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Snow Day Cafe

totalsolareclipsemexico1991.jpg
Photograph of the total solar eclipse of July 1991,
taken in Chiapas, Mexico

Puppers enjoying the snow.

Cat gets around via a dogsled.

Peek-a-bird.

When you're a lone man in a kayak and a Great White Shark is stalking you.

Good strategy.

Playing in the snow with your raven.

Sharing Chinese with a cat.

Some Pig!

Kid learns at a young age that golf is just a way to ruin a good walk.

Give the patient a steady IV of thirty units of Puppaccino, stat!

Compilation of baby goats and lambs just being cute and frantic.

Quality time with your lion.

The goodest boy is a great firefighter!

ICYMI: Working Dog. She makes 70% of what a male dog makes.

Dachshund picks out a toy.

Dog begs for water on a hot day.

A couple of wisenheimers infiltrate a herd of horses.

Is winter over yet?

Breaking up a Bunny Brawl.

The goodest birthday boy.

Elephant lets a hippo know that he's the King of the Watering Hole.


Puppy tries to take an even smaller puppy for a walk.

Compilation of dogs covering their poor ears when the baby's crying.

Doggos and toddlers.

If you're not cheating you're not trying.


Posted by: Ace at 07:54 PM




Comments

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1 Yo!

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 11, 2025 07:55 PM (OX9vb)

2 Photo looks like nuclear winter or something. I guess it's birds, but it looks like ash.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 11, 2025 07:57 PM (OX9vb)

3 I nooded.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 11, 2025 07:57 PM (OX9vb)

4

Cafe!!!! Ace, thanks for coming up with Cafes. Such a wonderful break from the news.

Posted by: four seasons at February 11, 2025 07:57 PM (3ek7K)

5 I think that baby elephant seal was seeking protection from the penguin mob behind him....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 11, 2025 07:57 PM (BpYfr)

6 Major "Deadhouse Gates" vibes in the Chiapas eclipse photo.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 11, 2025 07:57 PM (gKWVE)

7 Fencing could use a makeover.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 11, 2025 07:58 PM (yF8T2)

8 ootage of snow falling on the Acropolis in Athens. The Parthenon stands beautifully in the wintery landscape. pic.twitter.com/wuk8w8iWzB

==

wow

Posted by: runner at February 11, 2025 07:58 PM (g47mK)

9 Photograph of the total solar eclipse of July 1991,
taken in Chiapas, Mexico
.......

The birds are freaking out!

Posted by: wth at February 11, 2025 07:58 PM (v0R5T)

10 I expected that top pic to have a caption like:

Alternate Album Covers for Bauhaus: 'The Sky's Gone Out'.

Posted by: garrett at February 11, 2025 07:59 PM (oa1NA)

11 Looks like something CBD should post in an Art Thread.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 11, 2025 07:59 PM (fvLXw)

12 Very nice videos this evening, but I would like more eels featured in the Cafe.

Posted by: Hovercraft Sales and Service at February 11, 2025 07:59 PM (G5+As)

13 Moar.
Doggos.

!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 11, 2025 08:00 PM (KaBJL)

14 5 I think that baby elephant seal was seeking protection from the penguin mob behind him....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 11, 2025 07:57 PM (BpYfr)

Photog was lucky Mamma Seal was chill... had probably had a few Chardonnays...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 11, 2025 08:00 PM (QAkQ3)

15 >>The Parthenon stands beautifully in the wintery landscape. pic.twitter.com/wuk8w8iWzB


Global Warming Blamed

Posted by: garrett at February 11, 2025 08:00 PM (oa1NA)

16 I'm not sure its wise to mess around with a platypus like that.

Don't they have poison-filled spurs? Poison that's excruciatingly painful?

One scratch and you will NOT be singing a happy tune...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 11, 2025 08:00 PM (BpYfr)

17 They found a copy of a lost silent film! It's called The Heart of Lincoln, about life during the Civil War. Stars John Ford's older brother.

https://tinyurl.com/376p7vzz

Posted by: Notsothoreau at February 11, 2025 08:00 PM (EV2jz)

18 5 I think that baby elephant seal was seeking protection from the penguin mob behind him....
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 11, 2025 07:57 PM (BpYfr)

Photog was lucky Mamma Seal was chill... had probably had a few Chardonnays...
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 11, 2025 08:00 PM (QAkQ3)
---
Or the penguin mob took care of her first...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 11, 2025 08:01 PM (BpYfr)

19 If you paid the bill, you have nothing to fear from the Peaceful Platypus.


Posted by: garrett at February 11, 2025 08:01 PM (oa1NA)

20 Turns out taking photos of a solar eclipse is not easy, even after getting all the right filters / equipment and getting your settings right beforehand. And theres that balancing act of "I've only got a minute or two, but I'd also like to stare the majesty of the event in real life with my own eyes" element.

And the clock is ticking the entire time.

I figure a lot of the pro photographers are buying flights and chasing the eclipse from spot to spot to get multiple chances.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Hurts, Smith, Barkley, etc, what did you expect would happen? at February 11, 2025 08:01 PM (X2Rtx)

21 The funniest thing about kitteh in dogsled is the cat swivels his head looking to see if he has an audience:

‘Watch, and be impressed at how my servant entertains me!’

Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2025 08:02 PM (RQqvE)

22 & #4, endorsed, also seconded!

Thanks Ace!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 11, 2025 08:02 PM (KaBJL)

23 Maybe Disney can arrange for their live action Snow White movie to be lost.

As in the main server drive array suffered a catastrophic failure due to a sledgehammer.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 11, 2025 08:02 PM (fvLXw)

24 You have no idea how polymorphicaly perverse penguins are. NO IDEA! I've been SA'ed in ways you can't even begin to imagine. I've been SA'ed 10 times more than all the accusers the Democrats trot out combined.

And the smell! OMG, the smell!!!! Take me with you.

Please. TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: The Baby Elephant Seal at February 11, 2025 08:04 PM (a3Q+t)

25
dogs are the "better angels of our nature" that Lincoln was talking about

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 11, 2025 08:04 PM (KaBJL)

26 If you paid the bill, you have nothing to fear from the Peaceful Platypus.

Posted by: garrett at February 11, 2025 08:01 PM (oa1NA)
----
Perry the Platypus?!

Posted by: Axeman at February 11, 2025 08:04 PM (OaZlZ)

27 12 Very nice videos this evening, but I would like more eels featured in the Cafe.

That would be on the Food Thread, every Sunday at 4.

Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2025 08:04 PM (RQqvE)

28 I have noticed that as there is so much news, ace's links in the Cafe have increased. This must make for a happier ace, I think.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2025 08:05 PM (mB6WH)

29 Not many things cuter than a litter of Golden Retriever puppies.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 11, 2025 08:05 PM (LkLld)

30 love that pic up top ace, so chaotic!

+b&w!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 11, 2025 08:06 PM (KaBJL)

31 Good evening everyone from snowed Delaware
Trying to watch weather and stay until at least 10 or so

Posted by: Skip at February 11, 2025 08:06 PM (cC5Hl)

32 JS is spot-on

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 11, 2025 08:07 PM (KaBJL)

33

I don't know how Ace can keep up with the news and give us in depth commentary.

I would be on the maximum does of Xanax. I don't know how he isn't on Xanax.

All Hail Ace!!!

Posted by: four seasons at February 11, 2025 08:07 PM (3ek7K)

34 Don't pay the platypus
til he gets you to the other side

Posted by: Chris de Bird at February 11, 2025 08:07 PM (vFG9F)

35 +b&w!
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 11, 2025 08:06 PM


Everything looks worse in black and white.

Posted by: Kodachrome at February 11, 2025 08:08 PM (a3Q+t)

36 Dogs can count to, "me," and "not me.". But if "not me" piles up there could be trouble. DM PhD

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at February 11, 2025 08:09 PM (QSrLX)

37 >>>Puppers Enjoying the Snow

=====

Tomorrow we're supposed to get our first significant snowfall of the year. Our 3 year old retriever is going to be in heaven.

Posted by: Turn 2 at February 11, 2025 08:09 PM (JfxgE)

38 g'night everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at February 11, 2025 08:09 PM (KaBJL)

39 If Los Angelinos were smart, they'd elect a Golden Retriever as mayor.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 11, 2025 08:10 PM (1bNHn)

40 Snow in Athens? Climate summit in town?

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 11, 2025 08:10 PM (/6GbT)

41 I saw the July '91 eclipse as a partial from the SW US.

Pro-tip: there is *NO* comparison to seeing a total eclipse.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 11, 2025 08:10 PM (Vqx30)

42 Not many things cuter than a litter of Golden Retriever puppies.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 11, 2025 08:05 PM (LkLld)

Only young girls.

Posted by: davis at February 11, 2025 08:11 PM (G5YBp)

43 If Los Angelinos were smart, they'd elect a Golden Retriever as mayor.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 11, 2025 08:10 PM (1bNHn)

Ain’t nothin’ in the rules says a dog can’t be President!

Posted by: Disney Movie Chief Justice at February 11, 2025 08:12 PM (cFzfG)

44 Kayak shark guy should have paddled straight to the shoreline...That is some scary footage..

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 11, 2025 08:12 PM (jQ+5q)

45 This time the ad seems to be telling me that farting is the first sign of Alzheimer's.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 11, 2025 08:12 PM (1bNHn)

46 Love it... AP (Associated Press) whines that they were not invited to a White House event.... about DOGE Fraud and Waste... when the AP is a INDIRECT RECIPIENT of US Aid funding.

Yes, AP is given Tax Dollars, but are still a 'Free Press'?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 11, 2025 08:12 PM (QAkQ3)

47 Some Pig!

Mmmmm, bacon seed.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 11, 2025 08:12 PM (Vqx30)

48 Two types of wives:

https://tinyurl.com/fa5j7pyd

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 08:12 PM (1NLUp)

49 "And wildlife photographer was photographing elephant seals on a beach and a baby came over to check him out"

Moments later he was mauled and gored by the baby's enraged mother.

Posted by: The rest of the story at February 11, 2025 08:13 PM (vFG9F)

50 40 Snow in Athens? Climate summit in town?
Posted by: A dude in MI at February 11, 2025 08:10 PM (/6GbT)
_________________________

I had to look that up. Apparently, it's very rare. Maybe a coating once every four or five years. But, don't worry, despite temps in the US being about 5 to 10 below the average this winter, the diehard Climate Changers tell me that January was the warmest on record. Just don't look at the snow in New Orleans, Clearwater and Dallas, and it's business as usual.

Posted by: Orson at February 11, 2025 08:13 PM (dIske)

51 I was in Athens in winter and it was dang cold, and I was dressed in everything blue that the Navy issued at the time. Not to mention the ouzo anti-freeze.

Posted by: Eromero at February 11, 2025 08:13 PM (LHPAg)

52 Big storm about to his Southern Calif... look for mud slides because of all the burnt off acreage.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 11, 2025 08:14 PM (QAkQ3)

53 >>> 50 40 Snow in Athens? Climate summit in town?
Posted by: A dude in MI at February 11, 2025 08:10 PM (/6GbT)
_________________________

I had to look that up. Apparently, it's very rare. Maybe a coating once every four or five years. But, don't worry, despite temps in the US being about 5 to 10 below the average this winter, the diehard Climate Changers tell me that January was the warmest on record. Just don't look at the snow in New Orleans, Clearwater and Dallas, and it's business as usual.
Posted by: Orson at February 11, 2025 08:13 PM (dIske)

My critters would like a word with the greentards. The goats especially were not pleased with Canadia dumping its cold weather on us.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 11, 2025 08:14 PM (Vqx30)

54 >> Just don't look at the snow in New Orleans, Clearwater and Dallas, and it's business as usual.

It’s a climate catastrophe!

A quad-demic of climate!

Posted by: Disney Movie Chief Justice at February 11, 2025 08:15 PM (cFzfG)

55 This time the ad seems to be telling me that farting is the first sign of Alzheimer's.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 11, 2025 08:12 PM


Nah. It just says the boys are enjoying Cookie's beans.

Posted by: Taggart at February 11, 2025 08:15 PM (a3Q+t)

56 We're about 30 minutes away from pulled pork sandwiches with baked beans and corn here at Casa de Pablo. I also found a non-alcoholic version of my all-time favorite beer (Deschutes Black Butte Porter), so Dry February may suck just a little less.

Posted by: PabloD at February 11, 2025 08:16 PM (IPuPO)

57 Weird coincidence? On AMC is Tombstone. On a different channel is the Star Trek episode Spectre of the Gun where the crew recreate the shootout at the O.K. Corral

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 11, 2025 08:16 PM (KXtU1)

58 Weird happening today. A pack of 3 red and tan, docked tails but with natural ears Dobermans came galloping through my pasture this afternoon. I kept my guys in the barn as I didn't have a good feeling about this.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2025 08:16 PM (mB6WH)

59 43 If Los Angelinos were smart, they'd elect a Golden Retriever as mayor.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 11, 2025 08:10 PM (1bNHn)

Ain’t nothin’ in the rules says a dog can’t be President!
Posted by: Disney Movie Chief Justice at February 11, 2025 08:12 PM (cFzfG)
______
A 35 year old dog would be hard to find. Or would 7 count?

Posted by: Eeyore at February 11, 2025 08:16 PM (1bNHn)

60 Not to be political so early in the Café Thread but I'm busy tonight and leaving early so I'd just point out that the NYC luxury hotel being used by FEMA is owned by Pakistani/s if you're looking for the kickbackees.

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 11, 2025 08:17 PM (5LoD7)

61 "This time the ad seems to be telling me that farting is the first sign of Alzheimer's.
Posted by: Eeyore"

I don't give a rip!

Posted by: An old fart at February 11, 2025 08:17 PM (vFG9F)

62 >>I saw the July '91 eclipse as a partial from the SW US.

There was a total Lunar Eclipse visible in Tucson that Fall/Early winter, too. Iirc.

Posted by: garrett at February 11, 2025 08:17 PM (oa1NA)

63 >>> 58 Weird happening today. A pack of 3 red and tan, docked tails but with natural ears Dobermans came galloping through my pasture this afternoon. I kept my guys in the barn as I didn't have a good feeling about this.
Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2025 08:16 PM (mB6WH)

Could you see if they had collars? I hope they weren't dumped by some asshoe.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 11, 2025 08:17 PM (Vqx30)

64 Kayaking in great white waters. With cameras rolling.

Posted by: davidt at February 11, 2025 08:18 PM (i0F8b)

65 The leed photo is very Wizard Of Oz ish.

Posted by: Indy Bill at February 11, 2025 08:18 PM (+WI3k)

66 >>Kayak shark guy should have paddled straight to the shoreline...That is some scary footage..


You'd be a fool to go into the Ocean.

Posted by: garrett at February 11, 2025 08:18 PM (oa1NA)

67 The original Klingon version of Tombstone is much better, not only because of the language, but because guns weren't substituted in for the bat'leths.

Posted by: General Chang at February 11, 2025 08:19 PM (a3Q+t)

68 If Los Angelinos were smart, they'd elect a Golden Retriever as mayor.
Posted by: Eeyore at February 11, 2025 08:10 PM (1bNHn)



Ya think I'm not retrieving plenty of gold?

Posted by: Karen Bass at February 11, 2025 08:19 PM (8zz6B)

69 A 35 year old dog would be hard to find. Or would 7 count?
Posted by: Eeyore at February 11, 2025 08:16 PM (1bNHn)

A dog year is 1/7th of a human year It’s all legal. And his “tummy rubs” program has a 99% approval rating. President Golden Retriever has us over a barrel!

Posted by: Disney Movie Villain, Bemoaning the Finer Points of Constitutional Law at February 11, 2025 08:19 PM (cFzfG)

70 This Star Trek is the one where we learn that Spock can reprogram human brains to believe or not believe anything he wants.

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2025 08:19 PM (vFG9F)

71 Helena Handbasket, no collars and they looked to be about 2 years old. They came off the road and veered off into the pasture.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 11, 2025 08:20 PM (mB6WH)

72 Puppy tries to take an even smaller puppy for a walk.

He was dragging him to the green power-up!

Posted by: mikeski at February 11, 2025 08:20 PM (DgGvY)

73
If I had it all to do over again (and if I actually had any visual talent), I'd be a wildlife photographer.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 11, 2025 08:21 PM (T3es0)

74 Based on the last 6 hours, I am fairly confident that we are witnessing the deep state dying.
The Dems have lost their minds and the public support. The media arm isn't being fed anymore, so it's flailing, Trump and Elon are killing everyone with kindness. The family setting in the oval with Elon and crew giving calm intelligent answers to questions.
I like all of this info coming out of Doge was already completed a long time ago and they are 3 departments ahead.
We are witnessing history

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at February 11, 2025 08:22 PM (XLfSN)

75 The doggos covering their ears when the baby cries cracks me up. I can relate.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 11, 2025 08:22 PM (mH6SG)

76 60 Not to be political so early in the Café Thread but I'm busy tonight and leaving early so I'd just point out that the NYC luxury hotel being used by FEMA is owned by Pakistani/s if you're looking for the kickbackees.
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at February 11, 2025 08:17 PM (5LoD7)
I am pretty sure that hotel was where my Senior class stayed in 1966.

Posted by: Eromero at February 11, 2025 08:23 PM (LHPAg)

77 >>Kayaking in great white waters. With cameras rolling.

Ocean kayaking is very popular around here both for fishing and just for paddling around. And we've got a lot of sharks.



Posted by: JackStraw at February 11, 2025 08:23 PM (LkLld)

78 The original Klingon version of Tombstone is much better, not only because of the language, but because guns weren't substituted in for the bat'leths.
Posted by: General Chang at February 11, 2025 08:19 PM (a3Q+t)

Skin that photon wagon and see what happens!

Posted by: Wild West Lawman Wyatt "Gowron" Earp at February 11, 2025 08:23 PM (cFzfG)

79 If I had it all to do over again (and if I actually had any visual talent), I'd be a wildlife photographer.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office

-

I always assumed that was one of those jobs where your dad already provided you with a comfortable trust fund for the basics.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Hurts, Smith, Barkley, etc, what did you expect would happen? at February 11, 2025 08:24 PM (X2Rtx)

80 51 I was in Athens in winter and it was dang cold, and I was dressed in everything blue that the Navy issued at the time. Not to mention the ouzo anti-freeze.
Posted by: Eromero at February 11, 2025 08:13 PM (LHPAg)

The first winter I was there, it snowed almost a foot (35 years ago). The Athenians made small snowmen and put them on the hood of their cars in front of the driver.

Hilarity ensued.

Posted by: Moki at February 11, 2025 08:25 PM (wLjpr)

81 I like all of this info coming out of Doge was already completed a long time ago and they are 3 departments ahead.
We are witnessing history
Posted by: melodicmetal1 at February 11, 2025 08:22 PM (XLfSN)

Big test will be CR showdown. Trump should be Budgeting,MFrs, DO. YOU. SPEAK IT?

Posted by: A dude in MI at February 11, 2025 08:25 PM (/6GbT)

82 This Star Trek is the one where we learn that Spock can reprogram human brains to believe or not believe anything he wants.
Posted by: fd at February 11, 2025 08:19 PM (vFG9F)

Ah, but can Spock reprogram a human brain to believe it has been reprogrammed, when it hasn’t been reprogrammed at all?

Posted by: Philosophy 101 Student at February 11, 2025 08:26 PM (cFzfG)

83 Movie mash-up - Predator meets Jurassic Park

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 11, 2025 08:26 PM (fvLXw)

84 The GOP looks to have Trumps back after the Speaker of the House said much much more is coming out and for these judges to step back. This says two things to me:

1 Trump is 100 ignoring the court bugman fags
2. The GOP will have to sacrifice a few of their members to the audits (I mean, I fully expect the GOPe were also in on the fraud fest) in order to totally emaciate that cesspool called the Democratic party

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at February 11, 2025 08:27 PM (XLfSN)

85 We are witnessing history

Yes, we’re in a Restoration period

Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2025 08:27 PM (RQqvE)

86 @NicoleShanahan

My foundation is allocating $3.5M in grants for qualified researchers to publish a series of review papers summarizing the published evidence linking vaccines to: Toxin-Induced Gut-Brain Inflammation Syndrome (TIGRIS); Enterotoxigenic Motor Neuron Inflammation (EMNI); Gut-Brain Axis Inflammatory Syndrome (GBAIS); Brain-Inflammatory Motor Disorder of Enteric Origin (BIMODE), and other ASD Co-Occurring Conditions. Funds will be distributed on a rolling basis and available immediately.

Please submit proposals to: research@nicoleshanahan.me

https://x.com/NicoleShanahan

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 08:27 PM (1NLUp)

87 They found a copy of a lost silent film! It's called The Heart of Lincoln, about life during the Civil War. Stars John Ford's older brother.

Unfortunately, it's on Betamax so no one will ever see it.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 11, 2025 08:27 PM (/y8xj)

88 Fencing could use a makeover.
Posted by: Boss Moss


I know, right?

Posted by: zombie G. K. Chesterton at February 11, 2025 08:28 PM (DgGvY)

89 Helena Handbasket, no collars and they looked to be about 2 years old. They came off the road and veered off into the pasture.
Posted by: Ben Had

No bueno. I don't cotton to no wild doggos. Pellet in the hindquarters first go round.
SSS second.

Posted by: MkY at February 11, 2025 08:28 PM (cPGH3)

90 THE LAMENTATIONS OF THEIR WOMEN: Terrified staff left hysterical as ‘well drilled’ DOGE nerds storm hyper ‘woke’ Department of Education.

Elon Musk’s nerd army stormed into the Department of Education on Tuesday and saved over $900 million.

Musk’s DOGE lieutenants Akash Bobba and Ethan Shaotran, both 22, already have access to the department, NBC News reported.

And as many as 16 DOGE team members have entered the premises as the agency begins to be ripped apart.

Rep. Melanie Stansbury, (D-MD) described the terror agency staff are feeling after Musk’s team entered to ‘actively dismantle’ the institution.

‘They are in the building, on the 6th floor, canceling grants and contracts,’ she said in an interview with HuffPost.


Wait, I thought the DOGE guys were children, or at least that's what the one woman said when she had to show an example of her code to a DOGE guy. Are you normally terrified by children, especially super nerdy autist ones?

https://is.gd/seJGOt

Posted by: Archimedes at February 11, 2025 08:28 PM (xCA6C)

91 Idle post.

It's snowing here in NoVA. I just let my dog out and am marveling at the joy she gets just running through the snow.

Then the way she looks at me having to go out into the snow wearing my slippers to get her back inside.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 11, 2025 08:28 PM (tKZgo)

92
Kayak shark guy should have paddled straight to the shoreline...That is some scary footage..
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It!

===========

That's what I was thinking, but did you look at the shoreline? Nonexistent. He was out where the water lapped right up to rocky cliffs.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 11, 2025 08:30 PM (T3es0)

93 1 Trump is 100 ignoring the court bugman fags
2. The GOP will have to sacrifice a few of their members to the audits (I mean, I fully expect the GOPe were also in on the fraud fest) in order to totally emaciate that cesspool called the Democratic party

Posted by: melodicmetal1

Lord! An opposition party with a spine!
No, wait! We are the Dominant party! Ha, ha, ha!

Posted by: MkY at February 11, 2025 08:30 PM (cPGH3)

94 >>Fencing could use a makeover.

Ace's yard is surrounded by Shelving.

Posted by: garrett at February 11, 2025 08:30 PM (oa1NA)

95
I must say I prefer Trump 47 to Trump 45. Trump 45 didn't care much about spending or deficits and trusted the departments to follow his policies. Trump 47 came in with all guns blazing, kicking ass, taking names, firing miscreants and finding all the cute tricks used to steal tax money.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2025 08:31 PM (dxSpM)

96 The original Klingon version of Tombstone is much better, not only because of the language, but because guns weren't substituted in for the bat'leths.
Posted by: General Chang at February 11, 2025 08:19 PM (a3Q+t)
----
How do you say "I'm your huckleberry" in Klingon?

Posted by: Doc Holliday at February 11, 2025 08:31 PM (BpYfr)

97 Kayak shark guy should have paddled straight to the shoreline...That is some scary footage..
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at February 11, 2025 08:12 PM (jQ+5q)

Young guy at work told us a story where he and his buddy were surfing and a great white killed a seal about 30 yards away from them. Instead of going ashore, they continued surfing.

Asked why they stayed and his answer was they figured he was eating and would leave them alone. The look on his face when someone mentioned that didn't a kill bring more predators to the area. Apparently, it didn't cross their minds there could be other sharks in the area.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 11, 2025 08:31 PM (UpGHA)

98 The GOP will have to sacrifice a few of their members to the audits (I mean, I fully expect the GOPe were also in on the fraud fest) in order to totally emaciate that cesspool called the Democratic party

I don't care which party they're in. They need to be gone.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 11, 2025 08:32 PM (xCA6C)

99 I like how Trump says that Oh sure he'll abide by the court's rulings and then acts like he's still waiting for the mineshaft elevator to reach the surface.

Posted by: Roy at February 11, 2025 08:32 PM (z+ik4)

100 I keep seeing jokes about there being a pastryarchy, because there are Pop Tarts, but no Mom Tarts. It started me wondering what flavors would Mom Tarts would have.

Asparagus?
Rhubarb?
Broccoli?
Okra?

Any others?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 11, 2025 08:33 PM (VNX3d)

101 GOPe doesn't seem to have much choice. Either they're with Trump, or against him, but if they're against him he's literally got the receipts.

Posted by: davidt at February 11, 2025 08:33 PM (i0F8b)

102
It's been just three weeks, but no one will ever look at the federal government the same way.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2025 08:33 PM (dxSpM)

103 Women just have an innate knack.

@NicoleShanahan
Replying to @SenFettermanPA

Fetterman toys with the ideal of being a strong American Man, but he is a lazy slob who can't get to the gym in spite of wearing gym clothes all day long. I do not expect someone who can't manage to dress themself to make good decisions, let alone those as important as the health of a nation

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 08:34 PM (1NLUp)

104 89 Helena Handbasket, no collars and they looked to be about 2 years old. They came off the road and veered off into the pasture.
Posted by: Ben Had

Full blood Dobies that old may belong to someone - could you have squatters on the property?

The whole thing is unsettling. Be careful!!

Posted by: Moki at February 11, 2025 08:34 PM (wLjpr)

105 I am eager to see what Ric Grenell does with the Kennedy Center

Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2025 08:34 PM (RQqvE)

106 102
It's been just three weeks, but no one will ever look at the federal government the same way.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2025 08:33 PM (dxSpM)

And Trump was saying that we haven't seen anything yet. The hidden crap is way, way more disturbing.

Posted by: Roy at February 11, 2025 08:34 PM (z+ik4)

107 How do you say "I'm your huckleberry" in Klingon?
Posted by: Doc Holliday


I can't believe Google Translate doesn't do Klingon. What kind of cut-rate nerds do they have working there? Someone get Big Balls on this.

Posted by: mikeski leaves it over the plate at February 11, 2025 08:34 PM (DgGvY)

108
If I had it all to do over again (and if I actually had any visual talent), I'd be a wildlife photographer.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office

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I always assumed that was one of those jobs where your dad already provided you with a comfortable trust fund for the basics.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

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

I would think so. That or decades of poverty and you start getting big bucks for your photos just as you turn 29 and can't do days in the wilderness like you used to.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 11, 2025 08:35 PM (T3es0)

109 I keep seeing jokes about there being a pastryarchy, because there are Pop Tarts, but no Mom Tarts. It started me wondering what flavors would Mom Tarts would have.

Asparagus?
Rhubarb?
Broccoli?
Okra?

Any others?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 11, 2025 08:33 PM (VNX3d)


Lima beans were the bane of my childhood.

And liver.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 11, 2025 08:35 PM (64qRd)

110 No bueno. I don't cotton to no wild doggos. Pellet in the hindquarters first go round.
SSS second.
Posted by: MkY at February 11, 2025 08:28 PM (cPGH3)

I’ve got dogs that come onto my farm a lot. Two of ‘em, must be from a neighbor, but I haven’t determined which.

I’d hardly care, but they get aggressive with me. One time I was out working and they come at me growling. Between me and the house.

I picked up a big ass wompin’ stick. They did *not* like that.

They nearly got ventilated, but I’d really prefer to not hurt them. Wish I could tell where they were from so I could warn the neighbor.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 11, 2025 08:35 PM (cFzfG)

111 Welp. Started the Fellowship of the Ring, extended version. I've got a damned system engineering management plan to edit, so I may as well be entertained instead of vindictive in my edits and comments.

*looks at org chart for the SEIR*

Hmmmm, where is the one Chief to rule them all? You don't do SE in a damned democracy of effing idiots. Where is your peer review process? Whom is required to review which products and why? Do you emmmefffers even SE?

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 11, 2025 08:36 PM (MsrgL)

112 "It's been just three weeks, but no one will ever look at the federal government the same way.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh "


I knew it was bad. But holy shit.


And also, fuck sharks.

Posted by: eleven at February 11, 2025 08:36 PM (fV+MH)

113
I am eager to see what Ric Grenell does with the Kennedy Center
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2025 08:34 PM (RQqvE)


Screw these people. Mike Pence (!!!) went to see Hamilton soon after the 2017 inauguration and was subjected to a lecture by the cast, since assholes can't help but be assholes. Artistes need to learn the hard lesson that they are here for us, not the other way around.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2025 08:36 PM (dxSpM)

114 I can't believe Google Translate doesn't do Klingon. What kind of cut-rate nerds do they have working there? Someone get Big Balls on this.
Posted by: mikeski leaves it over the plate

The kind of nerds that don't even grok Klingon.
Or "grok"

Posted by: MkY at February 11, 2025 08:36 PM (cPGH3)

115 I find it strange that the department of education is afraid of very educated people.

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at February 11, 2025 08:37 PM (XLfSN)

116
In the eclipse image, are millions of bats leaving a cave because they think it's night time?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 11, 2025 08:37 PM (biznJ)

117 I remember when Ace first came up with the "Quarantine Cafe." It was comforting and fun and lighthearted. I'm so pleased you have continued it, ace. I know it takes some effort, but please know it is much appreciated. It's kind of like the weekend threads at the end of the day.

Stay warm and happy.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 11, 2025 08:38 PM (oLpJM)

118 I don't care which party they're in. They need to be gone.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 11, 2025 08:32 PM (xCA6C)

Yep. I want them all exposed. Every last one.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 11, 2025 08:38 PM (OX9vb)

119 Wait, I thought the DOGE guys were children, or at least that's what the one woman said when she had to show an example of her code to a DOGE guy. Are you normally terrified by children, especially super nerdy autist ones?

https://is.gd/seJGOt
Posted by: Archimedes at February 11, 2025 08:28 PM (xCA6C)


Like the sainted Hillz used to say, "It takes a child to raze and pillage"

Posted by: Kindltot at February 11, 2025 08:38 PM (D7oie)

120 Women just have an innate knack.

@NicoleShanahan
Replying to @SenFettermanPA

Fetterman toys with the ideal of being a strong American Man, but he is a lazy slob who can't get to the gym in spite of wearing gym clothes all day long. I do not expect someone who can't manage to dress themself to make good decisions, let alone those as important as the health of a nation
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 08:34 PM (1NLUp)

Oh lawd, she longhoused lil’ bro. Lol.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 11, 2025 08:38 PM (cFzfG)

121 I find it strange that the department of education is afraid of very educated people.

They know that Elon's people are in the extremely brilliant category, and they are the Barney Fifes of educated people.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 11, 2025 08:39 PM (xCA6C)

122
I am eager to see what Ric Grenell does with the Kennedy Center
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2025 08:34 PM (RQqvE)

Screw these people. Mike Pence (!!!) went to see Hamilton soon after the 2017 inauguration and was subjected to a lecture by the cast, since assholes can't help but be assholes. Artistes need to learn the hard lesson that they are here for us, not the other way around
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Throw out your hands, stick out your tush. Hands on your hips, give them a push.
- Buddy Bizarre (Dom DeLuise)

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 11, 2025 06:57 PM (MsrgL)

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 11, 2025 08:39 PM (MsrgL)

123 In the eclipse image, are millions of bats leaving a cave because they think it's night time?
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 11, 2025 08:37 PM (biznJ)
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Probably. I've heard they will do that during a total eclipse. Although the eclipse itself only lasts a few minutes, it gets noticeably darker quite a bit sooner. Enough to fool bats and birds into thinking it's nighttime.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 11, 2025 08:39 PM (BpYfr)

124 >>>And also, fuck sharks.
Posted by: eleven
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I'm not that lonely.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 08:39 PM (1NLUp)

125
I would think so. That or decades of poverty and you start getting big bucks for your photos just as you turn 29 and can't do days in the wilderness like you used to.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office

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I saw something on X not too long ago where there was some world famous millionaire South American (Brazilian?) photographer getting all kinds of praise and accolades for collecting funds to help restore a section of rainforest.

The punch line that all the articles left out?

His dad was fabulously wealthy, with something like $15M worth of cattle back in the 70s (along with all kinds of other livestock, staff, etc) and HE was the one that destroyed the rainforest his wealthy son is now collecting money to restore.

He's a millionaire and is getting other people - I assume white Americans and Europeans - to pay him to re-plant his family farm that his dad ruined.

That's the way to do it.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Hurts, Smith, Barkley, etc, what did you expect would happen? at February 11, 2025 08:40 PM (+vtNx)

126 I remember when Ace first came up with the "Quarantine Cafe." It was comforting and fun and lighthearted. I'm so pleased you have continued it, ace. I know it takes some effort, but please know it is much appreciated. It's kind of like the weekend threads at the end of the day.

Stay warm and happy.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 11, 2025 08:38 PM (oLpJM)

Seconded.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 11, 2025 08:40 PM (cFzfG)

127

Tonight it is grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup.
A great meal for a cold snowy Wyoming night.
Simple fare but oh so comforting and warming.

Even the dogs are getting a sandwich.

Posted by: four seasons at February 11, 2025 08:40 PM (3ek7K)

128 I am eager to see what Ric Grenell does with the Kennedy Center
Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2025 08:34 PM (RQqvE)

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I hope he installs slot machines.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2025 08:40 PM (JkO4W)

129 Any others?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 11, 2025 08:33 PM (VNX3d)


cougar-tarts taste like Virginia Slims, Chanel and appletinis.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 11, 2025 08:40 PM (D7oie)

130 Willowed
243 I was going to suggest ripping out the posh seating at the Kennedy Center, turning it into a 24/7 gun/ammo store. On second thought, I guess the floor is sloped so all the ammo would slide down to one end. Not to mention the hand grenades.

Posted by: Exit, Stage Left at February 11, 2025 07:48 PM (G5+As)
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But the "FRONT TOWARD ENEMY" thingies** would all stay in place!!

Posted by: Ciampino - ** Claymore mines at February 11, 2025 08:41 PM (KjLnc)

131
‘They are in the building, on the 6th floor, canceling grants and contracts,’ she said in an interview with HuffPost.

Posted by: Archimedes

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

Take heart, comrade, I have just received a report that the Kamalians will be here in 5 hours!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 11, 2025 08:41 PM (T3es0)

132 They nearly got ventilated, but I’d really prefer to not hurt them. Wish I could tell where they were from so I could warn the neighbor.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

I've got a neighbor who keeps blue-ticks. Generally, pretty good dogs. My house is on the south half of my 20, his the north half of his twenty.
Whenever we start killing deer, we know we're gonna see those dogs. No biggie, cause through the season, they generally don't stray. But he has an old deaf bitch that just can't keep out of the gut piles.
He asked me to try to stop her.
Heh.
How badly do you want her to stop?

Posted by: MkY at February 11, 2025 08:41 PM (cPGH3)

133 Even the dogs are getting a sandwich.

Posted by: four seasons at February 11, 2025 08:40 PM (3ek7K)

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Somewhere, Sally and her mom smile.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2025 08:41 PM (JkO4W)

134 So I'm going to talk gently lest I spin off into bipolar land again...

Years ago Jonah Goldberg was writing something about how Libertarians sucked. He used the Dept of Education as an example....that Libertarians would scream BURN IT ALL DOWN when it was clear that the DoE wasn't going anywhere despite it being a worthy outcome. It was therefore good realistic conservatism to turn the DoE around to become a force for patriotism.

Apparently he had tendencies toward preemptive surrender even back then.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 11, 2025 08:41 PM (64qRd)

135
I can't say this has been a good day. My car needs some expensive repairs. Now I've found that due to a misunderstanding with some other people elsewhere, we may be out $1500. I'm not happy, at all.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2025 08:42 PM (dxSpM)

136 Evenin’, All.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

Posted by: Bulg at February 11, 2025 08:42 PM (77rzZ)

137 It was the fuck-around-est of times.

It was the find-out-est of times.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 11, 2025 08:42 PM (ZmEVT)

138 He's a millionaire and is getting other people - I assume white Americans and Europeans - to pay him to re-plant his family farm that his dad ruined.

That's the way to do it.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Hurts, Smith, Barkley
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Then, his adult son can harvest it and make more money. Then, his grandson can run cattle on it and make more money. ...etc

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 08:43 PM (1NLUp)

139 115 I find it strange that the department of education is afraid of very educated people.

Posted by: melodicmetal1 at February 11, 2025 08:37 PM (XLfSN)
These DOGE commandos are probably home schooled. If they had been in government schools, they probably been drugged.

Posted by: Eromero at February 11, 2025 08:43 PM (LHPAg)

140
He's a millionaire and is getting other people - I assume white Americans and Europeans - to pay him to re-plant his family farm that his dad ruined.

That's the way to do it.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie

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Brilliant.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 11, 2025 08:43 PM (T3es0)

141 I can't say this has been a good day. My car needs some expensive repairs. Now I've found that due to a misunderstanding with some other people elsewhere, we may be out $1500. I'm not happy, at all.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

--

What the hell? I'm sorry to hear that. What happened?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 11, 2025 08:44 PM (64qRd)

142 It was the fuck-around-est of times.

It was the find-out-est of times.
Posted by: no one of any consequence

Profound.

Posted by: Dickenestist at February 11, 2025 08:44 PM (cPGH3)

143 Elon's not going to have another launch until the 14th. That govt job is distracting him.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 08:45 PM (1NLUp)

144 Been pretty cold for a supposedly mild winter. Whatever NOAA predicts, expect the opposite.

Posted by: Pug Mahon in the Treasure Valley at February 11, 2025 08:47 PM (bDNzX)

145 He's a millionaire and is getting other people - I assume white Americans and Europeans - to pay him to re-plant his family farm that his dad ruined.

That's the way to do it.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Hurts, Smith, Barkley, etc, what did you expect would happen? at February 11, 2025 08:40 PM (+vtNx)
Would he be Daniel Ludwig's son or grandson?

Posted by: Eromero at February 11, 2025 08:47 PM (LHPAg)

146 I saw that on X. Just had to borrow it.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 11, 2025 08:47 PM (ZmEVT)

147 It was the fuck-around-est of times.

It was the find-out-est of times.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 11, 2025 08:42 PM (ZmEVT)

This is one of those random Internet comments that made me chuckle, but in five years I’m going to be laying in bed thinking about it.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 11, 2025 08:47 PM (cFzfG)

148
Pug! How are you in your new location?

Posted by: four seasons at February 11, 2025 08:48 PM (3ek7K)

149 144 Been pretty cold for a supposedly mild winter. Whatever NOAA predicts, expect the opposite.
Posted by: Pug Mahon in the Treasure Valley at February 11, 2025 08:47 PM (bDNzX)

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Give 'em a break. They're just following the climate model predictions.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2025 08:48 PM (JkO4W)

150 ‘They are in the building, on the 6th floor, canceling grants and contracts!’


Steiner will come.

Posted by: davidt at February 11, 2025 08:48 PM (i0F8b)

151 I bet bunnies could play a mean conga drum solo.

Posted by: Banana Dream at February 11, 2025 08:48 PM (Y6IkP)

152 Hadrian,
You know the horde not only gives expert relationship advice, but also the best financial, economical, physical, mental, dietical (?), medical and car repair advice, right?
(Maybe a little welding, if it ain't critical)

Posted by: MkY at February 11, 2025 08:49 PM (cPGH3)

153 Top pic is incredible! A scene from everyone's nightmares.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2025 08:50 PM (RIvkX)

154
The Eurofagz are probably bemerding themselves right now. What if people in their own crappy, dying countries wake up and start asking where all their tax money is going?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2025 08:50 PM (dxSpM)

155 ‘They are in the building, on the 6th floor, canceling grants and contracts!’


Steiner will come.


The cancellations...they're coming from INSIDE THE BUILDING!!!

Posted by: Archimedes at February 11, 2025 08:50 PM (xCA6C)

156 Like the sainted Hillz used to say, "It takes a child to raze and pillage"
Posted by: Kindltot


I'ma pillaging that phrase.

Posted by: mikeski, childlike at February 11, 2025 08:51 PM (DgGvY)

157 Bought a battery for the truck $239.
Bought the same battery for the truck in '21 for $90.
Thanks Joe.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 08:51 PM (1NLUp)

158 We have a metal roof, so I'm always very careful to not end up like "Is winter over yet?" lady! Ouch!

There was a huge chunk of icy snow hanging over the edge, right above the front door, the other day. Glad it fell while I was gone.

Posted by: JQ at February 11, 2025 08:52 PM (YoCnN)

159 Pug! How are you in your new location?
Posted by: four seasons at February 11, 2025 08:48 PM (3ek7K)

Still holed up in temporary quarters, but the job is excellent so far. I like the folks at the office. Can't wait for Mrs. Mahon to join me.

Posted by: Pug Mahon in the Treasure Valley at February 11, 2025 08:52 PM (bDNzX)

160 Hadrian,
You know the horde not only gives expert relationship advice, but also the best financial, economical, physical, mental, dietical (?), medical and car repair advice, right?
(Maybe a little welding, if it ain't critical)
Posted by: MkY

Cause the cheap way to do this (I learned this when I was in Little Rock as a governor intern) is to blow a pig all to hell, photograph it, and then take it to the folks you owe the $1500 to. Tell them you need a little time.
Take the photo to the car repair guy and tell him you aint' gonna pay him nuthin', and you want it tomorrow.

Posted by: MkY at February 11, 2025 08:54 PM (cPGH3)

161 1h
🇸🇰 Slovakia Prime Minister Fico writes personal letter to Elon Musk asking to investigate and inform him about USAID-funded 'entities' in his country

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 08:55 PM (1NLUp)

162 Brandon Straka, Walkaway founder, is having a Pardon Party in DC on Feb. 22
A couple of his patrons are throwing the bash for him. Itls the same weekend as CPAC

Seems like just yesterday he was on house arrest in Nebraska.

Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2025 08:55 PM (RQqvE)

163 >> Whatever NOAA predicts, expect the opposite.

Sydney Sweeney and her nubile friends will spurn my romantic advances, and not subject me to hours of disciplining them while they are dressed as schoolgirls.

Posted by: NOAA at February 11, 2025 08:55 PM (cFzfG)

164 I can't say this has been a good day. My car needs some expensive repairs. Now I've found that due to a misunderstanding with some other people elsewhere, we may be out $1500. I'm not happy, at all.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh


I took my car in for a wheel replacement. $900 they said, parts in on Monday. I paid in advance because, hey, you can pay for the part and get it on Monday.
On Monday they found a shitload of other stuff wrong for another $2200, held the car overnight. Oh and since I didn't bring my credit card (I thought I was done) they couldn't give me a loaner. And they didn't normally use a shuttle service.
So I was in limbo most of Monday morning while they found some monkey who could drive me home. Then home with no car for two days and out $3100. (Did I also mention my microwave broke in the meantime? I believe I did, on an earlier thread.)
At this point I'm afraid even to leave my bed in case something else explodes around here.

Posted by: gKWVE still wants pie at February 11, 2025 08:55 PM (gKWVE)

165 The Milford Plaza is the lullaby of old Broadway.

Posted by: Sahib From Sudan and Family at February 11, 2025 08:56 PM (G5+As)

166 161 1h
🇸🇰 Slovakia Prime Minister Fico writes personal letter to Elon Musk asking to investigate and inform him about USAID-funded 'entities' in his country

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 08:55 PM (1NLUp)

How much of the DOGE findings is being made public?

Posted by: davidt at February 11, 2025 08:56 PM (i0F8b)

167 Slovakia Prime Minister Fico writes personal letter to Elon Musk asking to investigate and inform him about USAID-funded 'entities' in his country

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Overruled!

Posted by: Random Hawaiian judge at February 11, 2025 08:56 PM (9XPe8)

168 They are in the building, on the 6th floor, canceling grants and contracts!’

......

Sort of like Palin's dwarves trapped in Moria with the Orcs closing in to destroy their world.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 11, 2025 08:56 PM (UpGHA)

169 Watching the Trump/Musk press conference and I love that Elon made this point:

We have people making a salary of say $200k/year and somehow they were worth tens of millions of dollars. Now maybe this person is just really, really good at investing and we should take their advice or maybe...well...there is something other way they are getting money and we need to look into that too.

And it is a really good point. Baring incredible dumb luck like investing at the ground floor on Nvidia or bitcoin or something the only explanation for what these people are doing is they are being bribed/stealing it

Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2025 08:57 PM (t0Rmr)

170 There was a huge chunk of icy snow hanging over the edge, right above the front door, the other day. Glad it fell while I was gone.

One launched off of my roof in the middle of the night on Sunday and scared the crap out of me.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 11, 2025 08:57 PM (mH6SG)

171 >> Cause the cheap way to do this (I learned this when I was in Little Rock as a governor intern) is to blow a pig all to hell, photograph it, and then take it to the folks you owe the $1500 to.

Can confirm this works.

Posted by: Blown Pig at February 11, 2025 08:57 PM (cFzfG)

172 Balin was Lord of Moria.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 11, 2025 08:58 PM (gKWVE)

173 They are in the building, on the 6th floor, canceling grants and contracts!’
......
Sort of like Palin's dwarves trapped in Moria with the Orcs closing in to destroy their world.



They have taken the bridge and the second hall. We have barred the gates but cannot hold them for long. The ground shakes, drums... drums in the deep. We cannot get out. A shadow lurks in the dark. We can not get out... they are coming.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 11, 2025 08:58 PM (xCA6C)

174
Pug,

Great!

Posted by: four seasons at February 11, 2025 08:59 PM (3ek7K)

175 Heh, Musk the Balrog.

Posted by: davidt at February 11, 2025 08:59 PM (i0F8b)

176 Egyptian President El Sisi's trip to the US to meet President Trump postponed until further notice.

he King [of Jordan] reiterated Jordan's stance against the displacement of Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank
---

Radio: Trump is confidant Jordan and Egypt will find a place for the Gaza occupiers.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 08:59 PM (1NLUp)

177 Palin = Balin. F'ing autocucumber

Posted by: Beartooth at February 11, 2025 08:59 PM (UpGHA)

178 How much of the DOGE findings is being made public?
Posted by: davidt at February 11, 2025 08:56 PM (i0F8b)


All of it. DOGE has its own X account and I believe Elon said they built a website as well. There’s a DOGEcast too.

Posted by: kallisto at February 11, 2025 09:00 PM (RQqvE)

179 "Baring incredible dumb luck like investing at the ground floor on Nvidia or bitcoin or something the only explanation for what these people are doing is they are being bribed/stealing it
Posted by: 18-1"

Inheritance.

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2025 09:00 PM (vFG9F)

180 Im finally sick of Elon Musk, if he's going to use a code name he should be proud of his Italian heritage, he should embrace being Harry Balsagna.

Posted by: Rbastid at February 11, 2025 09:00 PM (mn5GB)

181 Wouldn't the Pakistanis be the kickbackers, and the kick backers being whoever directed the taxpayer's funds to the Pakistanis?
I like to keep our corrupt actors straight.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 11, 2025 09:00 PM (4780s)

182 > Whatever NOAA predicts, expect the opposite.
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FWIW they were pretty accurate with the January winter storm and the one we're having now. Maybe not on the money with inches of snow... but they did have it pretty close.

Which is why it's called "forecasting" and not "predicting." Although some so-called meteorologists will say they predict this, that or the other thing while others will say they forecast some such shit to be your weather.

YMMV

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2025 09:01 PM (Q4IgG)

183 I was thinking, what does Michael Palin have to do with Tolkien?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 11, 2025 09:01 PM (fvLXw)

184 Lima beans were the bane of my childhood.

And liver.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 11, 2025 08:35 PM


Might I suggest fava beans, instead?

Posted by: Hannibal Lecter, M.D. at February 11, 2025 09:01 PM (a3Q+t)

185 Trump's opening act at the Kennedy Center should be using it to unveil the government coverup of its namesake's murder.

After that, hand it over to Dana White to use for high-dollar prizefights for the new populist elite to attend.

Makhachev vs. Schumer

Jones vs. Ocasio-Cortez

Pereira vs. Newsome

And so on.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2025 09:02 PM (0l8OY)

186 Texas is bi-polar in the Winter.

85 last Saturday. Cold and rainy tonight.

It's the Gulf air mass having a tug of war with the general west to east air mass.

Sometimes Winter is three weeks, sometimes 3 months.

Posted by: eleven at February 11, 2025 09:02 PM (fV+MH)

187 Would he be Daniel Ludwig's son or grandson?


--

I cheated and looked it up.

Salgado. And I was mistaken, it wasn't $15M of cattle in the 70s. It was $15M worth of cattle in the 50s.

It's funny to imagine the white son of a wealthy white rancher in Texas trying to get people to give him, a multimillionaire, money to help him restore the property of the man who had destroyed the land and left him his wealth. He'd be laughed out of the county.

But this is a brown guy so it's fine, and the white "save the rainforest" money is rolling in.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Hurts, Smith, Barkley, etc, what did you expect would happen? at February 11, 2025 09:02 PM (+vtNx)

188 Inheritance.

Posted by: fd at February 11, 2025 09:00 PM (vFG9F)


I mean...fine so a couple of them inherited a family estate - that will be easy to identify as it will be on their tax return...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2025 09:02 PM (t0Rmr)

189 The King [of Jordan] reiterated Jordan's stance against the displacement of Palestinians in both Gaza and the West Bank

Who wants a bunch of low IQ troublemakers and career terrorists raised from birth to murder people and care nothing for their life or anyone else's?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 11, 2025 09:02 PM (2VST1)

190 Russia releases American prisoner Marc Fogel after talks with US President Trump envoy.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 09:02 PM (1NLUp)

191 I bet bunnies could play a mean conga drum solo.
Posted by: Banana Dream


In the 1980s, we were unbeatable at Track & Field. The hardest part of the game was getting the quarter in the slot.

Posted by: Bunnies at February 11, 2025 09:02 PM (DgGvY)

192 The Deep State's Bane!

Posted by: Gimli Son of Gloin at February 11, 2025 09:03 PM (i0F8b)

193 Radio: Trump is confidant Jordan and Egypt will find a place for the Gaza occupiers.
Posted by: Braenyard

There's thousands of square miles of desert. Build some friggin' fences, bros. Watch those tunnels. Everything will be fine.
We'll sell you some bunker-busters if need be!

Posted by: MkY at February 11, 2025 09:04 PM (cPGH3)

194 oooh, Trump as Bane...

I like it.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Hurts, Smith, Barkley, etc, what did you expect would happen? at February 11, 2025 09:04 PM (+vtNx)

195
Russia releases American prisoner Marc Fogel after talks with US President Trump envoy.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 09:02 PM (1NLUp)


"Perdicaris alive or Raisuni dead!"

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2025 09:04 PM (dxSpM)

196 I am wondering just who is cashing SS checks for 150 year old people.
If it helps, were Laura Ingalls Wilder still alive, she would be 158 this year

Posted by: Kindltot at February 11, 2025 09:05 PM (D7oie)

197 I'd be shocked if there are still physical checks being written. I assume those are all direct deposits into bank accounts.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Hurts, Smith, Barkley, etc, what did you expect would happen? at February 11, 2025 09:06 PM (+vtNx)

198 Hi friends! Hope everyone is well.

Posted by: Piper at February 11, 2025 09:07 PM (d2kuJ)

199 National Weather Service forecasting more than 1 month out: Lying liars that lie.

Normal winter temps and precipitation my ass.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 11, 2025 09:07 PM (u82oZ)

200 blow a pig all to hell

You know a boar's is kind of corkscrew-shaped, right?

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at February 11, 2025 09:07 PM (a3Q+t)

201 Anyone have more details?
Fire near El Paso after car explosion.

https://tinyurl.com/3kvt4fu4

Posted by: Ciampino - not another battery? at February 11, 2025 09:08 PM (KjLnc)

202 I am wondering just who is cashing SS checks for 150 year old people.
If it helps, were Laura Ingalls Wilder still alive, she would be 158 this year


There were 10K 120+ year old voters in WI in 2020.

Though the official government stats say there are no 120+ year olds living in the US...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2025 09:08 PM (t0Rmr)

203 I don't know about you but, Next Year in Khan Younis!
-MGM Grand Hotel and Casino Khan Younis brochure

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2025 09:08 PM (RIvkX)

204 And if Trump is successful at cutting off the flow of graft, many of the younger DC swine will have no choice but to take the UFC money, and get pulverized by some Central Asian mutant for the amusement of jeering crowds at the Kennedy Center.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2025 09:08 PM (0l8OY)

205 190 Russia releases American prisoner Marc Fogel after talks with US President Trump envoy.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 09:02 PM (1NLUp)

--------

Trump made Putin an offer he couldn't refuse.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2025 09:08 PM (JkO4W)

206 Tom Homan is on point and tells the Pope to focus on the Church and leave border enforcement to him.

https://tinyurl.com/yeynfxdv

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 09:09 PM (1NLUp)

207 Shut up Wesley.

Posted by: eleven at February 11, 2025 09:09 PM (fV+MH)

208 There are no checks, it's all electronic.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2025 09:09 PM (RIvkX)

209 well I knew it wasn't Sarah Palin, she doesn't have a beard

Posted by: michelle obama on the other hand at February 11, 2025 09:09 PM (gKWVE)

210 NOAA is another fraud.

Posted by: runner at February 11, 2025 09:10 PM (g47mK)

211 I was thinking, what does Michael Palin have to do with Tolkien?

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 11, 2025 09:01 PM (fvLXw)
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Besides the Fish-Slapping Dance?

Posted by: Axeman at February 11, 2025 09:10 PM (OaZlZ)

212 LearJet35 at Scottsdale suffered a nose collapse on landing. NTSB findings - poor maintenance.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 11, 2025 09:10 PM (fvLXw)

213 202 I am wondering just who is cashing SS checks for 150 year old people.
If it helps, were Laura Ingalls Wilder still alive, she would be 158 this year

--------

There's the first clue?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2025 09:10 PM (JkO4W)

214
lolololol:

"king" of Jordan tells the President he will, indeed, take in thousands of kids from Gaza.

You will take adults, too, fuckface.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2025 09:11 PM (2LmUi)

215 > There are no checks, it's all electronic.
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The stimulus checks... are paper checks. Ours was.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 11, 2025 09:11 PM (Q4IgG)

216 212 LearJet35 at Scottsdale suffered a nose collapse on landing. NTSB findings - poor maintenance.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 11, 2025 09:10 PM (fvLXw)

Yeah. "Poor maintenance." That's the ticket.

Posted by: Artie Lang at February 11, 2025 09:11 PM (0l8OY)

217 Anna Puma

Lots of maintenance is being skipped. In every operational environment. No maintenance is a second to fourth world problem. Right here in the US of A.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 11, 2025 09:12 PM (u82oZ)

218 206 Tom Homan is on point and tells the Pope to focus on the Church and leave border enforcement to him.

https://tinyurl.com/yeynfxdv
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 09:09 PM (1NLUp)

----------

Money Quote: "Sod off, Pope."

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2025 09:12 PM (JkO4W)

219 There are no checks, it's all electronic.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2025 09:09 PM (RIvkX)


Well, then. It is going to be simple to figure out who's accounts those are going into, isn't it. Isn't that what "know your customer" laws are all about?

Posted by: Kindltot at February 11, 2025 09:13 PM (D7oie)

220 And if Trump is successful at cutting off the flow of graft, many of the younger DC swine will have no choice but to take the UFC money, and get pulverized by some Central Asian mutant for the amusement of jeering crowds at the Kennedy Center.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 11, 2025 09:08 PM (0l8OY)

Nah, they'll become social media influencers or OnlyFans sluts.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 11, 2025 09:13 PM (VNX3d)

221 Do they even make Learjets anymore?

All the cool kids are riding in Gulfstreams.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2025 09:13 PM (JkO4W)

222 I think I'd rather swim with elephants than dolphins. We had dolphins in the Atlantic but they never swam with me...their loss.

Goldens are the very best of doggies. Son's golden, while raised with a baby and toddlers will have a new human sibling this summer.

Our first dog, a fierce German Shepherd/Husky mix would whine to go outside when our son was a baby. It flipped her out.

Love the videos, Ace!

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 11, 2025 09:13 PM (ScdUI)

223 Nobody voted for the Pope.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 11, 2025 09:13 PM (yF8T2)

224 >>Money Quote: "Go shit in your silly hat."

Posted by: garrett at February 11, 2025 09:13 PM (oa1NA)

225 Are you 150 years old? Did Elon Musk just cut off your Social Security check? You may be eligible for compensation! Call today!

Posted by: Dewey, Cheatum and Howe at February 11, 2025 09:14 PM (kpDSe)

226
There's a diff between "poor" maintenance and "lack of" maintenance.

Poor maintenance is due to incompetence. I don't think these aviation schools are graduating their very best anymore, if you know what I mean.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2025 09:14 PM (2LmUi)

227 Hey Jordan, pretty sure you can make a pretty good dignity canal with all the adult Arabs from Gaza.

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 11, 2025 09:14 PM (fvLXw)

228 Nobody voted for the Pope.

All the purple Cardinals did

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 11, 2025 09:15 PM (2VST1)

229 That Lear Jet was owbed be someone famous. Vince Neil.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 11, 2025 09:15 PM (yF8T2)

230 There's the first clue?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2025 09:10 PM (JkO4W)


Nah. Laura and her daughter Rose were dead set against government assistance, they felt it was the first step to a tyrannical state. Rose proudly stated that she was too poor to qualify for federal income tax at one point.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 11, 2025 09:15 PM (D7oie)

231 Well, then. It is going to be simple to figure out who's accounts those are going into, isn't it. Isn't that what "know your customer" laws are all about?
Posted by: Kindltot at February 11, 2025 09:13 PM (D7oie)
====

Of course!
*shakes head no*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2025 09:15 PM (RIvkX)

232
Kids in school today aren't stupid & illiterate because of "lack of" education. They are stupid & illiterate because of poor education. They have BAD "teachers," who, themselves, are both stupid & illiterate.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2025 09:15 PM (2LmUi)

233 Hey Jordan, pretty sure you can make a pretty good dignity canal with all the adult Arabs from Gaza.

Make a new Suez that literally goes around Israel?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2025 09:16 PM (t0Rmr)

234 229 That Lear Jet was owbed be someone famous. Vince Neil.
Posted by: Boss Moss at February 11, 2025 09:15 PM (yF8T2)

---------

Maybe Alice Cooper was driving. He lives in Phoenix.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2025 09:16 PM (JkO4W)

235 According to the spokesbabe, trump's request for tax cuts to congress includes:

-No taxes on social security for elderly
-No taxes on tips
-Increased taxes on the very wealthiest
-Removing several significant loopholes used for deduction by the richest

Its a pretty tough one for the Democrats to oppose, there is no tax reduction for the rich (except social security), lots of it for middle class, and increased taxes on the wealthy. Assuming congress goes along.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 11, 2025 09:17 PM (2VST1)

236 Is the Kennedy Center big enough for a Monster Truck Rally or a decent tractor pull? Mud Race?

Posted by: Homer and Jethro at February 11, 2025 09:17 PM (G5+As)

237 Make a new Suez that literally goes around Israel?

There is literally a new canal idea that cuts through the middle east to avoid the Red Sea which is questionably navigable at times.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 11, 2025 09:18 PM (2VST1)

238
Tom Homan is on point and tells the Pope to focus on the Church and leave border enforcement to him.

The Pope should be telling Catholics to go to Confession and meditate on the Four Last Things.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2025 09:18 PM (dxSpM)

239 Money Quote: "Go shit in your silly hat."

Sorry, I had to laugh.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 11, 2025 09:19 PM (mH6SG)

240 Professional Wrestling at the Kenneddy Center.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 11, 2025 09:19 PM (yF8T2)

241 Chicago's motto is "Urbs in horto", meaning "City in a Garden", Cynical newspaper columnist Mike Royko, sick of the city's grift and corruption, wanted a new motto: "Ubi est mea?"

In other words, "Where's mine?" Billions and billions wasted -- "Ubi est mea?"

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 11, 2025 09:19 PM (LjXLp)

242 That Lear Jet was owbed be someone famous. Vince Neil.
Posted by: Boss Moss

The Lear jet ran into another jet in its path. That's not maintenance. Either pilot or ATC error.
It landed just fine.

Posted by: MkY at February 11, 2025 09:19 PM (cPGH3)

243 232
Kids in school today aren't stupid & illiterate because of "lack of" education. They are stupid & illiterate because of poor education. They have BAD "teachers," who, themselves, are both stupid & illiterate.
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2025 09:15 PM (2LmUi)

This is something I have been thinking about for a while. Modern things from all over the place decry rote memorization and drills and so forth as being boring and not fun for the teachers or students. Well, it seems like that style of teaching got a lot better results.

I honestly do not care if it is boring for the teachers.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 11, 2025 09:19 PM (bss/y)

244 Okay. I'll bite.

What are the Four Things?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2025 09:19 PM (JkO4W)

245 18-1, a canal from Gaza to the gulf of Eilat would be excellent for Saudi/Med commerce if they don't want to deal with Egypt. Always thought Gaza should have invested in tunnels there rather than in killing Jews.

Posted by: gKWVE at February 11, 2025 09:20 PM (gKWVE)

246 I think they said one of the landing gears failed.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 11, 2025 09:20 PM (yF8T2)

247
What are the Four Things?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2025 09:19 PM (JkO4W)


Death, Judgement, Heaven, Hell

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 11, 2025 09:21 PM (dxSpM)

248
I say "Tom HO-mahn," like a Ferengi.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2025 09:21 PM (2LmUi)

249 oooh, Trump as Bane

He speaks too clearly. You'd have to wire his jaw shut and have him talk through a pillow.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 11, 2025 09:22 PM (2VST1)

250
*a Ferengi is a space alien from Star Wars, for those of you in Rio Linda

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2025 09:22 PM (2LmUi)

251 *a Ferengi is a space alien from Star Wars, for those of you in Rio Linda

They're Space Jews

Posted by: Gene Roddenbury at February 11, 2025 09:22 PM (t0Rmr)

252 Always thought Gaza should have invested in tunnels there rather than in killing Jews.

Would be an amazing resort town on the strip there, if they weren't a batch of barbarian idiots.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 11, 2025 09:23 PM (2VST1)

253 Learn Jets are built in Savannah. Pretty large employer.

Posted by: Ups and Downs at February 11, 2025 09:23 PM (G5+As)

254 Okay. I'll bite.
What are the Four Things?
Posted by: Cicero


The Four "Last" Things. Death, Judgement, Heaven, and Hell.

Posted by: mikeski, eschatologically at February 11, 2025 09:24 PM (DgGvY)

255 There is literally a new canal idea that cuts through the middle east to avoid the Red Sea which is questionably navigable at times.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 11, 2025 09:18 PM (2VST1)


You mean down the rift valley the Dead Sea is in, to that extra limb, the aksba or whatever, that shoots up to the north? Up the North side of the Sinai?

That would be lit.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 11, 2025 09:24 PM (D7oie)

256 -Increased taxes on the very wealthiest
-Removing several significant loopholes used for deduction by the richest

Its a pretty tough one for the Democrats to oppose, there is no tax reduction for the rich (except social security), lots of it for middle class, and increased taxes on the wealthy. Assuming congress goes along.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February

I can’t wait to hear the Dems suddenly feel that the richest pay plenty of taxes and deserve breaks as they drive the economy.

Posted by: Piper at February 11, 2025 09:24 PM (pZEOD)

257 Thanks autocorrect!

Posted by: Ups and Downs at February 11, 2025 09:24 PM (G5+As)

258
Rep. Maxine Dexter, my nominee for Dingbat AWFL of the year award. Behold:

https://tinyurl.com/2yrrvkms

She's from Oregon. I watched that clip on FOX a little while ago, and thought she had to be from Washington state or Oregon.

These types are all over the country, but the Pacific NW produces this particular type. I don't know how I'd describe it, but it's a type.. "Tee hee, I don't normally swear, but....."

And, she's an M.D. Wow.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2025 09:25 PM (w6EFb)

259 @TaraBull808

Map of all Chinese infrastructure projects in Latin America.

How does this make you feel?

https://tinyurl.com/ms9hwpp9

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 09:25 PM (1NLUp)

260 251 *a Ferengi is a space alien from Star Wars, for those of you in Rio Linda

They're Space Jews
Posted by: Gene Roddenbury at February 11, 2025 09:22 PM (t0Rmr)

Described as 'Yankee Traders' in their first episode.

God the first season of TNG sucked ass.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 11, 2025 09:25 PM (bss/y)

261 There is literally a new canal idea that cuts through the middle east to avoid the Red Sea which is questionably navigable at times.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 11, 2025 09:18 PM (2VST1)
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Hmmm...Is there *anywhere* a canal could be dug in the Middle East that would NOT be "questionably navigable?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 11, 2025 09:25 PM (BpYfr)

262 Our first dog, a fierce German Shepherd/Husky mix would whine to go outside when our son was a baby. It flipped her out.

Love the videos, Ace!
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at February 11, 2025 09:13 PM (ScdUI)

We have a Shepherd/Husky mix, but it's never lived with kids. Sweet and friendly in greeting everyone, but then eventually wants to go her own way. Great family dog.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 11, 2025 09:25 PM (9qZ8R)

263 Gulf of Aquaba. The plan was to dig it with nukes. Ben Gurian Canal.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 11, 2025 09:26 PM (yF8T2)

264 I went to Aqaba once. I was not impressed.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2025 09:27 PM (JkO4W)

265 Is there *anywhere* a canal could be dug in the Middle East that would NOT be "questionably navigable?"

Well, there is that. Its pretty unsafe everywhere.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 11, 2025 09:27 PM (2VST1)

266 Okay. I'll bite.
What are the Four Things?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2025 09:19 PM (JkO4W)



Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens

Maria Rainier said so.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 11, 2025 09:27 PM (D7oie)

267
Anyone have more details?
Fire near El Paso after car explosion.

https://tinyurl.com/3kvt4fu4
Posted by: Ciampino

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

The
Early
Signs
Look like
A ________

(best I can do on short notice)

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 11, 2025 09:27 PM (T3es0)

268 If you rt. click on the map and open it becomes legible.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 09:27 PM (1NLUp)

269 These types are all over the country, but the Pacific NW produces this particular type. I don't know how I'd describe it, but it's a type.. "Tee hee, I don't normally swear, but....."

I think when she says "We have to fuck Trump" she actually doesn't mean it in the figurative sense.

There is thirst in her dried up old eyes.

Posted by: Gene Roddenbury at February 11, 2025 09:28 PM (t0Rmr)

270 Dr. Seuss only got up to Thing One and Thing Two.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2025 09:28 PM (JkO4W)

271 St. Jerome kicked Dr. Seuss's ass.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2025 09:29 PM (JkO4W)

272 Kennedy Center Bowling Alley sounds good to me. I'm gonna petition Grenell for the shoe concession. Who wants to be the pro?

Posted by: Barry Brunswick at February 11, 2025 09:29 PM (G5+As)

273 I went to Aqaba once. I was not impressed.
Posted by: Cicero

So did I!

Posted by: Zombie Lawrence of Arabia at February 11, 2025 09:30 PM (WXNFJ)

274 News you can use, learned on yootoob today:

We have detected no rings around Rhea.

Posted by: mindful webworker - spacey at February 11, 2025 09:30 PM (nJIu+)

275 Kennedy Center Bowling Alley sounds good to me. I'm gonna petition Grenell for the shoe concession. Who wants to be the pro?
Posted by: Barry Brunswick at February 11, 2025 09:29 PM (G5+As)

Make sure you have a pair in 68EEEEEEEEEEEEE, just in case Bigfoot wants to join.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at February 11, 2025 09:31 PM (VNX3d)

276
Elon has hired his first DOGE girl:

https://tinyurl.com/27d4xkjt

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2025 09:31 PM (w6EFb)

277 nobody's schizophrenic uncle ever fantasized he was Dr Seuss

Posted by: a twinkie 35 feet long at February 11, 2025 09:31 PM (gKWVE)

278
Described as 'Yankee Traders' in their first episode.

God the first season of TNG sucked ass.


Well I don't think Space Bostonians would be pictured as short men with giant ears and noses.

DS9 made them characters with individual motivations but in TNG they are just a racist caricature...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2025 09:31 PM (t0Rmr)

279 Star Trek died for me when Mirina Sirtis walked into the room.

Posted by: eleven at February 11, 2025 09:32 PM (fV+MH)

280 All your Learn Jets are belong to us.

Posted by: Alien AI Bots at February 11, 2025 09:32 PM (mH6SG)

281 Dr. Seuss only got up to Thing One and Thing Two.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2025 09:28 PM (JkO4W)
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It was the later version that brought in Miss Thang.

Posted by: Axeman at February 11, 2025 09:32 PM (OaZlZ)

282 Speaking of the DOGE boys and now girl, the same people that are mad at having 20 year old auditing finances sure didn't have a problem with the teenaged Saint Greta reconfiguring the whole world economy did they?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2025 09:33 PM (t0Rmr)

283 We have detected no rings around Rhea.
Posted by: mindful webworker - spacey

I haven't had rings around anything since I started presoaking my laundry overnight with Borax.

Posted by: 20 Mule Team at February 11, 2025 09:34 PM (G5+As)

284 Star Trek died for me when Mirina Sirtis walked into the room.

In fairness that's what a fair chunk of the captains in the USN appear to be like now.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2025 09:34 PM (t0Rmr)

285 They draft 18 year olds.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 11, 2025 09:34 PM (yF8T2)

286
DOGE girl is a former college swimmer, and Clarence Thomas clerk, among.

I also read the other night that, amongst the DOGE team, Elon hired some infamous Silicon Valley hatchet man, of who the tales are legend of his ruthless hatcheting.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2025 09:34 PM (w6EFb)

287 a Ferengi is a space alien from Star Wars, for those of you in Rio Linda
Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2025 09:22 PM (2LmUi)

"Use the Force, Harry!" - Gandalf

Posted by: A Nerd at February 11, 2025 09:35 PM (kpDSe)

288 It was the later version that brought in Miss Thang.
Posted by: Axeman

Soon after, they sang Shake Your Groove Thing to thunderous applause.

Posted by: Peaches and Herb at February 11, 2025 09:35 PM (WXNFJ)

289 264 I went to Aqaba once. I was not impressed.

-----

You didn't do it right.

Posted by: T.E. Lawrence at February 11, 2025 09:35 PM (c2kIr)

290 Trump should put a McDonald's in the Kennedy Center.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 11, 2025 09:36 PM (kzq+c)

291 Elon has hired his first DOGE girl:
https://tinyurl.com/27d4xkjt
Posted by: publius


Smart enough for DOGE, college athlete, and looks like that?

She's out of everybody's league.

Posted by: mikeski at February 11, 2025 09:36 PM (DgGvY)

292 If you had told me in the year 2000 that Donald Trump and a ragtag team of Psychopathic Wizards were sent by G-d to Save America and The World I would have called you crazy.

But here we are.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 11, 2025 09:37 PM (XV/Pl)

293 That jacket is way too big.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 11, 2025 09:37 PM (yF8T2)

294
What should DOGE-girl's nickname be?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2025 09:38 PM (w6EFb)

295 264 I went to Aqaba once. I was not impressed.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 11, 2025 09:27 PM (JkO4W)

Tell me about it 'aurance said there'd be gold.

There was no gold in Aqaba ...

Posted by: zombie Auda Abu Tayi at February 11, 2025 09:38 PM (TTAGa)

296 If you had told me in the year 2000 that Donald Trump and a ragtag team of Psychopathic Wizards were sent by G-d to Save America and The World I would have called you crazy.

In 2000 the CW was that the internet was petering out and segways were the thing that were going to change the world

Posted by: 18-1 at February 11, 2025 09:38 PM (t0Rmr)

297 Lt. Col. (R) Peter Lerner
@LTCPeterLerner
The fact that it took Jordan 15 months to make this basic gesture is mind boggling. ...

Margo Martin
@MargoMartin47
King Abdullah II of Jordan announces the Kingdom will take in 2,000 sick children from Gaza

“That’s really a beautiful gesture” - President @realDonaldTrump

10:38 AM · Feb 11, 2025I
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Yes, we're all very, very impressed.
*golfclap*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2025 09:38 PM (RIvkX)

298 There is literally a new canal idea that cuts through the middle east to avoid the Red Sea which is questionably navigable at times.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Hmmm...Is there *anywhere* a canal could be dug in the Middle East that would NOT be "questionably navigable?"
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Gulf of Aquaba. The plan was to dig it with nukes. Ben Gurian Canal.
Posted by: Boss Moss


Re-nuke it a couple times a year and it might remain navigable.

Posted by: mikeski at February 11, 2025 09:39 PM (DgGvY)

299 Dump said gas prices would go down I just paid 40 cents a gallon more.

Posted by: raimondo at February 11, 2025 09:39 PM (iZmD/)

300 Star Trek died for me when Mirina Sirtis walked into the room.

I stood at attention when Kirstie Alley took the bridge. Well, some of me did

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 11, 2025 09:39 PM (2VST1)

301 What should DOGE-girl's nickname be?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2025 09:38 PM (w6EFb)
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Big Balls is out.

Posted by: Axeman at February 11, 2025 09:40 PM (OaZlZ)

302
Whoops. DOGE-girl was not a Clarence Thomas clerk, that was somebody else Elon hired in there.

The Daily Mail's writing is really confusing sometimes.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2025 09:40 PM (w6EFb)

303 I also read the other night that, amongst the DOGE team, Elon hired some infamous Silicon Valley hatchet man, of who the tales are legend of his ruthless hatcheting.
Posted by: publius,

I worked in a Catholic Hospital run by nuns. Going through a hard financial time, they brought in a short term "Hatchet Nun" who fired many and then quickly left.

Posted by: Happy When Sister Ellen Arrived at February 11, 2025 09:40 PM (G5+As)

304 >>> 290 Trump should put a McDonald's in the Kennedy Center.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 11, 2025 09:36 PM (kzq+c)

LOL

That's just mean.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 11, 2025 09:40 PM (Vqx30)

305 I also read the other night that, amongst the DOGE team, Elon hired some infamous Silicon Valley hatchet man, of who the tales are legend of his ruthless hatcheting.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2025 09:34 PM (w6EFb)
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When I worked in Silicon Valley people would disappear and their offices would be completely emptied overnight. That happened several times.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 11, 2025 09:40 PM (RIvkX)

306
Gas is down a couple of cents in the last 2 weeks.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2025 09:40 PM (2LmUi)

307
Gas held steady since last early October. Now it's down a penny or two.

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2025 09:41 PM (2LmUi)

308 Elon has hired his first DOGE girl

Cute grin, her online name is probably something involving mermaids

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 11, 2025 09:41 PM (2VST1)

309 I just freed some gas.

Posted by: Axeman at February 11, 2025 09:42 PM (OaZlZ)

310 Damn, we missed it. The anniversary of the day some goofballs in Oregon decided it would be a good idea to blow up a beached whale.

It was not a good idea.

https://tinyurl.com/y88nc8py

Posted by: JackStraw at February 11, 2025 09:42 PM (LkLld)

311 It was not a good idea.

It was tremendously entertaining, though

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 11, 2025 09:43 PM (2VST1)

312 @306 my gas cost me 40 cents more!

Posted by: raimondo at February 11, 2025 09:43 PM (iZmD/)

313 @306

>>Gas is down a couple of cents in the last 2 weeks.

Truth is, inflation is sticky and it's not going to subside much, the only way to get relief is to cut spending, downsize the government, reduce energy costs to the extent possible and grow the economy as much as possible.

After all, a can of coke isn't a nickel as it was in 1910, you dig?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 11, 2025 09:43 PM (XV/Pl)

314 Ah. Mr. Saavik.

Good times.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 11, 2025 09:44 PM (ZmEVT)

315 You know, all those illegals going home is going to decrease demand quite a bit.

Also nowhere near the DUIs.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie -Hurts, Smith, Barkley, etc, what did you expect would happen? at February 11, 2025 09:44 PM (+vtNx)

316
I thought, wait what was Bigus Dickus' wife's name. It was Incontinentia Buttocks. So that won't do.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 11, 2025 09:44 PM (w6EFb)

317
what's next, is a fag "judge" going to "order" the White House to fly the fag flag in June??

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2025 09:44 PM (2LmUi)

318 292 If you had told me in the year 2000 that Donald Trump and a ragtag team of Psychopathic Wizards were sent by G-d to Save America and The World I would have called you crazy.

But here we are.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 11, 2025 09:37 PM (XV/Pl)

Ever hear of the Hermit of Loreto, Tom Zimmer? Saw this many years ago and have been intrigued about it. A pious Hermit in 1983 saw something in Trump, thought he could lead America, the West back to G-d.

https://youtu.be/lyV7kwMRzdo

Posted by: Rex B at February 11, 2025 09:46 PM (mEei8)

319 what's next, is a fag "judge" going to "order" the White House to fly the fag flag in June??

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2025 09:44 PM (2LmUi)
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Yes. And all US embassies overseas will be required to fly that flag at all times.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 11, 2025 09:46 PM (BpYfr)

320 233 Hey Jordan, pretty sure you can make a pretty good dignity canal with all the adult Arabs from Gaza.
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You're on to something. Keep them in the desert, with no koran, till the last person that remembers it is dead all the while teaching them how to be competent and civilized. It may work.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 11, 2025 09:47 PM (1NLUp)

321 314 Ah. Mr. Saavik.

Good times.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 11, 2025 09:44 PM (ZmEVT)

Peak Kirstie Alley, to be fair.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 11, 2025 09:47 PM (bss/y)

322 Maybe Music's boring machine could help with the new canal from Gaza through Saudi Arabia . Ironic.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 11, 2025 09:47 PM (4780s)

323 Although, one could make an argument for 'Summer School.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 11, 2025 09:47 PM (bss/y)

324 Truth is, inflation is sticky and it's not going to subside much, the only way to get relief is to cut spending, downsize the government, reduce energy costs to the extent possible and grow the economy as much as possible.

Yeah its gonna take pretty major changes, especially as a few of the things that Trump is doing are going to increase cost somewhat. Good news is, we're seeing those changes. The real healing will begin when all the shrinkflation starts to reverse its self.

It will start with packaging offering like 10% more at no extra cost!!! going back to 16 ounces instead of the Obama era 14 ounces.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 11, 2025 09:51 PM (2VST1)

325 322 Maybe Music's boring machine could help with the new canal from Gaza through Saudi Arabia . Ironic.
Posted by: From about That Time at February 11, 2025 09:47 PM (4780s)

Honestly. this would be a tremendous investment idea for the Saudis.

The thing is, all of these ideas sound insane. Do you realize how much manpower, money and material it would cost to do this? The panama canal was famous for its cost in both people and effort. And that is a MUCH smaller distance.

Plus, going through the middle east, where are you going to put it without the same jacknuts causing problems. Go full 'Britannia Rules the Waves', hang some pirates and enjoy the canals you DO have.

It would be easier for the Saudis to just pay for a navy (or issues letters of Marque) than to build a canal.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 11, 2025 09:52 PM (bss/y)

326 Although, one could make an argument for 'Summer School.'

Too small a role, sadly. The rumor is that Saavik was going to permanently replace Spock who was tired of Star Trek. With that big a role, Alley wanted more pay and the cheap bastards at Paramount refused.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 11, 2025 09:52 PM (2VST1)

327 Hmmm. Lull.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 11, 2025 09:56 PM (bss/y)

328 The baby chicks need about 6 months to grow up and start laying eggs, if they are not culled again.

Posted by: Boss Moss at February 11, 2025 09:58 PM (yF8T2)

329 @306 my gas cost me 40 cents more!
Posted by: raimondo at February 11, 2025 09:43 PM (iZmD/)

Because the pumps now have Retardo detectors on them, so you get to pay the Retardo price. When MAGA drivers pull up, a 40 cent discount kicks in.

Aren't you supposed to be driving a Tesla anyway, to save the Erf?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 11, 2025 09:58 PM (8zz6B)

330 Unfortunately, it's on Betamax so no one will ever see it.
Posted by: Oddbob at February 11, 2025 08:27 PM (/y8xj)

I still have 4 working Beta decks. But, the film is 16mm film, so it can be run on any 16mm projector. It's already been digitally scanned, anyway.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 11, 2025 09:59 PM (dgRL6)

331
Lima beans were the bane of my childhood.

And liver.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 11, 2025 08:35 PM

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Tastes vary. I always kind of liked lima beans, and liver. And liver with onions. And liverwurst.
I quit eating liver because it has been pointed out by biologists that the liver is the poison metabolizing organ of the body, and some toxins that are not metabolized or excreted end up there long term. So eating liver is eating the unmetabolized toxin history of the animal.

But I like liver. I don't expect everyone to like it,

I'm not young. Maybe I'll buy some liverwurst.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at February 11, 2025 09:59 PM (t1fZA)

332 "Incontinentia Nervosa"

Posted by: Kindltot at February 11, 2025 10:01 PM (D7oie)

333 I have heard that fresh lima beans are nice.

I have never had fresh lima beans.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at February 11, 2025 10:02 PM (ZmEVT)

334


nood liver beans

Posted by: Soothsayer at February 11, 2025 10:02 PM (2LmUi)

335 LearJet35 at Scottsdale suffered a nose collapse on landing. NTSB findings - poor maintenance.
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 11, 2025 09:10 PM (fvLXw)

Yeah. "Poor maintenance." That's the ticket.
Posted by: Artie Lang at February 11, 2025 09:11 PM (0l8OY)

Not that uncommon. Ever watch the series, "Air Disasters" on Smithsonian Channel? With private planes and small company planes, poor maintenance is a factor in quite a few accidents. One of the first areas the NTSC looks at. Mechanics not following the manufacturer's repair or maintenance procedures exactly.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 11, 2025 10:06 PM (dgRL6)

336 Dump said gas prices would go down I just paid 40 cents a gallon more.
Posted by: raimondo at February 11, 2025 09:39 PM (iZmD/)

I paid 16 cents less than last week. 2.96.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 11, 2025 10:07 PM (dgRL6)

337 That kayak dude is gonna need a bigger boat.

Posted by: Half Dozen at February 11, 2025 11:36 PM (uVHlT)

338 So I'm going to talk gently lest I spin off into bipolar land again...

Years ago Jonah Goldberg was writing something about how Libertarians sucked. He used the Dept of Education as an example....that Libertarians would scream BURN IT ALL DOWN when it was clear that the DoE wasn't going anywhere despite it being a worthy outcome. It was therefore good realistic conservatism to turn the DoE around to become a force for patriotism.

Apparently he had tendencies toward preemptive surrender even back then.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 11, 2025 08:41 PM (64qRd)

Typical Goldberg. Libertarians say its crappy for reasons of liberty. Practical people point at its absolute failure at improving test scores despite all the money poured into it. Goldberg ponders for a half second and opines that somehow by magic it could be totally fixed and turned into a cultural anchor then goes back to the kitchen for a third donut of the morning.

repeat that for 40 years or whatever.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 12, 2025 01:54 PM (n7h9X)

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