 AM (N1fOF)

642 Heh. Good graffiti joke. So stupid to be against mass immigration. Those people are dumb. Ha ha.

Posted by: WTP at July 28, 2024 02:09 AM (4cfLi)

643 Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at July 28, 2024 01:44 AM (8sMut)

I don't know how you got that out of what I posted. I disagree with Kindlot but he had a point about your comprehension.
Posted by: polynikes

It's been my experience that knowing when to let go of an internet discussion/controversy goes far. No finger pointing, just saying. Or not. Consequnes to follow. Or not.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 28, 2024 02:18 AM (G8tt9)

644 It is so beautiful in Las Cruces tonight. June and July are spicy and challenging but once you hit August through November this is a great place to be. I'm at a pub on Main Street and the Lowriders are coming by and showing off. Plus the humidity is not worth mentioning. I am feeling quite blessed right now.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 28, 2024 02:25 AM (G8tt9)

645 We ALL carry...come get my gun pussy.
Posted by: Nightwatch

Werner must confess that he understands this not. Felines are marvelous and their antic japery brings us joy. Yes, tiny catling, you can haz cheeseburger. Yet can it be in your land that fuzzy happiness that is the cat, beloved of the Egyptians and worshipped by them as the Goddess Bast, has been married with the use of firearms?

How do they wield such implements? I doubt not their intelligence or their willfulness, but lacking an opposable thumb must impair their aim, if not also the discharge of their weapon. Which would be tiny and cute. Oh, kitten, that tool of death with which you disport yourself is adorable. Who's a lethal kitty. You're a lethal kitty. Werner has a treat for you. Partake not, though, of the catnip. We do not want to impair kitten's trigger discipline. Hypothetical and figurative cat, shall I name you Goethe, or Commander Star-Sprinkle? Is this dark? I am German and I can no longer tell. Commander Star-Sprinkle is purring. Have some Werner skritches.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Saw The Olympics Opening Ceremony at July 28, 2024 02:35 AM (tmPIh)

646 Posted by: Werner Herzog Saw The Olympics Opening Ceremony at July 28, 2024 02:35 AM (tmPIh)

Maybe it was in reverence to a female holster used by some women arrested in Florida. Athough talk about grabbing such a holster may cause a certain Presidential candidate trouble in the MSM.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 02:50 AM (ynpvh)

647 reverence = reference. Geesh

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at July 28, 2024 02:50 AM (ynpvh)

648 The only lights still on in Paris might be at... the Sacre Coeur church. So a Christian church.

Posted by: LizLem at July 28, 2024 01:25 AM (QAK8m)

Not just any Christian church, either--one dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Christ, which is usually depicted surrounded by the Crown of Thorns and with a few drops of blood coming from the spear wound. Y'know, signs of what happened the day after the Last Supper.

If it's true that Sacre Coeur is the only building in the whole of Paris that still has power, God's making a very pointed statement about the blasphemy in the opening ceremony.

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at July 28, 2024 02:57 AM (m7xHQ)

649 Maybe it was in reverence to a female holster used by some women arrested in Florida. Athough talk about grabbing such a holster may cause a certain Presidential candidate trouble in the MSM.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

This I had not considered. Commander Star-Sprinkle then is not packing? Then shall I beguile him with one of those laser pointers. He regards the light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation as a tangible thing, such that he may pounce upon it. This is most droll. When I wave it back and forth, he is not dispirited, but braces his tiny frame to lay siege to it yet again. I soon shall line his kitty litter with an oversized portrait of Klaus Kinski, as is only fitting. Disport yourself, hypothetical kitten! Werner may have had too much cognac.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Saw The Olympics Opening Ceremony at July 28, 2024 03:10 AM (tmPIh)

650 648
If it's true that Sacre Coeur is the only building in the whole of Paris that still has power, God's making a very pointed statement about the blasphemy in the opening ceremony.
Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at July 28, 2024 02:57 AM (m7xHQ)

If only it were true......

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at July 28, 2024 03:11 AM (QGaXH)

651 ARiK, Insty has a link to a tweet making the claim, with a picture of Sacre Coeur lit up while the building in front of it is dark. Have you seen otherwise?

Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at July 28, 2024 03:25 AM (m7xHQ)

652 Labatt Blue for the win.

Posted by: Archer at July 28, 2024 03:27 AM (IDphi)

653 "Say no to ass man" - that's tough to come back from.

Posted by: SFGoth at July 28, 2024 03:36 AM (KAi1n)

654 637 The French revoltinaries did terrible things to nuns and priests during the revolution, and desecrated churches in obscene ways. Very ugly chapters in their history, all the way back. All countries do, of course, but the French seem to have this weird dichotomy of great artistic achievement parallel with horrendous behavior.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor

I have to wonder what disgusting spectacle they have planned for the closing ceremony.

Posted by: Tuna at July 28, 2024 03:45 AM (oaGWv)

655 Del Taco has a couple nice cheap things on their menu, but a lot of the rest is just garbage. They also serve fries for some reason, and they aren't even good. It's more of a Burger King/ Jack in the Box tier fast food. Zero chance it actually belongs on a top ten.

The whole list has to be incredibly suspect, given there's almost never a single car in line at a Del Taco, meanwhile every In-n-Out usually has 10+ cars in line plus tons more people inside at all times.

Posted by: Sjg at July 28, 2024 04:01 AM (aqZN1)

656 I have to wonder what disgusting spectacle they have planned for the closing ceremony.
Posted by: Tuna

Know that they are French, and that thus it will be preciously twee and annoying, as well as an affront to nature. Watch it not, for it encourages them, and they begin to think they are people. See it not, for once seen, it cannot be unseen. I will cover the eyes of Commander Star-Sprinkle, my hypothetical kitty, that their debauchery does not impair his feline innocence. Werner has seen too much of Froggy exhibitionism and the cognac was definitely over-indulged.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Saw The Olympics Opening Ceremony at July 28, 2024 04:06 AM (tmPIh)

657 The whole list has to be incredibly suspect, given there's almost never a single car in line at a Del Taco, meanwhile every In-n-Out usually has 10+ cars in line plus tons more people inside at all times. Posted by: Sjg

Mmm. In-N-Out...Me so horny.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 28, 2024 05:04 AM (G8tt9)

658 Our money is backed by the country.
Our country is Exxon, Texaco, Chevron, Microsoft, Tesla, 3M, Nvidia and on and on. All of these companies are part of Full faith and Credit. All of them are in dollars and they aren't going to let the dollar fold. Most of the country is invested - has ownership in these companies. It's not fiat as long as these companies exist. Posted by: Braenyard

I thought I was supposed to hate Microsoft because Windows 11 supposedly sucks balls.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram at July 28, 2024 05:06 AM (G8tt9)

659 “Del Taco has been named by USA TODAY as America's No. “
Obama told us to learn Spanish.

Posted by: Roger Ball at July 28, 2024 07:36 AM (C8ve7)

660 When I stopped drinking North Dakota’s average beer consumption dropped by half, if Jim stops Mormans will have some competition.

Posted by: Kenneth King Neil at July 28, 2024 09:59 AM (/g9JB)

661 There was a Del Taco on my Navy base 30+ years ago. After the first time I ate there, the only reason I went back (and that was only a handful of times) was because it was a short walk from the barracks and was open late. I have never gone to one again since I moved to off-base housing. So if I was hungry, it was basically the only option. It was entirely mediocre. So, unless the chain has made a massive transformation, it is inconceivable to me that it ranks in the Top 25, much less #1. It's better than Church's Chicken, but that's about it.

Posted by: Dodd at July 28, 2024 11:01 AM (a5LZW)

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