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Saturday Overnight Open Thread (9/21/24)

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The NSFW Saturday Night Joke



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I'm not sure why this sale wasn't completed in front of law enforcement. Or, The ONT Is Always Looking Out For YouTM

THIS is the horrifying moment a glam fake car buyer runs over a seller with his own Porsche in a sickening driveway theft - all caught on CCTV.

The suspect arrived at the victim's home after she saw an advertisement for his luxurious Porsche on AutoTrader.

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The ONT Musical Interlude & Hot Spot Emporium


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Something something. Representation. Something. Something. Genius Award Winner.

PROVO — A man who allegedly filed a motion to have the judge in his criminal case removed because of treason and also suggested the judge should be hanged is now facing a new criminal charge.

Elijah Nehemiah Madden, 40, of Genola, Utah County, was charged Thursday in 4th District Court with threatening a judge, a third-degree felony.

Madden was charged in November 2023 in 4th District Court with being a restricted person in possession of a firearm and child endangerment, third-degree felonies; and marijuana possession, a class B misdemeanor. On Aug. 5, while representing himself in that case, Madden filed a motion for "Removal of judge for reason of treason," according to the new charge.


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Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by A Sculpture Fail.

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Notice: Posted with permission by someone here at the AoSHQ. No word if it was a custodian or cafeteria employee. Either way, your ONT is up.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 09:45 PM




Comments

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1 Yay, Software Freedom Day ONT!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 21, 2024 09:47 PM (dZVON)

2 Yay a 1st

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 21, 2024 09:48 PM (MbSfH)

3 Sup Mishum?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 21, 2024 09:48 PM (f+zED)

4 Yay a 1st

No one else wanted to do it, so I jumped in.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at September 21, 2024 09:48 PM (dZVON)

5 Yay, Software Freedom Day ONT!
Posted by: Blanco Basura


This is disinformation.

Posted by: Microsoft at September 21, 2024 09:50 PM (DgGvY)

6 close...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 21, 2024 09:51 PM (hOUT3)

7 Sidebar note: From Nick Sandman to Mark Robinson, Rich Lowry has been consistent in joining in the left when they scream for a conservative's hide.

Just this once, we should join them in screaming for his. Of all the worthless P's of S at New NR, I've always believed him the most worthless. I'm ashamed he went to my alma mater. (At least he was after my time.)

Posted by: Eeyore at September 21, 2024 09:52 PM (1bNHn)

8 This ONT is unburdened by the passage of time. Nor does it give a shit about what has been.

Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 09:53 PM (gKDq2)

9 Plenty of deep woods to stash a body, MisHum.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2024 09:54 PM (0eaVi)

10 8 This ONT is unburdened by the passage of time. Nor does it give a shit about what has been.
Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 09:53 PM (gKDq2)

Most onts

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at September 21, 2024 09:55 PM (MbSfH)

11
Just under 11 hours left of Summer, astronomical that is. Equinox occurs at 8:43AM EDT (12:43 Zulu) tomorrow.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2024 09:56 PM (w6EFb)

12 Black catz rule.

Posted by: Eromero at September 21, 2024 09:56 PM (LHPAg)

13 Most onts
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian


So new onts are now unburdened by onts that were!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 21, 2024 09:57 PM (hOUT3)

14 Norm McDonald is the best comedian in my life and times. I can't think of any other.

Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 09:57 PM (Xm9IS)

15 On Aug. 5, while representing himself in that case, Madden filed a motion for "Removal of judge for reason of treason," according to the new charge.

"A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," Exhibit #1629.

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2024 09:58 PM (DgGvY)

16 Just under 11 hours left of Summer, astronomical that is. Equinox occurs at 8:43AM EDT (12:43 Zulu) tomorrow.
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Yay!

'Bye Summer!

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2024 09:58 PM (njWTi)

17 Missing old Norm

Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at September 21, 2024 09:58 PM (VQaFy)

18 Missing old Norm
Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened


I miss a lot of old norms.

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2024 09:59 PM (DgGvY)

19 Yesterday was National Service Dog Day, so JT The Wonder Dog got extra treats from his grandma today. He's such a blessing, and it's due to his influence on Pooky that we were able to move forward and have Lil Pooky.

Who just started tossing and turning because I stopped playing piano music. Addict.

Posted by: pookysgirl has very musical children at September 21, 2024 10:01 PM (dtlDP)

20 Looking at the Jesus statue, trying to figure out what the fail is here. Scroll down. ... Oh.

Howdy, y'all.

Is it bad that I heard about 30 seconds of the hidden click video and switched to Count Basie? Just a preference of the moment.

I don't get the joke.



Because it's a video and I haven't played it yet.

Posted by: mindful webworker - jazz feet at September 21, 2024 10:01 PM (LSug7)

21 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2024 10:02 PM (WXNFJ)

22 Gonna miss summer, too.

It's been a beautiful stretch pretty much the whole growing season

Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened at September 21, 2024 10:02 PM (VQaFy)

23 I miss a lot of old norms.
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Yeah, like: When $20 would fill up your car's gas tank *and* buy a pack of smokes, maybe also a dollar scratch ticket.

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2024 10:02 PM (njWTi)

24 Good evening all you Katz and Kitteez!
Hi Mis.Hum!

Posted by: COMountainMarie at September 21, 2024 10:02 PM (6cGZq)

25 Grooving on the Count Basie. Very fine.

Sounds like the Porsche theft was near Toronto. "Peel region" is in the Greater Toronto Area, I think. Andycanuck would know for sure.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2024 10:03 PM (qqgHw)

26 18 Missing old Norm
Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened

I miss a lot of old norms.
Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2024 09:59 PM (
The old norm was I could go most anywhere in America and not feel threatened.

Posted by: Eromero at September 21, 2024 10:03 PM (LHPAg)

27 Eyeore, I only wish I could vote for Mark Robinson as many times as the fraudulent Democrats do for their hacks.

Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 10:04 PM (Xm9IS)

28 23 I miss a lot of old norms.
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Yeah, like: When $20 would fill up your car's gas tank *and* buy a pack of smokes, maybe also a dollar scratch ticket.
Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2024 10:02 PM (njWTi
Same as in town.

Posted by: Eromero at September 21, 2024 10:04 PM (LHPAg)

29 Missing old Norm
Posted by: Zeera the ungoverened

I miss a lot of old norms.
Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2024 09:59 PM (DgGvY)

Yeah, like: When $20 would fill up your car's gas tank *and* buy a pack of smokes, maybe also a dollar scratch ticket.
Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2024 10:02 PM (njWTi)

What are you talking about?! We helped restore norms!!
(puffs out chest in pride)

Posted by: GOPe and NT at September 21, 2024 10:04 PM (0eaVi)

30 The piano man. Pretty sweet. Would take me about 300 comments to listen to the entire concert.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 21, 2024 10:05 PM (f+zED)

31 Good evening horde. Thanks MisHum. Happy fall y'all.

Posted by: TRex at September 21, 2024 10:05 PM (IQ6Gq)

32 Good evening, MisHum! Thank you for the ONT. I had a nice walk on the beach this afternoon and got to read another 50 pages of the Elon Musk biography.

I really hope Elon has the chance to bust open the federal government and cut it until it bleeds. If you don't have to add something back, you didn't cut enough. I like that philosophy

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2024 10:05 PM (mT+6a)

33 Good evening good people.
Posted by: Tonypete

* kicks dirt*

Always left out in the cold.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * considering the imponderables at September 21, 2024 10:08 PM (f+zED)

34 Hello Friends, Time for a little ONT. Nice picture up top. Is that house for sale?

Posted by: ALH at September 21, 2024 10:08 PM (xJEPL)

35 What the.....

Posted by: runner at September 21, 2024 10:08 PM (V13WU)

36 Evening all, thx MisHum. The Good Shepherd of the Holy Barfing Sheep

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 21, 2024 10:08 PM (DW4th)

37 I really hope Elon has the chance to bust open the federal government and cut it until it bleeds. If you don't have to add something back, you didn't cut enough. I like that philosophy
Posted by: nurse ratched

It has been pointed out on these august screens that to cut all of federal departments to the bone would [still] not impact our spending deficit in any meaningful way.

However, if we PDJT and his devoted minions could accomplish that, we would have a chance to reform the entitlement leviathan?

Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2024 10:08 PM (WXNFJ)

38 Ah. "Peel Region" is a county consisting of Missisauga, Brampton, and Caledon, and lies immediately west and northwest of the asshole of Canada, Toronto.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2024 10:09 PM (qqgHw)

39 Sculpture fail LOL!

Posted by: Tom Servo at September 21, 2024 10:10 PM (S6gqv)

40 Yeah, like: When $20 would fill up your car's gas tank *and* buy a pack of smokes, maybe also a dollar scratch ticket.
Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2024 10:02 PM (njWTi)


I remember not all that long ago, 2015 or so, I could live on $20 for a week grocery shopping. There may have been no luxury/impulse buys, and it may have had a lot of dried beans but still, I could live on $20 a week. Now I can barely get out of the grocery store without spending $20 on a dozen eggs, a pound of bacon, cheese and bread.

Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 10:10 PM (gKDq2)

41 Ah. "Peel Region" is a county consisting of Missisauga, Brampton, and Caledon, and lies immediately west and northwest of the asshole of Canada, Toronto.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2024 10:09 PM (qqgHw)

The asshole of Canada? I thought that was Trudeau??

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2024 10:10 PM (0eaVi)

42 Where was quality control when that sheep statue was poured?

Posted by: ALH at September 21, 2024 10:11 PM (xJEPL)

43 Kamala must be way far back in the polls or she wouldn't be begging for another debate.

Posted by: ALH at September 21, 2024 10:11 PM (xJEPL)

44 A Portland "progressive activist" denounces the fascist election policies of evil Southern red states:

it gets a lot easier to understand how evil and dictatory and fascist the current american right wing movement is when you take a moment to contemplate the basic components of the surgically-targeted-racist assault on voting rights over the last decade

Guess what he's complaining about?

Mississippi doesn't allow early voting.

That's it.

Not allowing people to vote for a month before Election Day is now fascist voter suppression.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 21, 2024 10:12 PM (uxCna)

45 Where was quality control when that sheep statue was poured?
Posted by: ALH at September 21, 2024 10:11 PM (xJEPL)

It has one hummer of an umbilical cord.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2024 10:12 PM (qqgHw)

46 Good evening morons y gracias por el ont mh

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2024 10:12 PM (RIvkX)

47 Where was quality control when that sheep statue was poured?
Posted by: ALH

Artist to the plasterer - "I know what I am doing!! Just pour the f**king thing like I designed it!!"

Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2024 10:12 PM (WXNFJ)

48 Getting a nice storm here to say farewell to summer. Like Eddie Rabbitt, I love a rainy night.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at September 21, 2024 10:13 PM (QyT5w)

49 Where was quality control when that sheep statue was poured?
Posted by: ALH at September 21, 2024 10:11 PM (xJEPL)


QC only cares about the concrete and the pour, not the aesthetics of the mold. That is marketing and design department issue.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2024 10:13 PM (D7oie)

50 Sorry I'm late, my lentils were limp.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2024 10:13 PM (cwxI0)

51 I'm pretty sure I'm just tired of all of this. (Nota bene: not a suicide post).

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 21, 2024 10:13 PM (CHHv1)

52 More cloying musical hack? On the flip side the more iconic rock figure?

Billy Joel or Bruce Springstein?

Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 10:14 PM (Xm9IS)

53 Thanks for the dandy Saturday Night ONT, Mis Hum!

Great cabin up top. Yours? Good to hear Billy Joel still has it.

That poor sheep statuary... so sad!

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at September 21, 2024 10:14 PM (CiNoz)

54 Kamala must be way far back in the polls or she wouldn't be begging for another debate.

Of course, she only wants a debate on her terms - on a left-wing network, with the moderators only "fact-checking" Trump and basically doing everything possible to help Kamala.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 21, 2024 10:15 PM (uxCna)

55 Norm McDonald is the best comedian in my life and times. I can't think of any other.
Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 09:57 PM (Xm9IS)
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Don Rickles

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2024 10:15 PM (RIvkX)

56 so today I picked and pressed grapes and canned 17 quarts of grape juice. I also broke my press, but I am not sure if it was due to heavy stress on a cheap tongue jack, or if it was the clogged up pressing cloths that didn't allow juice to escape from the pressing basket causing the cheap tongue jack to fail.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2024 10:16 PM (D7oie)

57 Kamala must be way far back in the polls or she wouldn't be begging for another debate.
Posted by: ALH at September 21, 2024 10:11 PM (xJEPL)


There's no doubt she's behind, bigly. She has a way forward, start giving interviews to lay out her policies. Oh wait, . . . .

You can tell the Harris campaign believes the vote fraud will save them. They may not be wrong.

Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 10:16 PM (gKDq2)

58 Now I can barely get out of the grocery store without spending $20 on a dozen eggs, a pound of bacon, cheese and bread.
Posted by: RickZ

True.

The formerly 79-cent loaf of store-brand bread now sells for $1.99. This increase, in just the last 3 years. FJB.

Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2024 10:16 PM (njWTi)

59 Hippy Jesus go home ..

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 21, 2024 10:17 PM (TGPs7)

60 I thought the asshole of Canada was Saskatoon.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2024 10:17 PM (RIvkX)

61 With the coming solstice, let us reflect on this often overlooked truth:

Sunrise means so much more at the poles than at the equator.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2024 10:17 PM (cwxI0)

62
At the South Pole, it is now polar sunrise. The sun's image actually gets above the horizon a bit before the equinox due to the sun being not a point, but about 1/2 degree wide, and due to refraction, which kicks another 1/2 degree above where it really is. That's on the horizon. Refraction is less the higher, and then thinner the path of the light through the atmosphere here.

Anyway, the sun first appeared down there a few days ago. South Pole webcam:
https://tinyurl.com/y7pakq7g

It's a balmy -89F, with -132F wind chill, for polar dawn there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2024 10:18 PM (w6EFb)

63 Methinks Genius Award Winner dude was doing a LOT of weed.

Posted by: GWB at September 21, 2024 10:18 PM (doQhm)

64 Don Rickles
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2024 10:15 PM (RIvkX)

San I don't think you're that old.

Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 10:18 PM (Xm9IS)

65 The formerly 79-cent loaf of store-brand bread now sells for $1.99. This increase, in just the last 3 years. FJB.
Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2024 10:16 PM (njWTi)


In 1990 the price of a loaf of bread went to fifty cents a loaf. I feel like my grandpa talking about getting a loaf of bread for five cents during the depression.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2024 10:18 PM (D7oie)

66 There's no doubt she's behind, bigly.

I'm just shocked that Miss Lindsey and McConnell haven't introduced some Senate bills designed to undermine Trump.

Where's that national abortion ban that Miss Lindsey introduced to F over the Republicans in the 2022 election?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 21, 2024 10:18 PM (uxCna)

67 And thanks, MisHum, for the Count Basie.

Posted by: GWB at September 21, 2024 10:19 PM (doQhm)

68 Before we were married Mrs. F. and I got shangahied by some family members in Toronto and forced to party for 4 days straight.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2024 10:19 PM (RIvkX)

69 I know where that church in the last pic s. There used to be three puking sheep, but people kept stealing/breaking them...

https://tinyurl.com/3hjrspr2

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2024 10:20 PM (ynpvh)

70 Don Rickles
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2024 10:15 PM (RIvkX)

San I don't think you're that old.
Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 10:18 PM (Xm9IS)

Ok, Fred Allen.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2024 10:20 PM (0eaVi)

71 I saw Don Rickles live in Vegas, that old.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2024 10:20 PM (RIvkX)

72 James Woods addresses Newsom's meme ban.

https://is.gd/LfMtY4

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 21, 2024 10:21 PM (L/fGl)

73 The actor with the highest count of movie deaths is not Sean Bean, but John Hurt. He got a great one in Alien and an encore in the movie Spaceballs.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 21, 2024 10:21 PM (lhenN)

74 I thought the asshole of Canada was Saskatoon.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2024 10:17 PM (RIvkX)

Not even close. It has to be Toronto. The biggest city by far, and infected with the same sort of civic myopia that characterizes New York City. Example: they call the Toronto Blue Jays "Canada's Baseball Team". No, they are Toronto's baseball team. If they were "Canada's Team" why would they not play the odd "home" game in other cities in Canada? Most of the bigger cities have a ball park that could be used.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2024 10:22 PM (qqgHw)

75 I liked Maria Bamford better than Norm McDonald, but that is probably because she is insane.

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2024 10:22 PM (D7oie)

76 The actor with the highest count of movie deaths is not Sean Bean, but John Hurt. He got a great one in Alien and an encore in the movie Spaceballs.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

John Wayne died in 5 movies I believe.

Posted by: Some Rat at September 21, 2024 10:23 PM (vJiyU)

77 Provo man might not be entirely wrong; I know a few judges that SHOULD be tried for treason...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2024 10:23 PM (ynpvh)

78 I saw Don Rickles live in Vegas, that old.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Rodney Dangerfield, maybe in Cleveland iirc. A fantastic show!

Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2024 10:23 PM (WXNFJ)

79 Norm McDonald stole my joke! I told an earlier version of that when I was in 6th grade in 1983.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at September 21, 2024 10:24 PM (YIxO9)

80 Blanco Basura tiene la basura mas blanca.

Posted by: El Mikloso del Carolina del Sur at September 21, 2024 10:25 PM (sq/uD)

81 I think of the asshole of America is Camden NJ

Toronto is a lot nicer than Camden.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2024 10:25 PM (RIvkX)

82 Worst part of the sheep statue? Multiple choice.

1) That the shepherd got half his flock stuck on a tree stump

B) That it's either sick and spewing, or it's embracing its inner goat and consuming a tarpaulin

iii) That the blank white eye and sinister expression makes it look like something that belongs on the cover of a black-metal album, and not on the lawn in front of a church

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2024 10:25 PM (DgGvY)

83 Movie Deaths? Oh come on, no one’s in my class.

Posted by: Charlton Heston at September 21, 2024 10:25 PM (S6gqv)

84 Best Jesus statue was "Touchdown Jesus" off I-75 in Ohio. 62 feet tall, with both arms up raised. Alas, it was struck by lightning in 2010.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 21, 2024 10:25 PM (VoAz3)

85 Jay Leno sometime in the eighties is my first. Some of you go way back.

Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 10:25 PM (Xm9IS)

86 76 The actor with the highest count of movie deaths is not Sean Bean, but John Hurt. He got a great one in Alien and an encore in the movie Spaceballs.
Posted by: BourbonChicken

John Wayne died in 5 movies I believe.

Posted by: Some Rat at September 21, 2024 10:23 PM (vJiyU)

https://tinyurl.com/5n8tp2a9

Intertubes say Christopher Lee, 70 on-screen deaths

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2024 10:26 PM (ynpvh)

87 I don't think I ever saw Rodney, but have seen his movies over and over.

I've seen Andrew Dice Clay a few times, he puts on a great show.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2024 10:27 PM (RIvkX)

88 Intertubes say Christopher Lee, 70 on-screen deaths
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2024 10:26 PM (ynpvh)

Wile E. Coyote has to be up there, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2024 10:27 PM (qqgHw)

89 Don Rickles
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2024 10:15 PM (RIvkX)

San I don't think you're that old.
Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 10:18 PM (Xm9IS)

Ok, Fred Allen.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

I got Bob Hope's autograph when I was about 8.

Posted by: Miklos doubts it has any cash value at September 21, 2024 10:27 PM (sq/uD)

90 In 2018, I took out $60 a weekend for fun and gas money. Usually it was three $20 bills. I never had a fifty dollar until last year.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at September 21, 2024 10:27 PM (/xXcn)

91 BTW, taking my son and DiLiT and the wife to see Herbie Hancock tomorrow night. Should be fun.

Posted by: GWB at September 21, 2024 10:27 PM (doQhm)

92 73 The actor with the highest count of movie deaths is not Sean Bean, but John Hurt. He got a great one in Alien and an encore in the movie Spaceballs.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 21, 2024 10:21 PM (lhenN)

Sounds like John's characters got hurt a lot.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2024 10:28 PM (cwxI0)

93 Intertubes say Christopher Lee, 70 on-screen deaths
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2024 10:26 PM (ynpvh)

Wile E. Coyote has to be up there, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Heh, hit that number in just a couple episodes!

Posted by: Some Rat at September 21, 2024 10:28 PM (vJiyU)

94 Best Jesus statue was "Touchdown Jesus" off I-75 in Ohio. 62 feet tall, with both arms up raised. Alas, it was struck by lightning in 2010.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 21, 2024 10:25 PM (VoAz3)


was that the one that was slightly off yellow so some people called it the "Big Butter Jesus"?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2024 10:29 PM (D7oie)

95 84 Best Jesus statue was "Touchdown Jesus" off I-75 in Ohio. 62 feet tall, with both arms up raised. Alas, it was struck by lightning in 2010.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 21, 2024 10:25 PM (VoAz3)

Somebody didn't like it...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2024 10:29 PM (ynpvh)

96 Miklos, not sure Bob Hope qualifies as famous anymore.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2024 10:29 PM (RIvkX)

97 "Provo man might not be entirely wrong; I know a few judges that SHOULD be tried for treason...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)"
**************
Here in northeast PA we had a couple of judges go to prison for unjustly sentencing teens for petty offenses to a hardcore youth prison, unless their folks could fork over big bucks. The judges got a kickback from the private prison operators for keeping the beds full. A couple of those kid committed suicide. Bastard judges should have been hanged on the courthouse steps.

Posted by: Cosda at September 21, 2024 10:29 PM (jN9H6)

98 The formerly 79-cent loaf of store-brand bread now sells for $1.99. This increase, in just the last 3 years. FJB.
Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2024 10:16 PM (njWTi)


Cheap crappy white bread, 1 pound, $2.50 (on sale).

On a humorous food note: I made Bisquick pancakes this morning. I didn't realize I had bought the buttermilk package. I had made pancakes before from the package, not reading the instructions because I've used Bisquick before. So I added the milk and egg, etc. The pancakes the last time were horrible, heavy; Mrs. Douglas would have been proud. Well, this morning I actually read the instructions: Add water not milk! And no egg! Huh. So I used water and not milk, leaving out the egg. The pancakes were not bricks. Moral of the story: Even if you think you know how to use some product because you've used it a thousand times before, read the instructions anyway. You never know.

Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

99 Somebody didn't like it...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

Dad, they're making fun of me in Ohio.

Posted by: J Christ at September 21, 2024 10:30 PM (vJiyU)

100 97 "Provo man might not be entirely wrong; I know a few judges that SHOULD be tried for treason...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)"
**************
Here in northeast PA we had a couple of judges go to prison for unjustly sentencing teens for petty offenses to a hardcore youth prison, unless their folks could fork over big bucks. The judges got a kickback from the private prison operators for keeping the beds full. A couple of those kid committed suicide. Bastard judges should have been hanged on the courthouse steps.

Posted by: Cosda at September 21, 2024 10:29 PM (jN9H6)

Sometimes hanging is just too good...sometimes the OLD ways are better.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2024 10:31 PM (ynpvh)

101 >>> 98
==
On a humorous food note: I made Bisquick pancakes this morning. I didn't realize I had bought the buttermilk package. I had made pancakes before from the package, not reading the instructions because I've used Bisquick before. So I added the milk and egg, etc. The pancakes the last time were horrible, heavy; Mrs. Douglas would have been proud. Well, this morning I actually read the instructions: Add water not milk! And no egg! Huh. So I used water and not milk, leaving out the egg. The pancakes were not bricks. Moral of the story: Even if you think you know how to use some product because you've used it a thousand times before, read the instructions anyway. You never know.
Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

That sounds a lot like 'reading the content'. What kind of Moron are you?!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 21, 2024 10:31 PM (FnneF)

102 Milkos I'd think it would have some value. And that someone here has a living connection to Bob Hope is unreal.

Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 10:32 PM (Xm9IS)

103 We had an HBO Comedy Special in the little hole in the wall Bar and Grill that I worked at in the early 80's.

The place was "Magee's Bar & Grill" on Park street in Alameda Ca.

The headliner...Andrew Dice Clay. And he ripped it up for 30 minutes straight. The teenager Bill Burr was probably taking notes.

Yes he was the BEAST before political correctness.

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 21, 2024 10:32 PM (TDvv2)

104 101 >>> 98
==
On a humorous food note: I made Bisquick pancakes this morning. I didn't realize I had bought the buttermilk package. I had made pancakes before from the package, not reading the instructions because I've used Bisquick before. So I added the milk and egg, etc. The pancakes the last time were horrible, heavy; Mrs. Douglas would have been proud. Well, this morning I actually read the instructions: Add water not milk! And no egg! Huh. So I used water and not milk, leaving out the egg. The pancakes were not bricks. Moral of the story: Even if you think you know how to use some product because you've used it a thousand times before, read the instructions anyway. You never know.
Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

That sounds a lot like 'reading the content'. What kind of Moron are you?!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 21, 2024 10:31 PM (FnneF)

Apparently a literate one.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2024 10:32 PM (ynpvh)

105 98 Even if you think you know how to use some product because you've used it a thousand times before, read the instructions anyway. You never know.
Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

"Honey, where's our copy of the Kama Sutra?"

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2024 10:33 PM (cwxI0)

106
Sunrise at the South Pole taken from about 7 years ago:

https://tinyurl.com/26nqh56y

He's in his lawn chair right next to the Ceremonial Pole.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2024 10:33 PM (w6EFb)

107 105 98 Even if you think you know how to use some product because you've used it a thousand times before, read the instructions anyway. You never know.
Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

"Honey, where's our copy of the Kama Sutra?"

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2024 10:33 PM (cwxI0)

Guess who's biography could be named "The Kumala Sutra"?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2024 10:34 PM (ynpvh)

108 Best Jesus statue was "Touchdown Jesus" off I-75 in Ohio. 62 feet tall, with both arms up raised. Alas, it was struck by lightning in 2010.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 21, 2024 10:25 PM (VoAz3)


Jesus signalling a touchdown is much, much better than a statue of Jesus signalling a safety. Or clipping or offsides.

Posted by: Gref at September 21, 2024 10:34 PM (aBgBM)

109 Ayyy-ayyy-ayyy

Posted by: The Fonz at September 21, 2024 10:34 PM (+o2mc)

110 107
Guess who's biography could be named "The Kumala Sutra"?...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2024 10:34 PM (ynpvh)

Willie Brown's?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2024 10:34 PM (cwxI0)

111 Hat Trick Jesus met with much better cosmic approval than Touchdown Jesus.

Make of that what you will.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2024 10:36 PM (+o2mc)

112 >>Best Jesus statue was "Touchdown Jesus" off I-75 in Ohio. 62 feet tall, with both arms up raised. Alas, it was struck by lightning in 2010.

Gotta go with Rio Jesus on this one. 100 feet tall and sits on a mountain overlooking Rio. Also hit by lightning.

https://tinyurl.com/yzn5nyhn

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2024 10:36 PM (LkLld)

113 I still think it would be nice to cut the federal government by 75%.

Medicaid and section8 and food stamps all expire after 18 months.

Illegals out. All of them. Chip them so if they come within 10 miles of the US border it explodes. Or just give them a pager.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2024 10:37 PM (pcG5m)

114 Gotta go with Rio Jesus on this one. 100 feet tall and sits on a mountain overlooking Rio. Also hit by lightning.

-
Zeus is a jealous god.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 21, 2024 10:38 PM (L/fGl)

115 57 Kamala must be way far back in the polls or she wouldn't be begging for another debate.
Posted by: ALH at September 21, 2024 10:11 PM (xJEPL)

There's no doubt she's behind, bigly. She has a way forward, start giving interviews to lay out her policies. Oh wait, . . . .

You can tell the Harris campaign believes the vote fraud will save them. They may not be wrong.
Posted by: RickZ at September

Just saw a video clip from CNN where a staffer said Kamala does not own a firearm.

Posted by: Piper at September 21, 2024 10:38 PM (p4NUW)

116 That sounds a lot like 'reading the content'. What kind of Moron are you?!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 21, 2024 10:31 PM (FnneF)


When it comes to food, I'm on my stomach's side. Edible and digestible is preferred.

Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 10:38 PM (gKDq2)

117 106 Nice picture. Sunrise is always a time for hope.

And questioning why the hell you are up so freaking early.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2024 10:38 PM (cwxI0)

118 What are you talking about?! We helped restore norms!!
(puffs out chest in pride)
Posted by: GOPe and NT

Then why haven't we seen him at the bar in Cheers recently?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 21, 2024 10:38 PM (VNX3d)

119 69 I know where that church in the last pic s. There used to be three puking sheep, but people kept stealing/breaking them...

https://tinyurl.com/3hjrspr2

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2024 10:20 PM (ynpvh)

I've joked about those sheep for more than 30 years now. I've even mentioned them in the HQ previously.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2024 10:39 PM (ynpvh)

120
They should get a shot of an "exotic dancer" dancing on the Ceremonial South Pole.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2024 10:39 PM (w6EFb)

121 My dad talked to Bob Hope at a USO visit while stationed in South Korea. He was part of the US soccer team in an inter UN forces tournament and they got introduced to him.

Posted by: Fritz (not Fritz) at September 21, 2024 10:40 PM (aJJQW)

122 "Honey, where's our copy of the Kama Sutra?"
Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2024 10:33 PM (cwxI0)


LOL!

"Oh, that old thing? I threw it out!"

Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 10:40 PM (gKDq2)

123 They should get a shot of an "exotic dancer" dancing on the Ceremonial South Pole.
Posted by: publius

"Colder than a stripper's . . . . "

Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2024 10:40 PM (WXNFJ)

124 Zeus is a jealous god.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 21, 2024 10:38 PM (L/fGl)


----------

Zeus married his sister and boned his male cup bearer. He isn't the paragon of moral virtue.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2024 10:40 PM (+o2mc)

125 >>Zeus is a jealous god.

For the record thrower of lightning bolts, he said that not me.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2024 10:41 PM (LkLld)

126 108

We also have a very similar statue in front of a church on Foothill Blvd. In La Canada, the statue of an unnamed Christian, hands reaching skyward 85 feet above Foothill Boulevard, commands the La Canada Flintridge business district in Los Angeles Ca.

It has also been named "Touchdown Jesus."

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 21, 2024 10:41 PM (TDvv2)

127 116 That sounds a lot like 'reading the content'. What kind of Moron are you?!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 21, 2024 10:31 PM (FnneF)

When it comes to food, I'm on my stomach's side. Edible and digestible is preferred.

Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 10:38 PM (gKDq2)

She'd get stuck to it, and not by her tongue...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2024 10:41 PM (ynpvh)

128 124 Zeus is a jealous god.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 21, 2024 10:38 PM (L/fGl)


----------

Zeus married his sister and boned his male cup bearer. He isn't the paragon of moral virtue.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2024 10:40 PM (+o2mc)

Seems perfect for the Dems today...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2024 10:42 PM (ynpvh)

129
The ceremonial pole is just the that. The real pole moves around due to Chandler wobble, plus a steady linear movement due to the ice sheet sliding steadily.

It moves about 30' per year. If you imagine some fixed geoid surface of the earth, the ice sheet slides that much relative to that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2024 10:42 PM (w6EFb)

130 Me and Rich Lowry go way back.

Posted by: the taste of penis at September 21, 2024 10:42 PM (gKWVE)

131 Apparently a literate one.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2024 10:32 PM (ynpvh)


Thank you for that backhanded compliment slap upside the head. No, I don't need another.

Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 10:43 PM (gKDq2)

132 Just saw a video clip from CNN where a staffer said Kamala does not own a firearm.
Posted by: Piper at September 21, 2024 10:38 PM (p4NUW)

While I am inclined to believe this is true, why would a staffer know? Firearms ownership can be quite public, or very confidential, whatever the owner chooses.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2024 10:43 PM (qqgHw)

133 Hey, do you know if you visit your Amazon page your little icon waves at you?

I found that oddly disturbing and just noticed it...

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 21, 2024 10:44 PM (TGPs7)

134 Then why haven't we seen him at the bar in Cheers recently?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 21, 2024 10:38 PM (VNX3d)

He's off doing hatchet jobs for us. We wouldn't want to soil our hands dealing with (shudder) workers.

Posted by: GOPe and NT at September 21, 2024 10:44 PM (0eaVi)

135 The ceremonial pole is just the that. The real pole moves around due to Chandler wobble, plus a steady linear movement due to the ice sheet sliding steadily.
It moves about 30' per year. If you imagine some fixed geoid surface of the earth, the ice sheet slides that much relative to that.
Posted by: publius


Related: the currently-penultimate xkcd comic:
https://xkcd.com/2987/

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2024 10:45 PM (DgGvY)

136 It's not waving at me anymore.
Amazon is playing mind games with me and I don't like it.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 21, 2024 10:45 PM (TGPs7)

137 Some people get nice inspiring statues.

Gaffney got the Giant Peach Butt in the Sky.

Posted by: Miklos just laughed at September 21, 2024 10:45 PM (sq/uD)

138
Interesting. On New Years Day, down there at Amundsen-Scott, they have a pole moving ceremony, where they officially re-locate the mean pole marker, the average real South pole. It's just a rod marker with a sign.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2024 10:45 PM (w6EFb)

139 Zeus is a jealous god.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Now With Pumpkin Spice! at September 21, 2024 10:38 PM (L/fGl)


Hera. Hera was a jealous god. Zeus was a philandering god. Hera had a reason to be jealous.

"I turn my back for a minute and you are off turning into a shower of gold or a swan, Act your age, you aren't some great white bull anymore"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2024 10:45 PM (D7oie)

140 Just saw a video clip from CNN where a staffer said Kamala does not own a firearm.
Posted by: Piper at September 21, 2024 10:38 PM (p4NUW)

We all know that if Kamala was really a gun owner, she would have explained how the gun was lost in a tragic boating accident.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2024 10:45 PM (cwxI0)

141 They are going to fortify the election in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin and Kamala is going to "win."

Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 10:46 PM (Xm9IS)

142 133 Hey, do you know if you visit your Amazon page your little icon waves at you?

I found that oddly disturbing and just noticed it...
Posted by: Mister Ghost



Would you prefer I flip you off? Moon you? Masturbate?

Jerk...

Posted by: Amazon Icon at September 21, 2024 10:47 PM (EweRc)

143 141

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 21, 2024 10:48 PM (TDvv2)

144 Just saw a video clip from CNN where a staffer said Kamala does not own a firearm.
Posted by: Piper


Imagine: you go to the range, and a couple USSS guys are flanking one lane. You hear a familiar cackle.

How quickly do you unass the area?

Posted by: mikeski at September 21, 2024 10:48 PM (DgGvY)

145 Heywood Banks, Big Butter Jesus

youtu.be/6Mf2u9VWAhM

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2024 10:48 PM (D7oie)

146 Thank you for that backhanded compliment slap upside the head. No, I don't need another.
Posted by: RickZ

*high five upside the head*

*low five upside the head*

*backaround five upside the head*

Posted by: Miklos, hip with the Youth of Today at September 21, 2024 10:48 PM (sq/uD)

147 I missed talking about it in the movie thread but I saw the Irish horror movie Oddity tonight.

Interesting movie. Plenty of scares and the ending is some ways a perfect progression of all the tropes in the movie coming to a head.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2024 10:48 PM (oZhjI)

148 Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 10:46 PM (Xm9IS)

Lighten up, Francis.

Posted by: gKWVE at September 21, 2024 10:49 PM (gKWVE)

149 They are going to fortify the election in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin and Kamala is going to "win."
Posted by: hart

My hope is they underestimate how biggly folks go for President Trump and realize nobody's gonna go for 110% turnout in 25 districts.

Posted by: Some Rat at September 21, 2024 10:51 PM (vJiyU)

150 They are going to fortify the election in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin and Kamala is going to "win."
Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 10:46 PM (Xm9IS)


AZ.

From the AP:

"The Arizona Supreme Court unanimously ruled Friday [yesterday] that nearly 98,000 people whose citizenship documents hadn’t been confirmed can vote in state and local races, a significant decision that could influence ballot measures and tight legislative races."

Look at how razor thin the wins are in some critical swing state counties. At least GA is making counties do a hand-count back-up/confirmation to Dominion totals this time around.

Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 10:52 PM (gKDq2)

151 Here's an interesting thought experiment. How many laws would get passed by Congress if we went back to the original level: one representative per 30,000 citizens? We'd have a little more than 11,000 representatives, so the speechifying could get monotonous.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 21, 2024 10:53 PM (VNX3d)

152
Best Jesus statue was "Touchdown Jesus" off I-75 in Ohio. 62 feet tall, with both arms up raised. Alas, it was struck by lightning in 2010.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 21, 2024 10:25 PM (VoAz3)

__________

We used to live in Warren County. We'd pass by that after coming through Lebanon to go north on 75. No, I never cared for it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 21, 2024 10:53 PM (BkEzK)

153 Wow. Amazon Icon is a bit testy.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2024 10:53 PM (+o2mc)

154 Trump has a path without AZ.

Posted by: runner at September 21, 2024 10:53 PM (V13WU)

155 Lighten up, Francis.
Posted by: gKWVE at September 21, 2024 10:49 PM (gKWVE)

Wow, shaken to my core by that devastating critique.

Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 10:53 PM (Xm9IS)

156 The properly-designated Touchdown Jesus is the one at the end of the stadium at Notre Dame. Big Butter Jesus was mocked because the perspective was way off in everything but one angle, giving it a wacky anamorphic projection aspect, not just yellowish like a Buddhist butter carving but already kind of melted off to one side -- and it was made of chicken wire forms and sprayed foam, making it a bonfire waiting to happen. It happened.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 21, 2024 10:54 PM (zdLoL)

157 We'd have a little more than 11,000 representatives, so the speechifying could get monotonous.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 21, 2024 10:53 PM (VNX3d)


We would truly live under a 'government by sound bite'. Everyone gets 30 seconds at committee hearings to question witnesses, e.g.

Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 10:56 PM (gKDq2)

158 Kamala lost her weapon when it was stolen from her locker at McDonald's.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2024 10:56 PM (RIvkX)

159 Why would they even do that with the sculpture? Did it need more support? Just use the legs, put the legs together make them thicker. It looks like it's puking I don't understand it at all.

Posted by: banana Dream at September 21, 2024 10:57 PM (Y6IkP)

160
Here's an interesting thought experiment. How many laws would get passed by Congress if we went back to the original level: one representative per 30,000 citizens? We'd have a little more than 11,000 representatives, so the speechifying could get monotonous.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf


They'd have to meet in a stadium.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2024 10:57 PM (63Dwl)

161 if Kamala was really a gun owner, she would have explained how the gun was lost in a tragic boating accident.

Damn right. You know, now that she's been challenged on this, it should be no trouble at all to exhibit her 4473. You just know there's no way she'd have bought a used gun from a private owner...

Right? Suppose she inherited it? Received it as a 'gift'?

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 21, 2024 10:57 PM (zdLoL)

162 There's no doubt she's behind, bigly. She has a way forward, start giving interviews to lay out her policies. Oh wait, . . . .

There was a thread this morning where an FNM talking head supporting Kamala said it was unfair to expect Kamala to know where she stands on *any* issues because we shouldn't expect Kamala to be perfect.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2024 10:58 PM (oZhjI)

163 They'd have to meet in a stadium.

Like the scenes in the Star Wars prequels, but with freakier looking beings voting.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2024 10:59 PM (oZhjI)

164 Sorry I'm late. Was flirting with Nancy Mace. All the cool kids are doing it.

Posted by: Ricardo Romantico at September 21, 2024 10:59 PM (CV8a5)

165
You know, now that she's been challenged on this, it should be no trouble at all to exhibit her 4473.

How long has the 4473 been in use?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2024 10:59 PM (63Dwl)

166 Here's an interesting thought experiment. How many laws would get passed by Congress if we went back to the original level: one representative per 30,000 citizens? We'd have a little more than 11,000 representatives, so the speechifying could get monotonous.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
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They'd have to meet in a stadium.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2024 10:57 PM (63Dwl)


I'm trying to think of the problem here. The less they can 'get done' the better.

Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 10:59 PM (gKDq2)

167 11
Just under 11 hours left of Summer, astronomical that is. Equinox occurs at 8:43AM EDT (12:43 Zulu) tomorrow.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
--------------------------------------

Oh man, from your lips.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 21, 2024 10:59 PM (3wBQK)

168 Harris agreed to a CNN debate today that is scheduled for late October and her surrogates have been out in force begging Trump to accept. He told them to talk to the hand.

You don't ask for a debate when you are winning.

It's always been about beating the cheat. Nothing has changed.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2024 10:59 PM (LkLld)

169 My big mouth, it'll probably be a hard winter.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 21, 2024 11:00 PM (3wBQK)

170
There's a good argument to made to reduce the rep ratio. Not all the way down to 30,000, but lower it enough to get a lot more Conngresscritters.

The effect would be to dilute the power of an individual congresscritter. The Framers saw the "best ratio" as a tradeoff between the "cabals of the few" vs "direct faction".

They set a lower limit on the ratio, but not an upper one. One can argue we're well into Cabals of the Few territory.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2024 11:00 PM (w6EFb)

171 Kamala lost her weapon when it was stolen from her locker at McDonald's.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

And my hair net.


Some low-class mo-fo stole my required hair net on my second day, and cracker man-ager charged me TWO DOLLARS to replace it

Posted by: Miklos would like to KumQueen's W-2 at September 21, 2024 11:01 PM (sq/uD)

172 There was a thread this morning where an FNM talking head supporting Kamala said it was unfair to expect Kamala to know where she stands on *any* issues because we shouldn't expect Kamala to be perfect.

===

typical DEI gobbledegook

Posted by: runner at September 21, 2024 11:01 PM (V13WU)

173 They've already started voting in some places. Debate time is over.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 21, 2024 11:01 PM (3wBQK)

174 Here's an interesting thought experiment. How many laws would get passed by Congress if we went back to the original level: one representative per 30,000 citizens? We'd have a little more than 11,000 representatives, so the speechifying could get monotonous.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf
-----

They'd have to meet in a stadium.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2024 10:57 PM (63Dwl)

I'm trying to think of the problem here. The less they can 'get done' the better.
Posted by: RickZ

They could bounce around the WBNA stadiums every so often, for a change in scenery. FEMA could provide their trailers for housing.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 21, 2024 11:01 PM (VNX3d)

175
There was a thread this morning where an FNM talking head supporting Kamala said it was unfair to expect Kamala to know where she stands on *any* issues because we shouldn't expect Kamala to be perfect.
Posted by: 18-1


Yeah, what do you want? Nirvana?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2024 11:01 PM (63Dwl)

176 typical DEI gobbledegook
Posted by: runner at September 21, 2024 11:01 PM (V13WU)


You misspelled "cope"

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2024 11:02 PM (D7oie)

177 They set a lower limit on the ratio, but not an upper one. One can argue we're well into Cabals of the Few territory.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2024 11:00 PM (w6EFb)

Toss in how some seats have become hereditary.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 21, 2024 11:02 PM (VoAz3)

178 Kanela, remember when Willie wanted a do-over and you said not tonight?

Posted by: Braenyard at September 21, 2024 11:02 PM (3wBQK)

179 Now I can barely get out of the grocery store without spending $20 on a dozen eggs, a pound of bacon, cheese and bread.
Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 10:10 PM (gKDq2)

You are being optimistic.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 21, 2024 11:02 PM (/lPRQ)

180 132 Just saw a video clip from CNN where a staffer said Kamala does not own a firearm.
Posted by: Piper at September 21, 2024 10:38 PM (p4NUW)

While I am inclined to believe this is true, why would a staffer know? Firearms ownership can be quite public, or very confidential, whatever the owner chooses.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September

She has been all over the place saying she owns a gun. CNN had her staffer on, a senior one, not the coffee getter, who said Kamala doesn’t own a gun. Kamala told Oprah yesterday she owns one. Someone is not truth telling.

Posted by: Piper at September 21, 2024 11:03 PM (pZEOD)

181 Y’all enjoy your evening. It’s been a busy day, so I am hitting the hay.

Posted by: Piper at September 21, 2024 11:03 PM (pZEOD)

182 Being a dot Indian, Kamala should be perfectly capable of delivering Nirvana, or some reasonable facsimile thereof.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2024 11:04 PM (+o2mc)

183 Early in place voting begins in Indiana Oct 8. I plant to vote that day.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2024 11:04 PM (63Dwl)

184
Tomorrow, at local high noon, the sun's altitude will be equal to 90 - your latitude. That's a smidge over 55 degrees here.

It won't be exact, unless you're at the exact meridian where high noon occurs exactly at the moment of equinox, but it will be very close.

The equinox happens at 12:43 Zulu, so that point will be fairly close to the prime meridian to the west.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2024 11:04 PM (w6EFb)

185 There was a thread this morning where an FNM talking head supporting Kamala said it was unfair to expect Kamala to know where she stands on *any* issues because we shouldn't expect Kamala to be perfect.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2024 10:58 PM (oZhjI)


That's amazing, in a stultifying way.

I swear, the FNM talking airheads should have to report a hefty portion of their salaries as in-kind contributions to Democrats/Harris.

Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 11:04 PM (gKDq2)

186 70 Don Rickles
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2024 10:15 PM (RIvkX)

San I don't think you're that old.
Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 10:18 PM (Xm9IS)

Ok, Fred Allen.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 21, 2024 10:20 PM (0eaVi)

Steve Allen

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 21, 2024 11:04 PM (Rbu5d)

187 Well then, hopefully the lawyers are storming into the Arizona Federal Building 1st thing Monday morning to SUE THE SHIT out of this abortion of justice and ask for a lawful stay of this decision While requesting an Emergency decision from SCOTUS which when granted forces Arizona to clear their voter rolls of any unconfirmed US CITIZENS attempting to vote in 2024.

DO IT!!!

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 21, 2024 11:05 PM (TDvv2)

188 They've already started voting in some places. Debate time is over.
Posted by: Braenyard

This would be the perfect time to forge postage stamps and sell them out of the trunk of a Buick.

Posted by: Miklos the Entrepreneur at September 21, 2024 11:05 PM (sq/uD)

189 Bastard judges should have been hanged on the courthouse steps.

Also acceptable would be "Disappeared leaving their wallet, keys, and car at home and their bank accounts and credit cards never accessed"

Posted by: Chuck C at September 21, 2024 11:06 PM (yOPBE)

190 They'd have to meet in a stadium.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Hmmmmm. . . . Shades of 'Black Sunday'. . .

Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2024 11:06 PM (WXNFJ)

191 Early in place voting begins in Indiana Oct 8. I plant to vote that day.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Stake your place

Posted by: Miklos the Horticulturalist at September 21, 2024 11:06 PM (sq/uD)

192
Another interesting effect. The fastest sunrises and sunsets occur at the equinoxes, due to the ecliptic angle at the horizons.

Twilights are fairly short as well (but not the shortest they can be -- that's latitude dependent, and here that occurs in early Oct, IIRC).

So darkest the fastest roughly at the equinox.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2024 11:07 PM (w6EFb)

193 Being a dot Indian, Kamala should be perfectly capable of delivering Nirvana, or some reasonable facsimile thereof.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2024 11:04 PM (+o2mc)


Can she drum like Dave Grohl?

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2024 11:07 PM (D7oie)

194 The effect would be to dilute the power of an individual congresscritter. The Framers saw the "best ratio" as a tradeoff between the "cabals of the few" vs "direct faction".

They set a lower limit on the ratio, but not an upper one. One can argue we're well into Cabals of the Few territory.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)

It would also increase the amount required to bribe a majority for specific legislation, whether in terms of money, jobs, or sex workers.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 21, 2024 11:08 PM (VNX3d)

195 175
There was a thread this morning where an FNM talking head supporting Kamala said it was unfair to expect Kamala to know where she stands on *any* issues because we shouldn't expect Kamala to be perfect.
Posted by: 18-1

Yeah, what do you want? Nirvana?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.



Alice in Chains was better.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 21, 2024 11:08 PM (EweRc)

196 She has been all over the place saying she owns a gun. CNN had her staffer on, a senior one, not the coffee getter, who said Kamala doesn’t own a gun. Kamala told Oprah yesterday she owns one. Someone is not truth telling.
Posted by: Piper at September 21, 2024 11:03 PM (pZEOD)

Well, presumably Kamala is lying, because Democrat. But does the staffer really know for a fact that she doesn't own one? Why would a staffer be privy to that information? More likely the staffer is just parroting the talking points of a week or two ago, and missed out on the reprogramming.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2024 11:09 PM (qqgHw)

197 Fred Allen was a very funny man. His "feud" with Jack Benny went on for years. A true star of the Golden Age of Radio. Pity that he died relatively young in 1956.

Posted by: Love Thy Neighbor at September 21, 2024 11:11 PM (CV8a5)

198 Alice in Chains was better.
Posted by: Puddleglum

*checks around for original VHS copies of "Cheerleaders in Chains* and "Wet Look Waitresses"

Posted by: Miklos the Cinematic Auteur at September 21, 2024 11:11 PM (sq/uD)

199 Wait. Fred Allen is dead?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2024 11:12 PM (+o2mc)

200 it should be no trouble at all to exhibit her 4473

I'm pretty sure the seller keeps that. I've never received a copy of the 4473 when purchasing.

Posted by: Chuck C at September 21, 2024 11:13 PM (yOPBE)

201
Hmmmmm. . . . Shades of 'Black Sunday'. . .
Posted by: Tonypete


Bruce Dern in a blimp.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2024 11:13 PM (63Dwl)

202 Ah, Norm Macdonald. I laughed big time. One of a kind.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 21, 2024 11:13 PM (mH6SG)

203 San given your personal interactions with Kamala how would you rate her intelligence? I would think she is highly intelligent. In the eighty percent range.

Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 11:14 PM (Xm9IS)

204 Wait. Fred Allen is dead?
Posted by: Cicero

He owes me money!

Posted by: Miklos in best Jack Benny voice calling Rochester, oh Rochester at September 21, 2024 11:14 PM (sq/uD)

205 191 Early in place voting begins in Indiana Oct 8. I plant to vote that day.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Stake your place

Posted by: Miklos the Horticulturalist at September 21, 2024 11:06 PM (sq/uD)

Received my absentee ballot today in the mail. Louisiana has some pretty reasonable voting laws.

Posted by: javems at September 21, 2024 11:14 PM (8I4hW)

206 164 Sorry I'm late. Was flirting with Nancy Mace. All the cool kids are doing it.
Posted by: Ricardo Romantico at September 21, 2024 10:59 PM (CV8a5)

Did you get her number?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2024 11:14 PM (cwxI0)

207 Another interesting effect. The fastest sunrises and sunsets occur at the equinoxes, due to the ecliptic angle at the horizons.

Twilights are fairly short as well (but not the shortest they can be -- that's latitude dependent, and here that occurs in early Oct, IIRC).

So darkest the fastest roughly at the equinox.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2024 11:07 PM (w6EFb)


Gotta say, it's funny as I was thinking just last night about how fast it gets dark, not the time, but the duration of sunset. It's very quick right now, or it seemed that way to me. Thanks for some confirmation that, while I'm crazy, I'm not insane.

Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 11:14 PM (gKDq2)

208 I swear, the FNM talking airheads should have to report a hefty portion of their salaries as in-kind contributions to Democrats/Harris.

I think a victorious Trump should honestly look into this...after unleashing FARA prosecutions on most of the bureaucracy. You can fire a civil servant for committing a subversive felony you know.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2024 11:15 PM (oZhjI)

209 Trump told a rally in Wilmington, NC today that one of the reasons he won't do another debate is "because I'm winning."

I sure hope he has reliable information to that effect, which is not available to the general public, because... I can see no evidence of it.

I think he's decided not to do another debate because the first one (with her) went poorly.

I watched it. He seemed easily distracted into going off message-- something she had prepared for.

Posted by: mnw at September 21, 2024 11:15 PM (NLIak)

210 On the subject of philandering Greek gods:

A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By the dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.

How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
And how can body, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?

A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?

Posted by: Eeyore at September 21, 2024 11:15 PM (1bNHn)

211 Sorry I'm late. Was flirting with Nancy Mace. All the cool kids are doing it.
Posted by: Ricardo Romantico at September 21, 2024 10:59 PM (CV8a5)

Did you get her number?


He was number 18. Well, today

Posted by: Nancy Mace setting her sights on Fluke's record at September 21, 2024 11:16 PM (oZhjI)

212 She has been all over the place saying she owns a gun. CNN had her staffer on, a senior one, not the coffee getter, who said Kamala doesn’t own a gun. Kamala told Oprah yesterday she owns one. Someone is not truth telling.
Posted by: Piper at September 21, 2024 11:03 PM (pZEOD)

I know, just ask her what type of gun, manufacturer, caliber, where she bought it and how much did it cost.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 21, 2024 11:16 PM (WuJwx)

213 I know, just ask her what type of gun, manufacturer, caliber, where she bought it and how much did it cost.
Posted by: Beartooth at September 21, 2024 11:16 PM (WuJwx)


I want to know how she secures it

Posted by: Kindltot at September 21, 2024 11:18 PM (D7oie)

214 I sure hope he has reliable information to that effect, which is not available to the general public, because... I can see no evidence of it.

Its sort of an odd thing to see - every metric you could imagine...outside of polling...shows Trump up by a solid margin - this includes the actions of both the Trump and Harris campaigns.

But the polling does NOT show that. It shows a nailbiter



Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2024 11:18 PM (oZhjI)

215 In the mid 80's my mom and I went to see Red Skelton at the historic Paramount Theatre in Aurora, Il.
It was a fantastic show. Afterwards he put a chair on the stage, sat down, and talked to anyone who came up to meet him. Very gracious. My mom asked for a kiss and got a lovely kiss on her cheek. Meant a lot to her.

Posted by: TecumsehTea at September 21, 2024 11:19 PM (JrYM1)

216 I want to know how she secures it
Posted by: Kindltot

In my Willie Holster

Posted by: The President of Vice at September 21, 2024 11:19 PM (sq/uD)

217 I know this is something I'm not supposed to say, but the funniest comedian of my lifetime was Bill Cosby.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 21, 2024 11:19 PM (1bNHn)

218 I'd go with 100,000 reps for each seat in the House, though I could be talked into accepting down to 50,000. Then let them serve five terms, maximum. Ten years is enough to keep an institutional memory alive so that they won't have to rely on the permanent staffers for how things are supposed to work and I'd limit the time staffers could serve to ten years as well. I'd give each of the Reps one secretary and one aide. No more.

Then repeal the Seventeenth Amendment and return the election of Senators back to the state legislatures. I'd give each of the Senators two or three aids and allow them to serve no more than two terms.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 21, 2024 11:19 PM (rwehq)

219 She's going to do a gun show, Plinking with Kanela. I can see her waving that pistol around while she talks. There will be accidents.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 21, 2024 11:19 PM (3wBQK)

220 Que? Mas que nada, non? I am noo to jor countree and have no moneys to feed my 11 childrenos. Joo geev me money for to feed, jess? Jess ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at September 21, 2024 11:19 PM (ayRl+)

221 217 I know this is something I'm not supposed to say, but the funniest comedian of my lifetime was Bill Cosby.
Posted by: Eeyore at September 21, 2024 11:19 PM (1bNHn)

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He really knocked them out.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2024 11:21 PM (+o2mc)

222 *checks around for original VHS copies of "Cheerleaders in Chains* and "Wet Look Waitresses"
Posted by: Miklos the Cinematic Auteur at September 21, 2024 11:11 PM (sq/uD)

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

I'm not familiar with either of those titles but I am certain that Linnea Quigley was starring in both of them.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 21, 2024 11:21 PM (rwehq)

223 >>Well, presumably Kamala is lying, because Democrat

It was an incredibly stupid statement by Harris. She's been running on grabbing guns since she was in San Francisco. It's part of her appeal to the far left. Hell, she refused to seek the death penalty for a scumbag who gunned down a cop while she was DA of San Francisco. Nobody believes she would come out guns blazing if someone broke into her house. Not to mention she has the real Secret Service guys guarding her 7x24.

She's an incredibly bad politician. They all lie but she lies so much she constantly contradicts herself and now her surrogates are trying to spin it as a joke, you guys! She's one of those rare politicians who sucks and blows at the same time.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2024 11:21 PM (LkLld)

224 sure hope he has reliable information to that effect, which is not available to the general public, because... I can see no evidence of it.

Posted by: mnw at September 21, 2024 11:15 PM (NLIak)


A campaign's internal polls are always much more accurate, and are almost never seen by the public. But go back to 2016. Something made Obama get off his ass and campaign for Hillary in PA on the last weekend in an election where Hillary was cruising to a certain win.

Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 11:21 PM (gKDq2)

225 But the polling does NOT show that. It shows a nailbiter



Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2024 11:18 PM (oZhjI)

And who commissions, and pays for, most of the polls?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2024 11:22 PM (qqgHw)

226 But the polling does NOT show that. It shows a nailbiter

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2024 11:18 PM (oZhjI)

Steal has to be plausible. "Look at the poles."

Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 11:22 PM (Xm9IS)

227 In the mid 80's my mom and I went to see Red Skelton at the historic Paramount Theatre in Aurora, Il.
It was a fantastic show. Afterwards he put a chair on the stage, sat down, and talked to anyone who came up to meet him. Very gracious. My mom asked for a kiss and got a lovely kiss on her cheek. Meant a lot to her.
Posted by: TecumsehTea

Good Night, and God bless

Posted by: Miklos Kadiddlehopper liked Red Skelton at September 21, 2024 11:23 PM (sq/uD)

228 214

It shows Harris winning.

What metrics show "Trump by a solid margin"? It's sure not fundraising.

Of course I hope you're right. I've contributed to Trump, for the third election in a row.

Posted by: mnw at September 21, 2024 11:23 PM (NLIak)

229 She's one of those rare politicians who sucks and blows at the same time.

Come on man that's just beating the joke half to death.

Kinda like she did to lil Willie though.

Posted by: Willie Brown at September 21, 2024 11:23 PM (oZhjI)

230 >> Thanks for some confirmation that, while I'm crazy, I'm not insane.

There's a lot of interesting seasonal effects like this that depend on the various angles. The Harvest Moon effect is another big one, and why it's called "harvest". The full Moon that occurs the closest to the autumnal equinox is dubbed the harvest moon. Due to that ecliptic angle, it means the time difference between moonrises a couple days around the full moon are the shortest.

The Harvest Moon rises close to sunset at around the same time. Moonset however, is at its greatest difference.

It's just the opposite in the Southern Hemispher, and the March equinox, Fall for them, is the Harvest Moon.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2024 11:23 PM (w6EFb)

231 209

DEBATES ARE ONE ON ONE.

TRUMP ATTEMPTED THREE ON ONE and he held his own for the most part while ABC ran interference and blocking tackles for Kameltoe.

Why would he subject himself to this kind of SHAM again?

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 21, 2024 11:24 PM (TDvv2)

232 My mom asked for a kiss and got a lovely kiss on her cheek. Meant a lot to her.

=====

I asked that racist Mace for a kiss, and she reported me to Congress. Bitch set me up !

Posted by: Michael Eric Dyson at September 21, 2024 11:24 PM (V13WU)

233 Robert Barnes was on Viva Frei yesterday regarding what was actually happened regarding the 2020 election lawsuits:

https://tinyurl.com/4fzey6ks

Barnes does a nice job explaining the issues of the lawsuits.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 21, 2024 11:25 PM (rwehq)

234 I know, just ask her what type of gun, manufacturer, caliber, where she bought it and how much did it cost.
Posted by: Beartooth at September 21, 2024 11:16 PM (WuJwx)

I want to know how she secures it
Posted by: Kindltot

Any bets she says it's an .88 Magnum, because it shoots through schools?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 21, 2024 11:26 PM (VNX3d)

235 Is that sheep vomiting? I don't get it.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 21, 2024 11:26 PM (w6EFb)

236 Barnes does a nice job explaining the issues of the lawsuits.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 21, 2024 11:25 PM (rwehq)

I agree. He's very informative.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 21, 2024 11:27 PM (w6EFb)

237
I meant to add. The reason for "harvest". It's harvest time, around fall. Before widespread use of artifical lights in farming, you get a nice full moon rising right after sunset, and around the same time, which gives light for late harvest work out in the fields.

So, it shines on, shines on, relative to that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2024 11:28 PM (w6EFb)

238 Phone poll

Trump 58%

Harris 38%

Posted by: Nightwatch at September 21, 2024 11:28 PM (TDvv2)

239 238 Phone poll

Trump 58%

Harris 38%
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 21, 2024 11:28 PM (TDvv2)

I want to see a pager poll.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2024 11:30 PM (cwxI0)

240 I watch a lot of sports. I have not seen a single Trump ad. Kamala ads run time and again in almost every commercial break. I don't know if it will matter but it's not good.

Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 11:30 PM (Xm9IS)

241 235 Is that sheep vomiting? I don't get it.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 21, 2024 11:26 PM (w6EFb)

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There are structural support issues that a layperson would not understand.

Posted by: The Florida All-Girl Footbridge Engineering Team at September 21, 2024 11:31 PM (+o2mc)

242 I meant to add. The reason for "harvest". It's harvest time, and at harvest time we all participate with the harvest because harvesting is what we do at harvest time that's why we call it harvest time unlike other times we don't call harvest time you know because it's not time to harvest.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 21, 2024 11:31 PM (3wBQK)

243 Lighten up you must.

Posted by: Yoda at September 21, 2024 11:32 PM (gKWVE)

244 In my hometown in NC, we had a fair last night. I did not see a single hat, shirt, sticker, or anything for Harris. There was Trump/Vance stuff all over. Talked to several people on our side. Yet the town itself (not the county) went for Brandon 4 years ago.

I've seen the polls. At least for NC, I flat disbelieve them.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 21, 2024 11:33 PM (1bNHn)

245 240 I watch a lot of sports. I have not seen a single Trump ad. Kamala ads run time and again in almost every commercial break. I don't know if it will matter but it's not good.
Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 11:30 PM (Xm9IS)

Does she try to connect with sports fans by telling them about how much time she spent wearing kneepads?

Posted by: tankdemon at September 21, 2024 11:33 PM (cwxI0)

246 Rashida Tlaib is complaining of racism. Why this time ?

Because of this :

https://tinyurl.com/23bhhdky

Posted by: runner at September 21, 2024 11:34 PM (V13WU)

247 There's two drops of value-rite remaining, hmmmm.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 21, 2024 11:34 PM (3wBQK)

248 Eeyore - What town?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2024 11:35 PM (XeU6L)

249 241 235 Is that sheep vomiting? I don't get it.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 21, 2024 11:26 PM (w6EFb)

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There are structural support issues that a layperson would not understand.
Posted by: The Florida All-Girl Footbridge Engineering Team at September 21, 2024 11:31 PM (+o2mc)
_______
But which the Italians could work around 500 years ago?

Posted by: Eeyore at September 21, 2024 11:35 PM (1bNHn)

250 I'm in Roanoke Rapids.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 21, 2024 11:35 PM (1bNHn)

251 I got Bob Hope's autograph when I was about 8.
Posted by: Miklos doubts it has any cash value at September 21, 2024 10:27

Very cool. I think autographs are interesting to collect. I have Reagan's from the 70s before his presidency, my Grandmother got at a dinner for me.

At work our HS has Booker T. Washington and John C. Calhoun.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 21, 2024 11:35 PM (55Qr6)

252 >>What metrics show "Trump by a solid margin"?

Both Rasmussen and Atlas Intel, two of the most accurate pollsters in 2020, both show Trump winning the popular vote by roughly 3%. If a Republican wins the popular vote by that margin it's a blowout.

Media polls don't reflect voter opinion, they are designed to do exactly what they are doing. Make people on our side believe the race is closer than it is.

Harris is begging for another debate and Trump is campaigning in NY. They have much better intel on the state of the race than any poll we get to see. Do those things make it seem Harris is winning to you?

This election has always been about beating the cheat and that's a lot harder without a pandemic shutting down the country and a completely unlikeable idiot like Harris. They wouldn't be trying to kill Trump if he was losing.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2024 11:36 PM (LkLld)

253 There's two drops of value-rite remaining, hmmmm.
Posted by: Braenyard

*IV of Emergency Valu-Rite now connected to USB port*

*Also have some Old Crow*

Posted by: Ever helpful Miklos at September 21, 2024 11:36 PM (sq/uD)

254 I watch a lot of sports. I have not seen a single Trump ad. Kamala ads run time and again in almost every commercial break. I don't know if it will matter but it's not good.
Posted by: hart

I think both campaigns look pretty closely at the demographics of a particular audience. Sports ball folks are usually bluer collar, President Trumps folks may figure they have most of that vote anyway.

Posted by: Some Rat at September 21, 2024 11:37 PM (vJiyU)

255 But which the Italians could work around 500 years ago?
Posted by: Eeyore at September 21, 2024 11:35 PM (1bNHn)

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Well, with Carrera marble, sure. Try sculpting in mashed potatoes!

Posted by: The Florida All-Girl Footbridge Engineering Team at September 21, 2024 11:38 PM (+o2mc)

256 Top. men.

@ByronYork 49m
Reports tonight that Secret Service was on the scene of a shooting in a quiet neighborhood of Northwest Washington. Turns out it was a 'negligent discharge,' officer injured while handling a gun.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2024 11:39 PM (IG4Id)

257 I watch a lot of sports. I have not seen a single Trump ad. Kamala ads run time and again in almost every commercial break. I don't know if it will matter but it's not good.
Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 11:30 PM (Xm9IS)

Would the Donks be pissing away money running ads on sportsball TV if they thought they had the election in the bag?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2024 11:40 PM (qqgHw)

258 Very cool. I think autographs are interesting to collect. I have Reagan's from the 70s before his presidency, my Grandmother got at a dinner for me.

At work our HS has Booker T. Washington and John C. Calhoun.
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 21, 2024 11:35 PM (55Qr6)

My coolest are George Halas and Mike Ditka.

Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 11:40 PM (Xm9IS)

259 "245 240 I watch a lot of sports. I have not seen a single Trump ad. Kamala ads run time and again in almost every commercial break. I don't know if it will matter but it's not good.
Posted by: hart"
*************
I'm in northeast PA. There are TV ads here for Trump, Harris, and every other politician running for any office. But on the roads I rarely see anything but Trumps signs and banners in yards and houses.

Posted by: Cosda at September 21, 2024 11:40 PM (jN9H6)

260 Gonna start checking out earlier, if I can, and getting up earlier, even though the night lingers too long this time of year. It's just a thing.

I don't get enough sleep.

https://youtu.be/8T0IzdJr1_Y

G'nite, y'all. 💤

Posted by: mindful webworker - ready for zzzs at September 21, 2024 11:40 PM (LSug7)

261 98 Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 10:29 PM (gKDq2)

Cracker Barrel's buttermilk pancake mix is hands down the best, and you can easily make any amount by just adding water.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 21, 2024 11:40 PM (w6EFb)

262 Hmm. Can we rank Old Overholt, Old Crow, Ancient Age? I suppose Ancient Ancient Age also...
Old Forester? Old Grandad?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 21, 2024 11:41 PM (XeU6L)

263 Wish I had Fred Allen's autograph. And Jack Benny's. And Rochester's.

Posted by: America Was Better Then at September 21, 2024 11:41 PM (CV8a5)

264 256 Top. men.

@ByronYork 49m
Reports tonight that Secret Service was on the scene of a shooting in a quiet neighborhood of Northwest Washington. Turns out it was a 'negligent discharge,' officer injured while handling a gun.
______
Shot herself trying to put it back in the holster? Poor little chubbette.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 21, 2024 11:41 PM (1bNHn)

265 Put flash paper in the in box and remote light it.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 21, 2024 11:42 PM (3wBQK)

266 Shemp served up Old Panther when he was bartending.

Posted by: New Old Lompoc House at September 21, 2024 11:42 PM (CV8a5)

267 Wonder if it was an Israeli made gun.

Posted by: that SS agent at September 21, 2024 11:43 PM (gKWVE)

268 Officer's foot gonna hurt for a while.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 21, 2024 11:44 PM (3wBQK)

269 I'm in Montana and there aren't any ads for either Trump or Harris. Lots of ads for Sheehy and Tester, though.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 21, 2024 11:45 PM (rwehq)

270 publius,

Thank you, again. You explain complicated things in a way that makes it easier to understand. Not trying to insult you but you should have been a teacher.

I saw a video today that was something new to me about a math problem/game/I don't know what called 'Kaprekar's constant'. It involves the number 6174, 'a perfect number'. If you take any number with four digits not the same, and rearrange them so you have the largest number (7641) and the smallest number (1467). If you subtract the smaller from the larger, up to 7 iterations later, you will get 6174 (= 7641 - 1467) and go no further. No one knows why. I find stuff like this interesting, a window into how a human mind can work.

Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 11:45 PM (gKDq2)

271 Just chiming in to say good morning at 6:45AM Jerusalem time. Folks up north here had a sleepless night. Mind you, the fighter jets are constantly buzzing over us for the last week. We're used to them. We only wake up from the thud of explosions.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 21, 2024 11:46 PM (3Y5XB)

272 Cracker Barrel's buttermilk pancake mix is hands down the best, and you can easily make any amount by just adding water.
Posted by: Miley

Pfffft!

Krusteaz mix for the win. Water is the only addition.

Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2024 11:47 PM (WXNFJ)

273 I do wonder what the ads are in the "swing state's". I'm in a red state and all the ads I've seen are Harris. Nothing from Trump.

Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 11:48 PM (Xm9IS)

274 After the debate with Vance on October 1, Walz-mentum will ratchet up and sweep the nation. Catch it!

Posted by: Command Sergeant Major Benevolent Association at September 21, 2024 11:49 PM (CV8a5)

275 >> Kaprekar's constant

I had never heard of that!

https://tinyurl.com/y9nyrva6

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2024 11:50 PM (w6EFb)

276 Kamala never seemed as dumb in person as she comes across now, but I have always said that she is a hothouse flower who has never been exposed to adversarial questioning. No Democrat from here ever is.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2024 11:51 PM (RIvkX)

277 I saw a news story that Amazon employees are mad the company is making them come back to the office and plan to leave "when the economy gets better"

So I guess they also don't know how great Harris-nomics are.

Posted by: 18-1 at September 21, 2024 11:51 PM (oZhjI)

278
Officer's foot gonna hurt for a while.
Posted by: Braenyard


From now on he only gets one bullet which he has to carry in his shirt pocket.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 21, 2024 11:51 PM (63Dwl)

279 Krusteaz sound like an undergarment malfunction. I couldn't eat that.

Posted by: Sheep With Weak Stomach at September 21, 2024 11:52 PM (CV8a5)

280 >>>Krusteaz mix for the win. Water is the only addition.
Posted by: Tonypete
--------------------

Sounds like a good addition to the stock up pantry.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 21, 2024 11:52 PM (3wBQK)

281 Kamala never seemed as dumb in person as she comes across now, but I have always said that she is a hothouse flower who has never been exposed to adversarial questioning. No Democrat from here ever is.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2024 11:51 PM (RIvkX)
-

She's a dumbed down intoxicated version of Empty Suit Obama.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 21, 2024 11:53 PM (3Y5XB)

282 >>Kamala never seemed as dumb in person as she comes across now, but I have always said that she is a hothouse flower who has never been exposed to adversarial questioning. No Democrat from here ever is.

She was in 2020. Her campaign imploded before Iowa.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2024 11:53 PM (LkLld)

283 In college baseball, we played a team from a religious university. There was some bad blood that arose during the game. After the game, as we were leaving, we saw some religious statues like those shown above, including a couple of sheep.

Let's just say that as we drove off into the gathering gloom, laughing our asses off, a couple of the sheep were shown making little sheep under the spotlights.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 21, 2024 11:53 PM (YqDXo)

284
From now on he only gets one bullet which he has to carry in his shirt pocket.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.


Fun fact: Don Knotts left the Army as a tech Corp after serving in the Pacific.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 21, 2024 11:54 PM (IG4Id)

285 182 Being a dot Indian, Kamala should be perfectly capable of delivering Nirvana, or some reasonable facsimile thereof.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 21, 2024 11:04 PM (+o2mc)

Or Kali, the Goddess of Destruction

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 21, 2024 11:55 PM (ynpvh)

286 I meant to add. The reason for "harvest". It's harvest time, and at harvest time we all participate with the harvest because harvesting is what we do at harvest time that's why we call it harvest time unlike other times we don't call harvest time you know because it's not time to harvest.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 21, 2024 11:31 PM (3wBQK)

The time to harvest is every day, on a timeline as in duration.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 21, 2024 11:55 PM (w6EFb)

287 "And that someone here has a living connection to Bob Hope is unreal."

When Omar Bradley died, my mom asked me to go with her on the metro to Arlington Cemetery, to pay respect (dad served under him in Europe).
We rode over, and walked up the hill to stand on the outskirts of the crowd, and saw the limos still unloading the VIPs
Bob Hope and his wife (approximately 4 feet tall apiece and 4000 years old) got out and passed maybe 10 yards from us, as they were guided to the seating area.

Two things I will never forget about that day, well, three:
That Bob Hope was so little,
The pomp of the honor guard and procession ceremony for a general of that rank,
and that the 21 gun salute was fired with howitzers. Every squirrel in the area went nuts, racing up and down the trees and shrieking.

Posted by: barbarausa at September 21, 2024 11:55 PM (enw9G)

288 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Prayers for your safety

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2024 11:57 PM (mT+6a)

289 Kaprekar's constant

I had never heard of that!

https://tinyurl.com/y9nyrva6
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2024 11:50 PM (w6EFb)

Does it have any practical value? Doing checksums, maybe?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2024 11:57 PM (qqgHw)

290 I had never heard of that!

I stumbled across it on my feed. I had a few minutes before my tv program came on (okay, I admit it, I like to watch 'Murdoch Mysteries'). I watch some math videos from time to time, either to make myself feel better because there are some really math ignorant people out there or to be thoroughly humiliated and awed.

Do you know about actor Terence Howard and his math theories? Some say they are crazy but I don't know. Some of his stuff makes logical sense yet challenges basic concepts, like multiplying by 1. I'm still (re)watching his videos, trying to understand why he thinks what he thinks he understands. I mean, it's crazy talk, if you're the math ancien regime.

Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 11:58 PM (gKDq2)

291 Fun fact: Don Knotts left the Army as a tech Corp after serving in the Pacific.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Surprised. I thought Das Limpet was in the Navy.

Posted by: Henry Limpet at September 21, 2024 11:59 PM (CV8a5)

292 For decades presidential candidates have attended the Al Smith dinner in NYC to raise money for charity and roast each other right before Election Day. Even Hillary showed up and took and gave shots with Trump.

This is the first year since 1984 one candidate has turned down the invitation and it isn't Trump.

Ads and media polls are meaningless. Watch what the candidates do.

https://tinyurl.com/w5axctff

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2024 11:59 PM (LkLld)

293 I just played the Norm Macdonald joke. Wife muttered Oh My God.

I laughed hard. He was one of a kind.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at September 21, 2024 11:59 PM (Ad8y9)

294 Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey

Prayers for your safety
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 21, 2024 11:57 PM (mT+6a)
-

Thanks. People taking incoming up north now. I'm heading out the door now. l8r

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 21, 2024 11:59 PM (3Y5XB)

295 The equinox happens at 12:43 Zulu, so that point will be fairly close to the prime meridian to the west.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 21, 2024 11:04

The spy Alexa tells me that summer ends in Dixon IL at 7:48 am. It's obvious here as it's been hot and dry, just saw my first field of soybean picked around here.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 22, 2024 12:00 AM (55Qr6)

296 Krusteaz is good stuff, if you can find it.
I like the whole wheat variety but it is hard to come by.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 22, 2024 12:00 AM (MeG8a)

297 (okay, I admit it, I like to watch 'Murdoch Mysteries').
Posted by: RickZ


I'm on Season 10. You can see the woke creeping over the shitty acting in like Season 7. ( holy hell, are the bad Canuckistanian actors in that thing )

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 22, 2024 12:01 AM (IG4Id)

298 I mean, it's crazy talk,
--
No it isn't.

Posted by: John Nash at September 22, 2024 12:01 AM (XeU6L)

299 270 publius,

Thank you, again. You explain complicated things in a way that makes it easier to understand. Not trying to insult you but you should have been a teacher.

I saw a video today that was something new to me about a math problem/game/I don't know what called 'Kaprekar's constant'. It involves the number 6174, 'a perfect number'. If you take any number with four digits not the same, and rearrange them so you have the largest number (7641) and the smallest number (1467). If you subtract the smaller from the larger, up to 7 iterations later, you will get 6174 (= 7641 - 1467) and go no further. No one knows why. I find stuff like this interesting, a window into how a human mind can work.
Posted by: RickZ at September 21, 2024 11:45 PM (gKDq2)
________
Surely it's not a function of "how a human mind can work", but of math itself. At least, base 10. But it's not subjective, which it would be if it were just a matter of how we think. I don't see how some other species would get a different answer.

Posted by: Eeyore at September 22, 2024 12:02 AM (1bNHn)

300 >John Wayne died in 5 movies I believe.

That is more than I would have guessed.

Of course the greatest death in cinema history was in Executive Decision. 20 minutes in, bam! Steven Segal dies, and everyone realizes that this will not be a Steven Segal movie.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 22, 2024 12:02 AM (lhenN)

301 Bunker buster on S. Lebanon bolt hole.Someone very important just met their maker.

https://tinyurl.com/2fcsk64u

Posted by: 13times at September 22, 2024 12:02 AM (chQtS)

302 My coolest are George Halas and Mike Ditka.
Posted by: hart at September 21, 2024 11:40 PM (Xm9IS)
____

I have a baseball that had been autographed some years earlier by the 1964 dodgers, including don drysdale, sandy koufax et al., that was given to me by Duke Snider after I took a round of batting practice on a semipro team that was run by a friend of his.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 22, 2024 12:02 AM (YqDXo)

303 Krusteaz was the pancake mix of choice in my childhood. The local grocery stores all sell it here.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 22, 2024 12:03 AM (rwehq)

304 No Democrat from here ever is.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 21, 2024 11:51 PM (RIvkX)


I agree with you on that point. I saw that with the Newsom-DeSantis debate. Newsom came across as cocky for no particular reason other than 'he's Gavin Newsom and you're not'. But policies and consequences and such? Forget about it.

Posted by: RickZ at September 22, 2024 12:03 AM (gKDq2)

305 >> Does it have any practical value? Doing checksums, maybe?

The internet tells me it has some practical uses in cryptography.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 22, 2024 12:04 AM (w6EFb)

306 My hope is they underestimate how biggly folks go for President Trump and realize nobody's gonna go for 110% turnout in 25 districts.
Posted by: Some Rat

Obama pulled off that turnout in 25+ precincts in Philly vs Romney having ZERO votes in same...
... counterpoint, it was against Romney.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 22, 2024 12:05 AM (/lPRQ)

307 I think only one of John Wayne’s movie characters died - The Cowboys?

Posted by: 13times at September 22, 2024 12:06 AM (chQtS)

308 Oh that's a shame.

>>@BehizyTweets
BREAKING: The 9th Circuit Court just ruled against Democrats by overruling the lower court judge who blocked an Arizona election integrity law that made it a felony to forward mail-in ballots to people who live elsewhere. It's now REINSTATED!

https://tinyurl.com/6m9hxjh6

Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2024 12:06 AM (LkLld)

309 Jay Leno was better than Letterman as late night host.The cultural elites at the time wouldn't acknowledge it.

Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 12:07 AM (Xm9IS)

310 How should one ring out the autumnal equinox?

A barn burner in Boulder.?

Posted by: Pete Bog at September 22, 2024 12:10 AM (VcR2N)

311
Oh, shoot, I just saw with one of my astro programs, I missed the "shortest day" in terms of apparent solar time. Sept. 16 (may have been closer to the 15, since this is a leap year). 24 hours - 21s.

I was mixed up, thinking it happened after the equinox. The other local minimum happens near vernal equinox, but after. The fall side happens before.

All the interesting astro-gnomonical happenings are due the tilt of the earth's axis relative to the ecliptic, and the eccentricity of the orbit, relative to the definition of solar time.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 22, 2024 12:10 AM (w6EFb)

312 Cracker Barrel's buttermilk pancake mix is hands down the best, and you can easily make any amount by just adding water.
Posted by: Miley

Pfffft!

Krusteaz mix for the win. Water is the only addition.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 21, 2024 11:47 PM (WXNFJ)

Snoqualmie Falls pancake and waffle mix takes the title.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 22, 2024 12:11 AM (WuJwx)

313 ...Krusteaz mix for the win.


Seconded.

And, try their Blueberry Muffin Mix.

The blueberries are actual BLUEBERRIES in their own juice, sealed into a steel can, 'bout 1/2 the size of a can o' tuna.

Mix that up and bake it, and the only way to improve on it, would be to have hand-picked your own blueberries from a short drive to your kitchen.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at September 22, 2024 12:11 AM (kQgoX)

314 Does it have any practical value? Doing checksums, maybe?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 21, 2024 11:57 PM (qqgHw)


You know, that's the thing. It's little math things like this 'Kaprekar's Constant' that leads to who knows where. Maybe a fun dead alley. Maybe something else. I see it as the human mind being human, investigating, questioning, wondering, exploring and using math to do it. Just look at The Golden Ratio of The Fibonacci Numbers. Who knew it was everywhere until the math explained it?

Posted by: RickZ at September 22, 2024 12:12 AM (gKDq2)

315 >>>Krusteaz. Just got back from my local store & none of their biscuits or pancakes are "just add water". During black outs or fun times 'just add water' will be a OK. Or, as you say, good anytime.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 22, 2024 12:12 AM (3wBQK)

316 Trump told a rally in Wilmington, NC today that one of the reasons he won't do another debate is "because I'm winning."

I sure hope he has reliable information to that effect, which is not available to the general public, because... I can see no evidence of it.


Are you concerned?

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 22, 2024 12:12 AM (mH6SG)

317 And that someone here has a living connection to Bob Hope is unreal."

When Omar Bradley died, my mom asked me to go with her on the metro to Arlington Cemetery, to pay respect (dad served under him in Europe).
We rode over, and walked up the hill to stand on the outskirts of the crowd, and saw the limos still unloading the VIPs
Bob Hope and his wife (approximately 4 feet tall apiece and 4000 years old) got out and passed maybe 10 yards from us, as they were guided to the seating area.
—------
The lovely missus Guevara and I were in Lucid airport when all broke loose as Mubarak showed up, surrounded by troops wielding automatic weapons. We were less than 15 feet away from him as he arrived and walked through the crowd.

I guess they weren't worried about Western tourists.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 22, 2024 12:14 AM (YqDXo)

318 Nobody believes she would come out guns blazing if someone broke into her house. Not to mention she has the real Secret Service guys guarding her 7x24.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 21, 2024 11:21 PM (LkLld)

*****

You’re probably right, but don’t underestimate the number of powerful or wealthy anti-gun liberals who own guns. They’re against the poors having guns; the rules they want for others never apply to them.

See also:
- rich liberal tax cheats
- leftists who praise public schools while sending their scion to $40k /yr private schools “because, actually, they’re *more* diverse than the public schools..”
- every guy I’ve ever known who turned out to be a date rapist or wife-beater was a passionate feminist
- etc..

Posted by: Lurker at September 22, 2024 12:15 AM (FC8SQ)

319 Late to the ONT because I was watching KSU play BYU. Hate to be in the KSU locker room at halftime.

Looks dire. Fumble and interception returned for BYU scores.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2024 12:15 AM (u82oZ)

320 @165 How long has the 4473 been in use?

Required under terms of the GCA 1968, but may not have been in general use until about 1971. Harris was seven years old then.

@200 I'm pretty sure the seller keeps that. That's right.
So, some seller has a record of her purchase.

I'm sure America waits with bated breath to find out what she carries.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 22, 2024 12:15 AM (zdLoL)

321 Leno in the eighties was a top level stand up comedian. Lenos legacy so far outstrips the cipher Letterman.

Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 12:16 AM (Xm9IS)

322 Lucid ---> Luxor

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 22, 2024 12:16 AM (YqDXo)

323 Jay Leno was better than Letterman as late night host.The cultural elites at the time wouldn't acknowledge it. Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 12:07 AM (Xm9IS)


Leno was a late night HOST.

Letterman was a late night PROPAGANDIST & AGITATOR.


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at September 22, 2024 12:16 AM (kQgoX)

324 I have a baseball that had been autographed some years earlier by the 1964 dodgers, including don drysdale, sandy koufax et al., that was given to me by Duke Snider after I took a round of batting practice on a semipro team that was run by a friend of his.

Very cool. Duke Snider was a boss.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 22, 2024 12:17 AM (mH6SG)

325 Surely it's not a function of "how a human mind can work", but of math itself. At least, base 10. But it's not subjective, which it would be if it were just a matter of how we think. I don't see how some other species would get a different answer.
Posted by: Eeyore at September 22, 2024 12:02 AM (1bNHn)


What I'm saying is there is a creativity within the human mind, as evident throughout the centuries (just look at Heron of Alexandria). Other species may not have put a premium on creativity as part of their survival history. Humans can be clever little bastards, possibly galactic rats if you will. But you could be right, too.

Posted by: RickZ at September 22, 2024 12:17 AM (gKDq2)

326
There are many historical examples of math that was discovered long before there was any practical use to it. Something that seemed like very abstract pure math that had no use.

Differential geometry is a big example. Seemed to be nothing but abstract math of curved spaces in higher dimensions. Then Mr. Einstein came along with General Relativity, and that is nothing but differential geometry.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 22, 2024 12:19 AM (w6EFb)

327 I'm sure America waits with bated breath to find out what she carries.
Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 22, 2024 12:15 AM (zdLoL)

Well, we know she packs a Willie Brown cockholster.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2024 12:19 AM (qqgHw)

328 @307 He dies in The Shootist.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 22, 2024 12:19 AM (zdLoL)

329 Deplorable Jay, the only time I've been in an everyday-type setting with rifles was when I was in Acapulco in the 80s, and the street corner cops in the hotel district near the bay were teenagers with rifles.

Posted by: barbarausa at September 22, 2024 12:21 AM (enw9G)

330 Very cool. Duke Snider was a boss.
Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 22, 2024 12:17 AM (mH6SG)

And a very nice guy. I was a punk of 16, and while I knew he was a famous ball player I didn't realize quite how famous and so I was kind of underwhelmed when he handed me that baseball. After my father died, and I was going through his things, I found the baseball and couldn't believe my eyes.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 22, 2024 12:22 AM (YqDXo)

331 I think only one of John Wayne’s movie characters died - The Cowboys?
Posted by: 13times at September 22, 2024 12:06 AM (chQtS)

He also dies at the end of Sans of Iwo Jima, and in the Alamo.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 22, 2024 12:24 AM (VNX3d)

332 He also dies at the end of Sans of Iwo Jima, and in the Alamo.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 22, 2024 12:24 AM (VNX3d)


SPOILER ALERT

Everybody dies in the Alamo.

Posted by: RickZ at September 22, 2024 12:25 AM (gKDq2)

333 Deplorable Jay, the only time I've been in an everyday-type setting with rifles was when I was in Acapulco in the 80s, and the street corner cops in the hotel district near the bay were teenagers with rifles.
Posted by: barbarausa at September 22, 2024 12:21 AM (enw9G)


You should have been in Berkeley in the 1970s. During riots the Alameda County sheriffs used to walk up and down Telegraph Avenue with shotguns. Coming home from the lab one night, I made a wrong turn onto Telegraph Avenue and ended up looking down the muzzle of a shotgun. Excuse me officer I'll just go this other way thank you very much.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at September 22, 2024 12:26 AM (YqDXo)

334 I believe John Wayne also died in "Sands of Iwo Jima."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 22, 2024 12:27 AM (VoAz3)

335 >>You’re probably right, but don’t underestimate the number of powerful or wealthy anti-gun liberals who own guns. They’re against the poors having guns; the rules they want for others never apply to them.

I don't doubt for a second that leftists, this crew isn't liberals they are closer to marxists, lie as easy as normal people breathe. But I'd be shocked to learn this fuckstick even knows which end of a gun bullets come out.

She lies about everything, even unimportant things. Nobody really likes her, they just like that she isn't Biden and hate Trump. She can't even do puff ball interviews without screwing the pooch and has to bus people to her rallies where she alternates between sounding like Aunt Jemima and Charo.

She's always been a dunce and a fraud. Every time she opens her mouth an angel loses its wings. Tulsi destroyed her 2020 bid in less than 2 minutes. It's not about ads or debates or any normal political race dynamics, it's all about overcoming the cheat.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2024 12:27 AM (LkLld)

336 I happened to be at Arrowtown, Nz - an old gold mining boomtown with a very narrow main street thoroughfare - and QEII went walking past not 15 feet from all of us gawkers.

It’s a beautiful mountain location - with chic tourist trap stores.

Posted by: 13times at September 22, 2024 12:27 AM (Dyy84)

337 Humans can be clever little bastards, possibly galactic rats if you will. But you could be right, too.
Posted by: RickZ
---------

If I've never mentioned it, this fellow's uncle built, and lived next door to my house, his mother ran a little gift shop a mile away. 18 year-old drop-out:

t.ly/SvlLe

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2024 12:28 AM (XeU6L)

338 I finished recovering the bottom of the driver's seat for my '99 Suburban. Used a pre-sewn vinyl cover bought from amazon. It fit very well, and the color match is near-perfect. Some minor wrinkles. And I can cut patches out of the old bottom cover to fix rents in the backrest. It will never look like new, but it won't have gaping holes, so big improvement. The job was quite easy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2024 12:28 AM (qqgHw)

339 307 I think only one of John Wayne’s movie characters died - The Cowboys?
Posted by: 13times at September 22, 2024 12:06 AM (chQtS)

His character dies at the end of The Shootist too.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 22, 2024 12:29 AM (VSht7)

340 Well, this has been a long day. I did a SOTA activation which consisted of a lot of driving and very little hiking. Then I had to put together a new bed frame for the kiddo. The furniture was made in Vietnam, and the instructions were written by someone whose English left much to be desired. Even worse, the illustrations were all wrong, so I ended up having to tear it apart and put it back together contrary to the diagram. I'm exhausted and going to bed soon. Sleep well, Horde.

Posted by: PabloD at September 22, 2024 12:29 AM (ixVVY)

341 She's always been a dunce and a fraud.
--------

Harris was selected not nominated.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2024 12:29 AM (XeU6L)

342 Everybody dies in the Alamo.

Spoiler spoiler:
1953 Budd Boetticher: Glenn Ford is...
The Man from The Alamo

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 22, 2024 12:29 AM (zdLoL)

343 I think only one of John Wayne’s movie characters died - The Cowboys?
Posted by: 13times at September 22, 2024 12:06 AM (chQtS)

He dies in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.

I think the all-time record holder for on-screen deaths is Kenny McCormick.

Posted by: Lurker at September 22, 2024 12:30 AM (FC8SQ)

344 343 Does Liberty Valence actually count? He didn't die on screen, and it was natural causes, not a gunfight.

Posted by: tankdemon at September 22, 2024 12:32 AM (VSht7)

345 Hello?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at September 22, 2024 12:33 AM (QGaXH)

346 Jim, Leno before he hosted the Tonight Show was a great stand up comedian. Probably one of the top ten ever. Letterman didn't have any track record like that. He was always a bitter and angry pos.

Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 12:33 AM (Xm9IS)

347 I remember when the National Guard was in DC during the 1968 riots.
All the bridges were blocked into town, and dad had a pass to go to his business.
Some blocks of DC have never been fully rebuilt.
When they closed off the Capitol in DC Dec 2020, my husband and I were on our way to a medical procedure near Union Station.
Just as we got to the foot of the Roosevelt Bridge and were waiting for the light to go down Constitution, a semi full of jersey barriers and soldiers pulled into the intersection and started blocking access.
We went up 23rd to cut across town, and every time we tried to get back on track, there were soldiers blockading anything that headed back toward the center.
We ended up following a bus with a Union Station manifest down Massachusetts avenue, and juking around from there.
Getting back out of the city after was a peach and a half

Posted by: barbarausa at September 22, 2024 12:33 AM (enw9G)

348 Noted. Other than True Grit, I’ve not seen any of those JW films in 30 years.

Posted by: 13times at September 22, 2024 12:33 AM (Dyy84)

349 Letterman in the mid 80s was hysterical.

Posted by: nurse ratched at September 22, 2024 12:34 AM (xK2Dd)

350 It's not about ads or debates or any normal political race dynamics, it's all about overcoming the cheat.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2024 12:27 AM (LkLld)

Yep. And, sadly, I don’t think the GOP has done enough on that front. They’re still trying to push through last-minute election integrity initiatives that should’ve been done three years ago. (Or, better yet, a century ago.)

Posted by: Lurker at September 22, 2024 12:34 AM (FC8SQ)

351 I have forbade my wife from buying this adulterated crap which is called butter in a tub. The only selling point is that you can scoop it out. It is crap.
Just buy pure butter in a stick and leave it out at room temperature in a butter tray.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 22, 2024 12:35 AM (MeG8a)

352 There are whole fan sites devoted to John Wayne's characters dying. He dies in 9 films, and in the background story of five others. He was practically in Sean Bean territory.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 22, 2024 12:35 AM (zdLoL)

353 319 Late to the ONT because I was watching KSU play BYU. Hate to be in the KSU locker room at halftime.

Looks dire. Fumble and interception returned for BYU scores.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 22, 2024 12:15 AM (u82oZ)

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

Losing to the Zoobs should result in the Walk of Shame punishment.

Shame, KSU! *rings bell* Shame!

(Running Ute here.)

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 22, 2024 12:36 AM (rwehq)

354 it's all about overcoming the cheat.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2024 12:27 AM (LkLld)


'The margin of fraud' used to be dark humor. Now that the cheat is being openly talked about, that's a good thing. It's not a conspiracy that there were shenanigans in the wee hours that November morning in 2020 in a small number of jurisdictions within pivotal states. The Dems, for all their bleating, know they need the Electoral College. So it's back to the 'cheat big by cheating selective' strategy again. They don't need Kamala to open her mouth at all to do that as they did it last time with Basement Bye-den, but he had the COVID-1984 cover which Kamala does not. So maybe they can pull off this monkey pox thing yet. Or maybe WWIII.

Posted by: RickZ at September 22, 2024 12:38 AM (gKDq2)

355 Put flash paper in the in box and remote light it.
Posted by: Braenyard

I need flash cubes.
Does the flash paper store carry those too?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 22, 2024 12:38 AM (/lPRQ)

356 There was a music credit on a raunchy comedy that I had a hard time finding until now. The Michael Jackson version, Bless You (For Being an Angel) is hugely different so I did not recognize. The artist doesn't ever work in this 1950s bubblegum mode unfortunately.

https://youtu.be/0dDStR0Tuus?feature=shared

Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 22, 2024 12:39 AM (lhenN)

357 >>Yep. And, sadly, I don’t think the GOP has done enough on that front.

We'll see. I just posted a court decision from Arizona that Republicans won today regarding mail in ballots. There have been significant changes in Georgia including an oversight board targeting Fulton County but these things usually illicit yawns and then screams of "nothing is happening!".

Trump supporters now control the RNC after decades of uniparty control and they are active in many states including swing states like PA. There is a lot of stuff happening even if the corrupt media doesn't report it. It turns out Trump actually isn't an idiot and knows at least as much as a bunch of morons on the internet about election rigging. Who knew?

Let's hope it's enough.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2024 12:41 AM (LkLld)

358 Didn't know it when I got there but Mexico was having some problems. A couple of newspapers had been bombed. There were young men in crisp uniforms walking in pairs, one with a shotgun, the other with a rifle. There were also similar men observing from the roof tops. All in all they were quite pleasant.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 22, 2024 12:42 AM (3wBQK)

359 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 22, 2024 12:28 AM (XeU6L)

"By 1944, when he was only 20, his place in cryptologic history had already been secured with his immeasurable contributions to the Venona Project."

Yeah, well, that'll do it. 20. Not the same as in town.

Posted by: RickZ at September 22, 2024 12:42 AM (gKDq2)

360 All the interesting astro-gnomonical happenings are due the tilt of All the interesting astro-gnomonical happenings are due the tilt of the earth's axis relative to the ecliptic, and the eccentricity of the orbit, relative to the definition of solar time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 22, 2024 12:10

I love you coomments but it's lat and this is strating to sound like Kamalaese to me...

when we embrace the joy of all the interesting astro-gnomonical happenings under Willie's pants due to the tilt of the earth's axis relative to the ecliptic, and the eccentricity of the orbit, around his lovestick relative to the definition of solar time, I was raised in a middle class home.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 22, 2024 12:43 AM (55Qr6)

361 Alice in Chains was better.

Yeah, musically, and Layne actually had a slightly better voice, but Alice got a little mononotous with the relentless "I'm miserable and going to die" theme and Cobain had an idiot savant capability to write great hard pop and the general word salad lyric quality made the same sort of theme not so overbearing.

Posted by: azjaeger at September 22, 2024 12:44 AM (3/XaG)

362 Michael Jackson in music was better than Elvis.

Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 12:44 AM (Xm9IS)

363 Flash paper was popular in the late 60s. There were 'fun shops' or 'magic shops' that sold all sorts of interesting things.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 22, 2024 12:45 AM (3wBQK)

364 I think the Fighting Seabees was the first movie where Wayne bought the farm. He ran a bulldozer into a oil storage tank to stop a Japanese attack.

Posted by: Beartooth at September 22, 2024 12:45 AM (WuJwx)

365 Hopefully, we'll win control of the legislative and gubernatorial offices in PA, MI, and WI sometime in the near future and this time, enact laws that return those states to voting same day with voter ID, voter rolls which are cleaned a month before the election and no voters added to them after this point, and nothing but paper ballots which are counted after the polls close by election judges and observed by partisan and non-partisan observers, no exceptions.

I'd be happy to get these three states to do this though by no means should it only be these three states that should do this.

Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 22, 2024 12:45 AM (rwehq)

366 "All in all they were quite pleasant."

Somewhere I have a picture of myself standing next to one of those young boys, as he grins shyly.

Posted by: barbarausa at September 22, 2024 12:45 AM (enw9G)

367 Michael Jackson in music was better than Elvis.
Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 12:44 AM (Xm9IS)

He was an annoying freak who made shitty music. And a pedo.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2024 12:45 AM (qqgHw)

368 362 Michael Jackson in music was better than Elvis.
Posted by: hart
---------------------

Technically, yes.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 22, 2024 12:46 AM (3wBQK)

369 Flash paper was popular in the late 60s. There were 'fun shops' or 'magic shops' that sold all sorts of interesting things.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 22, 2024 12:45 AM (3wBQK)

Flash paper is basically nitrocellulose, like smokeless powder. I remember nitrating toilet paper to make it.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2024 12:47 AM (qqgHw)

370 Letterman didn't have any track record like that. He was always a bitter and angry pos.
Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 12:33 AM (Xm9IS)


I remember Letterman's first syndicated tv show, sometime in the late '70s-early '80s. It was 1-1/2 hours in the morning, something like 10 a.m. to 11:30, with Rich Hall among other comedic regulars.

I think Letterman was always tv, starting with his first job as an Indianapolis tv station weather guy (at the same station with Jane Pauly).

Posted by: RickZ at September 22, 2024 12:49 AM (gKDq2)

371 Michael Jackson at his best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DQJPL9Yuq0

Posted by: Braenyard at September 22, 2024 12:50 AM (3wBQK)

372 He was an annoying freak who made shitty music. And a pedo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2024 12:45 AM (qqgHw)

Pedo sure. Shitty music? Don't think Elvis did anything original.

Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 12:50 AM (Xm9IS)

373 I don't ask you for much, Lord, but please remove this burden from me.

>>The White Sox (36-119) matched the AL mark set by the 2003 Detroit Tigers, who finished 43-119. One more defeat for Chicago over its final seven games would equal the post-1900 record of 120 losses by the 1962 expansion New York Mets, and two more would set the new record.

Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2024 12:53 AM (LkLld)

374 Pedo sure. Shitty music? Don't think Elvis did anything original.
Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 12:50 AM (Xm9IS)

Elvis was first and foremost a performer. I think he might have songwriting credits on a few of his songs, not sure. But his manager was sharp enough to ensure that he covered songs by the best songwriters of the era.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2024 12:54 AM (qqgHw)

375 Don't think Elvis did anything original.
Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 12:50 AM (Xm9IS)]


He got censored from the hips down on Ed Sullivan.

Posted by: RickZ at September 22, 2024 12:54 AM (gKDq2)

376 ...Michael Jackson in music was better than Elvis.
Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 12:44 AM (Xm9IS)



No. Not even close.

Jackson didn't need to be Better than Elvis. He only needed to be Better than The Colonel. And was.

Elvis musiced rings around Jackson. Gospel albums. American Trilogy. Vegas Residencies. Before there ever was such a thing.

Elvis sang wih the voice and range of a mature and soulful MAN. Jackson sang with the voice of the pre-adolescent kid he'd rented from their parents, the night before.

Respect: Jackson could SING. And PEFRORM. And ENTERTAIN.

Perhaps it's that last attribute that had you mix him up with Elvis, there?


Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at September 22, 2024 12:54 AM (kQgoX)

377 >> love you coomments but it's lat and this is strating to sound like Kamalaese to me...

It's truly the significance of the passage of time.

And, as far as the solar system goes, things are very much burdened by what has been. It's called causality.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 22, 2024 12:55 AM (w6EFb)

378 George Carlin - hippy dippy weatherman

Dave Letterman - jackass weatherman

Posted by: Braenyard at September 22, 2024 12:56 AM (3wBQK)

379 Elvis, and Michael Jackson?
Why not. After all, they were related.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at September 22, 2024 12:56 AM (zdLoL)

380
There's maybe some Venn diagrams that could be drawn about all this, too.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 22, 2024 12:57 AM (w6EFb)

381 Is it possible that some of these last minute challenges and changes to the fraud have been so that the cheaters have less time to adapt to them? Say they were counting on running ballots through the machines over and over again in Fulton County, but now with less than 2 months to go, that strategy appears to be thwarted with the hand count verification. They may still find a way around it, but it would have been much easier with a 2 year head start.

Posted by: Caradoc at September 22, 2024 12:58 AM (T3HGz)

382 One more defeat for Chicago over its final seven games would equal the post-1900 record of 120 losses by the 1962 expansion New York Mets, and two more would set the new record.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2024 12:53 AM (LkLld)


I'm sure Casey Stengel is watching. At least his team had the expansion excuse what with Marvelous Marv Throneberry at first.

Posted by: RickZ at September 22, 2024 12:59 AM (gKDq2)

383 Flash paper is basically nitrocellulose, like smokeless powder. I remember nitrating toilet paper to make it.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
-------------------------------

Wooo Hooo

Posted by: Braenyard at September 22, 2024 12:59 AM (3wBQK)

384 My laundry is going to stay out on the line overnight. Still kind of damp. If we have a sunny morning, it should be dry by noon, because the clothesline is on the east side of the house.

And if it rains, I guess I can take it in wet, and throw it in the dryer.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2024 12:59 AM (qqgHw)

385 It turns out Trump actually isn't an idiot and knows at least as much as a bunch of morons on the internet about election rigging. Who knew?

Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2024 12:41 AM (LkLld)

I confidently told people that in 2020. I’m praying and pulling for him, but the Republican Party could eff up a wet dream, even with Trump.

Posted by: Lurker at September 22, 2024 12:59 AM (FC8SQ)

386 They may still find a way around it, but it would have been much easier with a 2 year head start.
Posted by: Caradoc at September 22, 2024 12:58 AM (T3HGz)

Good point. Get inside their OODA loop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2024 01:01 AM (qqgHw)

387 Is it possible that some of these last minute challenges and changes to the fraud have been so that the cheaters have less time to adapt to them? Say they were counting on running ballots through the machines over and over again in Fulton County, but now with less than 2 months to go, that strategy appears to be thwarted with the hand count verification. They may still find a way around it, but it would have been much easier with a 2 year head start.
Posted by: Caradoc at September 22, 2024 12:58 AM (T3HGz)


Sheer luck.

Repubs aren't that conniving/conspiratorial/Machiavellian (except when it comes to their base).

Posted by: RickZ at September 22, 2024 01:02 AM (gKDq2)

388 Still going with Jackson. Better original performer. Presley didn't write any of his hits.

Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 01:02 AM (Xm9IS)

389 Meanwhile, in Ukraine:
1. The Ukrainians have destroyed two more ammo depots, far behind the front lines and deep into Russia. Perhaps this will show Washington how providing (and operating) long range missiles would be successful in stopping the Russian logistic system. Or perhaps Washington will loudly announce that the Ukrainians are doing fine on their own, and won't need any help in that area.
2. Zelensky is scheduled to visit Scranton, PA, for a photo op at the only US plant that makes essential 155mm artillery shells. To quote Han Solo, "I have a bad feeling about this."

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at September 22, 2024 01:02 AM (VoAz3)

390 He was an annoying freak who made shitty music. And a pedo.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon


Should really check out Raz0rfist's vid on the topic. Might be enlightening considering the current lawfare environment.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at September 22, 2024 01:03 AM (IG4Id)

391 Still going with Jackson. Better original performer. Presley didn't write any of his hits.
Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 01:02 AM (Xm9IS)

Neither did Sinatra. My lawn...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2024 01:03 AM (qqgHw)

392 Presley didn't write any of his hits.
Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 01:02 AM (Xm9IS)


Neither did Placido Domingo.

Posted by: RickZ at September 22, 2024 01:05 AM (gKDq2)

393 she alternates between sounding like Aunt Jemima and Charo.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2024 12:27

One of the best descriptions of a middle class girl, a truly authentic Indian-American, raised in Canada, prosecutor of drug dealers, border czar sub in for the senile Brandon she has been insisting was competent.

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 22, 2024 01:06 AM (55Qr6)

394 And if it rains, I guess I can take it in wet, and throw it in the dryer.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2024 12:59 AM (qqgHw)

Um maybe just put it in the dryer now lol

Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 01:06 AM (Xm9IS)

395 My neighbor just called me to tell that their car had been broken into and their garage door opener had been taken.
Please go over to their house and disable the garage door.
Which I can do, since I have a key.
I get there and find some zombies trying to get in.
I am armed with a flashlight and a gub.
Now they are gone and my neighbor's house is secured.
I am old and basically DGAF.
Mess with me and mine at your own risk.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 22, 2024 01:07 AM (MeG8a)

396 Damn. I didn't expect a Presley versus Jackson discussion How absurd.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at September 22, 2024 01:07 AM (mH6SG)

397 I confidently told people that in 2020. I’m praying and pulling for him, but the Republican Party could eff up a wet dream, even with Trump.

Trump's team took over the RNC a few months ago. Election integrity was their top issue. Or as the AP reported

>>The RNC is launching a massive effort to monitor voting. Critics say it threatens to undermine trust

When leftists are whining it's a good thing. Again, no guarantees because leftists can't win without cheating but this is not 2020 when the RNC did nothing to try and keep elections fair.

https://tinyurl.com/tzfdkwnp

Posted by: JackStraw at September 22, 2024 01:08 AM (LkLld)

398 Neither did Placido Domingo.
Posted by: RickZ at September 22, 2024 01:05 AM (gKDq2)

"Singer-songwriter" became a thing in the 60's and later, because for many years prior, songwriters were not singers, and singers were not songwriters. Always a few exceptions.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2024 01:08 AM (qqgHw)

399 393 she alternates between sounding like Aunt Jemima and Charo.
Posted by: JackStraw
---------------------------

Good thing she's not as smart.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 22, 2024 01:09 AM (3wBQK)

400 Um maybe just put it in the dryer now lol
Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 01:06 AM (Xm9IS)

Electricity costs money. The Sun is free.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2024 01:10 AM (qqgHw)

401 Sinatra and Presley wrote zero hits. Jackson wrote many. ???

Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 01:10 AM (Xm9IS)

402 Sheer luck.

Repubs aren't that conniving/conspiratorial/Machiavellian (except when it comes to their base).
Posted by: RickZ at September 22, 2024 01:02 AM (gKDq2)

I imagine you are correct, at least a significant portion of it is luck given who was running the RNC until a few months ago.

But I do wonder if there has been some sense of strategy behind the timing of some of this. Since Trump put his folks in charge, there seems to be more sense of purpose and strategy with the fraud issue in particular.

Posted by: Caradoc at September 22, 2024 01:10 AM (T3HGz)

403 Don't think Elvis did anything original.

Not sure how much Elvis himself had to do with it, but the original Sun Studios stuff pretty much defined rockabilly. After that he was a commercial animal although he had a great voice

Posted by: azjaeger at September 22, 2024 01:11 AM (3/XaG)

404 Gubs, sometimes, are like talismans and the little demons just run away.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 22, 2024 01:13 AM (3wBQK)

405 A garage door opener is a big security risk.
Go to the glove compartment, find vehicle registration, address, insurance, etc.
Go to address. Open the door like you live there.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 22, 2024 01:16 AM (MeG8a)

406 Now all I can think about is how Elvis' daughter married Michael Jackson, and just how freaking weird that is.

Posted by: PabloD at September 22, 2024 01:18 AM (ixVVY)

407 Enough excitement for tonight.
Good night!

Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 22, 2024 01:18 AM (MeG8a)

408 Sinatra and Presley were performers. Jackson was the best to date singer songwriter performer.

Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 01:19 AM (Xm9IS)

409 I really don't want anything out of the Ukrainian thing except for it to stop before the idiots make something much worse out of it. The leadership of Ukraine are Globo Homo puppets and I don't want them to "win" or stay in power. Putin is no friend but he's not Globo Homo either and he is NOT going to overrun Europe. It's like Iran vs Iraq in the old days except there was no real danger of WW3 breaking out over it.

Posted by: azjaeger at September 22, 2024 01:20 AM (3/XaG)

410 A garage door opener is a big security risk.
Go to the glove compartment, find vehicle registration, address, insurance, etc.
Go to address. Open the door like you live there.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at September 22, 2024 01:16 AM (MeG8a)

Maybe Mossad could start a side hustle selling "loaded" garage door openers. You buy one, carry it in your car, and thieves steal it, and your house address fro the registration docs. They cruise over to your house, and come withing range of the coded radio in your garage. They push the "open" button, the radio in the garage sees the code from the loaded remote, and sends back the detonate code. Kaboom! Video cam for the lulz.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2024 01:21 AM (qqgHw)

411 Now all I can think about is how Elvis' daughter married Michael Jackson, and just how freaking weird that is.
Posted by: PabloD at September 22, 2024 01:18 AM (ixVVY)


Lifestyles Of The Rich And Famous.

Way beyond the understanding of us mere peasants.

Posted by: RickZ at September 22, 2024 01:23 AM (gKDq2)

412 Now all I can think about is how Elvis' daughter married Michael Jackson, and just how freaking weird that is.
Posted by: PabloD

Dangling Baby over the balcony
Whoo Hoo

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 22, 2024 01:24 AM (/lPRQ)

413 I never put anything in my glove box. Cops love to look in there when you fish that stuff out. Besides the ease of it being stolen.
Gloves, flashlight, map that's it. I'm overtime y'all have good evening with crossbows v longbows.

Posted by: Braenyard at September 22, 2024 01:26 AM (3wBQK)

414 Night, Braenyard.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2024 01:28 AM (qqgHw)

415 Well, 2330 here, and it's time for me to hit the sack, too.
Night, Horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 22, 2024 01:30 AM (qqgHw)

416
I've noticed that with my (thankfully few) dealings witht the local sheriff deputies. They will snoop and look for anything, even if you're the "victim", calling them for help.

They look for anything that might be illegal given the chance.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 22, 2024 01:30 AM (w6EFb)

417 Putin after a three year stalemate in Ukraine is going to roll into Western Europe like the Wehrmact in 1939.

Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 01:31 AM (Xm9IS)

418 The 'concerns' are the nukes Russia has. I suspect, like our nukes, Russia's nukes are in need of repair and upgrade. It's one thing to blow them up, it's another to get it to the correct target. All the brain power to do that have retired or died. And no, Russia is not going to roll into Western Europe. Western Europe will kill itself without any help.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at September 22, 2024 01:34 AM (EweRc)

419 Peeking in

Posted by: Skip at September 22, 2024 01:40 AM (fwDg9)

420 I never put anything in my glove box. Cops love to look in there when you fish that stuff out. Besides the ease of it being stolen.
Gloves, flashlight, map that's it. I'm overtime y'all have good evening with crossbows v longbows.
Posted by: Braenyard

Three things in your glove box cops will wonder about.

Gloves, flashlight, map

I'll go next -
Starter fluid (ether), rags, 5-50 cord

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 22, 2024 01:43 AM (/lPRQ)

421 Listen up all you Red Neck MAGA Homo's out there in Faggot Land.

I banged more Quif in Nam, Boinked more LBFM Poontang in Bangkok on Leave, and chowed down on Filipino Snapper at The Fire Empire in Manila, and F88ked more Billy Boys at the Club Yobo on Guam then all of you F**k Stains put together...,,,

So listen to a real man and vote for Kumala!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Tim Walz at September 22, 2024 01:43 AM (/1UO6)

422 The 'concerns' are the nukes Russia has. I suspect, like our nukes, Russia's nukes are in need of repair and upgrade. It's one thing to blow them up, it's another to get it to the correct target. All the brain power to do that have retired or died. And no, Russia is not going to roll into Western Europe. Western Europe will kill itself without any help.
Posted by: Puddleglum

US used to do regular testing by sending MIRV to Kwajalein. Very accurate. If they have done it in the last twenty years and if the actual warheads pop is another question.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at September 22, 2024 01:49 AM (/lPRQ)

423 Michael Jackson in music was better than Elvis.
Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 12:44 AM (Xm9IS)
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By a nose.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 22, 2024 01:49 AM (3Y5XB)

424 What is the name of the long haired guy (voting specialist) who works for Trump? Driving me nuts, cannot remember.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at September 22, 2024 01:52 AM (WvGHv)

425 Michael Jackson in music was better than Elvis.
Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 12:44 AM (Xm9IS)
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By a nose.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 22, 2024 01:49 AM (3Y5XB)
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Obligatory:

https://youtu.be/HTNfP5Bxjuw

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 22, 2024 01:53 AM (3Y5XB)

426 That Provo genius award winner sounds like he might be a sovereign citizen. Telltales are: representing himself, invoking the Constitution, accusing an official (specially a judge) of going against the oath of office, accusing people of treason when obviously not knowing the actual definition of treason.
Not mentioned are a few favorites such as challenging jurisdiction, asking if it is a Common Law or Maritime Law court and trying to make the judge a trustee of the defendant's apparent estate/trust so that the judge has to dismiss the case).

Posted by: Ciampino - is not bonded at September 22, 2024 01:56 AM (qfLjt)

427 GM Plans Layoffs of Two-Thirds of Workers at Kansas Factory

https://tinyurl.com/2a3w8f4p

Why? No Mexican factories it could shut down?
A thought: do our automakers push EVs in the Third World? Charging them would be dicey.

Posted by: Ciampino - horse-pulled vehicles? at September 22, 2024 02:03 AM (qfLjt)

428 What is the name of the long haired guy (voting specialist) who works for Trump? Driving me nuts, cannot remember.
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at September 22, 2024 01:52 AM (WvGHv)
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Scott Presler.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 22, 2024 02:03 AM (3Y5XB)

429 There are many historical examples of math that was discovered long before there was any practical use to it. Something that seemed like very abstract pure math that had no use.

Knot theory.

Now used in designing medical polymers.

The Insane Math Of Knot Theory
Veritasium

https://www.youtube.com
/watch?v=8DBhTXM_Br4

Posted by: Adriane the Just Sayin Critic . . . at September 22, 2024 02:04 AM (TX4bP)

430 EdmundBurkesShade, Scott Presler.

Posted by: rhomboid at September 22, 2024 02:05 AM (GcNJ2)

431 Thanks

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at September 22, 2024 02:06 AM (WvGHv)

432 Bunker buster on S. Lebanon bolt hole.Someone very important just met their maker.

https://tinyurl.com/2fcsk64u
Posted by: 13times at September 22, 2024 12:02 AM (chQtS)
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Occurred at least over 12 hours ago. No news from that time onward on a VIP casualty. Dunno if it was a bunker buster or simply a hit on a weapons cache but the visible shock wave at the start of the clip is awesome!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 22, 2024 02:08 AM (3Y5XB)

433 GM Plans Layoffs of Two-Thirds of Workers at Kansas Factory

Posted by: Ciampino - horse-pulled vehicles? at September 22, 2024 02:03 AM (qfLjt)


Trump's fault. And so is the coming recession. Oh, and if WWIII breaks out before the election, Trump's fault, too. His rhetoric's hired assassins to not kill himself! (Just make it look good. Splattered brains? Wrong ones but good enough.)

Posted by: RickZ at September 22, 2024 02:08 AM (gKDq2)

434 Trump turned me into a newt !!!!

Posted by: Dirty Faced Peasant #2 at September 22, 2024 02:10 AM (TX4bP)

435 Goodnight, Horde, I have been lurking for a while.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 22, 2024 02:10 AM (Sgq8y)

436 Trump turned me into a newt !!!!
Posted by: Dirty Faced Peasant #2 at September 22, 2024 02:10 AM (TX4bP)
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And I felt pity for Kermit Jagger!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 22, 2024 02:11 AM (3Y5XB)

437 The Insane Math Of Knot Theory
Posted by: Adriane the Just Sayin Critic


That sounds like it belongs in an Abbott & Costello routine.

"It's knot theory."

"It's not?"

Posted by: mikeski at September 22, 2024 02:17 AM (DgGvY)

438 "It's not?"
Posted by: mikeski at September 22, 2024 02:17 AM (DgGvY)
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"Yes, it's not."

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 22, 2024 02:27 AM (3Y5XB)

439 And he says, “Yes! We have no bananas …”

Posted by: Greek Fruit Store Owner . . . at September 22, 2024 02:35 AM (TX4bP)

440 438
It's coming out of your nose too.

Posted by: Ciampino - It's knot, it's not, it's snot at September 22, 2024 02:35 AM (qfLjt)

441 Tim Walz giving his full-throated endorsement of Trump-Vance was NOT what I had on my bingo card for this weekend.

https://tinyurl.com/k7yzjnkz

Posted by: Ciampino - It's knot what you think at September 22, 2024 02:40 AM (qfLjt)

442 Posted by: Tim Walz at September 22, 2024 01:43

I think it is funnier than snot that the Dems are trying to portray Tampon Timmy as the Midwestern Man. In our humble little town, HOMETOWN TO RONALD REAGAN, any politician who acted like Timmy would have been committed to the Dixon State School, fomerly for epileptics, then for mentally challenged.

Now it's a prison for criminals, maybe like those that aid and abet Chinese Communists?

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 22, 2024 02:50 AM (55Qr6)

443 Who could have predicted this?!

https://tinyurl.com/mvy4kuxd

Posted by: Ciampino - A golfer would say it's par for the course at September 22, 2024 02:53 AM (qfLjt)

444 This poor girl was gang raped by multiple 'Middle Eastern migrants', all of whom walked free from court.

https://tinyurl.com/a63t8u6h

Posted by: Ciampino - tire irons for the miscreants and judge etc. at September 22, 2024 02:56 AM (qfLjt)

445 I think it is funnier than snot that the Dems are trying to portray Tampon Timmy as the Midwestern Man. In our humble little town, HOMETOWN TO RONALD REAGAN, any politician who acted like Timmy would have been committed to the Dixon State School, fomerly for epileptics, then for mentally challenged.

Now it's a prison for criminals, maybe like those that aid and abet Chinese Communists?
Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 22, 2024 02:50 AM (55Qr6)


Why not? Kamala's a straight-shooting, no-nonsense prosecutor, which is significant because it signifies nothing but a lie.

Posted by: RickZ at September 22, 2024 02:57 AM (gKDq2)

446 That sounds like it belongs in an Abbott & Costello routine.
"It's knot theory."
"It's not?"
Posted by: mikeski at September 22, 2024 02:17
---
We had an experience the other night, true story, not a Joe "true story".

Me: You should watch Jesse Watters tomorrow night, he's doing a segment on Poof Daddy, since you've been following that crap.

J: Diddy?

Me: No, it's tomorrow night.

J: Diddy?

Me: NO, it's tomorrow night.

J: DIDDY?

Me: NO, it's TOMORROW...

OMG, we both started dying laughing

Posted by: Farmer, with his own historical take at September 22, 2024 03:12 AM (55Qr6)

447
Okay, now I'm reading about knot theory. Fascinating.

This is quite a rabbit hole of complexity.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 22, 2024 03:27 AM (w6EFb)

448 Okay, now I'm reading about knot theory. Fascinating.

This is quite a rabbit hole of complexity.
Posted by: publius


Gonna keep you tied up for a while?

Posted by: mikeski at September 22, 2024 03:54 AM (DgGvY)

449 Dyslexics of the World, UNTIE !!!

Posted by: Adriane is Easily Confused . . . at September 22, 2024 04:37 AM (TX4bP)

450 Pixy’s up and has better things to do then decide if two knots are not the same knot …

Posted by: Adriane is Easily Confused . . . at September 22, 2024 04:41 AM (TX4bP)

451 388 Still going with Jackson. Better original performer. Presley didn't write any of his hits.
Posted by: hart at September 22, 2024 01:02 AM (Xm9IS)

TayTay writes all her own music.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 22, 2024 05:05 AM (Rbu5d)

452 The formerly 79-cent loaf of store-brand bread now sells for $1.99. This increase, in just the last 3 years. FJB.
Posted by: JQ at September 21, 2024 10:16 PM (njWTi)

I have a plan to stop all this illegal price gauging!! Oh, its all Trump's fault!

Posted by: Chuckles McKneepads at September 22, 2024 08:13 AM (iODuv)

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