Monday Overnight Open Thread (8/5/24)

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The Quotes of The Day

Quote I
“The way to secure the border is to create a legitimate way for people and firms to get the labor that the economy really needs in legitimate, legal ways, and until we have that, the whole debate over the wall and stuff is just silly,” Lant Pritchett, one of the world’s top thinkers on developmental economics, has seen this crisis coming for decades over his career at Harvard, the World Bank, and Oxford University, where he currently heads a research lab.

Quote II
"I am proud of the fact I am a mackem. I am proud that I am English." Zaf Iqbal, Muslim taxi driver from Sunderland

Quote III
“Kamala’s support for reparations is further proof that she is the new poster child for socialism in our country,” Jon Harvey, president and founder of Iron Sight Coffee Brewing Co.

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Tonight's Deep Olympic Thought was submitted by Robert.

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Entering a traffic jam, this may be needed.

This is the shocking moment a BMW driver was filmed inhaling from what appeared to be a nitrous oxide balloon on the M6.
The motorist was slapped with a £770 fine and six points on his licence after another driver sent a video of his exploits to police.
He is one of 11,000 dangerous drivers who have been caught on camera in the West Midlands in the past year.

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Federal bureaucracy geeks at the EPA will probably push this unproven science.

New potassium-ion battery technology could soon replace lithium-ion
It holds great promise for electric vehicles

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The ONT Musical Interlude & Leash Law Emporium

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Is our government this stupid or is this an inside job to push militant Islam?

Taliban gets $239 million in aid after failure of State Dept. vetting
The aid was supposed to support counterterrorism efforts in Afghanistan

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Too be honest with you. I could care less how the TP is hung as long as it is hung. If this is the hill to fight for, get a grip.

Over or under? Surprisingly, there actually is a 'correct' way to hang a toilet paper roll.
Let's settle this silly-but-surprisingly-heated debate once and for all.

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My LP gas furnace is 90% efficient. Plus it runs with or without sunlight.

Silicon plus perovskite solar reaches 34 percent efficiency
There are still longevity problems, but things continue to get better.

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He may not be convicted of crimes. But he is tonight's: Genius Award Winner.

Man Steals Oshkosh M1070 Tank Transporter, Immediately Gets Stuck on Beach
Oh, gosh, a Los Angeles man steals an Oshkosh only to find himself in a sand pit.

Not all days are slow in the small beachy community of San Luis Obispo, a city and county locally referred to as SLO. Located along California’s Central Coast, SLO is home to a historic mission, a California State University, wineries, art galleries, and its newest resident, a military-grade tank transporter that loves long walks on the beach. Oh, if only I were joking.

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Weekly commenter stats for week of 8-4-2024

Top 10 commenters:
1 [527 comments] 'whig' [73.83 posts/day]
2 [471 comments] 'Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden'
3 [461 comments] 'polynikes'
4 [440 comments] 'Miklos '
5 [406 comments] '...'
6 [404 comments] 'Axeman'
7 [389 comments] 'Bulgaroctonus'
8 [370 comments] 'Don Black'
9 [362 comments] 'rickb223 Buy Ammo & Shelf Stable Foods '
10 [361 comments] 'TheJamesMadison, riding the anarchy train with John Landis'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [426 names] 'Miklos ' [59.68 unique names/day]
2 [293 names] 'Ciampino - Fri Update #05'
3 [116 names] 'Lonely, Old, Light House Keeper Midgett'
4 [75 names] 'Karen McAwfl'
5 [60 names] 'Quarter Twenty '
6 [57 names] 'IYKWIM'
7 [44 names] 'Axeman'
8 [39 names] 'I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper'
9 [38 names] 'pookysgirl, amateur geographer'
10 [36 names] '18-1'

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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by Safe Gun Handling Practices.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 09:52 PM

Comments

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1 Happy Monday!

Posted by: Megthered at August 05, 2024 09:53 PM (rwiQP)

2 Well, I was here early, but not early enough!

*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 05, 2024 09:54 PM (kQgoX)

3 MHMOONT, Woot!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 05, 2024 09:54 PM (hOUT3)

4 Good evening everyone.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 09:54 PM (WXNFJ)

5 Good evening horde.

Posted by: TRex at August 05, 2024 09:55 PM (IQ6Gq)

6 Evening Tonypete.

Posted by: javems at August 05, 2024 09:55 PM (8I4hW)

7 Early ONT!

Thanks, MisHum!

Posted by: TecumsehTea at August 05, 2024 09:55 PM (JrYM1)

8 Top10

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 05, 2024 09:56 PM (w3u3d)

9 Too be honest with you. I could care less how the TP is hung as long as it is hung.

Dude! Why thank you!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 09:56 PM (WXNFJ)

10 Another early one

Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at August 05, 2024 09:56 PM (w3u3d)

11 Is our government this stupid or is this an inside job to push militant Islam?

Embrace the power of "and"!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 05, 2024 09:56 PM (hOUT3)

12 Hello javems!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 09:56 PM (WXNFJ)

13 Sorry I'm late, my zipper got stuck in a Venus flytrap.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2024 09:57 PM (Py1md)

14 Just opened my computer to see what was happening with the horde. Just lucky.

Posted by: Megthered at August 05, 2024 09:57 PM (rwiQP)

15 Sorry I'm late, was looking for ideas to display shot glasses.

Posted by: Iris at August 05, 2024 09:58 PM (n3DL0)

16 Just opened my computer to see what was happening with the horde. Just lucky.
Posted by: Megthered

But well done nonetheless!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 05, 2024 09:59 PM (hOUT3)

17 "Ok, I dropped the chicken. Now you drop the gun."

Posted by: Some Rat at August 05, 2024 09:59 PM (vJiyU)

18 15 Sorry I'm late, was looking for ideas to display shot glasses.
Posted by: Iris at August 05, 2024 09:58 PM (n3DL0)

13 Sorry I'm late, my zipper got stuck in a Venus flytrap.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2024 09:57 PM (Py1md)

Hell, do we have a Love Connection here?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 05, 2024 10:00 PM (QXQ4l)

19 suggestions

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, la cucina e pulita e pronta #17 at August 05, 2024 10:00 PM (qfLjt)

20 ...Sorry I'm late, was looking for ideas to display shot glasses. Posted by: Iris at August 05, 2024 09:58 PM (n3DL0)

What's to display? It's all just shards, splintered glass and bullet fragments, right?

*grinz*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 05, 2024 10:00 PM (kQgoX)

21 Only an academic could think that the border crisis is caused by a labor shortage.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2024 10:00 PM (Py1md)

22 About the TP controversy: I think you meant to say that you could NOT care less.

Posted by: LASue at August 05, 2024 10:00 PM (Gq9/0)

23 juju 💰 @ayeejuju Aug 3
the Egyptian women's beach volleyball team vs Spain at the Paris Olympics

Aelfred The Great @aelfred_D Aug 4
The Reconquista, Siege of Córdoba, 1236 (artist’s depiction)

https://tinyurl.com/y6r446c9
photo

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 10:01 PM (i0CiB)

24 Leaking pipe update:

Called Servpro at 0810. They showed up at 1000. Insurance adjuster arrived at 1200. Deal struck with Servpro. Wet drywall ripped out, carpets pulled up, other demolding mitigations applied and then monster dehumidifiers deployed. They left about an hour ago. 3-5 days is the estimate for the equipment being run.

These guys were good. Wifey approves and my stress has abated.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 10:01 PM (WXNFJ)

25 IKE BEATS TINA TO DEATH

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 05, 2024 10:01 PM (4Med0)

26 Sorry I'm late, my zipper got stuck in a Venus flytrap.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2024 09:57 PM (Py1md)

I'd rather have a trapped Venus stuck in my fly.

Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 10:02 PM (gKDq2)

27
Hell, do we have a Love Connection here?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 05, 2024 10:00 PM (QXQ4l)

LOL I'd say more "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery". I am happy to know nothing of tankdemon's zipper functionality.

Posted by: Iris at August 05, 2024 10:02 PM (n3DL0)

28 IKE BEATS TINA TO DEATH...
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 05, 2024 10:01 PM (4Med0)

(Jump to top of page)

... And takes the GOLD!

Posted by: LASue at August 05, 2024 10:02 PM (Gq9/0)

29 IKE BEATS TINA TO DEATH
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

The only headline that ever topped the above was:

"Headless body discovered in topless bar."

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 10:03 PM (WXNFJ)

30 Lots of deep, dark forest there. A body could get lost out there. Might never be found.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2024 10:03 PM (0eaVi)

31 So how did all you mooks do in the market today?

*fans large stack of ones*

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2024 10:03 PM (15aOX)

32 No one argues on how to hang me after I gain some experience.

Posted by: TP at August 05, 2024 10:03 PM (8nkyI)

33 What's to display? It's all just shards, splintered glass and bullet fragments, right?

*grinz*

Jim: wrong hobby, Bourbon not guns! These are family heirlooms.

Actually just that my husband had a collection and my daughter talked about taking some....but never has. So thinking of an enticement... :-)

Posted by: Iris at August 05, 2024 10:04 PM (n3DL0)

34 "the shocking moment a BMW driver was filmed inhaling from what appeared to be a nitrous oxide balloon"

That's nothing. I once saw a BMW driver use his turn signal.

Posted by: Tom Perry at August 05, 2024 10:04 PM (MX0bI)

35 Evenin'

ONT version

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 05, 2024 10:04 PM (sAmhv)

36 Getting first in the ONT is turning into the neighborhood pick teams debacle.
"For our last choice we'll take the kid in the full body cast."
"Shit, guess we'll take Rat."

Posted by: Some Rat at August 05, 2024 10:05 PM (vJiyU)

37 LOL I'd say more "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery". I am happy to know nothing of tankdemon's zipper functionality.
Posted by: Iris at August 05, 2024 10:02 PM (n3DL0)

Oh, so it's believe all women with you. Maybe we need to hear from tankdemon.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 05, 2024 10:05 PM (QXQ4l)

38 Willowed, 338 from the Cafe thread:

Robert, I’m hanging in there, thank you.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 10:05 PM (v6JzV)

39 IN RE: TP roll.
We have a cat. She longingly gazes at the rolls. We put them on "under," so that she continues to merely long for them, instead of unfurling the rolls throughout the house.

A few years ago we had a family over fur supper, dad, mom, three kids in late teens, early 20's. The eldest has "anxiety."

After supper, I excuse myself and use the toilet. The tp was reversed from the way we hang it. I just changed it back, but to this day I regret not sitting at the table and saying, " whoever changed the tp obviously had never had a cat, so go and put the roll the way you found it. "

Alas, I am too polite.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 05, 2024 10:05 PM (Rbu5d)

40 21 Only an academic could think that the border crisis is caused by a labor shortage.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2024 10:00 PM (Py1md)

Thank you.

Posted by: sal at August 05, 2024 10:06 PM (4lnL8)

41 Kamala’s support for reparations is further proof that she is the new poster child for socialism in our country.

No. She is living proof that, if you repeat the indoctrination long enough ... no amount of education or affluence can stop it.

She's not new. Affirmative Action started in the 60s. Universal Suffrage started in the 20s.

She's not the cause. She's the product.

Posted by: This Is Obvious at August 05, 2024 10:06 PM (+mZpE)

42 15 Sorry I'm late, was looking for ideas to display shot glasses.
Posted by: Iris at August 05, 2024 09:58 PM (n3DL0)

Preferably full on a tray with close friends around.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2024 10:06 PM (Py1md)

43 That's nothing. I once saw a BMW driver use his turn signal.
Posted by: Tom Perry

GET OUT OF TOWN!!!

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 10:07 PM (WXNFJ)

44 Is our government this stupid or is this an inside job to push militant Islam?

Taliban gets $239 million....

I embrace the concept of "AND."

Posted by: Diogenes at August 05, 2024 10:07 PM (W/lyH)

45 Carl Benjamin @Sargon_of_Akkad 51m
"We're getting pushed out, like the Indians in America."

Liverpool is one of the most deep-red Labour cities in the country.

Chris Rose @ArchRose90 1h
If you arrive at a ‘counter protest’ with a blade that big, you’re only there for one thing, violence.

If two tier policing didn’t exist then he would be pinned down and arrested by 9 policemen. So far he is just stood there on a live broadcast without any repercussions.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfwfxfn
13 seconds

Tommy Robinson @TRobinsonNewEra 1h
Muslims have shut down roads in Birmingham.

Not a policeman in sight.

You were saying about two tier policing? @Keir_Starmer

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 10:07 PM (i0CiB)

46 34 "the shocking moment a BMW driver was filmed inhaling from what appeared to be a nitrous oxide balloon"

That's nothing. I once saw a BMW driver use his turn signal.
Posted by: Tom Perry at August 05, 2024 10:04 PM (MX0bI)

Woman or man driver?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 05, 2024 10:07 PM (QXQ4l)

47 So how did all you mooks do in the market today?

I declined to participate in the boom. I also declined to worry about the bust.

Posted by: This Is Obvious at August 05, 2024 10:08 PM (+mZpE)

48 Sorry I'm late, was looking for ideas to display shot glasses.
Posted by: Iris at August 05, 2024 09:58 PM (n3DL0)

Preferably full on a tray with close friends around.
Posted by: tankdemon

... and suitable beverages.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 05, 2024 10:08 PM (VNX3d)

49 Disclose.tv @disclosetv Aug 4
JUST IN - Mosques in England will be offered new emergency security, the Home Secretary has announced — Sky
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Well, TBF, they have politely asked Moslems to hand over the weapons in their mosques.

Chris Rose @ArchRose90 Aug 3
The police liaison officer in Stoke politely asking a Muslim group to discard of any weapons in the mosque.

They should be treated the same as others in recent days, some of whom were arrested and released minutes later without any clear explanation.

Blatant two tier policing

https://tinyurl.com/mrxsfbvz
47 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 10:08 PM (i0CiB)

50 So, the US stock markets only dropped three percent today, and Wall Street is not choked with the bodies of stockbrokers who flung themselves out of windows. What other topics can we set our hair on fire over tonight?

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 05, 2024 10:08 PM (p6u48)

51 Is that a real picture of Ike Turner? Because that dude looks like Eddie Murphy and way too weak to beat up anybody, let alone a substantial piece of ass like Tina.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 10:08 PM (v6JzV)

52 So how did all you mooks do in the market today?

*fans large stack of ones*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2024 10:03 PM (15aOX)

401k with a decently diverse portfolio, so I don't panic and check the balance but once a quarter.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2024 10:09 PM (0eaVi)

53 Breaking911 @Breaking911 27m
WATCH: Muslim protestors intimidate Sky News journalist in Birmingham, UK

https://tinyurl.com/2vz6bxu8
32 seconds; Sky cuts away immediately to censor Muzzies behaving badly; I wonder if she was raped like that CNN [??] correspondent in Iraq? [??]

Chris Rose @ArchRose90 51m
Sky News deleted this clip. It shows one of the Muslim men in a balaclava holding a knife and attempting to slash the tyres of the Sky broadcast van.

This isn’t ’protecting yourself’ or the actions of someone who is a victim, he should not get a free pass.

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok 2h
Group of pro-Palestine protestors surround UK reporter and force her network to cut the broadcast

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 10:09 PM (i0CiB)

54 So how did all you mooks do in the market today?

I declined to participate in the boom. I also declined to worry about the bust.
Posted by: This Is Obvious

Ah, the power of a perfect bra.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 05, 2024 10:09 PM (VNX3d)

55 Actually just that my husband had a collection and my daughter talked about taking some....but never has. So thinking of an enticement... :-)
Posted by: Iris

If we were sent to a different city, one had to return with a shot glass from that city. We had over 100, displayed rather nicely along the cubicle rails.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 05, 2024 10:09 PM (vJiyU)

56 So how did all you mooks do in the market today?

I declined to participate in the boom. I also declined to worry about the bust.
Posted by: This Is Obvious

I only look into my investments about once every 6 months. I wish to live as stress free as possible.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 10:09 PM (WXNFJ)

57 Only an academic could think that the border crisis is caused by a labor shortage.

The LA Times had an article a few days ago saying that all the "immigrants" moving into California were just offsetting all the Americans fleeing California, and that California would be suffering crippling labor shortages without all that wonderful immigration.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 05, 2024 10:09 PM (uxCna)

58 18 Hell, do we have a Love Connection here?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 05, 2024 10:00 PM (QXQ4l)

Not only am I deeply on love with my wife, but I am also deathly afraid of her, so, no. Besides, lack of punctuality is no basis for a relationship.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2024 10:09 PM (Py1md)

59 I saw a Larry Kudlow segment today, in which he said that 1.3 million jobs were gained by migrants, and 1.2M lost by Americans. (I think i remembered the numbers correctly.) Yeah, let's keep importing our replacements.

I'll see if I can find the clip.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 05, 2024 10:10 PM (Rbu5d)

60 Lant Pritchett: "The way to secure the border is to create a legitimate way for people and firms to get the labor that the economy really needs in legitimate, legal ways, and until we have that, the whole debate over the wall and stuff is just silly."

Define "really needs". According to the US Chamber of Commerce, they "really need" endless, cheaper labor. And they need the US taxpayer to subsidize that labor via increasing taxes while lobbying for corporate tax relief.

And what about criminals, drug trafficking, national security (terrorism)? How is a pathway to cheap labor going to stop those?

Screw him and the research lab he rode in on. We're a sovereign nation, not a macroeconomic model of widgets.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at August 05, 2024 10:10 PM (aXxgO)

61 Lots of BOOOM!

OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
The White House is in the Final Stages of Approving a Shipment of 1,800 Mark-84 2,000lb Bombs to Israel, which have been Withheld now for months following the Israeli Invasion of Rafah in Southern Gaza; with Half of the Shipment consisting of 1,700 Mark-82 500lb Bombs already having received the “OK” from the Biden Administration in Early July. If Full-Scale War does occur with Hezbollah and/or Iran, these Munitions will be desperately needed by the Israeli Air Force.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 05, 2024 10:10 PM (TGPs7)

62 Rush @exRAF_Al 9h
I’m old enough to remember when the BBC called raped schoolgirls in Rotherham ‘child prostitutes’.

BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking Aug 4
Crowd chanting "get them out" gathers at hotel in Rotherham, UK, with bottles thrown at police and windows broken
Follow updates bbc.in/3yt4Lwh

https://tinyurl.com/33yhwuuw
screencap

Tommy Robinson @TRobinsonNewEra 6h
Fuck the BBC

https://tinyurl.com/j584musw
screencap

Wall Street Silver @WallStreetSilv
The UK police are compromised.

https://tinyurl.com/yrhs7h6y
Meme

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 10:10 PM (i0CiB)

63 Well, TBF, they have politely asked Moslems to hand over the weapons in their mosques.

Coming here soon. Shit I learned during "W". I learned a lot of shit during "W". A lot of it not long after I found here.

Posted by: This Is Obvious at August 05, 2024 10:10 PM (+mZpE)

64 That's nothing. I once saw a BMW driver use his turn signal.
Posted by: Tom Perry at August 05, 2024 10:04 PM (MX0bI)

But was it for the direction that he actually turned?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 05, 2024 10:10 PM (hOUT3)

65 Thanks for the girthy ONT, Mis Hum!

Great photo up top looks like it could have been taken in my state. Or any of the surrounding states. Just lovely.

Don't trust the raccoon! He looks cute but he's wearing a mask!!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 05, 2024 10:10 PM (v/rAj)

66 IKE BEATS TINA TO DEATH
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

The only headline that ever topped the above was:

"Headless body discovered in topless bar."
Posted by: Tonypete

"Jackie O. Cancer 1"

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 05, 2024 10:11 PM (IG4Id)

67 WATCH: Muslim protestors intimidate Sky News journalist in Birmingham, UK

I've seen reports tonight that Muslim mobs in Birmingham were invading pubs and assaulting the white patrons.

No police response, of course.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 05, 2024 10:11 PM (uxCna)

68 That raccoon is up to no good as it is, don't make things worse.

Posted by: Eromero at August 05, 2024 10:11 PM (LHPAg)

69 I enjoyed Trump's interview with Adin Ross. much better than the late night comics. He was much more respectful than the Black Journalist crew.

Posted by: lurking grandma at August 05, 2024 10:11 PM (sujqA)

70 51 Is that a real picture of Ike Turner? Because that dude looks like Eddie Murphy and way too weak to beat up anybody, let alone a substantial piece of ass like Tina.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 10:08 PM (v6JzV)

Do I look:
A. [ ] Like I care?
B. [ ] Like I know?
C. [ ] Like I get paid?
D. [ ] None of the above?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 05, 2024 10:11 PM (QXQ4l)

71 Too be honest with you. I could care less how the TP is hung as long as it is hung. If this is the hill to fight for, get a grip.
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1. Grammar. 'I couldn't care less' - notice the negative slant.
2. TP hanging? Very simple. Step One: DO YOU HAVE CATS?

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, c'e la carte per il culo at August 05, 2024 10:11 PM (qfLjt)

72 Pop Base
@PopBase
French athlete Anthony Ammirati, who went viral for hitting his crotch on the bar, speaks on his #Olympics pole vaulting loss:

“It’s a big disappointment.”

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 05, 2024 10:12 PM (TGPs7)

73 I only look into my investments about once every 6 months. I wish to live as stress free as possible.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 10:09 PM (WXNFJ

Smart. It's only a loss if you sell.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2024 10:12 PM (CeeD+)

74 (cough)

Posted by: The Gods of the Copybook Headings at August 05, 2024 10:13 PM (sAmhv)

75 Do I look:
A. [ ] Like I care?
B. [ ] Like I know?
C. [ ] Like I get paid?
D. [ ] None of the above?
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 05, 2024 10:11 PM (QXQ4l)

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He's just concerned about journalistic accuracy. Sheeesh.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2024 10:13 PM (15aOX)

76 WATCH: Muslim protestors intimidate Sky News journalist in Birmingham, UK

You lost me at "journalist".

Posted by: This Is Obvious at August 05, 2024 10:13 PM (+mZpE)

77 I've been looking to relocate . Prefer to remain in Texas but been looking at other states I've lived before.

Looked at real estate in Rapid City ,SD. How can their real estate be more expensive than Houston?

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:13 PM (B1dzx)

78 So, the US stock markets only dropped three percent today, and Wall Street is not choked with the bodies of stockbrokers who flung themselves out of windows. What other topics can we set our hair on fire over tonight?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 05, 2024 10:08 PM (p6u4

Are you a gentleman who only wears long pants in public?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2024 10:14 PM (0eaVi)

79 The Top Picture: by the condition of that road - that's somewhere in Colorado. Where "There's much better things to spend your money on!"

Posted by: tRusty Hudson at August 05, 2024 10:14 PM (ScW81)

80 71 Too be honest with you. I could care less how the TP is hung as long as it is hung. If this is the hill to fight for, get a grip.
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1. Grammar. 'I couldn't care less' - notice the negative slant.
2. TP hanging? Very simple. Step One: DO YOU HAVE CATS?
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, c'e la carte per il culo at August 05, 2024 10:11 PM (qfLjt)

No, I have dogs and they know better than to fuck around with important items in the house.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 05, 2024 10:14 PM (QXQ4l)

81 These guys were good. Wifey approves and my stress has abated.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 10:01 PM (WXNFJ)
* * * *
That's terrific news! Hope the rest of this experience goes smoothly for you!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at August 05, 2024 10:15 PM (v/rAj)

82 E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. @RealEJAntoni
Over the last year, native-born Americans have LOST 1.2 million jobs while foreign-born employment has increased 1.3 million; we're just swapping out American workers at this point, not growing the pie for everyone...

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 10:15 PM (i0CiB)

83 77 I've been looking to relocate . Prefer to remain in Texas but been looking at other states I've lived before.

Looked at real estate in Rapid City ,SD. How can their real estate be more expensive than Houston?
Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:13 PM (B1dzx

Tourism destination.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 05, 2024 10:15 PM (QXQ4l)

84 Another night without an Iranian strike on Israel.

It is rumored that the Israelis passed a message to Iran via a third party that if Iran attacked civilian areas in Israel, Israel would take out Iran's nuclear program.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 05, 2024 10:15 PM (uxCna)

85 77 I've been looking to relocate . Prefer to remain in Texas but been looking at other states I've lived before.

Looked at real estate in Rapid City ,SD. How can their real estate be more expensive than Houston?
Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:13 PM (B1dzx) It's faster. Says so right there in the name.

Posted by: Eromero at August 05, 2024 10:15 PM (LHPAg)

86
If we were sent to a different city, one had to return with a shot glass from that city. We had over 100, displayed rather nicely along the cubicle rails.
Posted by: Some Rat at August 05, 2024 10:09 PM (vJiyU)

^^That's a nice tradition.

Posted by: Iris at August 05, 2024 10:15 PM (n3DL0)

87 The only headline that ever topped the above was:

"Headless body discovered in topless bar."
Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 10:03 PM (WXNFJ)

I once read a story about an American businessman who visited South Africa some years ago. The first day he got there, the top story in the newspaper he picked up was: "Three Headless Bodies Found."

The next day, the leading story was: "Three Heads Found."

And the day after that: "Bodies Don't Match Heads."

Posted by: Dr. T at August 05, 2024 10:16 PM (jGGMD)

88 Only an academic could think that the border crisis is caused by a labor shortage.

The LA Times had an article a few days ago saying that all the "immigrants" moving into California were just offsetting all the Americans fleeing California, and that California would be suffering crippling labor shortages without all that wonderful immigration.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 05, 2024 10:09 PM (uxCna)

Yes, I'm sure those illegals are filling jobs equivalent to those lost a when SpaceX, Chevron, Toyota, Charles Schwab, Tesla, Kaiser Aluminum fled that leftist hole .

Posted by: LASue at August 05, 2024 10:16 PM (Gq9/0)

89 59... here's the Kudlow clip
https://tinyurl.com/mtbkx665

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at August 05, 2024 10:16 PM (Rbu5d)

90 Shit's going pear shaped in Limeytown.

Bet there are plenty of pew-pews stashed in the mosques.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 05, 2024 10:17 PM (4Med0)

91 I've been looking to relocate . Prefer to remain in Texas but been looking at other states I've lived before.

Looked at real estate in Rapid City ,SD. How can their real estate be more expensive than Houston?
Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:13 PM (B1dzx

Check out Watertown, Sioux Falls, etc. About 10 years ago SD was really trying to draw MN businesses and workers out to SD.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 05, 2024 10:17 PM (QXQ4l)

92 Did someone say they were looking for head?

Posted by: Kamala at August 05, 2024 10:17 PM (i0F8b)

93 I've seen reports tonight that Muslim mobs in Birmingham were invading pubs and assaulting the white patrons.

No police response, of course.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 05, 2024 10:11 PM (uxCna)

I hope the events of the past few days have brought it home to ordinary Brits that the police are their enemies.

Posted by: Dr. T at August 05, 2024 10:18 PM (jGGMD)

94 92 Did someone say they were looking for head?
Posted by: Kamala at August 05, 2024 10:17 PM (i0F8b

The head, you slut.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2024 10:18 PM (CeeD+)

95 Over or under? Surprisingly, there actually is a 'correct' way to hang a toilet paper roll.
Let's settle this silly-but-surprisingly-heated debate once and for all.

Sheesh!
Next thing they will be telling us how to properly squeeze the toothpaste tube.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 05, 2024 10:18 PM (W/lyH)

96 Apparently that fat commie fuck is a Blue Falcon as well:

@AlphaNewsMN Sep 19, 2022
A second retired command sergeant major who served alongside Gov. Tim Walz in the National Guard is speaking out, saying the governor “left his troops high and dry” before a deployment to Iraq.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 05, 2024 10:18 PM (IG4Id)

97 Tourism destination.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 05, 2024 10:15 PM (QXQ4l

I might be stuck where I'm at. No one vacations in Houston🙂.

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:18 PM (B1dzx)

98 93 I've seen reports tonight that Muslim mobs in Birmingham were invading pubs and assaulting the white patrons.

No police response, of course.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 05, 2024 10:11 PM (uxCna)

I hope the events of the past few days have brought it home to ordinary Brits that the police are their enemies.
Posted by: Dr. T at August 05, 2024 10:18 PM (jGGMD)
It's Eurabia, Jack.

Posted by: Eromero at August 05, 2024 10:19 PM (LHPAg)

99 Shit's going pear shaped in Limeytown.

-----------

People will take only so much shit from their Ruling Class, but then no more.

It's a British tradition.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2024 10:19 PM (15aOX)

100 This woman is evil personified and likely spends her spare time at the Bohemian Grove worshiping the Giant Owl...

Stu@thestustustudio"Humble legend" Kathy Griffin brought Sia on to sing at Comics for Kamala.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 05, 2024 10:19 PM (TGPs7)

101 77:Looked at real estate in Rapid City ,SD. How can their real estate be more expensive than Houston?
Posted by: polynikes
.....................
Its proximity to Ellsworth AFB?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 05, 2024 10:19 PM (sAmhv)

102 Only an academic could think that the border crisis is caused by a labor shortage.

Only an academic could suggest to you that your national currency should be just fine, without any intrinsic value, and just traded by fiat.

Of course, that same academic will tell you that "value" - however you measure it economically - also doesn't matter. Just print more fiat currency.

Academics also swore six feet and cloth masks were the bomb. Trust academics less.

Posted by: This Is Obvious at August 05, 2024 10:19 PM (+mZpE)

103 That's nothing. I once saw a BMW driver use his turn signal.
Posted by: Tom Perry at August 05, 2024 10:04 PM (MX0bI)

But was it for the direction that he actually turned?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar

I don't remember. I was so shocked, I ran over a fire hydrant.

Posted by: Tom Perry at August 05, 2024 10:20 PM (MX0bI)

104 “The way to secure the border is to create a legitimate way for people and firms to get the labor that the economy really needs in legitimate, legal ways, and until we have that, the whole debate over the wall and stuff is just silly,”
----
As far as harvesting crops in California, etc., I thought we used to have a seasonal jobs program for that. It needs a tough, tenacious unit to track and catch overstayers and prosecute them (you're out and never come back).
For all the rest? Consulate in your country, fill in forms, pay money and hope for Green Card. It's all there already.
Add in effective ways to stop them at the border and to catch those who do make it.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, c'e la carte per il culo #01 at August 05, 2024 10:21 PM (qfLjt)

105 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 05, 2024 10:17 PM (QXQ4l)

I looked at Rapid City because I was born there. Thought I might feel a connection.

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:21 PM (B1dzx)

106 Mister Ghost: "Kathy Griffin brought Sia on to sing at Comics for Kamala."

So why was Griffin there?

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at August 05, 2024 10:21 PM (aXxgO)

107 I hope the events of the past few days have brought it home to ordinary Brits that the police are their enemies.

I see you've met very few Brits.

Posted by: This Is Obvious at August 05, 2024 10:21 PM (+mZpE)

108 36 Getting first in the ONT is turning into the neighborhood pick teams debacle.
"For our last choice we'll take the kid in the full body cast."
"Shit, guess we'll take Rat."
Posted by: Some Rat

I'd happily choose you for my team, Rat.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 05, 2024 10:21 PM (HXGNm)

109 The 8 largest population centers in England have Muslim mayor's.

Things are going to get very ugly.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 05, 2024 10:22 PM (4Med0)

110 Yes, I'm sure those illegals are filling jobs equivalent to those lost a when SpaceX, Chevron, Toyota, Charles Schwab, Tesla, Kaiser Aluminum fled that leftist hole .

If you are a "progressive", you are required to believe two things simultaneously:

1) Nothing is more important than education. Everyone should have a college degree. We need to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into our educational system, because education is so important.

2) Letting in tens of millions of people who have only elementary school educations is of enormous economic benefit to our society.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 05, 2024 10:22 PM (uxCna)

111 Kamala’s support for reparations is further proof that she is the new poster child for socialism in our country.

No. She is living proof that, if you repeat the indoctrination long enough ... no amount of education or affluence can stop it.

She's not new. Affirmative Action started in the 60s. Universal Suffrage started in the 20s.

She's not the cause. She's the product.
Posted by: This Is Obvious at August 05, 2024 10:06 PM (+mZpE)

She doesn't actually believe in it. It's an act. I doubt she really believes in anything, other than power.

Posted by: LASue at August 05, 2024 10:22 PM (Gq9/0)

112 >>> "I am proud of the fact I am a mackem. I am proud that I am English." Zaf Iqbal, Muslim taxi driver from Sunderland

For every migrant or refugee that is a potential Freddy Mercury, or a net contributor to the UK, there are 10-100 that only resent it and want to do it harm. Something's gotta give.

Posted by: LizLem at August 05, 2024 10:23 PM (QAK8m)

113 My dog thinks it is a cat (untrainable - kicked out of dog school). We put the TP on the shelf. Confuses guests but makes for moderately amusing moments.

Posted by: scampydog at August 05, 2024 10:23 PM (41CYW)

114 Last time we were in Rapid City, we saw more license plates from Cali, New York and Illinois. Asked a friend about this and she said they're coming because of no state income tax and it's much cheaper to live there than where they're from. They HATE the people from California with a passion. One tried to run us off the road. Bringing Cali crazy to normal town.

Posted by: Megthered at August 05, 2024 10:23 PM (rwiQP)

115 "... and until we have that, the whole debate over the wall and stuff is just silly."

_______________________________

It's called mitigating damages. It's a proven theory that you would think an expert would understand.

You don't sit in the yard of the lot you just purchased watching them build your new house until it's done. You live somewhere else while waiting. You don't allow a deluge of illegal immigrants to enter your country while work out the nuances of an economic labor plan tied to immigration laws that ARE NOT ENFORCED!!!!

Posted by: Orson at August 05, 2024 10:23 PM (dIske)

116 Apparently that fat commie fuck is a Blue Falcon as well:

@AlphaNewsMN Sep 19, 2022
A second retired command sergeant major who served alongside Gov. Tim Walz in the National Guard is speaking out, saying the governor “left his troops high and dry” before a deployment to Iraq.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

IF he's selected, and the blow job queen wins in November, we know Walz's Secret Service Name.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 05, 2024 10:23 PM (VNX3d)

117 Shit's going pear shaped in Limeytown.

Bet there are plenty of pew-pews stashed in the mosques.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 05, 2024 10:17 PM (4Med0)

That is a given.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 05, 2024 10:23 PM (W/lyH)

118 What crops need a lot of manual picking these days?

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:23 PM (B1dzx)

119 Good evening morons y gracias mh.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2024 10:24 PM (RIvkX)

120 The 8 largest population centers in England have Muslim mayor's. Things are going to get very ugly.

Going to look just fine from my little rural spot in fly-over country. Won't lose a minute of sleep over it. Even when the public hangings commence. Just don't care ... they're Brits. They picked this.

Posted by: This Is Obvious at August 05, 2024 10:24 PM (+mZpE)

121 looked at Rapid City because I was born there. Thought I might feel a connection.
Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:21 PM (B1dzx)

Ellsworth?

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 05, 2024 10:24 PM (4Med0)

122 I'd happily choose you for my team, Rat.
Posted by: nurse ratched

Right back atcha kiddo! And remember, if things go completely south, refuge is a mere ferry ride away! {{{}}}

Posted by: Some Rat at August 05, 2024 10:25 PM (vJiyU)

123 I never saw anyone inhaling nitrous oxide while driving, but I once saw someone with a book propped up on their steering wheel, reading the book. I also once saw a passenger and driver physically fighting, as in hitting each other. They were really going at it. I pulled off at the next freeway exit, and went into a fast food place and had a nice cup of coffee. By the time I got back on the road the loonies were nowhere hear me.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2024 10:25 PM (0Htd1)

124 Not only am I deeply on love with my wife, but I am also deathly afraid of her, so, no. Besides, lack of punctuality is no basis for a relationship.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2024 10:09 PM (Py1md)

You were three minutes later than your usual lateness. Who is she?

Posted by: Things A Wife Might Say for $500 Alex at August 05, 2024 10:25 PM (0eaVi)

125 They HATE the people from California with a passion.

I read a humorous guide to Sandpoint, Idaho that said that first you should go to a different county to switch your California plates for Idaho plates before you show up in Sandpoint.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 05, 2024 10:25 PM (uxCna)

126
Only an academic could think that the border crisis is caused by a labor shortage.

The title of that article is:

Rich, western countries face a stark choice: 6-day workweeks or more immigration, top economist warns

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2024 10:25 PM (63Dwl)

127 She doesn't actually believe in it. It's an act. I doubt she really believes in anything, other than power.

Posted by: LASue at August 05, 2024 10:22 PM (Gq9/0)

And that's what happens, as soon as you start giving a certain group ... blacks in this case ... additional points in a system or preferential treatment when hiring.

This isn't new. The system started in the 60s.

Posted by: This Is Obvious at August 05, 2024 10:26 PM (+mZpE)

128 What crops need a lot of manual picking these days?
Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:23 PM (B1dzx)

Weed

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 05, 2024 10:26 PM (4Med0)

129 Hey, Hrothgar.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 10:27 PM (v6JzV)

130 @62

>>The UK police are compromised.

No, the UK Police, like all other police forces, are agents of the state, and will do what the state tells them to do, you want them to do things differently, you're going to need to install a different state.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 05, 2024 10:27 PM (XV/Pl)

131 1) Nothing is more important than education. Everyone should have a college degree. We need to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into our educational system, because education is so important.

2) Letting in tens of millions of people who have only elementary school educations is of enormous economic benefit to our society.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Not funny how this all works isn't it?

Posted by: Some Rat at August 05, 2024 10:27 PM (vJiyU)

132 128 What crops need a lot of manual picking these days?
Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:23 PM (B1dzx)

Weed

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 05, 2024 10:26 PM (4Med0

I hate picking weeds.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 05, 2024 10:27 PM (CeeD+)

133 Apparently that fat commie fuck is a Blue Falcon as well:

Shhhhh!

Shapiro is a stronger VP candidate. Keep trashing Shapiro, wait until Walz is named VP candidate, and then unload on him.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 05, 2024 10:27 PM (uxCna)

134 nerdygirl: "By the time I got back on the road the loonies were nowhere hear me."

Well, those particular loonies. Unfortunately, you didn't see all the other loonies who were. They're always there.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at August 05, 2024 10:27 PM (aXxgO)

135 "They HATE the people from California with a passion. One tried to run us off the road. Bringing Cali crazy to normal town."

Were they driving a BMW?

Posted by: davidt at August 05, 2024 10:27 PM (i0F8b)

136 looked at Rapid City because I was born there. Thought I might feel a connection.
Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:21 PM (B1dzx)

Ellsworth?
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 05, 2024 10:24 PM (4Med0)

Yes. I lived there for the next six years before we moved to Louisiana.

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:28 PM (B1dzx)

137 Rich, western countries face a stark choice: 6-day workweeks or more immigration, top economist warns
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2024 10:25 PM (63Dwl)

----------

No political axe to grind there, for sure.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2024 10:28 PM (15aOX)

138 This isn't new. The system started in the 60s.
Posted by: This Is Obvious at August 05, 2024 10:26 PM (+mZpE)

Now with new and improved DEI "Didn't Earn It" credentials for the taking

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 05, 2024 10:28 PM (hOUT3)

139 Looked at real estate in Rapid City ,SD. How can their real estate be more expensive than Houston?

You need to wake up to the fact that Houston is the new Detroit.

Posted by: Going Deep. Out at August 05, 2024 10:28 PM (9X60i)

140 No, the UK Police, like all other police forces, are agents of the state, and will do what the state tells them to do, you want them to do things differently, you're going to need to install a different state.

We've come a long way from "back the blue" here. Damn, I remember those days. Back in the Romney Wars.

Posted by: This Is Obvious at August 05, 2024 10:28 PM (+mZpE)

141 78 Why yes, yes I am.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 10:28 PM (v6JzV)

142 Shapiro is a stronger VP candidate. Keep trashing Shapiro, wait until Walz is named VP candidate, and then unload on him.

Then you can mention that Walz changed the Minnesota flag to look like the Somali flag.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 05, 2024 10:29 PM (uxCna)

143 21 Only an academic could think that the border crisis is caused by a labor shortage.

Posted by: tankdemon

Well, if it is, then we can get rid of unemployment payments and welfare, other than true disability. And I say true disability because they are a lot fake backaches out there.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2024 10:29 PM (0Htd1)

144 Josh Hawley @HawleyMO 1h
🚨🚨 NEW - Whistleblowers tell me the lead site agent in charge of the Butler rally was known to be inexperienced, ineffective and not up to the job - and on the day failed to implement basic security protocols - yet this person is STILL on active duty. Why? 👇

https://tinyurl.com/26mcv56x
letter to Rowe screencap

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 10:29 PM (i0CiB)

145 93 I've seen reports tonight that Muslim mobs in Birmingham were invading pubs and assaulting the white patrons.

No police response, of course.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 05, 2024 10:11 PM (uxCna)

Luckily the whole country is a gun-free zone, so we know that no one will get hurt.

Posted by: LASue at August 05, 2024 10:30 PM (kmSxS)

146 @31

>>So how did all you mooks do in the market today?

I've been investing since the Dow was at 2500.

So far it looks like profit taking and a re-calibration away from tech stocks, more than a true market down turn and beat down.

I noticed pharmaceuticals and defense stocks are ticking up, so there might be an upswing in those sectors.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at August 05, 2024 10:30 PM (XV/Pl)

147 118 What crops need a lot of manual picking these days?
In these parts pruning fruit trees in the spring is a bigger issue than picking. Milking cows and sorting eggs are using immigrant labor. used to be legal migrant labor.

Posted by: lurking grandma at August 05, 2024 10:30 PM (sujqA)

148 Looked at real estate in Rapid City ,SD. How can their real estate be more expensive than Houston?

You need to wake up to the fact that Houston is the new Detroit.
Posted by: Going Deep. Out at August 05, 2024 10:28 PM (9X60i)

I've lived or worked in the top 5 largest cities. I'd pick Houston out of all of them.

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:30 PM (B1dzx)

149 If William Wilberforce had taken the position that the way to abolish slavery was to create a way for people and firms to get the labor that the economy really needs in legitimate, legal ways, and until we have that, the whole debate over slavery is unresovlable, we would have barracoons and auction blocks in a network from Africa to Louisiana, Havana and to Sao Paulo. Human trafficking and human smuggling is slavery. Calling it mere economics is obscene.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2024 10:30 PM (D7oie)

150 Having in the previous thread announced the launch of my upcoming documentary Ace The Enshelfaning, a chronicle of the existential struggle of an Ewok with the despair of home improvement, I now compile the data necessary for the project. Those of you who know the blogger, does he use conditioner, or is he given to vaunting his furry carapace in scorn of hygiene? And if he does, would he go with something generic? We must save funds so that we can properly fit out one of you as Krampus, and also for song rights from Kraftwerk.

One further concern - craft union rules regarding food and drink are limiting. Given that, what would be a reasonable amount of hobos to assemble? Does he prefer to prepare them for his own consumption, or would he accept the tender ministrations of Linda, who has been in the industry for years and is no longer capable of being shocked? Is he rendered uneasy by Italian deserts? This I ask so that I may comment in my narration, Leave the Ewok, take the cannoli.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has A New Project at August 05, 2024 10:30 PM (tmPIh)

151 105 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 05, 2024 10:17 PM (QXQ4l)

I looked at Rapid City because I was born there. Thought I might feel a connection.
Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:21 PM (B1dzx)

Spearfish isn't too far away.

Might be more affordable.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 05, 2024 10:31 PM (QXQ4l)

152 Sean Davis retweeted
Abigail Jackson @abigailmarone 1h
🚨🚨🚨 NEW 🚨🚨🚨
Whistleblowers tell @HawleyMO that the Secret Service at the Butler PA rally DID NOT check IDs when issuing credentials for restricted areas

Abigail Jackson @abigailmarone 1h
🚨 BREAKING: whistleblowers tell @HawleyMO that the lead site agent at the Butler PA rally PERSONALLY made decisions to compromise the event security, including:

- FAILING to check IDs when issuing credentials that authorized access to restricted areas

- Allowing objects to be placed that OBSTRUCTED lines-of-sight

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 10:31 PM (i0CiB)

153 "I am proud of the fact I am a mackem. I am proud that I am English." Zaf Iqbal, Muslim taxi driver from Sunderland

How about teaching your fellow savage co-religionists not to murder and rape, fuckface?

Posted by: Backlash is ever descending here but landing there at August 05, 2024 10:31 PM (q1Zxb)

154 New potassium-ion battery technology could soon replace lithium-ion
It holds great promise for electric vehicles

*************

Didn't these people take an introductory course in chemistry? Potassium will burn nearly as strongly as lithium if exposed to oxygen.

I guess it isn't quite as dangerous from a neurological view, though I'm not a doctor, so if this is true, then potassium would be a better choice than lithium, though I wouldn't want my vehicles to have these batteries in them.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at August 05, 2024 10:31 PM (hMc/6)

155 131 1) Nothing is more important than education. Everyone should have a college degree. We need to pump hundreds of billions of dollars into our educational system, because education is so important.

2) Letting in tens of millions of people who have only elementary school educations is of enormous economic benefit to our society.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Not funny how this all works isn't it?
Posted by: Some Rat at August 05, 2024 10:27 PM (vJiyU)

Yo Rat, shouldn't there be a

3)Letting in tens of millions of people whose functional language is not English to bring us the joys of diversity in critical communications!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 05, 2024 10:31 PM (hOUT3)

156
Going to look just fine from my little rural spot in fly-over country. Won't lose a minute of sleep over it. Even when the public hangings commence. Just don't care ... they're Brits. They picked this.
Posted by: This Is Obvious

I say let 'em crash!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2024 10:31 PM (63Dwl)

157 What crops need a lot of manual picking these days?
In these parts pruning fruit trees in the spring is a bigger issue than picking. Milking cows and sorting eggs are using immigrant labor. used to be legal migrant labor.
Posted by: lurking grandma at August 05, 2024 10:30 PM (sujqA)

Thanks. I assume though that the number needed is a lot lower than in the past because of automation?

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:32 PM (B1dzx)

158 The way to secure the border is to create a legitimate way for people and firms to get the labor that the economy really needs in legitimate, legal ways, and until we have that, the whole debate over the wall and stuff is just silly,” Lant Pritchett, one of the world’s top thinkers on developmental economics, has seen this crisis coming for decades over his career at Harvard, the World Bank, and Oxford University, where he currently heads a research lab.

Only an academic could be this fucking retarded.

Posted by: More like Lant Dipshit, amiright at August 05, 2024 10:33 PM (q1Zxb)

159 31 So how did all you mooks do in the market today?

*fans large stack of ones*
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
I always follow my mom's advice about the stock market, whenever there is a Black Friday, Black Monday, or whatever. Wait it out, it will eventually go back up. My mom and dad were blue collar, and left a large financial estate.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2024 10:33 PM (0Htd1)

160 Quote 1 is bullshit. Big business can get quality employees. They just don't want to pay for them so they use illegals who take less pay and all the shit cause speaking out gets them a trip across the river, either by immigration or Mexican Cartells keeping their gig going and giving a a few coins to the ferryman.

Cause slavery was outlawed but the Koch bros found a loophole, and like history rhyming the Dems will die (or at least try to kill others) on that hill.

Posted by: Bete at August 05, 2024 10:34 PM (LX4y3)

161 Spearfish is nice. I like Hot Springs, too.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 05, 2024 10:34 PM (4Med0)

162 How about teaching your fellow savage co-religionists not to murder and rape, fuckface?

Its the one problem I've seen, bitched about to no avail, and otherwise ranted about since 9/11. It's a structural problem we have, here, in Western Civ.

It's the "freedom of religion" thing. Constitutional problems aside, there is a basic misconception about the entire notion.

We've never run into a religion before that embraced the political and social domination aspects like Islam.

Islam is not compatible with Western Civ. Unless we go Fascist - specifically to drive out Islam.

Posted by: This Is Obvious at August 05, 2024 10:35 PM (+mZpE)

163 Yo Rat, shouldn't there be a

3)Letting in tens of millions of people whose functional language is not English to bring us the joys of diversity in critical communications!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 05, 2024 10:31 PM (hOUT3)

Pointing and nodding -- It's all the rage!

Posted by: LASue at August 05, 2024 10:35 PM (kmSxS)

164 Kamala’s surging in every poll. It’s her race to win and she has the momentum.

White old racist men seething across the country.

Victory is near.

Posted by: MAGA is weird at August 05, 2024 10:35 PM (ZL2IL)

165 Rich, western countries face a stark choice: 6-day workweeks or more immigration, top economist warns
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2024 10:25 PM (63Dwl)

Ahhh...the bullsh*t of the false dichotomy. Them top economists can pucker up and kiss my ass.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 05, 2024 10:35 PM (W/lyH)

166 South Dakota needs to move its capital to Mitchell. Make the legislature meet in the Corn Palace.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 10:35 PM (v6JzV)

167 andycanuck @152,

I'm beginning to think the whistleblower(s)' revelations are so numerous and damning that we're all on a historic TV show and getting punked.

These "failures" cannot possibly be real. It's to the point of absurdity. Boy Scouts could've done a better job.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at August 05, 2024 10:35 PM (aXxgO)

168 So, the US stock markets only dropped three percent today, and Wall Street is not choked with the bodies of stockbrokers who flung themselves out of windows. What other topics can we set our hair on fire over tonight?
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 05, 2024 10:08 PM (p6u4

The absolute emergency need for changes to Manhattan building codes to require that all the building on Wall Street have windows that can be opened from the inside.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2024 10:35 PM (D7oie)

169 >>>Surprisingly, there actually is a 'correct' way to hang a toilet paper roll.

Hanging in the front, unless you have asshole pets.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 05, 2024 10:36 PM (w6EFb)

170 Quote 1 is bullshit. Big business can get quality employees. They just don't want to pay for them

Exactly right. "Nobody wants to work anymore" is a bullshit claim - they just don't want to work at the joke-ass pay you're offering for hours that make their salary less than minimum wage.

Posted by: Unpaid intern - must have 5 years experience and MBA at August 05, 2024 10:36 PM (q1Zxb)

171 I don't think pruning trees can be automated and I have heard egg sorting is mind-numbing boring but still needs human eyes. Cows milking parlors are very high tech but still need people. Not like squirting milk in a bucket. Not shoveling manure or delivering feed by hand these days

Posted by: lurking grandma at August 05, 2024 10:37 PM (sujqA)

172 Ach, Werner meant to say "Italian desserts" rather than "Italian deserts." But upon consideration, Italian deserts is an interesting consideration. Would it be a reference to Abyssinia, or another area within the reaches of the Maghreb? Might we take it to apply to regions bereft of Italians? For that would be tragic, as a society bereft of Italians would be a depressing place.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has A New Project at August 05, 2024 10:38 PM (tmPIh)

173 Quote 1 is bullshit. Big business can get quality employees. They just don't want to pay for them.

Its been this way forever. Hence, the Chamber of Commerce.

Posted by: This Is Obvious at August 05, 2024 10:38 PM (+mZpE)

174 169 >>>Surprisingly, there actually is a 'correct' way to hang a toilet paper roll.

Hanging in the front, unless you have asshole pets.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 05, 2024 10:36 PM (w6EFb)

That's not where pets are supposed to go...

Posted by: Are intestinal parasites pets? at August 05, 2024 10:38 PM (q1Zxb)

175 Thanks. I assume though that the number needed is a lot lower than in the past because of automation?
Posted by: polynikes

Which is why you can't buy a decent tomato in a store.
They are engineered for picking, not taste.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 05, 2024 10:38 PM (vJiyU)

176 112 >>> "I am proud of the fact I am a mackem. I am proud that I am English." Zaf Iqbal, Muslim taxi driver from Sunderland

************

Not the same Iqbal who ran The Jiggly Room in Married With Children. This one was from India.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at August 05, 2024 10:39 PM (hMc/6)

177 Spearfish isn't too far away.

Might be more affordable.
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 05, 2024 10:31 PM (QXQ4l)

Looks like that's where the California millionaires are buying vacation homes or middle class are relocating after selling their CA home.

Looks nicer though.

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:39 PM (FvB5F)

178 I wonder how illegals would respond to raccoons with 9mms.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 05, 2024 10:39 PM (w6EFb)

179 169 Yes, front. Though I prefer to just hold a free roll and tear pieces off as needed. Toilet paper hangers are basically ridiculous.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 10:39 PM (v6JzV)

180 They are engineered for picking, not taste.
Posted by: Some Rat at August 05, 2024 10:38 PM (vJiyU)

That's debatable.

Posted by: boogers at August 05, 2024 10:39 PM (q1Zxb)

181 157 What crops need a lot of manual picking these days?
In these parts pruning fruit trees in the spring is a bigger issue than picking. Milking cows and sorting eggs are using immigrant labor. used to be legal migrant labor.
Posted by: lurking grandma at August 05, 2024 10:30 PM (sujqA)

Thanks. I assume though that the number needed is a lot lower than in the past because of automation?
Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:32 PM (B1dzx
We used to pick cotton by hand, 3 cents a pound. Black, white, whatever. Then we had community organizers arrive from up north, told our work force to sign up for government ‘checks’. That next year we had mechanical cotton pickers.

Posted by: Eromero at August 05, 2024 10:39 PM (LHPAg)

182
Are you a gentleman who only wears long pants in public?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2024 10:14 PM (0eaVi)

___________

Absolutely. There used to be time when a boy was said to be old enough to get his first pair of long pants. That's the age men should stop wearing shorts.

And yes, I live on the Gulf Coast.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2024 10:40 PM (1Nxff)

183 Surprisingly, there actually is a 'correct' way to hang a toilet paper roll.

Hanging in the front, unless you have asshole pets.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 05, 2024 10:36 PM (w6EFb)

That's not where pets are supposed to go...
Posted by: Are intestinal parasites pets?

Just put the roll on the tank....geez.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 05, 2024 10:40 PM (vJiyU)

184 Finally got the habit of checking the hidden click first.

Not that familiar with Van Halen. Is that one guy always dressed like a tree that's been tee-peed on Halloween?

Evenin', y'all. I would have been here sooner but I wasn't. No first for me!

Back up to the post...

Posted by: mindful webworker - a fine tarred and feathered friend at August 05, 2024 10:40 PM (UrLdJ)

185 The LA Times had an article a few days ago saying that all the "immigrants" moving into California were just offsetting all the Americans fleeing California, and that California would be suffering crippling labor shortages without all that wonderful immigration.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

So the illegal immigrants coming in have the same type of job skills as the people fleeing Commiefornia?

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2024 10:40 PM (0Htd1)

186 Oh, a public service announcement: you all should have two weeks of cash at home. Well, two weeks of everything. It just makes sense. Things happen, as we all know.

Plus 2A things.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 05, 2024 10:41 PM (w6EFb)

187 Hello Friends. I think you should let the toilet paper hang the way you want it to.
I prefer 'under', hubs prefers 'over'.
Classic house divided.

Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 10:41 PM (xJEPL)

188 The way to secure the border is to create a legitimate way for people and firms to get the labor that the economy really needs in legitimate
-
Any firm that's unwilling to pay Americans enough for the work it wants done isn't actually necessary or legitimate.

Posted by: Methos at August 05, 2024 10:41 PM (Dnobf)

189 182 Hadrian, fistbump

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 10:41 PM (v6JzV)

190 162 Islam is a political ideology wearing the skin suit of a religion.

Posted by: Bete at August 05, 2024 10:41 PM (LX4y3)

191 166 South Dakota needs to move its capital to Mitchell. Make the legislature meet in the Corn Palace.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 10:35 PM (v6JzV)

That would be great but the Corn Palace is too good for them. I think they should meet in the Badlands. They should move the US Congress there for their sessions. Don't let them leave until they have a balanced budget.

Posted by: Megthered at August 05, 2024 10:41 PM (rwiQP)

192 Clicked on the top link. Was David Lee Roth gay?

Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 10:42 PM (xJEPL)

193 The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee 7h
Referee Warns Olympic Women’s Boxing Finalists Not To Punch Each Other In The Testicles
buff.ly/3AdBXbE

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 10:42 PM (i0CiB)

194 Absolutely. There used to be time when a boy was said to be old enough to get his first pair of long pants. That's the age men should stop wearing shorts.

And yes, I live on the Gulf Coast.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2024 10:40 PM (1Nxff)

Strangely, others did not agree this morning.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2024 10:42 PM (0eaVi)

195 On that potassium ion battery, in the article someone wrote a comment which meant they failed Chemistry and never actually witnessed the reaction of alkali metals and water:
"Almost everybody has seen this with our own eyes in high school chemistry. The teacher drops sodium, potassium, and lithium in water, and we all see how much more energetically lithium reacts."

Bullshit right there.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, c'e la carte per il culo #02 at August 05, 2024 10:42 PM (qfLjt)

196 That's not where pets are supposed to go...

Posted by: Are intestinal parasites pets? at August 05, 2024 10:38 PM (q1Zxb)

Tell my cats. They want to watch us shower. Publius won't have it, but I don't mind.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 05, 2024 10:42 PM (w6EFb)

197 158 The way to secure the border is to create a legitimate way for people and firms to get the labor that the economy really needs in legitimate, legal ways, and until we have that, the whole debate over the wall and stuff is just silly,” Lant Pritchett, one of the world’s top thinkers on developmental economics, has seen this crisis coming for decades over his career at Harvard, the World Bank, and Oxford University, where he currently heads a research lab.

Only an academic could be this fucking retarded.

Posted by: More like Lant Dipshit, amiright at August 05, 2024 10:33 PM (q1Zxb)

Hey Lant, I got news for you. The US Democrat Party ain't interested in "...a legitimate way for people and firms to get the labor that the economy really needs in legitimate, legal ways..."

The military-age men from China and every other country being welcomed into the US by the Biden Administration aren't coming here to pick lettuce, mow lawns, or clean fast food restaurant rest rooms.

Posted by: Gref at August 05, 2024 10:43 PM (5fDan)

198 200

Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 10:44 PM (xJEPL)

199 114 Last time we were in Rapid City, we saw more license plates from Cali, New York and Illinois. Asked a friend about this and she said they're coming because of no state income tax and it's much cheaper to live there than where they're from. They HATE the people from California with a passion. One tried to run us off the road. Bringing Cali crazy to normal town.
Posted by: Megthered at August 05, 2024 10:23 PM

Two summers ago my family rented a vehicle for a road trip, going through ID, WY, MT, UT, and SD. The rental had a CA plate and I was nervous about being flipped off a ton or seeing other forms of annoyance from natives.

Posted by: Scarlett O'Hara at August 05, 2024 10:44 PM (BFWdr)

200 198 200
Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 10:44 PM (xJEPL)

so close

Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 10:44 PM (xJEPL)

201
Islam is a political ideology wearing the skin suit of a religion.
Posted by: Bete at August 05, 2024 10:41 PM (LX4y3)

_________

That's the reason otherwise Christophobic hate bigots apologize for it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 05, 2024 10:44 PM (1Nxff)

202 164 Would you believe it if the gerbils identify as emotional support animals?

-Richard Gere

Yes, I know this rumor was certainly Chinese commie propaganda cause Free Tibet annoyed them.

Posted by: Bete at August 05, 2024 10:45 PM (LX4y3)

203 That's not where pets are supposed to go...

Posted by: Are intestinal parasites pets? at August 05, 2024 10:38 PM (q1Zxb)

Tell my cats. They want to watch us shower. Publius won't have it, but I don't mind.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 05, 2024 10:42 PM (w6EFb)

Maybe they're wondering why you're not licking each other to get clean?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2024 10:45 PM (0eaVi)

204 196 Well, cats are the Devil’s familiars, so…

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 10:45 PM (v6JzV)

205 so close
Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 10:44 PM (xJEPL)

But you persevered!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 05, 2024 10:45 PM (hOUT3)

206 @AlphaNewsMN Sep 19, 2022
A second retired command sergeant major who served alongside Gov. Tim Walz in the National Guard is speaking out, saying the governor “left his troops high and dry” before a deployment to Iraq.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 05, 2024 10:18 PM (IG4Id)

but JD Vance is Weird!

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2024 10:45 PM (D7oie)

207 But you persevered!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 05, 2024 10:45 PM (hOUT3)

Persistence pays off!

Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 10:46 PM (xJEPL)

208 So who's been watching the immigrant vs natives clash in the streets of the UK? Gummint takes the side of the immigrants.

How does that make you feel? Aren't you glad we're armed?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 05, 2024 10:46 PM (w6EFb)

209 192 Clicked on the top link. Was David Lee Roth gay?
Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 10:42 PM (xJEPL)

I laughed and had to look. I don't he was gay - I think it was the 80's.

Posted by: Iris at August 05, 2024 10:46 PM (n3DL0)

210 Lant Pritchett, one of the world’s top thinkers...

Top. Thinker.

Posted by: mindful webworker - sure, Jan at August 05, 2024 10:47 PM (UrLdJ)

211 31 -- I liquidated every stock, bond, and mutual fund we had the day after Zero was elected first time. I don't trust the USA with a single cent of my money. Just look around at the rest of the world. Every day, we seem to be getting closer and closer to the edge of the financial cliff.

My grandfather was the comptroller of a very prestigious Philadelphia stock brokerage. He taught me not to trust the bastards a single inch. Before you even know it, their grubby little hands are in your pocket stealing every penny.

Posted by: Livia Drusilla at August 05, 2024 10:47 PM (NcHb9)

212 How does that make you feel? Aren't you glad we're armed?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 05, 2024 10:46 PM (w6EFb)

Almost like Our Founders knew a thing or two, eh?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at August 05, 2024 10:47 PM (hOUT3)

213 South Dakota needs to move its capital to Mitchell. Make the legislature meet in the Corn Palace.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Legislatures should meet in the middle of a field. Saves on air conditioning, building and cleaning expenses, and keeps lawmakers in the sunlight.

if they're good, the get ports-potties instead of bushes.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 05, 2024 10:48 PM (VNX3d)

214 Aren't you glad we're armed?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist

Gonna give this a solid yes.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 05, 2024 10:48 PM (vJiyU)

215 Maybe they're wondering why you're not licking each other to get clean?

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2024 10:45 PM (0eaVi)

*types*
*deletes*

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 05, 2024 10:48 PM (w6EFb)

216 R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 3h
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📌#Buffalo | #NewYork
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https://tinyurl.com/29e6cpcw

🚨 #UPDATE: Here is footage of the damage after an EF1 tornado with winds reaching 90 MPH tore through a neighborhood in downtown Buffalo City, New York. The tornado scattered debris, flipped cars, and knocked down trees.
https://tinyurl.com/4f8z66kc

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 10:48 PM (i0CiB)

217 192 ...It was the 80s, when the look wash fashion for straight rockers. It almost made sense at the time, probably cause Wallstreet did so much blow even in the hinterlands we got a bit of a shared high.

Which also explains neon everywhere.

Posted by: Bete at August 05, 2024 10:48 PM (LX4y3)

218 106 Mister Ghost: "Kathy Griffin brought Sia on to sing at Comics for Kamala."

So why was Griffin there?
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel

Oh, I don't know. A few years ago she did a pretty good joke involving a severed head of Trump. Haven't heard much from her since then. She kind of disappeared from the industry.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2024 10:48 PM (0Htd1)

219 Now Shapiro is saying he was young and stupid when he was in the IDF. He has since reconsidered and wants a two state solution. I wonder if this will ne enough for the hamas wing of the dems.

Posted by: Megthered at August 05, 2024 10:49 PM (rwiQP)

220 How does that make you feel? Aren't you glad we're armed?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 05, 2024 10:46 PM (w6EFb)

We lost all of ours in a tragic boating accident.

Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 10:49 PM (xJEPL)

221 Well that potassium-ion battery sounds like it has passed beyond vaporware; article says they are shipping to OEM's now. Could be a lot cheaper to manufacture.

Lighting and thunder here at Peon Manor, may get knocked off the Internet. Lights flickered a few seconds ago.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2024 10:49 PM (QjQFX)

222 Almost like Our Founders knew a thing or two, eh?
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~

Seems those old white guys had a pretty good handle on things.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 05, 2024 10:49 PM (vJiyU)

223 How does Peon Manor compare to Stately Poppins Manor?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 10:51 PM (v6JzV)

224 Didn't Walz's daughter tweet out real-time info on where and what the cops were doing during the St. Floyd riots?

I seem to recall that this was the case.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at August 05, 2024 10:51 PM (hMc/6)

225 Only an academic could think that the border crisis is caused by a labor shortage.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2024 10:00 PM (Py1md)

Funny how so many of them go straight onto the welfare tit. Almost as though labor was beneath them.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2024 10:51 PM (QjQFX)

226 Richard Gere got to have his way with Cindy Crawford. If a gerbil was required I might have to consider it . I'd say no but not an immediate no. 😀

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:52 PM (B1dzx)

227 What crops need a lot of manual picking these days?
Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:23 PM (B1dzx)

The ones we don't grow anymore because the piece rate laborers have to get at least Minimum Wage and OT in some states, and insurance to match.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2024 10:52 PM (D7oie)

228
We used to pick cotton by hand, 3 cents a pound. Black, white, whatever. Then we had community organizers arrive from up north, told our work force to sign up for government ‘checks’. That next year we had mechanical cotton pickers.
Posted by: Eromero

Ain't gonna make a cotton picker outta me

https://youtu.be/K0GB3CnULEg

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2024 10:52 PM (63Dwl)

229 Shit's going pear shaped in Limeytown.

Bet there are plenty of pew-pews stashed in the mosques.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at August 05, 2024 10:17 PM (4Med0)

Watch. They'll end up running guns FROM Ireland.

The pic from Belfast of two protesters, one with the Tricolor and the other with the Union Jack, shoulder to shoulder had a great comment: It took the global elites to end the Irish religious problem. They just didn't think it would end like it's doing. I honestly think there's a lot of people awakened to the fact that it's the people of countries vs. their own governments and that global cabal (WEF, Builderburger, whatever). It's happening to us, too, what with our UniParty and Soros. If Americans stay united in demanding the illegals gone, no tearful heart-rending excuses, we'll win this thing yet.

Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 10:52 PM (gKDq2)

230 219 One the one hand, still Jewish. On the other, do is the first gentleman. I guess it depends on the Kill them all now vs Use the stupid infidels and then kill them strain some people have.

Posted by: Bete at August 05, 2024 10:52 PM (LX4y3)

231 Stock market crashed today. Sort of. Tomorrow is another day.

Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 10:52 PM (xJEPL)

232 The Richard Gere gerbil thing came from Stallone, who had some sort of girlie-man gripe with him.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 10:54 PM (v6JzV)

233 Ah, let us flood your nation with replacement population or you'll be forced into indentured servitude just to make ends meet us a really inspiring message.

The Chamber of Commerce and all other corporate/oligarch meat riders can DIAF.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 05, 2024 10:54 PM (LTDEP)

234 226 Well that certainly changed a slam dunk no into one requiring a lot of though. Especially if we are talking 80s Crawford.

Posted by: Bete at August 05, 2024 10:54 PM (LX4y3)

235 Leading Report @LeadingReport 33m
BREAKING: House Administration Committee Chairman Bryan Steil expanded his investigation into online political donations through ActBlue and requested the FEC immediately initiate an emergency rulemaking process to require political campaigns to verify the card verification value of donors who contribute online and a rulemaking to prohibit political committees from accepting online contributions from gift cards or credit and debit cards.

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 10:54 PM (i0CiB)

236 My grandfather was the comptroller of a very prestigious Philadelphia stock brokerage. He taught me not to trust the bastards a single inch. Before you even know it, their grubby little hands are in your pocket stealing every penny.
Posted by: Livia Drusilla at August 05, 2024 10:47 PM (NcHb9)

----------

Now you're just talking crazy.

Posted by: B. Madoff at August 05, 2024 10:55 PM (15aOX)

237 My grandfather was the comptroller of a very prestigious Philadelphia stock brokerage. He taught me not to trust the bastards a single inch. Before you even know it, their grubby little hands are in your pocket stealing every penny.
Posted by: Livia Drusilla at August 05, 2024 10:47 PM (NcHb9)

Duke and Duke ?

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:56 PM (B1dzx)

238 She doesn't actually believe in it. It's an act. I doubt she really believes in anything, other than power.
Posted by: LASue at August 05, 2024 10:22 PM (Gq9/0)

Based upon stories coming out about her as a Girl Boss In Charge (local, state, federal), she'd be terribly abusive with her power. Throw in her love of the drink. (There's no way she's been sober for all her Kamala-isms.)

Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 10:56 PM (gKDq2)

239 Help! I've fallen and I can't get up!

Posted by: NASDAQ at August 05, 2024 10:56 PM (15aOX)

240 195 On that potassium ion battery, in the article someone wrote a comment which meant they failed Chemistry and never actually witnessed the reaction of alkali metals and water:
"Almost everybody has seen this with our own eyes in high school chemistry. The teacher drops sodium, potassium, and lithium in water, and we all see how much more energetically lithium reacts."

Bullshit right there.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, c'e la carte per il culo #02 at August 05, 2024 10:42 PM (qfLjt)

If I had a dollar for every story I've read in the past 15 year about a miraculous new storage battery technology, I could buy every Horde regular their own private island in the Bahamas, complete with a mansion. And a seaplane.

Posted by: Gref at August 05, 2024 10:56 PM (5fDan)

241 232 Stallone should have had that gripe with Arnold after Arbolded suckered Frank into jumping onto Stop or My Mom Will Shoot. And yet they still went into business together.

Posted by: Bete at August 05, 2024 10:57 PM (LX4y3)

242 93
‘ I hope the events of the past few days have brought it home to ordinary Brits that the police are their enemies.’

I hope the events lead to the jihadis and their sponsors dying. If I am going to wish it’ll be for something big.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 05, 2024 10:58 PM (3wi/L)

243 Leading Report @LeadingReport 4h
BREAKING: Trump leads Harris among age 18-34 by 4 points, according to polling by SurveyUSA.

Trump: 50%
Harris: 46%

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 10:58 PM (i0CiB)

244 I heard Trumps comments about Georgia gov. Kemp he made at the rally and all I could do is think WTF? That may l prove to be his biggest mistake of this campaign. Every voter is needed and all attacks should be aimed at the socialists, not people he needs to bring in. Regardless of what you think of him, Kemp is very popular here (He beat the fat gap toothed lady twice who had massive support of the ruling class) and Trump needs his support. He probably just drove away 100,000 Georgia Kemp supporters and it may cost him the state. Huge, ego drive unforced error. Isn't there somebody that can tell him when to STFU?

Posted by: Ripley at August 05, 2024 10:58 PM (PTDkx)

245 Walz solidifies Kamala as a far far far left politician.

It's like Humphrey and Dukakis combined to a super liberal ticket

Posted by: Shenanigans at August 05, 2024 10:58 PM (lcyZw)

246 Osh Kosh B'gosh!

Posted by: NC Ref at August 05, 2024 10:58 PM (2xCPU)

247 If I had a dollar for every story I've read in the past 15 year about a miraculous new storage battery technology, I could buy every Horde regular their own private island in the Bahamas, complete with a mansion. And a seaplane.
Posted by: Gref at August 05, 2024 10:56 PM (5fDan)

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Don't blame the Horde for your failure to capitalize on an opportunity.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2024 10:59 PM (15aOX)

248 Did we ever get a poll thread today?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 10:59 PM (v6JzV)

249 Why?

the lead site agent in Butler uses the pronoun "they"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2024 10:59 PM (D7oie)

250 I could care less how the TP is hung

If you *could* care less, then you *do* care. I see. 😀

If you're standing and what to grab a couple sheets, it's more convenient if it's over the top. In my experience.

Fortunately, the cat has never learned to unroll the tp, which is a problem with over-the-top.

Lazy me: Was there anything in the linked article worth clicking through for? Does it mention the spider problem?

Posted by: mindful webworker - it's a wonderful wipe at August 05, 2024 10:59 PM (UrLdJ)

251 Posted by: Ripley at August 05, 2024 10:58 PM (PTDkx)

I have to say Kemp handled it well and stated he was still fully on the defeat the Harris train.

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 10:59 PM (B1dzx)

252 If we have to finance a Trump landslide with a recession, it's a fair trade as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2024 11:00 PM (15aOX)

253 But I read that Kamela is ahead of Trump in the polls for the first time ever.

Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 11:00 PM (xJEPL)

254 I guess I need to go to bed.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 11:01 PM (v6JzV)

255 I could care less is just an abbreviation our minds make .

It's short for I could less than anything else.

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 11:01 PM (B1dzx)

256 253 But I read that Kamela is ahead of Trump in the polls for the first time ever.
Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 11:00 PM (xJEPL)

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The entire nation is burning up with Kamala Fever!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2024 11:02 PM (15aOX)

257 G’dnight, All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 11:03 PM (v6JzV)

258 "I have to say Kemp handled it well and stated he was still fully on the defeat the Harris train.
Posted by: polynike"

That is a relief. Trump should resolve his issues with Kemp behind closed doors. This is no time to settle scores about 2020.

Posted by: Ripley at August 05, 2024 11:03 PM (PTDkx)

259 3% isn't even a correction, everyone can unbunch their panties.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2024 11:04 PM (RIvkX)

260 She kind of disappeared from the industry.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2024 10:48 PM (0Htd1)

And turned into a shriveled hag.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 05, 2024 11:04 PM (w6EFb)

261 I guess I need to go to bed.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 11:01 PM (v6JzV)

Don't forget to place your long pants on the valet before going to bed.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 05, 2024 11:04 PM (0eaVi)

262 Trump can settle family business after he is elected, but the list is long.

Posted by: Megthered at August 05, 2024 11:04 PM (rwiQP)

263 That video of Kamala processing her wokeness is not scary because of that but rather it's that psychopathic cackling laugh especially at times when a normal laugh would be weird.

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 11:05 PM (B1dzx)

264 239 Damnit I just said I fixed you.

-Joe Biteme

Posted by: Bete at August 05, 2024 11:05 PM (LX4y3)

265 "We have to stay woke. Like everybody needs to be woke. And you can talk about if you're the wokest or woker, but just stay more woke than less woke," then-Sen. Harris said in 2017 during Recode's annual Code Conference

Posted by: Don Black at August 05, 2024 11:05 PM (/7KEl)

266 243 Leading Report @LeadingReport 4h
BREAKING: Trump leads Harris among age 18-34 by 4 points, according to polling by SurveyUSA.

Trump: 50%
Harris: 46%

****

Gen Z swinging to the right despite being inundated by leftism in both media (and later social media) all their lives.

I credit the home school boom we've seen in the past 20 years. The real fruits will bear out in Gen-A, which will be the most home schooled generation since public schooling became a monopoly

Posted by: Shenanigans at August 05, 2024 11:05 PM (lcyZw)

267 233 Ah, let us flood your nation with replacement population or you'll be forced into indentured servitude just to make ends meet us a really inspiring message.

The Chamber of Commerce and all other corporate/oligarch meat riders can DIAF.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 05, 2024 10:54 PM (LTDEP)

LinkedIn is a wretched hive of these scum and villains. Not even the most jaded of r/antiwork could make that shit up.

Posted by: It's almost comical at August 05, 2024 11:05 PM (q1Zxb)

268 >>> 126
Only an academic could think that the border crisis is caused by a labor shortage.
==
The title of that article is:

Rich, western countries face a stark choice: 6-day workweeks or more immigration, top economist warns
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2024 10:25 PM (63Dwl)

WEFtard shitstain CEOs face a stark choice: leave the country voluntarily, or be evicted to one of the shitholes they imported invaders from along with said invaders, normies warn

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 05, 2024 11:06 PM (FnneF)

269 Peon Manor: filled with wrenches
Poppins Manor: filled with used teabags

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2024 11:06 PM (RIvkX)

270 Breaking911 @Breaking911 1h
NEW TRUMP AD: ‘Bidenomics is working!’

https://tinyurl.com/pakrsknk
1:01 minutes

Not as good as this new one IMHO:
Kamala Krash:
https://tinyurl.com/2tyv7z95

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 11:06 PM (i0CiB)

271 Hell, the immigrants we are getting are illiterate in their own fucking language.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 05, 2024 11:06 PM (bJJjR)

272 @AlphaNewsMN Sep 19, 2022
A second retired command sergeant major who served alongside Gov. Tim Walz in the National Guard is speaking out, saying the governor “left his troops high and dry” before a deployment to Iraq.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 05, 2024 10:18 PM (IG4Id)

but JD Vance is Weird!
Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2024 10:45 PM (D7oie)

If true, it goes right along with most Dem former military, while not Stolen Valor frauds, are frauds none-the-less. Danang Dick. Swift Boat Kerry. Maybe older Dems (read: Before my time) were more patriotic not for political purposes. But maybe I'm way off base. I know military service has always been a resume enhancer for a politician going way back; Lincoln fought in the Blackhawk Wars, e.g.

But recent Dems? All phony as crap out of Kamala's mouth. I'd love to know what those who served with Pete Buttplug really thought of him as an officer.

Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 11:07 PM (gKDq2)

273 271 Hell, the immigrants we are getting are illiterate in their own fucking language.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 05, 2024 11:06 PM (bJJjR)

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That's because you don't need to read or write in prison.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2024 11:07 PM (15aOX)

274 248 It right next to the Tshirts on the n3w sh3lves. On the floor.

Posted by: Bete at August 05, 2024 11:08 PM (LX4y3)

275 ‘ I hope the events of the past few days have brought it home to ordinary Brits that the police are their enemies.’

I hope the events lead to the jihadis and their sponsors dying. If I am going to wish it’ll be for something big.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 05, 2024 10:58 PM (3wi/L)

First, people need to learn this lesson everywhere. Second, as far as I'm concerned, this is nothing more than a delayed action to repel hostile invading forces. Fuck Iqbal and his taxi.

Posted by: quit raping and killing for Allah at August 05, 2024 11:08 PM (q1Zxb)

276 Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 11:07 PM (gKDq2)

You forgot brainiac Al Gore. He scored a sweet assignment.

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 11:08 PM (B1dzx)

277 242 93
‘ I hope the events of the past few days have brought it home to ordinary Brits that the police are their enemies.’

I hope the events lead to the jihadis and their sponsors dying. If I am going to wish it’ll be for something big.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 05, 2024 10:58 PM (3wi/L)

Eh Mate... maybe those Yanks were right back in 1776... the Government IS the problem.

Posted by: Brit... at August 05, 2024 11:09 PM (xaFKb)

278 the Corn Palace is too good for them. I think they should meet in the Badlands.

Somethin-to-hell or another is keeping Wall Drug out of this,
and I'll be goldurned if I can figure why.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 05, 2024 11:09 PM (zdLoL)

279 We've come a long way from "back the blue" here. Damn, I remember those days. Back in the Romney Wars.
Posted by: This Is Obvious at August 05, 2024 10:28 PM (+mZpE)

The January 6 op pretty much sealed the deal for me.

Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 11:09 PM (gKDq2)

280 271 Well, isn't int like all our yutes can really throw a rock at that glass house...

Posted by: Bete at August 05, 2024 11:09 PM (LX4y3)

281 Danang Dick. Swift Boat Kerry. Maybe older Dems (read: Before my time) were more patriotic not for political purposes. But maybe I'm way off base

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JFK sacrificed a PT Boat for love of his country. Ted only managed an Oldsmobile.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2024 11:10 PM (15aOX)

282 So the illegal immigrants coming in have the same type of job skills as the people fleeing Commiefornia?
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2024 10:40 PM (0Htd1)

His name is Tarik, he comes from the Sahel in Northern Africa, he was raised in a village and herded goats before the militants came and took them all. After that he made sandals out of old tires to sell.
He is your interventional cardiologist for your procedure, today.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 05, 2024 11:10 PM (D7oie)

283 Peon Manor: filled with wrenches
Poppins Manor: filled with used teabags
Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2024 11:06 PM (RIvkX)

Garret Manor: filled with teabagging

Posted by: And crocs. So I hear. at August 05, 2024 11:10 PM (q1Zxb)

284 256 253 But I read that Kamela is ahead of Trump in the polls for the first time ever.
Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 11:00 PM (xJEPL)

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The entire nation is burning up with Kamala Fever!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2024 11:02 PM (15aOX)

Soon progressives will all have fallen out of their coconut trees for Kamala. What then? She craters in the polls.

I can't wait for Kamala and Shapiro to do a joint interview with a Lapdog Media outfit later this week. On every question directed at Kamala, she'll turn to Josh and say, "Josh, go ahead and answer this one." She's an emptier suit than Barky.

Posted by: Gref at August 05, 2024 11:11 PM (5fDan)

285 270 Breaking911 @Breaking911 1h
NEW TRUMP AD: ‘Bidenomics is working!’

https://tinyurl.com/pakrsknk
1:01 minutes

Not as good as this new one IMHO:
Kamala Krash:
https://tinyurl.com/2tyv7z95
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 11:06 PM (i0CiB)

************

Those are a couple of very effective commercials that need to be played often and everywhere.

(I loved the Butthead "uhh" at the 0:35 mark of the first commercial.)

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at August 05, 2024 11:12 PM (hMc/6)

286 256 253 But I read that Kamela is ahead of Trump in the polls for the first time ever.
Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 11:00 PM (xJEPL)

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The entire nation is burning up with Kamala Fever!
Posted by: Cicero

kAMalA iz leidIng Inz alLS tha pULlz!!!! bAth iN hIr lUV JuCeS, duMIez!!!

Posted by: Weird troll being weird at August 05, 2024 11:12 PM (sAmhv)

287 That's because you don't need to read or write in prison.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2024 11:07 PM (15aOX)

Huh. I guess with all those knife skills that can be butchers.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 05, 2024 11:13 PM (bJJjR)

288 Only an academic could think that the border crisis is caused by a labor shortage.

There's no labor shortage; the oligarchs just don't want to pay native laborers what they cost. They want to pay slave wages with minimal benefits to foreign thralls. So long as the oligarchs get theirs, they don't care what else happens. They don't even see themselves as Americans.

Posted by: Our Betters at August 05, 2024 11:14 PM (AUL7F)

289 249 Why?

the lead site agent in Butler uses the pronoun "they"
Posted by: Kindltot

This is 'normal' in the Federal Government now. FYI.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 05, 2024 11:14 PM (sAmhv)

290 J Stewart @triffic_stuff_ 5h
The police reaction to the scenes we’ve witnessed in Birmingham tonight, with armed gangs of Muslim men, attacking cars, pubs, news crews and beating up a lone white man outside the pub, has to be heard to be believed:

“No dispersal order because none of the people here are causing any problems”

“A small situation no different than something we come to on a Saturday night”

“A small scuffle that probably looks like something it wasn’t”

Police officer starts laughing and says “nobody here is causing problems”

Two Tier Policing for the world to see.

Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 11:15 PM (i0CiB)

291 My mind won't let me imagine a Kumalla Presidency. My brain shuts down. I'm afraid if I force it I'll have a stroke.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at August 05, 2024 11:15 PM (bJJjR)

292 279 We've come a long way from "back the blue" here. Damn, I remember those days. Back in the Romney Wars.
Posted by: This Is Obvious at August 05, 2024 10:28 PM (+mZpE)

The January 6 op pretty much sealed the deal for me.
Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 11:09 PM (gKDq2)

I still back my LOCAL Police.... Feds? STATE? Not at all.

But my City Cops and the County Sheriff are good in my book.

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 05, 2024 11:15 PM (xaFKb)

293 Off on a bit of a tangent but crime is one of the top election issues. Recividism is high in the country because the Left always makes excuses for the wrong people and coddle them. Criminals continue to do crime because going back to prison ain't a deterrent.

Prisons should be work camps and run in a military manner. Prison sentences could even be shorter if we did it this way.

Also prisons should separate prisoners by their crimes IMO.

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 11:16 PM (B1dzx)

294 The way to secure the border is to create a legitimate way for people and firms to get the labor that the economy really needs in legitimate, legal ways, and until we have that, the whole debate over the wall and stuff is just silly

This is the opposite of the problem we face.

The point of "people and firms", labor in general, is to benefit the citizens of that nation. Even if the open border was not bringing in crime, even if it was not bringing in socialist votes, we would still be obligated to close it.

The point of a nation state, or at least the United States of America, is not to enrich the elites tied to our politicians in the name of goosing nominal GDP numbers.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 05, 2024 11:16 PM (oZhjI)

295 Also prisons should separate prisoners by their crimes IMO.
Posted by: polynikes

Except for p*dos - they should room with murderers.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 11:17 PM (WXNFJ)

296 Gutfeld wondering if it's Kamala's personality or if it's she's drunk?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 05, 2024 11:17 PM (RIvkX)

297 South Dakota real estate went up in price post Covid. I got priced out of that market when I was looking for a house. A lot of folks moved there to escape the masks and restrictions.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 05, 2024 11:18 PM (dDSBl)

298 I heard Trumps comments about Georgia gov. Kemp he made at the rally and all I could do is think WTF? That may l prove to be his biggest mistake of this campaign. Every voter is needed and all attacks should be aimed at the socialists, not people he needs to bring in. Regardless of what you think of him, Kemp is very popular here (He beat the fat gap toothed lady twice who had massive support of the ruling class) and Trump needs his support. He probably just drove away 100,000 Georgia Kemp supporters and it may cost him the state. Huge, ego drive unforced error. Isn't there somebody that can tell him when to STFU?
Posted by: Ripley at August 05, 2024 10:58 PM (PTDkx)

Trump prepping the battlefield that will be GA. There will be a massive vote fraud scheme going on there -- again.

Kemp did nothing the last time, in fact fought any investigation. Screw him.

Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 11:19 PM (gKDq2)

299 Police officer starts laughing and says “nobody here is causing problems”

Two Tier Policing for the world to see.
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 11:15 PM (i0CiB)

Well, if you pitch a Molotov cocktail at the jihadis, and accidentally hit a cop, it's no great loss.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 05, 2024 11:19 PM (05iS8)

300 There's no labor shortage; the oligarchs just don't want to pay native laborers what they cost. They want to pay slave wages with minimal benefits to foreign thralls. So long as the oligarchs get theirs, they don't care what else happens. They don't even see themselves as Americans.
Posted by: Our Betters at August 05, 2024 11:14 PM (AUL7F)

Yup. Watched it in the IT industry over the last 30 years. We had a great training pipeline going, training Americans... then the Feds did the H1B crap and CUT all Fed money for Tech Training that was not in a College (literally had to get college credit for VA or any unemployment type aid).

Why? Cheaper....

Posted by: Romeo13 at August 05, 2024 11:19 PM (xaFKb)

301 I think if they applied the death penalty to more of these prisoners, jails wouldn't be as crowded.

Posted by: Megthered at August 05, 2024 11:19 PM (rwiQP)

302 His name is Tarik, he comes from the Sahel in Northern Africa, he was raised in a village and herded goats before the militants came and took them all. After that he made sandals out of old tires to sell.
He is your interventional cardiologist for your procedure, today.
Posted by: Kindltot

Juans face tattoos and prison record make him the ideal employee.

Posted by: Some Rat at August 05, 2024 11:19 PM (vJiyU)

303 220 We lost all of ours in a tragic boating accident.
Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 10:49 PM (xJEPL)

One of these days, I'm gonna take scuba lessons, just so I will be able to dive at the locations of all these boating accidents to recover the guns. It figure it won't take long to amass the largest private arsenal in the world.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2024 11:19 PM (4zwtv)

304 >>> The way to secure the border is to create a legitimate way for people and firms to get the labor that the economy really needs in legitimate, legal ways, and until we have that, the whole debate over the wall and stuff is just silly,
-----
At least he is honest about his desire to flood the country with cheap laborers.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at August 05, 2024 11:20 PM (cOq4q)

305 301 I think if they applied the death penalty to more of these prisoners, jails wouldn't be as crowded.
Posted by: Megthered at August 05, 2024 11:19 PM (rwiQP)

Eliminate 20 years of appeals. Be like Texas. If 2 or more creditable witnesses saw you do what you did, you go to the head of the line. (Paraphrasing Ron White)

Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 11:21 PM (xJEPL)

306 While still committed to Ace: The Enshelfining, your commentary persuades me that I should re-consider my Kamala Harris documentary Cackle-Creature: The Ascendance of a Fell Beast. Having done Grizzly Man, I think I may have the courage to face her iniquity. Obviously I shall have to budget my time, and also budget industrial grade Bear Pepper Spray and vodka, her two known weaknesses. There shall also be need of a drone to confront Hilary Clinton at a safe distance and to chide her over her failure to prevail at anything save liquor and multiple suicides. Hilary, I shall say, how do you reconcile your failures with your inconsequential status? A greater alcoholic than you has seized your thunder and looks to blunder in ways which even you should not imagine. Also, what the Hell is your husband doing there, Jack Daniels Princess? Will you not spray him and the young trailer park maiden with a garden hose? This is unseemly.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has A New Project at August 05, 2024 11:21 PM (tmPIh)

307 295 Also prisons should separate prisoners by their crimes IMO.
Posted by: polynikes

Except for p*dos - they should room with murderers.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 05, 2024 11:17 PM (WXNFJ)

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Only if there are no cannibals available.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2024 11:21 PM (15aOX)

308 Zaf Iqbal became emotional as he declared: "I am proud of the fact I am a mackem. I am proud that I am English."

Did you become culturally english? You know boring, Christian, and with an aversion to spicy food?

People int the west are tired of seeing their culture and heritage thrown away for the benefit of their elites. And frankly after a recent immigrant went on a murder spree of children. CHILDREN. You should be begging those protestors for their forbearance.

Let's play a game. Let's ask what would happen if thousands of Brits moved to...Saudi Arabia. They demanded the government enforce their Christian religious practice including with tax payer dollars. They demanded welfare. They demanded everything be available in English. And then they went about murdering and raping the locales. How do you think the Saudis would react? And would they be wrong to do so?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 05, 2024 11:21 PM (oZhjI)

309 Police officer starts laughing and says “nobody here is causing problems”
Don't these police have to go home eventually? Don't they fear for their lives off duty? Or their family's lives?

Posted by: Megthered at August 05, 2024 11:22 PM (rwiQP)

310 It figure it won't take long to amass the largest private arsenal in the world.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2024 11:19 PM (4zwtv)

All wall hangers by now due to the rust factor.

Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 11:22 PM (xJEPL)

311 I credit the home school boom we've seen in the past 20 years. The real fruits will bear out in Gen-A, which will be the most home schooled generation since public schooling became a monopoly
Posted by: Shenanigans at August 05, 2024 11:05 PM (lcyZw)

I credit the MeToo movement and the misandry in government policy/action, like divorce, child custody, child support, sexual assault accusations, etc. Men are finally realizing how stacked the deck is against them. So you end up with MGTOW.

Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 11:23 PM (gKDq2)

312

We'll take care of that for you!

Posted by: South Carolina at August 05, 2024 11:24 PM (w6EFb)

313 MGTOW.
Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 11:23 PM (gKDq2)

What is this?

Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 11:25 PM (xJEPL)

314 There's no labor shortage; the oligarchs just don't want to pay native laborers what they cost

The left tells me in one breath that income inequality is the most important issue of the day, then that we need immigrants to do the jobs native born Americans won't do in the next.

Well, guess what happens to the salary of a job when no one wants to do it? It goes...up. This is basic economics. And it will keep going up until the people that could do the job receive what they believe is a fair wage.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 05, 2024 11:25 PM (oZhjI)

315 Police officer starts laughing and says “nobody here is causing problems”
Don't these police have to go home eventually? Don't they fear for their lives off duty? Or their family's lives?

Posted by: Megthered at August 05, 2024 11:22 PM (rwiQP)

Sooner or later, they will pay. That's what I think.

Posted by: South Carolina at August 05, 2024 11:27 PM (w6EFb)

316 Take me back, to my own home...

https://tinyurl.com/4b2ea78u

Posted by: Notorious BFD at August 05, 2024 11:27 PM (mH6SG)

317 I'd like an America where there are a lot fewer laws and law enforcement enforcing them but that when convicted you go away for a long time and a longer list of capital offenses.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 05, 2024 11:27 PM (oZhjI)

318 >They don't even see themselves as Americans.
Posted by: Our Betters at August 05, 2024 11:14 PM (AUL7F)

The current war is atomized nationalists of many different nations v a single transnational overclass.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at August 05, 2024 11:28 PM (LTDEP)

319 So MisHum,

A sunset forested road that is not on fire in California.

Nice.

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 05, 2024 11:28 PM (TDvv2)

320 /off death penalty sock

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 05, 2024 11:28 PM (w6EFb)

321 256 The entire nation is burning up with Kamala Fever!
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at August 05, 2024 11:02 PM (15aOX)

Should've worn a condom.

Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2024 11:28 PM (4zwtv)

322 Oh, I don't know. A few years ago she did a pretty good joke involving a severed head of Trump. Haven't heard much from her since then. She kind of disappeared from the industry.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 05, 2024 10:48 PM (0Htd1)

I read somewhere she is dying from lung cancer.

Posted by: Reforger at August 05, 2024 11:28 PM (xcIvR)

323 George McGovern flew 35 missions in a B-24.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2024 11:28 PM (63Dwl)

324 Two Tier Policing for the world to see.

Brits recently made a choice. Baring massive voter fraud they choose to be beaten, raped, and abused for the next few years.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 05, 2024 11:28 PM (oZhjI)

325 The entire nation is burning up with Kamala Fever!

The Z-pac handles that too right? Asking for a friend

Posted by: Some Moron with an itchy crotch at August 05, 2024 11:29 PM (oZhjI)

326 MGTOW.
Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 11:23 PM (gKDq2)

What is this?

Posted by: ALH at August 05, 2024 11:25 PM (xJEPL)

Men Going Their Own Way. Ie, not interested in building families and having it all torn away from them in divorce. Most divorces are initiated by women who... well, you know.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 05, 2024 11:31 PM (w6EFb)

327 I think if they applied the death penalty to more of these prisoners, jails wouldn't be as crowded.
Posted by: Megthered at August 05, 2024 11:19 PM (rwiQP)

There are at least 800 people in prison for homicide that were previously in prison for homicide.

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 11:32 PM (B1dzx)

328 I suspect that your average American of yesteryear would be even more amazed that Soviet America has found it can't figure out how to get men and women to marry and have children then that it can't define what a woman is.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 05, 2024 11:33 PM (oZhjI)

329 I just sang the "Tummy Rub Tuesday is Tomorrow " song to Lucy.

I'm bleeding now. She's a Fink.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 05, 2024 11:34 PM (HXGNm)

330 A couple of years ago, the apartment complex replaced a lot of the fixtures in the kitchen and bathroom. In the latter, the toilet paper holder holds the roll vertically.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at August 05, 2024 11:34 PM (CHHv1)

331 George McGovern flew 35 missions in a B-24.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2024 11:28 PM (63Dwl)

And the other Senator Kerry was a Silver Star or MoH. Now I have to google.

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 11:35 PM (B1dzx)

332 There's no hope of rehabilitation in prison without very liberal application of the death penalty to eliminate those who can't be reformed. But would you really trust today's state governments to administer such a ferocious justice system?

Posted by: I Sure Don't at August 05, 2024 11:36 PM (AUL7F)

333 325

Actually in the old day benzathine penicillin G 2.4 million units once intramuscularly..(A golf Ball in your ass) would take care of the "AHEM" infection.

Now a days...1 GM Rocephin in your ass does the trick...

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 05, 2024 11:36 PM (TDvv2)

334 And the other Senator Kerry was a Silver Star or MoH. Now I have to google.
Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 11:35 PM (B1dzx)

*************

MoH.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at August 05, 2024 11:37 PM (hMc/6)

335 While having coffee today with what I call 'The Geezers' (all Vets, ages 88, 93, 95) the topic of the M1 Carbine came up. Two of these guys were 101st, other, I don't know. At any rate, while I know the weight of the Garand, I had no idea about the Carbine. 5.2 lbs. (empty)

I know you have all been losing sleep over that question.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 05, 2024 11:37 PM (XeU6L)

336 MGTOW.
Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 11:23 PM (gKDq2)

What is this?
Posted by: ALH

Werner may know. Despite the absence of an I, it seems a reference to an aircraft of the Mikoyan-Gurevich variety, equipped with a TOW missile array. This seems an unlikely configuration, but perhaps men might go their own way to establish a firmer definition. Werner is uncertain.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has A New Project at August 05, 2024 11:37 PM (tmPIh)

337 I saw a clip of a former Fox contributor, a black gay guy. He described how the Dems, and whoever else is pulling strings, 'bathed Kamala in blackness, just as they did with Obama'. Sent her to Howard, had her join an elite sorority. Then sent her to CA to bathe her in more blackness in Oakland/San Fran; Obama was sent to Chicago and 'community organizing' to bathe in blackness. Then she went onto the state job and beyond. But they made her black as she was never black. And that dude from Fox explained that she's not African-American in the sense that her family history is not American slavery and all the baggage that has; mentioned his Granddad couldn't get the GI Bill after WWII, Jim Crow, things like that. She also went to an elite middle and high school in Canada (as a dot Indian) before going to Howard. She was never black, until the commies decided they need to bamboozle the black vote once more. Kamala Harris is a complete avatar. Totally fake. Just like Obama.

Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 11:38 PM (gKDq2)

338 Senator Bob Kerrey (D) , SEAL , Medal of Honor.

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 11:38 PM (B1dzx)

339 331 poly

B-17

Posted by: mnw at August 05, 2024 11:41 PM (NLIak)

340 A roll of TP should be fed on the dispenser with the leading edge facing outward for easy grabbling or for you folks from DC...with the "tongue" facing the front.

Posted by: Nightwatch at August 05, 2024 11:42 PM (TDvv2)

341 Two Tier Policing for the world to see.
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 11:15 PM (i0CiB)

That will not end well.

The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon. . . .

Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 11:43 PM (gKDq2)

342 But my City Cops and the County Sheriff are good in my book.
Posted by: Romeo13 at August 05, 2024 11:15 PM (xaFKb)

NYC and NYS cops here. The City were never too bad. But now? No thank you. The State were always severe assholes.

Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 11:45 PM (gKDq2)

343 BLUE MONDAY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy5WM1xYbGo

Posted by: Braenyard at August 05, 2024 11:46 PM (Dng1D)

344 IIRC, South Dokata real estate prices started skyrocketing around 2008, when the oil fracking boom was roaring.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 05, 2024 11:48 PM (p6u48)

345 Never trust a racoon with a semi-auto firearm.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 05, 2024 11:48 PM (fY84s)

346 315 Police officer starts laughing and says “nobody here is causing problems”
Don't these police have to go home eventually? Don't they fear for their lives off duty? Or their family's lives?

Posted by: Megthered at August 05, 2024 11:22 PM (rwiQP)

Sooner or later, they will pay. That's what I think.

Posted by: South Carolina at August 05, 2024 11:27 PM (w6EFb)
----
Fascists and supporters in 1943 Italy.
Nazi sympathizers and collaborators - France, and other Occupied European countries 1944-45.
I wonder if there was any collaboration with Japan in the Far East? That would have been a swift end once the Japs were gone.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, c'e la carta per il culo #02 at August 05, 2024 11:48 PM (qfLjt)

347 Also prisons should separate prisoners by their crimes IMO.
Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 11:16 PM (B1dzx)

I think that's a real big one for reform right there. Not saying violence won't happen, it will, but putting a non-violent car thief in with serial killers? The State is encouraging violence.

Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 11:49 PM (gKDq2)

348 339 331 poly

B-17

Posted by: mnw at August 05, 2024 11:41 PM (NLIak)

B-24 is correct

741st Squadron of the 455th Bombardment Group of the Fifteenth Air Force, stationed at San Giovanni Airfield near Cerignola in the Apulia region of Italy

Posted by: Gref at August 05, 2024 11:49 PM (5fDan)

349
331 poly

B-17
Posted by: mnw

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McGovern

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 05, 2024 11:49 PM (63Dwl)

350 345 Never trust a racoon with a semi-auto firearm.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 05, 2024 11:48 PM (fY84s)
----
So you haven't met the crow with a machine gun?

(The Elephant Jokebook)

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, c'e la carta per il culo #03 at August 05, 2024 11:50 PM (qfLjt)

351 Ike Turner wants to know why you're his changing room and not sharing your cocaine.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 05, 2024 11:51 PM (fY84s)

352 Never trust a racoon with a semi-auto firearm.
Posted by: Dr. Bone at August 05, 2024 11:48 PM (fY84s)

I agree. Revolvers are more their style.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 05, 2024 11:53 PM (p6u48)

353 I can remember reading that bananas were on the way out because disease, etc.
Also on more than one occasion there were articles on the incipient demise of bamboo because it only flowered every so often and it was failing. No more Pandas.

Yeah, Scientists. Top. Men.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, c'e la carta per il culo #04 at August 05, 2024 11:54 PM (qfLjt)

354 I think if they applied the death penalty to more of these prisoners, jails wouldn't be as crowded.
Posted by: Megthered at August 05, 2024 11:19 PM (rwiQP)

After all the various persecutions of Trump in courts, I'm beginning to shift my stance; don't get me wrong, I still think there are some people who jus' need killin' but, . . . . I have such minimal trust in government, and our DAs and courts are not areas where I have a high trust anymore and it needs to be. (See: Daniel Penny, charges finally dropped but over a year of legal hell.)

Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 11:55 PM (gKDq2)

355 Two Tier Policing for the world to see.
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 11:15 PM (i0CiB)

That will not end well.

The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon. . . .
Posted by: RickZ

And the Angles, Picts, Celts, and Normans.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 05, 2024 11:57 PM (VNX3d)

356 ***“The way to secure the border is to create a legitimate way for people and firms to get the labor that the economy really needs in legitimate, legal ways, ***

Necessary, qualified people coming in legally. That's what Trump's talking about. This guy needs a trip down to border land to get a touch of the reality.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 05, 2024 11:58 PM (Dng1D)

357 Looks like we've moved a squadron of F-22s to the Middle East.

I wish we had at least 300 F-22s instead of just 183.

Posted by: polynikes at August 05, 2024 11:58 PM (B1dzx)

358 355 Two Tier Policing for the world to see.
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05,
---------------

It appears that the Angelish have decided otherwise.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 06, 2024 12:00 AM (Dng1D)

359 Looks like we've moved a squadron of F-22s to the Middle East.

I wish we had at least 300 F-22s instead of just 183.
Posted by: polynikes

Why do I suspect a lot of people in DC expect Maverick and Dagger Flight to swoop in and save the day.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 06, 2024 12:00 AM (VNX3d)

360 The Consolidated B-24 and the Martin B-26 never get any respect. They had flaws but they and their crews did their jobs in WW2.

More B-24s were produced than any other US bomber.

A B-26 nicknamed "Flak Bait" flew the most combat missions of any USAAF bomber, 202. It is in the Smithsonian National Aerospace Museum.

Built in 1943, Flak-Bait lived up to its name by being shot with over 1,000 holes, returned twice on one engine (once with the disabled engine on fire), and lost its electrical system once and its hydraulic system twice. Despite the level of damage it received, none of Flak-Bait's crew was killed during the war and only one was injured. Over two years of operations Flak Bait accumulated 725 hours of combat time and participating in bombing missions in support of the Normandy Landings, the Battle of the Bulge, and Operation Crossbow against V-1 flying bomb sites.

Posted by: Gref at August 06, 2024 12:01 AM (5fDan)

361 Commercial bananas are basically clones. Every now and then a blight will wreck a strain of bananas, and a new strain has to be introduced.
My dad would complain that bananas tasted better when he was a kid. I put it down to just old man complaining, but it turns out he was right.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 06, 2024 12:01 AM (p6u48)

362 Whew! Finally caught up.

Thanks, Miley, for the MGTOW explanation.

Posted by: RickZ at August 06, 2024 12:01 AM (gKDq2)

363 Four weeks in a row #3 Sockpuppet. It's about as lofty a position I can imagine attaining. I'm ready for my homegoing.

Posted by: Senior Achievement at August 06, 2024 12:01 AM (CV8a5)

364 The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon. . . .
Posted by: RickZ
----
And the Angles, Picts, Celts, and Normans.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 05, 2024 11:57 PM (VNX3d)

Good Kipling poem.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfk5v2n

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.

(Cont.)

Posted by: RickZ at August 06, 2024 12:04 AM (gKDq2)

365 "U.S. State Department acknowledges possible misuse of funds to promote atheism"

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/
258489/us-state-department-acknowledges-
possible-misuse-of-funds-to-promote-atheism

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 06, 2024 12:05 AM (Ka3bZ)

366 Crap
Shoulda tinyurled that

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 06, 2024 12:06 AM (Ka3bZ)

367 Good Kipling poem.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfk5v2n

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.

(Cont.)
Posted by: RickZ

I didn't know that was the title of a poem, and a fine one at that. Thank you for sharing it.

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

368 Crap
Shoulda tinyurled that
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at August 06, 2024 12:06 AM (Ka3bZ

It 404'd for me.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2024 12:08 AM (B1dzx)

369

Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2024 12:08 AM (63Dwl)

370 That will not end well.

The Wrath of the Awakened Saxon. . . .

Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 11:43 PM (gKDq2)

Mmm!

Posted by: the Glasgow kiss at August 06, 2024 12:10 AM (w6EFb)

371 The article on the bamboo paper
"Bamboo-toilet-paper-is-the-solution-to-the-tp-crisis"
https://tinyurl.com/47wjktnv

Wow, we denude forests -- but fails to mention that each section gets replanted so that there is never a shortage of mature trees.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono tutti pieni di merda #04 at August 06, 2024 12:12 AM (qfLjt)

372 Wow, we denude forests -- but fails to mention that each section gets replanted so that there is never a shortage of mature trees.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono tutti pieni di merda #04 at August 06, 2024 12:12 AM (qfLjt)

We could make ass-wipe out of korans. There's an inexhaustible supply.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2024 12:14 AM (05iS8)

373 Maybe it's just me but I can't imagine bamboo coming anywhere near my nether regions...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 06, 2024 12:14 AM (MeG8a)

374 Watched The Fall Guy last night. Ryan Gosling did a good job. Fun movie. I think the last 15-20 minutes could have been written better though.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2024 12:14 AM (B1dzx)

375 Thanks, Miley, for the MGTOW explanation.

Posted by: RickZ at August 06, 2024 12:01 AM (gKDq2)

I have a degree of sympathy for them, have for a long time now, since the 90s.

Posted by: the Glasgow kiss at August 06, 2024 12:15 AM (w6EFb)

376 Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
1. Supposedly, ten F-16s have finally been stationed in the Odessa area. I am sure the Russians are now shaking in their boots.
2. In other people rising up news, a mob in western Ukraine attacked a recruiting station and rescued the men held there.
3. The Russians continue to grind forward on the ground in the eastern sectors. They seemed to have started to blow up bridges in the rear of the Ukrainian lines, not to stop the Ukrainians from getting supplies, but to keep them from getting away.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at August 06, 2024 12:15 AM (p6u48)

377 /off huttbutt sock

This is why I can't have nice socks.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 06, 2024 12:15 AM (w6EFb)

378 Headbutt. FUCK!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 06, 2024 12:16 AM (w6EFb)

379 Stock market is something I guess I 'invest' in with 401k, but have no knowledge of buying individual stocks and if its worth messing around with

Posted by: a dude in MI at August 06, 2024 12:17 AM (+I6Y/)

380 Dude~! You're gettin' Dell-eeted~!

@MacroEdgeRes 4h
Dell Technologies to reportedly lay off thousands of employees - with estimates as high as 12,500

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 06, 2024 12:18 AM (IG4Id)

381 I didn't know that was the title of a poem, and a fine one at that. Thank you for sharing it.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 06, 2024 12:06 AM (VNX3d)

You're welcome.

If you like that, try this Ogden Nash one, "The Japanese" (193

. Darkly humorous, a real sleeper that's not one of his better known ones. But it's my favorite work of his.

https://tinyurl.com/y65umpbh

What can I say, I like poetry that has a message and follows rules. That's the stuff I've kept that I've written. Not many but more than a few. With one real gem. 26 words with a decent message. Plus an alphabet, using poetic license on 'x' (examining). Titled "A Primer", pronounced 'primmer'.

Posted by: RickZ at August 06, 2024 12:19 AM (gKDq2)

382 Swimmer at the Olympics talks about his Christian faith:

https://tinyurl.com/mr3vr58w

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2024 12:19 AM (4M/sZ)

383 Maybe it's just me but I can't imagine bamboo coming anywhere near my nether regions...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 06, 2024 12:14 AM (MeG8a)

Incredibly soft when processed.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 06, 2024 12:19 AM (w6EFb)

384 They make coffee filters out of bamboo.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 06, 2024 12:22 AM (63Dwl)

385 I would love to see a head-to-head flying comparison of the Martin B-26 (in it's most produced form), vs. the Japanese "Betty" medium bomber, also in it's common variant.

Because, those two airplanes are remarkably similar in every external aspect as to layout, planform, silhouette, etc.

To be sure, they're vastly different in construction, engines and every other detail.

But it'd be great to get some piloted paragraphs on the qualities of each, how they handled, performed, endured.

Well, we know the Betty would endure a bit, till the tracer rounds found a fuel tank, anyway.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 06, 2024 12:22 AM (kQgoX)

386 376 Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
1. Supposedly, ten F-16s have finally been stationed in the Odessa area. I am sure the Russians are now shaking in their boots.
...
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy
--------------

With Russia's new jamming systems no telling what they will do when they get aloft.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 06, 2024 12:23 AM (Dng1D)

387 I love bamboo . We had a grove in an alley behind the bowling alley across from my house. Great memories as a kid.

Giant Kites, Bow and Arrows, Blow Guns, Snorkles, spears, etc.

Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2024 12:23 AM (B1dzx)

388 I had a small crowd visit me today. Back in June, at a car show in Three Hills, I talked to some folks who have GMC coach, RV conversion. Model 4104, powered by Detroit Diesel. I told them about the Flxible coach I have here, and invited them to drop by. Well, out of the blue today, I got a call. "We're on the way home from Camrose. Can we stop in?" I said, "Sure. I happen to be in midst of work on the Flx, as it happens, too."

Well, around 4:00, not one, but two GMC 4104 coaches show up, park on the road out front, followed by a Chevy Astro van. The whole family piles out of these vehicles. We had a nice visit, they got the grand tour, and I fired up the Cummins in the Flx for their entertainment.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2024 12:23 AM (05iS8)

389 EMS workers in Georgia go above and beyond to help a grieving man;

https://tinyurl.com/4r9m7ty6

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2024 12:25 AM (4M/sZ)

390 I bought some bamboo paper towels for the garage, the kind you may use for an oil spill or whatever.
Coarse but good.
But, coarse...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 06, 2024 12:26 AM (MeG8a)

391 i have a bamboo cutting board.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 06, 2024 12:26 AM (Dng1D)

392 Why lawmakers want Biden to decriminalize use of psychedelic drugs

https://mol.im/a/13711283

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono tutti pieni di merda #05 at August 06, 2024 12:28 AM (qfLjt)

393 Trump's former attorney Jenna Ellis flips and pleads GUILTY in Arizona 'fake electors' case to help prosecutors... so will she turn on her old boss?

https://mol.im/a/13711891

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono tutti pieni di merda #06 at August 06, 2024 12:29 AM (qfLjt)

394 Could kudzu be processed into toilet paper?

Posted by: Prolific Pest at August 06, 2024 12:31 AM (CV8a5)

395 387 I love bamboo . We had a grove in an alley behind the bowling alley across from my house. Great memories as a kid.

Giant Kites, Bow and Arrows, Blow Guns, Snorkles, spears, etc.
Posted by: polynikes at August 06, 2024 12:23 AM (B1dzx)

Wish I had a Bamboo patch when I was a kid.
All the sticks around here sucked.
One wallop to the head and they would break.
We did have one of the best dirt clod piles though.

Posted by: Reforger at August 06, 2024 12:31 AM (xcIvR)

396 380 comments to unload and stack a ton of hay.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 06, 2024 12:32 AM (5W5fc)

397 380 comments to unload and stack a ton of hay.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 06, 2024 12:32 AM (5W5fc)

Well, you won't be going hungry for a year, now.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2024 12:33 AM (05iS8)

398 Hey Horde!

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 06, 2024 12:34 AM (Sgq8y)

399 Stock market is something I guess I 'invest' in with 401k, but have no knowledge of buying individual stocks and if its worth messing around with
Posted by: a dude in MI at August 06, 2024 12:17 AM (+I6Y/)

Unless you have an area you are interested in and have some understanding of like aviation or manufacturing or the like, the safe bet is to get into an index fund or two, and maybe some gold or silver ETFs and maybe some treasuries.
Metals and treasuries are a hedge against really bad economics, but in the last 50 years an index fund has outperformed pretty much everyone's stock pick

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2024 12:34 AM (D7oie)

400 NYC assistant DA quits after 'trying to meet a 13-year-old boy'

https://mol.im/a/13711713

Imagine that terrible 'Environmental Racism' ....... I have no idea what that even means ...... could this be why blacks don't like forests hence hiking?

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono tutti pieni di merda #07 at August 06, 2024 12:35 AM (qfLjt)

401 I have some bamboo sheets. Pretty soft.

Posted by: Punji Stick at August 06, 2024 12:36 AM (AUL7F)

402 McGovern did fly B-24s. My mistake. I was wrong.

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2024 12:37 AM (NLIak)

403 Bible verses to help with sleep at night:

https://tinyurl.com/533h2swc

Goodnight, everyone!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 06, 2024 12:37 AM (VqDXL)

404 I bought some bamboo paper towels for the garage, the kind you may use for an oil spill or whatever.
Coarse but good.
But, coarse...
Posted by: gourmand du jour

i have a bamboo cutting board.
Posted by: Braenyard

I have a bamboo Kendo Shinai training sword.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 06, 2024 12:37 AM (5W5fc)

405 Harris campaign rolls out Republican endorsements

https://mol.im/a/13710693

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono tutti pieni di merda #08 at August 06, 2024 12:38 AM (qfLjt)

406 Well, you won't be going hungry for a year, now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

3 tons to go. It might go farther if I eat a couple of the customers.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 06, 2024 12:39 AM (5W5fc)

407 Bamboo is a strong, coarse fiber. Difficult to contain. Grows like mad.
Useful for building.
In other news, it's cold here. My cat Dexter has learned how to turn on the heating pad and then lay upon it.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at August 06, 2024 12:40 AM (MeG8a)

408 > Hanging in the front, unless you have asshole pets.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at August 05, 2024 10:36 PM (w6EFb)

Definitely. If you've got a cat, in particular, and hang the TP in the front, it's only a matter of time until you come home and find the whole roll unrolled on the bathroom floor.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2024 12:42 AM (W5ArC)

409 Mount Etna erupts again causing airport chaos

https://mol.im/a/13708015

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono tutti pieni di merda #09 at August 06, 2024 12:42 AM (qfLjt)

410 Definitely. If you've got a cat, in particular, and hang the TP in the front, it's only a matter of time until you come home and find the whole roll unrolled on the bathroom floor.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2024 12:42 AM (W5ArC)

My cat has never touched the roll.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2024 12:43 AM (05iS8)

411 The bottom out Black Friday that the talk about. Three months later the market was back where it was before the correction.

I don't think investment companies have their clients best interest.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 06, 2024 12:44 AM (Dng1D)

412 > Yeah, Scientists. Top. Men.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, c'e la carta per il culo #04 at August 05, 2024 11:54 PM (qfLjt)

I think you mean "journalists" here.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2024 12:45 AM (W5ArC)

413 18 15 Sorry I'm late, was looking for ideas to display shot glasses.
Posted by: Iris at August 05, 2024 09:58 PM (n3DL0)

13 Sorry I'm late, my zipper got stuck in a Venus flytrap.
Posted by: tankdemon at August 05, 2024 09:57 PM (Py1md)

Hell, do we have a Love Connection here?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian Who Lives In The Thawed Out Tundra at August 05, 2024 10:00 PM (QXQ4l)
----
Maybe those two should get a display case.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono tutti pieni di merda #20 at August 06, 2024 12:45 AM (qfLjt)

414 > My cat has never touched the roll.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2024 12:43 AM (05iS

Hope it stays that way....

Once they figure out how to do it, there's no going back. They seem to find it very entertaining.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2024 12:46 AM (W5ArC)

415 405 Harris campaign rolls out Republican endorsements

https://mol.im/a/13710693
Posted by: Ciampino -
----------------------

Had to look under the rug for those heavy hitters.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 06, 2024 12:49 AM (Dng1D)

416 > 405 Harris campaign rolls out Republican endorsements

Has Romney endorsed her yet? You know it's coming, right?

Imagine how unsurprised I was to learn that Romney's kid was involved in some of Hunter Biden's shady deals.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2024 12:50 AM (W5ArC)

417 Some headlines from Las Cruces, NM

Mortgage lending and shoe stores are both retailers

Worst Muppet Show episode ever

Checkpoint seizures put recreational cannabis industry at risk

And tonight's Las Cruces Criminal Artist:
Ms. Rojas
Receiving / Transfer Stolen Vehicle (Fel), Possession of Cocaine (Fel), Fugitive From Justice (Fel), Failure to Appear (Mis), Failure to Appear (Mis)

https://tinyurl.com/3ruyn8tz

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at August 06, 2024 12:51 AM (WsTZq)

418 Had to look under the rug for those heavy hitters.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 06, 2024 12:49 AM (Dng1D)

Has-beens and wanna-bes. Looks like she press-ganged Mos Eisely.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2024 12:51 AM (05iS8)

419 Looks like the top pic is from Colorado. I think that is Uncomphagre Peak in the distance.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2024 12:55 AM (05iS8)

420 > Metals and treasuries are a hedge against really bad economics

Metals, yes... treasuries? Maybe not. Depends on just how bad things get. I've seen a 2 billion mark postage stamp from the heyday of the Weimar Republic. By that point they'd given up designing new stamps in favor of just overprinting the new value on old stamps in heavy black ink.

Story: a wealthy German man died, dividing his fortune between his two sons. The frugal son invested his money in safe German government bonds, while the spendthrift son blew his on wine, women, and song.

After the collapse of Weimar, the frugal son found that his government bonds were completely worthless, while, due to a major glass shortage, the spendthrift son was able to sell his cellar full of empty liquor bottles for a tidy sum.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2024 12:55 AM (W5ArC)

421 > Potassium will burn nearly as strongly as lithium if exposed to oxygen.

Unlike gasoline, which of course is completely non-flammable. It is known.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2024 12:57 AM (W5ArC)

422 The bottom out Black Friday that the talk about. Three months later the market was back where it was before the correction.

I don't think investment companies have their clients best interest.
Posted by: Braenyard

My first accounting job was in a pension administration firm. We used a big name attorney from SF who had been a congressional advisor when the 401k and like kind defined contribution plans tax laws were passed in the 70's. He once commented that WS was licking their chops to have that big pile of cash from the rubes to play with.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 06, 2024 12:59 AM (5W5fc)

423 the benefit if treasuries is that they are spendable when your stocks take a puke and need time to recover some value, and you need to, say, replace that HVAC system now, or you suddenly want to put some money into a stock during a dip and you want to do some bottom feeding.
they also earn a bit of interest, unlike stuffing a pillow with twenties. They aren't really a good investment, but as a bit of liquidity to get you through a tough patch, they have some merit.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 06, 2024 01:00 AM (D7oie)

424 Maybe those two should get a display case.
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono tutti pieni di merda #20 at August 06, 2024 12:45 AM (qfLjt)

Macy's window?

Posted by: RickZ at August 06, 2024 01:00 AM (gKDq2)

425 Potassium will burn nearly as strongly as lithium if exposed to oxygen.

Unlike gasoline, which of course is completely non-flammable. It is known.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 06, 2024 12:57 AM (W5ArC)

It's more reactive than sodium, for sure. As far as I can see, if the potassium-ion battery works, and is no more dangerous than Li-ion batteries, it has a place in things like laptops, cellphones, and power tools. Big advantage? Potassium is much more abundant than lithium, and dirt cheap. We already produce megatons of the stuff as fertilizer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2024 01:01 AM (05iS8)

426 Sky News abruptly cuts its live feed as a mob of migrants surround its reporter:

Twitter link.
https://tinyurl.com/wu3czdn8

Posted by: 13times at August 06, 2024 01:01 AM (2RRkF)

427 Try this for J6-copy
Even if voters unquestionably elect Donald Trump as President, no matter the margin, and even if the election is universally accepted as free and fair, top Democrats are calling on Congress to block certification of the results, and prep for civil war.

https://tinyurl.com/ktcbaeyv

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono tutti pieni di merda #19 at August 06, 2024 01:02 AM (qfLjt)

428 If one runs one's own money, it doesn't make any difference WHAT "investment companies" do, does it?

Plus, if one builds & manages one's own portfolio, the expense ratio is VERY reasonable! (little joke, see? There IS no management fee if you do it yourself).

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2024 01:04 AM (NLIak)

429 Democrats are calling on Congress to block certification of the results, and prep for civil war.

https://tinyurl.com/ktcbaeyv
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono tutti pieni di merda #19 at August 06, 2024 01:02 AM (qfLjt)

At which point, it will become open season on Democrats.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2024 01:05 AM (05iS8)

430 My comment at 250 on the Toilet Paper thang -- I note that was pretty thoroughly covered by commenters previously, although I didn't see any indication that anyone else clicked through to the actual article, either.

Sometimes, any comments past 100 seem to be running over the same tired ruts.

Proving most of us commenters are just AI.

Uh... I didn't mean us! mean us! mean us!

https://youtu.be/4JkIs37a2JE

So.... G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - virtually at August 06, 2024 01:05 AM (UrLdJ)

431 They aren't really a good investment, but as a bit of liquidity to get you through a tough patch, they have some merit.
Posted by: Kindltot
I love my bullion. One, I have possession of it. Two, when I sell it, I ain't paying no stinking CG or other tax.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 06, 2024 01:07 AM (5W5fc)

432 Let's put this one to sleep.
Reactivity with water and oxygen INCREASES as we go
Lithium - Sodium - Potassium - Rubidium - Cesium - {Francium}

Lithium quietly bubbles in water (it gets coated with lithium hydroxide which is not very soluble). In contrast cesium explodes in contact with water.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono tutti pieni di merda #18 at August 06, 2024 01:11 AM (qfLjt)

433 The Trump campaign:

Dr. Strangelove version:

"Missile is still closing. Continue evasive action."

"Missile is deflecting. Continue evasive action"

"Missile is detonating!" (target survives)

Trump's "missile is deflecting" now-- into attacks on the GOP Governor of GA for things that happened 3 years ago, and into questions about Harris' racial status.

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2024 01:12 AM (NLIak)

434 Trump's "missile is deflecting" now-- into attacks on the GOP Governor of GA for things that happened 3 years ago, and into questions about Harris' racial status.
Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2024 01:12 AM (NLIak)

Get that cloud knitted yet?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2024 01:14 AM (05iS8)

435 Democrats are calling on Congress to block certification of the results, and prep for civil war.

https://tinyurl.com/ktcbaeyv
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono tutti pieni di merda #19 at August 06, 2024 01:02 AM (qfLjt)

At which point, it will become open season on Democrats.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

In other words the Ds are going to pull a second Biden in less that a year. Probably with some Martial Law tossed in for that lovely woody peat flavor. Needing a new capitol will the least of the Ds worries.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram at August 06, 2024 01:17 AM (WsTZq)

436 431

The advantages of holding gold in a brokerage account, in the form of a gold ETF (exchange traded fund), vs. physical possession of the commodity:

roughly similar to a Ferrari vs. a Model T

I don't own any & don't want any. But if I did, I'd prefer to own a gold ETF (there are dozens of them) where I can get out (or in) with one click of a mouse, and never pay a commission.

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2024 01:21 AM (NLIak)

437 Wow, mnw, she definitely embraced the first Indian senator designation some years back, she has evolved into Blackness, so long as everybody is cool with it.

The GOP governor of Georgia is a piece of shit. I know that Trump endorsed him in the beginning, but only because he was the lesser of two evils.

Anybody, Democrat or Republican talking about setting the stage for a civil war here now is batshit crazy, Jamie Raskin must be terminal, unless it was all an OP.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 06, 2024 01:27 AM (Sgq8y)

438 where I can get out (or in) with one click of a mouse, and never pay a commission.

Posted by: mnw

What would your plan be in the event the mouse don't work no more . I've been playing with bullion for 30+ years. I've heard all the hype regarding ETFs. I like to be able to play Scrooge McDuck.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 06, 2024 01:29 AM (5W5fc)

439 Wow, mnw, she definitely embraced the first Indian senator designation some years back, she has evolved into Blackness, so long as everybody is cool with it.

The GOP governor of Georgia is a piece of shit. I know that Trump endorsed him in the beginning, but only because he was the lesser of two evils.

Anybody, Democrat or Republican talking about setting the stage for a civil war here now is batshit crazy, Jamie Raskin must be terminal, unless it was all an OP.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 06, 2024 01:27 AM (Sgq8y)

Anything that Trump can do to "un-black" Kameltoe in the eyes of the black electorate is a huge win.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2024 01:31 AM (05iS8)

440 What would your plan be in the event the mouse don't work no more . I've been playing with bullion for 30+ years. I've heard all the hype regarding ETFs. I like to be able to play Scrooge McDuck.
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 06, 2024 01:29 AM (5W5fc)

Any gold that you have in an ETF could be seized with the stroke of a pen by greedy politicians. FDR did it.

Bullion can be hidden quite effectively.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2024 01:33 AM (05iS8)

441 Dude Jr(17) asked me about what to do with some money..I kind of shrugged and said maybe some index fund or something(my investing fu is weak) but no idea where to point him...I failed

Posted by: a dude in MI at August 06, 2024 01:34 AM (+I6Y/)

442 DDS

I don't disagree with the substance of your post at all.

But... my view is that real, POSSIBLY persuadable voters care about the things that are scaring them-- inflation; recession; war. Not about "evolving into blackness," or what Gov. Kemp did 3 and 1/2 years ago.

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2024 01:34 AM (NLIak)

443 I'll pay a bona-fide metals/coins dealer their damn fee to BUY metals. Because they're on the hook for the purity and quantity counts, etc.

Selling?

Yeah, meet me at the local Police Substation. Bring your cash. It's going to get run through the counting machine and UV/etc Counterfeit Detector(s).

Benefits: Buyer nor seller pays a "commission" to the metals vendor, on either end.

Spot Market Price at the time of sale is the agreed upon price, fixed at time of handshake.

Round the sale to the closest $5. Get it done, get paid and get gone. And tip the over-watching cop $100 to keep you SAFE as it goes.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 06, 2024 01:34 AM (kQgoX)

444 In contrast cesium explodes in contact with water.
Posted by: Ciampino

The ion battery would cesium to be?

Posted by: mikeski didn't buy the parrot, either at August 06, 2024 01:36 AM (DgGvY)

445 430 My comment at 250 on the Toilet Paper thang -- although I didn't see any indication that anyone else clicked through to the actual article, either.

Posted by: mindful webworker - virtually at August 06, 2024 01:05 AM (UrLdJ)
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Well yes I did read the article, that's how I came across the bamboo TP article.

Cat claw stuck in TP, cat panics and runs away with TP roll unwinding as cat runs. You get home and follow the TP trail from the front door to the bathroom TP holder.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono tutti pieni di merda #17 at August 06, 2024 01:36 AM (qfLjt)

446 FDR did it.

The ETF proponents will assure you that could never happen again. I trust Mrs. Sock, my kids, most of my family and my brothers and sisters at church. The list is pretty short.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 06, 2024 01:37 AM (5W5fc)

447 Dunno about potassium ion batteries. Have they developed them to where they sometimes spontaneously catch on fire and refuse to be put out yet? Or do they do some other sort of thing like leak gases sometimes that kill everyone in a two block radius or something else horrible that would have gotten them banned before we ended up in Anything For Money At Any Cost Clown World?

Posted by: azjaeger at August 06, 2024 01:38 AM (3/XaG)

448 Well, bed time for tired Peons. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 06, 2024 01:38 AM (05iS8)

449 Well then, Gold Bugs

To each his own.

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2024 01:40 AM (NLIak)

450 As far as I can see, if the potassium-ion battery works, and is no more dangerous than Li-ion batteries, it has a place in things like laptops, cellphones, and power tools. Big advantage? Potassium is much more abundant than lithium, and dirt cheap.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Out: potato-battery clock
In: banana-battery clock

Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2024 01:41 AM (DgGvY)

451 Gold is an excellent hedge against capital gains, btw.

On a total return basis, the S&P 500 has been kicking gold's ass, over any 5-year period, since the day Jesus was born.

Posted by: mnw at August 06, 2024 01:44 AM (NLIak)

452 Benefits: Buyer nor seller pays a "commission" to the metals vendor, on either end.

Spot Market Price at the time of sale is the agreed upon price, fixed at time of handshake.

Round the sale to the closest $5. Get it done, get paid and get gone. And tip the over-watching cop $100 to keep you SAFE as it goes.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim

Spot market price is the raw metal price. You will always deal with a premium. Cost of minting, dealers commission, etc. It is a game and you need to do your research if your going to play. Part of the game is developing relationships. One of the advantages of silver is that you can deal in relatively small amounts. I have a good relationship with several dealers in the area. I played footsie with them before we got into serious territory. I've bought online but never sold.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 06, 2024 01:46 AM (5W5fc)

453 Phone power check

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2024 01:49 AM (fwDg9)

454 385 I would love to see a head-to-head flying comparison of the Martin B-26 (in it's most produced form), vs. the Japanese "Betty" medium bomber, also in it's common variant.

Biggest differences are all going to be about design philosophy. Japanese plane idea was to make them as light as possible. Saved material, gave more range and maneuverability. Drawback was comparative flimsiness. Also completely collapsed when we got much more powerful engines so the advantages were negated. So then the Japanese had flimsy planes that couldn't outperform opponents. Disaster ensued.

Posted by: azjaeger at August 06, 2024 01:50 AM (3/XaG)

455
Evening, all.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2024 01:50 AM (ny95y)

456 QUICK REFERENCE GUIDE TO SPACE ACTIVITY FOR AUGUST 6.

This is coverage of the rendezvous and capture of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-21 cargo spacecraft at the International Space Station. The capture is scheduled for approximately 3:10 a.m. EDT, 0710 UTC, and 09:10 CEST.

https://www.youtube.com/live/ruhtcXbsANo
__________
Docking To ISS
Scheduled for Aug 6, 2024
Installation coverage of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-21 cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station.

https://www.youtube.com/live/W_6F4sWu9cs

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono tutti pieni di merda #16 at August 06, 2024 01:50 AM (qfLjt)

457 tinyurl.com/4m64twm2
Top 20 Posts tonight from Bad Blue

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2024 01:53 AM (fwDg9)

458 Good night, Horde, need some sleep

Kamala needs to be whitewashed.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at August 06, 2024 01:53 AM (Sgq8y)

459 450

Out: potato-battery clock
In: banana-battery clock

Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2024 01:41 AM (DgGvY)
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ELECTRIC SUNDIAL powered by potato-battery
ELECTRIC ANALOG CLOCK powered by banana-battery (20 banana battery doubles as Hands on clock face)

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono tutti pieni di merda #15 at August 06, 2024 01:57 AM (qfLjt)

460 This is coverage of the rendezvous and capture of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-21 cargo spacecraft at the International Space Station. The capture is scheduled for approximately 3:10 a.m. EDT

Elon needs to post that on X. Wondering how long it will take for NASA and Boeing to assure us they have corrected all the issues with Starliner?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 06, 2024 01:58 AM (5W5fc)

461 The ultimate?
An Electric sundial using solar power via photcells.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono tutti pieni di merda #14 at August 06, 2024 01:59 AM (qfLjt)

462 This is coverage of the rendezvous and capture of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-21 cargo spacecraft at the International Space Station. The capture is scheduled for approximately 3:10 a.m. EDT

Elon needs to post that on X. Wondering how long it will take for NASA and Boeing to assure us they have corrected all the issues with Starliner?
Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened

I'm curious if they sent up a couple extra seats for the currently attached Dragon capsule, so the Starliner astronauts can return that way.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 06, 2024 02:01 AM (VNX3d)

463 I'm curious if they sent up a couple extra seats for the currently attached Dragon capsule, so the Starliner astronauts can return that way.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

NASA had a video of the launch on their Utube channel. Comments were turned off. Wonder why?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 06, 2024 02:05 AM (5W5fc)

464 Does anyone know why Ismail Haniyeh's bodyguard was in his room at 2am when it was hit?

A. Hiding the salami
B. Polishing turds at both ends
C. Looking everywhere for that ticking noise .....

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non ho trovato la sveglia #13 at August 06, 2024 02:06 AM (qfLjt)

465 I'm curious if they sent up a couple extra seats for the currently attached Dragon capsule, so the Starliner astronauts can return that way.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

I don't believe that was a crewed ship. It's for resupply. They're now pushing the astronauts return out to late August or potentially even mid September. They haven't committed to how that will happen. Gambling with the Aston lives is apparently still on the table.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * unburdened at August 06, 2024 02:13 AM (5W5fc)

466 462
The Northrop Grumman Cygnus NG-21 cargo spacecraft is not for return to Earth. It gets filled with trash and 'cesspit' stuff and sent down, where it will burn up on reentry, using the atmosphere and the high velocity to generate an incinerator in situ. It has no protection from the heat generated.
I'm sure you all knew that.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non ho trovato la sveglia #12 at August 06, 2024 02:14 AM (qfLjt)

467 Roger Stone
@RogerJStoneJr
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro continues to stare longingly at the telephone, but it does not ring. His staff has figured out that his moment has passed.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 06, 2024 02:16 AM (TGPs7)

468 465
There is a crew module at the ISS. Remember the 3 (4?) astronauts we watched go up a couple of months ago. I think it was a Russian capsule. It's kept there for emergency use in case the ISS needs to be abandoned in a hurry plus it is there as a ferry to Earth in case .....
I would not want to use a possibly crippled craft to return to Earth. I think that those two have privately told NASA no way they are going back by Boeing so please make other arrangements. NASA is foot-dragging to avoid losing face but the longer they drag this out the worse they will look. They should have made a Falcon rescue mission public within a few days of the problems becoming public. That would have looked both professional and nonpartisan.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non ho trovato la sveglia #11 at August 06, 2024 02:24 AM (qfLjt)

469
Posted by: RickZ at August 05, 2024 11:38 PM (gKDq2)

++++++++++++++++

I wonder how they pick these people so young. And why do they turn a halfrican or a dot Indian into an American urban Black person? Just use one of the jillions of them milling around.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2024 02:24 AM (ny95y)

470 Hello Friends. I think you should let the toilet paper hang the way you want it to.
I prefer 'under', hubs prefers 'over'.
Classic house divided.
Posted by: ALH

If the issue isn't cats using it as a toy, but a classic "he rolled/she rolled" argument, then the solution is simple.

Go to the home improvement store, buy a second TP dispenser. "His and hers." Fixed!

If you've got mounting surfaces on both sides of the throne, this can also fix the problem where you both want it to roll the same way, but one of you is right-handed and one left-handed.

Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2024 02:28 AM (DgGvY)

471 Go to the home improvement store, buy a second TP dispenser. "His and hers." Fixed!

If you've got mounting surfaces on both sides of the throne, this can also fix the problem where you both want it to roll the same way, but one of you is right-handed and one left-handed.
Posted by: mikeski

Problem solved- Wipe that off the honey doo list

Posted by: Miklos approves at August 06, 2024 02:32 AM (lSyD7)

472 No, Wonder Woman, no!

Lynda Carter
@RealLyndaCarter
I’m voting for Kamala Harris because I support a free and thriving America where women have control over their own bodies, children are safe from gun violence, our economy is competitive, and we have a fighting chance against climate change.

We won’t go back. #WomenForHarris

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 06, 2024 02:33 AM (TGPs7)

473 I wonder how they pick these people so young. And why do they turn a halfrican or a dot Indian into an American urban Black person? Just use one of the jillions of them milling around.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2024 02:24 AM (ny95y)

How? Commie parents. Both Kamala's and Barry's fathers is/was commies.

Why make her 'black'? The black vote, of course, just like with Barry; that's why they really didn't talk about his white mom, keep him black. Right or wrong, being dot Indian is not a selling point to be president of the United States.

Obama ushered in a commie coup. He's still calling the shots for somebody or bodies.

Posted by: RickZ at August 06, 2024 02:35 AM (gKDq2)

474 All your Heroes and Heroines will be found wanting... except for Trump....

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 06, 2024 02:36 AM (TGPs7)

475 ...I wonder how they pick these people so young. And why do they turn a halfrican or a dot Indian into an American urban Black person? Just use one of the jillions of them milling around. Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2024 02:24 AM (ny95y)

In 1983, I was elected by my local precinct to be the 2nd youngest ever (alternate) delegate ever sent to the Republican State Convention (Ft. Worth) for the '84 election cycle.

In that same year, I received in the mail, a very richly packaged envelope of materials, including an invitation to join the Council of Foreign Relations.

I was 22 years old, and had only left the USA once before, on a day trip to Rosarita Beach, MX.

THAT is when I smelled the skunk. And have never been proven wrong, since.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 06, 2024 02:37 AM (kQgoX)

476 Vivek is sounding the alarm again...

Vivek Ramaswamy
@VivekGRamaswamy
If we stay one step behind, we’re going to lose this race. Last summer, when Ronna McDaniel made GOP presidential candidates sign the “Beat Biden” pledge, I said it was silly because we weren’t going to be running against Biden & he wasn’t really even the President in any real sense. I said it again on the debate stage last November.

The hard truth is that Democrats lured the GOP into spending 18 months of financial & political capital criticizing Joe Biden, which proved not only irrelevant but counterproductive.

Instead, our own strategy gave Democrats the cover to swap in a candidate who avoided saying things in a primary that could damage her in the general election. At the same time, the media won artificial “credibility” in the eyes of independent voters because they publicly excoriated Biden, which makes it harder for Republicans now to allege partisanship when they prop up Kamala.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 06, 2024 02:41 AM (TGPs7)

477 We were caught flat-footed, and that caused us to say unhelpful things in recent weeks. Calling for Biden to step down as President is senseless & self-defeating. Criticizing Kamala for locking up too many people as a prosecutor makes her sound “tougher” on crime than she actually is. Alleging that Kamala covered up for Biden’s cognitive deficits contradicts the allegation that she staged a coup: independent voters aren’t persuaded by either of those arguments anyway.

Here’s my concern now: our latest strategy of repeatedly labeling Kamala a radical leftist will soon fall flat too. Tomorrow, she’s going to announce a VP who will be undoubtedly presented as a “moderate” which will undermine the claim that she’s a Marxist. There will be “far-left protests” at the DNC, which will only make the ticket look even more moderate in the eyes of independent voters. Kamala is changing her policy positions daily to appear more centrist. The media will cover for her at every step; the fact she said some crazy stuff in the past won’t really matter by comparison to what she’s saying & how the press portrays her now.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 06, 2024 02:42 AM (TGPs7)

478
Posted by: RickZ at August 06, 2024 02:35 AM (gKDq2)

++++++++++++++

But I mean heck, just grab an actual Black person! Most of them are commies anyway! This transcultural transracial thing is money down the drain when there are ready-made Black commies everywhere.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2024 02:42 AM (ny95y)

479
Posted by: Mister Ghost at August 06, 2024 02:42 AM (TGPs7)

++++++++++++

My concern is that labeling someone does nothing. So it's a label, so what? And it's pointless anyway. If Kamala calls someone "far-right," I know they're fine. We call someone "far left" or "radical left," Kamala's followers think it's great.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2024 02:45 AM (ny95y)

480 An Electric sundial using solar power via photcells.
Posted by: Ciampino

I saw Electric Sundial open for Van der Graaf Generator at The Powerstation in 1970.

https://youtu.be/-z1sNY8r17s

Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2024 02:46 AM (DgGvY)

481 All your Heroes and Heroines will be found wanting... except for Trump....
Posted by: Mister Ghost

You asked for it!

https://youtu.be/TUcp0_hpqs4

Posted by: .....for a whole lot of it, apparently. at August 06, 2024 02:53 AM (DgGvY)

482 But I mean heck, just grab an actual Black person! Most of them are commies anyway! This transcultural transracial thing is money down the drain when there are ready-made Black commies everywhere.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 06, 2024 02:42 AM (ny95y)

I guess articulate and not ghetto?

Safe packaging for Mr. and Mrs. Undecided Middle America.

Posted by: RickZ at August 06, 2024 02:55 AM (gKDq2)

483 Lynda Carter
@RealLyndaCarter
I’m voting for Kamala Harris because I support a free and thriving America where women have control over their own bodies, children are safe from gun violence, our economy is competitive, and we have a fighting chance against climate change.
Posted by: Mister Ghost

I had no idea she was such a renaissance woman. Climate scientist, economist, firearms specialist, eschatologist.

And to think she used to be just an imaginary superhero with a bodacious rack.

Posted by: mikeski at August 06, 2024 03:01 AM (DgGvY)

484 Different job today, have to go-to a more pressing one

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2024 03:35 AM (fwDg9)

485 Most of your jobs in the SE of PA, Skip?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 06, 2024 03:41 AM (sAmhv)

486 Yes mostly but not always, beginning of year and just last Saturday was in Delaware, New Jersey we always seem to have a job going but I haven't been over there this year.

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2024 03:56 AM (fwDg9)

487 The cold here has cooled off. I'm on the back couch with window open and kitteh next to me.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 06, 2024 03:57 AM (KAi1n)

488 One of our guys lives in Jersey

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2024 03:57 AM (fwDg9)

489 248 Did we ever get a poll thread today?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at August 05, 2024 10:59 PM (v6JzV)

There's this!

243 Leading Report @LeadingReport 4h
BREAKING: Trump leads Harris among age 18-34 by 4 points, according to polling by SurveyUSA.

Trump: 50%
Harris: 46%
Posted by: andycanuck (i0CiB) at August 05, 2024 10:58 PM (i0CiB)

Posted by: m at August 06, 2024 03:57 AM (64Zez)

490 OT
Watching a well researched programme on the Duke of Windsor
(the twat who gave up the British throne to marry Mrs Simpson of the USA)
New archival evidence has emerged shewing what a Nazi cunt he was. Of course he was a pure box head.
A pure traitor and spy. No wonder the rest of the Royal Family gave him the arse.

Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at August 06, 2024 03:59 AM (AT+DL)

491 You can't grow pot w/o potassium.

Posted by: SFGoth at August 06, 2024 04:04 AM (KAi1n)

492 You can't *spell* potassium without pot.

Posted by: m at August 06, 2024 04:09 AM (64Zez)

493 Morning, fellow insomaniacals! Back to the regular routine, up early with coffee. Oddly, since I have a new tobacco blend that just came today, "Cowboy Coffee," I have no desire for a pipe. The weather is so oppressive even now at 3 am as I sit in the A/C, and the sun so hot against my windows in the afternoon, that it somehow does not seem like pipe smoking weather.

Maybe I just need a break so I won't (pun incoming!) burn out. . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 06, 2024 04:10 AM (omVj0)

494 @RealLyndaCarter
I’m voting for Kamala Harris because blahblahblah...
I support a free and thriving America where women have control over their own bodies, children are safe from gun violence, our economy is competitive, and we have a fighting chance against climate change.

Yeah whatever, Lynda...

You're past your sell-by date, y'know.

Wimmens can still kill their kids in certain states.
Kids only get shot in blue sh!tholes, or by negligence.
Our economy is in the toilet thanks to demonrats.
Climate change is a farce and a hoax.

Shut up and enjoy your retirement, dearie. Nobody cares what YOU think about politics-- you've been well-insulated from the effects of DC fuckery-pokery.

Posted by: JQ at August 06, 2024 04:12 AM (njWTi)

495 We did get this promise, in the thread The Second Gentleman, Doug Emhoff, Admits Having Banged the Nanny and Gotten Her Pregnant, Ending His First Marriage:

I'll do a post about polls, which I know everyone loves, later.

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Posted by: m at August 06, 2024 04:13 AM (64Zez)

496 I would tell her the Marxists talk a good game but end up killing millions every time

Posted by: Skip at August 06, 2024 04:13 AM (fwDg9)

497 Noodus pixyana

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 06, 2024 04:16 AM (omVj0)

498 Pixy nooded

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 06, 2024 04:16 AM (5nIWD)

499 It's Hiroshima Day.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at August 06, 2024 04:20 AM (zdLoL)

500 500

Posted by: Keeping Score at August 06, 2024 11:55 AM (CV8a5)

501 I'm just putting the comment on the Potassium-ion battery story as the URL. TLDR: Potassium-ion was first and it's not as good as lithium-ion.

Posted by: Jon at August 06, 2024 12:59 PM (a8+6W)

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