Ask Not For Whom The ONT Tolls

Howdy Horde! Welcome to Thursday night!

Headline Of The Week

How naked World War II sailors ended up riding Mongolian ponies in the Gobi Desert to shoot bazookas at the Japanese

SACO’s operation in India grew as needs in China evolved.
It proved easier to manufacture some materials in India than ship them from the United States. A new plant in Jorhat produced liquid oxygen, converting some into gas for flights over the Hump. Most of it was transported in liquid form to conversion stations near where it would be used to avoid airlifting the heavy canisters.
A Navy factory made batteries for the hundreds of radios scattered across China. With a shelf life of nine months, batteries made in the United States were nearly spent by the time they finished a six-month journey to China, but they arrived only a few weeks old when made in India.
At Camp Knox in Calcutta, new arrivals got their first taste of the exotic, riding around in rickshaws while preparing for duty in China. They exchanged their crisp Navy whites for Army khakis without insignia or rank.

Interesting stuff about the “Rice Paddy Navy”

Another One Bites The Dust

MSNBC president exiting network amid ratings tailspin

Rashida Jones, the president of MSNBC, has announced she is stepping away from the network after four years at the helm.
On Tuesday, Jones sent a letter to staff, announcing her departure and thanking them for their work.
"The people here at MSNBC are what make this place truly special, and our shared mission is what has always united us: to keep our viewers, readers, and listeners well-informed, provide critical context, ask tough questions, speak hard truths, say the quiet part out loud, and always adhere to the facts, without fear or favor," Jones wrote, according to the Daily Beast.
Jones' resignation as president is effective immediately, though she will remain on board in an advisory capacity until March.

Not tired of all the winning yet.

Set Them Free

Pardon Every Single J6 Political Prisoner – Every Single One

It is a feature and not a bug that the Democrats and the regime media lackeys will be outraged by this righteous act of justice. They need to be angry and shown that they cannot win. This is an important object lesson. The J6 vendetta was a disgraceful crime far exceeding the fake crimes in American history – like “McCarthyism” – the leftists always whine about. But there will also be Republicans who are going to cry about this, and they’re wrong to do so. They’re wrong to do so because the vital issue is not whether some individual went too far on January 6. This is about a systemic persecution of American citizens not resulting from an individualized consideration of their exact circumstances but simply because they were affiliated with the out-of-power party. You cannot tolerate this in a free society. If you do tolerate this, it stops being a free society.
And to tolerate this because of some lame cliche like “respecting the rule of law” is ridiculous – these prosecutions themselves are a direct assault upon the rule of law. To give these charges and convictions any credibility at all, whether the person is accused of trespassing or punching a flatfoot, is to accept a two-tier justice system. That’s why the notion that people convicted of “violence” should not be pardoned is so misguided. To accept the validity of any J6 judicial proceeding is to accept that these biased, tyrannical prosecutions could ever generate a just result. A two-tier justice system targeting our people in a biased venue in front of biased judges via misapplied statutes can never deliver a just result. None of the proceedings undertaken against these J6 defendants could ever be just. Every single prosecution was and is absolutely corrupt. Every single trial verdict was fatally tainted. Every guilty plea was presumptively coerced.

Every word.

Musical Interlude

A young drum prodigy steals the show with his incredible performance! ?￰ﾟﾍﾀ Talent knows no age! pic.twitter.com/5yeoZHKl3J
— Classical Music & Opera (@Ducnghia16) January 14, 2025

Outstanding!

Wildfires

Bone-Chilling “Conspiracy Theory” Emerges as California Burns

As devastating wildfires once again consume California’s landscapes, a growing number of skeptics are pointing to an eerie coincidence: the fires are burning in regions earmarked for major redevelopment under the controversial “SmartLA 2028” initiative.
Critics allege that these fires might not be mere acts of nature but intentional acts to fast-track a dystopian agenda where artificial intelligence governs daily life.
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One user wrote on X, “LA fires clear the way for SmartLA 2028 and 2028 LA Olympics. The SmartLA 2028 blueprint contains a map of the Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, and Hollywood regions, all seriously fire-damaged, showing their special importance in the coming city restructuring.”
The “SmartLA 2028” strategy, outlined in a document published by the City of Los Angeles, envisions a highly digital and connected city by 2028 under the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda.
From 5G infrastructure to AI-assisted public safety measures, SmartLA 2028 promises sweeping transformations, including ultra-efficient transportation, digital governance, and AI-driven decision-making systems.

At this point, I'll believe anything.

Neil Gaiman Is Going Down

There Is No Safe Word

Gaiman led Pavlovich down a stone path into the garden to an old-fashioned tub with a roll top and walked away. She got undressed and sank into the bath, looking up at the furry magenta blossoms of the pohutukawa tree overhead. A few minutes later, she was surprised to hear Gaiman’s footsteps on the stones in the dark. She tried to cover her breasts with her arms. When he arrived at the bath, she saw that he was naked. Gaiman put out a couple of citronella candles, lit them, and got into the bath. He stretched out, facing her, and, for a few minutes, made small talk. He bitched about Palmer’s schedule. He talked about his kid’s school. Then he told her to stretch her legs out and “get comfortable.”
“I said ‘no.’ I said, ‘I’m not confident with my body,’” Pavlovich recalls. “He said, ‘It’s okay — it’s only me. Just relax. Just have a chat.’” She didn’t move. He looked at her again and said, “Don’t ruin the moment.” She did as instructed, and he began to stroke her feet. At that point, she recalls, she felt “a subtle terror.”
Gaiman asked her to sit on his lap. Pavlovich stammered out a few sentences: She was gay, she’d never had sex, she had been sexually abused by a 45-year-old man when she was 15. Gaiman continued to press. “The next part is really amorphous,” Pavlovich tells me. “But I can tell you that he put his fingers straight into my ass and tried to put his penis in my ass. And I said, ‘No, no.’ Then he tried to rub his penis between my breasts, and I said ‘no’ as well. Then he asked if he could come on my face, and I said ‘no’ but he did anyway. He said, ‘Call me ‘master,’ and I’ll come.’ He said, ‘Be a good girl. You’re a good little girl.’”

If these allegations are true, he's a sick fuck, and a rapist. Which is a damn shame because I've loved just about everything he's ever written from Sandman through his novels.

Second Order Effects

This post is worth a read, and the conclusion is...interesting

Elon Musk thinks Mars should have a government. He thinks it should be a direct democracy.
This, right here, is why it shouldn't.
Because of this paragraph of text:
Scarcity occurs when people want more of something than there is. When that happens, the price goes up. When the price goes up, there is more money to be made selling that thing. People who want money start figuring out ways to make more of that thing. So they can sell it. Then there is more of that to go around, and the price comes down.
Did you understand all that?
Then congratulations, you understood the concept of second and higher order effects. Your IQ is at least one standard deviation above the mean.
Also, you are outnumbered five to one at the voting booth
. By people who think you can pass a law to make things free.
Lotsa luck, smart guy.

Food for thought. I used to think “of course everyone should have a vote”. I don't think that anymore, but I'll be bumped if I can figure a way back from a world where everyone has the vote, and everyone thinks it's their right.

Muslim Rape Gangs

Another good post about the situation in Britain

This is the Muslim culture in Britain. I have multiple sources for these attitudes. A follower writes. "A Muslim friend of Muslim was explaining to me that basically white girls are seen as just something to f**k, like prostitutes. Mainly married men & fathers can carry on being good dad's & fathers & just rape white girls like a release. "They don't see it as rape, like they don't see shagging a goat as rape. "She said "like some white blokes watch porn, they go & 'shag' a white girl". She's said it so flippantly. To them, "rape" would be to force yourself on a "pure" Muslim woman. To them, this isn't "rape" - these girls are nothing. Just shit on their shoes. They barely see them as human.

Another huge mistake the west has made is the stupid idea that all cultures are equal. They are not.

Tonight's ONT has been brought to you by holding a grudge:

Posted by: WeirdDave at 10:00 PM

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1 Good evening good people.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2025 10:01 PM (WXNFJ)

2
Good Evening!

Posted by: four seasons at January 16, 2025 10:01 PM (3ek7K)

3 where

Posted by: Ciampino - Bye Bye is B-52s with 30 tons bombs each at January 16, 2025 10:01 PM (i0xsb)

4 Because!

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at January 16, 2025 10:01 PM (QSrLX)

5 Thats why.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at January 16, 2025 10:02 PM (QSrLX)

6 Hello

Posted by: Scarymary at January 16, 2025 10:02 PM (whIlM)

7 Hey, Weird Dave!

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2025 10:04 PM (77rzZ)

8 S'up everyone!?

Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2025 10:04 PM (W/lyH)

9 "The people here at MSNBC are what make this place truly special, and our shared mission is what has always united us: [...] speak hard truths, say the quiet part out loud, and always adhere to the facts [...]" Jones wrote

You suck!

Posted by: the out-loud, factual truth at January 16, 2025 10:05 PM (DgGvY)

10 Message to ace from an earlier thread--

"Ace--why am I talking to the back of your neck?"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at January 16, 2025 10:05 PM (CHHv1)

11 WD, how’s Gingy?

Posted by: Bulg at January 16, 2025 10:05 PM (77rzZ)

12 Thanks for the ONT, WD!

Posted by: LRob in OK, Moron and Lunatic at January 16, 2025 10:06 PM (ha1wR)

13 Is she also known as Rancida Jones? There's another rancid one somewhere in Congress.

Posted by: Ciampino - Butyric Jones at January 16, 2025 10:06 PM (i0xsb)

14 I read the content.

Posted by: Mrs. Slocumbe at January 16, 2025 10:06 PM (89Sog)

15 Hello
Posted by: Scarymary

Numa Numa

https://t.ly/kROmG

Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2025 10:07 PM (WXNFJ)

16 The Muslim rape culture will end when Muslim men who commit casual rape are castrated in front of their families with a staple remover and no anesthetic.

Maybe.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 16, 2025 10:07 PM (lHPJf)

17 What's the booze tab over at CNN tonight?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 16, 2025 10:07 PM (Q4IgG)

18 The Dumpster Eagles should play against the Trash Pandas.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 16, 2025 10:07 PM (kpS4V)

19 SmartLA 2028”

What was the name of RoboCop's city?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 16, 2025 10:07 PM (mnoTq)

20 Henry Symeonis was among the men who, on 22 May 1242, were fined £80 and ordered to leave Oxford by King Henry III for murdering an Oxford scholar.[2][1] They were allowed to stay in Northampton or further north, but were not to approach Oxford until the king returned from Aquitaine.[2] The king returned to England later that year and Henry Symeonis was apparently in Oxford in early 1243.[2] He sold an island to the king, who in 1245 granted it to the Order of Friars Minor.[2]

In 1264 many Oxford scholars left Oxford, and King Henry suspended the university on 12 March 1264. On 25 March 1264 King Henry issued a letters patent declaring that Henry Symeonis had been forgiven and ordering the university to let him to live in Oxford in peace so long as he should show good behavior.[1] Oxford archivists differ in their interpretations of this episode. Reginald Lane Poole argues that the exodus of the scholars from Oxford was in protest over the return of Henry Symeonis.[2] Alice Millea notes that Henry Symeonis had returned years earlier. According to Millea, King Henry suspended the university because Oxford had become the center of the royal military operations during the Second Baro

Posted by: Stateless at January 16, 2025 10:07 PM (jvJvP)

21 Sock change

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it but not today. I'm a dangerous radical. at January 16, 2025 10:08 PM (89Sog)

22 Happy-ish Thursday evening …

Posted by: Adriane the Bah Humbug Critic . . . at January 16, 2025 10:08 PM (qz+gL)

23 Is that the same Rashida Jones who was on parks and Rec?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 16, 2025 10:08 PM (kpS4V)

24 Then he asked if he could come on my face, and I said ‘no’ but he did anyway.

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If nothing else, that's just poor manners.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 16, 2025 10:09 PM (JkO4W)

25 From Wikipedia.

Thanks for the ONT as always.

Time for bed.
Sober. But zzzQuil and natural crap.

Posted by: Stateless at January 16, 2025 10:09 PM (jvJvP)

26 Food for thought. I used to think “of course everyone should have a vote”. I don't think that anymore, but I'll be bumped if I can figure a way back from a world where everyone has the vote, and everyone thinks it's their right.

"Smart" and "rich" are at least somewhat proportional. Or, at least, "dumb and rich" don't spend their money in as-effective ways.

So Musk and Soros spending zillions on political ads and get-out-the-vote is the second-order effect of "one man, one vote, except in vote-by-mail liberal states."

Posted by: mikeski at January 16, 2025 10:09 PM (DgGvY)

27 But does little drummer boy prodigy have adowable widdle bwankets to sell?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 16, 2025 10:09 PM (mnoTq)

28 I'm trying to imagine a scenario...

Oh, never mind.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 16, 2025 10:10 PM (JkO4W)

29 None of the proceedings undertaken against these J6 defendants could ever be just. Every single prosecution was and is absolutely corrupt. Every single trial verdict was fatally tainted. Every guilty plea was presumptively coerced.

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Exactly. And in a similar vein all those lawyers saying "those 30 charges against Trump are bogus but the other 4 have merit" complete overlook (most likely on purpose) the fact the system is being corrupted.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 16, 2025 10:11 PM (Vh9CX)

30 If nothing else, that's just poor manners.

She should have opened her mouth?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 16, 2025 10:11 PM (mnoTq)

31 ***That’s how U.S. Navy radioman Richard Rutan was greeted when he stepped down from a C-47 plane in central China***
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Is this famous airplane designer Dick Rutan?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2025 10:11 PM (fWHsP)

32 Someone should do a mash up of JK Simmons from Whiplash yelling at that little kid drummer.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 16, 2025 10:12 PM (D6PGr)

33 briefly dipped my toe into the LA Fire conspiracy theory. LA Olympics playing a role? Really?

Nobody gives a shit about the Olympics anymore. Apologies to the hard working competitors. But everything surrounding the Olympics is garbage.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at January 16, 2025 10:12 PM (sJHOI)

34 Thanks for a lot of good content, WD. Second Order Effects link is a good read. Devon Eriksen sounds like he might hang out around these parts.

Posted by: scampydog at January 16, 2025 10:12 PM (41CYW)

35 Food for thought. I used to think “of course everyone should have a vote”. I don't think that anymore, but I'll be bumped if I can figure a way back from a world where everyone has the vote, and everyone thinks it's their right.
=
Universal suffrage is only a thing because the Constitution was amended to allow it, and can be repaired just as prohibition was.

Also, the Constitution-based federal government is our second attempt at a government, which by definition replaced the first, and thus similarly can be replaced if the will and/or need to do so can be mustered.

Posted by: Methos at January 16, 2025 10:13 PM (Dnobf)

36 I know Rashida Jones is black. I'm wondering if she's a lesbian.

Because we now know that black lesbian is the GOLD STANDARD in executive personnel recruiting.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 16, 2025 10:13 PM (hY4dx)

37 “Destination Gobi” is a decent Richard Widmark movie about naval personnel in Mongolia in WW2.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 16, 2025 10:14 PM (7MHHr)

38 Neil Gaiman Is Going Down

I forget is this week "believe all women" or "you can get anything you want dragging $100 through a trailer park" for the FNM?

I'm guessing considering the target its the former.

And yes Gaiman is a talented writer but based on what he's written the accusations would not surprise me at all

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:14 PM (t0Rmr)

39 >>>Food for thought. I used to think “of course everyone should have a vote”. I don't think that anymore, but I'll be bumped if I can figure a way back from a world where everyone has the vote, and everyone thinks it's their right.

It can't be done, except by overwhelming force, and we probably wouldn't like what's on the other side of that.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 16, 2025 10:14 PM (lHPJf)

40 Videos like OK Go's make me wish MTV and VH1 were still what they used to be.

https://youtu.be/MOEULOSVNK4

And "Moulosovnik 4" sounds like a Soviet space probe.

Posted by: mikeski reads the hash tables at January 16, 2025 10:14 PM (DgGvY)

41 But does little drummer boy prodigy have adowable widdle bwankets to sell?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 16, 2025 10:09 PM (mnoTq)

$19 a month.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at January 16, 2025 10:15 PM (dR6yv)

42 Was Pavolich chained up in that old fashion tub?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 16, 2025 10:15 PM (D6PGr)

43 Good evening all, and thanks for the ONT WD. That musical interlude is absolutely the best thing I've seen all week. I just smiled through the entire thing.
The CA story: no matter how much you hate the CA governance, it isn't nearly enough.

Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at January 16, 2025 10:15 PM (IQ6Gq)

44

Destination Gobi

In 1944, US Navy specialists run a weather station in the Gobi desert where they are harassed by Japanese warplanes but aided by local Mongol nomads.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045682

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2025 10:16 PM (63Dwl)

45 Loved the little drummer boy. The clarinetist in the upper left corner is barely holding it together while the kid is playing.
Adorable!

LA Fire conspiracy: why would you burn down the houses of your biggest fans?

Posted by: sal at January 16, 2025 10:16 PM (f+FmA)

46 Grateful told me to watch the little drummer boy, and she was right! How cute is he! Thanks, WD.

And now off to bed, friends. Tomorrow is a whole new day.

Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2025 10:16 PM (p4NUW)

47 Pardon Every Single J6 Political Prisoner – Every Single One - NO EXCEPTION.

Even one exception will be taken as a sign that the happenings of J6 are recognized by us as wrong. Congress is The People's House and not Pelosi's.

The J6 Committee must be charged and tried individually. The Capitol cops must be interrogated and those that give a false account (as evidenced by video) need tried, convicted and fired with loss of pension. Same goes for any other official, whistleblower, instigator, covert rabble rouser, etc.

Posted by: Ciampino - Love to find a few Spooks at January 16, 2025 10:17 PM (i0xsb)

48 LA Olympics playing a role? Really?

They're the spit on the head of the rezoning rape dick.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 16, 2025 10:17 PM (mnoTq)

49 Bought some guanciale today at an Italian specialty store. It is the pork in spaghetti carbonera. Salt-cured, from the jowl of the pig, its rind all heavily peppered.

Got the two cheeses two, pecorino and the other one.

Ms G says "that sounds like a stupid recipe, bacon and eggs spaghetti."

I watched a few recipe vids on YouTube and think I have it down. I love how in the Italian kitchens they use those big huge tweezers to stir the pasta and then at plating time, spin it into big spaghetti donuts, stacking them like three high, large medium small on top, dress the top with the guanciale chunks and a big spoonful of the grated cheese.

Bought a bottle of Sardinian cannonau to go with it. Dry red made from the grenache grape.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 16, 2025 10:17 PM (KiBMU)

50 Most of the people who don't understand that economic statement are misled because most of what they see is the actions of producers acting together as a form of cartelism, which is where producers combine together to fix the production of items to control the access, and so the price of them.
Cartelism, or monopolistic action, does not survive well, except when there is governmental support in the form of regulations. The US has a tradition of creating regulations "in the name of anti-monopolistic practices" that actually are production or price controls that freeze competitors out of a mature market.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2025 10:17 PM (D7oie)

51 So next week's movie thread will be a retrospective on David Lynch?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 10:17 PM (wlURR)

52 In happier postings, I drove to Cannon Beach today to have lunch with my wife and her childhood friend who had never seen Haystack Rock before

She thought it was pretty neat.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2025 10:17 PM (D7oie)

53
“Destination Gobi” is a decent Richard Widmark movie about naval personnel in Mongolia in WW2.
Posted by: Tom Servo

You beat me to it. It was the first thing I thought of after reading that story up top.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 16, 2025 10:18 PM (63Dwl)

54 The J6 Committee must be charged and tried individually.

GASSSSSSED TOGETHER

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 16, 2025 10:18 PM (mnoTq)

55 LA Fire conspiracy: why would you burn down the houses of your biggest fans?
Posted by: sal at January 16, 2025 10:16 PM (f+FmA)

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Nobody wanted to attend a competitive swimming event in East LA.?

Just spitballing here

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 16, 2025 10:18 PM (hY4dx)

56 Set Them Free

Pardon Every Single J6 Political Prisoner – Every Single One

There have been multiple similar "insurrections" over the last decade - all except this one targeting the right and normal people. No one involved with those got more then a slap on the wrist.

The guy that stole Pelosi's computer should get a commutation and every one else a pardon. Except Fed Ray Epps. The Justice Department should go after him harder then it went after any other J6 protestor...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:18 PM (t0Rmr)

57 Karen from The Office was the head of MNBC?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 16, 2025 10:19 PM (D6PGr)

58 I feel bad for fellow morons in CA. They don't deserve this.

The communists who run the state can burn in hell.

It's way past time people stopped pretending what they see with their own eyes is a conspiracy theory and started fighting. If you won't fight I have no sympathy for you.

https://tinyurl.com/33pbp3z5

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 10:19 PM (LkLld)

59 LA Fire conspiracy: why would you burn down the houses of your biggest fans?
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TANGERINE

Posted by: Methos at January 16, 2025 10:20 PM (Dnobf)

60 52 In happier postings, I drove to Cannon Beach today to have lunch with my wife and her childhood friend who had never seen Haystack Rock before

She thought it was pretty neat.
Posted by: Kindltot

Cannon Beach is pretty awesome. Did you have the low clouds and misty rain? It's such a beautiful spot.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 16, 2025 10:20 PM (vOH33)

61 To them, "rape" would be to force yourself on a "pure" Muslim woman. To them, this isn't "rape" - these girls are nothing. Just shit on their shoes. They barely see them as human.

Hey British feminists, good thing you got rid of that old Christian patriarchy isn't it?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:20 PM (t0Rmr)

62 "...digital governance, and AI-driven decision-making systems."
____________________________

And, there's your proof this is a fairy tale. No California politician is going to voluntarily lose their power and graft to a computer.

Posted by: Orson at January 16, 2025 10:20 PM (dIske)

63 16 The Muslim rape culture will end when Muslim men who commit casual rape are castrated in front of their families with a staple remover and no anesthetic.

Maybe.
Posted by: Dr. T at January 16, 2025 10:07 PM (lHPJf)

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Frankly I'm surprised that native British haven't taken machetes to some of the Muslim perps.

It appears for all intents and purposes young white British girls ARE looked upon as nothing more than worthless shit BY THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 16, 2025 10:21 PM (Vh9CX)

64 Cannon Beach?

Is that where all the fat P.I.s hang out?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 16, 2025 10:21 PM (hY4dx)

65 "Smart" and "rich" are at least somewhat proportional. Or, at least, "dumb and rich" don't spend their money in as-effective ways.

Posted by: mikeski at January 16, 2025 10:09 PM (DgGvY)

Two things would contradict this idea... divorce settlements, now in the Billions, and inherited wealth.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 16, 2025 10:21 PM (QAkQ3)

66 If these allegations are true, he's a sick fuck, and a rapist. Which is a damn shame because I've loved just about everything he's ever written from Sandman through his novels.

At this point, my view of the entertainment industry goes like this:

Not a rapist: Fred Rogers
Rapist: probably everyone else

Posted by: mikeski at January 16, 2025 10:22 PM (DgGvY)

67 I used guanciale in Pasta all'Amatriciana.

Hog jowl noodles with pecker cheese!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 16, 2025 10:22 PM (kpS4V)

68 "The people here at MSNBC are what make this place truly special, and our shared mission is what has always united us: [...] speak hard truths, say the quiet part out loud, and always adhere to the facts [...]" Jones wrote

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Oh stop it! You're killing me!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2025 10:22 PM (W/lyH)

69 61 To them, "rape" would be to force yourself on a "pure" Muslim woman. To them, this isn't "rape" - these girls are nothing. Just shit on their shoes. They barely see them as human.

Hey British feminists, good thing you got rid of that old Christian patriarchy isn't it?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:20 PM (t0Rmr)

And now ya know why some of us are so passionate about the 2nd Amendment.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 16, 2025 10:22 PM (QAkQ3)

70 So, the president of MSNBC has resigned her position But she will stick around for a while to advice her replacement.
Msnbc is a total shitshow. Why would anyone want her advice?

Posted by: Florida Peasant at January 16, 2025 10:23 PM (Lo97M)

71 Bought some guanciale today . . . .

Bought a bottle of Sardinian cannonau to go with it. Dry red made from the grenache grape.
Posted by: Mr Gaga

You Sir are a great American!! Guanciale is really the way to go. I know this is hard to believe, but a new Italian store has recently opened in Sparta, TN. that also carries guanciale. It's fantastic.

Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2025 10:23 PM (WXNFJ)

72 The J6 Committee must be charged and tried individually.

GASSSSSSED TOGETHER"

Let us know if you ever find Steiner. Once you locate him, he can do the gassing!

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it but not today. I'm a dangerous radical. at January 16, 2025 10:23 PM (89Sog)

73 Back to muh shows. The cat and I are watching Squid Game, which I never watched during the Covidiocy.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 16, 2025 10:24 PM (kpS4V)

74 I ran across a post on Linkedin from girl boss Stacey Champagne, CEO and founder of Hacker in Heels;

I had multiple clear-cut career accomplishments in 2024. My husband? Zero. No certifications. No college courses completed. No documentary features. No awards, she wrote.

Stacey went on to describe a conversation with her husband over dinner. ‘How do you do that?’ I asked from across the dining table. ‘How are you able to go through a whole year without doing any of these sorts of things and be OK?’ He didn’t have a response, she shared, noting that his silence gave her much to reflect on.

Now the funny thing about this I know the sorts of awards people like Stacey Champagne give each other. And they are all bullshit. Now...could it be true that he's a lazy SOB, at least compared to her? Sure. But taking this crap to LinkedIn?!?

And also, imagine a husband reaming his wife like this in a public form. He'd at least get banned from linkedin and in Europe likely prosecuted...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:25 PM (t0Rmr)

75 Cannon Beach is pretty awesome. Did you have the low clouds and misty rain? It's such a beautiful spot.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 16, 2025 10:20 PM (vOH33)

The misty rain broke and we got some sunshine when we were on the beach. Wife's friend lives in Hawaii, and wanted to know if people swam to the rock in the summer, and I pointed out the sign saying people shouldn't. I added that the water is pretty cold, and I wouldn't try it.

She thought the waves were pretty pokey, and not really surfable

Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2025 10:25 PM (D7oie)

76 Not a rapist: Fred Rogers
Rapist: probably everyone else
Posted by: mikeski at January 16, 2025 10:22 PM (DgGvY)

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Don't be so quick to give Rogers a pass.

Posted by: Henrietta Pussycat at January 16, 2025 10:25 PM (hY4dx)

77 I do so wish that Trump would have the giant Carnevale Viareggio "God Emperor Trump" puppet at his inaugural parade:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv1FE88JVps

(This thing was 8 stories tall! Notice all the details--whose head is that on his shoulder? and the Twitter sword is a hoot.)

Posted by: Beverly at January 16, 2025 10:25 PM (Epeb0)

78 Gaza Cease Fire MY ASS.

Those people just need to be pounded into the ancient sand.

They've had their time.

Israel and the world have given them so many chances.

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 16, 2025 10:25 PM (pggNd)

79 Frankly I'm surprised that native British haven't taken machetes to some of the Muslim perps.

When one guy bothered to merely report on what was going on the British government imprisoned him with a bunch of Muslim inmates to try and get him killed. Apparently Tommy Robinson is more charismatic then they expected as he is still breathing...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:27 PM (t0Rmr)

80 Music question for the Horde - During Carter's service, while The Donald and Obummer were having their conversation, what was the music being played at that time?

Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2025 10:27 PM (WXNFJ)

81 Cannon Beach?

Is that where all the fat P.I.s hang out?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 16, 2025 10:21 PM (hY4dx)

When I was a kid, Cannon Beach is where the toney Portlanders went for vacations, and probably had a cabin there. The HoiPolloi, of course, went to Seaside.

Seaside has a Safeway, Cannon Beach has a classy little market that looks like a Trader Joe's

Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2025 10:28 PM (D7oie)

82 The God Emperor Trump stuff is pretty funny but if you ever get into the Warhammer lore Sigmar is kind of an asshole and much of the blame for the bleakness of their universe is directly his fault.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:28 PM (t0Rmr)

83 Cannon Beach?

Is that where all the fat P.I.s hang out?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 16, 2025 10:21 PM (hY4dx)

They have the best pizza place on the coast there.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2025 10:28 PM (W/lyH)

84 You can take people out of the third world, you'll never take the third world out of those people.

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at January 16, 2025 10:28 PM (+VovS)

85 Heya Nightwatch,

I don't smoke, but I'll hang out and share my flask of bourbon with you.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 16, 2025 10:28 PM (vOH33)

86 The Dictator's wife, Olena Zelensky, took a trip to St Moritz for a skiing jaunt with the children. On our dollars I bet!

https://tinyurl.com/ypabja2a

Posted by: Ciampino - Gee I couldn't afford St. Moritz even if I lived there at January 16, 2025 10:29 PM (i0xsb)

87 80 Music question for the Horde - During Carter's service, while The Donald and Obummer were having their conversation, what was the music being played at that time?
Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2025 10:27 PM (WXNFJ)

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Bolero?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 16, 2025 10:29 PM (hY4dx)

88 Evenin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 16, 2025 10:29 PM (f87vz)

89 Saw an amazing exchange on X today, a thread which followed the excerpt between the guy nominated for energy and the asshole loudmouth senator from Oregon.

Nominee mentions that China will complete 100 coal fired power plants this year.

Some lefty tweets figures saying China's expected energy production growth will be 90 percent renewables.

A tweet in response says hey I asked AI if it skews energy query responses way green and AI says why yes. Guy says then give me the straight dope and AI comes back with a different story, China is asshoe and bad.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 16, 2025 10:29 PM (KiBMU)

90 Thanks, WD. Good one.

Posted by: GWB at January 16, 2025 10:29 PM (69JzL)

91
You know that feeling when on Sunday night of "oh jeez, tomorrow is Monday, back to work. This Sunday night we'll be anticipating Monday.

Finally, a real man and leader who will help us take our country back!

Posted by: four seasons at January 16, 2025 10:29 PM (3ek7K)

92 Seaside has a Safeway, Cannon Beach has a classy little market that looks like a Trader Joe's
Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2025 10:28 PM (D7oie)

Just up the street from that market is a hardware store that is also a bar.
Ya gotta love it!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2025 10:30 PM (W/lyH)

93 Universal suffrage is only a thing because the Constitution was amended to allow it, and can be repaired just as prohibition was.

Also, the Constitution-based federal government is our second attempt at a government, which by definition replaced the first, and thus similarly can be replaced if the will and/or need to do so can be mustered.
Posted by: Methos at January 16, 2025 10:13 PM (Dnobf)

Service guarantees citizenship.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 16, 2025 10:30 PM (FC8SQ)

94 Eighty-five and one-half hours to go.

Posted by: Gref at January 16, 2025 10:30 PM (aBgBM)

95 Bolero?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

Ding dong, the witch is dead?

Posted by: Some Garbage Rat at January 16, 2025 10:30 PM (+VovS)

96 But does little drummer boy prodigy have adowable widdle bwankets to sell?
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 16, 2025 10:09 PM (mnoTq)

$19 a month.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner

Only 63 cents a day.

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 16, 2025 10:31 PM (NMT5x)

97 Just up the street from that market is a hardware store that is also a bar.
Ya gotta love it!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2025 10:30 PM (W/lyH)

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Hammers N Booze. It's a concept that is yet to be fully exploited.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 16, 2025 10:32 PM (hY4dx)

98 According to Wiki, Rashida Jones, Executive at MSNBC is a different person than the Parks and Rec Actress of the same name.

Posted by: Iris at January 16, 2025 10:32 PM (bOJ2I)

99 Well, that looks like a very fulsome (copious not unctuous) and wordy post tonight.

I'm in the middle of a fulsome and wordy letter about family and stuff, for my sister.

And I haven't had a chance to check the cafe tonight.

Seems I may not be interacting or even lurking with the commentariat tonight unless later. Again. Have fun, y'all.

Posted by: mindful webworker - words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup at January 16, 2025 10:32 PM (RhFgK)

100 LA fire victims are ALSO getting rejected aid by FEMA.

https://tinyurl.com/3e9ska66

Posted by: Ciampino - Gee I can't imagine why at January 16, 2025 10:32 PM (i0xsb)

101 Just got back in from putting good omens to the torch.
neil should die in a fire too.

Posted by: Reforger at January 16, 2025 10:32 PM (xcIvR)

102 Hammers N Booze. It's a concept that is yet to be fully exploited.

Paul Pelosi is customer #1

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 10:32 PM (wlURR)

103 Shi Shi and Rialto beaches in WA state are just as beautiful and far more remote than Cannon.

Very much worth the effort if you're ever out here.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at January 16, 2025 10:33 PM (FlHFA)

104 Orlok is proud to report that the box office on Robbert Egger's Nosferatu is developing quite nicely, and a significant proportion of the net will end up in the coffers of Castle Orlok. Well, actually in my Swiss account and various tax shelters around the Carribean region.

Count Orlok also will not forgive Henry Symeonis - he knows what he did. True, I am a bald, rodent-like fanged bat-eared like Nosferatu, but even I have standards.

Posted by: Count Orlok at January 16, 2025 10:33 PM (mk4vr)

105 98 According to Wiki, Rashida Jones, Executive at MSNBC is a different person than the Parks and Rec Actress of the same name.
Posted by: Iris at January 16, 2025 10:32 PM (bOJ2I)

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Now let's do Jon Favreau. That's worth at least 40 comments right there.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 16, 2025 10:33 PM (hY4dx)

106 Now let's do Jon Favreau. That's worth at least 40 comments right there.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 16, 2025 10:33 PM (hY4dx)

Let's!

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 10:34 PM (g47mK)

107 Is that the same Rashida Jones who was on parks and Rec?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 16, 2025 10:08 PM

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Different person. The actress is the daughter of Quincy Jones.

Posted by: Bigsmith at January 16, 2025 10:35 PM (1Au9i)

108 ' I'll be bumped if I can figure a way back from a world where everyone has the vote, and everyone thinks it's their right.'

Let everyone keep their vote. Just limit what they can vote for.
Live in state A, you don't get to vote on what happens in state B and C. If you aren't contributing to the national revenue, you don't vote on how it is spent.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 16, 2025 10:35 PM (3wi/L)

109 When one guy bothered to merely report on what was going on the British government imprisoned him with a bunch of Muslim inmates to try and get him killed. Apparently Tommy Robinson is more charismatic then they expected as he is still breathing...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:27 PM (t0Rmr)

This is why I hope Trump sticks to his guns and extends no invitation to PM Starmer. The British government will keep this up unless the screws are really put to it, and getting cold-shouldered over the inauguration is a good first step.

Posted by: Dr. T at January 16, 2025 10:35 PM (lHPJf)

110 Reforger, I have the original hardcover graphic novel of Sandman: The Dream Hunters.

I can't burn it because it has Yoshitaka Amano's autograph in it.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 10:35 PM (wlURR)

111 ***At this point, I'll believe anything.***
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After hearing about cans of gas poured and set alight early on and a leadership of communists anything is easy to believe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2025 10:35 PM (fWHsP)

112 Lawrence O'Donnell, looking almost as bad as Biden, did a sit down interview which aired tonight, apparently right before or right after Biden taped his farewell address.

Let the drugs do double duty. Catch him while he's all jacked up and feisty.

I saw an excerpt on X, Biden saying something like he's afraid for the White House and for the country, given the satanic new boss stepping in next Monday.

How can The Donald let this guy and his nasty nurse bossgirl on the dais with him and Melania come noon on the 20th?

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 16, 2025 10:36 PM (KiBMU)

113 106, he is so money!

Posted by: Quint at January 16, 2025 10:36 PM (v29h8)

114 Shi, Japanese word for the number 4 and for death.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 10:37 PM (wlURR)

115 Exactly. And in a similar vein all those lawyers saying "those 30 charges against Trump are bogus but the other 4 have merit" complete overlook (most likely on purpose) the fact the system is being corrupted.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 16, 2025 10:11 PM

That Trump proved the system was corrupt, fought it and won is one more reason I think Trump got historic black male voters versus any Republican. Turning that Atlanta mugshot (thanks, Fani, enjoy your own mugshot soon) into a campaign image said to not just blacks but to anybody who would listen: Trump had zero fucks to give in 2024. And he won. That's why everybody who is anybody is pissing in their undies now. Trump has zero fucks to give, they know it, and they know what they've done, of what they are guilty. There could be some seriously good entertainment coming out of D.C. soon; the preliminary show with these confirm hearings and the Dem senator idiocy leads me to believe this is going to be a hoot. I swear these Dem Senators have a combined IQ of less than 5 normies. They, too, know what's coming but instead of looking brave they are coming off as petty, ridiculous and laughingly foolish.

Posted by: RickZ at January 16, 2025 10:37 PM (gKDq2)

116
Service guarantees citizenship.

When Verhoeven made his odd movie of Starship Troopers a bunch of lefties read it for the first time. FASCISM!!!! they all screamed.

Even though the book, of course, lays out very clearly its political structure which is not in an sense fascist. Yes the franchise is limited, but in an egalitarian way, as each human has the choice to serve or not and thereby get the franchise or not.

One thing that does stand out though - at one point the leadership makes a big mistake. They don't blame racism or even bad luck - the current leader resigns and another takes his place.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:38 PM (t0Rmr)

117 Orlok is proud to report that the box office on Robbert Egger's Nosferatu is developing quite nicely

I saw his The Witch and liked it and his The Lighthouse and disliked it.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:39 PM (t0Rmr)

118 114 Shi, Japanese word for the number 4 and for death.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 10:37 PM (wlURR)

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And Roku is both the number 6 and a box that turns your dumb TV into a smart TV!

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 16, 2025 10:39 PM (hY4dx)

119 35
I my mind there is the citizen that contributes to the day to day functionality of the society through work, paying taxes to the government that ensures the infrastructure of the society is maintained so the citizen may if desire, to grow and branch out his/her work to maybe secure a business that can grow and further enrich the society with the offering of services that the society may need. The citizen VOTES to keep or promote other citizens into Government who they believe will further promote the work of the citizen for the betterment of the society.

See where I'm going pal? I'm limited to 500 keystrokes so...

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 16, 2025 10:40 PM (pggNd)

120 To them, "rape" would be to force yourself on a "pure" Muslim woman. To them, this isn't "rape" - these girls are nothing. Just shit on their shoes. They barely see them as human.

Hey British feminists, good thing you got rid of that old Christian patriarchy isn't it?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:20 PM (t0Rmr)

DING!

Posted by: GWB at January 16, 2025 10:40 PM (69JzL)

121 Maybe he should do a movie called The Witch, the Lighthouse, and Nosferatu.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 10:41 PM (wlURR)

122 The Greek states had a very limited franchise and active participation was required. It worked for them.

*Sparta and Macedonia excepted

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 16, 2025 10:41 PM (hY4dx)

123 39
'It can't be done, except by overwhelming force, and we probably wouldn't like what's on the other side of that.'

Of course, if they come at us with force and leave us with no choice. And then lose. Then that'll be a horse of another color.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at January 16, 2025 10:41 PM (3wi/L)

124 Maybe he should do a movie called The Witch, the Lighthouse, and Nosferatu.

Which role would Tilda Swinton play?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:41 PM (t0Rmr)

125 $19 a month.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner

Only 63 cents a day.
Posted by: haffhowershower at January 16, 2025 10:31 PM (NMT5x)

A mere 733 microcents per-millisecond!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 16, 2025 10:42 PM (FC8SQ)

126 110 Reforger, I have the original hardcover graphic novel of Sandman: The Dream Hunters.

I can't burn it because it has Yoshitaka Amano's autograph in it.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 10:35 PM (wlURR)

Tear the page out.

Posted by: Reforger at January 16, 2025 10:42 PM (xcIvR)

127 According to Wiki, Rashida Jones, Executive at MSNBC is a different person than the Parks and Rec Actress of the same name.
Posted by: Iris at January 16, 2025 10:32 PM (bOJ2I)

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Now let's do Jon Favreau. That's worth at least 40 comments right there.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43)

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Right?

Posted by: David Axelrod at January 16, 2025 10:43 PM (NMT5x)

128 Here's my man Jesse Welles singing about the Cali fires.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_I3npwX4Rw&loop=0

Jesse's got a theory.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at January 16, 2025 10:43 PM (KiBMU)

129 "The Electronic Payments Coalition (EPC) will launch a nationwide six-figure ad targeting Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) as President-elect Donald Trump’s number one enemy.

EPC will attack Durbin due to his support of a measure that EPC says benefits big business and hurts the value American workers derive from rewards and many other benefits.

The ad, set to air on Inauguration Day, slams Durbin as “Donald Trump’s number one enemy in Congress” for supporting a scheme that props up “a government takeover of your credit card.”

Posted by: runner at January 16, 2025 10:43 PM (g47mK)

130 Service guarantees citizenship?

Remaking the Roman Empire?

Posted by: Archer at January 16, 2025 10:43 PM (IDphi)

131 Maybe he should do a movie called The Witch, the Lighthouse, and Nosferatu.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 10:41 PM (wlURR)

Every single movie in the local multiplex movie theater is either a remake, a sequel, or a prequel to another successful movie.
I am surprised that Hollywood hasn't decided to do mash-ups yet.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2025 10:43 PM (D7oie)

132 114 phoque, the French word for a seal. It is pronounced fu$k. A big seal is called a grosse phoque.

Posted by: Quint at January 16, 2025 10:43 PM (v29h8)

133 Same goes for any other official, whistleblower, instigator, covert rabble rouser, etc.
Posted by: Ciampino - Love to find a few Spooks at January 16, 2025 10:17 PM (i0xsb)

I don't think Ray Epps is getting a pardon. He's the Deep State asshole of some importance as they tried so hard to protect him of all the people who were at the Capital that day. Video'd urging people on. He's some agency's dog in this fight.

Posted by: RickZ at January 16, 2025 10:44 PM (gKDq2)

134 I wonder if there's enough material for the movie thread to showcase Bob Uecker?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at January 16, 2025 10:44 PM (VNX3d)

135 Holy shit. I read that looong ass article on this Neil Gaiman dude. He's a monster. Having his dick cut off and a shotgun shoved in his ass would be too good. Damn...

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 10:44 PM (VwHCD)

136 Nobody gives a shit about the Olympics anymore. Apologies to the hard working competitors. But everything surrounding the Olympics is garbage.
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah

So you're saying Leftists do...they are no one in my eyes

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at January 16, 2025 10:45 PM (y7zkd)

137 Orlok briefly intrudes to note that he should have spelled Caribbean thusly, rather than that mistaken version above.

Also, Count Orlok notes that even he, as a Nosferatu, has higher standards than Jon Favreau. Now, Jon Favreau the film-maker, actor, and producer? Orlok has no problems with him. He was very good in PCU. Add in his work in the Marvel EU, and Orlok holds that Favreau high in his Undead esteem.

Posted by: Count Orlok at January 16, 2025 10:45 PM (mk4vr)

138 The Greek states had a very limited franchise and active participation was required. It worked for them.

*Sparta and Macedonia excepted

The Greeks disparaged Macedon and claimed they weren't real Greeks...until of course Macedon defeated them at which point they were the Greekest Greeks that ever did Greek

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:46 PM (t0Rmr)

139 phoque, the French word for a seal. It is pronounced fu$k. A big seal is called a grosse phoque.
Posted by: Quint at January 16, 2025 10:43 PM (v29h

In Spanish it is "foca" and the main Spanish pun know is that "enfocarnos" which means 'to focus ourselves [on something]' can also be construed as meaning 'to turn ourselves into seals'

This is a major mind-scramble to a lot of Spanish speaking people.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2025 10:48 PM (D7oie)

140 >>I don't think Ray Epps is getting a pardon.

>@PU28453638
🚨 Breaking: President Trump just announced on Dan Bongino’s radio show that he’s determined to expose the truth about January 6:

• Find out who the J6 pipe bomber is.
• Identify the mysterious “scaffold man.”
• Uncover the real story behind Ray Epps.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 10:48 PM (LkLld)

141 There is a Richard Widmark movie about that incident with Navy men in the Gobi desert. It's called Destination Gobi and his character is CPO McHale..

Posted by: steevy at January 16, 2025 10:49 PM (KQk9m)

142 Looks like a young Liam Neeson behind the little drummer dude.

Posted by: haffhowershower at January 16, 2025 10:49 PM (NMT5x)

143 The Epps thing was hilarious in a way.

The left argued everyone protesting there that day should go to jail. And then the right noticed Epps was getting a complete pass and the FNM's reaction was to complain about the right being mean to Epps.

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:49 PM (t0Rmr)

144 I think the song at the funeral was Sibelius, possibly Finlandia.

Posted by: Ette from tex at January 16, 2025 10:50 PM (SNf74)

145 I am surprised that Hollywood hasn't decided to do mash-ups yet.
Posted by: Kindltot

* waves *

Posted by: Scary Movie, Not Another Teen Movie, etc. at January 16, 2025 10:52 PM (DgGvY)

146 No one remembers who Henry someone is?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 16, 2025 10:52 PM (7gFa4)

147 Not Another Teen Movie was funny unlike most of the rest of that type...

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:54 PM (t0Rmr)

148 The woman in the bathtub I understand continued on for some time as nanny to his kids after that incident.

Posted by: steevy at January 16, 2025 10:55 PM (KQk9m)

149 130

The Republic of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA was in fact founded on particular Roman/Greek philosophies passed down through the ages. The teachings on what formed a just and productive society in particular and the purpose of Governance within a society.

Adams and Jefferson were both keen on these philosophies

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 16, 2025 10:56 PM (pggNd)

150 ***Another huge mistake the west has made is the stupid idea that all cultures are equal. They are not.***
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Let's hope that Trump keeps his promise.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2025 10:58 PM (fWHsP)

151 The US was founded on

The Roman respect for Law
The Greek drive for Aristeia
And Love of the God of Israel

Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:59 PM (t0Rmr)

152 "100 LA fire victims are ALSO getting rejected aid by FEMA."

Those Ukraine flags on there twitter accounts don't count for anything?

Posted by: Pikov Andropov at January 16, 2025 10:59 PM (y7zkd)

153

Trump is going in with his eyes wide open this time.

I hope he cleans house as soon as possible.

Posted by: four seasons at January 16, 2025 11:00 PM (3ek7K)

154 I'll say one thing, if trump don't pardon those J6 people within 2 days of getting sworn in I'll spend the rest of his presidency mumbling shut your whore mouth every time he speaks.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:01 PM (VwHCD)

155 Shi, Japanese word for the number 4 and for death.
Posted by: Anna Puma

Which is why they treat "4" the way we treat "13." Skipping that number for hotel rooms and office-building floors and such.

Also, the Chinese say "hold my baijiu."

https://is.gd/rsQiEj

(wikipedia, about a Chinese poem where every word is pronounced "shi.")

Posted by: mikeski at January 16, 2025 11:03 PM (DgGvY)

156 150 indeed

One only has to look at the current dilution of once stalwart European cultures to see what is in store for the US such has what already has happened thanks to the Biden/Obama administration.

Can we turn the wheel back in the next 4 years is the major question.

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 16, 2025 11:03 PM (pggNd)

157 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:01 PM (VwHCD)

Comment of the Week!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 16, 2025 11:03 PM (Vvh2V)

158 they were the Greekest Greeks that ever did Greek
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:46 PM (t0Rmr)

"Did Greek" sounds... kinky. At a minimum.

Posted by: GWB at January 16, 2025 11:03 PM (69JzL)

159 AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE "CHICOMS!!"

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 16, 2025 11:04 PM (pggNd)

160 148 The woman in the bathtub I understand continued on for some time as nanny to his kids after that incident.
Posted by: steevy at January 16, 2025 10:55 PM (KQk9m)

Oh. I guess that makes rape okay then.

Posted by: Reforger at January 16, 2025 11:04 PM (xcIvR)

161 Maybe he should do a movie called The Witch, the Lighthouse, and Nosferatu.

Which role would Tilda Swinton play?
Posted by: 18-1

Orlok thinks her role would be the ambiguous one, whatever that might be in the film. She reminds me of Alice Krige, who was very mean to Data in Star Trek - First Contact. One should never be mean to Data, just as no one should be mean to Willow Rosenberg. Yes, Orlok realizes the irony in a Nosferatu being a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but hey, a quality production is a quality production.

Posted by: Count Orlok at January 16, 2025 11:05 PM (mk4vr)

162 >>AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE "CHICOMS!!"

I'm easily amused. Go for it.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 11:06 PM (LkLld)

163 >>AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE "CHICOMS!!"

I'm easily amused. Go for it.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 11:06 PM (LkLld)

Me too, go for it. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:09 PM (VwHCD)

164 Lizzie, the model John Everett Millais used for his painting Ophelia had to lay in this tub, in a dress, in the middle of winter while Millais painted Ophelia drowning. One time the fires under the tub went out, Lizzy endured until he was finished. Then Millais had to foot her doctor's bill because she had caught pneumonia.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 11:10 PM (wlURR)

165 157

But...he did not say "and Pull the Trigger?"

Gotta do it right Afterall.

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 16, 2025 11:10 PM (pggNd)

166 Kindltot - I am planning a trip to Seaside shortly after Memorial Day to attend an amateur radio convention. Maybe we can grab lunch on my way back. Will advise.

Posted by: PabloD at January 16, 2025 11:10 PM (zD6D1)

167 I shall never forgive Henry Symeon....

I will never forgive that dude.

Posted by: eleven at January 16, 2025 11:11 PM (fV+MH)

168 160 148 The woman in the bathtub I understand continued on for some time as nanny to his kids after that incident.
Posted by: steevy at January 16, 2025 10:55 PM (KQk9m)

Oh. I guess that makes rape okay then.
Posted by: Reforger
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It reads like a dime novel.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2025 11:11 PM (fWHsP)

169 I'll say one thing, if trump don't pardon those J6 people within 2 days of getting sworn in I'll spend the rest of his presidency mumbling shut your whore mouth every time he speaks.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:01 PM (VwHCD)

Read one guy's story. He went to Fed high security prison, the ones with all sorts of really nasty people. Went there with a misdemeanor conviction. The inmates thought he was a plant and were planning to take him out. One inmate talked to him and said no one comes to this prison on a misdemeanor. The guy told him, you do if you're a J-6 defendent. They left him alone when he said that.

The Gov't basically set him up to be killed.

Every prick who did these things to these people needs to pay somehow, legally, financially, somehow. Just following orders isn't a defense and yet it's more than a participation trophy.

Posted by: RickZ at January 16, 2025 11:12 PM (gKDq2)

170 Remember the two lawyers who firebombed an empty NYC police car in the George Floyd "mostly peaceful protests? Yeah, they got sentenced of fifteen months and a year. Convicted of conspiracy to commit arson and possess an explosive device.

Reduced charges and a slap on the wrist. (spits)

https://tinyurl.com/mr22rrtd

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 16, 2025 11:12 PM (l9lDf)

171 A dime novel?

You mean a penny-dreadful.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 11:12 PM (wlURR)

172 >>AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON THE "CHICOMS!!"

I'm easily amused. Go for it.
Posted by: JackStraw

Like Henry Symeonis, Mao Zedong knows what he did, and this Nosferatu isn't going to forgive him.

Posted by: Count Orlok at January 16, 2025 11:12 PM (mk4vr)

173 162

You watching a Rachel Maddow broadcast...

Amused?

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 16, 2025 11:13 PM (pggNd)

174 139, heh. Languages are fun. The double meaning helps to remember the meaning though.

Posted by: Quint at January 16, 2025 11:14 PM (v29h8)

175 163

You watching Biden's last address to the nation.

Amused?

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 16, 2025 11:14 PM (pggNd)

176 Trump has not learned enough, or he wouldn't be broadcasting his plans every 5 minutes.

He's giving them an instruction manual on what evidence needs to be destroyed, where to place their spies, and how best to obstruct everything he wants to do.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 16, 2025 11:15 PM (Vvh2V)

177 Henry Symeon?

Slowly I turned. Step by step . . . .

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 16, 2025 11:16 PM (Aqu9a)

178 Read one guy's story. He went to Fed high security prison, the ones with all sorts of really nasty people. Went there with a misdemeanor conviction. The inmates thought he was a plant and were planning to take him out. One inmate talked to him and said no one comes to this prison on a misdemeanor. The guy told him, you do if you're a J-6 defendent. They left him alone when he said that.

The Gov't basically set him up to be killed.

Every prick who did these things to these people needs to pay somehow, legally, financially, somehow. Just following orders isn't a defense and yet it's more than a participation trophy.

Posted by: RickZ at January 16, 2025 11:12 PM (gKDq2)

I want to see a fucking Nuremberg style trial. All the motherfuckers behind this sitting chained to the floor. I want to see every last j6 person there to point fingers and say what they endured, and then a nice fucking bonfire for the guilty. I want the screams recorded so they can be used on future recordings by various black metal bands. And thats being kind.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:17 PM (VwHCD)

179 171 A dime novel?

You mean a penny-dreadful.
Posted by: Anna Puma
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I bow to senority.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 16, 2025 11:17 PM (fWHsP)

180 46 Grateful told me to watch the little drummer boy, and she was right! How cute is he! Thanks, WD.

And now off to bed, friends. Tomorrow is a whole new day.
Posted by: Piper at January 16, 2025 10:16 PM (p4NUW)

I'm glad I saw that myself. I usually don't like drum solos at all (too much of a good thing), but this one was great. Just the right length of time as well - cuteness only goes so far with me, even with a drum solo.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 16, 2025 11:17 PM (rIfFG)

181 Slowly I turned. Step by step . . . .

Viagra Falls???

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 11:17 PM (wlURR)

182 Per the "Second Order Effects" bit- Read Starship Troopers again. Read Tom Kratman's books or at least his essays- https://tinyurl.com/9nhahptx

https://tinyurl.com/9mxju5ht

https://tinyurl.com/3jyn5w33

Posted by: JoshO at January 16, 2025 11:20 PM (LmUpe)

183 >>You watching Biden's last address to the nation.

>>Amused?

One of the few who actually did.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 11:21 PM (LkLld)

184 Trump has not learned enough, or he wouldn't be broadcasting his plans every 5 minutes.

He's giving them an instruction manual on what evidence needs to be destroyed, where to place their spies, and how best to obstruct everything he wants to do.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 16, 2025 11:15 PM (Vvh2V)

yeah, there are times where he really needs to shut up.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:22 PM (VwHCD)

185 97 Just up the street from that market is a hardware store that is also a bar.
Ya gotta love it!
Posted by: Diogenes at January 16, 2025 10:30 PM (W/lyH)

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Hammers N Booze. It's a concept that is yet to be fully exploited.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at January 16, 2025 10:32 PM (hY4dx)

Call it "Get Hammered" or simply "Hammered."

Posted by: Will license for 15% of the take at January 16, 2025 11:23 PM (ybSPO)

186 178
The Gov't basically set him up to be killed.

Every prick who did these things to these people needs to pay somehow, legally, financially, somehow. Just following orders isn't a defense and yet it's more than a participation trophy.

Posted by: RickZ at January 16, 2025 11:12 PM (gKDq2)

This is beyond everything else I've heard. This is a depth of malevolence that must be scrubbed from the Justice system.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 16, 2025 11:23 PM (wAr5n)

187 109 When one guy bothered to merely report on what was going on the British government imprisoned him with a bunch of Muslim inmates to try and get him killed. Apparently Tommy Robinson is more charismatic then they expected as he is still breathing...
Posted by: 18-1 at January 16, 2025 10:27 PM (t0Rmr)

This is why I hope Trump sticks to his guns and extends no invitation to PM Starmer. The British government will keep this up unless the screws are really put to it, and getting cold-shouldered over the inauguration is a good first step.
Posted by: Dr. T at January 16, 2025 10:35 PM (lHPJf)

I keep banging on this drum, but I think it still bears repeating; what the UK - through Christopher Steele and Five Eyes - did to Trump is, all by itself, enough to have us reassess the 'special relationship' with them. If they were smart, they would use the state dinner that the royal family will have with Trump to grovel for forgiveness. Trump is the first POTUS to merit a second state dinner hosted by the royals.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 16, 2025 11:24 PM (rIfFG)

188 Slowly I turned. Step by step . . . .

Viagra Falls???
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 11:17 PM (wlURR)

LOL, yes. Or the Susquehanna Hat Company as well.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 16, 2025 11:24 PM (Aqu9a)

189 171 A dime novel?

You mean a penny-dreadful.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 16, 2025 11:12 PM (wlURR)

Inflation ya know.

Posted by: More like a $5 dreadful these days at January 16, 2025 11:24 PM (ybSPO)

190 I want the screams recorded so they can be used on future recordings by various black metal bands.

My sister has a large book full of SciFi short stories. One of them is similar to this. It was creepy. Basically hotel owner in some warm, nice, tropical climate, greets his odd but nice guests. Basically, guests are from the very far future and come back to the past to use human suffering as music entertainment. A meteor would land nearby setting off a worldwide plague and these future people were there to record it all. A great symphony of human suffering. Haven't read it in a while, so going on my meh memory.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 16, 2025 11:25 PM (f87vz)

191 Regarding Neil Gaiman, I'm not one bit fucking surprised.
I've read Sandman.

He's a great short story writer but not so good at novels.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 16, 2025 11:26 PM (xcxpd)

192 do, PabloD, we can schedule a time and place if you are in the area.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2025 11:26 PM (D7oie)

193 185 Screwdrivers R Us

Posted by: Quint at January 16, 2025 11:26 PM (v29h8)

194 184 Trump has not learned enough, or he wouldn't be broadcasting his plans every 5 minutes.

He's giving them an instruction manual on what evidence needs to be destroyed, where to place their spies, and how best to obstruct everything he wants to do.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 16, 2025 11:15 PM (Vvh2V)

yeah, there are times where he really needs to shut up.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:22 PM (VwHCD)

The people who did Trump dirty knew exactly what they would be guilty of. Chances are, they will use Biden's autopen to get preemptive pardons anyway, so the chances of any of them seeing the gibbet are going to be low.

That doesn't matter, however. Simply running the investigations and showing the public the results will rally the LIVs into pressing for reform (I hope). If the political price paid means that the Dems are out of power for the next ten years, the reforms that come from that will make this all worthwhile.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 16, 2025 11:27 PM (rIfFG)

195 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:17 PM (VwHCD)

Comment of the Week!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 16, 2025 11:28 PM (Vvh2V)

196 Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:17 PM (VwHCD)

Comment of the Week!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 16, 2025 11:28 PM (Vvh2V)

Oooh, thanky. Thats 2 in like 15 minutes. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:29 PM (VwHCD)

197 https://youtu.be/7nvyQbZszUk

Posted by: kelly at January 16, 2025 11:30 PM (UTkQZ)

198 Just up the street from that market is a hardware store that is also a bar.
Posted by: Diogenes

Hammers N Booze. It's a concept that is yet to be fully exploited.
Posted by: Cicero

Call it "Get Hammered" or simply "Hammered."
Posted by: Will license for 15% of the take

It's a brilliant idea, though.

Nobody goes to the hardware store once for a project.

And every time they come back to get the next part they forgot/lost/destroyed, they're even more in need of a stiff drink than the time before.

Posted by: mikeski at January 16, 2025 11:31 PM (DgGvY)

199 I want to see a fucking Nuremberg style trial. All the motherfuckers behind this sitting chained to the floor. I want to see every last j6 person there to point fingers and say what they endured, and then a nice fucking bonfire for the guilty. I want the screams recorded so they can be used on future recordings by various black metal bands. And thats being kind.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:17 PM (VwHCD)

Chavez the Hugo smiles down upon you from heaven, sir.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 16, 2025 11:31 PM (rIfFG)

200 Comment of the Week!
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor

Oooh, thanky. Thats 2 in like 15 minutes. lol
Posted by: Berserker

When you're on a roll, you're on a roll.

Posted by: mikeski at January 16, 2025 11:32 PM (DgGvY)

201 Chavez the Hugo smiles down upon you from heaven, sir.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 16, 2025 11:31 PM (rIfFG)

yeah, I really miss him.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:32 PM (VwHCD)

202 - Glad I decided to look in for a minute.
You gotta know I loved that kid on the drums.
I was probably 7 years older than him the first time I held a drumstick. Ended up spending 15 years plus on stage. A few good sized festivals mixed in there.
Thanks again, mom, for forcing me to take band in 7th grade.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 16, 2025 11:33 PM (kjZOX)

203 I will leave you all with this little gem

COVID popped up on the international scene in 2019 just prior to Trump forcing China to sign "Phase 1 of 3" of a new international trade agreement in 2020, a deal he had been working on since 2017.

Wet Market my ass... CHICOMS dirty yellow bastards.

night horde

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 16, 2025 11:33 PM (pggNd)

204 >>Trump has not learned enough, or he wouldn't be broadcasting his plans every 5 minutes.

>>He's giving them an instruction manual on what evidence needs to be destroyed, where to place their spies, and how best to obstruct everything he wants to do.

Who do you think he doesn't know what's going on? In 2016 they ran a coup against him and claimed he was a Russian agent. When that failed they said he was trying to extort Ukraine and impeached him for that idiocy.

Then they raided his home and did the ridiculously stupid documents bullshit because they know he has the Russia collusion documents.

Then he beat back 4 years of lawfare bullshit most here said he would be destroyed by and he could never win reelection.

For the last 4 years all I've heard is Trump is an idiot and he is now the President elect. He knows exactly what they did to him, his family and his supporters.

4 days and he's back in the WH and this time he knows far more than we do.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 11:35 PM (LkLld)

205 201 Chavez the Hugo smiles down upon you from heaven, sir.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 16, 2025 11:31 PM (rIfFG)

yeah, I really miss him.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:32 PM (VwHCD)

same

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Buy ammo at January 16, 2025 11:36 PM (xcxpd)

206 All politicians disappoint. Trump is still 170 degrees
different from Leftists/Harris, and I want to see more votes for Republicans in 2026.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 16, 2025 11:37 PM (v3gtd)

207 I just realized that with the Malibu fires, did anyone check on Jim Rockford? He parks his trailer in that parking lot by the beach.

You can always leave a message on his answering machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsWqth0NbDo

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 16, 2025 11:37 PM (n4dGz)

208 I was probably 7 years older than him the first time I held a drumstick. Ended up spending 15 years plus on stage. A few good sized festivals mixed in there.
Thanks again, mom, for forcing me to take band in 7th grade.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 16, 2025 11:33 PM (kjZOX)

I started on guitar at age 7, but I also picked up the drums at age 10. I stayed with it for 5-6 years, but gave it up to concentrate more on guitar. I still miss it, and I'm kinda pissed I don't have a nice drum set in the house.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:38 PM (VwHCD)

209 Hi TeeJ!

Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2025 11:39 PM (D7oie)

210 Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 16, 2025 11:27 PM (rIfFG

I guess my point is that there won't be any evidence left to show the public.

How many times have all these traitors gotten away with "accidentally" wiping phones, losing documents, and pleading amnesia?

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 16, 2025 11:39 PM (Vvh2V)

211 139 phoque, the French word for a seal. It is pronounced fu$k. A big seal is called a grosse phoque.
Posted by: Quint at January 16, 2025 10:43 PM (v29h

In Spanish it is "foca" and the main Spanish pun know is that "enfocarnos" which means 'to focus ourselves [on something]' can also be construed as meaning 'to turn ourselves into seals'

This is a major mind-scramble to a lot of Spanish speaking people.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2025 10:48 PM (D7oie)
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foca is also the word in Italian. Plural foche (ch as a k).

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono foche at January 16, 2025 11:39 PM (i0xsb)

212 Teej!!!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 16, 2025 11:40 PM (Vvh2V)

213 Prior to WWII, 1928, an official Army manual described it thus:

Democracy:

A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic--negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether is be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 11:40 PM (E4WLu)

214 This is beyond everything else I've heard. This is a depth of malevolence that must be scrubbed from the Justice system.
Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 16, 2025 11:23 PM (wAr5n)

Yes, our Hercules must clean out the Augean stables that is D.C. Take out the bureaucrats, expose the pols.

Apparently, we have a lot of Eichmanns in our government, too. Nazis. In D.C. Who knew?

Posted by: RickZ at January 16, 2025 11:41 PM (gKDq2)

215 4 days and he's back in the WH and this time he knows far more than we do.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 11:35 PM (LkLld)

yup, and I can't wait to see the fully armed and operational deathstar.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:41 PM (VwHCD)

216 You can take people out of the third world, you'll never take the third world out of those people.

AlexTheChick got dragged into an H1B thread on X this morning and a guy who was pro flooding the country with foreigners told her the entire point of the US was its economy. Exactly the type that wouldn’t understand why the third worlders behave the way they do.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 16, 2025 11:42 PM (QZThv)

217
Oceanfront home in Pacific Palisades which did not burn down is destroyed by a mudslide. It's not even the rainy season yet.

It's going to be a long time before anyone can rebuild there.

Posted by: four seasons at January 16, 2025 11:42 PM (3ek7K)

218 Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them. Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences. A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass. Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy. Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress. Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world. A republic is a form of government under a constitution which provides for the election of

(1) an executive and (2) a legislative body, who working together in a representative capacity, have all the power of appointment, all power of legislation, all power to raise revenue and appropriate expenditures, and are required to create (3) a judiciary to pass upon the justice and legality of their government acts and to recognize (4) certain inherent individual rights.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 11:43 PM (E4WLu)

219 Will Trump ever learn that the government weaponized Big Tech to censor him and his supporters?

Oh that's right, Elon Musk is now his boo.

That Trump sure is a dummy.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 11:43 PM (LkLld)

220 How many times have all these traitors gotten away with "accidentally" wiping phones, losing documents, and pleading amnesia?
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 16, 2025 11:39 PM (Vvh2V)

One of the more entertaining things about President Milei of Argentina is that the three Kirchnerite (Peronist) presidents before him had gathered so much power under the Presidency that Milei had all the power to do pretty much anything he wanted, to the Peronist's dismay.

similar to what Trump is looking at.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2025 11:43 PM (D7oie)

221 If these allegations are true, he's a sick fuck, and a rapist. Which is a damn shame because I've loved just about everything he's ever written from Sandman through his novels.

Never read anything of his, but saw the 2007 movie "Stardust", which I liked.

https://imdb.to/42iPZ7L

Ian McKellen narration, Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller, Henry Cavill, Peter O'Toole, Mark Strong, Michelle Pfeiffer, Claire Danes, Robert De Niro, Ricky Gervais.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at January 16, 2025 11:44 PM (P5BPp)

222 Prior to WWII, 1928, an official Army manual described it thus:

Democracy:

A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic--negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether is be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 11:40 PM (E4WLu)

Good thing we're a republic. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:44 PM (VwHCD)

223 Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 11:35 PM (LkLld)

All true, but I still wish he'd keep his cards closer to his vest. No need to give them any advantage, even though he can overcome it. It's time taken from other endeavors.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 16, 2025 11:44 PM (Vvh2V)

224 Nobody goes to the hardware store once for a project.

And every time they come back to get the next part they forgot/lost/destroyed, they're even more in need of a stiff drink than the time before.
Posted by: mikeski
---------

Truth!
LMFAO

Posted by: JQ at January 16, 2025 11:45 PM (YoCnN)

225 213

You mean Democrates of course.

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 16, 2025 11:45 PM (pggNd)

226 Not sure if the allegations against Gaiman are real or fiction.

I do remember allegations being made against Al Gore. Two things that memory seems to recall were statements by the woman - about him acting like a sex-crazed poodle, and wanting to release his chakra.

Were they ever substantiated? Or another victim of @MeToo selling out?

Posted by: Another Anon at January 16, 2025 11:45 PM (QNMaY)

227 Will Trump ever learn that the government weaponized Big Tech to censor him and his supporters?

Oh that's right, Elon Musk is now his boo.

That Trump sure is a dummy.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 11:43 PM (LkLld)

He wants hotels on the moon, and elon is the man with a plan for transportation. Muthafucka say yeaaahhh.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:46 PM (VwHCD)

228
I want to see a fucking Nuremberg style trial. All the motherfuckers behind this sitting chained to the floor. I want to see every last j6 person there to point fingers and say what they endured, and then a nice fucking bonfire for the guilty. I want the screams recorded so they can be used on future recordings by various black metal bands. And thats being kind.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:17 PM (VwHCD)

With a comment like that, I need to pick up the next bar tab for you, Berserker.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 16, 2025 11:46 PM (n4dGz)

229 I listen to a lot of old time radio programs at night - Dragnet or Gunsmoke, Suspense! or Space Patrol. They have a lot of tapes available of these only because they were recorded and shipped overseas to play on AFRTS. They survived on transcription disks. Anyway, they have these period PSA intended for military. They talk about Democracy a lot, and I have to say it is largely BS.

One claim - “A dictator can never take over in a democracy, because the people won’t allow it”

Sure, Jan

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 11:47 PM (E4WLu)

230
Good evening, all.

So, Nancy Pelosi has announced she won't attend the inauguration.

Does she realize that Trump received the largest total number of votes?

She apparently wants to snub Trump, but she's doing it to the American people. (Truthfully there are times when I want to do that, but Nancy won't acknowledge that that's what she's doing.)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2025 11:47 PM (Ro7Og)

231 - Heh, my Slingerland Jam Session kit is for sale.
Kinda want to see a kid whose parents can't afford fancy get a good price. Maybe even let em earn it doing yard work and such.

Im'ma hang onto the Yamaha Stage Customs for awhile cause ya just never know. Oh, yeah, and those 70's Zildjians too. Nuthin' can match those.
Most guitars gonna be going too.
American made Fender Bullet Deluxe and Fender Super Twin Reverb amp. A few inexpensive acoustics.
Hanging on to the Taylor DN8 for awhile.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 16, 2025 11:48 PM (kjZOX)

232 Were they ever substantiated? Or another victim of @MeToo selling out?
Posted by: Another Anon at January 16, 2025 11:45 PM (QNMaY)

It happened at the Hilton in Portland OR, and far prior to any of the hysteria. I think it got ignored to death.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2025 11:49 PM (D7oie)

233 That Trump sure is a dummy.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 16, 2025 11:43 PM (LkLld)

Oh, I definitely don't mean I think he's stupid. Not at all. I'm a Trump-ette from wayyy back, although I confess I initially thought he was a ringer for Clinton.

I guess I'm projecting my own tendencies on him.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 16, 2025 11:50 PM (Vvh2V)

234 Will Trump ever learn that the government weaponized Big Tech to censor him and his supporters?

Oh that's right, Elon Musk is now his boo.

That Trump sure is a dummy.

I think Elon was a lefty because that was the default in the tech bro world. Then it affected him directly through his kid which started him reevaluating a lot of things. And once you start noticing the discrepancies...

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 16, 2025 11:50 PM (lUFok)

235 - Hello Kindletot.

((( Tammy a-T )))

Posted by: TeeJ at January 16, 2025 11:51 PM (kjZOX)

236 Heh, my Slingerland Jam Session kit is for sale.
Kinda want to see a kid whose parents can't afford fancy get a good price. Maybe even let em earn it doing yard work and such.

Im'ma hang onto the Yamaha Stage Customs for awhile cause ya just never know. Oh, yeah, and those 70's Zildjians too. Nuthin' can match those.
Most guitars gonna be going too.
American made Fender Bullet Deluxe and Fender Super Twin Reverb amp. A few inexpensive acoustics.
Hanging on to the Taylor DN8 for awhile.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 16, 2025 11:48 PM (kjZOX)

I'm a gear whore, I say keep it all. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:52 PM (VwHCD)

237
Rocky, the K9 officer shot yesterday in Houston while helping to apprehend the murderer of a Brazoria County sheriff, is expected to make a full recovery. The perp was air conditioned, by the way.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 11:52 PM (dxSpM)

238 15 Hello
Posted by: Scarymary

Numa Numa

https://t.ly/kROmG

Posted by: Tonypete at January 16, 2025 10:07 PM (WXNFJ)

Think what you may. They look they are having a bit of fun.

Posted by: javems at January 16, 2025 11:52 PM (8I4hW)

239 One claim - “A dictator can never take over in a democracy, because the people won’t allow it”
Sure, Jan
Posted by: Common Tater

He doesn't need all "the people." Just a plurality of those that give a shit.

Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner. Or two wolves, one sheep, and seventeen disinterested capybaras.

Posted by: mikeski at January 16, 2025 11:53 PM (DgGvY)

240 At this point, every swinging dick in government, er, and Ladies too, should be required to attend. I don’t trust ‘em.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 11:54 PM (E4WLu)

241 "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"

Elizabeth Willing Powel....

“A republic, if you can keep it.”

Benjamin Franklin...September 17, 1787

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 16, 2025 11:54 PM (pggNd)

242 Moon Hotel was a sci-fi novel by Stanislaw Lem.

Well it should have been.

Posted by: eleven at January 16, 2025 11:55 PM (fV+MH)

243 I think Elon was a lefty because that was the default in the tech bro world. Then it affected him directly through his kid which started him reevaluating a lot of things. And once you start noticing the discrepancies...
Posted by: Blanco Basura

As they say on another site, the Red Pill is a suppository.

Posted by: mikeski at January 16, 2025 11:55 PM (DgGvY)

244 Rocky, the K9 officer shot yesterday in Houston while helping to apprehend the murderer of a Brazoria County sheriff, is expected to make a full recovery. The perp was air conditioned, by the way.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 16, 2025 11:52 PM (dxSpM)

The perp was perforated.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:55 PM (VwHCD)

245 Right back atcha, Teej!

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 16, 2025 11:55 PM (Vvh2V)

246 At this point, every swinging dick in government, er, and Ladies too, should be required to attend. I don’t trust ‘em.
Posted by: Common Tater
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Agreed. All these "wanna snub Trump" aholes make me suspicious that they know something's up and maybe don't want to be there if there's a kablooey...

Posted by: JQ at January 16, 2025 11:56 PM (YoCnN)

247 At this point, every swinging dick in government, er, and Ladies too, should be required to attend. I don’t trust ‘em.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 16, 2025 11:54 PM (E4WLu)

I would say most of the women on the left are probably swinging dicks.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:56 PM (VwHCD)

248 I'm home tomorrow, so I'm enjoying the bourbon, is case anybody noticed. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 16, 2025 11:57 PM (VwHCD)

249 Rocky, the K9 officer shot yesterday in Houston while helping to apprehend the murderer of a Brazoria County sheriff, is expected to make a full recovery. The perp was air conditioned, by the way.

I'm a little saddened by the fact that the perp could be identified by anything other than DNA test when they finished with him, but at least they saved the taxpayers the expense of a trial and appeals.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 16, 2025 11:58 PM (lUFok)

250 244

The perp achieved the room temperature challenge.

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 16, 2025 11:58 PM (pggNd)

251 Forgot the link, past my bed time'

Think what you may. They look they are having a bit of fun.

https://tinyurl.com/m8ut4bz8

Posted by: javems at January 16, 2025 11:58 PM (8I4hW)

252
I think Elon was a lefty because that was the default in the tech bro world. Then it affected him directly through his kid which started him reevaluating a lot of things. And once you start noticing the discrepancies...
Posted by: Blanco Basura

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

Are you talking about the trans kid? He didn't come around on that until very recently. Another genius billionaire like Bill Ackman who was dead wrong on some major issues.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at January 16, 2025 11:58 PM (Ro7Og)

253 I guess I'm projecting my own tendencies on him.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 16, 2025 11:50 PM (Vvh2V)

I think most of the official stuff is still on server somewhere, what can be destroyed without a trace is either on paper files that were never submitted to the archives or converted to digital, or were not technically required to be retained.
Government records retention is an odd area, some records must be destroyed, some must be retained, and some no one cares about. There is generally a densely written procedure directive written about it, and then there is the verbal gloss that everyone thinks is the best interpretation of the rules, but no one will say for certain because legal counsel hasn't gotten back to anyone yet, but they might when they have the time to consider it and write up their conclusions.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 16, 2025 11:58 PM (D7oie)

254 170 Remember the two lawyers who firebombed an empty NYC police car in the George Floyd "mostly peaceful protests? Yeah, they got sentenced of fifteen months and a year. Convicted of conspiracy to commit arson and possess an explosive device.

Reduced charges and a slap on the wrist. (spits)

https://tinyurl.com/mr22rrtd

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 16, 2025 11:12 PM (l9lDf)
----
I may be wrong but I seem to remember even these penalties were reduced further.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono arsonisti at January 16, 2025 11:59 PM (i0xsb)

255 This is a depth of malevolence that must be scrubbed from the Justice system.

Posted by: JM in Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at January 16, 2025 11:23 PM (wAr5n)

Forgot to mention, this is excellent, well said.

"Malevolence." Yes, that is exactly what it is. Toss in the social media censorship and it is Totalitarian Rule with that capital 'T', the real shit. Use of force, legal and "other". I can't believe this is where our government went. Whoever they are, they must be torn out root and branch, no matter how loud the squeals. These people are just as evil as any bad guys in history. They must be gone and used, in the least, as lessons. At best, fun and games for some easily entertained inmates.

Posted by: RickZ at January 17, 2025 12:00 AM (gKDq2)

256 Agreed. All these "wanna snub Trump" aholes make me suspicious that they know something's up and maybe don't want to be there if there's a kablooey...

Posted by: JQ at January 16, 2025 11:56 PM (YoCnN)

In the godfather the driver who called in sick got the "leave the gun, take the cannoli" treatment. If something happens they'll move to the top of the list.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2025 12:00 AM (VwHCD)

257 >>All true, but I still wish he'd keep his cards closer to his vest. No need to give them any advantage, even though he can overcome it. It's time taken from other endeavors.

I've spent my career building businesses. I'm nowhere near as smart or successful as Trump by orders of magnitude.

But I am smart enough to know he does stuff for a reason. Not always right and definitely not what I would always do but he is not just shooting from the hip. He does things for a purpose even if it is not always obvious. And he's usually right.

He's trying to take down the biggest and most well financed mafia that has ever existed, our military industrial complex, that has already tried to murder him twice. And he's winning when nobody else has even tried.

Nobody else is willing to sacrifice their life to give it a shot and risk everything for me. Least I can do is not second guess him and have his back.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2025 12:01 AM (LkLld)

258 248

Loose as a goose is just DA BEST on occasion...I approve.

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 17, 2025 12:01 AM (pggNd)

259 "Malevolence." Yes, that is exactly what it is. Toss in the social media censorship and it is Totalitarian Rule with that capital 'T', the real shit. Use of force, legal and "other". I can't believe this is where our government went. Whoever they are, they must be torn out root and branch, no matter how loud the squeals. These people are just as evil as any bad guys in history. They must be gone and used, in the least, as lessons. At best, fun and games for some easily entertained inmates.

Posted by: RickZ at January 17, 2025 12:00 AM (gKDq2)

Field...of..the ...impaled. SAY IT...SAY IT!! lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2025 12:02 AM (VwHCD)

260 Are you talking about the trans kid? He didn't come around on that until very recently. Another genius billionaire like Bill Ackman who was dead wrong on some major issues.

Yep. And nobody's as idiotic as a roomful of Mensa level IQs talking politics.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 17, 2025 12:02 AM (lUFok)

261 Well said Jackstraw.

Posted by: eleven at January 17, 2025 12:02 AM (fV+MH)

262 77 I do so wish that Trump would have the giant Carnevale Viareggio "God Emperor Trump" puppet at his inaugural parade:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv1FE88JVps

(This thing was 8 stories tall! Notice all the details--whose head is that on his shoulder? and the Twitter sword is a hoot.)

Posted by: Beverly at January 16, 2025 10:25 PM (Epeb0)

Can someone please forward the original tweet to Elon Musk and ask him to buy it?

Posted by: firehorse at January 17, 2025 12:03 AM (ocl7o)

263 - Understandable Berserker but,,,
I'll be turning 70 come spring. I pick up the DN8 once in awhile but I'm not really a player. The picking intro and what stays with it through I'd Love to Change the World and Behind Blue Eyes are pretty much my upper limits. Other than that, open chords and beginner type barre chords are about it.
You guys and your sus this and added that? Well...

Posted by: TeeJ at January 17, 2025 12:04 AM (kjZOX)

264 Random thought. If you bought a house in the LA fire zone with an interest only loan and it burned, what's your incentive to not just walk away?

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 17, 2025 12:05 AM (lUFok)

265 243 I think Elon was a lefty because that was the default in the tech bro world. Then it affected him directly through his kid which started him reevaluating a lot of things. And once you start noticing the discrepancies...
Posted by: Blanco Basura

As they say on another site, the Red Pill is a suppository.
Posted by: mikeski at January 16, 2025 11:55 PM (DgGvY)

...and the pill has ridges on it, and it usually arrives unlubed.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 17, 2025 12:07 AM (rIfFG)

266 248

Loose as a goose is just DA BEST on occasion...I approve.

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 17, 2025 12:01 AM (pggNd)

I always say drunk berserker is best berserker. lol

I really don't drink much, never had the sweet tooth for it, but on occasions I'll do just enough to obtain Kolinahr.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2025 12:07 AM (VwHCD)

267 Oh MY...

There are some here that wish we would just move forward and deal with the present.....I say

👺 "RELEASE THE HOUNDS!!!!"

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 17, 2025 12:08 AM (pggNd)

268 []I think Elon was a lefty because that was the default in the tech bro world. Then it affected him directly through his kid which started him reevaluating a lot of things. And once you start noticing the discrepancies...
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at January 16, 2025 11:50 PM (lUFok)

Biden, the Brits and the EU were going to destroy him, and take everything away from him, Twitter, Tesla and SpaceX.
I think more of his motivation is seeing South Africa become what it is today. His kid may have gotten his attention, but I think South Africa is a major element.

Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2025 12:08 AM (D7oie)

269 California has a mortgage walk-away law, not sure of the entirety of it. It seems like it would be a matter of doing the math as far as replacement cost, time to construction, amount of equity, etc.

Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at January 17, 2025 12:09 AM (WvGHv)

270 Part of my journey, the midwest lefties were pretty hardcore about hunting and conservation. The farther West they started to get …. Weird. Vegetarian. Very much into far left causes and fairy tales. As a youngin, chasing tail, I found the odds were good, but the goods were odd.

I’m pretty slow, but I eventually decided they were all whack jobs, assorted trustafarians, sandal wearers. I’d rather live next door to a Logger than an “Environmentalist”. The more I dug into what was really going on, the less I liked.

It’s just bs lawfare, designed to prevent any resource utilization whatsoever. I love Wilderness and NF and BLM (the real BLM) and the rest if it. But I find them largely elitist, hypocritical in too many cases. Watermelon - green on the outside, red on the inside. They treat the whole place as if it’s a Museum. The West is huge with wide open spaces farther than most csn fathom. There is plenty for recreation and industry, hiking, biking, 4WD, horse back riding, rafting, and yes mining, logging, and the rest of it.

Alaska had a different angle on Statehood - they were intended to have a lot of autonomy with regard to extraction of resources. What happen?

Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2025 12:09 AM (E4WLu)

271 Quickly read through the Gainan story.

A LOT of messed up shit there.
Didn't know Gaiman's parents were big time OG Scientologists.

And wtf, Pavlovich tolerating all the bullshit and anal raping. She strikes me as a broken person, and vulnerable from the start.

Evil, stupidity, and lack of Judeo-Christian values produces bad outcomes like this. Along with money, which gives people the mistaken notion that they will certainly suffer no consequences.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 17, 2025 12:10 AM (ufFY8)

272 Understandable Berserker but,,,
I'll be turning 70 come spring. I pick up the DN8 once in awhile but I'm not really a player. The picking intro and what stays with it through I'd Love to Change the World and Behind Blue Eyes are pretty much my upper limits. Other than that, open chords and beginner type barre chords are about it.
You guys and your sus this and added that? Well...

Posted by: TeeJ at January 17, 2025 12:04 AM (kjZOX)

yeah I often wonder at what age I'll have to start to bleed away gear. I still have a 30 foot long wall of marshall stacks from back in the day. A monument to crazier times. I don't even use them anymore. I switched to more modern amps, but I can't bring myself to even think about parting with them. I guess I'll see what happens in the next 10-15 years.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2025 12:11 AM (VwHCD)

273 Field...of..the ...impaled. SAY IT...SAY IT!! lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2025 12:02 AM (VwHCD)

I can get behind that. This guy's story has me more pissed than anything ever in my life. I am so relieved he survived. But DAY-um. Your own government. Just where the fuck do you go? When justice is gone, it's never a good thing. I just hope we caught it in time and get enough of it straightened out. Remember: 2 years. That's all the real time Trump has as the Party in the White House usually loses the Midterms. Then again, that was The Before Times.

Posted by: RickZ at January 17, 2025 12:12 AM (gKDq2)

274 Dictators and communism..shoot your way out

Posted by: a dude in MI at January 17, 2025 12:13 AM (+I6Y/)

275 If these allegations are true, he's a sick fuck, and a rapist. Which is a damn shame because I've loved just about everything he's ever written from Sandman through his novels.

I'll never understand Gaiman's success.

It's been pure faggotry all along.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - resident squatch expert at January 17, 2025 12:13 AM (Kv5Mj)

276 - "Well said JackStraw."

- @257 Yep!
I just shake my head when people around here start talking about how stupid this or that thing he did was.
Never thinking he may just be giving them enough rope to expose and hang themselves.
Time will tell.

Posted by: TeeJ at January 17, 2025 12:13 AM (kjZOX)

277 Alaska had a different angle on Statehood - they were intended to have a lot of autonomy with regard to extraction of resources. What happen?
Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2025 12:09 AM (E4WLu)

the requirement for projects to submit environmental impact statements, and the rights of rando orgs to challenge and sue to stop the projects because of paperwork errors.
This is made worse because most of the land is owned by the Feds, who live in Northern Virginia

Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2025 12:14 AM (D7oie)

278 ***he []Mary Miles] always considered his work setting up and running SACO with Dai Li (who died in a plane crash in 1946) ***
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SS have always been busy little bees.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 17, 2025 12:15 AM (fWHsP)

279 I guess I'll see what happens in the next 10-15 years.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2025 12:11 AM (VwHCD)

{Makes appropriate hand gesture}

Call me.

Posted by: Rick Harrison at January 17, 2025 12:16 AM (gKDq2)

280
A great symphony of human suffering. Haven't read it in a while, so going on my meh memory.
Posted by: Puddleglum

Great, now I'll have this plotworm embedded.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 17, 2025 12:16 AM (63Dwl)

281 This is made worse because most of the land is owned by the Feds, who live in Northern Virginia
Posted by: Kindltot at January 17, 2025 12:14 AM (D7oie)

Which is the same with most Western States... and needs to change.

We could pay off the National Debt if we'd bother to sell off some land to citizens.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2025 12:17 AM (QAkQ3)

282 In my line of work currently,

I have to deal with some very traumatized and broken people.

There are days when I wonder if I am even capable of helping to repair the horror of their past.

I try not to bring it home with me. My family deserves a present husband and father without that heavy baggage.

still...and I have to try and sleep some nights.

Damn, that was too far gotta go.

Posted by: Nightwatch at January 17, 2025 12:17 AM (pggNd)

283 If you look at really old maps of Alaska, the whole North Slope is just labeled “Naval Reserve #4” or something like that. (Oil)

I don’t want Mr. Peabodies coal train to haul the whole mountain away, but locking everything up is the other extreme.

When Logging was an industry they built a lot of roads and maintained firebreaks, and also a lot of firefighting. The USFS has curtailed the controlled burns because they don’t want the liability. They may have lost the institutional knowledge to at least some degree as well.

Skills need to be practiced, that’s why the Army constantly trains, and then trains some more.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2025 12:18 AM (E4WLu)

284 I guess I'll see what happens in the next 10-15 years.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2025 12:11 AM (VwHCD)

{Makes appropriate hand gesture}

Call me.

Posted by: Rick Harrison at January 17, 2025 12:16 AM (gKDq2)

No...no...fuck no. I'll burn them first. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2025 12:21 AM (VwHCD)

285 OH, shit.... fire at a Moss Landing (near Monterey) BATTERY Storage facility... yeah... Tesla type batteries.

HAZMAT is gonna be lit... glad I don't live there.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2025 12:23 AM (QAkQ3)

286 Pardon Every Single J6 Political Prisoner – Every Single One

Indeed, especially those whose only crime was to walk into the rotunda invited by the Capitol police.

They need to go after Capitol police like Michael Fanone who committed perjury in their testimonies under oath (in MF's case, timestamped video directly contradicts his statements). Need to find out who ordered the doors to the Capitol be opened and who opened them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 17, 2025 12:24 AM (ynpvh)

287 It’s5. Did any person think that California can build ten homeless tiny homes in three years much less a city? I sure as hell do not.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at January 17, 2025 12:24 AM (17s+e)

288 F*cking cavemen understood fire better than the college-educated Democrats currently in charge of every level of government in California!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 17, 2025 12:25 AM (HlyYF)

289 Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2025 12:01 AM (LkLld)

If I gave you the impression that I don't have his back, let me assure you nothing could be further from the truth.

I've lost family members over my unwavering support for him.

I have no doubt that he has a plan, and is much more prepared for what he's up against than he was in his previous term.

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 17, 2025 12:25 AM (Vvh2V)

290 When Logging was an industry they built a lot of roads and maintained firebreaks, and also a lot of firefighting. The USFS has curtailed the controlled burns because they don’t want the liability. They may have lost the institutional knowledge to at least some degree as well.

Skills need to be practiced, that’s why the Army constantly trains, and then trains some more.
Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2025 12:18 AM (E4WLu)

Once again I will point out there are almost NO major fires East of Denver... yet yearly major fires West of Denver... why? East Coast is almost all privately held property, while Western States land is primarily owned by Fed and State Govs.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2025 12:25 AM (QAkQ3)

291 With a comment like that, I need to pick up the next bar tab for you, Berserker.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 16, 2025 11:46 PM (n4dGz)

Dawg!! What up? Well seeing that the next time you see me will be in texas, and there isn't actually a bar tab, we'll just have to get shitfaced. lol

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2025 12:27 AM (VwHCD)

292 287 It’s5. Did any person think that California can build ten homeless tiny homes in three years much less a city? I sure as hell do not.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at January 17, 2025 12:24 AM

After the rednecks in North Carolina rebuild their homes, they will be sending their used to tents to LA so the athletes in the Olympic Village will have somewhere to stay.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 17, 2025 12:27 AM (HlyYF)

293 We could pay off the National Debt if we'd bother to sell off some land to citizens.
——-

What makes you think they haven’t already sold it or pledged it as Collateral? That’s been my working theory for years. First, they want to lock it down so Americans can’t benefit from it. Seems only a skip and a hop to sell it. Or pledge it or some jiggery-pokery.

My favorites is “They are Public Lands!” Well sure. What if the Public wants to drill baby drill? Log it? Mine rare Erf minerals in the Csbinets, or California? Oh, that’s not what they mean.

Every spot is “unique” (just like everywhere else) You’ll never hear a greenie say “Oh yeah, that’ place is nothing special, go ahead and mine/log/drill all you want”.

Remember the Tellico dam and the “Snail Darter”? That was all bullshit. They use lawfare like this all the time. The Smelt and Sierra runoff is a similar deal. Newsome brags about removing dams. They don’t want desalination plants, they don’t wsnt reservoirs, and prevent removal of invasive exotics like Eucalyptus that is just flammable as hell. Really sad.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2025 12:28 AM (E4WLu)

294 After the rednecks in North Carolina rebuild their homes, they will be sending their used to tents to LA so the athletes in the Olympic Village will have somewhere to stay.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 17, 2025 12:27 AM (HlyYF)

*snicker*

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2025 12:29 AM (VwHCD)

295 LA house spared by fire is split in half after being hit by another natural disaster... and it has California residents on edge

https://mol.im/a/14294207

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, in due pezzi at January 17, 2025 12:31 AM (i0xsb)

296 >>I've lost family members over my unwavering support for him.

Family, friends .. hell, I even lost a blogger who called me a cultist after I was his shelving consultant.

3 days.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2025 12:32 AM (LkLld)

297 Heh
Just now watching National Treasure 2 and saw the Easter Egg roll scene with the dreaded White House Easter bunny.
Ha!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 17, 2025 12:32 AM (W/lyH)

298 I do remember allegations being made against Al Gore. Two things that memory seems to recall were statements by the woman - about him acting like a sex-crazed poodle, and wanting to release his chakra.

Were they ever substantiated? Or another victim of @MeToo selling out?
Posted by: Another Anon at January 16, 2025 11:45 PM (QNMaY)

=====

Chakra two masseuse
My third eye is unopened
Inconvenient couth

Posted by: Al Gore Writes Haiku at January 17, 2025 12:32 AM (FC8SQ)

299 Damn... the #7 key just fell off my keyboard.

777777777676777777777777777

yup thats me trying to stick it back on. bummer.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2025 12:33 AM (VwHCD)

300 Colorado has a LOT of pine bark beetle kilt trees. Ugly as well as dangerous. “They” won’t allow logging of dead timber either. It isn’t just California that has issues.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2025 12:34 AM (E4WLu)

301 My sister has a large book full of SciFi short stories. One of them is similar to this. It was creepy. Basically hotel owner in some warm, nice, tropical climate, greets his odd but nice guests. Basically, guests are from the very far future and come back to the past to use human suffering as music entertainment. A meteor would land nearby setting off a worldwide plague and these future people were there to record it all. A great symphony of human suffering. Haven't read it in a while, so going on my meh memory.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 16, 2025 11:25 PM (f87vz)
*********************************************

Vintage Season by Henry Kuttner and Catherine L. Moore, 1946.

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at January 17, 2025 12:35 AM (mOLvO)

302 295 LA house spared by fire is split in half after being hit by another natural disaster... and it has California residents on edge

https://mol.im/a/14294207
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, in due pezzi at January 17, 2025 12:31 AM (i0xsb)

2 MILLION 1 Bedroom 1 Bath house? It deserved to die!

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2025 12:35 AM (QAkQ3)

303 Mexico: Enormous explosion rips through casino

https://mol.im/a/14293891

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, esplosione e fuoco at January 17, 2025 12:35 AM (i0xsb)

304 Every spot is “unique” (just like everywhere else) You’ll never hear a greenie say “Oh yeah, that’ place is nothing special, go ahead and mine/log/drill all you want”.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2025 12:28 AM

There was some discussion about lithium mining in Death Valley a few years back.

It was quickly squashed by all of the California Democrats. Their argument was that the "rugged beauty" of Death Valley should not be despoiled.

If Death Valley is not fair game, I am trying to figure out where the Leftists think all of the copper and lithium and cobalt for their "zero emissions" future is going to come from.

Did I miss an AOS post regarding a break-through in the mining of unicorn farts?

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 17, 2025 12:36 AM (HlyYF)

305 This post is worth a read, and the conclusion is...interesting

Left unsaid are all those in "higher education" that have retarded our children and removed the essential process of critical thinking from their minds.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 17, 2025 12:37 AM (ynpvh)

306 Oscar bosses REFUSING to cancel Hollywood's show amid LA fires

https://mol.im/a/14289055

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono matti at January 17, 2025 12:38 AM (i0xsb)

307 If Death Valley is not fair game, I am trying to figure out where the Leftists think all of the copper and lithium and cobalt for their "zero emissions" future is going to come from.

Did I miss an AOS post regarding a break-through in the mining of unicorn farts?
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 17, 2025 12:36 AM (HlyYF)

There is a Yuge open pit copper mine in Calif... no longer in production just a huge hole in the ground..

A project was started to fill it with trash from Southern Calif, as there are multiple rail lines going to it...

Project was killed by? Environmental laws. So, we still have a trash problem in LA, and a yuge hole in the ground.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2025 12:39 AM (QAkQ3)

308 She's said it so flippantly. To them, "rape" would be to force yourself on a "pure" Muslim woman. To them, this isn't "rape" - these girls are nothing. Just shit on their shoes. They barely see them as human.

Pure racism and hate. These are the people our Gov't and other Gov'ts have decided are better replacements for us.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 17, 2025 12:40 AM (ynpvh)

309 >>It was quickly squashed by all of the California Democrats. Their argument was that the "rugged beauty" of Death Valley should not be despoiled.

>>If Death Valley is not fair game, I am trying to figure out where the Leftists think all of the copper and lithium and cobalt for their "zero emissions" future is going to come from.

From flyover country, where you dirt-smudged peasants will despoil your natural beauty to please your coastal betters, of course.

Posted by: Democrat Environmentalist at January 17, 2025 12:41 AM (FC8SQ)

310 Harry Reid is still dead, hopefully.

Remember the gubbmint spent about 90 gazillion dollars building an underground nuclear waste repository? And then Harry decided “nah …”

Either pay the money back, or start stackin’. Stuff like that is crazy.

There was a (sort of) top secret underground government facility under the Greenbriar in Virginia. Given the amount of reinforced concrete they went through, more than a few locals knew that “something” was there. Some dickhead reporter did a story and Boom!, they just shut it down like that. That guy should have been ran through a woodchipper.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2025 12:41 AM (E4WLu)

311 Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2025 12:32 AM (LkLld)

😂😂😂

Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at January 17, 2025 12:42 AM (Vvh2V)

312 Another huge mistake the west has made is the stupid idea that all cultures are equal. They are not.

The old joke: If all cultures are equal then cannibalism is just a matter of taste...

It is a fundamental truth that bringing in people whose cultures promote activities contrary to the laws of the country they go to are NOT compatible.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 17, 2025 12:42 AM (ynpvh)

313 Luxury Cancun resort holds family hostage to stop them reporting issue with food

https://mol.im/a/14291985

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, erano pieni di microbi at January 17, 2025 12:44 AM (i0xsb)

314 Project was killed by? Environmental laws. So, we still have a trash problem in LA, and a yuge hole in the ground.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 17, 2025 12:39 AM

I didn't know that the saying, "California Democrats wouldn't know their own ass from a giant hole in the ground." was actually based on true events!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 17, 2025 12:44 AM (HlyYF)

315 310 Harry Reid is still dead, hopefully.
...

Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2025 12:41 AM (E4WLu)

But not buried in pieces in some undisclosed part of the Nevada desert.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 17, 2025 12:44 AM (ynpvh)

316 What a farce.
Biden is being awarded a "Distinguished Public Service Medal" for "leadership" that "left both the United States and the Department of Defense far stronger and far better postured."

https://tinyurl.com/4fv3wzfx

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, e una vergogna at January 17, 2025 12:46 AM (i0xsb)

317 Leftists think it is OK, so they say anyways that all those icky pollution industries have been outsourced to you know where. It is no use arguing facts logic or reason. Frankly we were a better country when the Cuyahoga had an octane rating.

Look at Portland, Ore. mining town, or region. Now they are bunch of soy boy anarchists? Probably because their industry has been destroyed, so they turn to vice, gambling, drugs, and extremism. Idle hands really is the Devil’s work.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2025 12:47 AM (E4WLu)

318 315 310 Harry Reid is still dead, hopefully.
...

Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2025 12:41 AM

But not buried in pieces in some undisclosed part of the Nevada desert.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 17, 2025 12:44 AM

Probably would be in pieces if a Moron had managed to sneak a few exercise bands into the coffin.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at January 17, 2025 12:48 AM (HlyYF)

319 Did government have a long range plan or any idea of “What are all these people going to do”? When outsourcing whole swaths of entire industries? Just keep sending emails back and forth and the “service economy” and now “universal basic income”. We’ll leave the Lawyers alone for a little bit longer, but with all due respect to Shakespeare, the first thing we need to do is kill all the economistts, as well as “experts”.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2025 12:50 AM (E4WLu)

320 Washington Post cartoonist 'made child porn using AI'

https://mol.im/a/14293243

Remember drawings are not actionable porn. Law said so.

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, e intollerabile at January 17, 2025 12:51 AM (i0xsb)

321 Harry Reid is still dead, hopefully.
...

Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2025 12:41 AM (E4WLu)

But not buried in pieces in some undisclosed part of the Nevada desert.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 17, 2025 12:44 AM (ynpvh)

Fuck it, take the win.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2025 12:52 AM (VwHCD)

322 What a farce.
Biden is being awarded a "Distinguished Public Service Medal" for "leadership" that "left both the United States and the Department of Defense far stronger and far better postured."

https://tinyurl.com/4fv3wzfx

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, e una vergogna at January 17, 2025 12:46 AM (i0xsb)

Better Postured for what? Anal rape?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2025 12:53 AM (VwHCD)

323 The five tech titans that will sit with Trump during inauguration

https://mol.im/a/14292835

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, i piu ricchi at January 17, 2025 12:54 AM (i0xsb)

324 We think it is best for the forests to burn down to the ground from time to time.
And everything around them.

Posted by: The National Forest Service at January 17, 2025 12:56 AM (c6hLR)

325 RepRaskin said deporting r*pists, p*dophiles, and m*rderers would "set back our efforts to protect survivors and stop abuse."

https://tinyurl.com/236pdzmc

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, stupido at January 17, 2025 12:58 AM (i0xsb)

326 Need to move all govt offices into heavily forested areas...

Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2025 12:58 AM (YoCnN)

327 Nobody actually believes that. Maybe idiots. The culture bit is to drive wedges into the culture, and guilt trip people into agreeing with or at least tolerating retarded stupid shit, and accepting an ever decreasing standard of living, and accept outrageous shit. Like now.

I enjoyed the “My Truth” bit. This was when I realized Academe was turning into a racket. Any opinion was equally valid to objective proven fact. Because - all cultures are equal! Who are we to criticize their culture? It’s an insidious mind virus.

None of the “professors” espousing these views want to live anywhere near anything other than the Very Best.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2025 12:59 AM (E4WLu)

328 Vintage Season by Henry Kuttner and Catherine L. Moore, 1946.
Posted by: Zombie Breitbart

Yep! That's it!

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 17, 2025 12:59 AM (f87vz)

329 The “Pulitzer Prize” Cartoon kiddie fucker had the real genuine McCoy stuff, as well as artificial kiddie porn.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2025 01:02 AM (E4WLu)

330 322 What a farce.
Biden is being awarded a "Distinguished Public Service Medal" for "leadership" that "left both the United States and the Department of Defense far stronger and far better postured."

https://tinyurl.com/4fv3wzfx

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, e una vergogna at January 17, 2025 12:46 AM (i0xsb)

Better Postured for what? Anal rape?
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Yes.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 17, 2025 01:02 AM (f87vz)

331
It's interesting how life has adapted to fire. Read up fire-activated seeds. That's plants adapting to a fire prone environment.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2025 01:08 AM (w6EFb)

332 youtu.be/nQuaMCU3jQA

Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2025 01:10 AM (YoCnN)

333 I'm bored.

https://tinyurl.com/3p7jcjac

Posted by: JackStraw at January 17, 2025 01:13 AM (LkLld)

334 Great voice - nice song - great hair

https://youtu.be/oo3qEBcGliU

Posted by: Ciampino - Intermezzo at January 17, 2025 01:16 AM (i0xsb)

335 291 With a comment like that, I need to pick up the next bar tab for you, Berserker.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 16, 2025 11:46 PM (n4dGz)

Dawg!! What up? Well seeing that the next time you see me will be in texas, and there isn't actually a bar tab, we'll just have to get shitfaced. lol
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 17, 2025 12:27 AM (VwHCD)

You always were the practical one. Great to say hi to you.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 17, 2025 01:20 AM (n4dGz)

336 Sorry. Guess Jean-Luc was too mellow....

youtu.be/sCcwfZ2ArK4&t=49

Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2025 01:22 AM (YoCnN)

337 emember the Tellico dam and the “Snail Darter”? That was all bullshit. They use lawfare like this all the time. The Smelt and Sierra runoff is a similar deal. ......
Posted by: Common Tater at January 17, 2025 12:28 AM (E4WLu)

Spotted owls to eliminate Pacific Northwest logging, for the win!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 17, 2025 01:23 AM (n4dGz)

338 That Neil Gaiman story bothers me on several points. First off, he invited the woman to take a bath... at his house... in the garden outside. And she DID. Now, look, if she said no, okay you stop there but I mean... what exactly did she ponder was about to happen when she gets naked in his back yard to take a bath in a big tub outdoors at a man's house???

I am fully willing to believe that Gaiman is a masher and a scumbag, he's one of those loud "male feminist" "believe all women" guys. You know what they are inevitably like. But this story just doesn't hit right on so many levels.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2025 01:26 AM (2VST1)

339 306 Oscar bosses REFUSING to cancel Hollywood's show amid LA fires

https://mol.im/a/14289055
Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, sono matti at January 17, 2025 12:38 AM (i0xsb)

Simply another reminder that Hollywood folks are more important than the rest of us. Just ask them.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at January 17, 2025 01:26 AM (n4dGz)

340 Mmm... cream of Spotted Owl soup!

It's what loggers eat for lunch.

Posted by: JQ at January 17, 2025 01:27 AM (YoCnN)

341 Spotted owls to eliminate Pacific Northwest logging, for the win!

Now the Spotted Owls are being displaced by Barred Owls, an invasive owl species. The state has a plan, though, to murder the owls at a rate of $3000 per owl. Instead of giving individual hunters the okay to kill em, no the state wants to do it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 17, 2025 01:30 AM (2VST1)

342 I don't believe a word of Pavlovich's story. First, she tried private extortion, andvwhen he refused she went public with this BS.

It's an old and frequently used tactic. Don't fall for it.

Posted by: Misanthropic at January 17, 2025 01:37 AM (H1der)

343 316 What a farce.
Biden is being awarded a "Distinguished Public Service Medal" for "leadership" that "left both the United States and the Department of Defense far stronger and far better postured."

https://tinyurl.com/4fv3wzfx
Posted by: Ciampino
---------

Awarded by...wait for it...Lloyd Austin

Posted by: Mike Hammer,Mike etc., etc. at January 17, 2025 01:46 AM (XeU6L)

344 Hello horde.

12:01 Eastern on Monday cannot get here soon enough. Going to be a long weekend waiting for the next outrage.

Posted by: Pete Bog at January 17, 2025 01:51 AM (/Elj1)

345 331
It's interesting how life has adapted to fire. Read up fire-activated seeds. That's plants adapting to a fire prone environment.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2025 01:08 AM (w6EFb)
----
That's how my Botany Prof got into it. He was a young state forester in South Africa and noticed just that after fires, particularly conifers. So he went back and eventually got his PhD specializing in Senescence. If you look at 2 pine combs, one burnt and one not, the burnt one has opened up and exposed the seeds, some of which may now have cracked husks. Normally abscisic acid keeps the seed dormant. Once oxygen get in it destroys the abscisic acid and the seed germinates.
That's it in a nutshell.

Posted by: Ciampino - pun alert at January 17, 2025 01:52 AM (i0xsb)

346 Google announces it will not implement fact checks in search results or YouTube videos and will not use them for ranking or content removal, defying EU regulations.

https://t.co/wbpBgV4s7J

Posted by: Ciampino - Calling their bluff? at January 17, 2025 01:56 AM (i0xsb)

347 Los Angeles County: We’re gonna have to survey, inspect, approve, authorize & scrutinize that debris before starting to put your life back together

https://tinyurl.com/bdyprfex

Posted by: Ciampino - Calling Los Angelinos at January 17, 2025 02:01 AM (i0xsb)

348 When will the Demented-in-chief release the final blizzard of pre-emptive pardons? Monday morning 11:00 am??

Will Joe award himself a presidential medal of freedom?

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 17, 2025 02:03 AM (Sgq8y)

349 Voting...

If we limited it to only land holders again, there would be libs selling title to 1 sq inch of somewhere...

I think the only way to rachet it back is to make it in person voting only, with ID, and one day (except the military overseas).

Those of us who care will endure the wait. The others, not so much.

Posted by: Jimmy Doolittle at January 17, 2025 02:03 AM (sguht)

350 331
It's interesting how life has adapted to fire. Read up fire-activated seeds. That's plants adapting to a fire prone environment.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at January 17, 2025 01:08 AM (w6EFb)

In Fire State Cali...its pretty cool the giant sequoia and redwoods have fire resistant sap. How 'convenient'

Posted by: a dude in MI at January 17, 2025 02:15 AM (+I6Y/)

351 Elon Musk thinks Mars should have a government.

A: What if it already does.
ii: Why go to Mars when Antartica is right here.

Posted by: DaveA at January 17, 2025 02:17 AM (FhXTo)

352 This isn't me. I went to bed a long time ago. Really.

https://youtu.be/-q9TXKvdT3Y

G'nited already, y'all

Posted by: mindful webworker in disguise at January 17, 2025 02:34 AM (RhFgK)

353 Good night, Horde, I'm tucking you all in and putting out the light. Sweet dreams.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at January 17, 2025 02:47 AM (Sgq8y)

354 You know, "landowner" and "land holder" are somewhat flexible legal terms. There must have been a loan agent or a real estate lawyer who let you think that signing on to a mortgage made you king of something, but there's a fascinating history of precedents there. Make it the basis for the franchise, and you might get some surprises. You don't always win a bar fight, even if you start it.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 17, 2025 02:48 AM (zdLoL)

355 This guy was on a flight between Barbados and ATL and got video of the Rocket burning up in the atmosphere.

https://tinyurl.com/53awsz9n

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at January 17, 2025 02:50 AM (pIfcn)

356 1 hour to go

Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2025 02:55 AM (fwDg9)

357 Cat started up with his 2 am shit, which got the dog going. So here I am.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at January 17, 2025 03:04 AM (Dm8we)

358 Should have just gotten up

Posted by: Skip at January 17, 2025 03:43 AM (fwDg9)

359 358 Should have just gotten up
Posted by: Skip

Biff's cat must be really loud.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at January 17, 2025 03:49 AM (f87vz)

360 Morning, fellow insomaniacals. I'm up, and should go work out, but I've gone three times this week and don't *need* to. But while it will be mild tomorrow am, the cold front will be here Sunday, and I may not get a chance to exercise outdoors for almost a week.

A second cup of coffee will help me decide. Meanwhile, we steam into a three-day weekend, yes?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 17, 2025 03:55 AM (omVj0)

361 TECH THREAD IS NOOD

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