Mid-Morning Art Thread

A Fallen Giant, Calaveras Grove, California
Marianne North

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 st!

Posted by: Miracle Max at January 27, 2025 09:31 AM (+QlJh)

2 Certainly lots of details

Posted by: Skip at January 27, 2025 09:31 AM (fwDg9)

3 A miracle first! Off, sock!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2025 09:31 AM (+QlJh)

4 Yup, that's Cali...

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2025 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

5 first?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2025 09:32 AM (J2vNu)

6 If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2025 09:32 AM (NpAcC)

7 I've had a redwood picnic table...never seen any sequoia outdoor furniture.

Posted by: BignJames at January 27, 2025 09:32 AM (Yj6Os)

8 Is that the giant's hair? Cuz it looks like a tree fell over.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2025 09:33 AM (ExV1e)

9 Something is off. It doesn't look good. Would not hang.

Posted by: Someday I'll choose a nick and stick with it but not today. I'm a dangerous radical. at January 27, 2025 09:33 AM (89Sog)

10 A Fallen Giant, Calaveras Grove, California
Marianne ~~North~~

Beardsley!

Posted by: Some Nun at January 27, 2025 09:33 AM (+QlJh)

11 The whole forest is now smoldering cinders now.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at January 27, 2025 09:33 AM (BHrzb)

12 No. Just no.

Posted by: Czech Chick at January 27, 2025 09:33 AM (fpVC1)

13 Looks like a multi-tentacled alien from Arcturus. (No ofeense to any Arcturans reading. I'll bet you find a naked display of tentacles disturbing too.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2025 09:33 AM (J2vNu)

14 Finally, I'm the first one to see where the sniper is hiding.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2025 09:33 AM (xCA6C)

15 Unhappy little tree....

Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2025 09:34 AM (VE6XX)

16 Nice tree

Posted by: steevy at January 27, 2025 09:34 AM (KQk9m)

17 I like the subtle clue that reveals the size of the tree. There's a ladder leaning next to the trunk to the left.

Posted by: Kris at January 27, 2025 09:34 AM (EwaUh)

18 Is that the giant's hair? Cuz it looks like a tree fell over.

I'm pretty sure it's an Ent taking a nap.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2025 09:34 AM (xCA6C)

19 What is the grayish thing near the center that looks like a Homo habilis skull?

(Oh, I know what's coming. . . .)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2025 09:34 AM (J2vNu)

20
It's one of them spaghetti trees.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2025 09:34 AM (dxSpM)

21 Looks like a multi-tentacled alien from Arcturus. (No ofeense to any Arcturans reading. I'll bet you find a naked display of tentacles disturbing too.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2025 09:33 AM

That was my first thought, too. The roots just look off.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2025 09:34 AM (+QlJh)

22 Nancy Pelosi tipped over?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 27, 2025 09:35 AM (9J7i5)

23 That's Cali, it should be on fire. Don't think I'd hang, kind of odd.
Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 27, 2025 09:35 AM (6v8aM)

24 Cool. I like this.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 09:35 AM (77rzZ)

25 Looks like an unfinished illustration from a Boy's Life magazine. The artist is yet to draw Chip and Lyle dramatically backing away from the grizzly they stumbled upon as it hibernated inside the hollow log.

Posted by: red speck at January 27, 2025 09:35 AM (0Id0S)

26 Usually when a tree falls over, there's a big old ball of dirt around the roots.

Posted by: huerfano at January 27, 2025 09:35 AM (n2swS)

27 It's one of them spaghetti trees.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 27, 2025 09:34 AM

So that's where we get spaghetti squash.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2025 09:35 AM (+QlJh)

28 What is the grayish thing near the center that looks like a Homo habilis skull?

It's a stone. DJT just took a walk here and decided he had extras.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2025 09:35 AM (xCA6C)

29 It's a tree vagina.

Duh.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2025 09:35 AM (mT+6a)

30 Looks like a children's book illustration. This is not "high art"! Thumbs down.

Posted by: runner at January 27, 2025 09:35 AM (g47mK)

31 Does this hurt the tree?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2025 09:36 AM (C8+CO)

32 What is the grayish thing near the center that looks like a Homo habilis skull?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Kennewick Man

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

33 Looks like worms.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at January 27, 2025 09:36 AM (SfhV1)

34 It's a tree vagina.

Duh.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2025 09:35 AM

An Entwife! Hoom!

Posted by: Treebeard at January 27, 2025 09:36 AM (+QlJh)

35 Have we seen this artist before? Her name seems familiar.

Posted by: Tuna at January 27, 2025 09:37 AM (oaGWv)

36 A big, unhappy tree. You're close but you still don't quite get it.

Posted by: Zombie Bob Ross at January 27, 2025 09:37 AM (LxER7)

37 Good morning

Can't figure out why the artist chose to paint this. It is just uninteresting .

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at January 27, 2025 09:37 AM (t/2Uw)

38 I was positive somebody would reply that it *is* a Homo habilis skull.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2025 09:37 AM (J2vNu)

39 Fun fact: Those tall redwoods don't get their water from the ground. Due to their great height, the trees have an ingenious means of capturing water from the air and processing it through their branches.

It's also why they can be completely hollowed-out in the center and still flourish.

Posted by: red speck at January 27, 2025 09:38 AM (0Id0S)

40 I know what the gray thing is! It's a member of the Fiend Without a Face species! Shoot it, quick!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2025 09:38 AM (J2vNu)

41 26 Usually when a tree falls over, there's a big old ball of dirt around the roots.

Posted by: huerfano at January 27, 2025 09:35 AM (n2swS)

And a big hole in the ground where the roots were.

Posted by: davidt at January 27, 2025 09:38 AM (i0F8b)

42 >>If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?

Just like a man to not see me standing right here painting it!

Posted by: Marianne North at January 27, 2025 09:38 AM (WbBbu)

43 The big question is: Did it make a sound?

Posted by: red speck at January 27, 2025 09:38 AM (0Id0S)

44 Have we seen this artist before? Her name seems familiar.

Posted by: Tuna at January 27, 2025 09:37 AM (oaGWv)

Yup. Three times!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 27, 2025 09:39 AM (d9fT1)

45 It's a tree vagina.
"Looks like worms."

And that's the 'ette's. Just wait until the miso-gynists show up!

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 27, 2025 09:39 AM (zdLoL)

46 The torn parts of the fallen tree don't look right to me- too wavy

should be more spindly and broken looking
IMO YMMV FWIW LTGTR

no hang

Posted by: Don Black at January 27, 2025 09:39 AM (AOsQT)

47 Might hang.

Need to ponder.

Posted by: mpfs at January 27, 2025 09:40 AM (DTxOl)

48 If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?
Posted by: redridinghood at January 27, 2025

***
It sure does if it lands on a squirrel. SPLAT!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2025 09:40 AM (J2vNu)

49 >>It's a tree vagina. Duh.

My homegirl Marianne gets it!
*winks*

Posted by: Georgia O'Keefe at January 27, 2025 09:40 AM (WbBbu)

50 Too sad, would not hang.

Posted by: Treebeard at January 27, 2025 09:40 AM (i0F8b)

51 The sad thing is,
How do you make magnificent trees like sequoia look unimpressive and boring.

If you've never seen the Redwoods, go. Yeah yeah, it's California, but you cannot understand these trees without seeing them up close and personal.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2025 09:41 AM (mT+6a)

52 The private high school in my neighborhood has some very large oaks lining the walkways. One blew over in a storm and they had it put back up. It’s been more than 5 years and it looks good.

Posted by: Oglebay at January 27, 2025 09:41 AM (ogTiX)

53 Where's the machete-wielding serial killer?

Posted by: XTC at January 27, 2025 09:41 AM (sm6Pk)

54 29 It's a tree vagina

Would?

Posted by: Taggart at January 27, 2025 09:41 AM (HcoTw)

55 Looks like a children's book illustration. This is not "high art"! Thumbs down.
Posted by: runner

Some of the most vivid artwork that I remember from childhood were in my various books about nature.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

56 Who knew trees grew snakes?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 27, 2025 09:42 AM (Wg6v7)

57 Yup. Three times!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Thought so. Was looking at her botanical art. Beautifully detailed.

Posted by: Tuna at January 27, 2025 09:42 AM (oaGWv)

58 >>17 I like the subtle clue that reveals the size of the tree. There's a ladder leaning next to the trunk to the left.
Posted by: Kris at January 27, 2025 09:34 AM (EwaUh)
__
I missed that. That detail makes the painting so much better.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at January 27, 2025 09:42 AM (bNf8H)

59 TIMBER!

Looks like the inside was all rotted away.

Hang? Maybe in the garage.

If a tree falls in the forest does Al Gore shed a tear or cash in carbon credits?

Posted by: The Man from Athens at January 27, 2025 09:42 AM (icmmM)

60 Ladder is there for the lumber estimator.
They're going to whittle it into a toothpick.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 27, 2025 09:43 AM (zdLoL)

61 >If you've never seen the Redwoods, go. Yeah yeah, it's California, but you cannot understand these trees without seeing them up close and personal.

Posted by: nurse ratched
---

I would like that very much, but they put them in California, so...

Posted by: Don Black at January 27, 2025 09:43 AM (AOsQT)

62 This has possibilities. Something more delicate though.

Posted by: Georgia O'Keeffe at January 27, 2025 09:43 AM (Aqu9a)

63 The "artwork" looks like an illustration from a child's book. Back in the 70's we had geography books in school that had that kind of illustration. They were in our US history and Indiana history books also.

Interesting.... But ultimately only remarkable because it is so very bland and generic.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 27, 2025 09:43 AM (4XwPj)

64 We have an argument going on Facebook right now over a giant redwood tree they had to drop. Crapload of people whining about cutting it down.

Tree died two years ago. Had no top. Was literally a dead tree standing. Gets tiring explaining to people about dead trees being fuel for forest fires.

#CaliforniaBurning

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2025 09:44 AM (C8+CO)

65 That's like, totally burly, man!

Posted by: banana Dream at January 27, 2025 09:44 AM (Y6IkP)

66 A Fallen Giant, Calaveras Grove, California

Wow, that frog must've been huge.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 09:44 AM (77rzZ)

67 Can't figure out why the artist chose to paint this. It is just uninteresting .
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I was feeling a little horny.

Posted by: Marianne at January 27, 2025 09:44 AM (dg+HA)

68 Alternate title:

"Tremors 7: Attack of the Bearded Worms!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2025 09:44 AM (iJfKG)

69 you cannot understand these trees without seeing them up close and personal.

"Here I was born, and here I died." Kim Novak personal.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 27, 2025 09:44 AM (zdLoL)

70 >>It's a tree vagina.

Looks gnarly.

Posted by: Hope Solo at January 27, 2025 09:45 AM (Y1sOo)

71 I've been to the petrified forest and the Red Wood forest. We actually drove through a giant Sequoia. I've been everywhere, man...

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 27, 2025 09:45 AM (Wg6v7)

72 Well, it's no O'Keefe

Posted by: Ben Had at January 27, 2025 09:45 AM (bBNPJ)

73 Some artists can't do hands. This one can't do roots.

Posted by: fd at January 27, 2025 09:45 AM (vFG9F)

74 "Tremors 7: Attack of the Bearded Worms!
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I'd watch that.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 27, 2025 09:45 AM (Wg6v7)

75 13 Looks like a multi-tentacled alien from Arcturus. (No ofeense to any Arcturans reading. I'll bet you find a naked display of tentacles disturbing too.)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Now that you mention it... (unzips pants)

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at January 27, 2025 09:45 AM (JCZqz)

76 How many hot tubs you figger that tree will yield?

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2025 09:46 AM (Aqu9a)

77 Tree died two years ago. Had no top. Was literally a dead tree standing. Gets tiring explaining to people about dead trees being fuel for forest fires.
---------------
As they waterlog, they become targets for lightning.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 27, 2025 09:47 AM (Wg6v7)

78 >>Can't figure out why the artist chose to paint this. It is just uninteresting .

Same. If it is meant to be vagina-ish, it's not very inviting! O'Keefe knew to make her flowers lush and welcoming. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 09:47 AM (WbBbu)

79 Like it, would hang. Colors are great and it tells a story.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 27, 2025 09:47 AM (2NHgQ)

80 I was going to visit the Petrified Forest, but I was too scared.

Posted by: Oh, no. Punz at January 27, 2025 09:47 AM (dg+HA)

81 That's a lot of grand pianos and baseball bats!

Posted by: El Rushbo at January 27, 2025 09:49 AM (dg+HA)

82 78 >>Can't figure out why the artist chose to paint this. It is just uninteresting .

Same. If it is meant to be vagina-ish, it's not very inviting! O'Keefe knew to make her flowers lush and welcoming. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 09:47 AM (WbBbu

Trans vaginas are vaginas too!

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at January 27, 2025 09:49 AM (y+qgR)

83 There is unrest in the forrest
There is trouble with the trees

Posted by: Taggart at January 27, 2025 09:49 AM (HcoTw)

84 >>I was going to visit the Petrified Forest, but I was too scared.

Ah, so you arbor a fear of trees?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 09:49 AM (WbBbu)

85 Sequoiadendron Giganteum!

Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2025 09:49 AM (iu4Pw)

86 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. So. They're starting work on Fallen Timbers Estates. A luxurious residential area for 55+. Trees like that, the golf course is gonna be a bitch.
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2025 09:50 AM (W/lyH)

87 The organic tree farmer has spoken.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 27, 2025 09:51 AM (bBNPJ)

88 I talk to the trees
And this one fell over
On me

Posted by: Clint Deadwood at January 27, 2025 09:51 AM (vFG9F)

89 Jeeesh weasel. Too loud.

It's not even light out yet.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2025 09:51 AM (mT+6a)

90 >>Ah, so you arbor a fear of trees?
__
Fear made her want to leave.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at January 27, 2025 09:51 AM (bNf8H)

91 >>Trans vaginas are vaginas too!

*types*
*deletes*

Don't want to spoil the art thread with an honest description of the ghoulish tinkering done to create that. . . it's the stuff of H.P. Lovecraft.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 09:51 AM (WbBbu)

92 I like both the colors and details which the artist probably did a great job of capturing. Thanks, Kris, for pointing out the ladder.

Marianne North was a prolific English Victorian biologist and botanical artist, notable for her plant and landscape paintings, her extensive foreign travels, her writings, her plant discoveries and the creation of her gallery at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Wikipedia
Born: October 24, 1830, Hastings, United Kingdom
Died: August 30, 1890 (age 59 years), Alderley, United Kingdom

I wouldn't hang this painting but I'm enjoying looking through her body of work (wikiart dot org & others). Thank you.

Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 27, 2025 09:51 AM (NFX2v)

93 It sure does if it lands on a squirrel. SPLAT!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2025 09:40 AM

That is a funny joke because the squirrel gets dead!

Posted by: Dug at January 27, 2025 09:52 AM (+QlJh)

94 The Obamas are about to divorce and we get to look at a dead tree? For an hour and a half? This is the best we can do?

Posted by: Headed To Hot Air Art Thread at January 27, 2025 09:52 AM (G5+As)

95 What is the grayish thing near the center that looks like a Homo habilis skull?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Kennewick Man
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)
***

Pasco Man laughs.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2025 09:52 AM (W/lyH)

96 >>>>Ah, so you arbor a fear of trees?
__
>>Fear made her want to leave.

But you still pine for her. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 09:52 AM (WbBbu)

97 I like because trees but, the root ball looks a little creepy. Would not hang.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 27, 2025 09:52 AM (/U5Yz)

98 Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2025 09:51 AM (mT+6a)
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As an organic tree farmer it's difficult to contain my enthusiasm!

Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2025 09:52 AM (iu4Pw)

99 Sequoiadendron Giganteum!
Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2025 09:49 AM

Latin for "big-ass tree".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2025 09:53 AM (+QlJh)

100 Well there is enough wood there for a nice cabin and lots of leftover firewood.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at January 27, 2025 09:53 AM (icmmM)

101 Kennewick Man
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)
***

Pasco Man laughs.
Posted by: Diogenes

Richland Man Trumps all y'all.

Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2025 09:54 AM (mT+6a)

102 >>As an organic tree farmer it's difficult to contain my enthusiasm!

So you're saying you wood?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 09:54 AM (WbBbu)

103 What is the grayish thing near the center that looks like a Homo habilis skull?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Kennewick Man
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)
***

Pasco Man laughs.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2025 09:52 AM

Gnarly!

Posted by: Encino Man at January 27, 2025 09:54 AM (+QlJh)

104 If your Sequoiadendron Giganteum lasts more than four hours, see your doctor.

Posted by: The Legal Department at January 27, 2025 09:54 AM (dg+HA)

105 Help! I've fallen, and I can't get up!

Posted by: Tree at January 27, 2025 09:54 AM (i0F8b)

106 I was going to visit the Petrified Forest, but I was too scared.
Posted by: Oh, no. Punz

So, fear over-elmed you?

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 09:54 AM (77rzZ)

107 Organic tree farmers are high on DOGE Hit List. The bennies and grift will end!

Posted by: Stoats Hardest Hit. at January 27, 2025 09:55 AM (G5+As)

108 51 The sad thing is,
How do you make magnificent trees like sequoia look unimpressive and boring.

If you've never seen the Redwoods, go. Yeah yeah, it's California, but you cannot understand these trees without seeing them up close and personal.
Posted by: nurse ratched

There are some huge Sitka Spruces in western WA and Oregon. They are impressive.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 27, 2025 09:55 AM (/U5Yz)

109 NBC News: Trump administration tests the power to email every federal employee at once. The new capability could allow Trump to communicate directly with millions of federal workers across dozens of agencies simultaneously.

I deleted it and reported it as SPAM. There was no warning and it was from an external source. I’m sure that the cyber security for this new shit is just top notch. (Sarcasm)

I never thought I would be living in a dystopian novel. Technology will make dictatorships harder to fight.

Preparing for the biggest "YOU'RE FIRED!" evah! No doubt a fantasy of his. Or, a loyalty oath to sign and return. Not one to the Constitution, of course.

"You are hereby ordered to stop all spending on everything without Presidential approval!" "VA payments, Social Security payments, and Medicare payments are all on hold until further notice!" These are the actions of a TYRANT KING.

It'll be a real shit show for sure. I suspect there will be a lot of subterfuge going on at every level throughout federal organizations. As a federal retiree with nearly 36 years of service, this is very sad.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 27, 2025 09:55 AM (JCZqz)

110 [swaying his lower branches in a bewitching fashion]...

So, anyway, big strong sexy Mr. Redwood, what have you heard about the termite infestation conspiracy everyone's whispering about?

Posted by: James O'Keefe dressed as a seductive conifer at January 27, 2025 09:55 AM (Y6IkP)

111 What is the grayish thing near the center that looks like a Homo habilis skull?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Kennewick Man
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)
***

Pasco Man laughs.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2025

***
And, like, what about me, dude?

Posted by: Encino Man at January 27, 2025 09:55 AM (J2vNu)

112 aspen a lot of time trying to think of tree puns

maple later I'll think of one
ash me then

Posted by: Don Black at January 27, 2025 09:55 AM (AOsQT)

113

Why are the markets down so much this morning?

Completely wiped out my Trump bonus!

Posted by: Elderly Git at January 27, 2025 09:56 AM (HRQvT)

114 Some artists can't do hands. This one can't do roots.
Posted by: fd at January 27, 2025 09:45 AM (vFG9F)

I have seen blown-over and fallen trees of various species, and none had roots looking like that. If that is an accurate depiction of the Sequoia roots, they are nothing like any other tree.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2025 09:56 AM (8zz6B)

115 Is anyone here a prolific English Victorian biologist?

Posted by: Obscure Seinfeld reference at January 27, 2025 09:56 AM (dg+HA)

116 109 I deleted it and reported it as SPAM. There was no warning and it was from an external source. I’m sure that the cyber security for this new shit is just top notch. (Sarcasm)

I never thought I would be living in a dystopian novel. Technology will make dictatorships harder to fight.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 27, 2025 09:55 AM (JCZqz)

=======

1. An executive employee flaunting that they delete the chief executive's emails? I mean, I delete my CEO's emails, but it's not something I brag about.

2. The chief executive of the United States having direct lines of communication with every executive employee is dictatorship? Do the people's choices not matter in the running of the executive branch?

Don't answer that.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 27, 2025 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

117 aspen a lot of time trying to think of tree puns

maple later I'll think of one
ash me then
Posted by: Don Black at January 27, 2025 09:55 AM (AOsQT)

Wood you be my naybor?

Posted by: BignJames at January 27, 2025 09:57 AM (Yj6Os)

118 113

Why are the markets down so much this morning?

Completely wiped out my Trump bonus!
Posted by: Elderly Git

Gold is down too. 2751 -20

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 27, 2025 09:58 AM (/U5Yz)

119 >>I was going to visit the Petrified Forest, but I was too scared.

>>So, fear over-elmed you?

I doubt you don't have the chestnuts to face your fear.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 09:58 AM (WbBbu)

120 >>aspen a lot of time trying to think of tree puns

maple later I'll think of one
ash me then
- - -

Fir sure!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 09:59 AM (WbBbu)

121 aspen a lot of time trying to think of tree puns

maple later I'll think of one
ash me then
Posted by: Don Black at January 27, 2025 09:55 AM (AOsQT)

Wood you be my naybor?
Posted by: BignJames at January 27, 2025 09:57 AM

I'm already sycamore tree puns.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2025 09:59 AM (+QlJh)

122 Perhaps we should branch out a bit from these tree puns.

Posted by: Just an idea at January 27, 2025 09:59 AM (dg+HA)

123 113

Why are the markets down so much this morning?

Completely wiped out my Trump bonus!
Posted by: Elderly Git at January 27, 2025 09:56 AM (HRQvT)

Chinese claim to have a cheaper better AI called Deepseek...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2025 09:59 AM (VE6XX)

124 A residual guardian of GOP establishment foreign policy -
@RichLowry - urges rejection of Tulsi by denouncing her support for Snowden.

Rich Lowery. LOL

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 27, 2025 10:00 AM (/U5Yz)

125 I'm with runner on this one. A little simplistic, like the cover of a Hardy Boys book.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. An artist has to pay his bills. It's just not something I'd buy.

Posted by: Wally at January 27, 2025 10:00 AM (VVPHp)

126 Ah,morning wood.

Posted by: The Man from Athens at January 27, 2025 10:00 AM (icmmM)

127 So funny-ish story.

Many years ago I was in the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum, where a botany exhibit was on display. They had a sequoia pine cone, which are about the size of a chicken egg, and a sugar pine cone which is about 18 inches long. The woman conducting the exhibit asked which tree the small cone belonged to, and I said the small one was the sequoiadendron giganteum cone. The museum lady said "ah, you must be a botanist," and I replied "no ma'am, I'm an accountant " and walked away.

Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2025 10:00 AM (iu4Pw)

128 Perhaps we should branch out a bit from these tree puns.
Posted by: Just an idea

We could always go back to those slick seed-oil puns from last thread.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:00 AM (77rzZ)

129 >>> What is the grayish thing near the center that looks like a Homo habilis skull?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
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Kennewick Man
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)
***

Pasco Man laughs.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2025

***
And, like, what about me, dude?
Posted by: Encino Man at January 27, 2025 09:55 AM (J2vNu)

Hey guys!

Posted by: Macho Macho Man at January 27, 2025 10:00 AM (Y6IkP)

130 115 Is anyone here a prolific English Victorian biologist?
Posted by: Obscure Seinfeld reference

No, but I always wanted to be an architect or a marine biologist.

Posted by: Had To Settle For Latex Salesman at January 27, 2025 10:01 AM (G5+As)

131 Thanks donna. They claim to have a cheaper, better AI. We shall see. Also, they can produce the power to run AI since they still use coal. Dirty, dirty coal.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 27, 2025 10:01 AM (2NHgQ)

132 Is anyone here a prolific English Victorian biologist?
Posted by: Obscure Seinfeld reference

No. But I do pluck yew.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2025 10:01 AM (C8+CO)

133 Richland Man Trumps all y'all.
Posted by: nurse ratched at January 27, 2025 09:54 AM (mT+6a)

But Richland Woman has the blues:

https://youtu.be/cHXRSnONcVQ

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2025 10:02 AM (8zz6B)

134 131 Thanks donna. They claim to have a cheaper, better AI. We shall see. Also, they can produce the power to run AI since they still use coal. Dirty, dirty coal.
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at January 27, 2025 10:01 AM (2NHgQ

No doubt the technology for it is stolen

Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2025 10:02 AM (VE6XX)

135 Oh my, I don't know who she is but this rant about Trump's first week is funny as hell

https://tinyurl.com/47wmwxwn

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 27, 2025 10:02 AM (NQtI0)

136 Never Trumpers can continue eating a big bag of ducks.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 27, 2025 10:02 AM (pRBzt)

137 Open Source Intel
@Osint613
Israel’s foreign minister responds to Higgins rants against Israel at the Holocaust Memorial:

“Even on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Irish President Michael Higgins couldn't help himself and resorted to a cheap, despicable provocation.

The biggest murderous attack against Jews since the Holocaust was perpetrated from Jihadist Gaza. Nonetheless, he echoed Hamas' anti-Semitic lies and propaganda at a Holocaust memorial ceremony, leading to the removal of Jews, descendants of Holocaust survivors, from the event.

What a despicable person. What a distorted policy. Shame!”
====

No Irish.

Why won't this dried-up piece of sh*t just shut up?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at January 27, 2025 10:02 AM (RIvkX)

138 >>NBC News: Trump administration tests the power to email every federal employee at once. The new capability could allow Trump to communicate directly with millions of federal workers across dozens of agencies simultaneously.

After several decades in the corporate world, I find it shocking that a CEO would be able - allowed! - to send out and email to all employees. What's next, an "all hands" (on deck) meeting?!?!

INCONCIEVABLE!!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 10:02 AM (WbBbu)

139 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 27, 2025 09:55 AM (JCZqz)

I'm somehow not at all surprised that a bunch of DU posters are federal employees.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2025 10:02 AM (2ocoG)

140 124 A residual guardian of GOP establishment foreign policy -
@RichLowry - urges rejection of Tulsi by denouncing her support for Snowden.

Rich Lowery. LOL
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 27, 2025 10:00 AM (/U5Yz)

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At this point, zealous and directed opposition to Snowden is...silly.

I mean, I can still understand the whole, "Snowden was irresponsible" angle. But the idea that the American government's provable history over the past 20 years gives it the benefit of the doubt over its intelligence apparatus is ludicrous.

"Snowden shouldn't be pardoned because he broke the law and endangered lives"? Okay. Well, pardoning is always about forgiving crimes, but whatever. "Snowden is a monster who makes those who voice support of him in any way monstrous themselves" is just...dumb.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 27, 2025 10:03 AM (GBKbO)

141 129 >>> What is the grayish thing near the center that looks like a Homo habilis skull?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Kennewick Man
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)
***

Pasco Man laughs.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 27, 2025

***
And, like, what about me, dude?
Posted by: Encino Man at January 27, 2025 09:55 AM (J2vNu)

Hey guys!
Posted by: Macho Macho Man
feh

Posted by: Florida Man at January 27, 2025 10:03 AM (/U5Yz)

142 The larch.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2025 10:03 AM (Aqu9a)

143 aspen a lot of time trying to think of tree puns

maple later I'll think of one
ash me then
Posted by: Don Black at January 27, 2025 09:55 AM (AOsQT)

Wood you be my naybor?
Posted by: BignJames at January 27, 2025 09:57 AM

I'm already sycamore tree puns.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState

I was wondering if there'd be tree puns, but I cedar already starting.

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 27, 2025 10:03 AM (OUMaO)

144 >Perhaps we should branch out a bit from these tree puns.
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but they are so poplar!

Posted by: Don Black at January 27, 2025 10:03 AM (AOsQT)

145 Problem with the cheap AI from China is you need to use it again in an hour.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 27, 2025 10:03 AM (pRBzt)

146 Chinese claim to have a cheaper better AI called Deepseek...
Posted by: It's me donna

We just got rid of Dipstick last week.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2025 10:04 AM (C8+CO)

147 That's a lot of grand pianos and baseball bats!

The world needs a lot of toothpicks.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2025 10:04 AM (xCA6C)

148 After several decades in the corporate world, I find it shocking that a CEO would be able - allowed! - to send out and email to all employees. What's next, an "all hands" (on deck) meeting?!?!/i]

Both of those things *are* shocking to many younger employees. The Marc Andreeson interview where he said Ivy League grads are applying for jobs specifically to destroy the company wasn't joking.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2025 10:04 AM (2ocoG)

149 Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2025 10:00 AM (iu4Pw)

Hah. I'm a big one for remembering the scientific names of organisms.

My family had a Christmas tree farm when I was growing up. We grew a lot of Pinus sylvestris in early years, but then switched to Abies fraseri, mostly.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:04 AM (77rzZ)

150 The painting is cartoonish

Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2025 10:04 AM (VE6XX)

151 Also, that's not like any roots I've ever seen on an upended tree.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2025 10:04 AM (2ocoG)

152 that’s now 10,291 children, up from fewer than 200 a decade ago. Of those, the study found there were least twice as many gender-confused girls as there were boys
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I have warned from the beginning of this nightmare that the target has been girls all along.

The Death Cult knows if they can wreck a womb, they permanently destroy a potential for life that wrecking a man's plumbing doesn't quiet accomplish. Think of it as a prepubescent permabortion. You can see why this would appeal to the demonic forces that infatuate the Left.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2025 10:05 AM (dD69i)

153 Wait what? Someone can’t send email to all fedgov “workers” already? JFC how behind the times with tech are they.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 27, 2025 10:05 AM (pRBzt)

154 *I was wondering if there'd be tree puns, but I cedar already starting.*

Let's just leaf them alone.

Posted by: Pining away at January 27, 2025 10:05 AM (dg+HA)

155 139 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at January 27, 2025 09:55 AM (JCZqz)

I'm somehow not at all surprised that a bunch of DU posters are federal employees.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2025 10:02 AM (2ocoG)

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Some piece of information came to us a while ago that indicated they were predominantly feds, or the proportion was just so out of whack in terms of their representation to be weird.

And they often talk about how they're older, too. So, there's a lot of retirees in there.

Essentially, the New Left and Establishment Left from the 60s and 70s holding onto whatever power they have, having little understanding of what the modern Left is about (their explanations to each other about Tampon Tim's nickname were precious), and are generally just empty-headed partisans for the DNC and the federal bureaucracy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 27, 2025 10:05 AM (GBKbO)

156 So funny-ish story.

Many years ago I was in the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum, where a botany exhibit was on display. They had a sequoia pine cone, which are about the size of a chicken egg, and a sugar pine cone which is about 18 inches long. The woman conducting the exhibit asked which tree the small cone belonged to, and I said the small one was the sequoiadendron giganteum cone. The museum lady said "ah, you must be a botanist," and I replied "no ma'am, I'm an accountant " and walked away.
Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2025 10:00 AM (iu4Pw)

+1 Accounting Humor!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2025 10:05 AM (Aqu9a)

157 >>I was wondering if there'd be tree puns, but I cedar already starting.

Asking forest already?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 10:06 AM (WbBbu)

158 My family was going to go see the giant redwoods but when we remember they're in California... Well...

Walnut be going now.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 27, 2025 10:06 AM (4XwPj)

159 I'm an organic Pinus taeda farmer. A rather unfortunate scientific name for the loblolly pine.

Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2025 10:06 AM (iu4Pw)

160 Oh my, I don't know who she is but this rant about Trump's first week is funny as hell

https://tinyurl.com/47wmwxwn

Damn, honey, eat a sandwich.

Posted by: Kristi Noem at January 27, 2025 10:06 AM (xCA6C)

161 Oh my, I don't know who she is but this rant about Trump's first week is funny as hell

https://tinyurl.com/47wmwxwn
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 27, 2025 10:02 AM (NQtI0)

"Drill, Baby, Drill!!......aha!!

Posted by: BignJames at January 27, 2025 10:07 AM (Yj6Os)

162 I'm gonna leave the tree puns to the experts.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2025 10:07 AM (dD69i)

163 Deep search panic in market tiday

Posted by: naturalfake at January 27, 2025 10:07 AM (iJfKG)

164 153 Wait what? Someone can’t send email to all fedgov “workers” already? JFC how behind the times with tech are they.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

20 years ago I knew the guy who was in charge of the Atlanta ATC. They were still using vacuum tubes in most of their equipment and replacements were hard to find. Questionable Russian tubes only. They are probably still using them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 27, 2025 10:07 AM (/U5Yz)

165 +1 Accounting Humor!
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 27, 2025 10:05 AM (Aqu9a)
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It's a real knee-slapper!

Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2025 10:07 AM (iu4Pw)

166 140 At this point, zealous and directed opposition to Snowden is...silly.

I mean, I can still understand the whole, "Snowden was irresponsible" angle. But the idea that the American government's provable history over the past 20 years gives it the benefit of the doubt over its intelligence apparatus is ludicrous.

"Snowden shouldn't be pardoned because he broke the law and endangered lives"? Okay. Well, pardoning is always about forgiving crimes, but whatever. "Snowden is a monster who makes those who voice support of him in any way monstrous themselves" is just...dumb.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 27, 2025 10:03 AM (GBKbO)

If Pvt. MANing gets off just for deciding to Troon out, at this point Snowden is just being punished for not injecting Female Horse Piss into himself.

Posted by: XTC at January 27, 2025 10:08 AM (sm6Pk)

167 "+1 Accounting humor!"

What does an accountant do when he's constipated? Takes a pencil and works it out.

Posted by: Wally at January 27, 2025 10:08 AM (VVPHp)

168 I'm an organic Pinus taeda farmer. A rather unfortunate scientific name for the loblolly pine.
Posted by: Weasel

Yeah, that's a boring name.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:08 AM (77rzZ)

169 Wait what? Someone can’t send email to all fedgov “workers” already? JFC how behind the times with tech are they.

You get what you pay for - at best. The government's IT is pathetic. They can't hire the best. Hell, they can't even hire the mediocre.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2025 10:08 AM (xCA6C)

170 Chinese claim to have a cheaper better AI called Deepseek

China has an opportunity here to make it not woke lobotomized and really terrorize Western liberal "our democracy". Let it run wild spitting out memes of Democrats doing horrific sex things and all that.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2025 10:08 AM (2ocoG)

171 Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 27, 2025 10:02 AM (NQtI0)

Katie Hopkins. Famed UK conservative.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2025 10:08 AM (dD69i)

172 >>I was wondering if there'd be tree puns, but I cedar already starting.

We were needling a break from discussing this painting.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 10:09 AM (WbBbu)

173 NBC News: Trump administration tests the power to email every federal employee at once. The new capability could allow Trump to communicate directly with millions of federal workers across dozens of agencies simultaneously.

I deleted it and reported it as SPAM. There was no warning and it was from an external source. I’m sure that the cyber security for this new shit is just top notch. (Sarcasm)

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And there you have it - most of this dead wood that contributes all shitposts the nasty venom on DU is ALL Federal Employees , or ex- Fed Emplypees. Y'all shocked ! Schocked! I can tell !

Posted by: runner at January 27, 2025 10:09 AM (g47mK)

174 148 After several decades in the corporate world, I find it shocking that a CEO would be able - allowed! - to send out and email to all employees. What's next, an "all hands" (on deck) meeting?!?!/i]

Both of those things *are* shocking to many younger employees. The Marc Andreeson interview where he said Ivy League grads are applying for jobs specifically to destroy the company wasn't joking.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2025 10:04 AM (2ocDr.

This. There is no proof that all this dei stuff increases the bottom line of a corporation. Corporations have a fiduciary duty to the investors only, to preserve and grow the assets. All this "stakeholder" crap and dei political prostlelizing devalues the company. We see it over and over as every woke movie bombs at the box office. It's the goal of the progs to destroy popular culture and take the companies with.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at January 27, 2025 10:10 AM (OA79/)

175 I'm ready to disembark from this branch of low-class art. Give me a Dutch Master any day.

Posted by: Finger in Dyke at January 27, 2025 10:10 AM (G5+As)

176 We were needling a break from discussing this painting.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 10:09 AM (WbBbu)

I con infer from your tone that you don't mind the occasional pun.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2025 10:10 AM (dD69i)

177 169 Wait what? Someone can’t send email to all fedgov “workers” already? JFC how behind the times with tech are they.

You get what you pay for - at best. The government's IT is pathetic. They can't hire the best. Hell, they can't even hire the mediocre.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2025 10:08 AM (xCA6C)

Even state governments have an "All Employees" setting the Governor can check to announce office closings when there's a blizzard (among other things).

Why shouldn't FedGov have one, too?

Posted by: XTC at January 27, 2025 10:11 AM (sm6Pk)

178 171 Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 27, 2025 10:02 AM (NQtI0)

Katie Hopkins. Famed UK conservative.
Posted by: ...

I watched a recent interview and she said MAGA made her nipples erect and her female parts wet again.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 27, 2025 10:11 AM (/U5Yz)

179 There's a lot of these bushcraft "builds a shelter" videos on YouTube.

One is a guy building in a downed tree like this.

I'd guess there are so, so many bugs that you'll never seal out.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 27, 2025 10:11 AM (WQ6oN)

180 Posted by: Finger in Dyke at January 27, 2025 10:10 AM (G5+As)

I hope you got her consent first.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at January 27, 2025 10:11 AM (4XwPj)

181 *The new capability could allow Trump to communicate directly with millions of federal workers across dozens of agencies simultaneously.*

Oops. I hit "Reply All."

Posted by: New FedGov employee at January 27, 2025 10:12 AM (dg+HA)

182 Som apparently Altadena, a nice middle/working class neighborhood in SoCal, that wa a burned down, will be rebuilt with apartment buildings. Pasadena everyone knows about. That’s the high end “Dena”. Altadena is next to it and is (or was) more working/middle class but was beautiful. The traditional American suburb of single family homes, tree line streets, etc.

And now they will rebuild it as Soviet eta apartment blocs.

Never let a crisis go to waste as the Obama clan would say.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 27, 2025 10:12 AM (pRBzt)

183 CHina stole so much AI and Robotics technology that we look like a 3rd world country comapared to them. They also used Joe Bribem and his bribem administration to completely choke off OUR AI, drone technology, robotics etc. They really had a long view - were working on him and those like him for years.

Posted by: runner at January 27, 2025 10:12 AM (g47mK)

184 *compared, etc

Posted by: runner at January 27, 2025 10:12 AM (g47mK)

185 Weasel, how many years does it take you to get a fully-grown tree -- i.e., one that can be harvested for its lumber?

Also, do you purchase seedlings or grow your own from pine cones?

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)

186 Cthulhu lives!!!

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 27, 2025 10:12 AM (5LoD7)

187 Even state governments have an "All Employees" setting the Governor can check to announce office closings when there's a blizzard (among other things).

Why shouldn't FedGov have one, too?

Honestly, if you'd told me they couldn't, I wouldn't have believed it. I'm still pretty skeptical. We DID get announcements that seemed like they were directed to the entire government, but I didn't really check.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2025 10:12 AM (xCA6C)

188 Katie is a funny bint. She was a actually a contestant on an early season of UK Apprentice. Despised by the Left. Bit of an upper crust stereotype but she has quite the mouth.

Posted by: ... at January 27, 2025 10:13 AM (dD69i)

189 The museum lady said "ah, you must be a botanist," and I replied "no ma'am, I'm an accountant " and walked away.
Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2025 10:00 AM (iu4Pw)

Now do woman!

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 27, 2025 10:13 AM (gbOdA)

190 Perhaps we should branch out a bit from these tree puns.
Posted by: Just an idea at January 27, 2025

***
Yeah. The bark on some of these guys!

Posted by: Encino Man at January 27, 2025 10:13 AM (J2vNu)

191 >>I con infer from your tone that you don't mind the occasional pun.

Puns are evergreen!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 10:14 AM (WbBbu)

192 At least it wasn't burning.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 27, 2025 10:15 AM (OESQk)

193 Fir cryin' out loud, let's get rid of these tree puns and spruce this place up!

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:15 AM (77rzZ)

194 There is no proof that all this dei stuff increases the bottom line of a corporation.

At this point I'm convinced diversity is 98% AWFLs hoping to import men who 1) haven't been feminized by growing up in the West and 2) have low enough standards that they'd bang them.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2025 10:16 AM (2ocoG)

195 194 There is no proof that all this dei stuff increases the bottom line of a corporation.

At this point I'm convinced diversity is 98% AWFLs hoping to import men who 1) haven't been feminized by growing up in the West and 2) have low enough standards that they'd bang them.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2025 10:16 AM (2ocoG)

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It feels it's more about unmarriagable lesbians hiring their friends into upper management so they can lord over underlings and use the company card.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 27, 2025 10:16 AM (GBKbO)

196 I didn't expect the thread to go pulp fiction so fast.

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 27, 2025 10:16 AM (5LoD7)

197 Oh my, I don't know who she is but this rant about Trump's first week is funny as hell

https://tinyurl.com/47wmwxwn
*
Damn, honey, eat a sandwich.
Posted by: Kristi Noem at January 27, 2025 1

***
MILFs galore

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2025 10:17 AM (J2vNu)

198 I remember a sign next to the NYS Thruway "Loblolly Pines-Watch Us Grow" around 1970.

Posted by: Penguin Pete at January 27, 2025 10:17 AM (G5+As)

199 At this point, and knowing what we know about the Deep State/IC/ME/MIC, Snowden was a true patriot and has suffered for his actions, he needs to be pardoned and brought in from the cold.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 27, 2025 10:17 AM (XV/Pl)

200 It feels it's more about unmarriagable lesbians hiring their friends into upper management so they can lord over underlings and use the company card.

That's the government version of diversity, as we've seen in LA. In private companies it's straight female AWFLs from HR pushing DEI.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2025 10:18 AM (2ocoG)

201 Oh my, I don't know who she is but this rant about Trump's first week is funny as hell

https://tinyurl.com/47wmwxwn
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 27, 2025 10:02 AM

OK, now that was funny.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2025 10:18 AM (+QlJh)

202 Katie is a funny bint. She was a actually a contestant on an early season of UK Apprentice. Despised by the Left. Bit of an upper crust stereotype but she has quite the mouth.
Posted by: ... at January 27, 2025

***
She was a guest on Sean Hannity's radio show multiple times in the past. I wondered what happened to her. Pleasant to see that she's pleasant to see.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2025 10:18 AM (J2vNu)

203 166 140 At this point, zealous and directed opposition to Snowden is...silly.

I mean, I can still understand the whole, "Snowden was irresponsible" angle. But the idea that the American government's provable history over the past 20 years gives it the benefit of the doubt over its intelligence apparatus is ludicrous.

"Snowden shouldn't be pardoned because he broke the law and endangered lives"? Okay. Well, pardoning is always about forgiving crimes, but whatever. "Snowden is a monster who makes those who voice support of him in any way monstrous themselves" is just...dumb.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

If Pvt. MANing gets off just for deciding to Troon out, at this point Snowden is just being punished for not injecting Female Horse Piss into himself.
Posted by: XTC
======
Pardon Assange and Snowden. At this point, the truth about the treacherous IC that these people revealed is more important than the depreciated secrets they released in the past.

Jonathan Pollard was eventually released for the same reason. The secrets weren't important any longer.

Posted by: whig at January 27, 2025 10:19 AM (ctrM5)

204 >>The new capability could allow Trump to communicate directly with millions of federal workers across dozens of agencies simultaneously

1. Tell me you've never worked in the private sector without saying it.

2. I bet the reason this is upsetting is because they regularly thwart outside management/accountability by pesky GOP leadership by NOT communicating throughout the department.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 10:19 AM (WbBbu)

205 Wolfus, is all your snow gone yet?

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:19 AM (77rzZ)

206 199 At this point, and knowing what we know about the Deep State/IC/ME/MIC, Snowden was a true patriot and has suffered for his actions, he needs to be pardoned and brought in from the cold.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 27, 2025 10:17 AM (XV/Pl)

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Yeah, I was never passionate about Snowden. I think I defaulted to, "He shouldn't have leaked all that. It wasn't good." But I never felt...emotional about it.

But now? Dude deserves the benefit of the doubt. I mean, maybe don't make him CIA director (too long living in Russia, you know?), but an end to efforts at prosecution? It seems like the best path forward.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 27, 2025 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

207 Drill, baby, drill. Until the gushing starts.

Posted by: Roy at January 27, 2025 10:20 AM (z+ik4)

208 >>>Oh my, I don't know who she is but this rant about Trump's first week is funny as hell

https://tinyurl.com/47wmwxwn

Wow, she's awesome!

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 27, 2025 10:20 AM (OESQk)

209 Adam Carolla hit the DEI nail on the head long ago with Subaru.

Subaru markets cars to AWFLs in America with love and puppies and donations to saving trees and whales and shit. As Adam says it’s all about vibes.

Meanwhile in Japan Subaru builds attack helicopters for the Japanese Military.

That’s what DEI is. Nobody gives a fuck about it. But they’ve been convinced that it’s what the people want. And that’s how they market themselves, because they think it will make more money.

Now that the game is no longer being played and there’s no money to be made, they’re ending it. It’s no different than ending a long running marketing campaign.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 27, 2025 10:20 AM (pRBzt)

210 Ever been to Loblolly cove?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 10:20 AM (WbBbu)

211 204 2. I bet the reason this is upsetting is because they regularly thwart outside management/accountability by pesky GOP leadership by NOT communicating throughout the department.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 10:19 AM (WbBbu)

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Alternate 2025: Kamala sends email to every federal employee:

"I framed it and will replace the portrait of my dead cat with the letter on my wall. I cried when it came in. Kamala was talking directly to me. I can now help her affect change with this great new tool."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 27, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

212 Damn, honey, eat a sandwich.

She's British. I'm pretty sure sandwiches are illegal there.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2025 10:21 AM (ExV1e)

213 Posted by: Wyatt Earp

How are you doing, Sir? Retired yet?

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

214 CBS put up a dead tree? Is that a sly allusion to the death of print media, MSM style?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 27, 2025 10:21 AM (tT6L1)

215 I get emails from My CEO all the time. I’ve ready maybe 3. 🤣

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 27, 2025 10:21 AM (pRBzt)

216 At this point I'm convinced diversity is 98% AWFLs hoping to import men who 1) haven't been feminized by growing up in the West and 2) have low enough standards that they'd bang them.
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Chart of DEI management types' race/gender stats.

Adam B. Coleman, Le Based Black @wrong_speak Jan 26
Take notice: When DEI jobs die out due to unpopularity, white leftists will make it sound like black people are mostly affected.

Truth is, this was always a grift for white mediocre college graduates. Their worthless degree was ideal for an industry that doesn't require thinking.
https://tinyurl.com/4bmt5vjb

Dank David @wdunnin39926 Jan 26 Replying to @wrong_speak
I’ve never seen a white DEI employee so while you clearly hate white people, maybe consider your point of view is skewed by your disdain for certain people.

Adam B. Coleman, Le Based Black @wrong_speak 23h
Behold the "I've never seen it, so it doesn't exist" fallacy.

And I'll let my half-white son know that I hate white people.

Adam B. Coleman, Le Based Black @wrong_speak 23h
Apparently... I hate white people lol

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 27, 2025 10:21 AM (5LoD7)

217 Yes, the tree is fallen, but what was the root cause?

Posted by: Forensic Files at January 27, 2025 10:22 AM (G5+As)

218
Now that the game is no longer being played and there’s no money to be made, they’re ending it. It’s no different than ending a long running marketing campaign.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 27, 2025 10:20 AM (pRBzt)

That's easy to do.

Posted by: Alissa Heinerscheid at January 27, 2025 10:22 AM (z+ik4)

219 Does Kamala cackle using email?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 27, 2025 10:22 AM (Wg6v7)

220 Wolfus, is all your snow gone yet?
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025

***
Vanished like the passenger pigeon. At the post office substation where I buy my stamps, I told the lady, "Last week, I had ice in my beard like those Antarctic explorers. And I was sure a leopard seal was following me to my car."

She laughed. Nice to get a good reaction to a joke!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2025 10:22 AM (J2vNu)

221 I bet the reason this is upsetting is because they regularly thwart outside management/accountability by pesky GOP leadership by NOT communicating throughout the department.

100%. Liberals can't be taught much, but I suspect they're catching on to not leaving a paper trail.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2025 10:22 AM (2ocoG)

222 She's British. I'm pretty sure sandwiches are illegal there.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Well, you have to use knives to make them, so...

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:22 AM (77rzZ)

223 I think I need a cigarette after that Katie Hopkins rant.

The text, subtext and sub-subtext of her rant, plus the outfit has got my mind engorged.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 27, 2025 10:22 AM (XV/Pl)

224 Ok, there is this long thing I can post that explains that DEI is a manifestation of Marxism, and that once the Marxists realized they cannot use Class Struggle to bring about socialist revolution in the US (everyone can succeed and there are no social classes, so DOA) , they recreated a Race-based Marxist movement by the name of DEI, or similar names, Afir Action and others to reach their goal. But I won't. VDH does a much better job.

Posted by: runner at January 27, 2025 10:23 AM (g47mK)

225 *The new capability could allow Trump to communicate directly with millions of federal workers across dozens of agencies simultaneously.*

Oops. I hit "Reply All."
Posted by: New FedGov employee at January 27, 2025 10:12 AM (dg+HA)

The best thing is when someone hits "reply all" to tell you that you shouldn't use "reply all".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2025 10:23 AM (ExV1e)

226 Wow, she's awesome!
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at January 27, 2025 10:20 AM (OESQk)

I cut it off after a few seconds. The accent was hard to parse, and her bobbing and weaving and arm-waving didn't help. Take 2 Valium and record it again, sweetheart.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2025 10:24 AM (8zz6B)

227 Thank goodness DEI is DOA.. Or heading that way

Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2025 10:24 AM (VE6XX)

228 Looks like a sea creature.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2025 10:24 AM (VwHCD)

229 I think I need a cigarette after that Katie Hopkins rant.

The text, subtext and sub-subtext of her rant, plus the outfit has got my mind engorged.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 27, 2025

***
I'd date her. That upper-class, "Received Pronunciation" (aka BBC-style) accent doesn't hurt either.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2025 10:24 AM (J2vNu)

230 The best thing is when someone hits "reply all" to tell you that you shouldn't use "reply all".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2025 10:23 AM (ExV1e)
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Had that happen at my last job. Crushed the mail server within a couple of minutes.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 27, 2025 10:25 AM (tT6L1)

231 This. There is no proof that all this dei stuff increases the bottom line of a corporation. Corporations have a fiduciary duty to the investors only, to preserve and grow the assets. All this "stakeholder" crap and dei political prostlelizing devalues the company. We see it over and over as every woke movie bombs at the box office. It's the goal of the progs to destroy popular culture and take the companies with.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless

Andreeson, in his interview, also mentioned the part that has been less reported. Institutional investors (using OPM--Other People's Money) have went woke also. So sane management was caught between commie employees and commie institutional managers of pension funds, etc. like Blackrock, State Street, Goldman Sachs, and advised by commie management consultants like McKinsey.

Posted by: whig at January 27, 2025 10:25 AM (ctrM5)

232 224 Ok, there is this long thing I can post that explains that DEI is a manifestation of Marxism, and that once the Marxists realized they cannot use Class Struggle to bring about socialist revolution in the US (everyone can succeed and there are no social classes, so DOA) , they recreated a Race-based Marxist movement by the name of DEI, or similar names, Afir Action and others to reach their goal. But I won't. VDH does a much better job.
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Meh, AntiFa and Black Lesbian Mayors (Obama's Domestic Army) were fully committed Civil War Re-enactors. Just look at their first foray at UVA.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 27, 2025 10:25 AM (Wg6v7)

233 Looks like a sea creature.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

It's a trunkfish, duh.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:25 AM (77rzZ)

234 225 The best thing is when someone hits "reply all" to tell you that you shouldn't use "reply all".
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2025 10:23 AM (ExV1e)

=======

I was working in a T-Mobile retail store. Every employee in the company had an email. We pretty much never used it.

Then one day, the CEO sent out an email to everyone saying that everyone gets business cards.

For more than a week, I was getting emails from everyone else in the company asking about when it was going to happen. (I never got those business cards, by the way.)

More than once, some C-Suite person chimed in to tell people to stop. It didn't work.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 27, 2025 10:26 AM (GBKbO)

235
Fish puns vs Tree puns.
The smackdown.

Posted by: Tonight on TNT at January 27, 2025 10:26 AM (dg+HA)

236 Jonathan Pollard was eventually released for the same reason. The secrets weren't important any longer.

That's a terrible reason to let convicted spies go. You're not only punishing the person in question, you're trying to deter future acts.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 27, 2025 10:26 AM (xCA6C)

237 I want Blackrock investigated and pulled out by the roots.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 27, 2025 10:27 AM (/U5Yz)

238 I love the reply all emails that say "Please remove me from the mail list"

Posted by: Roy at January 27, 2025 10:27 AM (z+ik4)

239 Weasel, how many years does it take you to get a fully-grown tree -- i.e., one that can be harvested for its lumber?

Also, do you purchase seedlings or grow your own from pine cones?
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:12 AM (77rzZ)
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The bigger they are the more valuable they become. Mine are about 14 years old now and will be mature in maybe another 10 or 15 years. When I purchased the property they were about 7 years old, and would have been planted as seedlings.

Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2025 10:27 AM (iu4Pw)

240 Fish puns vs Tree puns.
The smackdown.
Posted by: Tonight on TNT at January 27, 2025 10:26 AM (dg+HA)
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birch, birch, birch.

Posted by: Axeman at January 27, 2025 10:28 AM (krQz2)

241 I love the reply all emails that say "Please remove me from the mail list"
Posted by: Roy at January 27, 2025 10:27 AM (z+ik4)
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Yeah, the people on the other end say, "Great. We can now sell your address to someone else!"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 27, 2025 10:28 AM (tT6L1)

242 This picture is of what is called a "windfall". I believe it is the origination of the word. It was a great place to hide in a sudden storm back in the day.

Posted by: pawn at January 27, 2025 10:28 AM (QB+5g)

243 The bigger they are the more valuable they become. Mine are about 14 years old now and will be mature in maybe another 10 or 15 years. When I purchased the property they were about 7 years old, and would have been planted as seedlings.
Posted by: Weasel

Who are your principal customers? Home builders?

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)

244 Earthquake in the Northeast just now?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2025 10:29 AM (t0Rmr)

245 This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Pulpwood trucks at January 27, 2025 10:29 AM (dg+HA)

246 guy is complaining to his friend about how his time machine malfunctioned so instead of killing baby Hitler he killed Woodrow Wilson, and the friend says "Who's Hitler?"

Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2025 10:29 AM (RHGPo)

247 Thats Katie Hopkins

She routinely bashes her fellow Britiots.

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 27, 2025 10:30 AM (gbOdA)

248 >>Fish puns vs Tree puns.
The smackdown.

Didja hear the one about the knotty sawfish. . .?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 10:30 AM (WbBbu)

249 Ever been to Loblolly cove?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 10:20 AM

Ayuh. Did some diving on the other side of it at Pebble Beach, too. Which should, in the interest of honesty, be renamed "Grapefruit-sized Ankle Breaking Rocks Beach".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2025 10:30 AM (+QlJh)

250 I get emails from My CEO all the time. I’ve ready maybe 3. 🤣
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 27, 2025 10:21 AM (pRBzt)

I generally skim the first paragraph or two. They usually fall into the category of "we're all super-awesome because of my super-human leadership and we're all one big family and here's the new policy I'm implementing to fuck over all you proles".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2025 10:30 AM (ExV1e)

251 244 Earthquake in the Northeast just now?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2025 10:29 AM (t0Rmr)

Could just be Tom Homan landing at JFK.

Posted by: Roy at January 27, 2025 10:30 AM (z+ik4)

252 244 Earthquake in the Northeast just now?
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Did Whoopie land in NY?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 27, 2025 10:30 AM (Wg6v7)

253 "You are hereby ordered to stop all spending on everything without Presidential approval!" "VA payments, Social Security payments, and Medicare payments are all on hold until further notice!" These are the actions of a TYRANT KING.

No. Veterans dot Senate dot gov: Blumenthal, Senate Democrats Demand Trump Exempt All VA Employees from Hiring Freeze, Thursday, January 23, 2025

Frankly, Trump's not wrong. That agency, too, as it deserves to be scrutinized in great detail beginning at the very top in as far as administration. And, after all, in his prior administration, it was found it was completely out of hand and doing the minimum for veterans.

However, one of the actual battles looming will be between extending the Trump tax cuts and keeping all of the plan reductions and huge expansions of users from the American Rescue Plan Act (2021) and Inflation Adjustment Act (2022) in place to support the ACA, aka Obamacare.

And another will be between Defense and Foreign Service funding.

c'est la vie

Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 27, 2025 10:30 AM (NFX2v)

254
AXE ME NO MORE QUESTIONS

There once was a lumberjack named Teller
Who chopped down a giant forest dweller
He cut down so much timber
It behooves us to remember
He must have been a mighty fine feller

Posted by: muldoon at January 27, 2025 10:30 AM (991eG)

255 Re: The Morning Report and CALEXIT.

California needs some Reconstruction a la the South. Remove all the govt. Disenfranchise the Democrats. Rebuild from scratch.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 27, 2025 10:31 AM (JVCkA)

256 Thank goodness DEI is DOA.. Or heading that way
Posted by: It's me donna at January 27, 2025 10:24 AM (VE6XX)

I particularly like the DEI Departments in charge of indoctrination and enforcement. That are exact Replica of the Soviet/CHinese Commissars and their minions.

Posted by: runner at January 27, 2025 10:31 AM (g47mK)

257 Earthquake in the Northeast just now?
Posted by: 18-1 at January 27, 2025 10:29 AM

I must have missed it.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2025 10:31 AM (+QlJh)

258 224 Ok, there is this long thing I can post that explains that DEI is a manifestation of Marxism, and that once the Marxists realized they cannot use Class Struggle to bring about socialist revolution in the US (everyone can succeed and there are no social classes, so DOA) , they recreated a Race-based Marxist movement by the name of DEI, or similar names, Afir Action and others to reach their goal. But I won't. VDH does a much better job.
Posted by: runner
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That was the whole pivot using Gramsci's ideas. Gramscian capture of the high grounds of institutions, etc. was developed by Gramsci in prison to resolve the problem that every industrialized nation rejected Communism. So, Gramsci's ideas were essentially to take over the institutions to outflank the bourgeois. Frankfurt School, in a similar way, proposed much of the same thing and they focused on academia theory of the revolution.

Soviet Union got involved with its money and financed key activists on the down low--mostly in Europe which is why many elites here looked to Euroland as the superior conscience of mankind. Now, for similar reasons, they kow tow to China.

Posted by: whig at January 27, 2025 10:31 AM (ctrM5)

259 Thats Katie Hopkins

She routinely bashes her fellow Britiots.
Posted by: rhennigantx at January 27, 2025 10:30 AM (gbOdA)

"Hello there from Batshit Bonkers Britain!" Yeah, that's a good intro.

Posted by: runner at January 27, 2025 10:32 AM (g47mK)

260 Who are your principal customers? Home builders?
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:28 AM (77rzZ)
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I haven't sold any! When the day comes, the entire stand will be auctioned and they'll be logged and sent to lumber or pulp mills. I had WeaselAcres certified as a tree farmer so they can be sold overseas.

Posted by: Weasel at January 27, 2025 10:32 AM (iu4Pw)

261 M 4.1 - 13 km SE of York Harbor, Maine

Time. 2025-01-27 10:22:56 (UTC-05:00)
Location. 43.047°N 70.532°W
Depth. 20.0 km

Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2025 10:32 AM (RHGPo)

262 My grandfather used every part of the tree. In fact he earned his wealth by becoming a root seller.

Posted by: muldoon at January 27, 2025 10:32 AM (991eG)

263 Posted by: muldoon at January 27, 2025 10:30 AM (991eG)

Hes a lumberjack and hes ok

Posted by: rhennigantx at January 27, 2025 10:32 AM (gbOdA)

264 >>Ayuh. Did some diving on the other side of it at Pebble Beach, too. Which should, in the interest of honesty, be renamed "Grapefruit-sized Ankle Breaking Rocks Beach".

Maybe that should have been called Folly cove

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 10:33 AM (WbBbu)

265 There once was a lumberjack named Teller
Who chopped down a giant forest dweller
He cut down so much timber
It behooves us to remember
He must have been a mighty fine feller
Posted by: muldoon at January 27, 2025 10:30 AM (991eG)

Welcome back, Muldoon! Your scarcity around here had been noted.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2025 10:33 AM (8zz6B)

266 >>244 Earthquake in the Northeast just now?
Posted by: 18-1

4.1 in York Harbor Maine.

Susan Collins taking another face plant?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 27, 2025 10:33 AM (/U5Yz)

267 I haven't sold any! When the day comes, the entire stand will be auctioned and they'll be logged and sent to lumber or pulp mills. I had WeaselAcres certified as a tree farmer so they can be sold overseas.
Posted by: Weasel

Yes, I realized that after I had posted my question. I didn't Lnow that they had originally come with the property.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:33 AM (77rzZ)

268 Oh my, I don't know who she is but this rant about Trump's first week is funny as hell

https://tinyurl.com/47wmwxwn

If you're going to record yourself intending to publish it, turn the damn phone around and use the front-facing camera. The mirror image text in the background is distracting.

Posted by: Oddbob at January 27, 2025 10:34 AM (/y8xj)

269 266 >>244 Earthquake in the Northeast just now?
Posted by: 18-1

4.1 in York Harbor Maine.

Susan Collins taking another face plant?
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 27, 2025 10:33 AM (/U5Yz)

=======

Castle Rock's fissure to the other space is opening, and some being of infiniteness is stalking 9 year old kids, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 27, 2025 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

270 There's a Pebble Beach in Massachusetts?

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:34 AM (77rzZ)

271 Whoa a 4.1
A chair in the backyard might fallen over .
#StaySafe

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 27, 2025 10:35 AM (pRBzt)

272 aspen a lot of time trying to think of tree puns

maple later I'll think of one
ash me then
Posted by: Don Black

********

What's the matter? Stumped already?

Posted by: muldoon at January 27, 2025 10:35 AM (991eG)

273 181 *The new capability could allow Trump to communicate directly with millions of federal workers across dozens of agencies simultaneously.*

Oops. I hit "Reply All."
Posted by: New FedGov employee

Reply All: Please stop hitting "Reply all"!!!

Reply All: Please remove me from this distro list.

Posted by: Dumb Fed Employee, or troll? at January 27, 2025 10:35 AM (JCZqz)

274 Castle Rock's fissure to the other space is opening, and some being of infiniteness is stalking 9 year old kids, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 27, 2025 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

Or Stephen King just dropped a deuce.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2025 10:36 AM (8zz6B)

275 Maybe that should have been called Folly cove
Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 10:33 AM

Truth.

Ryan & Wood Distillery in Gloucester makes a rum called Folly Cove. Pretty decent local product.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2025 10:36 AM (+QlJh)

276 What is the grayish thing near the center that looks like a Homo habilis skull?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Jill! Hey, Jill! Come look at this. That's where I left my brain 75 years ago! I told you it isn't in the garage! Call Andrews and tell them to prep Air Force 1 for a flight to California this morning!

Posted by: Joe Biden, I think at January 27, 2025 10:36 AM (aBgBM)

277 My grandfather used every part of the tree. In fact he earned his wealth by becoming a root seller.

Posted by: muldoon at January 27, 2025 10:32 AM (991eG)
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But he branched out from there, right? He wouldn't leave it there.

Posted by: Axeman at January 27, 2025 10:36 AM (krQz2)

278 Bald eagle covered in snow in her nest.
https://www.youtube.com/live/B4-L2nfGcuE?si=iCAZEOndIsXHnNXH

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 27, 2025 10:37 AM (WXok8)

279 What's the matter? Stumped already?
Posted by: muldoon

It's a real beech when that happens.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

280 Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks where temps run up and down the scale.

May this day bring you maximum benefit from all efforts and deliver unutterable grief for the leftwit slugs who befoul our areas.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at January 27, 2025 10:38 AM (hKoQL)

281 Why are the markets down so much this morning?

Completely wiped out my Trump bonus!
Posted by: Elderly Git

NVDA crashing due to Chinese copycat. The S&P in too heavy in tech.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2025 10:38 AM (IrKnP)

282 There's a Pebble Beach in Massachusetts?
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:34 AM

Ayuh. Along Penzance Rd. Pirates notable absent.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2025 10:38 AM (+QlJh)

283 Trepanning, the cure for tree punning.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2025 10:39 AM (8zz6B)

284 Welcome back, Muldoon! Your scarcity around here had been noted.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

*********

Well, as the dyspeptic cannibal once said, "It's hard to keep a good man down!"

Posted by: muldoon at January 27, 2025 10:39 AM (991eG)

285 The S&P in too heavy in tech.
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Yep. And interest rate top heavy as well.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 27, 2025 10:39 AM (Wg6v7)

286 A lot of hysterical DU posters are union and/or employee/management group leaders and they're always horrified they'll lose grip of the messaging to their constituents.

Heaven forbid they have mandatory work schedules.

Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 27, 2025 10:39 AM (NFX2v)

287 What's the matter? Stumped already?
Posted by: muldoon

It's a real beech when that happens.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)
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Take a bough.

Posted by: Axeman at January 27, 2025 10:39 AM (krQz2)

288 Vanished like the passenger pigeon. At the post office substation where I buy my stamps, I told the lady, "Last week, I had ice in my beard like those Antarctic explorers. And I was sure a leopard seal was following me to my car."

She laughed. Nice to get a good reaction to a joke!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

My wife was watching a video yesterday of the animals in the Houston Zoo reacting to the snow. It was cute. One baby elephant was running and sliding on the ice.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

289 237 I want Blackrock investigated and pulled out by the roots.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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One way is to deny institutional investment managers like Larry Fink from voting shares without the approval of the people whose funds they manage that has to be renewed every year.

A second, is we have to remove financialization of companies and one of the ways is to limit deductability of interest for those using debt to finance takeovers, etc. Produces overleveraged companies that are weak and easy to cow into following orders by others. Shifting to capitalization instead of debt (use of preferred stock for example instead of debt) means that in lean years, dividends are not paid but there is no default on loans.

Dividends in turn should be subject to the same taxation as capital gains are and should be deductible for companies to issue. Right now, the system incentivizes debt and cancerous growth which advantages banks, sr. management, and informed big investors at the expense of mom and pop.

Posted by: whig at January 27, 2025 10:40 AM (ctrM5)

290 Earthquake in the Northeast just now?
Posted by: 18-1

Probably from all of the fracturing being done up there by the evil oil companies.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2025 10:40 AM (O9W5A)

291 Ayuh. Along Penzance Rd. Pirates notable absent.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState

So you folks really do say "Ayuh." I had to learn to say that when I played the role of Dr. Gibbs in "Our Town" in high school and had to do a New-England accent.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:41 AM (77rzZ)

292 Trepanning, the cure for tree punning.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

**********

That's really boring.

Posted by: muldoon at January 27, 2025 10:41 AM (991eG)

293
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_clqt1GqgEc

Posted by: My Son-In-Law at January 27, 2025 10:42 AM (EFZgU)

294 OPM has been able to send email to all federal employees since email became a thing.

Who's got their panties in a wad this time?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 27, 2025 10:42 AM (Q4IgG)

295 Trepanning, the cure for tree punning.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

**********

That's really boring.
Posted by: muldoon

But it takes a really specific skull set.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:42 AM (77rzZ)

296 290 Earthquake in the Northeast just now?
Posted by: 18-1

Probably from all of the fracturing being done up there by the evil oil companies.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 27, 2025 10:40 AM (O9W5A)

Pritzker was on a plane that landed at Logan airport.

Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2025 10:43 AM (aBgBM)

297 Meh, Katie Hopkins is no Philomena Cunk.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 27, 2025 10:43 AM (tT6L1)

298 So you folks really do say "Ayuh." I had to learn to say that when I played the role of Dr. Gibbs in "Our Town" in high school and had to do a New-England accent.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:41 AM

That's really more Maine. I'm just goofing on them today for no apparent reason.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2025 10:43 AM (+QlJh)

299 Feds are drumming up in-house hysteria.

But, remember -

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the FCC conducted a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) on October 4, 2023.

Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 27, 2025 10:43 AM (NFX2v)

300 Leftist Honduran President Calls an “Urgent Meeting” to All Presidents and Heads of State in Latin American and Caribbean Nations After Colombia Threat to Trump Dramatically Backfires

Regrouping?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 27, 2025 10:43 AM (/U5Yz)

301 269 266 >>244 Earthquake in the Northeast just now?
Posted by: 18-1

4.1 in York Harbor Maine.

Susan Collins taking another face plant?
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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Possibly the earthquakes on the East Coast are harbingers of the expected conversion of East Coast portion of the North American-Atlantic plate boundaries into a subduction zone where the denser ocean plate slides below the North American plate. Same thing as happening in Pacific NW with the Juan de Fuca plate but on a larger scale.

Posted by: whig at January 27, 2025 10:44 AM (ctrM5)

302 One way is to deny institutional investment managers like Larry Fink from voting shares without the approval of the people whose funds they manage that has to be renewed every year.

Posted by: whig at January 27, 2025 10:40 AM (ctrM5)

I would suggest that institutional investors not be permitted to vote their shares at all. Perverse incentives abound.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2025 10:45 AM (8zz6B)

303 294 OPM has been able to send email to all federal employees since email became a thing.

Posted by: Martini Farmer

Yup, and including all military and civilian retirees, too.

Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 27, 2025 10:45 AM (NFX2v)

304 300 Leftist Honduran President Calls an “Urgent Meeting” to All Presidents and Heads of State in Latin American and Caribbean Nations After Colombia Threat to Trump Dramatically Backfires

Regrouping?
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As I've said before, there is a reason Marco Rubio was selected as Secretary of State. Maybe more than one reason.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 27, 2025 10:45 AM (Wg6v7)

305 >>What's the matter? Stumped already?

>It's a real beech when that happens.

>>Take a bough.

Pearhaps the threadwinner?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 27, 2025 10:46 AM (WbBbu)

306 Aye, Paddy, The want ad says they're looking for tree fellers, and here we are, just the two of us!

Posted by: Benny Hill, 1978 at January 27, 2025 10:46 AM (G5+As)

307 Possibly the earthquakes on the East Coast are harbingers of the expected conversion of East Coast portion of the North American-Atlantic plate boundaries into a subduction zone where the denser ocean plate slides below the North American plate. Same thing as happening in Pacific NW with the Juan de Fuca plate but on a larger scale.
Posted by: whig

Damn, Whig. You know about plate tectonics and American political history. Polymath much?

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

308 Oh darn it!I miss tree puns.

Posted by: Piper at January 27, 2025 10:47 AM (pRpzT)

309 The bigger they are the more valuable they become. Mine are about 14 years old now and will be mature in maybe another 10 or 15 years. When I purchased the property they were about 7 years old, and would have been planted as seedlings.
Posted by: Weasel

We've been cutting and splitting just the dead, downed trees on the property for firewood for a friend. We are still working on one that fell about four years ago. Blackjack oak. Inside looks like the day it fell. Unreal.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2025 10:48 AM (C8+CO)

310 286 A lot of hysterical DU posters are union and/or employee/management group leaders and they're always horrified they'll lose grip of the messaging to their constituents.

Heaven forbid they have mandatory work schedules.

Posted by: L
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I am willing to bet that the DU commentariat is about the same age as AOS--skewing Gen X and baby boomers. Millennials have their gen 1 social media like fakebook, you tube, etc. and the yutes have gen 2 social media like discord, Tik Tok, etc.

Instead of music and movies dividing generational tastes, we appear to be using internet use patterns now.

Posted by: whig at January 27, 2025 10:48 AM (ctrM5)

311 Morning, Piper. Is your snow gone yet?

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:49 AM (77rzZ)

312 Oh darn it!I miss tree puns.
Posted by: Piper at January 27, 2025 10:47 AM (pRpzT)
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I smelt an end to the fish puns.

Posted by: Axeman at January 27, 2025 10:49 AM (krQz2)

313 Back in the day, the Help Wanted ads in the Vancouver newspapers always had openings for "fallers". It was a dangerous job, but paid very well.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 27, 2025 10:49 AM (8zz6B)

314 Torn parts on that tree look like tentacles. What was Marianne thinking?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 27, 2025 10:49 AM (NuNXv)

315 295 Trepanning, the cure for tree punning.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

**********

That's really boring.
Posted by: muldoon

But it takes a really specific skull set.
Posted by: Bulg

Shit, I need to read this like I need another hole in my head.

Posted by: Drill, Baby, Drill! at January 27, 2025 10:49 AM (G5+As)

316 "Fallers", so, you looked at the market today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at January 27, 2025 10:50 AM (NuNXv)

317 Damn, Whig. You know about plate tectonics and American political history. Polymath much?

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)
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No math on the board.

Posted by: Axeman at January 27, 2025 10:50 AM (krQz2)

318 But it takes a really specific skull set.
Posted by: Bulg

***********

One of these days I'm going to give that neurosurgeon a piece of my mind!!

Posted by: muldoon at January 27, 2025 10:50 AM (991eG)

319 Margaret Brennan: “But this is a country founded by immigrants”

VP Vance: “Yes… but just because we were founded by immigrants doesn't mean that 240 years later we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world.”

Like he’s talking to a child

Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2025 10:50 AM (RHGPo)

320 319 Margaret Brennan: “But this is a country founded by immigrants”

VP Vance: “Yes… but just because we were founded by immigrants doesn't mean that 240 years later we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world.”

Like he’s talking to a child
Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2025 10:50 AM (RHGPo)

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Native Americans had open borders.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 27, 2025 10:51 AM (GBKbO)

321 Leftist Honduran President Calls an “Urgent Meeting” to All Presidents and Heads of State in Latin American and Caribbean Nations After Colombia Threat to Trump Dramatically Backfires

Sorry chicas. We are not your dumping ground.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2025 10:51 AM (C8+CO)

322 Kept hearing intermittent booms last night. Local FB page said it was fireworks, every time the Chiefs scored a touchdown.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 27, 2025 10:51 AM (NQtI0)

323 I smelt an end to the fish puns.
Posted by: Axeman

What's the delta?

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)

324 Damn, Whig. You know about plate tectonics and American political history. Polymath much?
Posted by: Bulg
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Someone like AOP and Publius among others are far better at science than I am but I try to understand basic principles.

Geology was always a fascination of mine as an analog to human history as geology is the physical history of this world.

Posted by: whig at January 27, 2025 10:51 AM (ctrM5)

325 I am willing to bet that the DU commentariat is about the same age as AOS--skewing Gen X and baby boomers. Millennials have their gen 1 social media like fakebook, you tube, etc. and the yutes have gen 2 social media like discord, Tik Tok, etc.

Instead of music and movies dividing generational tastes, we appear to be using internet use patterns now.
Posted by: whig at January 27, 2025 10:48 AM (ctrM5)
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The DUmmie Funnies was a regular feature @ Free Republic. And that was 20 years ago. Hard to believe, but the commentariat is even more insane now than back then.

Morning, whig!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 27, 2025 10:51 AM (tT6L1)

326 321 Leftist Honduran President Calls an “Urgent Meeting” to All Presidents and Heads of State in Latin American and Caribbean Nations After Colombia Threat to Trump Dramatically Backfires

Sorry chicas. We are not your dumping ground.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2025 10:51 AM (C8+CO)

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Places like El Salvador and Argentina are probably gonna be real fun at this party.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 27, 2025 10:51 AM (GBKbO)

327 But it takes a really specific skull set.
Posted by: Bulg
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I have a peculiar set of skulls.

Posted by: Liam Neeson at January 27, 2025 10:52 AM (krQz2)

328 Like he’s talking to a child
Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2025 10:50 AM (RHGPo)

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A severely retarded child at that.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 27, 2025 10:52 AM (tT6L1)

329 conversion of East Coast portion of the North American-Atlantic plate boundaries into a subduction zone where the denser ocean plate slides below the North American plate. Same thing as happening in Pacific NW with the Juan de Fuca plate but on a larger scale

wow, climate change can do anything

Posted by: brak at January 27, 2025 10:52 AM (jGJov)

330 If the Chinese fully enslave their populace with their heartless electronic whip masters before we can, then their transhumanist cyborg overlords will despoil the shrinking remains of the human family before we can!

Quelle horreur!

*markets tank*

Posted by: What a stupid fucking time to be alive at January 27, 2025 10:52 AM (BI5O2)

331 So you folks really do say "Ayuh." I had to learn to say that when I played the role of Dr. Gibbs in "Our Town" in high school and had to do a New-England accent.
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025

***
When, among two or three other roles, I played the bridge keeper in a radio-on-stage production of It's a Wonderful Life, I modeled my dialect on John Ratzenberger's Cliff Clavin. It came out well; one of the cast had lived for years in Maine, and she said it was spot on.

I also played "Uncle Billy," the fellow (Thomas Mitchell in the movie) who loses the money. I had to make him sound naive and a little childlike without sounding stupid, and I managed that, somehow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2025 10:53 AM (J2vNu)

332 I smelt an end to the fish puns.
Posted by: Axeman

What's the delta?
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:51 AM (77rzZ)
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He who delta smelt it?

Posted by: Liam Neeson at January 27, 2025 10:53 AM (krQz2)

333 I have a peculiar set of skulls.
Posted by: Liam Neeson at January 27, 2025 10:52 AM

So do I.

Posted by: The Predator at January 27, 2025 10:53 AM (+QlJh)

334 Margaret Brennan: “But this is a country founded by immigrants”
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I thought we were founded by colonists and their slaves?

Posted by: Cosda at January 27, 2025 10:53 AM (HDvRl)

335 wow, climate change can do anything

Posted by: brak at January 27, 2025 10:52 AM (jGJov)
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Meteorites is my personal favorite theory.

Posted by: Axeman at January 27, 2025 10:55 AM (krQz2)

336 Back in the day, the Help Wanted ads in the Vancouver newspapers always had openings for "fallers". It was a dangerous job, but paid very well.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

On Max & DiscoveryGO - The Last Woodsman

Documentary/Real TV on loggers & logging.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2025 10:55 AM (C8+CO)

337 I also played "Uncle Billy," the fellow (Thomas Mitchell in the movie) who loses the money. I had to make him sound naive and a little childlike without sounding stupid, and I managed that, somehow.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Mitchell rocked that role, as he did most of the roles he played.

One thing I don't get about that movie, though. Why did Uncle Billy have to physically withdraw the money from the bank for the bank examiner. Couldn't the BE have just examined a statement?

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

338 301 269 266 >>244 Earthquake in the Northeast just now?
Posted by: 18-1

4.1 in York Harbor Maine.

Susan Collins taking another face plant?
Posted by: Maj. Healey
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Possibly the earthquakes on the East Coast are harbingers of the expected conversion of East Coast portion of the North American-Atlantic plate boundaries into a subduction zone where the denser ocean plate slides below the North American plate. Same thing as happening in Pacific NW with the Juan de Fuca plate but on a larger scale.

Posted by: whig at January 27, 2025 10:44 AM (ctrM5)

The Continental US has a number of huge geologic catastrophes for civilization in the US building-up. New Madrid Fault, San Andreas Fault, a mega-tsunami on the Pacific NW coast when the Juan de Fuca plate does its next big slip, and topping them all, the Yellowstone Super Volcano.

Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2025 10:55 AM (aBgBM)

339 Margaret Brennan: “But this is a country founded by immigrants”

*Ellis Island has entered the chat.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2025 10:55 AM (C8+CO)

340 321 Leftist Honduran President Calls an “Urgent Meeting” to All Presidents and Heads of State in Latin American and Caribbean Nations After Colombia Threat to Trump Dramatically Backfires

Sorry chicas. We are not your dumping ground.
Posted by: rickb223

Why don't they send their own planes to pickup their citizens. Why are we always paying for these flights?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 27, 2025 10:55 AM (/U5Yz)

341 I look at buffons like Brennan and think, "You do realize talking points is not a conversation, right?"

Per the evaluation report meme of few years ago, "So dense light bends going around her."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 27, 2025 10:56 AM (tT6L1)

342 evoking Illionois' statehood and the dissolution of the state government and being turned into a territory

++++

I love this idea. Was thinking the same thing about California while watching Bass lie and squirm during the interview with Trump.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at January 27, 2025 10:57 AM (jPdyB)

343 We're talking skull and no Conan the Barbarian references yet?

It's like I don't even know you people any more!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 27, 2025 10:57 AM (tT6L1)

344 One thing I don't get about that movie, though. Why did Uncle Billy have to physically withdraw the money from the bank for the bank examiner. Couldn't the BE have just examined a statement?
Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:55 AM (77rzZ)

Billy was depositing money from the B&L into the bank. If you'll recall, the teller is the one who tells him that he doesn't have the money he's trying to deposit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2025 10:57 AM (ExV1e)

345 @320

>>Native Americans had open borders.

Point of fact, America was founded by colonists, not immigration, immigration is a by-product of colonization, as a sovereign country, we get to say who is and who isn't allowed to immigrate and be naturalized, regardless what a poem on a statue in the middle of a harbor says.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 27, 2025 10:58 AM (XV/Pl)

346 Possibly the earthquakes on the East Coast are harbingers of the expected conversion of East Coast portion of the North American-Atlantic plate boundaries into a subduction zone where the denser ocean plate slides below the North American plate. Same thing as happening in Pacific NW with the Juan de Fuca plate but on a larger scale.

Does this mean NYC *and* San Fran could both fall into the ocean? Lie if necessary.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2025 10:58 AM (2ocoG)

347 We're talking skull and no Conan the Barbarian references yet?

It's like I don't even know you people any more!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 27, 2025 10:57 AM

There's only one. How are we supposed to build Trump's throne out of just one? Maybe a drinking cup....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2025 10:58 AM (+QlJh)

348 Does this mean NYC *and* San Fran could both fall into the ocean? Lie if necessary.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2025 10:58 AM (2ocoG)
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Gives "bailing them out" a whole new meaning.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 27, 2025 10:58 AM (tT6L1)

349 Documentary/Real TV on loggers & logging.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2025 10:55 AM (C8+CO)

Who knew you could make like 10-15 TV series about logging?

Posted by: BignJames at January 27, 2025 10:58 AM (Yj6Os)

350 The DUmmie Funnies was a regular feature @ Free Republic. And that was 20 years ago. Hard to believe, but the commentariat is even more insane now than back then.

Morning, whig!

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1)

Shifts on both sides over time, really. We used to have a lot more, how shall I phrase this, establishment-aligned folks here back when I first wandered into this dump 15 years ago (damn, that long...). Things change.

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 27, 2025 10:58 AM (OUMaO)

351 Leftist Honduran President Calls an “Urgent Meeting” to All Presidents and Heads of State in Latin American and Caribbean Nations After Colombia Threat to Trump Dramatically Backfires

I'm gonna guess Milei and Bukele aren't invited to this meeting.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2025 10:59 AM (2ocoG)

352 Billy was depositing money from the B&L into the bank. If you'll recall, the teller is the one who tells him that he doesn't have the money he's trying to deposit.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Ah, I see. Thanks. It's been awhile since I've seen the movie.

Posted by: Bulg at January 27, 2025 10:59 AM (77rzZ)

353 350 Shifts on both sides over time, really. We used to have a lot more, how shall I phrase this, establishment-aligned folks here back when I first wandered into this dump 15 years ago (damn, that long...). Things change.
Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 27, 2025 10:58 AM (OUMaO)

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Yeah...

Where did Blago go?

Wait...never mind.

Don't give a shit. Blago was dumb as fuck.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 27, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO)

354 Concerning “ natural” catastrophes… we all exist at the sufferance of God Almighty… it’s never good to piss him off too much.

Posted by: tubal at January 27, 2025 10:59 AM (PCK5/)

355 We're talking skull and no Conan the Barbarian references yet?

We're talking skull and no Ron Jeremy references yet?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2025 10:59 AM (C8+CO)

356 "Here’s the deal: the man was impeached twice, he was convicted on 34 felony counts, and the American people still said, ‘He’s closer to normal than what we see on the left.’" -- Stephen A. Smith

Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2025 11:00 AM (RHGPo)

357 We're talking skull and no Conan the Barbarian references yet?

It's like I don't even know you people any more!
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 27, 2025 10:57 AM

There's only one. How are we supposed to build Trump's throne out of just one? Maybe a drinking cup....

Posted by: RedMindBlueState

Nuh-uh. The last time we spoke of a pol with a throne of skulls, he turned out to be quite the disappointment...

Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 27, 2025 11:00 AM (OUMaO)

358 Point of fact, America was founded by colonists, not immigration, immigration is a by-product of colonization, as a sovereign country, we get to say who is and who isn't allowed to immigrate and be naturalized, regardless what a poem on a statue in the middle of a harbor says.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at January 27, 2025 10:58 AM (XV/Pl)
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I was thinking along similar lines. You don't "immigrate" into an unorganized land. You settle it. However, many of the colonists were native born. It's not like each generation had to come over from England.

So there is even less to this than that.

Posted by: Axeman at January 27, 2025 11:00 AM (krQz2)

359 339 Margaret Brennan: “But this is a country founded by immigrants”

So what?

Posted by: Gref at January 27, 2025 11:00 AM (aBgBM)

360 Rant

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 27, 2025 11:01 AM (ExV1e)

361 Margaret Brennan: “But this is a country founded by immigrants”

Wait'll she finds out the "indigenous people" are all immigrants too.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 27, 2025 11:01 AM (2ocoG)

362 Noodus Throckmortiensis.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 27, 2025 11:02 AM (+QlJh)

363 Trump got to listen to the lamentations of their women at the prayer breakfast.

Posted by: Axeman at January 27, 2025 11:02 AM (krQz2)

364 That $8000 in 1946 would be worth about $129,000 now. So it was a significant piece of change, though it might not seem so to us today.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at January 27, 2025 11:02 AM (J2vNu)

365 Haitian leader says the Trump administration’s plans will be 'catastrophic' for his country https://apnews.com

Make Bone Throwing Great Again!

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 27, 2025 11:02 AM (/U5Yz)

366 "Here’s the deal: the man was impeached twice, he was convicted on 34 felony counts, and the American people still said, ‘He’s closer to normal than what we see on the left.’" -- Stephen A. Smith

Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2025 11:00 AM (RHGPo)

They also saw that all of those charges were bullshit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2025 11:03 AM (VwHCD)

367 Who knew you could make like 10-15 TV series about logging?
Posted by: BignJames

When GoPro cameras became broadcast quality, it opened up filming almost everything outdoors. No longer was a a major studio production just to film.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 27, 2025 11:03 AM (C8+CO)

368 I would suggest that institutional investors not be permitted to vote their shares at all. Perverse incentives abound.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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Well, that is one way to deal with that but then it lets a very few big owners of shares to run the corporations at the expense of the pension funds, mutual fund investors, etc.

It is always a situation of whack a mole in trying to eliminate perverse incentives for people to do bad things. You whack one and another pops up that may or may not be a second order effect. Back when I did empirical politic science research, latent and lagged variables in time series analysis were always a PITA because they were known unknowns.

Basically had to have some ideas about error distributions, time lags, latent variables's existence etc. that had to be empirically verified before proceeding with the analysis. Took years for that one from idea to publishing. In part, that is why I left the empirical field as I did not want to spend large portions of my life analyzing modeling. And, I was not teaching classes that used those methods anyway.

Posted by: whig at January 27, 2025 11:03 AM (ctrM5)

369 Margaret Brennan: “But this is a country founded by immigrants”
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I thought we were founded by colonists and their slaves?
Posted by: Cosda at January 27, 2025 10:53 AM (HDvRl)

It’s all commie word games. They’re calling the early colonists who came here and conquered the natives and settled the land “immigrants”, as if they are the same as modern illegal aliens.

They’re also conflating the immigration of the 19th and early 20th centuries from Europe with modern illegal aliens. More nonsense. Those people immigrated legally. Furthermore, they were not valuable simply because they were immigrants. They were allowed to immigrate because they were valuable to us.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 27, 2025 11:03 AM (FC8SQ)

370 Does this mean NYC *and* San Fran could both fall into the ocean? Lie if necessary.
Posted by: Ian S.
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Volcanoes and earthquakes.

Posted by: whig at January 27, 2025 11:04 AM (ctrM5)

371 nood

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 27, 2025 11:07 AM (5LoD7)

372 Shifts on both sides over time, really. We used to have a lot more, how shall I phrase this, establishment-aligned folks here back when I first wandered into this dump 15 years ago (damn, that long...). Things change.
Posted by: Brother Tim, Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 27, 2025 10:58 AM (OUMaO)
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count me as one who was more establishment aligned. learned better, though, these last 15 years or so.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 27, 2025 11:07 AM (tT6L1)

373 Volcanoes and earthquakes.
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Oh, my!

Volcanoes and earthquakes.

Oh, my!

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 27, 2025 11:08 AM (5LoD7)

374 "Here’s the deal: the man was impeached twice, he was convicted on 34 felony counts, and the American people still said, ‘He’s closer to normal than what we see on the left.’" -- Stephen A. Smith

Posted by: SMOD at January 27, 2025 11:00 AM (RHGPo)

They also saw that all of those charges were bullshit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 27, 2025 11:03 AM (VwHCD)

Being harassed with bullshit charges by a legal system which ostensibly exists to protect against murderers, rapists and thieves—but which actually exists to enrich itself off the backs of decent folks and engage in petty “the process in the punishment” lawfare against normal people—is something far too many Americans have also experienced, unfortunately.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at January 27, 2025 11:09 AM (FC8SQ)

375 Uncle Billy is a villain. He had one job. Deposit the money. Instead he gets all puffed up about his nephew, the war hero. He loses the envelope with the money. Potter finds it and keeps it. He is a villain too.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 27, 2025 11:18 AM (JVCkA)

376 They were allowed to immigrate because they were valuable to us.

Tread lightly on those eggshells. Unless you are over 29, you may not remember the many vestiges of Anti-Immigrant fervor from those very times. There was some argument over who was valuable to whom, and at whose expense. Don't get swept into that dustbin.

Posted by: Way,Way Downriver at January 27, 2025 11:49 AM (zdLoL)

377 Tiiiiiimmmmmbbbbbbeeeeerrrrrr

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 27, 2025 04:52 PM (wGqjj)

378 7 figure amazon fba seller

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