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Monday Overnight Open Thread (9/9/24) Off Grid Bunker 3rd Edition

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RIP James Earl Jones.


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If science was settled. Then we wouldn't have Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day.

SURGEONS have performed the world's first successful whole eye transplant on an army veteran.

Aaron James, now 47, from Arkansas in the US, lost his left eye and most of his face after an electrical cable touched the left side three years ago.


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You call it an "Unfortunate accident". The ONT declares a Posthumous Genius Award Winner.

A MAN has been gored to death during a bull-running festival in Spain as animal campaigners issue fresh calls for a ban.

His death, described by the local council as "an unfortunate accident", is the second to hit the El Casar region in just weeks.


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I might not be a gynecologist. But I know a cvnt when I see one.

Pelosi Claims Trump Will Chicken Out of Debate with Harris: ‘I Know Cowardice When I See It’

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Notice: Posted with permission by the Ace Media Empire & AceCorp, LLC. The ONT often imitated, never replicated. Why? Because of Morons like you.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 09:55 PM




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1 changing

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, non ho rubato i soldi at September 09, 2024 09:57 PM (qfLjt)

2 Darn it, foiled again!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 09, 2024 09:57 PM (hOUT3)

3 Foist

Posted by: Ciampino - Applicare direttamente alla fronte at September 09, 2024 09:58 PM (qfLjt)

4 Whole eye transplant? I thought they did that already?

So, someone gave that soldier an eye?

I guess that's not all that unusual, I've heard the vice presidents gives head.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 09, 2024 09:58 PM (0eaVi)

5 Turd

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at September 09, 2024 09:59 PM (Do4l4)

6 There's a star man waiting in the sky.
He'd like to come and meet us,
but he thinks he'd blow our minds.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 09, 2024 09:59 PM (WBQfF)

7 Hrothgar its outcome based commenting.

You're all number one in my book

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 09, 2024 09:59 PM (mQj5A)

8 There is no shame in losing to you wonderful people.
Now, get a freaking life and give some us mere mortals a chance!!!

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

9 Simply stunning lead picture!
Thanx MH

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 09, 2024 10:00 PM (hOUT3)

10 OK is that an extra $5 for the bacon or is $5 the total price for burger and bacon?

Posted by: Ciampino - Applicare direttamente alla fronte! at September 09, 2024 10:00 PM (qfLjt)

11 Rat
You are number one

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 09, 2024 10:00 PM (mQj5A)

12 Simply stunning lead picture!
Thanx MH
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 09, 2024 10:00 PM (hOUT3)

Huh? I thought it was a picture of a mountain and a lake/river. I would have never guessed it was a picture of Lead.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 09, 2024 10:01 PM (0eaVi)

13 Hey-o!

Posted by: Dr. T at September 09, 2024 10:01 PM (lHPJf)

14 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 09, 2024 10:01 PM (WXNFJ)

15 You're all number one in my book
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

I have number two in my pants.

Posted by: joey b. at September 09, 2024 10:01 PM (vJiyU)

16 So James Earl Jones went to that great death star in the sky. RIP

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 09, 2024 10:02 PM (VwHCD)

17 Huh? I thought it was a picture of a mountain and a lake/river. I would have never guessed it was a picture of Lead.
Posted by: OrangeEnt


That's a pretty heavy observation!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 09, 2024 10:02 PM (hOUT3)

18 Sorry I'm late, the disaster was making goo goo eyes at me.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 09, 2024 10:02 PM (US5hw)

19 Have a good night everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 09, 2024 10:02 PM (fwDg9)

20 Hey, MisHum.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 09, 2024 10:02 PM (v6JzV)

21 Pelosi Claims Trump Will Chicken Out of Debate with Harris: ‘I Know Cowardice When I See It’

Democrats always project.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 09, 2024 10:03 PM (uxCna)

22 Rat
You are number one
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Wow! Thank you MisHum.
All the best to you and the fabulous!

Posted by: Some Rat at September 09, 2024 10:03 PM (vJiyU)

23 A MAN has been gored to death during a bull-running festival in Spain as animal campaigners issue fresh calls for a ban.

This calls for the classic "Tradition" De-motivational poster:

"Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid."

https://tinyurl.com/preview/5c8r3ttf

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at September 09, 2024 10:03 PM (DTX3h)

24 Good evening morons and thanks for that stunning photo on top mh

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 09, 2024 10:04 PM (RIvkX)

25 So James Earl Jones went to that great death star in the sky. RIP

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 09, 2024 10:02 PM (VwHCD)

It's as if millions of Star Wars nerds suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 09, 2024 10:04 PM (i24o9)

26 Pelosi Claims Trump Will Chicken Out of Debate with Harris: ‘I Know Cowardice When I See It’


Nancy, you wouldn't know a pile of dog vomit when you saw it.

And I presume you possess at least one mirror.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 09, 2024 10:04 PM (lHPJf)

27 A MAN has been gored to death during a bull-running festival in Spain as animal campaigners issue fresh calls for a ban.

His death, described by the local council as "an unfortunate accident" "the best entertainment value in southern Spain" is the second to hit the El Casar region in just weeks.


-- A message from the Pamplona Chamber of Commerce

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 09, 2024 10:05 PM (WBQfF)

28 hey fappers

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at September 09, 2024 10:05 PM (sJHOI)

29 That's a pretty heavy observation!
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 09, 2024 10:02 PM (hOUT3)

Plumb tuckered my out carrying that thought around.

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

30 I'M SPEAKING, YOU FILTHY CONVICTED FELON!!!!

I'M GOING TO BRING DECENCY BACK TO AMERICA, AFTER I'VE CRUSHED THE TRAITORIST HALF OF AMERICA!!!

Posted by: GUESS WHO? at September 09, 2024 10:05 PM (uxCna)

31 Lo and behold! It's an ONT.

Life is good. *enough ** for the moment

Howdy, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - the long-awaited return ov at September 09, 2024 10:06 PM (x+3ch)

32 A MAN has been gored to death during a bull-running festival in Spain as animal campaigners issue fresh calls for a ban.

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Life has become too tame. I think the people calling for a ban should be given a backpack of beans and water, tied to the ends of wind turbine blades, and see if their gas emissions can generate useful power.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 09, 2024 10:06 PM (VNX3d)

33 19 Skip, could it be midrats?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 09, 2024 10:06 PM (v6JzV)

34 Rat
You are number one
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian

Wow! Thank you MisHum.
All the best to you and the fabulous!

Posted by: Some Rat at September 09, 2024 10:03 PM (vJiyU)

lol

Thanks for the cvntent, MisHum.

MisHum, like SteakUm, but with Roast Beef.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 09, 2024 10:07 PM (i24o9)

35 SURGEONS have performed the world's first successful whole eye transplant on an army veteran.

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If they had any sense of whimsy they would have put it on the end of his index finger.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 09, 2024 10:07 PM (WBQfF)

36 Evening.

Nancy Pelosi's brother was part of a group that gang raped two little girls and her father, the mayor of Baltimore, worked to get him off.

Pass it on.

Fuck that fucking cunt.

Posted by: Robert at September 09, 2024 10:08 PM (1Yy3c)

37 Actual Justice Warrior reports that Lauren Chen did not know, she was not indicted, and she is also a victim.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 09, 2024 10:08 PM (RIvkX)

38 Hey Bulgaroctonus

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 09, 2024 10:08 PM (mQj5A)

39 Babylon Bee headline

God Announces He Will Now Be Voiced By James Earl Jones

Seems fitting, since he voiced a CD set reading the Bible.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 09, 2024 10:08 PM (VNX3d)

40 28 Hey, I haven’t fapped since at least this morning.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 09, 2024 10:09 PM (v6JzV)

41 18 Sorry I'm late, the disaster was making goo goo eyes at me.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 09, 2024 10:02 PM (US5hw)

You can probably guess what band Pandora played for me when I was writing that.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 09, 2024 10:09 PM (US5hw)

42 Fuck that fucking cunt.
Posted by: Robert

Pass.

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

43 "the best entertainment value in southern Spain"

The moment had come
I swallowed my gum
We knew there'd be blood on the sand pretty soon
The crowd held its breath
Hoping that death
Would brighten an otherwise dull afternoon

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

44 Seems fitting, since he voiced a CD set reading the Bible.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 09, 2024 10:08 PM (VNX3d)

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Did he do the entire Bible, or just the highlights?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 09, 2024 10:09 PM (WBQfF)

45 A MAN has been gored to death during a bull-running festival in Spain as animal campaigners issue fresh calls for a ban.

This is one of those things I just do not understand. Besides being stupid, it's dumb. I put this 'tradition' in the same bucket as I do slaughtering an animal to read its entrails.

This is a practice best left in the past.

Posted by: RickZ at September 09, 2024 10:09 PM (gKDq2)

46 James Earl Jones was a national treasurer. He will be missed.

Posted by: Robert at September 09, 2024 10:09 PM (1Yy3c)

47 Who is John Galt ?

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at September 09, 2024 10:10 PM (i5B/J)

48 Pelosi Claims Trump Will Chicken Out of Debate with Harris: ‘I Know Cowardice When I See It’

What a nasty old crone.

Posted by: Tuna at September 09, 2024 10:10 PM (oaGWv)

49 Everyday I get up and pray to Jah
And he increases the number of clocks
By exactly one
Everybody's coming home for lunch these days
Last night there were skinheads on my lawn

Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling
Take the skinheads bowling
Take them bowling...

Camper Van Beethoven - Take The Skinheads Bowling

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 09, 2024 10:10 PM (TGPs7)

50 So James Earl Jones went to that great death star in the sky. RIP
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

You know you're screwed when Darth Vader looks around and says, "F*ck this! I'm out of here!"

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 09, 2024 10:10 PM (L/fGl)

51 Evening.

Nancy Pelosi's brother was part of a group that gang raped two little girls and her father, the mayor of Baltimore, worked to get him off.

Pass it on.

Fuck that fucking cunt.

Posted by: Robert at September 09, 2024 10:08 PM (1Yy3c)

Not with bidens dead dick and jill pushing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 09, 2024 10:10 PM (VwHCD)

52 Forget all of that other bullshit; James Earl will forever be known as Thulsa Doom in this family.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 09, 2024 10:10 PM (fY84s)

53 "Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean it's not incredibly stupid."

Sometimes whoever put up the fence was just drunk.

Posted by: Not GK Chesterton at September 09, 2024 10:10 PM (gKWVE)

54 It would be news if the "man" gored the bull to death. With a worm-like proboscis that launches from an unhinged jaw.

But you never see it in the news, because our press creatures remain slavishly loyal.

Still, it happens every full moon, in the apse of the National Cathedral. Then, we feast.

Posted by: Beltway Demon at September 09, 2024 10:11 PM (0FoWg)

55 36
'Fuck that fucking cunt.'

I look forward impatiently for God to finally flush her down the toilet.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 09, 2024 10:11 PM (3wi/L)

56 Bacon may be a miracle food, but nothing can save a veggie burger.

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at September 09, 2024 10:11 PM (F4bAW)

57 46 James Earl Jones was a national treasurer. He will be missed.
Posted by: Robert at September 09, 2024 10:09 PM (1Yy3c)

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Now who will break a hundred?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 09, 2024 10:11 PM (WBQfF)

58 Seems fitting, since he voiced a CD set reading the Bible.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 09, 2024 10:08 PM (VNX3d)

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Did he do the entire Bible, or just the highlights?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

King James Version, New Testament.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 09, 2024 10:11 PM (VNX3d)

59 You know who else had an off-grid bunker?

Posted by: Julius Streicher at September 09, 2024 10:11 PM (CV8a5)

60 James Earl Jones’ father was the guy they caught in the alley in The Sting.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 09, 2024 10:12 PM (v6JzV)

61 A MAN has been gored to death during a bull-running festival in Spain as animal campaigners issue fresh calls for a ban.


Why are they mad? They constantly object to bulls being killed in the arena, so why the anger now that the bulls got one back?

Posted by: Dr. T at September 09, 2024 10:12 PM (lHPJf)

62 gored to death during a bull-running festival in Spain

Ole!

Posted by: Tom Lehrer at September 09, 2024 10:12 PM (gKWVE)

63 I put the odds at no better than 50/50 that the Vice President In Charge of Blow Jobs shows.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 09, 2024 10:12 PM (L/fGl)

64 Still looking for the tight girls dressing like whores that I was lead to believe would be in the last post.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at September 09, 2024 10:12 PM (MZ+PY)

65 So diving into the numbers with what The Junta has done to Springfield Illinois.

The last census in 2020 had the population at 58k.

In the last four years The Junta has shoveled 20k Haitian migrants into the town, the vast overwhelming majority of these migrants are military aged men.

If you take the original 58k population and say roughly half were men and half were female, you get 29k males in the town.

If you say roughly 65pct of the original males are over 18, you get 18,850 adult males.

So that now means, there are more adult male Haitiens in that town than any other group.

That's not going to end well.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 09, 2024 10:13 PM (XV/Pl)

66 You know who else had an off-grid bunker?

Posted by: Julius Streicher at September 09, 2024 10:11 PM (CV8a5)

Dick Proenneke?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 09, 2024 10:13 PM (i24o9)

67 Paul Pelosi was driving a car recklessly and killed his older brother as a young Jerk.

Posted by: Der Spiegel at September 09, 2024 10:14 PM (CV8a5)

68 Skynyrd!
Thank you MisHum!!!

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They Do Not Kill at September 09, 2024 10:14 PM (gxokI)

69 gored to death during a bull-running festival in Spain

Ole!

Posted by: Tom Lehrer at September 09, 2024 10:12 PM (gKWVE)

Hey, you run with the bulls you get the horns.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob 'going back to smoking a pipe'. at September 09, 2024 10:14 PM (GTCVo)

70 Tell us Julius Streicher


Funny I'm reading Nuremberg The Reckoning by WM F. Buckley, Jr.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 09, 2024 10:14 PM (mQj5A)

71 I look forward impatiently for God to finally flush her down the toilet.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 09, 2024 10:11 PM (3wi/L)


Maybe she's being kept here to test us. Much like Job was tested with a plague of boils.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 09, 2024 10:14 PM (lHPJf)

72 10 OK is that an extra $5 for the bacon or is $5 the total price for burger and bacon?
Posted by: Ciampino - Applicare direttamente alla fronte!

I don't know, but I'd pay extra to have them skip the veggie patty, and just put extra bacon on the bun. Actually bacon, a slice of tomato, lettuce, and some mayo on a burger bun would be pretty good. As long as there was enough bacon.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 09, 2024 10:14 PM (0Htd1)

73 I put the odds at no better than 50/50 that the Vice President In Charge of Blow Jobs shows.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice!

Why do I expect that, if she starts performing I incredibly poorly, that she'll offer Trump a blow job to drop out....

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 09, 2024 10:14 PM (VNX3d)

74 40 28 Hey, I haven’t fapped since at least this morning.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 09, 2024 10:09 PM (v6JzV)

Pffftttt!!!!!

I fapped once this morning *and* once this afternoon. Then I'll fap in the shower before going to bed.

Helps to keep in the right frame of mind.

Posted by: Robert at September 09, 2024 10:14 PM (1Yy3c)

75 That's not going to end well.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

Saw a clip of some council meeting, even the brothers are pissed.

Posted by: Some Rat at September 09, 2024 10:15 PM (vJiyU)

76
So James Earl Jones went to that great death star in the sky. RIP
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division


This death star?

https://youtu.be/rK_NqewPOLQ

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 09, 2024 10:15 PM (63Dwl)

77 Could be worse.
Could be quacking.

Posted by: Crack-Powered Diplomacy at September 09, 2024 10:15 PM (8gech)

78 So, my surgery which was scheduled for last Friday, then postponed because I tested positive for a UTI, has been postponed yet again, because the antibiotics I have been taking since last week haven't killed everything. My surgery has been postponed again, this time to next Thursday. I will be taking a different antibiotic for the next week and retesting next Monday.

Unfortunately, that means that I am stuck in Costa Mesa, California for an additional 2 weeks with nothing to do but twiddle my thumbs....

And the hotel where I am staying can accommodate me all but 1 of the additional nights that I will be here - that night is the night after I get out of the hospital. So I get to scramble trying to find somewhere to stay (maybe under the nearest underpass? 🤣🤣🤣

Oh, well, things could be worse.

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at September 09, 2024 10:15 PM (yh31E)

79 James Earl Jones was a national treasurer. He will be missed.
Posted by: Robert

My radio station is playing Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait with Jones as narrator right now.

Posted by: Tuna at September 09, 2024 10:16 PM (oaGWv)

80 I'm not going to bother watching the debate - I'll just follow the political betting markets in real-time.

If the chances of Trump winning suddenly increase from 65% to 80%, that will tell me that Kamala is performing to expectations.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 09, 2024 10:16 PM (uxCna)

81 I look forward impatiently for God to finally flush her down the toilet.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

I strive mightily to "judge not" so I satisfy myself knowing that God's judgement is just.

And Eternal.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 09, 2024 10:16 PM (WXNFJ)

82 I fully expect Kamala Harris to act like Al Gore in the NAFTA debate with H Ross Perot.

In that debate, Al Gore constantly, and I do mean constantly to the point of being rude, interrupted Perot, going on to claim victory.

Posted by: SMOD at September 09, 2024 10:16 PM (GITLP)

83 Actually bacon, a slice of tomato, lettuce, and some mayo on a burger bun would be pretty good. As long as there was enough bacon.
Posted by: nerdygirl at September 09, 2024 10:14 PM (0Htd1)

I think that's a thing. Called a "BLT".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 09, 2024 10:16 PM (WGkKU)

84 Berserker!

How are you? Will I see you in Corsicana in about six weeks?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 10:17 PM (E0dBg)

85 Then I'll fap in the shower before going to bed.

Pics or it didn't happen

Posted by: tony weiner at September 09, 2024 10:17 PM (gKWVE)

86 @75

>>Saw a clip of some council meeting, even the brothers are pissed.

Replacement theory is real, and it's going to hit that brother square in the face and affect him more than any other group.

I hope our black brothers are waking up to what's going on before it's too late.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 09, 2024 10:17 PM (XV/Pl)

87 75 That's not going to end well.

Posted by: Thomas Bender

Saw a clip of some council meeting, even the brothers are pissed.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 09, 2024 10:15 PM (vJiyU)

Oldest daughters boy toy has a green card. Talk to him about illegal immigration. One pissed off indian (dot not casino)

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 09, 2024 10:17 PM (mQj5A)

88 BabyMetal - Metal Galaxy (full album live)

https://youtu.be/_Mpz4NUqqDc

Posted by: Robert at September 09, 2024 10:18 PM (1Yy3c)

89 78 Prayer up, Teresa.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 09, 2024 10:18 PM (v6JzV)

90 65 So diving into the numbers with what The Junta has done to Springfield Illinois.

...

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 09, 2024 10:13 PM (XV/Pl)

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Springfield, Ohio. Springfield, IL is the state capital. No way the pols let something like that happen there.

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at September 09, 2024 10:18 PM (F4bAW)

91 Seems fitting, since he voiced a CD set reading the Bible.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Don LeMon has a book out about his search for God, I Once Was Lost.

https://is.gd/CFW6da

Well, they say God is everywhere so I guess he's in gay bath houses too.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 09, 2024 10:18 PM (L/fGl)

92 That Mark Dice clip is pretty funny. What's even funnier is that you can get 20% off the merch that he sells by using the discount code 'TATER'.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 09, 2024 10:18 PM (8sb1l)

93 Oh, well, things could be worse.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief


{{{Teresa}}} Avoid any areas where blue tarps are the primary construction material.

Posted by: Some Rat at September 09, 2024 10:18 PM (vJiyU)

94 Thanks for the dandy ONT, Mis Hum!

Lovely photo up top and rocking tune behind it.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 09, 2024 10:19 PM (CiNoz)

95 Bacon may be a miracle food, but nothing can save a veggie burger.

Truer words...

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 09, 2024 10:19 PM (mH6SG)

96 If the answer is Tater, your asking the wrong question.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 09, 2024 10:19 PM (L/fGl)

97 @90

>>Springfield, Ohio

Yes, Springfield Ohio.

There are way damn too many Springfields in this country.

For this I blame The Simpsons.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 09, 2024 10:20 PM (XV/Pl)

98 67 Paul Pelosi was driving a car recklessly and killed his older brother as a young Jerk.

Posted by: Der Spiegel at September 09, 2024 10:14 PM (CV8a5)


People we may never hear of again -
Paul Pelosi
All of Slow Joe's grandchildren
DOCTOR Jill
Tim Walz

Posted by: Gref at September 09, 2024 10:20 PM (aBgBM)

99 Teresa,
If I was in SoCal, I'd give you a place to stay. I think Seattle is a good 18 hour drive though.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 10:20 PM (E0dBg)

100 78 So, my surgery which was scheduled for last Friday, then postponed because I tested positive for a UTI, has been postponed yet again, because the antibiotics I have been taking since last week haven't killed everything. My surgery has been postponed again, this time to next Thursday. I will be taking a different antibiotic for the next week and retesting next Monday.

Unfortunately, that means that I am stuck in Costa Mesa, California for an additional 2 weeks with nothing to do but twiddle my thumbs....

And the hotel where I am staying can accommodate me all but 1 of the additional nights that I will be here - that night is the night after I get out of the hospital. So I get to scramble trying to find somewhere to stay (maybe under the nearest underpass? 🤣🤣🤣

Oh, well, things could be worse.
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at September 09, 2024 10:15 PM (yh31E)

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Are there any local Venezuelan gangs? I hear they're good at finding housing.

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at September 09, 2024 10:21 PM (F4bAW)

101

J
E
T
S

Jets Jets Jets Jets!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 10:21 PM (E0dBg)

102 Oldest daughters boy toy has a green card. Talk to him about illegal immigration. One pissed off indian (dot not casino)

70% of immigration to the United States is now illegals.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 09, 2024 10:21 PM (uxCna)

103 Did he do the entire Bible, or just the highlights?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

King James Version, New Testament.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 09, 2024 10:11 PM (VNX3d)
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I'll bet even the begats were exciting.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 09, 2024 10:22 PM (WBQfF)

104 The Criterion 4K of "Night of the Living Dead" doesn't seem all that different from their blue-ray.

Oh crap, I thought this was TJM's blog, sorry about that!

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 09, 2024 10:22 PM (CHHv1)

105 97 I think every damn state in the Lower 48 has a Springfield.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 09, 2024 10:22 PM (v6JzV)

106 If they made a movie about the life of James Earl Jones who could possibly play him?

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 09, 2024 10:23 PM (zzdrL)

107 Evening Horde, thx MisHum.
After the bull gored the man to death it went to a local hotel and mounted David French's wife

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 09, 2024 10:23 PM (tKS+g)

108 I think every damn state in the Lower 48 has a Springfield.

That was the Simpsons' joke.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 09, 2024 10:23 PM (uxCna)

109 106 If they made a movie about the life of James Earl Jones who could possibly play him?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 09, 2024 10:23 PM (zzdrL)

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It'd be a stretch, but I'd nominate Buscemi.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 09, 2024 10:24 PM (WBQfF)

110 Bunkers seem to me a place where you go with your family to die for the most part during asymmetrical warfare. Your tactical ability to control your personal battle space becomes so limited that it essentially puts you in a very expensive coffin. IMO

However, when Nukes are involved...the deeper the bunker...the better.

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 09, 2024 10:24 PM (TDvv2)

111 Columbus is the capitol of Ohio.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 09, 2024 10:24 PM (63Dwl)

112 106 If they made a movie about the life of James Earl Jones who could possibly play him?
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 09, 2024 10:23 PM (zzdrL)

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Based on modern trends, probably a small Asian woman.

Posted by: No One Of Consequence at September 09, 2024 10:24 PM (F4bAW)

113 108 Yes, I know.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 09, 2024 10:24 PM (v6JzV)

114 Save a veggie burger?

Give it to the seagulls and go have a steak.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 10:24 PM (E0dBg)

115 I think every damn state in the Lower 48 has a Springfield.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 09, 2024 10:22 PM (v6JzV)

Because in the 19th Century, nobody knew how to spell "sitzpinkler".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 09, 2024 10:24 PM (WGkKU)

116 Yeah, I'll have that Veggie Burger (make Missie happy) w/ the bacon. Make that a double bacon and some cheese but make sure it's the Veggie Burger.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 09, 2024 10:25 PM (X/njp)

117 {{{Teresa}}} Avoid any areas where blue tarps are the primary construction material.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 09, 2024 10:18 PM (vJiyU)


Darn it, Rat, I took a drink just as I read your comment! 🤣🤣🤣

99 Teresa,
If I was in SoCal, I'd give you a place to stay. I think Seattle is a good 18 hour drive though.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 10:20 PM (E0dBg)


Aw, Nurse, you're so sweet! I would go and visit my daughter and her family, but they are leaving to attend a friend's wedding in Italy in a couple of days....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at September 09, 2024 10:25 PM (yh31E)

118 Thank you MisHum.

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 09, 2024 10:25 PM (TDvv2)

119 Don LeMon has a book out about his search for God, I Once Was Lost.

https://is.gd/CFW6da


Let me guess. He found God, and God said, "I am Love, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with how you choose to live your truth"?

Posted by: Dr. T at September 09, 2024 10:26 PM (lHPJf)

120
Manistee, Dublin, Idlewild. I understand why James Earl Jones left but it's a beautiful part of the world.

Posted by: Auspex at September 09, 2024 10:26 PM (j4U/Z)

121 @106

>> If they made a movie about the life of James Earl Jones who could possibly play him?

Nearly impossible.

The first thing you have to contend with is the voice.

2nd thing is the intensity of his acting style, especially when he was a younger man.

3rd is the smile, you can't fake that.

Possibly the only person that could play James Earl Jones is Robert Downey Jr.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 09, 2024 10:26 PM (XV/Pl)

122 Imma turnin’ in. G’night, All.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 09, 2024 10:26 PM (v6JzV)

123 116 Yeah, I'll have that Veggie Burger (make Missie happy) w/ the bacon. Make that a double bacon and some cheese but make sure it's the Veggie Burger.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 09, 2024 10:25 PM (X/njp)

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It's a "grill special." Not available to males.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 09, 2024 10:26 PM (WBQfF)

124 Bunkers seem to me a place where you go with your family to die for the most part during asymmetrical warfare. Your tactical ability to control your personal battle space becomes so limited that it essentially puts you in a very expensive coffin. IMO

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 09, 2024 10:24 PM (TDvv2)

You don't have to live like a refugee. And not having to put up with hordes of rapee UN blue helmets might be a plus

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 09, 2024 10:27 PM (i24o9)

125 If they made a movie about the life of James Earl Jones who could possibly play him?

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Meryl Streep. She can play any body!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 09, 2024 10:27 PM (L/fGl)

126 I misread the other post.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 09, 2024 10:27 PM (63Dwl)

127 9 Simply stunning lead picture!
Thanx MH
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3)
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Don't believe pictures anymore unless they are watermarked.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 09, 2024 10:27 PM (X/njp)

128 104 The Criterion 4K of "Night of the Living Dead" doesn't seem all that different from their blue-ray.

Oh crap, I thought this was TJM's blog, sorry about that!
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 09, 2024 10:22 PM (CHHv1)

Special features won't be different but I assume the picture will be super duper detailed.

Has your cat given permission to post here?!?

Posted by: Robert at September 09, 2024 10:27 PM (1Yy3c)

129 If they made a movie about the life of James Earl Jones who could possibly play him?

-
Meryl Streep. She can play any body!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 09, 2024 10:27 PM (L/fGl)


Not very well, but she can.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 09, 2024 10:28 PM (lHPJf)

130 So if Russia paying for content is a crime...is it a crime when Britain does? The EU? Saudi Arabia? China?

Posted by: 18-1 at September 09, 2024 10:28 PM (oZhjI)

131 Meryl Streep played Hillary Clinton *perfectly* in The Giver

Posted by: 18-1 at September 09, 2024 10:29 PM (oZhjI)

132 >>>Paul Pelosi was driving a car recklessly and killed his older brother as a young Jerk.

Posted by: Der Spiegel

>He got hammered and sucked off by a Canadian felon before he crashed.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 09, 2024 10:29 PM (fY84s)

133 130 So if Russia paying for content is a crime...is it a crime when Britain does? The EU? Saudi Arabia? China?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 09, 2024 10:28 PM (oZhjI)

Is it then a crime for the US Congress to fund Air America, which STILL broadcasts into Russia on a daily basis (used to be Radio Free Europe).

Posted by: Romeo13 at September 09, 2024 10:30 PM (xaFKb)

134 I think every damn state in the Lower 48 has a Springfield.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 09, 2024 10:22 PM (v6JzV)


And every one of them has a Main Street.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 09, 2024 10:30 PM (W/lyH)

135
Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
Democrats Are Staging Hate Crimes In California

15 year arrested and interviewed by The FBI. He spray painted a bunch of elementary schools with the n word & Swaz*kas. MAGA kids were blamed

“It turns out the teenager is the son of an elected Democratic Party official right here in San Diego County”

Multiple staged hate crimes coming out of San Diego California reported in this video

Just in time for elections….

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 09, 2024 10:30 PM (TGPs7)

136 So if Russia paying for content is a crime...is it a crime when Britain does? The EU? Saudi Arabia? China?
Posted by: 18-1

Let's check the ole dues ledger...they're all paid up so....no.

Posted by: The dnc at September 09, 2024 10:30 PM (vJiyU)

137 124 Bunkers seem to me a place where you go with your family to die for the most part during asymmetrical warfare. Your tactical ability to control your personal battle space becomes so limited that it essentially puts you in a very expensive coffin. IMO

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 09, 2024 10:24 PM (TDvv2)

You don't have to live like a refugee. And not having to put up with hordes of rapee UN blue helmets might be a plus
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,
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A boat or a barge capable of taking seas 13 miles out with two weeks of food and water. Sit there on the deck and watch it burn.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 09, 2024 10:30 PM (X/njp)

138 However, when Nukes are involved...the deeper the bunker...the better.

Posted by: Nightwatch

Just go outside and enjoy the light show. You're still gonna die from rads, but it'll be quicker.

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 09, 2024 10:31 PM (MsrgL)

139 Ok. G'night all.

Posted by: Dr. T at September 09, 2024 10:31 PM (lHPJf)

140 130 So if Russia paying for content is a crime...is it a crime when Britain does? The EU? Saudi Arabia? China?
Posted by: 18-1 a


Depends on who gets the 10%

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 09, 2024 10:31 PM (hOUT3)

141 If they made a movie about the life of James Earl Jones who could possibly play him?


Whoever produced it would have to use the Current Universal Box Office Attraction Black Actor, Samuel L. Jackson. Whether he could credibly do the role or not.

Posted by: Gref at September 09, 2024 10:32 PM (aBgBM)

142 Hey! Hey! HEY!!!!

No going to bed until I'm fully entertained.

Posted by: Robert at September 09, 2024 10:32 PM (1Yy3c)

143 I think every damn state in the Lower 48 has a Springfield.

Graham Robb's "Discovery of Middle Earth" notes that "Mediolanum" (=Milan) place names show up a lot in France. He argues that the Druids set them up as nodes in a communication network.
For a skeptical take, here:
jasoncolavito.com/apps/search?q=Robb

Posted by: nobody knows who they were at September 09, 2024 10:33 PM (gKWVE)

144 Whoever produced it would have to use the Current Universal Box Office Attraction Black Actor, Samuel L. Jackson. Whether he could credibly do the role or not.

TBH Denzel would be the better choice if you are going for "currently popular black actor". Denzel has the intensity but not the voice.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 09, 2024 10:33 PM (oZhjI)

145 Whoever produced it would have to use the Current Universal Box Office Attraction Black Actor, Samuel L. Jackson. Whether he could credibly do the role or not.
Posted by: Gref at September 09, 2024 10:32 PM (aBgBM)

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Seems Gilbert Gottfried just died too soon.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 09, 2024 10:33 PM (WBQfF)

146 >>>If they made a movie about the life of James Earl Jones who could possibly play him?

>That would be a toss up between Denzel, Samuel L. and Morgan Freeman.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 09, 2024 10:34 PM (fY84s)

147 It appears that Aaron Rodgers will make it through can entire game this year .

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 09, 2024 10:34 PM (tKS+g)

148 Meryl Streep. She can play any body!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 09, 2024 10:27 PM (L/fGl)
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Not very well, but she can.
Posted by: Dr. T at September 09, 2024 10:28 PM (lHPJf)


LOL!

Yes, Streep's highly overrated, if she was ever rated.

Posted by: RickZ at September 09, 2024 10:34 PM (gKDq2)

149 Yeah James Earls passing is kinda sad. His voice was excellent in Stat Wars. I think the mask worked well too. Dude seemed arrogant sometimes like Sidney Poitier and Harry Belifonte sometimes but I guess those guys were on a much needed mission.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at September 09, 2024 10:35 PM (Do4l4)

150 Read that there's another ocean under the surface of the earth.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 09, 2024 10:35 PM (X/njp)

151 I'm conflicted.
Whilst I cannot stand Lauren Chen, Benny Johnson and a host of the other low-info talking heads whose job seems to be to shed more heat than light and generally make the Conservative movement less informed and less politically potent..... I probably hate that lunatic Mark Dice even more.

Posted by: stv at September 09, 2024 10:35 PM (P5JRd)

152 Don LeMon has a book out about his search for God, I Once Was Lost.

yeah, i'm going to take lessons on theology from the guy who smears his own poo on strangers' lips

Posted by: nope at September 09, 2024 10:35 PM (gKWVE)

153 124

So if these recent illegal immigrants start roaming down my street, busting into parked cars and my neighbors' houses...

I'm going to light them up with my 2A Rights?

You bet your sweet ass...

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 09, 2024 10:36 PM (TDvv2)

154 So if Russia paying for content is a crime...is it a crime when Britain does? The EU? Saudi Arabia? China?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 09, 2024 10:28 PM (oZhjI)


The Magic 8 Ball says "NO."

Posted by: RickZ at September 09, 2024 10:36 PM (gKDq2)

155 If they made a movie about the life of James Earl Jones who could possibly play him?


I like Michael Dorn.
But maybe Sam Jackson but better Denzel Washington.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 09, 2024 10:37 PM (W/lyH)

156 Graham Robb's "Discovery of Middle Earth.”

A very fun and interesting book.

Posted by: Vercingetorix at September 09, 2024 10:37 PM (rz8gk)

157
Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
Democrats Are Staging Hate Crimes In California

15 year arrested and interviewed by The FBI. He spray painted a bunch of elementary schools with the n word & Swaz*kas. MAGA kids were blamed

“It turns out the teenager is the son of an elected Democratic Party official right here in San Diego County”


I heard a report on Fox News Radio this morning about some bust of a bunch of White supremacists who were trying to start a race war. I never heard that report again and couldn't find anything relating to it with an internet search.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 09, 2024 10:37 PM (63Dwl)

158 Please don't put us out of business. Agriculture is hard enough as it is.

Posted by: Macedonian Content Farmer Alliance at September 09, 2024 10:37 PM (CV8a5)

159 Costa Mesa?

Thanks to the efforts of my unholy brethren on the West Coast, there's no reason you can't comfortably squat on the sand in front of a $10m Newport Beach home... My name is Legion, for we are many.

Posted by: Beltway Demon at September 09, 2024 10:37 PM (0FoWg)

160 Luke, I'm your motherfucking fahza!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at September 09, 2024 10:37 PM (fY84s)

161 Biography? James Earl Jones? I think Bjork isn't doing much these days. We'll call it "Roots, The Musical". It will be brave and stunning.

Posted by: Bjork's Agent at September 09, 2024 10:37 PM (8gech)

162 Columbus is the capitol of Ohio.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Used to be Chillicothe.

And Zanesville too.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 09, 2024 10:37 PM (WXNFJ)

163 So if these recent illegal immigrants start roaming down my street, busting into parked cars and my neighbors' houses...

I'm going to light them up with my 2A Rights?

You bet your sweet ass...
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 09, 2024 10:36 PM (TDvv2)

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Relax. They're only after your pets.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 09, 2024 10:38 PM (WBQfF)

164 A starring as James Earl Jones, in a stunning gender swap, Tank Abrams

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 09, 2024 10:38 PM (tKS+g)

165 Berserker!

How are you? Will I see you in Corsicana in about six weeks?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 10:17 PM (E0dBg)

I'm good. I should be good for texas. At this point it's a matter if I'll be solo or not. Mrs B might not be able to make it, but its not settled yet.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 09, 2024 10:39 PM (VwHCD)

166 Corydon used to be the capitol of Indiana.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 09, 2024 10:39 PM (63Dwl)

167 Bunkers seem to me a place where you go with your family to die for the most part during asymmetrical warfare.
--------------
https://www.undergroundhouse.vegas/

Not too shabby if that's the plan.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 09, 2024 10:39 PM (Q4IgG)

168 However, when Nukes are involved...the deeper the bunker...the better.

Posted by: Nightwatch

Just go outside and enjoy the light show. You're still gonna die from rads, but it'll be quicker.
Posted by: BifBewalski

I'm not too from from Oak Ridge. I don't think we'll have time to even look up. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at September 09, 2024 10:39 PM (WXNFJ)

169 So sorry Teresa being trapped anywhere is not fun, even a great place like Costa Mesa.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 09, 2024 10:39 PM (RIvkX)

170 Charles Hawtrey would have been a great JEJ,but he has passed.

Posted by: Carry On Nurse at September 09, 2024 10:40 PM (CV8a5)

171 Survivors of nuclear war? I wrote a book about that.

Posted by: Leibowitz at September 09, 2024 10:40 PM (rz8gk)

172 169 So sorry Teresa being trapped anywhere is not fun, even a great place like Costa Mesa.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 09, 2024 10:39 PM (RIvkX)

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South Coast Plaza is a top-drawer mall. They even have a carousel.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 09, 2024 10:41 PM (WBQfF)

173 I'm 35 miles from Norfolk Naval Shipyard and Newport News Shipbuilding. I might last a good 20 minutes.

Posted by: Spark Of Divinity at September 09, 2024 10:42 PM (CV8a5)

174 So if these recent illegal immigrants start roaming down my street, busting into parked cars and my neighbors' houses...

I'm going to light them up with my 2A Rights?

You bet your sweet ass...

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 09, 2024 10:36 PM (TDvv2)

First the traitors, then the invaders is a saying I've heard uttered a few times for situations such as those.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 09, 2024 10:42 PM (i24o9)

175
Survivors of nuclear war? I wrote a book about that.
Posted by: Leibowitz


Got any bagels?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 09, 2024 10:42 PM (63Dwl)

176 There's a black British actor who has a big physical presence. I think his name begins with a vowel. Best I can come up with.

Posted by: Wenda at September 09, 2024 10:42 PM (zPvK7)

177 1LT James E. Jones, US Army
Infantry and Ranger qualified.
Hoorah!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 09, 2024 10:42 PM (W/lyH)

178 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 09, 2024 10:42 PM (sAmhv)

179 There's a black British actor who has a big physical presence. I think his name begins with a vowel. Best I can come up with.
Posted by: Wenda at September 09, 2024 10:42 PM (zPvK7)

Idris Elba?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 09, 2024 10:43 PM (WGkKU)

180 I'm not too from from Oak Ridge. I don't think we'll have time to even look up. . .
Posted by: Tonypete

Yep, the lawn chair and my atoms will be comingled in about .001 seconds.

Posted by: Some Rat at September 09, 2024 10:43 PM (vJiyU)

181 Survivors of nuclear war? I wrote a book about that.
Posted by: Leibowitz at September 09, 2024 10:40 PM (rz8gk)


A pity about Fawn.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 09, 2024 10:44 PM (W/lyH)

182 Some people just never learn or don't cry antisemitism to me if you support policies which are in fact antisemitic...

Jewish Dems
@USJewishDems
BREAKING: First national poll of Jewish voters with Harris at top of ticket: 72% of Jewish voters back Kamala Harris, while only 25% support Donald Trump.

Jewish voters are ready to vote in support of Democrats just as they have for decades.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 09, 2024 10:44 PM (TGPs7)

183 If they made a movie about the life of James Earl Jones who could possibly play him?


Whoever produced it would have to use the Current Universal Box Office Attraction Black Actor, Samuel L. Jackson. Whether he could credibly do the role or not.

Posted by: Gref at September 09, 2024 10:32 PM (aBgBM)

Michael Dorn, Keith David, or Christopher Judge (Sg1 Teal'c) comes to mind where the voice is concerned. I think Judge might actually be the best choice of the 3.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 09, 2024 10:44 PM (VwHCD)

184 @176 Idris Elba

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 09, 2024 10:44 PM (tKS+g)

185 I think that's a thing. Called a "BLT".
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


But on a hamburger bun so you'd need a lot more bacon.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 09, 2024 10:45 PM (0Htd1)

186 In the "turnabout is fair play" category, maybe Reese Witherspoon could play James Earl Jones in a biopic.

Posted by: PabloD at September 09, 2024 10:45 PM (lUpXd)

187 If they made a movie about the life of James Earl Jones who could possibly play him?

Um I'm thinking Big Mike

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at September 09, 2024 10:45 PM (Do4l4)

188 Lil Pooky is now 47 hours old. According to Pooky's grandma, his mom, and even Pooky himself, Lil Pooky has "piano fingers." His non-piano-playing mama is tired and is going to take a 2-hour nap.

Posted by: pookysgirl, finally home at September 09, 2024 10:45 PM (dtlDP)

189 Idris Elba?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 09, 2024 10:43 PM (WGkKU)

He did an amazing job in The Wire, an excellent depiction of our handiwork.

*steeples claws*

Posted by: Beltway Demon at September 09, 2024 10:45 PM (0FoWg)

190 A starring as James Earl Jones, in a stunning gender swap, Tank Abrams
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September

She could also portray Donald Trump in a biography on Netflix.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 09, 2024 10:46 PM (VNX3d)

191 First the traitors, then the invaders is a saying I've heard uttered a few times for situations such as those.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon

But you're where you MIGHT get away with it. I would be arrested before the second looter hit the ground.

Posted by: Some Rat at September 09, 2024 10:46 PM (vJiyU)

192 again:
The real job before us in not cleaning up the mess that Biden created.
The real job is cleaning up the mess that created Biden.

https://tinyurl.com/yj5fm2rb

Posted by: Braenyard at September 09, 2024 10:46 PM (lCWOD)

193 Who is John Galt ?
Posted by: Going deep. Out.

Who indeed. Werner could actually tell you the answer, but it would be violating the confidence shared with him by the pistoleer God-Empress Ayn Rand. Some here might remember my first meeting with the Objectivist scribe, but I have not yet related our second encounter. Unfortunately, she remembered Werner's phone number, and so was I contacted in the early morning hours at one of those times it is said nothing good can happen. This is foreshadowing, ja?

Groggy, I answered - Werner here, this had better be important or you shall answer to my aluminum bat. That familiar voice spoke up, with clicking noises in the background that I immediately recognized as the game of Russian Roulette that she regularly played against herself. Yo, blood, said Ayn, we goin' ridin', Word, I inquired. You think I'm stuttering, bitch? was the rejoinder. Be on the curb out front or Ayn may have to pop a cap. You feelin' me? Foh shizzle, I immediately siad, One does not refuse Frau Rand, especially if she knows where you live.

Ach, a second post is needed.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 09, 2024 10:46 PM (tcQGp)

194 Lil Pooky is now 47 hours old. According to Pooky's grandma, his mom, and even Pooky himself, Lil Pooky has "piano fingers." His non-piano-playing mama is tired and is going to take a 2-hour nap.
Posted by: pookysgirl, finally home at September 09, 2024 10:45 PM (dtlDP)

Congratulations! Can we call him "Pookytwoth"?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 09, 2024 10:46 PM (WGkKU)

195 >>If they made a movie about the life of James Earl Jones who could possibly play him?

>That would be a toss up between Denzel, Samuel L. and Morgan Freeman.

Posted by: Dr. Bone

If snow white can be a laquefa black American princess, then JEJ can be played by a fat white man.
John. Goodman.

*drops mic*

Posted by: BifBewalski at September 09, 2024 10:47 PM (MsrgL)

196 Jewish Dems
@USJewishDems
BREAKING: First national poll of Jewish voters with Harris at top of ticket: 72% of Jewish voters back Kamala Harris, while only 25% support Donald Trump.

Jewish voters are ready to vote in support of Democrats just as they have for decades.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 09, 2024 10:44 PM (TGPs7)

Damn, Hitler would have loved to have them. They would have driven themselves to Aushwitz and paid for the gas. Unfrigging real.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 09, 2024 10:47 PM (VwHCD)

197 I remember being 47 hours old. Oh, to return to that happy time.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 09, 2024 10:47 PM (WBQfF)

198 First the traitors, then the invaders is a saying I've heard uttered a few times for situations such as those.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon


Never heard this...will use it extensively soon.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 09, 2024 10:48 PM (W/lyH)

199 CONGRATULATIONS Pookysgirl!!!

Very happy for you!

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 09, 2024 10:48 PM (TDvv2)

200 Ok. Wanna hear something funny?

Just got my Seattle City Light bill. Two months.
$48.47.

Heh.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 10:48 PM (zSjNu)

201 South Coast Plaza is a top-drawer mall. They even have a carousel.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 09, 2024 10:41 PM (WBQfF)


Yeah, it's within the range of the hotel shuttle. I visited it last time I was here, so I had been trying to resist it's siren call, but I may find myself heading over there later this week. Mr. TiFW sent me some yarn from home last weekend, so I will probably be able to finish the afghan I brought to work on.

I may have to look into if any busses run anywhere I want to go - Disneyland may be a bit too far, though....

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at September 09, 2024 10:49 PM (yh31E)

202 Fun Fact: Ancient Egyptian was a vowel language like its Semitic cousins Hebrew and Akkadian.

For instance, the Egyptian god Thoth is actually pronounced
Tu-Ought-Tah. Have to plug in the vowels...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 09, 2024 10:49 PM (TGPs7)

203 Congratulations to the inhabitants of Pookysville!!!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 09, 2024 10:49 PM (i24o9)

204 Lil Pooky is now 47 hours old. According to Pooky's grandma, his mom, and even Pooky himself, Lil Pooky has "piano fingers." His non-piano-playing mama is tired and is going to take a 2-hour nap.
Posted by: pookysgirl, finally home at September 09, 2024 10:45 PM (dtlDP)


So...fingers like that he'll be writing here in no time!
Oh the words he will learn!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 09, 2024 10:50 PM (W/lyH)

205 Was told the "panel" for that poll on Jewish-American voting intentions was assembled by ..... first and last names. Which of course is a ridiculous sampling method. Dunno about adjustments and weighting. Actual reputable surveys have found the %s quite a bit different than that on the head-to-head in November.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 09, 2024 10:50 PM (GcNJ2)

206 Mr. TiFW sent me some yarn from home last weekend, so I will probably be able to finish the afghan I brought to work on.

I may have to look into if any busses run anywhere I want to go - Disneyland may be a bit too far, though....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at September 09, 2024 10:49 PM (yh31E)

M16's work real well for finishing Afghans...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 09, 2024 10:50 PM (WGkKU)

207 Fun Fact: Ancient Egyptian was a vowel language like its Semitic cousins Hebrew and Akkadian.

For instance, the Egyptian god Thoth is actually pronounced
Tu-Ought-Tah. Have to plug in the vowels...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 09, 2024 10:49 PM (TGPs7)

And the Jews are the ones getting dinged for being miserly?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 09, 2024 10:50 PM (i24o9)

208 I think every damn state in the Lower 48 has a Springfield.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 09, 2024 10:22 PM (v6JzV)


The ubiquity of American towns named Springfield is why in 1960, a British vocal and musician trio performing American-type folk-pop songs decided to call themselves The Springfields. To make themselves seem sort-of American. They had a number of hits in the UK and Ireland from 1961-1963 and became the first British act to place a single in the Top 20 of US Billboard Hot 100, in September 1962. It was a cover of "Silver Threads and Golden Needles."

Mary O'Brien was the star and lead vocalist of the trio (her and two men, one her brother). She took on the stage name Dusty Springfield when the trio began performing and recording. The Springfields broke-up in late 1963 and Mary/Dusty began a solo career.

Posted by: Gref at September 09, 2024 10:50 PM (aBgBM)

209 Posted by: pookysgirl, finally home at September 09, 2024 10:45 PM (dtlDP)
===

Mazel tov and thanks for checking in

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 09, 2024 10:51 PM (RIvkX)

210 I'd like to buy a vowel.

No way. Go get your own.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 09, 2024 10:51 PM (i24o9)

211 65 So diving into the numbers with what The Junta has done to Springfield Illinois.

The last census in 2020 had the population at 58k.

In the last four years The Junta has shoveled 20k Haitian migrants into the town, the vast overwhelming majority of these migrants are military aged men.

If you take the original 58k population and say roughly half were men and half were female, you get 29k males in the town.

If you say roughly 65pct of the original males are over 18, you get 18,850 adult males.

So that now means, there are more adult male Haitiens in that town than any other group.

That's not going to end well.

Posted by: Thomas Bender



Springfield, Ohio. Near Dayton. Not far from Wright-Patterson AFB.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 09, 2024 10:52 PM (sAmhv)

212 I think the most "popular" town name is Clinton. I would have though Columbia but no.

Posted by: pawn at September 09, 2024 10:52 PM (QB+5g)

213 Hi-Times Wines down towards the beach in Costa Mesa is an amazing booze shop. Best prices on everything I've seen anywhere, and they have a lot of stuff that's hard to find. Also they'll sell high-end stuff for 1/2 price, for no apparent reason, sometimes.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 09, 2024 10:52 PM (GcNJ2)

214 Lil Pooky is now 47 hours old. According to Pooky's grandma, his mom, and even Pooky himself, Lil Pooky has "piano fingers." His non-piano-playing mama is tired and is going to take a 2-hour nap.
Posted by: pookysgirl, finally home at September 09, 2024 10:45 PM (dtlDP)

Ya know, it's never too early to introduce them to heavy metal.

Iron Maiden's Somewhere In Time is always popular with the kids.

Rest well, Mama and Li'l Pooky.

Posted by: Robert at September 09, 2024 10:52 PM (1Yy3c)

215 Even if the poll of Jewish Americans is correct , I don't think it will survive the first campus pogrom. I also get the feeling that a lot of Jewish voters say they are voting for Harris but will vote Trump

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 09, 2024 10:53 PM (tKS+g)

216 Disneyland may be a bit too far, though....
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at September 09, 2024 10:49 PM (yh31E)

Run, don't walk. The Rat is calling to you. Come for the rides and funnel cakes. Stay for the vacuous materialism. Bask in it.

Posted by: Beltway Demon at September 09, 2024 10:53 PM (0FoWg)

217 Meryl Streep. She can play any body!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 09, 2024 10:27 PM (L/fGl)

Not very well, but she can.
Posted by: Dr. T


So, you saw "The Bridges of Madison County"? She didn't do a very good job of playing the Italian tramp who cheated on her husband. Awful movie, awful performance. That was the worst Clint Eastwood movie ever.

Posted by: nerdygirl at September 09, 2024 10:53 PM (0Htd1)

218 Was told the "panel" for that poll on Jewish-American voting intentions was assembled by ..... first and last names. Which of course is a ridiculous sampling method. Dunno about adjustments and weighting. Actual reputable surveys have found the %s quite a bit different than that on the head-to-head in November.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 09, 2024 10:50 PM (GcNJ2)

I did not get invited to participate. Huh!

Posted by: Tonto Goldstein at September 09, 2024 10:53 PM (Aqu9a)

219 Save a veggie burger?

Give it to the seagulls and go have a steak.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 10:24 PM (E0dBg)

I'd have a veggie burger with extra hummus before I'd eat a Schumer e coli burger.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 09, 2024 10:53 PM (i24o9)

220 Yes, Idris Elba for James Earl Jones.

Posted by: Wenda at September 09, 2024 10:55 PM (zPvK7)

221 Damn, Hitler would have loved to have them. They would have driven themselves to Aushwitz and paid for the gas. Unfrigging real.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 09, 2024 10:47 PM (VwHCD)


"800 self-identified Jews." That's it, 800 people who claim to be Jewish (based upon name/location). And if you answer the first question 'yes, I'm Jewish', you are a part of the poll even if the closest you are to being Jewish is you once drove past a temple.

Most polls are trash. I think this poll falls into that 'trash' category.

Posted by: RickZ at September 09, 2024 10:55 PM (gKDq2)

222 192

If OBAMA were a smart man...he would see the obvious writing on the wall and head to ICELAND.

Or maybe Venezuela...

Either way, he knows we are on to him now and his CREW that has been running the country since 2020

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 09, 2024 10:55 PM (TDvv2)

223 Piano fingers are good, jazz hands not so much.

Posted by: 13times at September 09, 2024 10:55 PM (iZ4/B)

224 Was told the "panel" for that poll on Jewish-American voting intentions was assembled by ..... first and last names. Which of course is a ridiculous sampling method. Dunno about adjustments and weighting. Actual reputable surveys have found the %s quite a bit different than that on the head-to-head in November.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 09, 2024 10:50 PM (GcNJ2)


Next thing you know they will be taking respondents to polls like this to Entebbe. On Air France.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 09, 2024 10:55 PM (W/lyH)

225 Uber to Fashion Island in Newport if you like malls and haven't been there. I'd give restaurant recos but all I know in Costa Mesa are ramen places (very good, several branches of Japanese companies).

Posted by: rhomboid at September 09, 2024 10:55 PM (GcNJ2)

226 Ok. Wanna hear something funny?

Just got my Seattle City Light bill. Two months.
$48.47.

Heh.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 10:48 PM (zSjNu)

*Looks at last month's electric bill*

*Looks at his next electric bill*

*Gives Nurse the finger*

Posted by: Robert at September 09, 2024 10:56 PM (1Yy3c)

227 Comrade Flounder!


You liked it, until I told you what it was. Jordan61 can attest.

If I threw together a late fall camping MoMe, would you be interested?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 10:57 PM (/4+vQ)

228 Ok. Wanna hear something funny?

Just got my Seattle City Light bill. Two months.
$48.47.

Heh.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 10:48 PM (zSjNu)

*Looks at last month's electric bill*

*Looks at his next electric bill*

*Gives Nurse the finger*
Posted by: Robert at September 09, 2024 10:56 PM (1Yy3c)
***

Now ask her what she paid for her car tags.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 09, 2024 10:58 PM (W/lyH)

229 Buffalo Springfield

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 09, 2024 10:59 PM (63Dwl)

230 225 Uber to Fashion Island in Newport if you like malls and haven't been there. I'd give restaurant recos but all I know in Costa Mesa are ramen places (very good, several branches of Japanese companies).
Posted by: rhomboid at September 09, 2024 10:55 PM (GcNJ2)

-----------

The Fig and Olive has a nice upscale bar and the restaurant is good too. No ramen on the menu, at least not the last time I was there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 09, 2024 10:59 PM (WBQfF)

231 The homunculus I cultivated from last year's summer molting has piano claws. He mostly plays Randy Newman standards.

Posted by: Beltway Demon at September 09, 2024 10:59 PM (0FoWg)

232 Ordinarily I go to therapy on Tuesday night but I will derive a lot more mental health from watching Trump destroy Kamala.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 09, 2024 10:59 PM (RIvkX)

233 Silver thread and golden needles can not mend this heart of mine …

Posted by: Adriane the Ethnic Music Critic, sort of . . . at September 09, 2024 10:59 PM (TX4bP)

234 I boiled out a gas tank today. From the '83 El Camino that I am working on. It had no gas in it, but was very stinky with that nasty stale gas smell, and had brown goop on the bottom. Letting it soak in lacquer thinners overnight did zilch. So, dump out the thinners, ladle in about a quart of the "liquor" that sits on top of my pail of caustic soda. Add water. Sit it on top of my redneck firepit made from old 20" truck rims. Burn two loads of old dry wood. Got a nice boil going on it there; water became brown, and bubbled merrily. When the fire burned down, dumped out the caustic, and rinsed 3 times with water/ I could see bright metal on the bottom of the tank again. Woo-Hoo! It is now back in the car, and connected up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 09, 2024 11:00 PM (WGkKU)

235 If I threw together a late fall camping MoMe, would you be interested?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 10:57 PM (/4+vQ)

I am always interested, and those are damned lies.

The problem is a particular date being available, as schedule gets filled up with littles' extracurriculars. Let's talk on email.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 09, 2024 11:00 PM (i24o9)

236 Ja, okay. Soon I was gripping the God Bar in Ayn's Bentley as we roared through the streets of New York. By dint of long-term familiarity, most cops and civilians knew to avoid her. Two NYPD cruisers briefly attempted to chase her down, and her evasive driving left them crashed and scattered like something out of Grand Theft Auto. Ayn, I finally asked, what is our mission?

Light me, Playa, she said with her familiar menacing grin. Werner can only say that the tip of her cigarette holder did not hold a tobacco product. I complied, and she took a deep drag and said, Looters and Wreckers got to pay, and the Rand ain't gonna miss out on gettin' her Benjamins. It soon became apparent that we had launched upon a crime spree across the American Midwest. How this comported with her philosophy, just as the question of why we used the idiom reported here must, I fear, remain mysteries.

With the early morning Sun marking our way, Ayn's Bentley crashed through the foyer window of an otherwise peaceful Ohio Savings and Loan. Frau Rand climbed out and let off a burst of her Thompson submachine gun, shouting What up, bitches, gives Ayn her greenbacks. One more post, ach.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 09, 2024 11:00 PM (tcQGp)

237 @182

>>Jewish voters are ready to vote in support of Democrats just as they have for decades.

As has been noted, being Democrat is part of the psychological makeup of the Jewish voter, they have never supported Republicans and they never will.

And realistically, their vote is largely meaningless in the grand scheme of things, over 40pct live in two states, New York and California, the overwhelming majority live in Democrat controlled states.

What has to absolutely be countered is rich and influential Jewish billionaires.

A single rich Jewish Billionaire, George Soros has remade all of our large cities into lawless shitholes with his schemes to get DA's and AG's elected.

A single rich Jewish billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg funded ballot harvesting and voter registrations all across the country in 2020 to great result.

A handful of rich Jewish billionaires, Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg have fund raised hundreds of millions of dollars for Kambala Harris and Democrats all across this nation.

That's really the challenge, not convincing Jewish voters to vote for a party they never have voted for and never will.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 09, 2024 11:00 PM (XV/Pl)

238 Oops. Belay that Fig & Olive recommend. Google says the Fashion Island location closed down.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 09, 2024 11:01 PM (WBQfF)

239 *Looks at last month's electric bill*

*Looks at his next electric bill*

*Gives Nurse the finger*
Posted by: Robert


Candles! Flashlights!! Get yer candles right here …

Posted by: Adriane the Barking Mad Barker Critic . . . at September 09, 2024 11:02 PM (TX4bP)

240 Centerville, a real nice place to raise your kids up,
Centerville, it's really neat!
Churches,
Churches,
And liquor stores...

Posted by: 200 Motels at September 09, 2024 11:02 PM (CV8a5)

241 Now ask her what she paid for her car tags.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 09, 2024 10:58 PM (W/lyH)

Nurse!!!

What this guy said.

Posted by: Robert at September 09, 2024 11:02 PM (1Yy3c)

242
Pelosi Claims Trump Will Chicken Out of Debate with Harris: ‘I Know Cowardice When I See It’

-----------

"Trump is chicken" about the debate is a recent item promoted by the Left (without evidence). Makes me wonder what shitty little plot it's being coordinated with.

For me, one of the high points of Trump's first term was his termination of a Congressional Fact Finding / Unconstitutional Parallel Negotiation / Junket / Shopping trip to Europe for a bunch of Congress Creatures plus their friends and family. The Air Force jet was waiting at Andrews AFB, loaded with booze and food. The entitled mob had boarded buses at the Capitol, when Trump, Commander in Chief, cancelled the military plane. The buses circled the Capitol a few times as the House leadership tried to establish that this just wasn't done, it must be a terrible mistake. No dice. Then, the buses parked where they'd started, and the foiled partiers sheepishly filed off the buses and walked back inside. It was great.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 09, 2024 11:03 PM (HLgI3)

243 Piano fingers are good, jazz hands not so much.
Posted by: 13times at September 09, 2024 10:55 PM (iZ4/B)

Popsicle toes are the worst:

https://youtu.be/OUghAJZ07nM

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 09, 2024 11:04 PM (WGkKU)

244 A single rich Jewish Billionaire, George Soros...

====

Oopsie.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 09, 2024 11:04 PM (RIvkX)

245 "That's really the challenge, not convincing Jewish voters to vote for a party they never have voted for and never will."

"TRADITION!!"

Posted by: pawn at September 09, 2024 11:04 PM (QB+5g)

246 Remember that thing that isn't happening?

@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Venezualan gang Tren de Aragua have reportedly taken over a hotel in El Paso, TX.

The El Paso County Attorney’s office just filed a restraining order against the hotel. They allege the owner has allowed illegal activity to go on for months. Police have been called there over 700 times in 2 years.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 09, 2024 11:05 PM (IG4Id)

247 241 Now ask her what she paid for her car tags.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 09, 2024 10:58 PM (W/lyH)

Nurse!!!

What this guy said.
Posted by: Robert

$120.00

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:06 PM (mdyIS)

248 Nurse has gas.

Posted by: pawn at September 09, 2024 11:06 PM (QB+5g)

249 Popsicle toes are the worst:

https://youtu.be/OUghAJZ07nM

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 09, 2024 11:04 PM (WGkKU)

*dicknose enters the chat*

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 09, 2024 11:07 PM (i24o9)

250 Now ask me what I pay in rent for a two bedroom.


I won't tell you because it's obscene.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:07 PM (mdyIS)

251 I think the most "popular" town name is Clinton.

There are two adjacent towns in the South Island of New Zealand - Clinton and Gore.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 09, 2024 11:07 PM (uxCna)

252 Gas is 4.50 a gallon. I fill my tank once a month.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:08 PM (mdyIS)

253 Soros would have sponsored an SS division if he had the money back in the '40s.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 09, 2024 11:08 PM (WBQfF)

254 pawn. Nope. Electric.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:09 PM (mdyIS)

255 I meant gas heat/hot water. Unless you don't shower.


I'm not judging here.

Posted by: pawn at September 09, 2024 11:09 PM (QB+5g)

256 For me, one of the high points of Trump's first term was his termination of a Congressional Fact Finding / Unconstitutional Parallel Negotiation / Junket / Shopping trip to Europe for a bunch of Congress Creatures plus their friends and family. The Air Force jet was waiting at Andrews AFB, loaded with booze and food. The entitled mob had boarded buses at the Capitol, when Trump, Commander in Chief, cancelled the military plane. The buses circled the Capitol a few times as the House leadership tried to establish that this just wasn't done, it must be a terrible mistake. No dice. Then, the buses parked where they'd started, and the foiled partiers sheepishly filed off the buses and walked back inside. It was great.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at September 09, 2024 11:03 PM (HLgI3)


I had completely forgotten about that. Thanks for the refresh. It was delicious. IIRC, Nancy was a part of the cancelled junket, which is probably why she has such a hard-on for Trump. Besides being a rabid proggie from San Fransicko, Californ-eye-A, of course.

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

257 @250

>>I won't tell you because it's obscene.

If it's rent controlled, around 1200, if not, around 3400.

If it has a view of the bay or the needle, the sky's the limit.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 09, 2024 11:09 PM (XV/Pl)

258 $120.00
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:06 PM (mdyIS)

Jeepers! Only about 80 bucks CDN here. Close to double.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 09, 2024 11:10 PM (WGkKU)

259 DeSantis: Fraudulent Petitions Used To Put Abortion Amendment On Ballot
_Daily Wire

Because of multiple complaints law enforcement officials are going to thousands of people’s homes to see if they signed petitions

Posted by: Braenyard at September 09, 2024 11:11 PM (lCWOD)

260 I had completely forgotten about that. Thanks for the refresh. It was delicious. IIRC, Nancy was a part of the cancelled junket, which is probably why she has such a hard-on for Trump. Besides being a rabid proggie from San Fransicko, Californ-eye-A, of course

Remember when Nancy became Speaker of the House, and she demanded that the Air Force provide her with a 757 to shuttle her and her entourage to and from California every weekend?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 09, 2024 11:12 PM (uxCna)

261 No rent control.

Rent is 2200.00. I have a view of the Sound, lighthouse and mountains.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:12 PM (6YzFa)

262
Just dropped below 60F, 11:11PM. This weather is nice. Dew point 57F.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 09, 2024 11:13 PM (w6EFb)

263 But. A bag of groceries is $100.00. Easy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:13 PM (6YzFa)

264 @261

>>Rent is 2200.00. I have a view of the Sound, lighthouse and mountains.

That's pretty much a steal, never give up that apartment.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 09, 2024 11:14 PM (XV/Pl)

265 I have a view of the Sound, lighthouse and mountains.

And beachcombing.

Posted by: 13times at September 09, 2024 11:14 PM (3SnuR)

266 "DeSantis: Fraudulent Petitions Used To Put Abortion Amendment On Ballot
_Daily Wire"

Here in FL, you can get regularly hassled by people who are getting paid by the name to get people to sign petitions.

Posted by: pawn at September 09, 2024 11:14 PM (QB+5g)

267 177 1LT James E. Jones, US Army
Infantry and Ranger qualified.
Hoorah!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at September 09, 2024 10:42 PM (W/lyH)

Well, well. I always liked him as an actor, now he has earned a whole new level of respect on my part.

Posted by: javems at September 09, 2024 11:14 PM (8I4hW)

268 $120.00
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:06 PM (mdyIS


That's not bad. About what I pay for the beamer. Mrs D ten year old MDX was $390. I hate this damn state.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 09, 2024 11:15 PM (W/lyH)

269 AOP,
My tags are pretty cheap. I drive a 2009 lesbaru.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:15 PM (6YzFa)

270 Remember when Nancy became Speaker of the House, and she demanded that the Air Force provide her with a 757 to shuttle her and her entourage to and from California every weekend?
Posted by: The ARC of History!

I think I'd rather see Congress get flights to the state capitol. There is no meal service, and the plane's passenger seating area resembles that used in Con Air.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 09, 2024 11:16 PM (VNX3d)

271 1) MI Supreme Court overturned a lower court decision tonight, & issued an emergency order holding that RFK, Jr. can not remove his name from the MI ballot, & ordering that his name will remain on the ballot.

2) To understand the significance of the poll of Jewish voters, I'd have to know how Jews voted in 2020. I don't. Did Trump gain or lose support since 2020?

Posted by: mnw at September 09, 2024 11:16 PM (NLIak)

272 Rent is 2200.00. I have a view of the Sound, lighthouse and mountains.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:12 PM (6YzFa)

I can see the Moon, and the Milky Way, and several hills, and the lights of town. And a few thousand acres of stubble. They were discing the quarter next to my house today.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 09, 2024 11:16 PM (WGkKU)

273 SpaceX has the Polaris Dawn launch scheduled for early tomorrow morning (0338 EDT)

https://www.youtube.com/live/6et8-MVR3Qg

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 09, 2024 11:18 PM (VNX3d)

274 My function was to collect the proceeds of Ayn's strong-arm robberies, and I acted as required. One day bled into the next, and the great American Midwest became the domains of Empress Rand. I am not being poetic, she literally required she be addressed in that fashion. For reasons unclear to Werner, at many points I heard the rousing blue grass strains of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. The police were hapless as well as helpless, and an attempt to lure us into an ambush similar to that in the Warren Beatty/Faye Dunaway movie whose title and subject escapes Werner resulted in a high-speed ramming and a laughing Eat my dust, Fuzz!

It was memorable, and Ayn demanded that we get a second set of matching tattoos. Finally, when virtually no bank retained any of its currency, the tour came to an end. Because it was Frau Rand, there were no BOLOs, and the FBI noped out of things. She dropped me outside my humble home in NYC and tossed me a few sheafs of dollars, saying Yo, Playa, buy youself sumpin' pretty. Don't say Ayn never give you nuttin, Shorty, why am I talking like this. Like I know? I told her. Anyways Ayn, you got the juice now. Bye, fool, said she and she was gone.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 09, 2024 11:18 PM (tcQGp)

275
They haven't scrubbed Polaris Dawn yet, and it's still a go. The weather forecasts for splashdown has been a bitch.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 09, 2024 11:19 PM (w6EFb)

276 AOP,
My tags are pretty cheap. I drive a 2009 lesbaru.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:15 PM (6YzFa)

I think here, they just go by weight. Come to think of it, I am overdue to renew. Bastards don't even send out renewal notices anymore.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 09, 2024 11:19 PM (WGkKU)

277 Now ask her what she paid for her car tags.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 09, 2024 10:58 PM (W/lyH)

Nurse!!!

What this guy said.
Posted by: Robert

$120.00
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:06 PM (mdyIS)

Oh, that's not much more than I pay.

============
Rent is 2200.00.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:12 PM (6YzFa)

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzz!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Robert at September 09, 2024 11:20 PM (1Yy3c)

278 AOP,
Your place sounds awesome. Quiet. No cruisers. No smoke from beach fires drifting in.

I love the stars. Did you get a decent show from the Perceid Meteor Shower this year?

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:21 PM (Jc4YY)

279 The real Tyreek Hill , body cam arrest video, FAFO:

https://tinyurl.com/bfj7w6r7

Posted by: Braenyard at September 09, 2024 11:22 PM (lCWOD)

280 277 Now ask her what she paid for her car tags.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 09, 2024 10:58 PM (W/lyH)

Nurse!!!

What this guy said.
Posted by: Robert

$120.00
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:06 PM (mdyIS)

Oh, that's not much more than I pay.

============
Rent is 2200.00.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:12 PM (6YzFa)

Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzz!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Robert



Rent in Babylon DC burbs is in that price range. For a one bedroom though.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 09, 2024 11:22 PM (sAmhv)

281 Remember when Nancy became Speaker of the House, and she demanded that the Air Force provide her with a 757 to shuttle her and her entourage to and from California every weekend?
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 09, 2024 11:12 PM (uxCna)


I do remember that. And the amount spent on booze for her cross-country trips as well. Ol' Nan definitely hits the bottle, just like her husband. I think she's aging to the point where she can't cover up her drinking as easily as she once did.

I also think Commiela spent the weekend prepping for the debate by going sober.

Posted by: RickZ at September 09, 2024 11:24 PM (gKDq2)

282 Remember when Nancy became Speaker of the House, and she demanded that the Air Force provide her with a 757 to shuttle her and her entourage to and from California every weekend?
Posted by: The ARC of History!

I think I'd rather see Congress get flights to the state capitol. There is no meal service, and the plane's passenger seating area resembles that used in Con Air.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 09, 2024 11:16 PM (VNX3d)
***

Air Force should up five weekly shuttle runs that go on a weekly schedule. One shuttle covers ten state capitals. Flight duties to be shared between active duty and reserve air force units. If a congress critrrer needs to go home, they can buy a commercial ticket out of their own pocket, or fly the shuttle to their state.

Posted by: Diogenes at September 09, 2024 11:25 PM (W/lyH)

283 I love the stars. Did you get a decent show from the Perceid Meteor Shower this year?
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:21 PM (Jc4YY)

Didn't look for it. Might have been during an episode of forest fire smoke. Was smoky today, in fact.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 09, 2024 11:25 PM (WGkKU)

284 Recent doc visit he as the perfunctory shot questions. I said no, I'm boycotting Moderna, Pfizer, and J&J. He said, good for you.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 09, 2024 11:26 PM (lCWOD)

285 I also think Commiela spent the weekend prepping for the debate by going sober.
Posted by: RickZ


Bad idea to get the DTs before the debate.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:26 PM (Jc4YY)

286 >>>Air Force should up five weekly shuttle runs that go on a weekly schedule. One shuttle covers ten state capitals. Flight duties to be shared between active duty and reserve air force units. If a congress critrrer needs to go home, they can buy a commercial ticket out of their own pocket, or fly the shuttle to their state.
Posted by: Diogenes
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Respectfully disagree. They want to go home they fly their own damn selves.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 09, 2024 11:28 PM (lCWOD)

287 Now ask her what she paid for her car tags.
Posted by: Diogenes

$29 here in TN.

And no line at all at the County Clerk's office where you pick them up.

In-out in 5 min.

I'm familiar with that.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 09, 2024 11:29 PM (WXNFJ)

288 Rent in Babylon DC burbs is in that price range. For a one bedroom though.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 09, 2024 11:22 PM (sAmhv)

Pffff. You just stay in your Congressional office during the day, and sleep hanging upside down in the comfortable, humid heat of the drainage tunnels at night. $0.

Posted by: Beltway Demon at September 09, 2024 11:31 PM (0FoWg)

289 Bad idea to get the DTs before the debate.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:26 PM (Jc4YY)


The risk is her drin cackling like an idiot.

I mean, what else do they got? We know she tosses an excellent word salad when she's tipsy/high on something, but a coherent thought escaping her lips? Fat chance as it hasn't happened since she's been V.P.

Risk/reward.

Posted by: RickZ at September 09, 2024 11:31 PM (gKDq2)

290 Respectfully disagree. They want to go home they fly their own damn selves.

There would be a line of line of volunteers to strap JATO rockets to various congresscritters.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 09, 2024 11:32 PM (dZVON)

291 When foreign cars were just coming into popularity State charge by weight for tags. Ha! they changed that law pretty quick.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 09, 2024 11:32 PM (lCWOD)

292 65...That's not going to end well.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at September 09, 2024 10:13 PM (XV/Pl)

Springfield, Ohio, i think.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 09, 2024 11:33 PM (Rbu5d)

293 I hate this damn state.
Posted by: Diogenes

I love this state. I plan on dying on my little piece of heaven here on the east side. I hate the asshat commies who have overrun Olympia.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 09, 2024 11:35 PM (1nmyl)

294 Pffff. You just stay in your Congressional office during the day, and sleep hanging upside down in the comfortable, humid heat of the drainage tunnels at night. $0.
Posted by: Beltway Demon


This! Or share a one bedroom with three other people and use the No fry you saved on rent to go home and be with the people You represent on the weekends.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:36 PM (runob)

295 Air Force should up five weekly shuttle runs that go on a weekly schedule. One shuttle covers ten state capitals. Flight duties to be shared between active duty and reserve air force units. If a congress critrrer needs to go home, they can buy a commercial ticket out of their own pocket, or fly the shuttle to their state.
Posted by: Diogenes
------------------------

Respectfully disagree. They want to go home they fly their own damn selves.
Posted by: Braenyard

Who says the outbound flights land? Open the back of the C-130, and the Congress critters jump with a parachute packed by the lowest bidder.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 09, 2024 11:36 PM (VNX3d)

296 Respectfully disagree. They want to go home they fly their own damn selves.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 09, 2024 11:28 PM (lCWOD)

We will all fly home our own damned selves.

The very moment a fissure opens up in the earth and The Master calls us home, we will spread our leathery wings and soar through it, to once again sit at his knee.

Til then, you're stuck with us.

Posted by: Beltway Demon at September 09, 2024 11:37 PM (0FoWg)

297 Respectfully disagree. They want to go home they fly their own damn selves.
Posted by: Braenyard

This!! Pay for their booze out of their own pocket too.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 09, 2024 11:37 PM (1nmyl)

298 I love this state. I plan on dying on my little piece of heaven here on the east side. I hate the asshat commies who have overrun Olympia.
Posted by: Sock Monkey


Ditto. But I'm here on Puget Sound.

Hugs, sock!

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:38 PM (runob)

299 $29 here in TN.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 09, 2024 11:29 PM (WXNFJ)

*Slap*

Posted by: Robert at September 09, 2024 11:38 PM (1Yy3c)

300 Thing about tags and driver license, it's a state thing. You don't have to go to the local mega center and wait all day for that. You can go anywhere they have an office - any county. Pick a spot, make a nice drive to a favorite area have lunch or whatever then in-and-out to pay your taxes. Won't take any longer and zero frustration.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 09, 2024 11:38 PM (lCWOD)

301 I like my new neighborhood, but if I had my way I'd live far, far out in the middle of nowhere with my family and nobody else around. If I were single, I would've headed for the hinterlands many years ago.

Posted by: PabloD at September 09, 2024 11:38 PM (lUpXd)

302 I renew my tags online and get them mailed to me.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 09, 2024 11:40 PM (runob)

303 Father Ripperger (based exorcist) is asking believers to pray every day to Mary about the election.
Here is the prayer:

x.com/billarnoldteach/status/
1832449392886108512

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 09, 2024 11:42 PM (Ydd86)

304 Alberta privatized the "retail" end of the registry business years ago. I just go to my local small-town insurance agency, to get tags, or to register a car.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 09, 2024 11:43 PM (WGkKU)

305 188...pookysgirl

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 09, 2024 11:45 PM (Rbu5d)

306 So is it that Werner has the odd bit of PTSD, and for the sake of prudence, does not visit the Midwest. The nightmares continue still. If only Werner could say that this was his last interaction with Ayn Rand, but that was not to be. On the film set for Fitzcarraldo, I had lapsed into slumber, partly due to the heat and partly from the litany of Kinski bitching about someone needing to free him from the anaconda. A few forceful nudges and a slap to the face roused me to see her familiar visage looming above me. "Sup, Empress, I asked. With that smile that all sensible beings knew was a signal to make a run from it (even Klaus's anaconda was frightened away), she answered Shorty, there's this Mengele bastard in Argentina that has a date with Ayn's Gurkha Kukri, and then we gon' to Bolivia cos the Pinkertons lookin' for us Stateside. This was followed by another ringing pimp slap and a brief kiss on the nose. In a state of near-complete terror, I followed after her. Kinski wept and demanded that I remain. Be of good cheer, stripling, I told him. Werner got to go to work. Two months later would find us holed up in a cantina, facing the Bolivian Army. Ach.

Posted by: Werner Herzog Has Opinions at September 09, 2024 11:45 PM (tcQGp)

307 279

Hill has a long history of "encounters with the police," & not because he's been the guest of honor at the annual Police Benevolent Fund banquets, either.

When the Chiefs drafted Hill, scouts said he had "maturity issues." The Chiefs took a chance on him anyway.

Same with Rashee Rice, who also had "maturity issues." It now seems likely that Rice will be suspended for at least half of next season-- if he's lucky.

That said, I thought the Miami police treated Hill a little more harshly than the situation warranted.

Hill apparently never saw Chris Rock's "How Not to Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police" comedy routine, apparently.

Posted by: K.C. Wolf (mnw) at September 09, 2024 11:45 PM (NLIak)

308
Good evening, all!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 09, 2024 11:46 PM (wjjYr)

309 2000 Camry registration (Indiana) $90.35. Renew over the internet. Sticker or plate sent by mail.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 09, 2024 11:46 PM (63Dwl)

310 302 I renew my tags online and get them mailed to me.
Posted by: nurse ratched
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I have to pass the EPA/CAFE test & take the certificate to the window.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 09, 2024 11:47 PM (lCWOD)

311 I have to pass the EPA/CAFE test & take the certificate to the window.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 09, 2024 11:47 PM (lCWOD)

No emissions testing in Alberta!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 09, 2024 11:48 PM (WGkKU)

312 Feels like dry around here. We could use some rain. Y'all down in hurricane country, push some up Oklahoma way.

MiladyJo says that she met Bonnie Raitt backstage at the Steve Goodman memorial concert. Bonnie told her, never let anyone else tune your guitar.

We saw James Earl Jones in "Fences," which I remember enjoying, although I don't remember much of it. Long time back.

I thought we also saw him in Othello, but MiladyJo doesn't recall that.

There was a lot to enjoy in Chicago thirty-forty years ago. It was a time.

Great bit:
Othello - James Earl Jones
"Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors"
https://youtu.be/IngSGS2CTbg

Posted by: mindful webworker - feels like September at September 09, 2024 11:49 PM (x+3ch)

313 >>>That said, I thought the Miami police treated Hill a little more harshly than the situation warranted.

Hill apparently never saw Chris Rock's "How Not to Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police" comedy routine, apparently.

Posted by: K.C. Wolf (mnw)
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Back talk and not following instructions is a winner for police manhandling. The second time he was told to roll the window down with no compliance was the tripwire.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 09, 2024 11:50 PM (lCWOD)

314 Once a year, we get checked to make sure we don't emit too much sulfur, and hem up any leaks in the skin suits. The smell might tip off the voters.

Posted by: Beltway Demon at September 09, 2024 11:51 PM (0FoWg)

315 This is the insomnia portion of the night again

Posted by: Skip at September 09, 2024 11:52 PM (fwDg9)

316
SpaceX's Polaris Dawn feed goes live at midnight:
https://tinyurl.com/27gxzt68

Crew will board in a little less than an hour, I believe.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 09, 2024 11:54 PM (w6EFb)

317 Look, I'm against charging by weight-for anything. Goes against my principles.

Posted by: Tank Abrams at September 09, 2024 11:56 PM (CV8a5)

318 Today I had to have a garage door motor replaced. The door is fine. The lifter gave out after 26 years.
The new one has a battery back up, which complies with state law (CA). I don't mind that.
The problem is that every night I used to power off the old one completely so that wandering goblins couldn't hack into it to open it.
The new one can't be powered off unless I do it at the circuit breaker.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 09, 2024 11:57 PM (MeG8a)

319 >> Posted by: Tank Abrams

Doing a back of the napkin calculation on how much it would take to get you off this planet......

.....nope, not possible with chemical rockets.

Posted by: Space Daddy at September 09, 2024 11:58 PM (w6EFb)

320 Awesome sidebar post by Nightwatch.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 10, 2024 12:00 AM (2jJtO)

321
"Trump is chicken" about the debate is a recent item promoted by the Left (without evidence). Makes me wonder what shitty little plot it's being coordinated with.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

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

Same. Nancy's acting like she knows something, and making a call she could be reminded of if she's wrong.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 10, 2024 12:01 AM (wjjYr)

322 When Abrams come out in the open, she has nine pairs of wings. In the full glory of her abominable, ungainly flight, she blots out the moon.

Posted by: Beltway Demon at September 10, 2024 12:01 AM (0FoWg)

323 Who would play James Earl Jones?
After months of speculation that Idris Elba would get the role, eventually everyone would remember he couldn't act his way out of a parking ticket, I think I would choose Forrest Whittaker as older JEJ, maybe Donald Glover as young JEJ.

Nobody will be able to capture his voice.

Posted by: stv at September 10, 2024 12:03 AM (P5JRd)

324 Was thinking about a bit of furniture I hadn't seen anywhere. A small cabinet with shelves for a Fiber modem and wifi router with thick black plastic screening to allow air flow while not blocking signal. I don't think anyone sells such a thing so I guess I'll have to build it myself. Well, it was nice having all my fingers still attached, we'll see if that changes anytime soon.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 10, 2024 12:03 AM (dZVON)

325 Who would play James Earl Jones?
After months of speculation that Idris Elba would get the role, eventually everyone would remember he couldn't act his way out of a parking ticket, I think I would choose Forrest Whittaker as older JEJ, maybe Donald Glover as young JEJ.

Nobody will be able to capture his voice.


Just dub in Tom Jones if he lasts that long. Right last name, and it's not like anyone is going to see him.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 10, 2024 12:04 AM (dZVON)

326 guess I'll have to build it myself. Well, it was nice having all my fingers still attached, we'll see if that changes anytime soon.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

Think you got problems!

Posted by: Michelle Fields at September 10, 2024 12:06 AM (CV8a5)

327 Oh well, I just threw a squeegee into the garage door tracks. That should secure it or at least make enough noise to allow me to investigate safely.
The old ways are the best ways.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 10, 2024 12:07 AM (MeG8a)

328 I think I'd rather see Congress get flights to the state capitol. There is no meal service, and the plane's passenger seating area resembles that used in Con Air.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 09, 2024 11:16 PM (VNX3d)

I want chickens walking in the aisle and the pilots wearing leather helmets.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 10, 2024 12:09 AM (VwHCD)

329 327 Oh well, I just threw a squeegee into the garage door tracks. That should secure it or at least make enough noise to allow me to investigate safely.
The old ways are the best ways.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

Do you live in Haiti? I've never locked my car doors.

Posted by: Wistful Vista at September 10, 2024 12:09 AM (CV8a5)

330 Cubs are beating the Trolley Dodgers, but LA is making noise.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 10, 2024 12:11 AM (ufFY8)

331 drilling a hole in one of the tracks and slipping in a grade 8 bolt above one of the bogie wheels may keep a door from opening. The only question is if it will open afterwards.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2024 12:12 AM (D7oie)

332 Oh well, I just threw a squeegee into the garage door tracks. That should secure it or at least make enough noise to allow me to investigate safely.
The old ways are the best ways.


I use a long screwdriver that can pass through the side of the door and a hole in the track. They may be able to get it to come out, but they'll have to run the door a bunch of times in very short bursts to make it happen.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 10, 2024 12:14 AM (dZVON)

333 drilling a hole in one of the tracks and slipping in a grade 8 bolt above one of the bogie wheels may keep a door from opening. The only question is if it will open afterwards.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 10, 2024 12:12 AM (D7oie)

Don't most garage door openers have a lever to disconnect the door from the opener track?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 10, 2024 12:14 AM (WGkKU)

334 If track for garage door has holes stick something in one, or if have a small C clamp but it above roller

Posted by: Skip at September 10, 2024 12:15 AM (fwDg9)

335 I use a long screwdriver that can pass through the side of the door and a hole in the track. They may be able to get it to come out, but they'll have to run the door a bunch of times in very short bursts to make it happen.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 10, 2024 12:14 AM (dZVON)

My garage has a manual door, but I put C-clamps on the tracks above a set of rollers to block it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 10, 2024 12:15 AM (WGkKU)

336 The new lifter works with an app on your phone.
The wife hates that, wants a keypad.
The keypad is a major security liability.
I can remove it with one wood screw, it's not wired in.
I may have to convince her to adapt.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 10, 2024 12:16 AM (MeG8a)

337 Well, I am off to the rack. Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 10, 2024 12:16 AM (WGkKU)

338 Unfortunately, we get a fair amount of wandering goblins.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 10, 2024 12:18 AM (MeG8a)

339 Do y'all have precious Lucian Freud originals y'all are trying to protect?

Posted by: Ottoman Empire at September 10, 2024 12:18 AM (CV8a5)

340 Oh well, I just threw a squeegee into the garage door tracks. That should secure it or at least make enough noise to allow me to investigate safely.
The old ways are the best ways.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

Best thing I used so far was a set of vice grips, the kind used for sheet metal and welding. They look like tongs. Slip one of the jaws through one of the holes in the track above one of the wheels and squeeze the thing into a locked position and done. Not coming out unless you want it to, and its super fast.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at September 10, 2024 12:18 AM (VwHCD)

341 It's been 24 hours, why has no one made a "hide yo kids, hide yo wife" remix about the Haitians?

Posted by: Rbastid at September 10, 2024 12:21 AM (Ldl6J)

342 Don't most garage door openers have a lever to disconnect the door from the opener track?

They do, but then there's nothing to prevent someone from pushing the door up if they can get a wedge underneath to get it started. So jam the track at the same time. If you've got the old slab style wood garage door there's probably a hole that lines up between the door and the frame you can shove something through to do the same time.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 10, 2024 12:21 AM (dZVON)

343 ...to do the same time thing.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 10, 2024 12:22 AM (dZVON)

344 I should turn this off, have long commute again early this morning

Posted by: Skip at September 10, 2024 12:28 AM (fwDg9)

345
There was an optional lock kit for the garage door here. Mounts on the inside, and has a mechanism that engages holes on each side of the tracks.

Door can't move when engaged.

Posted by: Space Daddy at September 10, 2024 12:29 AM (w6EFb)

346 Launch time 3:38 EDT

Too late for me.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 10, 2024 12:30 AM (lCWOD)

347
Polaris still go, Crew about to exit and go to the pad.

Posted by: Space Daddy at September 10, 2024 12:31 AM (w6EFb)

348
Well, of course, they're gonna ride a Tesla to the launch pad.....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 10, 2024 12:31 AM (w6EFb)

349 It's a minor complaint. I can uninstall the keypad with one wood screw and throw it in a safe.
But that would piss off the missus...

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 10, 2024 12:32 AM (MeG8a)

350 Ditto. But I'm here on Puget Sound.

Hugs, sock!
Posted by: nurse ratched

Hugs back at ya Nurse. It really pisses me off what has happened to your side of the state. It was among my favorite places to go. I understand perfectly your staying put. I still have hope that the age of sh*t fer brains liberalism is waining and the bastards in Olympia will be run out if town on a rail.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 10, 2024 12:35 AM (1nmyl)

351 Oh well, I just threw a squeegee into the garage door tracks. That should secure it or at least make enough noise to allow me to investigate safely.
The old ways are the best ways.
Posted by: gourmand du jour
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What happens if: "wandering goblins" DO manage to hack the opener, while the door is bound shut (by whatever means)... Will the motor burn out, trying to lift the door -OR- damage the door, where the lift bracket mounts to it?

I wonder, because my hubby managed to damage our door-- closed it while there was a "workmate" table in the way.

Just so happened that the workmate's open framework didn't block the IR sensors. Bent the top section all to hell & had to replace it.

Posted by: JQ at September 10, 2024 12:38 AM (njWTi)

352 My "garage" doesn't have a door. It's protected by 100lbs of guardian dog and Ruger.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 10, 2024 12:40 AM (1nmyl)

353 When the door tries to open but meets resistance the motor just stops. That is the desired outcome.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 10, 2024 12:40 AM (MeG8a)

354 >> Bent the top section all to hell & had to replace it.

These "newer" ones have a torque limiter mechanism on the motor. Too much torque and it cuts off until reset.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 10, 2024 12:42 AM (w6EFb)

355

Ladies first to the top of the gantry....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 10, 2024 12:44 AM (w6EFb)

356
The girls look a bit excited. They may squee at any time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 10, 2024 12:45 AM (w6EFb)

357 When the door tries to open but meets resistance the motor just stops. That is the desired outcome.
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Yes. Ideally.

Our "tracking force" had to be set rather high, which is why the damage was as bad as it was.

Hubby shouldn't have been out there, he wasn't in his right mind at the time.

Next time (or, if we win the lottery) there will be a whole new installation. Old one is no longer plumb & square enough.

Posted by: JQ at September 10, 2024 12:45 AM (njWTi)

358 Judge Judge granted Kohberger's motion for change of venue. The Idaho Supreme Court will decide the location.

Apparently, there is presumed bias that will impede a fair trial. A number of factors were listed.

Also, Judge Judge will be replaced for this case.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 10, 2024 12:46 AM (ufFY8)

359 Imo, all these polls suddenly showing Trump winning are the same polls showing Kamala winning a few days ago. They're not tightneing. The pollsters are adjusting the weights to give Trump a lead.

You can expect Kamala to surge back to the lead by the Sunday shows, to enforce the "Kamala won the debate and has reclaimed the momentum" narrative.

Posted by: Shenanigans at September 10, 2024 12:46 AM (wGun1)

360 So anyway, gourmand du jour, why not create a switched outlet for your opener?

Then you won't need to mess around with breakers, or try to defeat the danged battery-backup that started this woe?

Posted by: JQ at September 10, 2024 12:50 AM (njWTi)

361 Good night, all, thanks for hearing my tale of intrigue today.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 10, 2024 12:50 AM (MeG8a)

362
Ladies first inside the capsule, too.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 10, 2024 12:50 AM (w6EFb)

363 Ladies first to the top of the gantry....
Posted by: publius,

These ladies earned this ride. I hope they nail this adventure. It would be nice to have someone I can point out to my granddaughters, this is who you should emulate.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 10, 2024 12:52 AM (1nmyl)

364 The live coverage has started.

NET - SpaceX - Falcon 9 - Polaris Dawn - LC-39A -
KSC - Space Affairs Live

The weather issue requiring waiting for a much better period at the landing sites for the Polaris Dawn Mission remains.
The Launch Date: No earlier than September 10, 2024.
Launch Time: 3:38 a.m. EDT, 0738 UTC, 09:38 CEST
Launch Window: 4 hours - 2 additional launch opportunities at 5:23 a.m. EDT and 7:09 a.m. EDT.

https://www.youtube.com/live/6et8-MVR3Qg

Posted by: Ciampino - There's lots od Space up there at September 10, 2024 12:52 AM (qfLjt)

365
Sarah Gillis will be doing the Spacewalk with Issacman.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 10, 2024 12:54 AM (w6EFb)

366 I fell asleep after dinner and just woke up so apologies if I cover items already covered previously, such as the launch.

Posted by: Ciampino - There's lots of Space up there at September 10, 2024 12:56 AM (qfLjt)

367 First Dragon spacecraft with StarLink. Now the astronauts can browse the internet while in Dragon. Porn in space?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 10, 2024 01:00 AM (VNX3d)

368 Now the astronauts can browse the internet while in Dragon. Porn in space?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 10, 2024 01:00 AM (VNX3d)

Annoying popups, and political ads.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 10, 2024 01:02 AM (ufFY8)

369 Idris Elba.

Whenever the question is "Who should play _____?" in a movie, the answer is Idris Elba.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 10, 2024 01:02 AM (m1Xzz)

370 313

Back talk and not following instructions is a winner for police manhandling. The second time he was told to roll the window down with no compliance was the tripwire.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 09, 2024 11:50 PM (lCWOD)
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It wasn't mentioned but the tint on his windows was too much. Cops get very nervous of closed very tinted windows and not being able to see inside - could be someone with a firearm. After he refused to open his window and actually shut it all the way he was asking to be busted.

Posted by: Ciampino - Why people don't roll down their windows is suspicious at September 10, 2024 01:02 AM (qfLjt)

371 >> First Dragon spacecraft with StarLink

They're going to test a direct laser link. The Starlinks have a laser backbone (this allows any satellite to relay traffic to others which are over ground stations), and this will test a end station link to that backbone.

Should give enormous bandwidth, indeed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 10, 2024 01:03 AM (w6EFb)

372
And they all give the last "close out" guy in his ninja suit first bumps.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 10, 2024 01:06 AM (w6EFb)

373 I now have a different hash than when this thread started. I guess it's because I am linked in through a different cell tower, since I moved sixty miles, but still a bit weird.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 10, 2024 01:06 AM (m1Xzz)

374 Porn in space? Finally green Orion slavegirls?

Posted by: Archer at September 10, 2024 01:09 AM (IDphi)

375
That was cool. The Dragon seats rotate from upright to lying on their backs for the high-g launch. That allows them to get in the seats in an upright position, then recline back to launch position.

The Apollo guys had to crawl in there without such tricks.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 10, 2024 01:09 AM (w6EFb)

376 358 Judge Judge granted Kohberger's motion for change of venue. The Idaho Supreme Court will decide the location.

Apparently, there is presumfed bias that will impede a fair trial. A number of factors were listed.

Also, Judge Judge will be replaced for this case.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 10, 2024 12:46 AM (ufFY

A request for a change of venue by the defense is a motion that should pretty much automatically be granted.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 10, 2024 01:12 AM (m1Xzz)

377 Two wildcats born in captivity have died since release into wild, experts say

https://tinyurl.com/4wbpe6ad

Posted by: Ciampino - natural death or shot? at September 10, 2024 01:12 AM (qfLjt)

378 Thousands told to evacuate as California cities burn under wildfire

https://mol.im/a/13829763

Posted by: Ciampino - gee you voted for this crapshoot at September 10, 2024 01:13 AM (qfLjt)

379 How Kamala Harris wanted to cut funding for ICE, and provide financial support for transgender migrants wanting surgery

https://mol.im/a/13831465

Posted by: Ciampino - gee would you vote for this dirtbag? at September 10, 2024 01:15 AM (qfLjt)

380 It is obvious that I won the debate scheduled for tomorrow night.

Posted by: Kamal Harris at September 10, 2024 01:15 AM (Mig/N)

381 Spoiled millionaire's son smirks in court as he's hauled before judge for burning Israeli flag at Columbia protest

https://mol.im/a/13831107

Posted by: Ciampino - a tire iron candidate at September 10, 2024 01:18 AM (qfLjt)

382 Meanwhile in New England ...... Illegal alien indicted over serial child rapes on Martha's Vineyard.

https://mol.im/a/13830835

Posted by: Ciampino - avother tire iron candidate at September 10, 2024 01:20 AM (qfLjt)

383 A trend?
Ohio man claims family was told to hire a translator for four-year-old to attend preschool because the child is the only student who doesn't speak Spanish

https://mol.im/a/13831411

Posted by: Ciampino - and avother tire iron candidate? at September 10, 2024 01:23 AM (qfLjt)

384
Well, this is disconcerting. Average temp here for Sept 9 turned out to be 66.6F.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 10, 2024 01:26 AM (w6EFb)

385
Spoiled millionaire's son smirks in court as he's hauled before judge for burning Israeli flag at Columbia protest

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

I wonder how that privileged daughter of Ilhan Omar has fared since being disciplined at Columbia. lol as if. I'm sure she's added it to her resume.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 10, 2024 01:28 AM (wjjYr)

386 I can't believe America is at war with Vuvuzelan gangsters. Their 'music' is so yono oku.

Dreamland awaits.

This one's dedicated to rocketman Elon X
https://youtu.be/BHANdi0IbPY

G'nite, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - spaced - to boldly go... splitting infinitives at September 10, 2024 01:30 AM (x+3ch)

387 RE: Tyreek

Jemele Hill* and Joy Reid* are going krazee tonight! They'll be rolling around in the Hill traffic stop thing, like a kitten in catnip, for the next 6 weeks.

*ESPN; let her go (finally) for constantly injecting "rayciss!" into every sports broadcast.

*The View co-host. Maybe still there, maybe not. She's a Jemele clone.

Posted by: K.C. Wolf (mnw) at September 10, 2024 01:31 AM (NLIak)

388
They've got the crew sealed in. The damned stream crapped out for a few minutes and couldn't see it.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 10, 2024 01:34 AM (w6EFb)

389 Oh goody~

@rawsalerts
🚨#BREAKING: Protest and Small Riots are forming as numerous people Break into high end Store, Set Fires, and Commit Multiple Assaults

📌#Washington | #DC

Currently, numerous Metro law enforcement officers are responding to protest and a small riot forming at City Center in the heart of Washington, D.C., near the National Museum of Women in the Arts and Chinatown. Approximately 60 people are breaking into Gucci and other high-end stores. Additionally, several small to medium-sized fires have been set in the area, and multiple assaults have been reported. The exact reason for the unrest is unknown at this time, but it may be related to an earlier fatal officer-involved shooting in Southeast D.C. The situation is still developing

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 10, 2024 01:40 AM (IG4Id)

390 @rawsalerts
🚨#BREAKING: Protest and Small Riots are forming as numerous people Break into high end Store, Set Fires, and Commit Multiple Assaults


Ah crap. I still have my Joe Biden is the nominee decorations up !!!

Posted by: Adriane the Barking Mad Barker Critic . . . at September 10, 2024 01:51 AM (TX4bP)

391
THis Polaris Stream is awful. They're blaming it on some switch they did to X servers, rather than whatever they were using.

This is unwatchable.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 10, 2024 01:59 AM (w6EFb)

392 THis Polaris Stream is awful. They're blaming it on some switch they did to X servers, rather than whatever they were using.

This is unwatchable.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)

The feed directly at SpaceX.com is working fine. Right now, they're describing the space suit design and construction.

https://tinyurl.com/mryjfvxv

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 10, 2024 02:04 AM (VNX3d)

393 Hey Horde, seems quiet in here tonight. I won't be adding much, I have been reading and I am sleepy.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 10, 2024 02:06 AM (Sgq8y)

394
It's back now, seeing the same space suit. This is the official feed. It was dropping out, audio getting out of sync and all that.

They hope it's good now.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 10, 2024 02:07 AM (w6EFb)

395 The exact reason for the unrest is unknown at this time, but it may be related to an earlier fatal officer-involved shooting in Southeast D.C.
---------

AKA 'Shopping opportunity', by some cultures.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 10, 2024 02:08 AM (XeU6L)

396 , I have been reading and I am sleepy.
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz


Any thread is a book thread …
:-))

Posted by: Adriane the Publishers Clearinghouse Lost My Ticket Again Critic . . . at September 10, 2024 02:15 AM (TX4bP)

397 I just started listening to _The Debatable Land_ after it turned out I have the audiobook available on Audible.

Maybe if it's good I'll look at _The Discovery of Middle Earth_.

I've already read _The Steel Bonnets_ by GM Frasier on the history of roughly the same area.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at September 10, 2024 02:15 AM (gHSfI)

398 I've heard the news; it's the same old blues again.

Posted by: Scottst at September 10, 2024 02:26 AM (5OsW2)

399 The dictatorial DC regime is at war with Americans but Americans don't want to admit it and draw the necessary conclusions.

https://tinyurl.com/4mfsbuak

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 10, 2024 02:34 AM (fzHZo)

400 but Americans don't want to admit it and draw the necessary conclusions.

Living with psychopaths is terrifying ?

Posted by: Adriane the Lucean > Sigmund Critic . . . at September 10, 2024 02:37 AM (TX4bP)

401 Living with psychopaths is terrifying ?
Posted by: Adriane the Lucean > Sigmund Critic . . . at September 10, 2024 02:37 AM (TX4bP)
-

Look higher up the food chain.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 10, 2024 02:40 AM (fzHZo)

402 Falcon 9 on pause due to weather …

Posted by: Adriane the Star Trekkin Across the Universe Critic . . . at September 10, 2024 02:55 AM (TX4bP)

403
They've bumped it back to the 5:23AM launch window. Cell popped up to the NW. It's got to be clear within 10 nm of the pad for a launch.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 10, 2024 02:56 AM (w6EFb)

404 NOT FOUND

Posted by: m at September 10, 2024 02:56 AM (64Zez)

405 I think “they” are upgrading tropical storm in Gulf to Cat 1.

Posted by: Adriane the Star Trekkin Across the Universe Critic . . . at September 10, 2024 03:00 AM (TX4bP)

406 I think “they” are upgrading tropical storm in Gulf to Cat 1.
Posted by: Adriane the Star Trekkin Across the Universe Critic . . . at September 10, 2024 03:00 AM (TX4bP)
-

Haitians can finish that off easy.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 10, 2024 03:06 AM (fzHZo)

407 Update on _The Debatable Land_: I listened to the first four chapters and it was kind of lousy. I guess it's Free With Your Audible Membership because it's not going to have too many sales.

I'm going back to listening to _The City of Falling Angels_ which I had been listening to last week.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at September 10, 2024 03:18 AM (gHSfI)

408 Yay, summer is *over* and temps will be... below 90 for a change! Woot!

Might even get some rain later this week. Hope I can get the yard mowed before then, LOL.

The older I get, the less I can tolerate heat. Sucks to be me, right? (c'mon, lottery...)

So, wazzzup?

Posted by: JQ at September 10, 2024 03:40 AM (njWTi)

409 Time toget rolling

Posted by: Skip at September 10, 2024 03:42 AM (fwDg9)

410
It was good they paused the launch. Had some light rain at the pad right around the first launch window. Had they loaded the propellant, that would've meant a scrub.

I got to wondering why. They use sub-cooled LOX, meaning much colder than it's boiling point. This has the advantage of greater density, more O2 per volume. But it can't warm up too much. Thus, they can't stand too long a delay before they have to scrub and drain everything.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 10, 2024 03:44 AM (w6EFb)

411 I like summer

Posted by: Skip at September 10, 2024 03:49 AM (fwDg9)

412 I *hate* summer.

Wouldn't be so bad if it didn't get so fucking hot here.

Posted by: JQ at September 10, 2024 03:51 AM (njWTi)

413 Too bad I cannot move. Crunched the numbers, and it's just not possible.

I have nothing to look forward to-- except autumn, winter, and spring.

Posted by: JQ at September 10, 2024 03:56 AM (njWTi)

414 Good morning, fellow insomaniacals!

I *hate* summer.

Wouldn't be so bad if it didn't get so fucking hot here.
Posted by: JQ at September 10, 2024


***
I'm right there with you, JQ. I add, "And if it didn't last so damned long!"

And "If it didn't mean hurricanes!" We have one threatening to move ashore not far away. I'm not worried about flooding, but about loss of power -- no cooking or A/C. When I have my house, I fully intend to have a generator for emergencies.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 10, 2024 03:58 AM (omVj0)

415 I have nothing to look forward to-- except autumn, winter, and spring.
Posted by: JQ


And chocolate …

Posted by: Adriane the Star Trekkin Across the Universe Critic . . . at September 10, 2024 03:59 AM (TX4bP)

416 Oh, Wolfus... I feel for ya! I really do!

At least you have a way OUT. I shall live vicariously through you...

Posted by: JQ at September 10, 2024 04:01 AM (njWTi)

417 Mmm... chocolate

Posted by: JQ at September 10, 2024 04:01 AM (njWTi)

418
At least you have a way OUT. I shall live vicariously through you...
Posted by: JQ at September 10, 2024


***
The way the economy is going, I wonder if I really do dare retire. I have money to move and to make a down payment on a small house; but can I sustain it without having to go back to work? I don't wanna work at Walmart!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 10, 2024 04:05 AM (omVj0)

419 Mid-June to mid-September, it's 90 to 100plus. Could be worse I guess... don't know how anyone could live in, say, southern Arizona.

This house has no central air-- I bought a couple of portable units & thank God every hot day for them! I'd die (probably "for real") without them.

Posted by: JQ at September 10, 2024 04:05 AM (njWTi)

420 The SW is supposed to get some cooling from the Francine moving in.

We broke the 76 days over 100 with 100 days over 100 this summer.

Lost some more lavenders. But still too hot to replant. Hope to get grass seed in by end of September.

Posted by: Adriane the Star Trekkin Across the Universe Critic . . . at September 10, 2024 04:06 AM (TX4bP)

421 I quit a 50k/year job, to take care of hubby... no more paycheck, no more bennies... and I *just* turned 62. Time to get my SS payments back!

But it's not enough to do anything but: Get By. Pfft.

Posted by: JQ at September 10, 2024 04:08 AM (njWTi)

422 This house has no central air-- I bought a couple of portable units & thank God every hot day for them! I'd die (probably "for real") without them.
Posted by: JQ at September 10, 2024


***
What about window units, JQ? I've found mine works well for my small living room, and the air even seeps into the bedroom enough that with a fan at night I'm comfortable.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 10, 2024 04:08 AM (omVj0)

423 Doubt I can stay up for launch. Godspeed Polaris Dawn, in advance…

Posted by: Adriane the Star Trekkin Across the Universe Critic . . . at September 10, 2024 04:08 AM (TX4bP)

424 Anybody planning to watch the debate tonight?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 10, 2024 04:10 AM (omVj0)

425 Wolfus-- window units are a PITA to install. Neither I, nor hubby, could install them anyway.

The portables are nice and quiet, able to cool down the rooms they are set up in. Doubt our circuits could handle more than the 2, LOL.

It's just that... I am trapped indoors all summer, lest I suffer from the heat. Can't get things done, that need to be done & without job, cannot afford to pay somebody. It truly sucks.

Posted by: JQ at September 10, 2024 04:12 AM (njWTi)

426
The weather is looking good for the 5:23AM launch window, but that could change.

Those weather guys are watching things constantly and doing 1 hr+ forecasts. At T - 45 min, they have to make the call whether to load the tanks or not. And the weather guys are the ones who make that call.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 10, 2024 04:12 AM (w6EFb)

427 .
NOOD

Pixy is here with the Tech Thread

NOOD

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 10, 2024 04:14 AM (O7YUW)

428 Looks like I might have Wednesday off! That is, I'd be supposed to work from home. If need be, I'll pretend I didn't have power off-and-on Wed., and I can play catch-up on Thursday.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 10, 2024 04:16 AM (omVj0)

429 Skynyrds one of the bands sending cease and desist orders to the Trump campaign. Fuck them.

Posted by: TC at September 10, 2024 07:36 AM (cHOHf)

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