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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - February 19, 2025 [TRex]
Good evening Horde. The time has come for mid-week shenanigans of the overnight variety.
This is the Wednesday night ONT.Early morning ahead, so going to be a brief ONT appearance for TRex this evening. Behave yourselves. Or at least misbehave in amusing ways that puts you in the running for comments of the week.
February 18 is also the date that Enzo Ferrari was born. I will presume that everyone knows Mr. Ferrari as the founder of the Ferrari car company and racing team. Two of the most well known people in the auto racing world somehow share a link to the same day - one in birth and one in death. TRex has a small dinosaur mind but seems like there is some kind of karmic symmetry at work. On the anniversary of Dale Earnhardt's death, his son received one of his father's race cars from an owner that passed away and left it to Dale Jr in his will.
Today, on the anniversary of Dale Sr.'s passing, @DaleJr received a very special gift. 3️⃣ pic.twitter.com/8hoZb6UKPW
— Dirty Mo Media (@DirtyMoMedia) February 19, 2025
Had a surprise this morning. Now the fun part of learning its history begins.... pic.twitter.com/N2WjkxtD0x
— Dale Earnhardt Jr. (@DaleJr) February 18, 2025
Written correspondence can be sent to moronhobbies at protonmail dot com. Are you lurking? Come out and play. Fight the good fight. Cleetus McFarland has not endorsed this ONT.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 19, 2025 10:00 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 19, 2025 10:00 PM (CljNn)
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Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2025 10:01 PM (H8pU1)
Posted by: Florida Peasant at February 19, 2025 10:01 PM (Lo97M)
Posted by: Tonypete at February 19, 2025 10:02 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 19, 2025 10:02 PM (CljNn)
Posted by: PennaLady at February 19, 2025 10:04 PM (y6jPI)
Experts surmise that these policy decisions by Trump may have contributed to last week's Canadair crash.
Developing...
Posted by: CBS News at February 19, 2025 10:04 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 10:05 PM (lHPJf)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2025 10:05 PM (V1/Se)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 19, 2025 10:06 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 10:06 PM (hY4dx)
Thanxs!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 19, 2025 10:07 PM (W/lyH)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 10:06 PM (hY4dx)
I'll trade you for a tendon.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 10:08 PM (lHPJf)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 19, 2025 10:08 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 19, 2025 10:09 PM (bss/y)
Posted by: huerfano at February 19, 2025 10:09 PM (n2swS)
Posted by: Hrothgar at February 19, 2025 10:09 PM (hOUT3)
13 year old me blasted Axel F on my boom box on a loop. Everyone *needed* to hear this synth masterpiece, I had decided, whether they wanted to or not.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 19, 2025 10:09 PM (CljNn)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 10:06 PM (hY4dx)
The next Airing Of Grievances is 10 months away.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 10:09 PM (Vqx30)
And thank you for the lesson on how to gauge the amount of daylight left. Easy peasy!
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 19, 2025 10:09 PM (rxCpr)
Posted by: Nightwatch at February 19, 2025 10:09 PM (25kuG)
Experts surmise that these policy decisions by Trump may have contributed to last week's Canadair crash.
Developing...
Posted by: CBS News at February 19, 2025 10:04 PM (hY4dx)
Breaking: Trump started World War 2.
Posted by: CBS News at February 19, 2025 10:10 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: Some Rat at February 19, 2025 10:10 PM (+VovS)
And.... he's 29.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2025 10:10 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at February 19, 2025 10:10 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2025 10:10 PM (K861k)
Was that the one that is supposed to be Teddy Roosevelt?
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 19, 2025 10:10 PM (Vvh2V)
Verse 1 of 3
Big Balls
Big Balls
Now when he was a young man
He never thought he'd see
Elon hire him
To fix the Treasury
Big Balls
Brain a little funky
Big Balls
At least he's not a junkie
Doesn't need more college
He has all the knowledge
Big Balls
Posted by: Splunge at February 19, 2025 10:10 PM (afZ9r)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 10:06 PM (hY4dx)
Please elaborate.
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2025 10:11 PM (V1/Se)
Now if I'd known
He'd be my budget vetter
I'd still have stole the money
But hid it so much better
Big Balls
Make Pocahontas snotty
Big Balls
He's my favorite autie
Doesn't need more college
He has all the knowledge
Big Balls
Posted by: Splunge at February 19, 2025 10:11 PM (afZ9r)
Posted by: Scarymary at February 19, 2025 10:11 PM (Q8SAm)
I always that to be the best name evah!
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at February 19, 2025 10:11 PM (w4nzS)
Now if I'm caught
And have to go to jail
I'll keep a framed memento
Of the man who made me fail
Big Balls
Poorly dressed and curly
Big Balls
Giving Feds a swirly
Doesn't need more college
He has all the knowledge
Big Balls
Posted by: Splunge at February 19, 2025 10:11 PM (afZ9r)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
With the presence of guns, they're VERY polite airings.
Posted by: Some Rat at February 19, 2025 10:12 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Nightwatch at February 19, 2025 10:12 PM (25kuG)
There are standards for what you are supposed to get your girl for V day - flowers/chocolates.
But I can say the women in my life have always been confused about what to get ME. What's the best V-day gift you've gotten as a guy?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 10:13 PM (t0Rmr)
The Trump Curse is not to be trifled with.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 10:13 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 19, 2025 10:13 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Hrothgar at February 19, 2025 10:13 PM (hOUT3)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2025 10:11 PM (V1/Se)
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You know what you did. I don't want to talk about it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 10:14 PM (hY4dx)
I know an inordinate number of guys who married strippers, Asian bar girls, and so on while in the service.
I don't recall a single time that it ended well.
I do know service marriages with Asians, Europeans, or whatever that ended well, but not the ones where the prospective spouse's employment history was... er... exotic.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 10:14 PM (W5ArC)
You know what you did. I don't want to talk about it.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 10:14 PM (hY4dx)
Well, don't expect an apology.
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2025 10:14 PM (V1/Se)
Think we gotta refer to the young man as "Big Balls II" since we all know who the original "Big Balls" is.
Posted by: Some Rat at February 19, 2025 10:15 PM (+VovS)
Make the Americans fight enough bloody battles and they'll give up even if they are winning the war. Since the US had a larger population and industrial base I would say it was dumb except...North Vietnam and the Jihadis in 'Stan both won war against the US with that same strategy.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 10:15 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Joe Redfield at February 19, 2025 10:15 PM (KOtXO)
But BIG BALLS will show us the traitors amongst us.
Posted by: Nightwatch at February 19, 2025 10:15 PM (25kuG)
Posted by: Piper at February 19, 2025 10:15 PM (p4NUW)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 19, 2025 10:16 PM (rxCpr)
Folks around, said, you can't kill 'em. Pesticides don't work. Bought some mail order stuff from Colorado (all natural homeopathic) that caused internal disruption. They would sit on the fence rail and eat it while mating. Yeah, all natural killer it was.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2025 10:16 PM (jj2yx)
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at February 19, 2025 10:16 PM (rxCpr)
Make the Americans fight enough bloody battles and they'll give up even if they are winning the war. Since the US had a larger population and industrial base I would say it was dumb except...North Vietnam and the Jihadis in 'Stan both won war against the US with that same strategy.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 10:15 PM (t0Rmr)
We weren't really trying in Nam or Stan. We had a real grudge with Japan though.
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2025 10:16 PM (V1/Se)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2025 10:16 PM (K861k)
I suspect if the woman really is doing it temporarily to make money to go to nursing school or whatever it could still work out, but "sex work" screws up women's ability to pair bond. And frankly with military guys who might be off for months on a service tour/navy cruise that is about the worst thing you could imagine for such a woman.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 10:17 PM (t0Rmr)
Make the Americans fight enough bloody battles and they'll give up even if they are winning the war. Since the US had a larger population and industrial base I would say it was dumb except...North Vietnam and the Jihadis in 'Stan both won war against the US with that same strategy.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 10:15 PM (t0Rmr)
The US went all-in against Imperial Japan. We didn't in 'Nam and 'Stan.
Posted by: Gref at February 19, 2025 10:18 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: PennaLady at February 19, 2025 10:18 PM (y6jPI)
Posted by: Joe Redfield
Kamala's new talent agency is on line one, can you pick up?
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 19, 2025 10:18 PM (CljNn)
Posted by: nerdygirl at February 19, 2025 10:18 PM (0Htd1)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 19, 2025 10:19 PM (L/fGl)
Make the Americans fight enough bloody battles and they'll give up even if they are winning the war. Since the US had a larger population and industrial base I would say it was dumb except...North Vietnam and the Jihadis in 'Stan both won war against the US with that same strategy.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 10:15 PM (t0Rmr)
Island hopping cut a lot of planks out of that strategy.
Posted by: Splunge at February 19, 2025 10:19 PM (afZ9r)
Posted by: scottst at February 19, 2025 10:20 PM (F1CVk)
Watching Hannidiot's interview with Trump and Elon tonight, Elon confirmed what I thought.
He said America is the pillar of Western Civilization. If America falls, Westen Civ falls, and then everything is moot. Ain't gonna be no Type I civilization, multiplanetary making it through the Fermi filters if that happens.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 19, 2025 10:20 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Iris at February 19, 2025 10:20 PM (bOJ2I)
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You know who like Wagner and dinosaurs?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 10:20 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: 13times at February 19, 2025 10:21 PM (VJvZT)
I guess that means open for retribution
Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2025 10:21 PM (H8pU1)
Posted by: Pug Mahon at February 19, 2025 10:22 PM (bDNzX)
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/
1892214964728819917
Posted by: Ciampino - Pot calling kettle black at February 19, 2025 10:22 PM (KjLnc)
Posted by: 13times at February 19, 2025 10:21 PM (VJvZT)
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They could just kill 15 and the rest will fall into line.
Posted by: The Roman Legions at February 19, 2025 10:23 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 10:23 PM (lHPJf)
https://youtu.be/Ee_hxh6aF9k
Good even, friends. Hope you're all warm and dry.
Posted by: mindful webworker - no degrees at all tonight at February 19, 2025 10:23 PM (yfRSa)
I guess that means open for retribution
Posted by: Skip at February 19, 2025 10:21 PM (H8pU1)
Elon said "This means we can drone strike them."
Posted by: Splunge at February 19, 2025 10:23 PM (afZ9r)
Posted by: Splunge at February 19, 2025 10:24 PM (afZ9r)
They're known for their ubiquitous "bob white" call.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2025 10:24 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 19, 2025 10:25 PM (RIvkX)
And that's just what DOGE has found so far.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 10:25 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: A Liitle Skeptical Of The TRex In Amber at February 19, 2025 10:25 PM (G5+As)
https://x.com/ChuckCallesto/status/
1892397499983298584
Posted by: Ciampino - Pot calling SS kettle black at February 19, 2025 10:25 PM (KjLnc)
https://tinyurl.com/4vtanu6f
Posted by: scottst
Written by a bona fide expert - one Mr. Johnson Stiff.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 19, 2025 10:25 PM (WXNFJ)
Posted by: Ambiguously Gay Floral Designer at February 19, 2025 10:26 PM (G5+As)
http://tiny.cc/l8oa001
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2025 10:27 PM (V1/Se)
When people will cars they are usually piles, that one looks show ready.
Posted by: scottst at February 19, 2025 10:27 PM (F1CVk)
Posted by: Ambiguously Gay Floral Designer
Fool! The picture is upside down!
Posted by: Tonypete at February 19, 2025 10:28 PM (WXNFJ)
She couldn't answer a single specific of what Trump was doing that threatened "democracy" - the two she sort of mentioned - not letting her groom kids and sending the illegals home aren't threats to democracy in any sense of the word...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 10:28 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Gref at February 19, 2025 10:18 PM (aBgBM)
Thats for sure, we didn't fire bomb their cities and roast 100,000 of them in their own yard, and then use nukes to cap it off to roast another 100,000 and say how does my ass taste now like we did with japan. We used to know how to drive a point home.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 19, 2025 10:29 PM (VwHCD)
Now the worker has been rehired by direct order from Trump, and his boss has been fired.
Take that, bitchez.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 10:30 PM (W5ArC)
You got a link to that? I'd be really interested in the details there.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 19, 2025 10:30 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: gKWVE at February 19, 2025 10:31 PM (gKWVE)
Well, if it's any media, they don't do such a good job of explaining details.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 19, 2025 10:31 PM (w6EFb)
Trump has learned how to play the game.
This should terrify the left as it is the first time since the end of the cold war they've had to face such an opponent. They've been given a 30 year head start and they are going to regret they didn't get further before Magnus Trump's second term
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 10:31 PM (t0Rmr)
FAFO - Official Version (YouTube)
https://is.gd/YrIQBT
Hat tip to Feral Irishman's blog.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 19, 2025 10:32 PM (CljNn)
My word! The odds of that must be about… 1 in 365.25!
Posted by: mindful webworker - phenominally astronomical at February 19, 2025 10:32 PM (yfRSa)
Posted by: JML at February 19, 2025 10:32 PM (l1UWN)
Take that, bitchez.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Sniff, God, I love these Hallmark moments.
Posted by: Some Rat at February 19, 2025 10:33 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Methos at February 19, 2025 10:33 PM (Dnobf)
https://tinyurl.com/4vtanu6f
Posted by: scottst
I like the way the blurb is in first person ("My name is Taylor French"), then suddenly switches to third person ("Taylor shares incites and secrets that only an insider knows. She offers a no punches pulled approach.").
Bad AI or just plain old-fashioned sloppy editing?
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 10:33 PM (W5ArC)
Babe Ruth dying while running the bases at Yankee Stadium would be the equivalent.
Posted by: Dick Trickle's Urologist at February 19, 2025 10:33 PM (G5+As)
Well, I guess it's time for Congress to get their behinds in gear. I know the Senate has confirmation hearings, but surely they can do that and confer with the HOR to craft legislation that can pass the Senate.
I'm not an expert or even slightly knowledgeable about whether a simple majority in the Senate will be sufficient to un-do a mess such as that. It was passed with a simple majority, wasn't it? (I really couldn't stomach the destruction the past 4 years and so wasn't following the breakneck speed of descent into the pits of Hell very closely.)
Posted by: PennaLady at February 19, 2025 10:34 PM (y6jPI)
Posted by: Beverly at February 19, 2025 10:34 PM (Epeb0)
Trump has learned how to play the game.
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Pour encourager les autres
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 10:34 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at February 19, 2025 10:35 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 19, 2025 10:30 PM (w6EFb)
Yep. Direct from Musk himself:
https://tinyurl.com/2pc4v3c4
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 10:35 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Jen the original at February 19, 2025 10:35 PM (0MG/D)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2025 10:36 PM (jj2yx)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 10:14 PM (hY4dx)
Are you transitioning into a wife?
Posted by: RickZ at February 19, 2025 10:36 PM (gKDq2)
Make the Americans fight enough bloody battles and they'll give up even if they are winning the war. Since the US had a larger population and industrial base I would say it was dumb except...North Vietnam and the Jihadis in 'Stan both won war against the US with that same strategy.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 10:15 PM (t0Rmr)
Island hopping cut a lot of planks out of that strategy.
Posted by: Splunge at February 19, 2025 10:19 PM (afZ9r)
There were many flaws in the Japanese defensive strategy in the Central and Southern Pacific. Operations in the Solomons and on New Guinea revealed those flaws to both sides by the end of 1942. The US rapidly capitalized on the flaws in Japanese defense strategy. The Japanese were unable to fix their strategy's flaws in wartime. The flaws were due to what turned out to be terrible assumptions and decisions.
Posted by: Gref at February 19, 2025 10:36 PM (aBgBM)
Posted by: four seasons at February 19, 2025 10:37 PM (3ek7K)
Posted by: since he's laying there it's easier to kick him at February 19, 2025 10:37 PM (gKWVE)
In my encounters with Edmonton streets, the takeaway is that Edmonton snowplows are garage queens.
And happy Birfday to me! I got a cupcake!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 10:37 PM (8zz6B)
FAFO - Official Version (YouTube)
https://is.gd/YrIQBT
Hat tip to Feral Irishman's blog.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 19, 2025 10:32 PM (CljNn)
That was frigging great. Odin is appeased.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 19, 2025 10:37 PM (VwHCD)
Posted by: Ciampino - yeah that's it at February 19, 2025 10:37 PM (KjLnc)
The State ran the plays on Trump til '20. The Party did it 'til '24, but they failed.
Now it's the State's turn again, and I'm sure they're terrified. This thing has gone sideways, and they have to fix it before it completely leaves their control. Decades of work are at stake.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 19, 2025 10:39 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: keena at February 19, 2025 10:39 PM (biznJ)
Posted by: Grateful - the range bag lady at February 19, 2025 10:40 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 10:14 PM (hY4dx)
Are you transitioning into a wife?
Posted by: RickZ at February 19, 2025 10:36 PM (gKDq2)
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Nah, he watched "The Gods Must Be Crazy".
Posted by: Ciampino - I don't want to talk about it at February 19, 2025 10:40 PM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 10:40 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 19, 2025 10:41 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 10:37 PM (8zz6B)
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Well? What was your wish?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 10:41 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: since he's laying there it's easier to kick him at February 19, 2025 10:37 PM (gKWVE)
At the very least, take away his pension.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 10:41 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Ciampino - yeah that's it at February 19, 2025 10:37 PM (KjLnc)
I would agree with you, but the theory behind homeopathy is the same theory behind vaccines: Irritants to the system enhance resistance to them.
I have trouble reconciling any difference between the two practices
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2025 10:41 PM (D7oie)
Take that, bitchez.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Sniff, God, I love these Hallmark moments.
Posted by: Some Rat at February 19, 2025 10:33 PM
Some Rat - you captured the feeling so well!
Posted by: Iris at February 19, 2025 10:41 PM (bOJ2I)
https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/
1892214964728819917
Posted by: Ciampino - Pot calling kettle black at February 19, 2025 10:22 PM (KjLn
She's a retard. Of course "progressive teacher" already told us that.
Posted by: She talks like a fag at February 19, 2025 10:42 PM (yzp7T)
Surprised to see the Earnhardt history resonate with so many.
Happy birthday AOP!
Posted by: TRex at February 19, 2025 10:42 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Lake Speed at February 19, 2025 10:42 PM (G5+As)
The Paolo's girlfriend?
(I know I wasn't the only one thinking that.)
Posted by: mindful webworker - phenominally comical at February 19, 2025 10:44 PM (yfRSa)
Wow, this guy, Leland Dudek, is now the acting head of the SSA.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 19, 2025 10:44 PM (w6EFb)
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Or gold flaky stuff for idiots to buy and feed grasshoppers.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2025 10:45 PM (jj2yx)
Posted by: Beverly at February 19, 2025 10:34 PM (Epeb0)
They did not do right by him in the "The Pacific" series. It was trash, especially when compared to Band of Brothers.
Posted by: Utter hot mess at February 19, 2025 10:46 PM (yzp7T)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division
I liked it too. Although it is missing a guitar solo or, preferably, two. Vox Day is experimenting with AI music now, too, and thankfully he laments, and corrects, the recent absence of guitar solos from metal.
Say what you might about machine learning and generative AI, but personally, I like that this artist, and VD, aren't afraid to use a new tool when one becomes available. Men use new tools, we always will. Otherwise we'd still be building houses with hand tools.
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 19, 2025 10:46 PM (CljNn)
Posted by: Ciampino - got rid of two junkers? at February 19, 2025 10:47 PM (KjLnc)
FAFO - Official Version (YouTube)
https://is.gd/YrIQBT
That. Is. Awesome.
Anyone know which AI allows you to do famous people? All the ones I've used won't let you do that unless they're dead.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 10:47 PM (W5ArC)
My word! The odds of that must be about… 1 in 365.25!
Posted by: mindful webworker - phenominally astronomical at February 19, 2025 10:32 PM (yfRSa)
Quite a bit higher, it’s the birthday paradox but with multiple birthdays.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 19, 2025 10:48 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Ciampino - stage two junk at February 19, 2025 10:48 PM (KjLnc)
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Or gold flaky stuff for idiots to buy and feed grasshoppers.
Posted by: Braenyard
I'm turning a nice shade of bluish gray from all the colloidal silver I consume. Don't try taking it away.
Posted by: Blue Balls? at February 19, 2025 10:49 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 19, 2025 10:46 PM (CljNn)
This was one the greatest vids I ever saw and had no idea AI was that intense. My favorite christmas song. lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgD1kBRLh5k
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 19, 2025 10:49 PM (VwHCD)
Even I know better than to tell the Boss what to do.
I'm just a guest here.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at February 19, 2025 10:49 PM (Eo96p)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 19, 2025 10:41 PM (RIvkX)
Uncanny, ain't it? Happy Birthday, JJ!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 10:49 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2025 10:49 PM (K861k)
What a week at the SSA
Oh I made the mistake of reading the NYT's coverage on this. Don't you know Elon Musk is stealing everyone's SS numbers and this brave woman tried to stop them?
I'd like to see an interview with the 360 year old guy with an active SS number - let's see what he has to say about DOGE finding him...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 10:50 PM (t0Rmr)
I think the consensus of most military analysts is that it was a lousy choice of islands to invade. It wasn't well-suited to be an Army or Navy staging camp for the next act at Okinawa.
As for Iwo's value as an emergency landing strip, that was largely a post-action attempt to justify the butcher's bill. Most of the USAAF planes which used Iwo after its capture had non-emergency reasons for landing there.
The invasion planners didn't realize how well-prepared the enemy was. The Navy ignored USMC pleas for a longer pre-invasion bombardment.
So it goes.
Posted by: mnw at February 19, 2025 10:51 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: TRex at February 19, 2025 10:51 PM (IQ6Gq)
Posted by: Utter hot mess
They could have done the Southern push, alternating with the Central push. And skipped the sidebars completely.
Also think someone like Mel Gibson do a series on the Australians various drives.
Posted by: Some Rat at February 19, 2025 10:52 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 19, 2025 10:52 PM (CljNn)
What a time to be alive. I guess that proverb "May you live in interesting times" is feeling pretty good right now and not so much a curse.
I am also in agreement with YD that the evil will try to come roaring in to reestablish itself and so we must be ready to weather the storm, fight, and come out the other side the victors. But my goodness, the winning is terrific.
Posted by: PennaLady at February 19, 2025 10:52 PM (y6jPI)
Posted by: Harry the Horse at February 19, 2025 10:52 PM (G5+As)
Even I know better than to tell the Boss what to do.
I'm just a guest here.
Posted by: TecumsehTea at February 19, 2025 10:49 PM (Eo96p)
I missed that. What happened?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 10:52 PM (8zz6B)
There's always the classic yacht/runabout combo: Original Contract, and Change Order.
https://i.imgur.com/O9NL0Su.jpeg
Posted by: mikeski at February 19, 2025 10:53 PM (DgGvY)
I should have modified it to DOGE and made it a cautionary tale about government waste, yes, but he would have looked at me with those bug round eyes and said: "Grandpa!!! WTF!"
Posted by: Sharkman at February 19, 2025 10:53 PM (/RHNq)
Posted by: Beverly at February 19, 2025 10:34 PM (Epeb0)
Seconded.
A Tomb Called Iwo Jima is another I’d recommend. It’s stories from Japanese survivors.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 19, 2025 10:54 PM (l3YAf)
I've watched the incident.
First, understand that tuxedo pants do not have belt loops. They have buttons, two on each side, to connect onto the leather y-shaped strap on the bottom of the elastic of suspenders. Tuxedo pants are very light, loose, and surprisingly comfortable, but they are literally hanging from the suspenders.
Hamill is in front of a big audience with TV coverage.
It's a practical joke. Somebody sabotaged his suspenders.
Author's note: The only suit I own is a tux.
Posted by: buddhaha at February 19, 2025 10:55 PM (nXPOV)
Posted by: Harry the Horse at February 19, 2025 10:52 PM (G5+As)
Well, i did work on a Studebaker today. Welded in about 40 square inches of sheet metal to patch the holes in the floor. It's all done, and looks good. Woot!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 10:56 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Ciampino - yeah that's it at February 19, 2025 10:37 PM (KjLnc)
I would agree with you, but the theory behind homeopathy is the same theory behind vaccines: Irritants to the system enhance resistance to them.
I have trouble reconciling any difference between the two practices
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2025 10:41 PM (D7oie)
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Nah you got it wrong.
A vaccine contains the actual bug (dead or attenuated) so the body reacts against it BUT without getting sick from it as the bug doesn't multiply.
A homeopathic 'medicine' actually contains NO MEDICINE as it has been diluted out.
Posted by: Ciampino - nothing for you at February 19, 2025 10:56 PM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Taq, Rickrolled by Jesus at February 19, 2025 10:57 PM (CljNn)
That is sad news. I listened to many a game on radio when the games were "radio only." That was before Pittsburgh won Lord Stanley's Cup and they played in the Patrick Division. (Do you miss those wonderfully nostalgic names?) Lange was a terrific play-by-play announcer and made listening to a game almost as easy to follow as watching it. He truly was a great talent.
Posted by: PennaLady at February 19, 2025 10:58 PM (y6jPI)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 19, 2025 10:59 PM (BI5O2)
Author's note: The only suit I own is a tux.
Posted by: buddhaha at February 19, 2025 10:55 PM (nXPOV)
I had not one, but TWO tuxedo cats. They did not wear suspenders. Or pants.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 10:59 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: PennaLady at February 19, 2025 10:59 PM (y6jPI)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
Looking into rebuilding the Kubota D1102...to install the sleeves "Heat block to approximately 250 F. chill sleeves in liquid nitrogen for about 15 minutes....wear suitable attire and use high quality welding gloves."
Posted by: Some Rat at February 19, 2025 11:01 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:01 PM (8zz6B)
That is sad news. I listened to many a game on radio when the games were "radio only." That was before Pittsburgh won Lord Stanley's Cup and they played in the Patrick Division. (Do you miss those wonderfully nostalgic names?) Lange was a terrific play-by-play announcer and made listening to a game almost as easy to follow as watching it. He truly was a great talent.
Posted by: PennaLady
Vaguely recall Pens games on Channel 53 but I lived just out of range (Lawrence County), so radio was it. He was a soundtrack for hockey fans in Western PA.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2025 11:02 PM (K861k)
https://is.gd/YrIQBT
Pretty kickass! Needed a face melter solo, but otherwise \m/ \m/
Posted by: Old school metal rules! at February 19, 2025 11:02 PM (yzp7T)
Ace got fed up with it, laid down a "well then you produce a cafe with only rumble links or go away"
Thats my recollection of what I read, there may have been more aftermath that I missed.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 19, 2025 11:02 PM (CKOCg)
As Professor Tolkien put it, "Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again."
Thus it has always been, thus it always shall, while the world lasts.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 11:03 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2025 11:04 PM (jj2yx)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 19, 2025 11:04 PM (BI5O2)
Posted by: PennaLady at February 19, 2025 10:52 PM (y6jPI)
That's not a proverb, that's a Chinese curse.
Posted by: RickZ at February 19, 2025 11:05 PM (gKDq2)
Did anybody here hear just what the heck Emily Campagno's "wardrobe malfunction" was she was talking about on Gutfeld tonight?
They were talking about Mark Hamill's pants dropping incident, and she got to motor-mouthing about something.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 19, 2025 11:05 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Taq,
It's not fair. If you're going to have a wardrobe malfunction at an awards show, you want it to be a young hottie, not an ancient wing nut lefty.
Posted by: It's All A Scam! at February 19, 2025 11:05 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: Some Rat at February 19, 2025 11:01 PM (+VovS)
Will the block fit into the oven of your kitchen range? I'd heat it to 300 degrees, because it will cool rapidly as you install the sleeves. Does it call for any kind of sealant at the top and bottom of the sleeves?
Also, make absolutely certain that all dirt, sealer, and foreign matter is cleaned from the surfaces in the block where the sleeves seat. You only get one chance...
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:05 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 19, 2025 10:59 PM (BI5O2)
Lol
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 19, 2025 11:06 PM (l3YAf)
That gal can talk so fast, I can't make out half the words she says.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 19, 2025 11:06 PM (w6EFb)
TRUMP: “We're going to go to Fort Knox — the fabled Fort Knox — to make sure the gold is there.”
https://x.com/alx/status/
1892421316478714023
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Diggity dank at February 19, 2025 11:07 PM (AOsQT)
I know the ChiCom one can run locally but...
I think the Facebook one can also, but that one sucks pretty bad.
I do know that the goto site for this kinda stuff is called HuggingFace. I'll search around there and see if I can find one that doesn't have the restrictions on living people.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 11:07 PM (W5ArC)
TRUMP: “We're going to go to Fort Knox — the fabled Fort Knox — to make sure the gold is there.”
https://x.com/alx/status/
1892421316478714023
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Diggity dank at February 19, 2025 11:07 PM (AOsQT)
Fort Knox. Hah! Is for tourists!
Posted by: Simon Peter Gruber at February 19, 2025 11:08 PM (yzp7T)
Ace got fed up with it, laid down a "well then you produce a cafe with only rumble links or go away"
Thats my recollection of what I read, there may have been more aftermath that I missed.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 19, 2025 11:02 PM (CKOCg)
Ah, OK. I view the Cafe links as sort of a smorgasbord. Take what you like and leave the rest alone. Th orange marshmallow jello with the shredded coconut is all yours. (shudder)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:09 PM (8zz6B)
That's right! I didn't remember where the games that were on TV were broadcast. That was a UHF channel so it came in slightly fuzzy. But it was free. Now you have to pay an arm and a leg to purchase all of the tiers of cable to be able to watch games. I actually lost interest in hockey when they emptied the stands and piped in fake crowd noises and made all the players wear rainbows during the lockdown era. It was too depressing to watch the hockey world descend into madness.
Posted by: PennaLady at February 19, 2025 11:09 PM (y6jPI)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 11:09 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: TecumsehTea
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Although the incidence of instagrams has dropped.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2025 11:09 PM (jj2yx)
A vaccine contains the actual bug (dead or attenuated) so the body reacts against it BUT without getting sick from it as the bug doesn't multiply.
A homeopathic 'medicine' actually contains NO MEDICINE as it has been diluted out.
Posted by: Ciampino - nothing for you at February 19, 2025 10:56 PM (KjLnc)
Not really, a vaccine contains a small fragment of a virus or bacteria dna, and a lot of adjuvant that causes an immune response, and sensitizes the immune system to the fragments and hopefully not anything else in the environment.
I know you will claim there is actual science behind it, and that is true, unfortunately it is looking like the science indicates that some vaccines are negatively useful, and some cause problems in other ways.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2025 11:10 PM (D7oie)
Come on man, he famously played important serious roles since then, like The CockKnocker in Jay and Bob Strike Back where he plays a sort gay Darth Vader that punches people in the dick.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:10 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: van Gogh at February 19, 2025 11:10 PM (D0HYP)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at February 19, 2025 11:10 PM (WvGHv)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
No and the cost of the nitrogen is like 350 usd....I'll be looking for a machine shop. (I just thought you might get a kick out of the procedure)
Posted by: Some Rat at February 19, 2025 11:11 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Ian S. at February 19, 2025 11:11 PM (XIAxn)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 19, 2025 11:12 PM (CKOCg)
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Not at all, Mr. Musk I expect you to die.
Posted by: A. Goldfinger at February 19, 2025 11:12 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2025 11:12 PM (jj2yx)
@LahavHarkov
I've seen Israelis quoting this line from national poet Chaim Nachman Bialik's 1903 poem On the Slaughter: "No such revenge - revenge for
the blood of a little child - has yet been
devised by Satan." ...
10:25 AM · Feb 19, 2025
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 19, 2025 11:12 PM (RIvkX)
All that he's doing and has done notwithstanding, I give him 10 months (12 at the outside) to show some progress on inflation. Otherwise, it will destroy his Presidency, just as it destroyed Biden's.
He hasn't talked about his inflation reduction plans yet, AFAIK.
*Trump really likes me! He sends me a dozen emails a day, many of them to inform me that I've won an important prize-- which I can claim by clicking on a link (and perhaps making a modest donation to cover S & H costs).
Posted by: mnw at February 19, 2025 11:12 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Bloom, I'm wearing a cardboard belt! A cardboard belt!
Posted by: Size 54 at February 19, 2025 11:13 PM (G5+As)
The English translation seems open to interpretation. You seem to know more about it than I, so I will accept your correction.
Posted by: PennaLady at February 19, 2025 11:14 PM (y6jPI)
Posted by: A. Goldfinger at February 19, 2025 11:12 PM (hY4dx)
Well, Musk does get pussy galore.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 11:14 PM (W5ArC)
Be interesting to see if that is still accurate...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:14 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
No and the cost of the nitrogen is like 350 usd....I'll be looking for a machine shop. (I just thought you might get a kick out of the procedure)
Posted by: Some Rat
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If you're talking about cylinder sleeves, I knew a farmer that would put the sleeves in a freezer for a couple of days then slip them in. That's what he said.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2025 11:14 PM (jj2yx)
My new 1000 piece puzzle just arrived. Sorting. I love how I can feel my brain working differently to put it together.
Yes. It has a cat. And it's retro. Pfffft.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 19, 2025 11:14 PM (cZQmn)
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You haven't heard of Super Agers? Joe Biden was a Super Ager.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 11:14 PM (hY4dx)
I know you will claim there is actual science behind it, and that is true, unfortunately it is looking like the science indicates that some vaccines are negatively useful, and some cause problems in other ways.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2025 11:10 PM (D7oie)
Homeopathic remedies are like Lipton's chicken noodle soup: they march a chicken around the building in which the soup concentrate is prepared.
Incidentally, if you want tasty chicken noodle soup? Make a pot of the Lipton stuff, and dump in a pouch of the white chicken meat sold in the "canned meats" aisle. Quite acceptable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:15 PM (8zz6B)
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Can't wait. It's just up the road. It'll be a freaking circus.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 19, 2025 11:16 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: mnw
I've been offered a cabinet position and a trip to Mar a Lago!
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 19, 2025 11:16 PM (cZQmn)
Come on man, he famously played important serious roles since then, like The CockKnocker in Jay and Bob Strike Back where he plays a sort gay Darth Vader that punches people in the dick.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:10 PM (t0Rmr)
i hate to admit it, but he's an awesome joker in the animated series. and his voice work is very good in various shows and game.
but yeah, he really doesn't need to be there or seen...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler at February 19, 2025 11:17 PM (v6XNT)
Posted by: Mark Hamill at February 19, 2025 11:17 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Fort Knox at February 19, 2025 11:18 PM (+VovS)
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Hey man, Corvette Summer is a cultural touchstone.
A TOUCHSTONE
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 11:18 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 19, 2025 11:12 PM (RIvkX
I cannot get those babies out of my mind.
The other hostages are no less worthy of my rage and sorrow. But a 9 month old, a toddler.... I just...
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 19, 2025 11:18 PM (Vvh2V)
I keep reading you guys posting about 360 year old SS person and thinking it has to be a typo, SS is less than 100 years old, and I have trouble believing they would have accepted "oh I'm 260 years old" on an application back when it started.
Posted by: PaleRider
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CheckMATE, Mr. Musk!
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 19, 2025 11:19 PM (tXHQj)
Many armed persons keeping an eye on me, too.
Posted by: Been Around the Block at February 19, 2025 11:20 PM (G5+As)
And good evening, all.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 19, 2025 11:20 PM (tXHQj)
Posted by: Kindltot
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HPV vaccine that Gates used on young girls in India.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2025 11:20 PM (jj2yx)
Posted by: nurse ratched
If you're to be part of security, they could do a LOT worse!
Posted by: Some Rat at February 19, 2025 11:20 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2025 11:12 PM (jj2yx)
There is a veritable buttload of gold in Ft. Knox, but, as seen in Die Hard 2; Die Harder, the Federal Reserve Bank in New York (not Chase Manhattan) does hold even more.
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2025 11:21 PM (V1/Se)
I'm absolutely not trying to be flip here, but... Jesus.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 11:22 PM (W5ArC)
The other hostages are no less worthy of my rage and sorrow. But a 9 month old, a toddler.... I just...
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor
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There's only one thing to do with those people.
If the muslim community really wanted to get straight with the world they would do it.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2025 11:23 PM (jj2yx)
As a result another of my sisters learned the I'm My Own Grandpa song and loved to sing it all the time back in our younger years.
Posted by: pkudude99 at February 19, 2025 11:23 PM (7T9Tp)
Posted by: mnw at February 19, 2025 11:23 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 11:23 PM (hY4dx)
A lot of this could be very poor quality data entry followed by not doing any of the legally mandated in house audits. For decades.
Or it could be fraud.
If my company did this the government would treat it as fraud and be preparing to put all of senior leadership in prison.
Or...it could be regular government incompetence. But I'm seeing all these leaders resign and disappear from public as soon as DOGE gets a hold of their data which screams fraud.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 19, 2025 11:23 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 19, 2025 11:12 PM (CKOCg)
It’s probably corrupt data. Someone was digitizing paper records and typed the birthdate wrong. It makes no sense for the purposes of fraud; people do commit all sorts of SS fraud, but why would you do it with an impossible birthdate?
Some of the ones in the 100-140 range might have been real people whose family are still collecting checks or who stopped getting checks but never got marked as deceased.
It’s ridiculous there’s been no effort to clean up the data and prevent obviously-incorrect data from making it in, but it’s FedGov.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 19, 2025 11:23 PM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Megthered at February 19, 2025 11:24 PM (J9ZRC)
I hope that valentine has some reinforced cardboard backing. That's a lot of lead and metal.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 19, 2025 11:24 PM (aXxgO)
Posted by: PaleRider at February 19, 2025 11:12 PM (CKOCg)
Of course it's a typo. The point is that it is such an obvious one, and apparently nobody ever bothered to look at the data to see if there are any errors. If no one is policing the data, the possibilities for fraud and theft are breathtaking.
Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at February 19, 2025 11:24 PM (w1GG2)
The other hostages are no less worthy of my rage and sorrow. But a 9 month old, a toddler.... I just...
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 19, 2025 11:18 PM (Vvh2V)
It is sad and horrible. My heart hurts for Yarden Bibas. That poor man. Tortured, held hostage, and finding out your wife and babies are dead. That is brutal.
Posted by: Scarymary at February 19, 2025 11:25 PM (Q8SAm)
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 19, 2025 11:06 PM (w6EFb)
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She was cheering at an NFL game and a chicken cutlet flew out of her blouse, and a security guard picked it up and flung it into the crowd.
That's what I heard.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 19, 2025 11:25 PM (RIvkX)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 11:26 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor
Yes. I'd say glass the whole fricking thing...but I think Israel could use the real estate, so doze it level, ship the palestinians out and let nature take its course.
Posted by: Some Rat at February 19, 2025 11:26 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Notorious BFD at February 19, 2025 11:26 PM (mH6SG)
Posted by: tankdemon
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There is a tunnel from the Federal Reserve Bank to the Chase Manhattan bank. When the nuclear scare was at its height Chase had a vault dug deep enough and hardened enough to withstand a nuclear burst over NYC.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2025 11:26 PM (jj2yx)
Did you see the "COBOL epoch" thing some idiot floated to explain the "150 year olds" thing. Utter crap. Rachel Maddow repeated that, I think I saw.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 19, 2025 11:26 PM (w6EFb)
No one thinks someone claimed to be 260 when they signed up for SS. It's the fact that it wasn't caught until now showing that there is no fraud prevention built in to the system.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at February 19, 2025 11:27 PM (lUFok)
Posted by: Some Rat at February 19, 2025 11:11 PM (+VovS)
That is highway robbery! They suck it out of the air.
Here in PHX, a 15 liter Dewar flask costs $349, but only 7 bucks to refill it. Possibly you could rent the Dewar flask?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:27 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Manning The SluiceBox at February 19, 2025 11:27 PM (G5+As)
I guess they are better than wearing rolled up socks.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2025 11:27 PM (D7oie)
The last thing a fraudster wants is some glaring discrepancy in the data.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 11:28 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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ComfyUI has a portable version here
"ComfyUI_windows_portable_nvidia.7z"
https://tinyurl.com/383msfc
You can run it from a USB or other external drive. You'll do best if you have modern Nvidia card, but it will run on just a CPU, too, just a lot slower. When you download it and get it "installed" you'll see the two options to run either from the GPU or the CPU.
The user interface is a bit overwhelming at first but watch a video or two to see how to get started with it and it will quickly make sense.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 19, 2025 11:28 PM (GzLpC)
What I worry about is the large amount of foreign gold held in trust by the NY Fed. It's theoretically backstopped by US gold deposits... If they don't exist, then what do those sovereign depositors do besides attempt to claw their own holdings back?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 19, 2025 11:28 PM (BI5O2)
Ah.... now I get what the hell she was talking about.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 19, 2025 11:29 PM (w6EFb)
I can wait to see what he does instead of him giving away the plan so the opposition can create obstructions. We know that rolling back regulations is one piece of the plan. I think he expects manufacturers to move operations back to the US to avoid tariffs and create jobs. Those are two concrete strategies that I can think of.
I won't be ashamed of feeling relief and actual optimism after what we have endured. Even Trump's first term was filled with one outrageous attack after another. The past four years drove me to believe Sefton's Morning Report was right: the USA was finished. I am grateful for the respite and will thoroughly enjoy every victory that moves us toward our founding inspiration of forming a more perfect union and away from the brink of destruction.
Posted by: PennaLady at February 19, 2025 11:29 PM (y6jPI)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 11:30 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Manning The SluiceBox at February 19, 2025 11:27 PM (G5+As)
I sometimes wonder what the world would look like today if thst gold was found in 1839, when California was still part of Mexico, instead of 1849.
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2025 11:30 PM (V1/Se)
I guess they are better than wearing rolled up socks.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2025 11:27 PM (D7oie)
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When did a wad of toilet paper stop being a thing?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 11:30 PM (hY4dx)
But its oh so easy to believe that no government employee ever did that, or if they did their boss said, thats nice but we can't do anything with the list.
Posted by: PaleRider at February 19, 2025 11:31 PM (CKOCg)
A homeopathic 'medicine' actually contains NO MEDICINE as it has been diluted out.
Posted by: Ciampino - nothing for you
Not really, a vaccine contains a small fragment of a virus or bacteria dna, and a lot of adjuvant that causes an immune response, and sensitizes the immune system to the fragments and hopefully not anything else in the environment.
I know you will claim there is actual science behind it, and that is true, unfortunately it is looking like the science indicates that some vaccines are negatively useful, and some cause problems in other ways.
Posted by: Kindltot
You're talking past each other.
Vaccines or other medications may be good, or bad, or they may do nothing. But they are chemically different from a plain saline shot, or whatever placebo is given to a control group.
A "homeopathic medicine" of the type Ciampino is describing is diluted until it's 100% chemically indistinguishable from the placebo. Mumbo-jumbo handwave about the former presence of the medicine affecting the solvent in some way.
Posted by: mikeski at February 19, 2025 11:31 PM (DgGvY)
As a result another of my sisters learned the I'm My Own Grandpa song and loved to sing it all the time back in our younger years.
Posted by: pkudude99 at February 19, 2025 11:23 PM (7T9Tp)
That song originated long before Ray Stevens covered it. 1930's, maybe.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:31 PM (8zz6B)
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I think you hit the nail on the head with why it resonates like it does.
Everyone who has ever worked a job knows exactly what you mean. Even summer help that just answers the phone at a dentists office has to take HIPAA training and hear about all the crimes and jail time they're liable to face if they slip up.
But if you're a government employee? Oh, it's fine. Matter of fact it's expected. Those wacky government employees!
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 19, 2025 11:31 PM (GzLpC)
Posted by: Kindltot
When did a wad of toilet paper stop being a thing?
Posted by: Cicero
When Sheryl Crow limited the bra-stuffers to one square?
Hopefully one square per boob. Wouldn't want to look lop-sided.
Posted by: mikeski at February 19, 2025 11:33 PM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310
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Maybe that's what he means when he says they are rewriting the DNA. That they are writing in checks and cross references to prevent fraud in the future.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2025 11:33 PM (jj2yx)
Posted by: Blueberry John at February 19, 2025 11:33 PM (G5+As)
Right up until me and another had to explain that not all fingers are the same width... especially with younger people...
They never tried to teach it again.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 19, 2025 11:33 PM (QAkQ3)
My new 1000 piece puzzle just arrived. Sorting. I love how I can feel my brain working differently to put it together.
Yes. It has a cat. And it's retro. Pfffft.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 19, 2025 11:14 PM (cZQmn)
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Nurse, heard about the jigsaw puzzle that the blonde had. It was made by Kellogs and had thousands of little pieces. A breakfast puzzle.
Posted by: Ciampino - and only 2 year old at February 19, 2025 11:33 PM (KjLnc)
Posted by: mikeski at February 19, 2025 11:31 PM (DgGvY)
I wonder what the world would look like if the Flexner Report had never been written. There would have been far more "negro" medical schools in the 20th century, that is for certain
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2025 11:34 PM (D7oie)
A white gentleman was wearing a hat that said Not Woke.
Many people of color commented.
In fact, 95% of the comments were theirs.
Apparently us eeeeevil right wingers have turned the word woke into the new "N" word.
To be anti-woke is to be...racist, stupid, backwards, in need of dying.
Yes, initially it started off as being more spiritually and culturally aware of black people's struggles (aka demands for special treatment and reparations due to oppression).
And for white people, full of self hatred over it.
Now, it's been twisted by us eeeevil racist Magats.
Posted by: Richard Hurtz at February 19, 2025 11:34 PM (elaR+)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310
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Maybe that's what he means when he says they are rewriting the DNA. That they are writing in checks and cross references to prevent fraud in the future.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2025 11:33 PM (jj2yx)
Well north of 40% of GDP is controlled by Local, State, and Fed Gov...
aint no way in hell that happens if all the money is actually used effectively.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 19, 2025 11:34 PM (QAkQ3)
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 19, 2025 11:31 PM (GzLpC)
If you are a worker bee? You get all the training and threats. Management is held to the standards that their friends and competitors enforce.
Posted by: Kindltot at February 19, 2025 11:35 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 11:26 PM (W5ArC)
Tungsten is also very expensive, hard to melt, and hard to work. I expect a tungsten bar would ring like a bell if tapped with a hammer, gold, not so much. Not that it matters. There are now hand-held neutron-activation analyzers that can can report the exact composition of a sample scanned. Just like Spock's tricorder.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:36 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 19, 2025 11:36 PM (7hR46)
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at February 19, 2025 11:36 PM (elaR+)
Posted by: tankdemon at February 19, 2025 11:30 PM (V1/Se)
California Rebellion starts a little sooner?
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 19, 2025 11:36 PM (QAkQ3)
Bostonians Against Mayor Wu
@AntiWuCoalition
Per source, a woke agenda is moving through
@BridgewaterMA
town council
Latest resolutions: $25,000 for flagpoles for Pride/Trans flags (in progress) - DEI sanctuary city (in progress) - Gender-neutral language in town charter (adopted Jan ‘25) -
Bridgewater what’s going on?
Bostonians Against Mayor Wu
@AntiWuCoalition
Bridgewater, MA just introduced Resolution R-FY25-007, which would make Bridgewater America’s first DEI sanctuary city
It adds a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion protections for all individuals
The resolution also emphasizes support for marginalized communities
(Ugggh, I know Bridgewater - Bridgewater State Univeristy was recently praised by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best colleges in America. Bridgewater is home to the infamous Bridgewater Triangle, 200 square miles of ghosts, Bigfoot, giant snakes, Satanic and Serial killings, Thunderbirds, Black Panthers, Phantom Dogs, Disappearances... - it's a brilliant quirky place from personal experience, but this is just too much!)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 19, 2025 11:37 PM (TGPs7)
Clint leaps into open grave at funeral & announces he's staking a gold mining claim on behalf of himself and "my new partner here."
"What do you mean I'm your 'new partner'?"
Clint: "Well... he was your brother."
Posted by: mnw at February 19, 2025 11:37 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Ambiguously Gay Floral Designer
Fool! The picture is upside down!
Posted by: Tonypete
Suddenly a light bulb went off over my head.💡
That Toronto plane crash — the pilot thought they were in Australia.
A simple error; anyone could have made it.
Posted by: mindful webworker - almost a Darwin award :) at February 19, 2025 11:37 PM (yfRSa)
Posted by: mikeski
So that's where SCOTUS got penumbras and emanations.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 19, 2025 11:40 PM (KAi1n)
aint no way in hell that happens if all the money is actually used effectively.
Posted by: Romeo13
Alright, which Red State will be the first to launch a State level DOGE?
Posted by: Some Rat at February 19, 2025 11:40 PM (+VovS)
Posted by: Manning The SluiceBox at February 19, 2025 11:27 PM (G5+As)
You know who did make out very well? Wheelbarrow Johnny, a hick from Indiana, who came West to make his fortune in the goldfields. He got some sage advice from an old timer, and did not go hunting gold, but instead set up a smithy and built wheelbarrows, which he sold to the miners for a tidy sum. A guy named John Moller Studebaker.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:40 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: mikeski .
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That's what wiki says it is. I always thought it was more of a home remedy that was accepted by many as valid. My grandma (only medicine then was sulfur and penicillin) would mix carbolated vaseline and creosote as a remedy for cuts and sores.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2025 11:40 PM (jj2yx)
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 19, 2025 11:36 PM (7hR46)
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So's our plane.
Posted by: Endeavor Air at February 19, 2025 11:41 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:36 PM (8zz6B)
It's tungsten ingots in the larger gold ingots. It doesn't work in the smaller gold ingots, which would be immediately detected.
It's a Chinese scam. They slip the tungsten into big bars among shipments of big pure gold bars.
Anyone who ever dealt with shipments of adulterated steel from China in the last fifty years is familiar with schemes like these, it's just that they've grown more proficient and bold about adulterating metals.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 19, 2025 11:41 PM (BI5O2)
Jerry Nadler is the smelliest man in Congress, according to George Santos:
https://tinyurl.com/25ynfy4b
He gets the waddling farts all the time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 19, 2025 11:44 PM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:27 PM (8zz6B)
Yep, you can. Same kind of deal as renting a gas cylinder... hefty deposit (which you get back) plus a monthly rental fee.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 11:44 PM (W5ArC)
Burned through 3 bits drilling "mild" steel. Boss laughed and said I had found the truck axle they threw in the pile.
Posted by: Some Rat at February 19, 2025 11:46 PM (+VovS)
I am beyond words.
I am no longer going to distinguish between 'Gaza civilians' and Hamas, they are all Gazans and all culpable.
Even if the cause of death was an Israeli bomb or similar, those people should never have been in that location, should never have been taken in the first place, so the culpability is still on Gazans. I say bomb the rest of the place 'civilians' and all.
Posted by: Ciampino - wild predators are usually exterminated at February 19, 2025 11:46 PM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 19, 2025 10:49 PM (K861k)
"Buy Sam a drink, and get hi dog one too!"
Posted by: Heirloominati at February 19, 2025 11:47 PM (CtJ/Z)
Anyone who ever dealt with shipments of adulterated steel from China in the last fifty years is familiar with schemes like these, it's just that they've grown more proficient and bold about adulterating metals.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 19, 2025 11:41 PM (BI5O2)
That should be detectable with neutron activation analysis. Or run the sumbitch through a bandsaw. You can collect all the cuttings. No losses.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:48 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:27 PM (8zz6B)
Yep, you can. Same kind of deal as renting a gas cylinder... hefty deposit (which you get back) plus a monthly rental fee.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Yes, but add in what AOP said (don't screw this up) I'll go with a machine shop.
Posted by: Some Rat at February 19, 2025 11:48 PM (+VovS)
Well, not compared to gold. :-) Looks like it's currently going for around $60/kilo.
YD has the right of how the scam works. But yeah, it could easily be detected with modern scanners.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 19, 2025 11:49 PM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at February 19, 2025 11:49 PM (SRRAx)
Posted by: raimondo at February 19, 2025 11:50 PM (eXNQp)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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First job in the machine shop was cutting the numbers off Japanese steel.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 19, 2025 11:51 PM (jj2yx)
aint no way in hell that happens if all the money is actually used effectively.
Posted by: Romeo13
Alright, which Red State will be the first to launch a State level DOGE?
Posted by: Some Rat at February 19, 2025 11:40 PM (+VovS)
Over a dozen states are in progress and I believe OK is closest to or maybe even has something running already.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 19, 2025 11:51 PM (Vqx30)
Posted by: mikeski
The pink Himalayan salt is almost as bad.
Look up what trace amounts mean
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at February 19, 2025 11:51 PM (elaR+)
Posted by: Ciampino
I really shouldn't. Oh, well, okay:
I know what the (trust the) Science says about it, but I can testify that we've used homeopathy for about four decades, with many often startling successes. It's not a simple thing to get the right remedy at the right potency, but the nice thing is, if it doesn't work, there's no ill effects. My favorite reactions have been when someone uses a remedy we recommend, and later says, it didn't do anything, I just got better. Well, that's fine; that's the goal.
Don't bother arguing this with me. Not worth the effort. I refer to it as the world's most powerful and effective placebo.
🫠
Posted by: mindful webworker - just sayin' at February 19, 2025 11:51 PM (yfRSa)
Posted by: Ciampino - reintarnation? at February 19, 2025 11:52 PM (KjLnc)
https://tinyurl.com/25ynfy4b
He gets the waddling farts all the time.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 19, 2025 11:44 PM (w6EFb)
Okay, now I have confirmation bias.
Posted by: RickZ at February 19, 2025 11:52 PM (gKDq2)
Posted by: raimondo at February 19, 2025 11:50 PM (eXNQp)
Well, aside from the fact that DU is a reliable source of nothing but bullshit, so what? If she was that mentally unstable? Good riddance.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:52 PM (8zz6B)
Now that's a
Eff them in the ear. They're not religious; they're terrorist vermin. And if that is the religion, then they're from Hell.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 19, 2025 11:53 PM (aXxgO)
@LeaderJohnThune
The House and the Senate want the same outcome: to quickly pass @POTUS
’ full agenda.
That is why the Senate is here working and moving forward on Chairman @LindseyGrahamSC
’s budget resolution that will preserve optionality and unlock the process to provide the necessary resources to enact that agenda.
Posted by: Don Black. Message: Diggity dank at February 19, 2025 11:54 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: mnw at February 19, 2025 11:54 PM (NLIak)
🫠
Posted by: mindful webworker - just sayin' at February 19, 2025 11:51 PM (yfRSa)
Which is a fair assessment.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:55 PM (8zz6B)
I suppose Texas. I mean, Musk is right there.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 19, 2025 11:56 PM (aXxgO)
Newsweek:
"Gainesville Intermediate School was aware that Jocelynn Rojo Carranza was facing relentless bullying, with classmates taunting her about being abandoned if her parents were deported. The harassment became so severe that she met with a school counselor several times a week. However, her family says they were not informed about the situation."
https://tinyurl.com/5db27nw6
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 19, 2025 11:57 PM (GzLpC)
I've been here.
Last year-never saw a flurry. Sometimes go 5-6 years without getting measurable snow. This year a 3", then a 6", now this. Unusual.
Posted by: Snow Joke at February 19, 2025 11:57 PM (G5+As)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 19, 2025 11:53 PM (aXxgO)
Well, that's exactly right. Mohammed was a dumfuck who was duped by Satan, who posed as Allah. It's demons all the way down.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 11:57 PM (8zz6B)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at February 19, 2025 11:58 PM (WvGHv)
Posted by: mnw at February 19, 2025 11:58 PM (NLIak)
Posted by: Ciampino - reintarnation?! at February 19, 2025 11:58 PM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 19, 2025 11:59 PM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
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Highly unlikely as an accident. As enemy action, however....
If I was doing this, I'd remove the stitching holding the leather with the button holes to the suspender straps and the glue it on with something temperature sensitive. Honey, for instance. Glue it cleanly, hold dry ice onto it so it was nice and firm, dress him a few moments before. Body heat warms up honey, parts slide apart, pants fall down.
Posted by: buddhaha at February 19, 2025 11:59 PM (nXPOV)
Gaza should've been a smoking crater on October 14th.
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 19, 2025 11:59 PM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at February 19, 2025 11:58 PM (WvGHv)
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The engines were on the tail section and not on the wings.
Posted by: Ciampino - tits in the face at February 20, 2025 12:00 AM (KjLnc)
A former NFL punter was dragged out of a city council meeting in California by police while claiming that supporting President Donald Trump is “explicitly a Nazi movement.”
Former Minnesota Viking and UCLA Bruin Chris Kluwe flipped out about the president during Tuesday’s Huntington Beach city council meeting...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at February 20, 2025 12:00 AM (TGPs7)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at February 19, 2025 11:58 PM (WvGHv)
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Rosie O'Donnell, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 20, 2025 12:00 AM (hY4dx)
Posted by: Ciampino - American? at February 20, 2025 12:01 AM (KjLnc)
That's some fine, authentic frontier gibberish and argle bargle from Sen. Lindsey Johnson.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 20, 2025 12:01 AM (aXxgO)
11 year old texas girl commits suicide after being bullied in school with other students pretending to be ice and arresting her for deportation till she killed herself. (DU)
Posted by: raimondo
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I was just about to say there's a 99% chance she was fatherless. Then Boron Cobbie posted the link to the Newsweek story, and now I see it was 100%:
"On February 3, Marbella Carranza, a single mother from Gainesville, received a call informing her that her 11-year-old daughter had attempted to take her own life at their home. "
The bullies knew a fatherless girl was an easy target. They would have used anything as an excuse to make her life miserable. If it hadn't been ICE, they probably would have told her there was a secret type of COVID that they had put in her food or something.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2025 12:02 AM (tXHQj)
I suppose Texas. I mean, Musk is right there.
_-_-_-_-_
Sadly, unlikely to happen in Colorado anytime soon. Unless we can deport Californians...
Posted by: Don in SoCo at February 20, 2025 12:02 AM (vd6bO)
I don't have a gear/pulley puller anywhere near that small, and sure didn't want to buy or make one for one job.
I took out the collet and put an M6 nut inside the collet nut and screwed it back on. Then I screwed in a long M6 bolt until it pushed the collet holder off the shaft. Shazam.
Didn't appear to damage the collet holder or nut. There's no visible marring and the collet nut still tightens the collet down all the way down.
Probably this is something that real machinists have known about for a hundred years, but I was a little proud of myself for figuring it out.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 12:02 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at February 20, 2025 12:02 AM (WvGHv)
Buying or selling a house ranks very near the top of things guaranteed to put me into an absolute rage at some point during the process.
Posted by: PabloD at February 20, 2025 12:04 AM (tDY2G)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at February 19, 2025 11:58 PM (WvGHv)
There was a big fire. In the video I saw, there was a burst of flame the instant the right side gear hit the runway, and then the plane careened to the right, the right wing hit the pavement with a big ball of fire, and was torn right off, with the fire remaining in the wing (where the fuel tanks are).
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 12:04 AM (8zz6B)
Leftists lied about a situation in order to push their political agenda.
Of course a tard like Raimondo believed it without question.
Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at February 20, 2025 12:04 AM (elaR+)
https://mol.im/a/14413683
Posted by: Ciampino - American or illegal? at February 20, 2025 12:04 AM (KjLnc)
This guy reverse-engineered a patent, and figured out how to pump argon gas through a quartz tube into a crucible to make a clean, solid, uniform alloy of gold and aluminum.
It's obviously brittle and difficult to work with, so you have to pretty much just cast it and polish it. But the upside is that it comes out a rich, nearly iridescent purple color.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2025 12:04 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: EdmundBurkesShade at February 20, 2025 12:05 AM (WvGHv)
I'm thinking not only is Colorado not Red, it's not even Purple. Such a shame.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 20, 2025 12:08 AM (aXxgO)
Posted by: PabloD at February 20, 2025 12:04 AM (tDY2G)
That shit is still basically medieval, the same as many churches, university processes, and so on.
All of those could use an enema, though of course it's a lot easier to start your own church (nowadays) than form your own university or change real estate laws.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 12:09 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia
Yes, it's a good feeling of accomplishment learning to do something new, then repeating the process to get good at it. Then at the end of the project, you get a sinking feeling when you realize you'll probably never have to/get to do it ever again.
Posted by: Getting Old Is Not For Sissies at February 20, 2025 12:10 AM (G5+As)
It's obviously brittle and difficult to work with, so you have to pretty much just cast it and polish it. But the upside is that it comes out a rich, nearly iridescent purple color.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2025 12:04 AM (BI5O2)
that would be easier to do in a space lab, under zero G. And jewelry is valuable enough that the cost of doing it there could be reasonable.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 12:11 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2025 12:11 AM (GP8rd)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 20, 2025 12:08 AM (aXxgO)
CO has been cobalt blue since 2006... "Purple Colorado" is a myth perpetuated by Republican consultants who count on their clients having never visited Colorado or having any curiosity about anything consultants say.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2025 12:12 AM (BI5O2)
https://mol.im/a/14414643
This is a nightmare for firefighters and other first responders too.
Posted by: Ciampino - Firefighters too at February 20, 2025 12:12 AM (KjLnc)
Sounds like home ownership. All of the DIY repairs and maintenance many of which you do religiously... once every ten+ years if ever.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 20, 2025 12:13 AM (aXxgO)
A former NFL punter was dragged out of a city council meeting in California by police while claiming that supporting President Donald Trump is “explicitly a Nazi movement.”
Former Minnesota Viking and UCLA Bruin Chris Kluwe flipped out about the president during Tuesday’s Huntington Beach city council meeting...
Posted by: Mister Ghost
I'm kind of impressed with Chris. I thought Trump=Nazi was scripture out there. He must have been really unhinged. Keep sharp objects away from him.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 20, 2025 12:13 AM (K861k)
Posted by: PabloD
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The one that irritates me?
I bought a new car online in the early 2000s. Completely online. Picked it out, the price was clearly stated, I put down some amount of earnest money. They got to work looking, the company called to see if I would consider a different color (no, keep looking), two weeks later it was on its way to the local dealer that cooperated with Carsdirect for me to meet and give them the check and sign one piece of paper. And then I was out the door with my vehicle. Done.
Know what you can no longer do online 25 years after the internet has matured?
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 12:14 AM (GzLpC)
https://youtu.be/hT_gz0_bChE
G'nite, y'all.
Posted by: mindful webworker - doo doo doo doo doo at February 20, 2025 12:15 AM (yfRSa)
I admit, that's been my source. I get this valuable information every four years in early October.
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 20, 2025 12:15 AM (aXxgO)
Here's the story: Deportation fear leads girl, 11, to take her own life in Texas
https://mol.im/a/14413683
Posted by: Ciampino - American or illegal
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It wasn't deportation fear. It was creative bullying.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2025 12:16 AM (tXHQj)
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel
I got that feeling after doing a convertible top on a car last year. Came out very nice, even though I had never done one before. And I'm pretty sure I never will again.
Posted by: Getting Old Is Not For Sissies at February 20, 2025 12:17 AM (G5+As)
P.S.: I had a GF at the time that said of Calvin, "He's a brat." We didn't last.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 20, 2025 12:17 AM (Ma+6R)
https://mol.im/a/14414683
Now if a civilian had shot him dead, he'd be arrested?
Posted by: Ciampino - Good for the goose at February 20, 2025 12:18 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Anna Puma at February 20, 2025 12:19 AM (GP8rd)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2025 12:20 AM (jj2yx)
Posted by: PabloD at February 20, 2025 12:20 AM (tDY2G)
Posted by: Anna Puma
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She was going to the school counselor "several times a week" regarding the deportation conversation, and no one in her family had any idea.
It would be interesting to know what the school was pushing on the little girl.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 12:21 AM (GzLpC)
https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/
1892400549233889381
Posted by: Ciampino - Good for the gander at February 20, 2025 12:22 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 19, 2025 11:59 PM (Vvh2V)
Exterminated down to the last DNA sample to where Spock would fire up his tricorder, raise his eyebrow, turn to Kirk and say " Fascinating, these motherfuckers don't exist anymore"
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 20, 2025 12:23 AM (VwHCD)
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Extra Strength Placebo
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2025 12:24 AM (SpYDH)
Posted by: mnw at February 20, 2025 12:25 AM (NLIak)
https://tinyurl.com/3rmpraub
Posted by: Ciampino - all those FBI files at February 20, 2025 12:25 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 20, 2025 12:25 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 20, 2025 12:26 AM (W5ArC)
Posted by: Anna Puma
I saw Deportation Fear open for Outrun The Sunlight at The Basement East in '23.
https://youtu.be/e8Jl3-jO3IQ
Posted by: mikeski at February 20, 2025 12:26 AM (DgGvY)
https://tinyurl.com/839j5snf
Posted by: Ciampino - how much is the skim? at February 20, 2025 12:27 AM (KjLnc)
https://tinyurl.com/3rmpraub
Posted by: Ciampino
That was a threat. Much like Shumers.
Posted by: MkY at February 20, 2025 12:28 AM (cPGH3)
Posted by: Archer at February 20, 2025 12:28 AM (IDphi)
https://mol.im/a/14414683
Now if a civilian had shot him dead, he'd be arrested?
Posted by: Ciampino - Good for the goose at February 20, 2025 12:18 AM (KjLnc)
Oh, hey, what’s that I hear? BLM arising from its four year slumber?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 20, 2025 12:28 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Berserker
And that scene just played out in my head. LOL
Posted by: mikeski at February 20, 2025 12:29 AM (DgGvY)
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Hypothetically speaking, if someone gained your trust, and really, really REALLY fucked you over, what would be a good way to get back at them. I mean, short of shooting them in the face?
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2025 12:29 AM (SpYDH)
https://youtu.be/d6Pcp944sRI?si=-z7iWcfN4rSm__t6
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 20, 2025 12:29 AM (BI5O2)
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 20, 2025 12:30 AM (73vBl)
Posted by: Dr. T at February 19, 2025 10:05 PM (lHPJf)
As AOP pointed out, it's considerably older than Ray Stevens' version--my favorite version was recorded by Phil Harris--but I happen to be on a Ray Stevens kick at the moment and discovered he's got a recent (2023?) song out called "Since Bubba Changed His Name to Charlene." It's pretty funny.
Posted by: Elisabeth G. Wolfe at February 20, 2025 12:30 AM (E6Gak)
Shooting them in the ass?
Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel at February 20, 2025 12:31 AM (aXxgO)
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 20, 2025 12:31 AM (vOvpU)
It wasn't deportation fear. It was creative bullying.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia
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If it's true that she saw a councilor and the school didn't advise the parents. hmmmm
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2025 12:31 AM (jj2yx)
https://tinyurl.com/3mwnkera
It grows on trees, and that's why they put me away ......!
(sung to 'I talk to the trees ...' )
Posted by: Ciampino - how? at February 20, 2025 12:32 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: mnw at February 20, 2025 12:25 AM (NLIak)
Good question! The usual routine is for the school to expel/suspend both the bullies and the target until it can all be sorted out. We have all been preached at, ad nauseam, that bullying is not to be tolerated, yet what happened there was clearly toleration of bullying.
But the little girl should have killed one of the bullies, not herself.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 12:32 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2025 12:32 AM (SpYDH)
Posted by: Tammy-al Thor at February 20, 2025 12:33 AM (Vvh2V)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2025 12:33 AM (jj2yx)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 19, 2025 10:56 PM (8zz6B)
Okay, this is ridiculous, but when I read that my first mental image was of 40 one inch square patches on the frame and floor.
My brain gets funny when tired.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2025 12:34 AM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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That's a stretch for an 11yo girl, even in Texas.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2025 12:35 AM (jj2yx)
Posted by: Ciampino - who at February 20, 2025 12:35 AM (KjLnc)
Speaking of suicide, I just found out that my former neighbor just did it. Damn, I chatted with him over Christmas and he obviously had a medical condition because his head was shaking as if he had either an advanced palsy or he was experiencing severe drug side effects. I didn't ask him about it, just chatted, and we went our merry ways (we were each taking a walk in different directions). I feel really bad that he couldn't share his sorrow or despair or whatever it was with someone who could have talked him down. I also wish I'd asked after him, but he seemed so cheerful.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2025 12:35 AM (tXHQj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2025 12:36 AM (jj2yx)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2025 12:37 AM (SpYDH)
My brain gets funny when tired.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2025 12:34 AM (FCbAQ)
Well, it was four roughly 2" by 4" patches adjacent to the seat mounting holes, and one two-part patch linking the right "A" pillar to the frame. That's all it needed, which isn't much for a 74 year old car.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 12:38 AM (8zz6B)
What is it with Wisconsin and home improvement companies? Our paint contractors were based out of there, now our window company is based out of there, I know Kohler's there, and my old job has a spraypaint division there.
Posted by: pookysgirl used to be s Packers fan too at February 20, 2025 12:38 AM (Wt5PA)
https://mol.im/a/14413599
Boy that marriage was definitely anchored on quicksand.
Posted by: Ciampino - who cares? at February 20, 2025 12:39 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: azjaeger at February 20, 2025 12:40 AM (3/XaG)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2025 12:40 AM (jj2yx)
https://tinyurl.com/3mwnkera
It grows on trees, and that's why they put me away ......!
(sung to 'I talk to the trees ...' )
Posted by: Ciampino - how? at February 20, 2025 12:32 AM (KjLnc)
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I live (rent).here in Pritzker land. Illinois doesn't tax retirement income;. Yet. I expect that may change and away I'll go.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 20, 2025 12:40 AM (jRujf)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at February 20, 2025 12:40 AM (raE3a)
9th Circuit Court puts a clamp on Trump's birthright citizenship EO.
War.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey,
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War is what we wanted.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2025 12:41 AM (tXHQj)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2025 12:35 AM (jj2yx)
If she had lashed out physically in some way, it might have gotten proper attention from the school authorities. I remember being bullied by another kid when I was in fourth or fifth grade. Finally got pissed off, and just cold-cocked the fucker, right on the nose; made his nose bleed, it did. I got called to the Principal's office, told my story, and got told, "don't do it again". I didn't, and never needed to, either.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 12:42 AM (8zz6B)
I need a bag of tricks, dirty tricks, something. Prison doesn’t bother me, but it seems psychological fvckery might be more gratifying. Make this mother fucker worried. Something.
Posted by: Common Tater
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(slowly leans back from monitor)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2025 12:44 AM (tXHQj)
How is Realtor still a job?? They don’t do anything.
I use Zillow to do all of my own research, then contact a Realtor who.. shows up to the house late, spends several minutes fumbling with the lockbox, and then can’t answer a single question because they only skimmed over the listing for the first time a few minutes before meeting me.
They get paid so much and they’re awful. They don’t know anything about houses. I know more about houses than these people. “Is this a slab foundation?” “I don’t know, but I can ask.” “Yeah, it’s on a slab.” “The countertops are red granite.” “No they’re not, they’re quartz.”
And on and on. I had a seller’s agent refuse to take an offer to the seller. It was a good offer. They ended up accepting it right away, unconditionally. He just thought he could find someone who would pay more and didn’t care if the house sat for a few more weeks.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 20, 2025 12:44 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Braenyard
Alternately: Flintstones-style brakes.
Posted by: mikeski at February 20, 2025 12:44 AM (DgGvY)
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at February 20, 2025 12:40 AM (raE3a)
Could be stray voltage.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 20, 2025 12:46 AM (l3YAf)
At 4:30pm, Leland Dudek's boss put him on leave for helping DOGE find fraud. “They want to fire me,” he wrote. "I confess. I helped DOGE understand SSA."
Within hours, it was his boss who was fired, and the longtime SSA waste-watcher was elevated to lead the whole agency.
@elonmusk 2h
There ARE good people in the government who want to eliminate fraud & waste.
Amazingly, Leland was fired by Social Security Administration upper management for helping @DOGE find taxpayer savings. Can you believe that??
Thanks to President Trump, Leland was brought back right away and now HE is upper management 😎
Promote good players, exit bad players. That’s the right thing to do.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2025 12:48 AM (jj2yx)
https://mol.im/a/14412855
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It's a 'study'. It has the word 'could'. It has the word 'suggests'.
TOP SCIENTISTS. CHINESE SWEDES.
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Professor Oliver Jones, an expert in chemistry at RMIT University in Melbourne, said the structure of the experiment on mice needed to be considered. 'The authors used a particular type of lab mouse called an ApoE mouse, which is bred to be prone to heart disease,' he said.
'They also fed it a high-fat, high-cholesterol diet, which itself increases the risk of heart disease.
'They also don’t seem to have measured how much of the aspartame water the mice drank, or the aspartame level in the blood, so it is unknown what the mice actually received.'
Posted by: Ciampino - COULD SUGGEST at February 20, 2025 12:48 AM (KjLnc)
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Speaking of suicide, I just found out that my former neighbor just did it. Damn, I chatted with him over Christmas and he obviously had a medical condition because his head was shaking as if he had either an advanced palsy or he was experiencing severe drug side effects. ... I also wish I'd asked after him, but he seemed so cheerful.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2025 12:35 AM (tXHQj)
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Sometimes, maybe the only way?
Richard Farnsworth, actor (Red, in "The Natural")
On the night of October 6, 2000, suffering from terminal cancer that left him partially paralyzed and in great pain, Farnsworth died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his ranch in Lincoln.[6]
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 20, 2025 12:48 AM (Ch4PH)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 12:38 AM (8zz6B)
Must be a car local to the Southwest.
A midwest car would be a pile of ferrous dust.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 20, 2025 12:49 AM (FCbAQ)
Posted by: azjaeger at February 20, 2025 12:40 AM (3/XaG)
I hate that commie FDR and I hate Imperial Japanese. And I agree, he did a lot to provoke that war.
But the Japanese learned an important lesson: even if our President is a moron, don’t attack our people or there will be hell to pay.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 20, 2025 12:49 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 20, 2025 12:44 AM (l3YAf)
I used a realtor to help me find this house here in AZ. he worked hard for his commission, and i still see him now and then, and have a beer with him. The stumbling blocks were all on the seller's side: a gal with an inherited property, wanting to unload, but not willing to hire an AZ attorney to do the necessary paperwork.
And my place in Alberta, I got friend, a fellow car nut, who is also a realtor, to go looking for rural properties for me. He said (AOP), I found you one, it's a little further out from Calgary than you wanted, but the price is right, and I think you will like it. He was 100% right, and I have lived there for 27 years now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 12:51 AM (8zz6B)
Schools have spent nearly $200B of COVID-Relief funds with little oversight or impact on students. $393K to rent out a Major League Baseball stadium, $86K in Caesars Palace hotel rooms, $60k in swimming pool passes, and even an ice cream truck. All of this money was drawn with zero documentation.
There is $4B left and the new @usedgov is setting a simple new rule - all grantees must provide receipts for every purchase BEFORE funding is released.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2025 12:54 AM (jj2yx)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2025 12:55 AM (SpYDH)
The interesting thing about using your outstretched arms and horizontal fingers to estimate how many of minutes of daylight remain is that it works no matter what age you are.
While a young child's fingers are thinner, their arms are shorter, so the subtended arc along which one sights to arrive at the estimate is the same.
** The More You Know **
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 20, 2025 12:55 AM (xG4kz)
Richard Farnsworth, actor (Red, in "The Natural")
On the night of October 6, 2000, suffering from terminal cancer that left him partially paralyzed and in great pain, Farnsworth died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his ranch in Lincoln.[6]
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 20, 2025 12:48 AM (Ch4PH)
He went at a time of his own choosing, and his death was a forgone conclusion, anyway. I see no sin in that. Farnsworth also starred in a film, i think it was "The Gray Fox" about a real-life train robber who pulled off a train robbery near Kamloops, B.C. around about 1912-1914. One of the very last "Old West" style train robberies.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 12:55 AM (8zz6B)
In fact, I only wear pants if someone is paying my per-diem to go to site at this point.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 20, 2025 12:55 AM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Ciampino
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It's as if they were seeking a predetermined outcome.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2025 12:58 AM (jj2yx)
How is Realtor still a job?? They don’t do anything.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 20, 2025 12:44 AM (l3YAf)
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When I compare my first home buying experience in the 1980s (realtor gets listings , makes appointments, drives me to the home, etc) to today's DIY home search, I cannot justify paying the realtor 5 - 6% of the purchase price.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 20, 2025 12:58 AM (v71Ni)
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DON'T FORGET MY TIP!!!
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - Feminism moved women back to unregulated polygamy, forming harems among themselves at February 20, 2025 01:01 AM (GzLpC)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 12:55 AM (8zz6B)
Film was "The Grey Fox", 1982 Canadian film. And I saw it. It was a good movie. Farnsworth played the role of Bill Miner, the real train robber who did the real train robbery.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 01:02 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2025 01:03 AM (jj2yx)
Posted by: Ciampino - does he know? at February 20, 2025 01:04 AM (KjLnc)
Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Me (driving the grandkids to their home) : "You see that restaurant over there, Applebees? It is named that because everything they serve is made either from apples or from bees."
gSon: "You see, that's why I can't trust a thing you say, Grandpa!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 20, 2025 01:04 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2025 01:03 AM (jj2yx)
I would rank him in the same class as Robert Duvall. Not as prolific, but when you saw him on the screen, you saw the character, not the actor.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 01:07 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 20, 2025 01:08 AM (tESdR)
Pope funeral 'is being rehearsed': Swiss Guard 'prepare for death'
https://mol.im/a/14413577
Posted by: Ciampino - does he know?
In anticipation of the next Pope being elected from Africa, ought not the Ghana Dancing Pallbearers be awarded that gig?
https://youtu.be/j9V78UbdzWI
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 20, 2025 01:08 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: Ciampino - deball the guy at February 20, 2025 01:11 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Ciampino - about time at February 20, 2025 01:12 AM (KjLnc)
Trump tasks Elon Musk with getting him new Air Force One
https://mol.im/a/14414353
Posted by: Ciampino
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Good lord, is Musk going to start feeling like the teaboy?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2025 01:13 AM (tXHQj)
Re: Calvin and Hobbes
Me (driving the grandkids to their home) : "You see that restaurant over there, Applebees? It is named that because everything they serve is made either from apples or from bees."
gSon: "You see, that's why I can't trust a thing you say, Grandpa!"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 20, 2025 01:04 AM (xG4kz)
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I applaud you,Sir! Would have done for a C and H strip.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 20, 2025 01:16 AM (kQWle)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 20, 2025 01:08 AM (tESdR)
A David Lynch film.
Really good.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 20, 2025 01:16 AM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 12:55 AM (8zz6B)
I saw that movie. Great shots of the Canadian west.
Posted by: RickZ at February 20, 2025 01:16 AM (gKDq2)
https://mol.im/a/14414353
Posted by: Ciampino - about time at February 20, 2025 01:12 AM (KjLnc)
Trump becomes the first president to cross the USA in a sub-orbital rocket flight in 30 minutes?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 01:16 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 20, 2025 01:17 AM (XeU6L)
I don't want to hear about their rights - those must be the same ones I have. I don't want to see their flag(s).
Posted by: Ciampino - about when do you think? at February 20, 2025 01:18 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 20, 2025 01:19 AM (/tzYP)
Trump tasks Elon Musk with getting him new Air Force One
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Probably smells of stale urine.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
Not to mention the mysterious dark stains on the bottom cushions of seats.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 20, 2025 01:19 AM (xG4kz)
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 20, 2025 01:20 AM (/tzYP)
Posted by: RickZ at February 20, 2025 01:16 AM (gKDq2)
Yes. That Thompson Valley country around Kamloops is stereotypical Old West scenery: river, sagebrush, cattle, and distant mountains. Even has the odd rattlesnake. I spent some time there. like it a lot, but it's Blue-tardville, now.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 01:20 AM (8zz6B)
https://mol.im/a/14414353
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President Donald Trump, frustrated with Boeing's slow pace at finishing two new 747s to serve as Air Force One, has ordered Elon Musk to find a way to speed up their delivery.
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Elon, waste not one minute, not one part, do your job, Musk.
"Elon, go over there and straighten them out."
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2025 01:20 AM (jj2yx)
How many things are wrong about this storr
Nathanielle Morin won a women’s 5km road run by almost six minutes in Ottawa, Ontario in February 2024, demolishing the rest of her competition in the 30-39 year-old female category with a finish time of 25 minutes and 32 seconds.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 20, 2025 01:22 AM (kQWle)
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One that transforms into a giant gold-plated Trump-bot.
With lasers.
Posted by: Methos at February 20, 2025 01:24 AM (Dnobf)
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Elon, waste not one minute, not one part, do your job, Musk.
"Elon, go over there and straighten them out."
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2025 01:20 AM (jj2yx)
He should buy up the remaining Martin Mars flying boats, totally rehab the airframes, and fit them with six fanjet engines. Ought to be able to make them go 400 mph.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 01:25 AM (8zz6B)
Boeing might be a bigger den of thieves than the govt.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2025 01:26 AM (jj2yx)
Farnsworth also played the dogged small-town sheriff in Misery who, counter to formula, got killed. The whole part was dispensable to the plot. Typical Stephen King garbage.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 20, 2025 01:26 AM (tXHQj)
Posted by: Common Tater at February 20, 2025 12:37 AM (SpYDH)
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Look for the old "Getting Even" series of books by George Hayduke. Just imagining doing the things in the books will lighten your mood.
Personally, I'd anonymously report the MFr to the IRS; They'll do far worse to the dude than you ever could, and even send him to jail (now wouldn't that be payback? ;-)
Posted by: As not seen on TV at February 20, 2025 01:26 AM (eXNfn)
https://mol.im/a/14413347
Posted by: Ciampino - deball the guy at February 20, 2025 01:11 AM (KjLnc)
That was "Nathanielle" who beat all the women by SIX minutes. demolishing *her* competition?! Yecch!
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 20, 2025 01:26 AM (kQWle)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 01:28 AM (8zz6B)
Also gripped the inside of the insert with tongs in a kind of backwards way.
One thing is to try and do it quickly in a dry environment because the frost will build up very quickly on the insert.
And make sure your insulated gloves are super clean. Keep them in a bag after cleaning and don't put them on until your ready to insert the part.
Best done with two people.
Posted by: pawn at February 20, 2025 01:28 AM (QB+5g)
Posted by: pawn at February 20, 2025 01:30 AM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 01:28 AM (8zz6B)
SR-71
Posted by: Somebody was gonna say it at February 20, 2025 01:30 AM (l3YAf)
Posted by: JM in Illinois
It's David Lynch's most accessible, less weird, movie. It's very good.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work at February 20, 2025 01:31 AM (K861k)
And make sure your insulated gloves are super clean. Keep them in a bag after cleaning and don't put them on until your ready to insert the part.
Best done with two people.
Posted by: pawn at February 20, 2025 01:28 AM (QB+5g)
Honestly, I think Some Rat is on the right track by subbing this part of the job out to a machine shop. That is their bread and butter, and if they make a mistake, they have to make it right.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 01:32 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: Somebody was gonna say it at February 20, 2025 01:30 AM (l3YAf)
Well, fast is it. Safe? Not so sure. And no room for an onboard office, and staff, which AF-1 has. Even a B-1 might be too small.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 01:35 AM (8zz6B)
Experience is the key in this case. Guy made stuff look easy to do but don't try this at home folks.
We got to be good friends. He suicided over a chick.
Posted by: pawn at February 20, 2025 01:38 AM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2025 01:38 AM (jj2yx)
Back when I get home
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2025 01:41 AM (D+UC6)
Pilot: "Stand by with the Blue Ice deployment!"
Posted by: pawn at February 20, 2025 01:42 AM (QB+5g)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 20, 2025 01:38 AM (jj2yx)
Well, a B-1 has that covered. In megatons. LOL.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 01:42 AM (8zz6B)
Posted by: JM in Illinois at February 20, 2025 01:43 AM (OdQjK)
I was just looking at info on the new AF-1 design. Nike has some damned shoe out called Air Force 1 and Google was trying to push that. Shows you what they are about.
The new one, VC-25B, is considerably stretched from the base version it's based on. Longer range, but it won't have in-air refueling capability, like the current ones do. They've decided this isn't really needed -- the current one doesn't need this much. In a doomsday scenario, POTUS will likely ride whatever the Doomsday plane is, not AF-1.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 20, 2025 01:45 AM (w6EFb)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 20, 2025 01:46 AM (8zz6B)
Safe travels home, Skip.
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Posted by: Miklos asks for permission at February 20, 2025 02:03 AM (xesY+)
Posted by: Ciampino - death to killers at February 20, 2025 02:06 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Ciampino - Not gasoline at February 20, 2025 02:09 AM (KjLnc)
https://mol.im/a/14415035
Posted by: Ciampino - Not gasoline nor diesel at February 20, 2025 02:10 AM (KjLnc)
https://t.co/0uugLSsGvT
Posted by: Ciampino - In your face to NYC/NYS at February 20, 2025 02:16 AM (KjLnc)
Posted by: Miklos who actually worked for Newsweek in the 90s at February 20, 2025 02:23 AM (xesY+)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 20, 2025 02:31 AM (Sgq8y)
Damn insomnia.
Looks like our son got about 7.5 inches of snow in Virginia Beach overnight.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 20, 2025 02:35 AM (a1415)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2025 02:37 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at February 20, 2025 02:42 AM (Sgq8y)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2025 02:43 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2025 02:44 AM (fwDg9)
Posted by: Rev Wishbone at February 20, 2025 02:54 AM (fY84s)
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2025 03:00 AM (fwDg9)
Old enough to remember KMart Blue light Specials and doing the Pledge of Allegiance in school.
On the same day
Posted by: Legal immigrant Miklos at February 20, 2025 03:00 AM (xesY+)
Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at February 20, 2025 03:01 AM (hKoQL)
Have great rest of the night everyone
Posted by: Skip at February 20, 2025 03:02 AM (fwDg9)
I have been banned somehow
Posted by: Miklos at February 20, 2025 03:13 AM (xesY+)
I expect to see see people in masks in New Orleans.
They don't normally burn buildings. but they piss on everything.
Fat Tuesday id a million drunk people on the street. Fun the first time.
Posted by: Professor Long Hair Miklos knowin' whats gonna befall at February 20, 2025 03:20 AM (xesY+)
Posted by: Miklos
You have to post them for 3 weeks before you get married.
Posted by: Adriane the Cargo Beep Beep Critic . . . at February 20, 2025 03:22 AM (tcomi)
Reacher, Season Three is trickling out now.
First three episodes are available now on Amazon
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Ctrl Salt Delete?
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AnkaPundit: Paul Anka Takes Over the Site for a Weekend (Continues through to Monday's postings)
George Bush Slices Don Rumsfeld Like an F*ckin' Hammer
Democratic Forays into Erotica
New Shows On Gore's DNC/MTV Network
Nicknames for Potatoes, By People Who Really Hate Potatoes
Star Wars Euphemisms for Self-Abuse
Signs You're at an Iraqi "Wedding Party"
Signs Your Clown Has Gone Bad
Signs That You, Geroge Michael, Should Probably Just Give It Up
Signs of Hip-Hop Influence on John Kerry
NYT Headlines Spinning Bush's Jobs Boom
Things People Are More Likely to Say Than "Did You Hear What Al Franken Said Yesterday?"
Signs that Paul Krugman Has Lost His Frickin' Mind
All-Time Best NBA Players, According to Senator Robert Byrd
Other Bad Things About the Jews, According to the Koran
Signs That David Letterman Just Doesn't Care Anymore
Examples of Bob Kerrey's Insufferable Racial Jackassery
Signs Andy Rooney Is Going Senile
Other Judgments Dick Clarke Made About Condi Rice Based on Her Appearance
Collective Names for Groups of People
John Kerry's Other Vietnam Super-Pets
Cool Things About the XM8 Assault Rifle
Media-Approved Facts About the Democrat Spy
Changes to Make Christianity More "Inclusive"
Secret John Kerry Senatorial Accomplishments
John Edwards Campaign Excuses
John Kerry Pick-Up Lines
Changes Liberal Senator George Michell Will Make at Disney
Torments in Dog-Hell
The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)