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Sometimes I've Believed As Many As Six Impossible Things Before The ONT
Hello everyone! Anybody feel like a little light reading?
A Smart Military Blog
Everything you need to know about US Navy submarinesEver since the Turtle was used to try to breach the British blockade during the Revolutionary War, the U.S. Navy has continued to pursue submarine technology and its advancement. Submarines are a vital part of America’s defense, along with many other allied nations. The U.S. officially entered the underwater world of warfare after purchasing the USS Holland (SS-1) in 1900. It was commissioned on Oct. 12, 1900. John Holland designed the USS Holland, which was used for experimental purposes during its 10-year career. When World War I kicked off, the threat of submarines existed, but it was not prevalent due to the early stages of developing submarine manufacturing and technology. At the time, the Navy had 11 different classes of submarines that used a combination of diesel-electric propulsion systems. The diesel-electric submarines were a step up from the previous steam-powered submarines, though the British Royal Navy’s K-class submarines used in WWI were steam-powered. Submarines played a minor part in WWI’s overall warfare.Interesting that they skipped Hunley. I get that it was a CSA boat, but it might at least get a mention. Anyhow, learn all about bubbleheads at the link. Secular Religion
In the battle for America’s soul, every issue is theological
Whether we’re dealing with shamans, witch doctors, or neurosurgeons, no other ethic on this planet will ultimately treat you as anything more than a number. Each according to his abilities, each according to his needs — you’re reduced to a formula or a slogan. But you are certainly not seen as a child of God, and that will not be tolerated.
We’ve lied to ourselves for far too long about our role in this con as Americans. The truth is simple, even if it isn’t easy: Every issue is a theological issue. Every choice humans make is an expression of worship. All of it.
“Secular” doesn’t exist. The people who sold secularism to you are now openly proving that the lie was the point all along. They are demonically intent on replacing the old-time religion with a new one. And as they looked from man to pig and pig to man and back again, they couldn’t tell the difference. This is how it always ends. Something will always rule, and something will always be worshiped. There is no way around those two iron laws of creation. So will it be the lie of accommodation, the lie of neutrality, the lie of co-existence? Or will it be the truth?
If you need to get comfortable with something, why not try the truth for once?
IME, most people who call themselves athiest simply have something else that fills the role of religion in their life. It may be ego, it may be technology it may be authority, but their relationship with whatever it is is no different that a Christian's elationship with God. Sabotage
Biden Is Totally Trying to Sabotage the Harris-Walz Campaign
Remember when Biden announced — by tweet on a Sunday afternoon! — that he was completely voluntarily and freely of his own strong will dropping out of the race? And how a couple of hours later he finally remembered to announce that, oh yeah, he's also endorsing Harris?Nothing I've ever seen from Biden tells me that he has any loyalty to anyone but himself.
If that sequence of events, from the Obama-Pelosi cabal forcing him out to his slow-rolled endorsement, didn't leave a bitter taste in Biden's mouth, it's only because he can no longer remember the flavor. And what does Biden care, really, who the next president is? He knows his legacy is the first incumbent president to get forced off his reelection ticket by a cabal of party insiders who were more powerful than a sitting president. And, given Biden's mental and physical decline, that's not really a subject for debate. Besides, the Biden crime family got a good four years of looting the treasury, Jill got to play-act as POTUS, and Hunter will almost certainly get his pardon.
For a mid-wit schemer with no talents aside from cheap demagoguery and expensive graft, that's not such a bad way to go out. Still, there is that little matter of Biden's prickly ego. Harris is all but running as the challenger to Biden's record, such as it is, with her "new way forward" BS. She dropped him and all "their" accomplishments faster than Usain Bolt fired out of a cannon attached to a Falcon 9 rocket. So if Biden somehow manages to deny Harris his reelection prize with backhanded compliments like that one on The View, could you blame him?
Doooooom Economic Collapse In Slow Motion
Commercial real estate bears a disproportionate share of the city’s fiscal burden. As those values decline dramatically, the short-term fix will be increasing residential property taxes. That will reduce residential real estate values, and drive more upper-income residents out of the city. Which could turn into a financial death spiral. Why are Minneapolis’s problems so acute? Because of crime. Formerly a low-crime city, the George Floyd riots and accompanying attacks on law enforcement have caused a dramatic increase in the rate of serious crime. That has caused businesses, as well as individuals, to avoid the city. With leases continuing to expire, there is no reason to think the downward trends have bottomed out. The City of Minneapolis, meanwhile, is exploring ways of redeveloping George Floyd Square in a manner that will, in the mayor’s words, “honor the life of George Floyd, and point toward a more equitable future.” Somehow, I don’t think that is the focus that the city needs if it is to recover economically.I'm pretty sure that sometime in the next 4 years, we're going to have a 1929 style business collapse, and the party in power will take the blame.
I'll Take The Hash Browns
Nearly Automatic for the People: The Great American Story of Waffle House
Folks needing food when they are tired, or working odd hours, or on a budget, or just want something familiar have been finding such comfort at Waffle House for over 60 years now, in good times and bad, all hours of the day, every day. “It is indeed marvelous. An irony-free zone where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts, for everybody regardless of race, creed, color, or degree of inebriation is welcomed,” Anthony Bourdain narrated over his own first experience at Waffle House for his TV show Parts Unknown. The man whose oeuvre became eating anything with anyone anywhere just had to get in on the scattered, smothered, and covered cultural institution, in this case in Charleston, South Carolina. “Its warm yellow glow, a beacon of hope and salvation, inviting the hungry, the lost, the seriously hammered all across the South to come inside, a place of safety and nourishment. It never closes. It is always, always faithful, always there for you.”
FEMA does indeed use the “Waffle House Index" to determine the severity of natural disasters. Today I saw a picture from Florida of a Waffle House boarded up tighter than a bank vault. Stay safe, Florida 'rons and 'ettes.
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Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2024 09:52 PM (Cbio9)
Posted by: Lurking Cheshirecat at September 26, 2024 09:52 PM (w3u3d)
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Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2024 09:55 PM (Cbio9)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 26, 2024 09:55 PM (PDf99)
youtu.be/sx9SVAtMkJM
Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2024 09:56 PM (gKWVE)
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Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2024 09:57 PM (BkEzK)
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2024 09:57 PM (TDvv2)
IME, most people who call themselves athiest simply have something else that fills the role of religion in their life.
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- Government
- Themselves
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2024 09:58 PM (BkEzK)
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2024 09:58 PM (TDvv2)
Posted by: French Toast at September 26, 2024 09:59 PM (fk9Tb)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2024 10:00 PM (JkO4W)
Yep.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 26, 2024 10:00 PM (FnneF)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2024 10:00 PM (Cbio9)
Posted by: Zombie Patton at September 26, 2024 10:00 PM (vJiyU)
Sitting on the porch, drinking a beer, listening to cicadas and crickets. It's quite nice.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 26, 2024 10:00 PM (/Djer)
Posted by: mindful webworker - Over the Edge at September 26, 2024 10:01 PM (ks21X)
Restart of my live cam from Tallahassee
https://tinyurl.com/59676zf6
live X feed; 902 views so far
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:01 PM (CEzQx)
Does thst mean it will be a safe space for thugs to assault pregnant women?
Posted by: French Toast at September 26, 2024 10:02 PM (fk9Tb)
Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at September 26, 2024 10:02 PM (TEy0v)
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2024 10:02 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 26, 2024 10:02 PM (gDlxJ)
Nurse my dear...the CATS are for their VOODOO religious sacrifices.
Dogs and geese from the local parks are for food.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2024 10:02 PM (TDvv2)
Posted by: Beverly at September 26, 2024 10:02 PM (Epeb0)
Posted by: Lusitania at September 26, 2024 10:02 PM (naKkV)
Hoo-boy. The author has quite obviously never read a true history of U-Boat operations in WW1 and the Royal Navy's desperate efforts to counter the U-Boats.
Posted by: Gref at September 26, 2024 10:02 PM (aBgBM)
All moslems. All communists. All trannies. All Democrats in government, whether appointed or "elected." All illegals here in the US. And the ongoing threat that I may snap my fingers at any time, at any place, whenever it might please me...and you'd better hope you're not in my target.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at September 26, 2024 10:03 PM (CHHv1)
IME, most people who call themselves athiest simply have something else that fills the role of religion in their life.
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For anyone with even a modest understanding of cosmology or the process of protein synthesis, its just as much a leap of faith to deny the existence of a creator as it is to endorse it.
On the other hand, you stupid uninformed people, you're good.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2024 10:03 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2024 10:03 PM (QzINz)
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On his way to France, Gramps didn't think so.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 26, 2024 10:03 PM (JTy/n)
Posted by: TRex at September 26, 2024 10:04 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 10:04 PM (WXNFJ)
Looking at the Wunderground personal stations around Greenville, FL, I'm starting to see a few barbs on the wind flags....
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2024 10:04 PM (w6EFb)
youtu.be/sx9SVAtMkJM
Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2024 09:56 PM (gKWVE)
You'll dance to ANYTHING by The Cure.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 26, 2024 10:04 PM (FnneF)
Posted by: Nightwatch
I think they sprang it early because they were afraid they would run out of baby oil by October.
Posted by: French Toast
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Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital Sep 25
As the Biden/Harris administration comes to an end, reminder that they drained the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, risking national security for short-term political gain, and will now leave office without ever refilling it…
Lowest level in ~40 years.
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 12h
The Harris plan to refill the Strategic Petroleum Reserves with the baby oil confiscated from Diddy is on target.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:04 PM (CEzQx)
So you're going to make it a safe place to assault women and OD on illicit drugs? And you'll pay for it with counterfeits?
Posted by: GWB at September 26, 2024 10:05 PM (DDSgs)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 26, 2024 10:05 PM (hOUT3)
That's total bullshit.
I think subs sank more ships in WWI than in WWII.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 26, 2024 10:06 PM (d9fT1)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 26, 2024 10:00 PM (Cbio9)
Got off the phone with my Mom in Sarasota a little while ago, rain and wind, but not even tropical storm, much less hurricane level, where she is. (About 30 mph winds.) Helen stayed west, but the panhandle is gonna get pounded.
Posted by: French Toast at September 26, 2024 10:06 PM (fk9Tb)
Describing 2024 sounds a lot like what crazy bible thumping Christian conspiracy theorists were talking about in the 90s doesn't it?
Hell in the 90s even gay activists thought "gay marriage" was a stupid idea and now if you don't embrace it you can't work at a big company anymore...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:06 PM (oZhjI)
https://www.youtube.com/live/XTnlp7qrTYg?si=ws2SJpi4ffYScHEm
Posted by: Beverly at September 26, 2024 10:06 PM (Epeb0)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTnlp7qrTYg
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at September 26, 2024 10:07 PM (JRP2U)
Gotta watch the sub thing.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2024 10:07 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2024 10:07 PM (pRpzT)
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For anyone with even a modest understanding of cosmology or the process of protein synthesis, its just as much a leap of faith to deny the existence of a creator as it is to endorse it.
On the other hand, you stupid uninformed people, you're good.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)
I asked an atheist acquaintance who believes in everything gov./"science". For a non-believer, you accept an awful lot of crap on faith."
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2024 10:07 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Beverly at September 26, 2024 10:02 PM (Epeb0)
Moron prayers are going up.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 26, 2024 10:07 PM (FnneF)
Ah. the old days.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 26, 2024 10:07 PM (+H2BX)
Posted by: davidt at September 26, 2024 10:08 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: GWB at September 26, 2024 10:08 PM (DDSgs)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 26, 2024 10:08 PM (fk9Tb)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2024 10:08 PM (awTae)
Vmom, are you still here?
Posted by: OrangeEnt at September 26, 2024 10:08 PM (0eaVi)
Revelation 12:7
And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought...
And the beat goes on
Posted by: mindful webworker - Over the Edge at September 26, 2024 10:09 PM (ks21X)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2024 10:09 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: GWB at September 26, 2024 10:08 PM (DDSgs)
I was wondering why he doesn't have a tool similar to those used for table saws.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 26, 2024 10:09 PM (FnneF)
There is (totally off topic) a COMET with some long name which ends in ATLA-5 that is supposed to be the BRIGHTEST COMET that we will see in our lifetimes.
Anyone?
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2024 10:09 PM (TDvv2)
Open [X]
'Mushroom' is one of the waitresses. Hard working gal - has a million one-liners and a heart of gold. The building is across an alley from a long-closed Stop and Rob'em. BUT, the canopy over the gas pump islands is reasonably intact so it serves as the local Greyhound bus stop. One bus a day at 0200.
Is there any wonder there are a thousand stories at the WH?
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 10:10 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2024 10:10 PM (63Dwl)
I asked an atheist acquaintance who believes in everything gov./"science". For a non-believer, you accept an awful lot of crap on faith."
A lot of these types will tell you it would require a grand conspiracy* among government/big science types if they aren't all giving real grounded advice and grand conspiracies are silly.
Of course then they'll tell you the current prices increases are not inflation and instead a grand conspiracy of every company that sells goods and services in the United States.
*As we saw with COVID it only took a handful of people as long as one of them, notably Fauci, has the US treasury to buy everyone else with
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:10 PM (oZhjI)
tinyurl.com/2nmmf3ew
"Kazen explains throughout the book that modern discussions about homosexuality ask questions that would never have arisen in the ancient world. ... In the ancient world, sexual acts were not expected to take place in equal relationships. ... No one, for example, considered gay marriage a possibility even if they regularly engaged in homoerotic behavior."
Posted by: gKWVE at September 26, 2024 10:10 PM (gKWVE)
How long before he's referred to as "stumpy".
Posted by: Zombie Patton at September 26, 2024 10:00 PM (vJiyU)
He's got a decent supply of Starter Peg Legs going, if he manages to get topsy turvy before screwing things up.
Posted by: GWB at September 26, 2024 10:10 PM (DDSgs)
Posted by: GWB
Yep, gonna hit a twist or knot and take one right to the face.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2024 10:10 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: pawn at September 26, 2024 10:10 PM (QB+5g)
Reynolds Museum has a fantastic collection in a very nice facility, by the way. About 2 hours by road from my home.
Posted by: Lusitania at September 26, 2024 10:11 PM (naKkV)
I was almost done eating when I realized the cook skipped the eggs.
I could have complained, but I had enough and wanted to move on
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 26, 2024 10:12 PM (+H2BX)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 26, 2024 10:13 PM (+H2BX)
I remember during the gay marriage debate it was regular for the pro side to bring up ancient Greece.
Well, homosexuality was certainly normalized in some times and in some cities in Greece "ancient" giving a whole lot of time to cover and Greece having controlled much of the ancient world at various points.
But...those gay relationships were between men and boys. What we would today call pedophilia. And that...THAT...is the model that these people believed was something we should embrace?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:13 PM (oZhjI)
Jeff Butera
@BayNews9Jeff
I’m STUNNED they have not closed the Howard Frankland Bridge in Tampa Bay.
This was the live look at 3:21 with the chop from #HurricaneHelene
Please stay off the bridge!
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:13 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: Scarecrow at September 26, 2024 10:13 PM (nRAeK)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2024 10:14 PM (naKkV)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2024 10:03 PM (JkO4W)
I am a dedicated evolutionist, and I see nothing wrong with the age of the earth, the fossil record, and even the age of the universe.
But that first step is a doozy. How we went from abiological to biological is probably best explained by the existence of God.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 26, 2024 10:14 PM (d9fT1)
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The Raws Alert guy I often cite -- especially for train wrecks video, factory fires and natural disasters -- got some video:
R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts 8h
🚨#BREAKING: We are live on the scene as The Waffle House, along with numerous other businesses, are boarded up while Hurricane Helene strengthens into a major hurricane, with catastrophic storm surge and winds expected to hit the Gulf Coast later this evening
https://tinyurl.com/2wfxmyrj
9 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:14 PM (CEzQx)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 26, 2024 10:14 PM (+H2BX)
There is (totally off topic) a COMET with some long name which ends in ATLA-5 that is supposed to be the BRIGHTEST COMET that we will see in our lifetimes.
Anyone?
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2024 10:09 PM (TDvv2)
https://shorturl.at/gUDsn
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ... Closest approach to Earth: October 12, 2024 (mag -3)
C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) ... If we’re lucky, Comet C/2024 G3 might become visible to the naked eye, even in the daytime, by January 2025
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 26, 2024 10:15 PM (FnneF)
The sheer number of things that had to go right for the Earth to develop life, let alone intelligent life, is astounding.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:16 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 26, 2024 10:16 PM (+H2BX)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:16 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: davidt at September 26, 2024 10:16 PM (i0F8b)
Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar (hOUT3) ~ This year in Corsicana - again! ~ at September 26, 2024 10:05 PM (hOUT3)
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One would think if he could rig up that splitter he could rig up a conveyor system.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 26, 2024 10:17 PM (JTy/n)
Posted by: WeirdDave
Socks? Yes
Crocs? No
Posted by: Miklos, who has never even met Garrett at September 26, 2024 10:17 PM (9LqXS)
That's total bullshit.
I think subs sank more ships in WWI than in WWII.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 26, 2024 10:06 PM (d9fT1)
The Royal Navy had all but given-up trying to decrease losses to U-Boats and sink U-Boats, until in desperation they tried something their experts said would not work: The convoy system. Before that became standard operating procedure, British, Commonwealth, and allied nation merchant ships sailed individually. Royal Navy anti-submarine vessels were searching the entire Western Approaches for U-Boats. The probability of finding a single, independent U-Boat in that expanse of water was small. The convoy system turned the tide against the U-Boats. In WW2, Great Britain instituted convoys ASAP after war was declared.
Posted by: Gref at September 26, 2024 10:17 PM (aBgBM)
Pop Base
@PopBase
Costco tells TMZ they don’t even sell baby oil after Diddy’s lawyer suggested he had 1,000 bottles because he buys them in bulk from Costco.
“None of the company’s US locations carry baby oil”
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:18 PM (TGPs7)
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Q-ships
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-ship
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:18 PM (CEzQx)
Posted by: Miklos, Darleen, Marleen and Charleen at September 26, 2024 10:18 PM (9LqXS)
So if the off-shore drilling rigs get swamped by this stupid hurricane, and gas prices skyrocket just like they did after bush & cheney's Katrina, we will have 0.0 "reserves" to add to the Supply and help meet Demand?
Posted by: Soothsayer, geology expert at September 26, 2024 10:18 PM (GjIje)
Posted by: davidt at September 26, 2024 10:08 PM (i0F8b)
That's a good site.
When I see the name, I keep thinking it's a city in Ohio, though.
Posted by: spindrift at September 26, 2024 10:18 PM (Gna12)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2024 10:19 PM (awTae)
TBH my take was always that the Greeks couldn't figure out how to work together for any length of time.
The defeated Persia with an alliance and shortly thereafter feel into an internecine war that devastated the Greek world...and followed it up with war after war after war.
Ironically "Greece" had its best chance at uniting when their hillbilly cousins in Macedon came in and forcibly made them all ally together. But Alexander didn't build anything that would last and died too young.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:19 PM (oZhjI)
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the universe had billions of years to get it right
Posted by: Don Black at September 26, 2024 10:19 PM (/7KEl)
Many people don't know it but this area was crawling with German subs in WWII.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2024 10:19 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: 18-1
Yes, the math starts getting very complicated when it's a one shot a year for a better mutation that has to go out and find the same or similar mutation, that isn't sterile. (darned hybrids)
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2024 10:19 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:13 PM (TGPs7)
I saw a post on Facebook this morning that the bridge had been closed, though, with current conditions I. The area, it might have been re-opened, but I would certainly follow your advice to avoid the bridge.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 26, 2024 10:20 PM (fk9Tb)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:20 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2024 10:20 PM (LkLld)
That's a BREAKFAST!!!
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2024 10:21 PM (TDvv2)
aka
@akafacehots
BREAKING: It's being reported that 9 surface to air missiles have entered the U.S. through a New Mexico border with the intent to target President Trump’s airplane.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:21 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: NC Ref at September 26, 2024 10:21 PM (2xCPU)
Yes, the math starts getting very complicated when it's a one shot a year for a better mutation that has to go out and find the same or similar mutation, that isn't sterile. (darned hybrids)
Even before that - what does life on earth look like if Theia doesn't impact it? Or Theia is too small? And does Earth even exist if Theia was bigger?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:22 PM (oZhjI)
aka
@akafacehots
BREAKING: It's being reported that 9 surface to air missiles have entered the U.S. through a New Mexico border with the intent to target President Trump's airplane.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:21 PM (TGPs7)
If that happened, it was allowed to happen if not encouraged to happen.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 26, 2024 10:23 PM (FnneF)
@dom_lucre
🔥🚨DEVELOPING: Hollywood comedian and actor Eddie Griffin invited Donald Trump to come on his show and told Kamala Harris he doesn't want to talk to ‘her lying ass.’
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:23 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: NC Ref at September 26, 2024 10:24 PM (2xCPU)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Looks at Helena, taps nose twice.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2024 10:24 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2024 10:19 PM (vJiyU)
Most of evolution occurred in simpler organisms that reproduce far more quickly than that. Bacteria have a typical doubling time of 18 minutes.
I think the step that requires the existence of God is the first one.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at September 26, 2024 10:25 PM (d9fT1)
That's a BREAKFAST!!!
Posted by: Nightwatch
"Living in America"
Posted by: Miklos, in Best James Brown voice and Style at September 26, 2024 10:25 PM (9LqXS)
That is such senseless danger. Look how straight the wood is! Just split it yourself.
Posted by: t-bird at September 26, 2024 10:26 PM (OkFiN)
Posted by: Gref at September 26, 2024 10:02 PM (aBgBM)
Yeah, I stopped reading right there.
Posted by: spindrift at September 26, 2024 10:26 PM (Gna12)
Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: CNN finds that Democrat-leaning children are *9 times* more likely to have extreme political opinions than Republican-leaning children.
Gee, I wonder why.
Democrat Child 1: Donald Trump, he did bad things, he's like H*tler.
Democrat Child 2: He only wanted to be president so he could just control everybody.
Democrat Child 3: Trump is supporting J6 now... they thought Trump was like a god. One officer died.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:26 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 26, 2024 10:26 PM (S6gqv)
Posted by: t-bird
This is, how you say, woman work
Posted by: the Paolo at September 26, 2024 10:27 PM (9LqXS)
Cernovich
@Cernovich
We need to normalize parents telling their teens. If you get pregnant, we’ll raise the baby. You go live your life.
Mine will understand that you can’t kill my grandkids. My ancestral line is ancient. Would also create grave spiritual harm.
I’ll be glad to raise more kids.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:28 PM (TGPs7)
RUMOR: There are reports (most recently aired on Fox News) that the Secret Service has credible intelligence that Trump Force One may be the target of an ass@ssin armed with a shoulder fired missile. As a result the Secret Service is recommending that Trump's campaign use multiple unmarked charter jets to transport the former president and campaign staff. No one from the campaign is confirming or denying these rumors/reports. DEVELOPING.
From 6:30 or so:
Shoe @samosaur 2h
Two independent sources have provided corroborating reporting to our team stating 9 surface to air missiles have entered the U.S. through a New Mexico border point of entry. The intended recipients of these weapons are 3 teams operating within the U.S. whose intent is to target President Trump’s airplane.
As Doc stated, the appropriate authorities have been notified. I’m posting this in conjunction with @DocPeteChambers post since he’s gone public with the information.
DC_Draino @DC_Draino 37m
Is this why Kamala kept the border open?
So foreign enemies could smuggle Stinger missiles into the US to take out her opponent?
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:29 PM (CEzQx)
AF Post
@AFpost
Lana Del Rey obtains marriage license to wed Trump-supporting boyfriend Jeremy Dufrene.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:29 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: Robert at September 26, 2024 10:30 PM (1Yy3c)
Went to Dennys across the way and had chicken fried steak. Pretty darn good!
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2024 10:30 PM (mc6e8)
the tanker SS Gulf Dawn, which became USS Big Horn (AO-45), ...
Posted by: Braenyard at September 26, 2024 10:30 PM (JTy/n)
@Cernovich
We need to normalize parents telling their teens. If you get pregnant, we’ll raise the baby. You go live your life.
Mine will understand that you can’t kill my grandkids. My ancestral line is ancient. Would also create grave spiritual harm.
I’ll be glad to raise more kids.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September
We need to normalize not getting pregnant as teens. But if it happens, your family loves you. We will help you in our home. We will make sure you can finish your education. You will be raising your child.
Posted by: Piper at September 26, 2024 10:30 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:31 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 26, 2024 10:31 PM (awTae)
Made in America, no smuggling necessary. We'll even set it up for you and give you the location.
Posted by: Clowns In America at September 26, 2024 10:32 PM (FHiG2)
Posted by: andycanuck
Horrified, scared, angry, demand retribution. But I'm not surprised. Not in the least.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2024 10:32 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx)
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Why smuggle them in when Boss Acronym hands them out?
Posted by: Braenyard at September 26, 2024 10:32 PM (JTy/n)
Wait What?? This is not how our Federal Department of Education is teaching our little girls.
Posted by: Planned Parenthood at September 26, 2024 10:33 PM (2xCPU)
Posted by: nurse ratched
Heh, yep, place was pretty packed in the am.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2024 10:34 PM (vJiyU)
@Cernovich
We need to normalize parents telling their teens. If you get pregnant, we’ll raise the baby. You go live your life.
Mine will understand that you can’t kill my grandkids. My ancestral line is ancient. Would also create grave spiritual harm.
I’ll be glad to raise more kids.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:28 PM (TGPs7)
Problem is most people don't want to raise their slut whore 15 year old's bastard child. You got some guy in his early 50s with his finances all nice and square ready to send kids to college and one of them fucks up he's not interested in raising another kid. He's raised his kids. He's going to enjoy life. He's buying a boat, not raising another retard. Off to the abortion clinic.
We should probably normalize parents telling their teens to just do it up the butt. It's just as fun, tighter and with occasional clenching.
Posted by: Robert at September 26, 2024 10:36 PM (1Yy3c)
What what?
Posted by: Butters at September 26, 2024 10:38 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Butters at September 26, 2024 10:38 PM (oZhjI)
Yeah, use butter. Have fun. Recreate that scene from that movie with Marlon Brando, you know the one.
Posted by: Robert at September 26, 2024 10:39 PM (1Yy3c)
RUMOR: There are reports (most recently aired on Fox News) that the Secret Service has credible intelligence that Trump Force One may be the target of an ass@ssin armed with a shoulder fired missile. As a result the Secret Service is recommending that Trump's campaign use multiple unmarked charter jets to transport the former president and campaign staff. No one from the campaign is confirming or denying these rumors/reports. DEVELOPING.
A person nowadays would be fully justified in wondering if the Iranian threats are real, or if the Junta is trying to stop Trump from flying anywhere and from holding outdoor rallies for the next 40 days.
Place your bets.
Posted by: Gref at September 26, 2024 10:40 PM (aBgBM)
Place your bets.
Posted by: Gref
Can I take "all of the above"?
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2024 10:41 PM (vJiyU)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2024 10:41 PM (naKkV)
Nicholas J. Fuentes
@NickJFuentes
If “Iran” were to successfully assassinate Trump (God forbid), then a regime change war with Iran would surely be inevitable.
Who would be the primary beneficiary of such a war? It’s hard not to draw the obvious conclusion about all of this fearmongering.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:41 PM (TGPs7)
In 72 hours, we'll be talking about all the bullshit politicization of this stupid hurricane, including lies about what Gov DeSantis did...or didn't do.
Posted by: Soothsayer, geology expert at September 26, 2024 10:41 PM (GjIje)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2024 10:42 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 26, 2024 10:43 PM (BVwxa)
🇺🇸ProudArmyBrat
@leslibless
Just as Nathan Wade was scheduled to testify before the House Judiciary, he vanishes.
U.S. Marshalls are on a manhunt looking for him.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:43 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2024 10:09 PM (LkLld)
Still assembling at Quonsett Point?
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli) at September 26, 2024 10:43 PM (gvNuh)
Nicholas J. Fuentes
@NickJFuentes
If “Iran” were to successfully assassinate Trump (God forbid), then a regime change war with Iran would surely be inevitable.
Who would be the primary beneficiary of such a war? It’s hard not to draw the obvious conclusion about all of this fearmongering.
Posted by: Mister Ghost
You do know who this fuckface is referring to, right? Nick Fuentes is likely an off-the-books Fed operative.
Posted by: Soothsayer, geology expert at September 26, 2024 10:43 PM (GjIje)
If the claim that Iranian teams have smuggled them into the US are true how is this not Biden executing an assassination?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:44 PM (oZhjI)
Yep. I don't know when you last saw it but they've built a huge new facility in the last few years to accommodate the new sub manufacturing.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2024 10:45 PM (LkLld)
Posted by: Soothsayer, geology expert at September 26, 2024 10:43 PM (GjIje)
He appears to be a Storm Fronter, at least in all but name.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2024 10:45 PM (naKkV)
He appears to be a Storm Fronter, at least in all but name.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
That's his shtick, yes.
Posted by: Soothsayer, geology expert at September 26, 2024 10:46 PM (GjIje)
U.S. Marshalls are on a manhunt looking for him.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 26, 2024 10:43 PM (TGPs7)
_________
https://youtu.be/6Orde7FtHh0
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2024 10:46 PM (BkEzK)
Nicholas J. Fuentes
@NickJFuentes
If “Iran” were to successfully assassinate Trump (God forbid), then a regime change war with Iran would surely be inevitable.
Given the anonymous cabal currently running this country, I would not bet all my quatloos on the US waging a mullah-toppling war against Iran if Iran assassinates Trump. It's saddening I feel the need to write those words.
Posted by: Gref at September 26, 2024 10:47 PM (aBgBM)
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Nuking the lizards??
https://tinyurl.com/55c96ktc
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 10:48 PM (CEzQx)
Dammit. And, the storm ain't here yet, but LOTS of rain the last two days.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 26, 2024 10:49 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Too soon ? at September 26, 2024 10:49 PM (9X60i)
Power just went out/on
Dammit. And, the storm ain't here yet
Posted by: Mike Hammer
It's the Joos.
Posted by: Nick Fuentes at September 26, 2024 10:50 PM (JsN0q)
Posted by: Too soon ? at September 26, 2024 10:49 PM (9X60i)
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When the levee breaks,
Mama you gotta move
Posted by: Robert Plant at September 26, 2024 10:50 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 26, 2024 10:51 PM (JsN0q)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 26, 2024 10:52 PM (BVwxa)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:53 PM (oZhjI)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 26, 2024 10:53 PM (QSrLX)
Fuentes was the guy Milo Y surprised Trump with right?
Posted by: 18-1
Si.
But the Joos made us do it.
Posted by: Nick Fuentes at September 26, 2024 10:54 PM (JsN0q)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at September 26, 2024 10:57 PM (QSrLX)
Since Food is so expensive to replace, a generator, today, is an investment.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 26, 2024 10:51 PM (JsN0q)
If you don't want to pay for the whole-house type that switches over automagically, you can get an electrician to install an outside plug that is compatible with the portable types - makes it *way* easier to use.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 26, 2024 10:57 PM (FnneF)
The "Neal Protocol" for shotgun home defenders.
Pump Shotgun in 12 gauge (maybe a tube extender to give you 10 rounds vs. 7.
1st round is a slug round and the rest are double ought buck "00" to scatter the rest of the home invaders that just watched their LEADER get gut in half.
Yes indeed.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2024 10:57 PM (TDvv2)
Shirley a "whole home" generator is swell, but all you need is a generator for two things:
1) your Fridge
2) your Heat
3) maybe a light or two
Lights, Stove, Hot Water, Microwave: all not necessary.
*Unless you live in an area where your power goes off for several days and the power company crews always leaves your remote area for last.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 26, 2024 10:57 PM (JsN0q)
Posted by: Soothsayer
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5 days during hurricane Ivan. 3 days with no water.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 26, 2024 10:59 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Gref
That was sorta my thought also. Kinda like how 9/11/2001 did not result in large glassy areas in the Middle East.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Over the Edge at September 26, 2024 10:59 PM (ks21X)
Posted by: Daisy Fuentes at September 26, 2024 11:00 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Beverly at September 26, 2024 10:02 PM (Epeb0)
...been praying for days, Beverly. Did you evacuate?
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at September 26, 2024 11:01 PM (Rbu5d)
Mama you gotta move
Posted by: Robert Plant at September 26, 2024 10:50 PM (JkO4W)
Fever Dog
Scratchin' at my back door
Wait, something's not right there.
Posted by: spindrift at September 26, 2024 11:01 PM (Gna12)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 26, 2024 10:53 PM (oZhjI)
It was Kanye, not Milo, who brought Fuentes as a plus one.
Posted by: tankdemon at September 26, 2024 11:01 PM (fk9Tb)
Anyone?
Posted by: Nightwatch
I keep hearing about this, but I doubt it would ever approach or exceed Hale-Bopp comet seen in 1997. That was spectacular and was in the sky for weeks.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 26, 2024 11:02 PM (tjZg/)
Another tip for generator buying: Choose an "inverter" type. They're much quieter. Honda makes the best, but very expensive.
I would avoid the chinese junk, except Harbor Freight because you *might* be able to get a real warranty with their chinese junk.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 26, 2024 11:02 PM (JsN0q)
Local TV weatherman talking about biblical level flooding up there of the French Broad river in some spots.
Apparently, it may get to 1916 flood levels, which was the record last biblical level flood event there or something.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2024 11:02 PM (w6EFb)
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IIRC, the simplest forms of life on Earth today require more than 800 proteins to function. 800 proteins each made up of 100 to 300 amino acids chained together in EXACTLY the correct order.
Even serious origin-of-life scientists have concluded that perhaps 200 unique proteins would be needed for even the most primitive no-frills form of life imaginable to reproduce.
So how do 200 proteins form spontaneously in the same place, in exactly the right orders, so life can begin?
And to make the question a little tougher, consider that proteins don't occur in nature. Life needs to produce them.
Show your work.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2024 11:02 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 26, 2024 10:59 PM (XeU6L) [i/]
8 days during the icestorm of 2000ish. No power or heat in the winter. Fireplace kept us warm enough.
Hey Hammer! Hope you're doing well I haven't been your way recently sorry.
Posted by: NC Ref at September 26, 2024 11:03 PM (2xCPU)
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It's okay; the "good" Moslem and his burqa-wearing sister will help Jack thwart the plot.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 11:03 PM (CEzQx)
Hope you all are stockpiled with all the essentials.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2024 11:03 PM (TDvv2)
Posted by: NC Ref at September 26, 2024 11:03 PM (2xCPU)
5 days during hurricane Ivan. 3 days with no water.
Posted by: Mike Hammer
Damn.
For those of you in Rio Linda, No Water = No flushie the toilet.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 26, 2024 11:04 PM (JsN0q)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2024 11:04 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 26, 2024 11:04 PM (JsN0q)
Hope you all are stockpiled with all the essentials.
Posted by: Nightwatch
I know I don't have enough beer. Crap.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 26, 2024 11:05 PM (tjZg/)
Didn't we used to have an "NCKate" here, before??
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 26, 2024 11:05 PM (JsN0q)
Remind me again why people lose Water in a storm??
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 26, 2024 11:04 PM (JsN0q)
Power outage affecting the water company and/or flooding contaminating the water?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 26, 2024 11:05 PM (FnneF)
https://tinyurl.com/yrjbn4y7
Posted by: IrishEi at September 26, 2024 11:06 PM (3ImbR)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2024 11:06 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2024 11:06 PM (63Dwl)
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We did, but rumor has it she was taken by slavers.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2024 11:06 PM (JkO4W)
I've got a bathtub filled for flushing if(when) the power goes out here.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2024 11:07 PM (w6EFb)
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IIRC, the simplest forms of life on Earth today require more than 800 proteins to function. 800 proteins each made up of 100 to 300 amino acids chained together in EXACTLY the correct order.
Even serious origin-of-life scientists have concluded that perhaps 200 unique proteins would be needed for even the most primitive no-frills form of life imaginable to reproduce.
So how do 200 proteins form spontaneously in the same place, in exactly the right orders, so life can begin?
And to make the question a little tougher, consider that proteins don't occur in nature. Life needs to produce them.
Show your work.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2024 11:02 PM (JkO4W)
Also show your work about the natural evolution of DNA replication.
Posted by: Gref at September 26, 2024 11:07 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Daisy Fuentes at September 26, 2024 11:07 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 26, 2024 11:04 PM (JsN0q)
Power grid goes down, municipal water system's pumps postpone pumpage.
*pours bourbon* ONT Greetings, Horde. CHEERS!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
(p.s. will copy/post from last nite's ONT, as to hurricanes)
Posted by: Jim at September 26, 2024 11:07 PM (kQgoX)
https://tinyurl.com/ynyszbd5
Posted by: Ciampino - I know something insults somebody somewhere sometime someday somehow at September 26, 2024 11:08 PM (qfLjt)
Power goes out, pumps don't run. For me on a well, that's the long and short of it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2024 11:08 PM (w6EFb)
(1) A babies heart:
Consider for a few moments the heart of a human baby. It is a few ounces of muscle, fat and connective tissue that has a rhythmic, self-sustaining electrical system. It consists of two separate but remarkably similar pumps, the right and left sides of the heart. It is fully formed by the 8th week of gestation, and continues to beat rhythmically, steadily and continuously for up to 100 years, without any outside help in the vast majority of instances. The stunning symmetry of the microscopic arrangement of myosin and actin protein fibers creates a highly efficient pumping machine. The delicate and yet durable valves regulate the direction of blood flow through the veins and arteries. Consider the simple mechanical elegance of this one single organ.
And then ask yourself one question...
Is there any conceivable way that this was the result of a slimy puddle of primordial goo randomly organizing with this heart as the accidental (natural selection) result?
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 11:08 PM (WXNFJ)
Remind me again why people lose Water in a storm??
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 26, 2024 11:04 PM (JsN0q)
Power outage affecting the water company and/or flooding contaminating the water?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 26, 2024 11:05 PM (FnneF)
Contamination of the water system.
Posted by: Gref at September 26, 2024 11:09 PM (aBgBM)
There is no dual use or even just a lump of flesh until the final build.
And yet the evolutionists say I believe in fairy tales.
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 11:09 PM (WXNFJ)
Funny (and maybe true) story about generators: Thieves steal generators in Florida and other places. Low-life scum drive around at night during storms while lights are off in the house (but generators are still running).
The clever thieves will bring along an old lawnmower. Wheel up to the generator, start the lawnmower to create noise, shut down generator and disconnect any cords. Load up generator and split.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 26, 2024 11:10 PM (JsN0q)
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I'll say!
https://tinyurl.com/5ext8rw7
9 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 11:10 PM (CEzQx)
Joe Biden says he is ‘proud to announce’ another $2.4 billion for Ukraine.
https://tinyurl.com/4hsbxf92
Posted by: Ciampino - it's only our money at September 26, 2024 11:10 PM (qfLjt)
Hope you all are stockpiled with all the essentials.
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2024 11:03 PM (TDvv2)
And it won't be limited to the actual event. The weeks that follow will be far worse.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2024 11:11 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: NC Ref at September 26, 2024 11:12 PM (2xCPU)
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Pffft. That's chump change. Not six months ago we were shoveling money at Ukraine in $50 billion tranches.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2024 11:12 PM (JkO4W)
Power goes out, pumps don't run. For me on a well, that's the long and short of it.
Posted by: publius
Shirley a "whole home" generator is swell, but all you need is a generator for two things:
1) your Fridge
2) your Heat
3) Well Water Pump
Fixed.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 26, 2024 11:12 PM (JsN0q)
Posted by: Ciampino - is the writing on the wall? at September 26, 2024 11:12 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 26, 2024 11:12 PM (FnneF)
Posted by: Daisy Fuentes at September 26, 2024 11:13 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
Rainwater
And grain alcohol
Power was out here too, more to come
Posted by: Gen. Miklos D. Ripper at September 26, 2024 11:13 PM (9LqXS)
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2024 11:14 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Ciampino - is the writing on the wall? at September 26, 2024 11:12 PM (qfLjt)
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If by "relationship" he means he's going to meekly shine Trump's shoes, I could support this.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2024 11:14 PM (JkO4W)
The clever thieves will bring along an old lawnmower. Wheel up to the generator, start the lawnmower to create noise, shut down generator and disconnect any cords. Load up generator and split.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 26, 2024 11:10 PM (JsN0q)
Answer to that is a power failure alarm. Some battery-powered device that starts an unholy racket if not kept silenced by a trickle of juice form the wall outlet. Add one firearm, and you are golden.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2024 11:14 PM (naKkV)
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And isn't meeting with Kamala, on purpose, because he can't fit her into his official "diary".
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 11:14 PM (CEzQx)
https://tinyurl.com/5fmdks4w
Posted by: Ciampino - what can I say, a buggy drive-by? at September 26, 2024 11:14 PM (qfLjt)
Much easier in the winter. Had it happened in the summer heat, we would've left for a hotel somewhere after 24 hours!
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at September 26, 2024 11:15 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Ciampino - is the writing on the wall? at September 26, 2024 11:12 PM (qfLjt)
Donny Two Scoops ought to tell Two-Tier Keir to eat shit and die.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 26, 2024 11:15 PM (FnneF)
Looks like this thing is making landfall or close to it.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2024 11:16 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Braenyard at September 26, 2024 11:16 PM (JTy/n)
So the dems bring in Zelensky and he bad-mouthsTrump and he is rewarded with Billion$?
How the hell is this not treason???
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2024 11:16 PM (W/lyH)
I then sniffed it and didn't smell any gas!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Kamal Harris at September 26, 2024 11:16 PM (15lwl)
The price of our baby's life? A six-pack of beer and $1k in cash, said sick Arkansas couple as they tried to offload newborn
https://mol.im/a/13894729
Posted by: Ciampino - But PP does worse! at September 26, 2024 11:17 PM (qfLjt)
https://tinyurl.com/2veyvesc
Posted by: IrishEi at September 26, 2024 11:17 PM (3ImbR)
We have two 9500 watt dual-fuel generators as well as a transfer switch so we can cut in the circuits for the AC or furnace, water well and septic. We also have a 4000 watt generator on the RV we can run lines off. We're getting an old 1500 watt generator refurbished.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 26, 2024 11:17 PM (BkEzK)
We're on a well for water, and it needs electricity to run.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at September 26, 2024 11:18 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: The Deep State at September 26, 2024 11:18 PM (JkO4W)
Much easier in the winter. Had it happened in the summer heat, we would've left for a hotel somewhere after 24 hours!
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor
Some folks would leave after 24 hours because they couldn't take the cold.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2024 11:18 PM (63Dwl)
The PM of Haiti is planning a trip to the USA to meet me and exchange Cat and Dog recipes for the Holidays.....
Posted by: Kamal Harris at September 26, 2024 11:19 PM (qpLSv)
Posted by: Cicero
'Allo Guvnah!
Fine shoes, for a Gentleman of means, let's get 'em Right Guvnah! Tuppence apiece
Posted by: Miklos in best Brit PM voice at September 26, 2024 11:19 PM (9LqXS)
Trump has posted a message from Zelensky in which he asks for an in-person meeting: "I can be in New York on Friday, which would be a good time to meet."
https://tinyurl.com/3m5apxsu
Posted by: Ciampino - Trump may ask for our money back? at September 26, 2024 11:19 PM (qfLjt)
Two points at which Divine Intervention would seem to be needed.
One, of course, is the Initial Creation of everything.
More pertinent to the current discussion, there's the sudden appearance of the original eukaryotic cell. Three and a half million years or so went by, with non-nucleated cells bobbing about with no progress, then one day, a mere 550 million years ago, boom! not just a cell with a nucleus, but packed and ready to go to blossom into all life on earth. Funny, that.
Article I read decades ago explained how, when prokaryotic cells fossilized, they looked like they had nuclei, which fooled scientists for a while into thinking life-as-we-know-it was around for billions of years. Nope. Suddenly. 550mya. Everything needed for progression of life.
[ducks for cover before the flames hit]
Posted by: mindful webworker - Over the Edge at September 26, 2024 11:19 PM (ks21X)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 26, 2024 10:59 PM (XeU6L)
11 days without power during Sandy. Have an 8KW generator. Ran the well pump, sump pump, fridge, freezer, lights, TV and the microwave. Enough for the hot water heater with other breakers shut off. And, ran the oil burner when it began getting chilly at nights. We were one of the families in the neighborhood that didn't lose any food.
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at September 26, 2024 11:20 PM (iODuv)
https://tinyurl.com/mp32su3x
What would be a suitable punishment now and/or after the election?
Posted by: Ciampino - Jail & sharing with Bubba at September 26, 2024 11:22 PM (qfLjt)
Trump has posted a message from Zelensky in which he asks for an in-person meeting: "I can be in New York on Friday, which would be a good time to meet."
https://tinyurl.com/3m5apxsu
Posted by: Ciampino - Trump may ask for our money back? at September 26, 2024 11:19 PM (qfLjt)
I wonder where they will park the C-17?
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2024 11:22 PM (W/lyH)
Tampa and Sarasota's counties shown in red; and in the 'armpit', if you follow my crude analogy, a pyramid of 8 or so counties stretching from the Gulf Coast up to Jacksonville [!] in red; as well as a couple of counties southwest of Tallahassee but maybe not Tallahassee's county itself yet.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 11:22 PM (CEzQx)
Posted by: Nightwatch at September 26, 2024 11:22 PM (TDvv2)
https://mol.im/a/13895921
Posted by: Ciampino - Hail is not just a greeting at September 26, 2024 11:23 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley
That is how I feel when Darleen is about to get off shift.
Posted by: Miklos braces himself at September 26, 2024 11:23 PM (9LqXS)
I shudder at the thought of Hurricane Darlene.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2024 11:24 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 26, 2024 11:24 PM (JsN0q)
Posted by: V. Zelensky at September 26, 2024 11:24 PM (JkO4W)
Posted by: Ciampino - Jail & sharing with Bubba at September 26, 2024 11:22 PM (qfLjt)
Dox his ass.
Posted by: Diogenes at September 26, 2024 11:24 PM (W/lyH)
https://tinyurl.com/2veyvesc
Posted by: IrishEi at September 26, 2024 11:17 PM (3ImbR)
I'll be honest, I was expecting an alligator or water moccasin to show up.
Posted by: spindrift at September 26, 2024 11:24 PM (Gna12)
Posted by: Ciampino - Jail & sharing with Bubba at September 26, 2024 11:22 PM (qfLjt)
Death by bunga-bunga.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2024 11:24 PM (naKkV)
Tilda Swinton pledges her support for war-torn Gaza at Film Festival
https://mol.im/a/13895943
Posted by: Ciampino - Hail is not just a greeting you know at September 26, 2024 11:25 PM (qfLjt)
He didn't bat an eye.
It will run just about everything in the house except the electric stove and the clothes dryer (they run on heavy 220 Volt current). It will keep our two fridges, chest freezer and upright freezer running (we have a lot of meat stored in the freezers). If we lose power, we have to get out one of the old microwaves in the basement to plug in.
We have lost power a couple of times, and it kicked right in with no interruption.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 26, 2024 11:26 PM (tjZg/)
Our pups in the TA areas had to pull their kids out of cribs and beds and take them down to the shelters.
Almost 6:30AM and I'm tired.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 26, 2024 11:26 PM (n+Gtf)
― G.K. Chesterton
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 26, 2024 11:26 PM (cw9q7)
https://mol.im/a/13894921
Posted by: Ciampino - and we agree at September 26, 2024 11:27 PM (qfLjt)
Also nice to have: a Wet/Dry vac.
Posted by: Soothsayer
A wet/dry vac is one of the great advances of Western Civilization.
Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at September 26, 2024 11:27 PM (tjZg/)
https://mol.im/a/13895921
Posted by: Ciampino
Shocking!!
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 11:27 PM (WXNFJ)
Could be. I run hot, and to me, a down comforter and a quilt at night, and long sleeves with a jacket if needed during the day, was fine. But the heat and humidity is impossible to escape.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at September 26, 2024 11:28 PM (Vvh2V)
Gen for the well, fridge. The rest is coleman lanterns and stove.
Posted by: Some Rat at September 26, 2024 11:28 PM (vJiyU)
I'm watching one of the storm chaser feeds and there are a surprising amount of people out driving around in this.
The storm didn't seem that bad so far.
This thing is a recipe for ongoing disaster with tornados and flooding though.
Posted by: pawn at September 26, 2024 11:28 PM (QB+5g)
https://tinyurl.com/3pfxzanu
Posted by: Ciampino - and that's why we reject you at September 26, 2024 11:28 PM (qfLjt)
JUST IN - Keir Starmer to meet with Trump to "establish a relationship," but fears he can't meet with Kamala due to the "usual diary challenges" — Sky News
Breaking911 @Breaking911
NEW: President Trump says he will host Zelenskyy at Trump Tower Friday
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper
JUST IN - Trump: "If I were President, Russia would have never attacked Ukraine. Never. Ever.”
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper
JUST IN - Trump: "Zelensky has asked to meet with me, and I will be meeting with him tomorrow morning at around 9:45 in Trump Tower"
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 11:28 PM (CEzQx)
F*ck Ukraine.
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 26, 2024 11:29 PM (oKE5c)
Tilda Swinton pledges her support for war-torn Gaza at Film Festival
https://mol.im/a/13895943
Posted by: Ciampino - Hail is not just a greeting you know at September 26, 2024 11:25 PM (qfLjt)
She'd make a freight train take a dirt road.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2024 11:30 PM (naKkV)
-----------------------------
The stuff of nightmares.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 26, 2024 11:30 PM (JTy/n)
“The agricultural department just approved two companies to sell chicken grown in steel tanks, grown from cells that come from an animal egg”
https://tinyurl.com/bd4yzasn
Posted by: Ciampino - Beyond cluckers at September 26, 2024 11:30 PM (qfLjt)
Posted by: Soothsayer
A wet/dry vac is one of the great advances of Western Civilization.
Posted by: A face in the crowd
I doubt that there is a word in Arabic for "Shop Vac".
Unless, of course, it is "Shop vac".
Posted by: Miklos al-Miklos at September 26, 2024 11:30 PM (9LqXS)
I'm so sorry. Our local churches have you all on 24 hour prayer.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at September 26, 2024 11:31 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Ciampino - Jail & sharing with Bubba at September 26, 2024 11:22 PM (qfLjt)
Death by bunga-bunga.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Tar, feather, and run out of town on a rough-cut rail.
Sometimes the old ways are best.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at September 26, 2024 11:31 PM (VNX3d)
Yeah, Walz is totally going to carry MN for Kamala. Totally.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 26, 2024 11:31 PM (1qrQc)
https://mol.im/a/13894729
Posted by: Ciampino
A six-pack of beer is how you got into that mess, you dopes.
Posted by: mikeski at September 26, 2024 11:32 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: javems at September 26, 2024 11:32 PM (8I4hW)
https://tinyurl.com/3pfxzanu
Posted by: Ciampino -
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Kamala and the distortionists. If they win we're in for a deep dive into the perverse.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 26, 2024 11:32 PM (JTy/n)
Posted by: Weirddave at September 26, 2024 11:33 PM (df/te)
Posted by: andycanuck
It means Brit Intel are saying "prepare for Trump 2.0"
Posted by: Miklosian Opinionatoring LLC at September 26, 2024 11:33 PM (9LqXS)
Posted by: Darrell Harris
As I saw in a political cartoon a week or so ago, my fellow Minnesotans will be voting for Kamala just to get Walz out of the state.
Posted by: mikeski at September 26, 2024 11:33 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Methos at September 26, 2024 11:34 PM (Dnobf)
=====
Breaking911 @Breaking911 5h
BREAKING: Cruise missile fired from Yemen seen being intercepted over Tel Aviv by Arrow 2 missile defense system.
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 5h
BREAKING: Israel says it has intercepted a Yemeni missile
https://tinyurl.com/44b2vpw6
16 seconds; VERY LOUD commentary.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 11:35 PM (CEzQx)
Tilda Swinton pledges her support for war-torn Gaza at Film Festival
https://mol.im/a/13895943
Posted by: Ciampino - Hail is not just a greeting you know at September 26, 2024 11:25 PM (qfLjt)
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Blecch. Even Hamas would say, "nah bro, we're good."
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2024 11:35 PM (JkO4W)
Send this link to friends who think @realDonaldTrump is racist
Insurrection Barbie
https://tinyurl.com/2s3fpebk
Posted by: Braenyard at September 26, 2024 11:35 PM (JTy/n)
Posted by: andycanuck
It means Brit Intel are saying "prepare for Trump 2.0"
Posted by: Miklosian Opinionatoring LLC at September 26, 2024 11:33 PM (9LqXS)
When Trump meets with Starmer, he should ask him about Five Eyes.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 26, 2024 11:36 PM (1qrQc)
JUST IN - Keir Starmer to meet with Trump to "establish a relationship," but fears he can't meet with Kamala due to the "usual diary challenges" — Sky News
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"Also, I've already got more brainless platitudes than they'll allow me to carry back on the plane."
-- PM K. Starmer
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 26, 2024 11:38 PM (JkO4W)
Disclose.tv @disclosetv
JUST IN - Keir Starmer to meet with Trump to "establish a relationship," but fears he can't meet with Kamala due to the "usual diary challenges" — Sky News
Lactose intolerant
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 26, 2024 11:38 PM (63Dwl)
For example, imagine having to borrow a word for "train station". To make it worse, you just grab the most famous example of such in a foreign (more advanced) country and use its proper name. "Vokzal" = "Vauxhall".
Of course, we have "tsar" and "ukaz".
Posted by: rhomboid at September 26, 2024 11:38 PM (GcNJ2)
Tilda Swinton pledges her support for war-torn Gaza at Film Festival
https://mol.im/a/13895943
Posted by: Ciampino
She'd make a freight train take a dirt road.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
"Tilda" sounded cute 50 years ago when you were a teenager. Go back to "Matilda" so people know what to expect.
Also, eat a sammich. You passed "slender" 4 exits ago. That's "gaunt."
Posted by: mikeski at September 26, 2024 11:38 PM (DgGvY)
Important note about cheapo generators: Everything appliance today has "electronics" in it, and those electronics are delicate and cheap and they are made by chinese children.
"Dirty" electricity can ruin components on circuit boards (PCB's). Cheap generators will output "dirty" power and wildly fluctuating Voltage. A good generator will produce a nice, clean consistent Sine Wave.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 26, 2024 11:39 PM (JsN0q)
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I opined elsewhere that the UK and maybe Ukraine were doing their own accurate polling and preparing for Trump winning too.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 11:40 PM (CEzQx)
Posted by: javems at September 26, 2024 11:40 PM (8I4hW)
Posted by: Braenyard at September 26, 2024 11:40 PM (JTy/n)
Tilda Swinton pledges her support for war-torn Gaza at Film Festival
https://mol.im/a/13895943
Posted by: Ciampino
She'd make a freight train take a dirt road.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
She long ago declared herself a Communist and for a while (maybe not lately) felt the Democrat Party wasn't left wing enough.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 26, 2024 11:42 PM (elaR+)
https://tinyurl.com/3pfxzanu
Posted by: Ciampino - and that's why we reject you at September 26, 2024 11:28 PM (qfLjt)
Is it just me, or has Knee-Pads been slowly going left in her messaging the past 10 days?
Posted by: Gref at September 26, 2024 11:43 PM (aBgBM)
Well, a personal weather station I was watching near Big Bend went offline about 12 minutes ago.
Last readings were wind speed around 60mph, and gusts 75.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 26, 2024 11:43 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 11:35 PM (CEzQx)
-
Well, we broke it 6 hours ago.
We also broke this yesterday afternoon:
https://tinyurl.com/6ewxujst
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 26, 2024 11:44 PM (n+Gtf)
About double in price over what it was before Covid/Biden disaster hit us but somewhat down from the $100 high.
Posted by: Sasquatch, the Original Trans-Wookie at September 26, 2024 11:45 PM (+BmjP)
#Breaking @USCG Air Station #Clearwater saved a man & his dog, Thurs., during Hurricane #Helene after his 36-ft sailboat became disabled & started taking on water approximately 25 miles off Sanibel Island. Call the #USCG for help on VHF Ch. 16 or dial 911 for storm distress. #SAR
https://tinyurl.com/3b7m9jy8
great photo
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 26, 2024 11:46 PM (CEzQx)
Posted by: Ciampino
She'd make a freight train take a dirt road.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Also, eat a sammich. You passed "slender" 4 exits ago. That's "gaunt."
Posted by: mikeski
Oh and that dress!! How gay!!
-- George Takei
Posted by: Tonypete at September 26, 2024 11:46 PM (WXNFJ)
Trump seems to be losing badly.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 26, 2024 11:46 PM (LkLld)
For example, imagine having to borrow a word for "train station". To make it worse, you just grab the most famous example of such in a foreign (more advanced) country and use its proper name. "Vokzal" = "Vauxhall".
Of course, we have "tsar" and "ukaz".
Posted by: rhomboid
Viele bier zum Hauptbahnhof
Posted by: Miklos von un zu Miklostein at September 26, 2024 11:47 PM (9LqXS)
Mark Cuban is not dumb. If you see an elite of his stature regularly debasing himself on behalf of an evil regime, it’s for one of two reasons:
1. He has a MAJOR financial interest he needs their help with.
or
2. He’s being blackmailed by them.
Posted by: Braenyard at September 26, 2024 11:48 PM (JTy/n)
I don't know what Trump gets out of meeting with Starmer. Public display that Trump is still a very important leader, I guess.
Starmer's foreign minister is a real Trump-bashing POS, btw. F him especially.
Posted by: mnw at September 26, 2024 11:50 PM (NLIak)
Tilda Swinton pledges her support for war-torn Gaza at Film Festival
https://mol.im/a/13895943
Posted by: Ciampino - Hail is not just a greeting you know at September 26, 2024 11:25 PM (qfLjt).
She portrayed the White Witch in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe movie. She was very pleased to do so because she believes white people aren't cast as villains often enough, and everybody knows white people are the real villains in the world.
Posted by: Emmie at September 26, 2024 11:52 PM (Sf2cq)
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 26, 2024 11:42 PM (elaR+)
Proof that while beauty is only skin deep, ugly goes right to the bone.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2024 11:52 PM (naKkV)
https://tinyurl.com/6ewxujst
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
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How do y'all do that with just one bomb?
Posted by: Braenyard at September 26, 2024 11:52 PM (JTy/n)
Posted by: Braenyard at September 26, 2024 11:52 PM (JTy/n)
Secondary explosions, I expect.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 26, 2024 11:53 PM (naKkV)
This is why I have the upmost admiration for the Coast Guard. If the politicians do their jobs right, the other branches really have nothing to do but train. But some dentist from Akron is always going to take a rented 27 foot Cherubini out into a cat 4 because he's had one too many at dinner. And the USCG will be there. in army, you might get shot at. In the Coast Guard, you WILL be putting yourself in harms way..
Posted by: Weirddave at September 26, 2024 11:54 PM (df/te)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at September 26, 2024 11:57 PM (LaT43)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at September 26, 2024 11:57 PM (LaT43)
Do Waffle Houses provide free wi-fi?
Posted by: Gref at September 27, 2024 12:01 AM (aBgBM)
National Hurricane Center @NHC_Atlantic 31m
11:20pm EDT 26th September -- #Hurricane #Helene has made landfall in the Florida Big Bend region at around 11:10pm EDT just E of the mouth of the Aucilla
River.
Max sustained winds at landfall were estimated at 140 mph & a min pressure of 938 mb.
https://tinyurl.com/y4uas2hk
Hurricane Center link.
Posted by: andycanuck (CEzQx) at September 27, 2024 12:01 AM (CEzQx)
I don't know the details but people here are so critical.
Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2024 12:04 AM (QB+5g)
Posted by: pawn at September 27, 2024 12:04 AM (QB+5g)
People everywhere are critical, if given the opportunity. Have you ever been on social media?
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 27, 2024 12:06 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 12:06 AM (elaR+)
A few years ago a father son team from Australia came here to buy an old racing sailboat. It was a good boat but built for buoy racing not offshore sailing and it had road hard. Son had some basic sailing experience, dad had almost no boating experience at all and he was nearly 70.
They left right in the middle of the winter to sail back to Australia from Rhode Island. Made about 150 miles offshore in a squall and the Coasties had to go rescue them while risking their lives.
That's why I say if you choose to do really stupid stuff have at it but there's a point when you are on your own. Coast Guard will come for you but they shouldn't have to risk their lives because you're a dumbass.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2024 12:07 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 27, 2024 12:08 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
I note, observe, but rarely criticize.
Wouldn't be fair.
Posted by: Blind Monk Miklos of Shaolin at September 27, 2024 12:08 AM (9LqXS)
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at September 27, 2024 12:06 AM (elaR+)
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Wingsuit anyone?
Posted by: Ciampino - Beyond cluckers really! at September 27, 2024 12:09 AM (qfLjt)
Hurricanes don't just magically appear. This storm has been know for many days.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2024 12:11 AM (LkLld)
Posted by: Miley,
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Torrential rain yesterday, some roads closed. Steady rain all day today, creeks already full, ground saturated. When the real thing gets here we're going to have some serious flooding.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2024 12:13 AM (XeU6L)
And the damn storm ain't here yet.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2024 12:16 AM (XeU6L)
Pressure is dropping here pretty good, now at 29.69" (relative/altimeter).
29.68" is the lowest since I installed this station, and that was in early August, some other system that went through.
This one is going to drop well below that.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 12:17 AM (w6EFb)
I always sort of envied people who have no awareness of possible consequences.
Posted by: Sebation Melmoth at September 27, 2024 12:18 AM (D6PGr)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 27, 2024 12:20 AM (63Dwl)
If I'm adding it up right, Asheville Regional airport has had a storm total of 9.59" as of 11:54PM.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 12:20 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 12:22 AM (naKkV)
Posted by: banana Dream at September 27, 2024 12:22 AM (Y6IkP)
I don't have a problem with taking risks. Been know to take few. But when the risks are off the charts dumb and it requires others to risk their lives to bail you out I lose all sympathy.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 27, 2024 12:23 AM (LkLld)
Twelve foot seas, eighteen miles off of Port Aransas, TX.
STEEP waves.
Skipper and I alternated fifteen minutes at the helm, in order to stave off fatigue. And gotta give the man his navigational dues. Nailed the Sea Bouy on the damn nose. And this was in the Before GPS days.
And, oh, dear LORD... did we ever hit the docks with a boatload of fish! Worth every penny we tipped the "helpers" there with the gutting and filleting.
Observation. Don't EVEN fuck with 12 ft. seas unless you're a passenger on a cruise ship. And then, even...stay away from the damn railings!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 27, 2024 12:25 AM (kQgoX)
Wonder if they'll be able to play those games, particularly Tampa. If one or both of those games are "postponed due to hurricane," I wonder what the NFL's contingency plan is?
The NFL can't simply drop those games into the Bucs' & Panthers' scheduled bye weeks, I don't think. Because their scheduled opponents for Sunday have different bye weeks.
Posted by: mnw at September 27, 2024 12:25 AM (NLIak)
Posted by: Blind Monk Miklos of Saluda at September 27, 2024 12:27 AM (9LqXS)
Amigo, my next post, I'm gonna copy from last night's ONT, what I'd posted there, but drew no response. But, it's germane to your comment, here.
Stand by, matey!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 27, 2024 12:28 AM (kQgoX)
Posted by: pawn
We are not!
.....oh, I'm sorry, this is "arguments." If you wanted abuse, that's next door in Room 12.
Posted by: mikeski python at September 27, 2024 12:29 AM (DgGvY)
Texas Storms I knew and loved.
Tropical Storm Allison. Tropical Storm Bertha. Tropical Storm Fay. Tropical Storm Bill. HURRICANE Claudette. Tropical Storm Grace.
Every storm above this sentence, I rode out while aboard the Sloop New Dawn. All storms which follow, were those that I experienced while ashore. Storms that were "near misses", such as hit Beaumont, but not Galveston, are not included in these mentions.
HURRICANE Rita. I decamped the Sloop New Dawn for that one, opting to accept a invite/request, from a family in Dayton, TX, who had zero storm experience. Ironically, the storm largely missed Galveston, and rang up a bullseye on... Dayton, TX. I did accomplish my purpose though. Those folks needed a TON of help, which I did as well as possible with the scant few tools on hand.
Having became a landlubber in 2006, then, HURRICANE Dolly. Tropical Storm Edouard. HURRICANE IKE. Tropical Storm Bill. Tropical Storm Patricia. HURRICANE Harvey. Tropical Storm Imelda. Tropical Storm Beta. HURRICANE Nicholas. HURRICANE Beryl.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX...with prayers for Helene people, all!
Posted by: Jim at September 27, 2024 12:31 AM (kQgoX)
She's up and folding clothes. Hang on.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 12:33 AM (w6EFb)
Move the games to neutral (and dry) sites. But they can't do that on such short notice, I bet.
Let all 4 teams play one less game than the other 28 NFL teams?
Posted by: mnw at September 27, 2024 12:33 AM (NLIak)
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"While in the North Atlantic, roughly 200 miles south of eastern Newfoundland, the QE2 runs into a rampaging Hurricane Luis.
While passengers are ordered to remain in their quarters, the ship’s bow is hit by a 95ft rogue wave at around 4am. From the vantage point of the bridge, the wave is akin to a large wall of water, leading Captain Ronald Warwick to comment later: “It looked as though the ship was headed for the white cliffs of Dover.”
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I had a personal conversation with Capt Warwick about this. I asked how he estimated the height of the wave, he replied, 'I was on the bridge, and had to look up at the bloody thing'. The foredeck was caved in, and had to be repaired before the return trip.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2024 12:33 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
In New Orleans, hurricane prep was-
-put mattresses against windows
-get a keg of beer
-and ice, lots of ice
Posted by: Miklos enjoyed his time in Nawlins, at September 27, 2024 12:34 AM (9LqXS)
Posted by: Blind Monk Miklos of Saluda at September 27, 2024 12:27 AM (9LqXS)
Sorry for the delay; I was putting fresh sheets on the bed.
Call me!
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 27, 2024 12:34 AM (w6EFb)
Looks like the thing is crossing the Georgia line about right now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 12:38 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at September 27, 2024 12:38 AM (LaT43)
Let all 4 teams play one less game than the other 28 NFL teams?
Posted by: mnw at September 27, 2024 12:33 AM (NLIak)
or: fail to give a shit about it altogether, since it's just sportsball.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 12:39 AM (naKkV)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 27, 2024 12:39 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 27, 2024 12:39 AM (w6EFb)
Early Beatles?
/runsserpentine
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 27, 2024 12:42 AM (kQgoX)
That's how I feel about 95% of YOUR posts, i.e., your fascinating experiences tinkering with motor vehicles.
Posted by: mnw at September 27, 2024 12:42 AM (NLIak)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX...with prayers for Helene people, all!
Ill finally get to see Galveston in a few months - a fun wedding at a fancy hotel Hopefully no hurricanes that weekend
Posted by: LASue at September 27, 2024 12:42 AM (sLuEr)
Official ASOS numbers from Perry-Foley airport:
https://tinyurl.com/295wz9ud
Wind 55G99 mph, pressure 28.01 at 23:15 EDT, right around landfall.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 12:43 AM (w6EFb)
Valdosta is getting it good now.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 12:44 AM (w6EFb)
If you'd reach me thru the email in my nic, then I'm sure that Herself New Dawn and I would be Honored to meet you n' your Mr., be it hotel bar or some suitable venue?
And, if you look up Island Breeze Shuttle, a Galveston based company, well, who knows? I might even end up being your driver from Airport to 'otel, or for the return.
*hint. read the yelp n' trip advisor reviews. we do OK!!!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 27, 2024 12:47 AM (kQgoX)
That is some Vice Presidential grade suckage on the barometer, for sure!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 27, 2024 12:50 AM (kQgoX)
Posted by: Blanco Basura -Z28.310 at September 26, 2024 11:57 PM (LaT43)
Mine too The Provider said it was a flux capacitor problem
Posted by: LASue at September 27, 2024 12:50 AM (+re4k)
Some of the stations I was watching in Valdosta have gone offline. They're dropping like flies! :-)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 12:50 AM (w6EFb)
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 27, 2024 12:50 AM (kQgoX)
I wonder what the air pressure drops to inside the funnel of a tornado?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 12:51 AM (naKkV)
Let all 4 teams play one less game than the other 28 NFL teams?
Posted by: mnw
That's what happened in 22/23, when Damar Hamlin's heart stopped. Bills and Bengals only played 16 games instead of 17.
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2024 12:54 AM (DgGvY)
Some nice things about drought. Bug count is low, especially mosquitos. If we do get a bit of rain, as we did last week, it soaks in or burns off fast. Doggeh and I can walk through the morning grass and not deal with dew. The dead lawn makes a nice crunchy sound as we walk.
Y'all down in hurricane land, we'll take some of that water. Send it our way. You can keep the tornadoes, we've got plenty of our own.
The Warden says lights out in five. Gotta go.
https://youtu.be/77ehrQDz5Tk
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Over the Edge at September 27, 2024 12:55 AM (ks21X)
Veep would say something along the lines of it would be unburdened by the suckage that was and look forward to the suckage that it could be.
Her comment would shatter the barometer.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 27, 2024 12:55 AM (kQgoX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 12:51 AM (naKkV)
An African tornado or European tornado?
Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 12:56 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: javems at September 26, 2024 11:40 PM (8I4hW)
I'll pray for you all, but I wouldn't live in that area for all the tea in China. Fuck hurricanes. Fuck tornadoes. And screw that hideous heat and humidity.
But, naturally, to each his own.
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at September 27, 2024 12:57 AM (sRfrW)
Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 12:56 AM (gKDq2)
Fully laden?
Posted by: tcn in AK, Hail to the Thief at September 27, 2024 12:58 AM (sRfrW)
The internet says a pressure of 25.10" Hg was measured by some storm chaser than dropped a probe that managed to be right in the bullseye.
Now whether that is absolute or relative I'm not sure. That was a drop of nearly 3" below ambient at the time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 12:59 AM (w6EFb)
Hurricane Nicholas? Did we have a hurricane I didn't notice, or did that one hit Florida while you were doing family stuff there?
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at September 27, 2024 01:00 AM (s9EYN)
Holy crap! He's going to lose both arms and his head before Christmas on that thing. That's fookin' foolish.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at September 27, 2024 01:01 AM (aXxgO)
I had just about forgotten what life was like before; panhandling drugged out zombies, empty storefronts, garbage everywhere, sullen paranoid passersby, and a general sense of chaos and disorder. Sydney is a reminder of what life used to be like in America.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at September 27, 2024 01:04 AM (zG664)
I almost didn't list Nicholas. It affected THE COAST, and that's about it. Galveston got about an hour of Tropical Storm winds. Surfside and Palacios got it worse.
Nothing more inland really even got more than a day's heavy rain.
Cow Pastures in Bay City, hardest hit.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 27, 2024 01:04 AM (kQgoX)
Here is a paper on that tornado event and the measurements:
https://tinyurl.com/2abw3c2e
Skimming over some of that, they had their instruments mounted on an SUV, and they wrecked in the storm. The data survived.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 01:06 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at September 27, 2024 01:01 AM (aXxgO)
That style of splitter was not uncommon back in the Depression era. Hydraulics were rare and expensive. You could make a wheel splitter from an old tractor wheel, and drive it by flat belt from your newer tractor. I believe some of the better ones had a swing or tilt table to move the round into position, so the user's hands never had to come near the blade. Safety glasses are must.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 01:07 AM (naKkV)
I don't think gas prices work like they used to. I don't know why. Remember how they would shoot up at "gulf hurricanes" and "Middle East unrest"? Got both those things and it went DOWN a dime around here.
Posted by: azjaeger at September 27, 2024 01:08 AM (3/XaG)
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Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 01:09 AM (TGPs7)
Sachin Jose
@Sachinettiyil
The funeral of 19-year-old Catholic student Philippine, who was found dead in a forest near Paris, will take place this Friday at Saint-Louis Cathedral in Versailles. The suspect in her murder is reportedly a person of Moroccan origin who was awaiting deportation from the country.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 01:10 AM (TGPs7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
* searches *
The Guinness Record for measured pressure drop in a tornado was "The Tulia Tornado" in Texas in 2007, where the pressure dropped 194 mb from ambient, from around 882 mb down to 688.4 mb. (or 0.43 Kamala.)
The report attributed 1mb of that to the "10 meter increase in elevation" of the sensor over "a 60s period."
Accurate readings are hard to come by, for obvious reasons. Storm chasers aren't quite that insane. You've gotta place the sensor and hope its right under the path.
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2024 01:11 AM (DgGvY)
Sorry, that was the wrong reference. The values there are even lower than the one I cited, and they are not sure if those numbers are accurate.
Reading that paper you seem them remarking about a "sudden increase" in elevation of the platform. That was the vehicle they had the sensors mounted on being tossed around...
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 01:11 AM (w6EFb)
Boston 25 News
@boston25
Dunkin’ offering free coffee to celebrate National Coffee Day this weekend
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 01:11 AM (TGPs7)
That's the one. I clicked on the wrong link to that one, not the one that is considered accurate. This one is still not accepted as valid, of course.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 01:13 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2024 01:13 AM (DgGvY)
Accurate readings are hard to come by, for obvious reasons. Storm chasers aren't quite that insane. You've gotta place the sensor and hope its right under the path.
Posted by: mikeski at September 27, 2024 01:11 AM (DgGvY)
I have to wonder if the standard curve of air pressure vs elevation holds inside a funnel cloud.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 01:15 AM (naKkV)
Posted by: Joe Kidd at September 27, 2024 01:17 AM (Cbio9)
Ah, yes. The White Witch. The part she was born to play.
"Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch! I was there when it was written."
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 27, 2024 01:18 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 01:19 AM (TGPs7)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 01:19 AM (naKkV)
IT's not the tornado that gets you, it's the sudden increases in elevation (and horizontal position).
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 01:22 AM (w6EFb)
He'll still be the only politician to beat Trump in the record books. Which Jill be wiping him with.
Posted by: DaveA at September 27, 2024 01:23 AM (FhXTo)
Posted by: Archer at September 27, 2024 01:25 AM (IDphi)
OSINTdefender
@sentdefender
Vahid Haddab, the Iranian Host of an Internet Program linked with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, revealed recently that Israel conducted a Covert Operation last month inside of Iran, which resulted in the Assassination of a Senior Iranian Figure and the Theft of several Important Documents. Other Iranian Media Outlets have Denied the claims, with Vahid stating that there has been a Massive Coverup of the Incident by Iranian Officials, who are attempting to Redirect Focus away from the Attack; further claiming that recent Arrests announced by the IRGC of “Israeli Agents” as well as the Questioning of some Iranian Military Officers is linked to the Operation.
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 27, 2024 01:26 AM (TGPs7)
I had the page loaded for Valdosta regional airport, and they haven't updated since 23:55 EDT. Last reading was Wind 22G40 and 29.09" pressure.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 01:26 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Archer
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Chain flails, to clear the split pieces.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2024 01:27 AM (XeU6L)
Can't really ask "just how stupid are you?" over a beacon.
Semper Paratus IIRC
Posted by: DaveA at September 27, 2024 01:28 AM (FhXTo)
Pressure here is now 29.63" (28.75" absolute). That's the lowest since I installed it. It's going to get lower by morning.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 01:29 AM (w6EFb)
Let's just say that my former Air Force friends and family (a fair number of them) are... not fans.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 27, 2024 01:31 AM (W5ArC)
According the forecast values, it should bottom at 29.06" here at 8AM. We'll see how close that prediction is.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 01:31 AM (w6EFb)
The console for this station, which has a simple barometer forecast routine built in, has noted the sharp drop in pressure, and is now forecasting heavy rain.
You don't say, you don't say.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 01:32 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 27, 2024 01:33 AM (naKkV)
Semi-serious question:
Are any of your animals howling or freaking out or hiding or acting "sketch" as the kids say?
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2024 01:40 AM (JsN0q)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2024 01:41 AM (JsN0q)
Oh, and injuns, too. They can "tell" when a storm is coming.
They put their ear to the railroad tracks, or something.
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2024 01:42 AM (JsN0q)
The cats here are acting no more crazy than normal.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 01:43 AM (w6EFb)
I watch all the TV prevaricators.
When you see one sitting in a canoe in 8 inches of water, while two pedestrians walk by in waders, THAT is your measure of "pets going crazy in a storm".
See: "Geraldo Rivera gets blasted off of Galveston Seawall by Hurricane Ike wave". You shall laff.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 27, 2024 01:51 AM (kQgoX)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 27, 2024 01:58 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2024 02:01 AM (XeU6L)
3 to 4 mtr and rising swells. Wind about 40 knots. The fishing boat was only 5 mtrs long. Top speed only 10 knots. Just about swamped a few times and we were so far out we couldn't see land. I,m a grunt not a matelot. Near on had a wobbly lip. Very scarey.
Posted by: NZFrank with an M2 at September 27, 2024 02:19 AM (6bhPN)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 27, 2024 02:19 AM (w6EFb)
29.56", actually.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 02:20 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 27, 2024 02:22 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 27, 2024 02:22 AM (w6EFb)
Though I *have* had it damn near that bad, solo, in a 12 ft. grossly overpowered with a 20 horse Evinrude, on an inland Texas lake...
... I'll not compare mine to yours. Southern Ocean is a Death Sentence writ on Angry Waves.
Much RESPECT to you, my Brother!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 27, 2024 02:25 AM (kQgoX)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 01:43 AM (w6EFb)
Cool, man.
{SNAPS FINGERS}
Posted by: Beatniks at September 27, 2024 02:32 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 27, 2024 02:38 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Skip at September 27, 2024 02:41 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 27, 2024 02:41 AM (w6EFb)
I'm lying in the gutter eatin' tootsie rolls
With red ant bites all over my ass
Beating on my buddies with a baseball bat
Posted by: SFGoth at September 27, 2024 02:43 AM (KAi1n)
Of course, it hasn't really kicked in yet.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 27, 2024 02:45 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: San Franpsycho
$50 for a 12-pack of canned beer?
Posted by: SFGoth at September 27, 2024 02:47 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: SFGoth at September 27, 2024 02:51 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2024 02:52 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: SFGoth at September 27, 2024 02:55 AM (KAi1n)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist
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The gummy?
Posted by: SFGoth at September 27, 2024 02:51 AM (KAi1n)
When someone says something hasn't kicked in yet, the first something I think of is 'acid'.
I'm guessing different drug generations.
Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 02:55 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2024 02:56 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: SFGoth at September 27, 2024 02:47 AM (KAi1n)
And.... don't forget the $28 dollar pizza or the $30 non-cuban cigar.
The pizza, btw, was a one topping medium, chased (sipped) by some $9 buck Aussie domestic swill.
+Ten years ago. Aint been back since. Not GOING back.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 27, 2024 02:59 AM (kQgoX)
Cool, man.
{SNAPS FINGERS}
Posted by: Beatniks
Cool baby
Posted by: Miklos -Maynard B Krebs at September 27, 2024 02:59 AM (9LqXS)
Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 02:55 AM (gKDq2)
what ever gets you through Bat Country
Posted by: Kindltot at September 27, 2024 03:00 AM (D7oie)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at September 27, 2024 03:01 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: a dude in MI at September 27, 2024 03:02 AM (+I6Y/)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2024 03:02 AM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 27, 2024 03:03 AM (XeU6L)
Got a buddy who is a lineman in Missouri. He deployed to Tallahassee yesterday, and was just waiting last time I spoke to him.
Posted by: Weirddave at September 27, 2024 03:10 AM (df/te)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2024 01:42 AM (JsN0q)
How did they do it before railroads? Asking for me.
Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 27, 2024 03:11 AM (89Sog)
Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at September 27, 2024 03:13 AM (JRP2U)
Posted by: Glen C at September 27, 2024 03:14 AM (TX4bP)
Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical
Same as the rest of us, I think ...
Posted by: 2 Rats in a Light Bulb . . . at September 27, 2024 03:16 AM (TX4bP)
Posted by: Glen C at September 27, 2024 03:14 AM (TX4bP)
Sorry, Glen, but you're only driving a coffin now.
Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 03:17 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Soothsayer at September 27, 2024 01:42 AM (JsN0q)
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How did they do it before railroads? Asking for me.
Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at September 27, 2024 03:11 AM (89Sog)
Now I know they used to hang a piece of rope outside the teepee. If the rope was wet, they knew it was raining. If the rope was moving, they knew it was windy. How they determined such things before they invented rope I have no idea.
Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 03:21 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: RickZ
Yeahhhhh, the first time I did shrooms was because the acid was taking too long to kick in. But back in 1986, while there were "brownies", they were not really a thing yet. You had to be able to make your own and they were kind of pungent.
Posted by: SFGoth at September 27, 2024 03:27 AM (KAi1n)
When I read that, the first thing I thought was baseball.
Posted by: SFGoth at September 27, 2024 03:28 AM (KAi1n)
and if the rope had a handle, they were all raaaaacists...
Posted by: Garage Door Pulleys, Local #319 . . . at September 27, 2024 03:29 AM (TX4bP)
Posted by: SFGoth at September 27, 2024 03:27 AM (KAi1n)
For a while in college (mid '70s), there was hash around. Now I'd made pot brownies before but hash ones? Those were the best. Hash oil was pretty wild, too; talk about a stone.
Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 03:35 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Garage Door Pulleys, Local #319 . . . at September 27, 2024 03:29 AM (TX4bP)
Got a good chuckle from that one. Thanks.
Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 03:37 AM (gKDq2)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 27, 2024 03:38 AM (w6EFb)
I'm guessing different drug generations.
Posted by: RickZ at September 27, 2024 02:55 AM (gKDq2)
It's been a long time, but yeah.
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 27, 2024 03:39 AM (w6EFb)
Pressure 29.46" and falling, 0.2" last three hours.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at September 27, 2024 03:40 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Adriane the Quietly Walking Backwards Critic . . . at September 27, 2024 03:41 AM (TX4bP)
Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at September 27, 2024 03:43 AM (w6EFb)
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