Mid-Morning Art Thread

Love of Winter
George Bellows

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 st!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2025 09:31 AM (kgE5c)

2 The Others have been summoned.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2025 09:31 AM (kgE5c)

3 Colorful. No mosquitos. I'm more of a summer than a winter.

Posted by: Count de Monet at February 28, 2025 09:32 AM (Aqu9a)

4 Faceless people!

Posted by: dantesed at February 28, 2025 09:32 AM (Oy/m2)

5 Hah!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at February 28, 2025 09:32 AM (hOUT3)

6 No love for winter here.

Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2025 09:32 AM (Yj6Os)

7 Somewhere in there, a young Arthur Cobblepot is trying and failing to learn how to ski.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 09:32 AM (VoAdT)

8 George Bellows.

Mrs. Bellows: He certainly does.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2025 09:33 AM (Wnv9h)

9 Maybe if I could skate.

Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2025 09:33 AM (Yj6Os)

10 Fake! I don't see anyone's breath!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 28, 2025 09:33 AM (JCZqz)

11 I'm more familiar with Bellows' boxing pictures. This is kind of nice.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 28, 2025 09:33 AM (WPL6O)

12 4 Faceless people!
Posted by: dantesed at February 28, 2025 09:32 AM (Oy/m2)

"They made fun of me!"

- Charlie X

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 28, 2025 09:33 AM (LxER7)

13 A faceless in the crowd.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 28, 2025 09:34 AM (GTqXr)

14 Test

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 28, 2025 09:34 AM (2IdhW)

15 Charming!
Can't imagine sledding in Victorian era clothes, though. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 09:34 AM (Cki93)

16 Thanks CBD, an excellent choice (and a great museum if you get to Chicago). I don't recall ever seeing this in person but I bet it would be fun to hang at home.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 09:34 AM (JhljX)

17 I don’t mind the blurring of the people and landscape in the background but the artist should have attempted a little more detail and bolder colors for the people in the immediate foreground.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 09:35 AM (VofaG)

18 Nice painting. Love the sense of movement of the people on the ice.

Posted by: Tuna at February 28, 2025 09:35 AM (lJ0H4)

19 How fun!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 09:35 AM (SfhV1)

20 That should saw “winter in Vermont “ and have a 1954 calendar beneath it.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 28, 2025 09:35 AM (2IdhW)

21 My eyeballs seem to have frosted over. Their faces have no features.

Posted by: huerfano at February 28, 2025 09:36 AM (n2swS)

22 checkin' in

Posted by: DanMan at February 28, 2025 09:36 AM (8uzBS)

23 Alternate title:

"The Citizens of Moose Tooth, Canada See the All-Time Record for Group Suicide When They Skate Out on the Thin Ice of Lake Cikkichikkibobikki"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2025 09:36 AM (iJfKG)

24 Nah

Meh

Posted by: Don Black at February 28, 2025 09:36 AM (AOsQT)

25 Imagine dressing up to go play in the snow.

Posted by: eleven at February 28, 2025 09:36 AM (0HaGk)

26 My eyeballs seem to have frosted over. Their faces have no features.

Posted by: huerfano

Your eyes are fine, it's too cold out and their faces froze off.

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at February 28, 2025 09:37 AM (OUMaO)

27 Cheerful.

Thanks.

Posted by: Stateless...45% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 28, 2025 09:37 AM (jvJvP)

28 Where's the ice fishing?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 09:37 AM (SfhV1)

29 *sighs*

see = set

Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2025 09:37 AM (iJfKG)

30 Kind of has an upstate NY vibe to it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 09:37 AM (VoAdT)

31 They're pining for the F150s.

Posted by: The Ford Motor Company at February 28, 2025 09:38 AM (dg+HA)

32 I foresee a big pile of bodies when the two boys playing crack the whip get a longer line going. Like bowling pins.

Posted by: huerfano at February 28, 2025 09:38 AM (n2swS)

33 Kind of has an upstate NY vibe to it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 09:37 AM (VoAdT)

You can tell it's not Wisconsin. No Packers jackets.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 09:38 AM (SfhV1)

34 This is dedicated to the woman in yellow:

At the ice festival Old Lady West
Took offense at an innocent jest
When she gave me a slap
I replied, "Holy crap,
All I said was, you have an ice chest!"

Posted by: muldoon at February 28, 2025 09:39 AM (/iMjX)

35 I’m glad *somebody * likes winter.

Posted by: kallisto at February 28, 2025 09:39 AM (PqNKV)

36 You can tell it's not Wisconsin. No Packers jackets.
Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 09:38 AM (SfhV1)

No lit charcoal grill and a guy in shorts tending it, either.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 09:39 AM (VoAdT)

37 I guess a lot of people don't realize, in order to have snow on the ground, it has to be below 32 degrees.

And 32 degrees is f'n cold!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 09:39 AM (vHL8T)

38 looks fun

Posted by: brak at February 28, 2025 09:39 AM (jGJov)

39 King Harv ad has the shark from one of Winslow Homer’s paintings.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 09:39 AM (VofaG)

40 Is George Bellows kin to Dr. and Amanda Bellows of Cocoa Beach?

Posted by: Dream On at February 28, 2025 09:40 AM (G5+As)

41 Art Institute of Chicago

Artist
George Wesley Bellows
Title
Love of Winter
Place
New York (Object made in

Date
1914
Medium
Oil on canvas
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: "Geo Bellows"
Dimensions
81.6 × 101.6 cm (32 1/2 × 40 1/2 in.)

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 09:41 AM (gbOdA)

42 No lit charcoal grill and a guy in shorts tending it, either.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 09:39 AM (VoAdT)

This is a true statement.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 09:41 AM (SfhV1)

43 Lovely art. Would hang. No sniper. Lotsa trees.
Now, can we get to 100?
I have something Off Topic!

Posted by: RI Red at February 28, 2025 09:41 AM (xpM9w)

44 That should saw “winter in Vermont “ and have a 1954 calendar beneath it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 28

We won't have any more winter in Vermont if Trumt and Elonazi ceeps making war on the climate!;!

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at February 28, 2025 09:41 AM (y9ksN)

45 Old Lady West should be flattered.

Posted by: All things considered at February 28, 2025 09:41 AM (dg+HA)

46 I’m wondering if the colors of the attire are true to life, or did the artist select those hues for effect?

That chartreuse of the woman who is almost dead center…was that color in style in 1912 ?

Posted by: kallisto at February 28, 2025 09:42 AM (PqNKV)

47 I am tired of winter, happened about Dec 22

Posted by: Skip at February 28, 2025 09:42 AM (H0TjY)

48 Alternate title:

"In the Land of the Faceless, The Lady With a Face is Queen!!!...Well, Mostly She Just Runs the PTA Bake Sale"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2025 09:42 AM (iJfKG)

49 From Art Institute of Chicago

In January 1914 George Bellows wrote to a friend, “There has been none of my favorite snow. I must always paint the snow at least once a year.” Soon after, on February 13, a major blizzard hit New York City, inspiring the artist to paint Love of Winter. He used bright reds, yellows, and greens to intensify the winter scene and broad, slashing brushstrokes to convey movement, wind, and speed. The energetic group of skaters and onlookers, composed of people of a range of ages and social classes, reflects the diverse populations who enjoyed the public parks and the leisure activities they offered in early 20th-century New York City.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 09:42 AM (gbOdA)

50 This would be really fun in my little ski cabin in the mountains that I haven't bought yet.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 28, 2025 09:42 AM (vHN7R)

51 One loses their love of winter as one gets older.
I had it, but its gone, gone, gone.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 28, 2025 09:42 AM (n4GiU)

52 !;!
Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein of Brattleboro, VT at February 28, 2025 09:41 AM (y9ksN)

Congratulations, Mary. You just invented a punctuation mark.

"The Retardobang."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 09:42 AM (VoAdT)

53 I am no fan of winter mainly because I hate being cold. The colors in this painting, however, give the scene some life and warmth. I like the repetition of red and orange, especially in the two figures center front. They counter the cold blue and white landscape.

Posted by: Kris at February 28, 2025 09:43 AM (EwaUh)

54 Now, can we get to 100?
I have something Off Topic!

Posted by: RI Red at February 28, 2025 09:41 AM (xpM9w)

For today only I think we should try a 1,000 comment rule!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 09:43 AM (mWSu4)

55 Winter blows.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 09:44 AM (/tzYP)

56 POC's are woefully underrepresented in this art work. Please remedy this by presenting a painting of the Ganges with half-burned bodies floating in it next week. Thanks.

Posted by: Dept. of Compliance at February 28, 2025 09:44 AM (G5+As)

57 I like the colors. Usually winter is depicted as bleak, and I understand why... being cold is dreary. But the cheerfulness of this with the bright overcoats and splotches of color in the trees, snow, and mountains remind me of when I was a kid. Back when it was fun to bundle up and play in the snow.

Posted by: She Hobbit at February 28, 2025 09:44 AM (ftFVW)

58 Whoopsie!

2 years off

The fashion was def pre WW1, I took a stab at the date. Although, he could have painted it in 1912 and not shown it until 2 years later

Posted by: kallisto at February 28, 2025 09:45 AM (jt5ZU)

59 Nurse, this exactly what it looks like from my little ski cabin in the mountains. Except for the people.

Posted by: RI Red at February 28, 2025 09:45 AM (xpM9w)

60 People on the ice must all be Journalists. They're all left-leaning.

Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the veal.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 28, 2025 09:45 AM (PiwSw)

61 Imagine if you were one of a race of men who had no face, and you lived all your life never seeing a face or even knowing what a "face" is, and then one day some dude with all these gross wet protuberances and a gross hinged hole in their fronthead rocks up and acts like *you're* the weirdo.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 09:45 AM (VoAdT)

62 10-day forecast here is devoid of winter. This is how I know the 10-day forecast is full of crap.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 09:45 AM (SfhV1)

63 Are those people in the crowd skating ? If so that mass will fall through the ice.
Oddly painted people. Would hang in the winter only. Thx CBD

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 09:45 AM (EG7Bp)

64 Chilly. Hard pass.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2025 09:46 AM (Q4IgG)

65 >>"The Retardobang."

*spits coffee on screen*

Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 09:47 AM (Cki93)

66 CBD, playing with my emotions again.

Posted by: RI Red at February 28, 2025 09:47 AM (xpM9w)

67 Alternate Title:

"Meanwhile in Texas, People are Swimming, Fishing, Drinking Margaritas and Beer, BBQing, Water Skiing and in General Laughing at These Here Yankee SnowBillies"

Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2025 09:47 AM (iJfKG)

68 Yeah, winter has killed off what little affection I had left for the season. I'm tired of waking up in the cold and dark every morning. Just another 15-20 years until I can retire somewhere warmer.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 28, 2025 09:47 AM (y9ksN)

69 When painting snow , pure white is rarely used. It usually has some tint of blue because of the way light is absorbed .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 09:47 AM (VofaG)

70 59 Nurse, this exactly what it looks like from my little ski cabin in the mountains. Except for the people.
Posted by: RI Red at February

Red, that's pretty awesome. I hope you get up there and enjoy it often. The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

I love winter. The storms out on the coast can be terrifying.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 28, 2025 09:48 AM (vHN7R)

71 Morning, art loveurs,

Love of Winter? That woujld only appear among people who can hide from the worst of it. As Richard Adams said in Watership Down, many people say they love winter; but what they love is feeling proof, i.e., secure, against it. I love it myself -- after ten months of summer in this pesthole, almost any change is welcome -- but I would not want to live in a cardboard box under an overpass even in warm weather, let alone cold.

That said: This is a colorful painting, with the red and yellow coats, and the three little girls' blonde hair, blazing against the white. The people in the background, out skating on a frozen pond, I presume, look rather like penguins leaning forward.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 09:48 AM (J2vNu)

72 55 Winter blows.

+++

Like a bellows.

Posted by: Get it? at February 28, 2025 09:48 AM (dg+HA)

73 63 Are those people in the crowd skating ? If so that mass will fall through the ice.
Oddly painted people. Would hang in the winter only. Thx CBD
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 09:45 AM (EG7Bp)

What was that old ditty about ice thickness?

1 inch - stay away
2 inches - one may
3 inches - small group
4 inches - okay

Something like that. And yes, I know I'm leaving it out over the plate.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 28, 2025 09:48 AM (LxER7)

74 This makes me want to lodge with my fleas in the hills.

Posted by: Bumpkin (Country) at February 28, 2025 09:49 AM (G5+As)

75 >69 When painting snow , pure white is rarely used. It usually has some tint of blue because of the way light is absorbed .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 09:47 AM (VofaG)

This may be true, but still don't eat the yellow snow.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 28, 2025 09:49 AM (GTqXr)

76 Imagine if you were one of a race of men who had no face, and you lived all your life never seeing a face or even knowing what a "face" is, and then one day some dude with all these gross wet protuberances and a gross hinged hole in their fronthead rocks up and acts like *you're* the weirdo.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 09:45 AM (VoAdT)

You watched the the Twilight Zone pig face episode again didn’t you.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 09:50 AM (VofaG)

77 I see four face people. Purple and black coat ladies on the right. Yellow coat lady in the center. Hatted man photobombing from behind yellow coat's bum.

Posted by: She Hobbit at February 28, 2025 09:50 AM (ftFVW)

78 Sitting in the snow, trying to tighten the skate laces while your hands are freezing and your friend is hitting on the girl you wanted to be hitting on.
Good times, good times.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 28, 2025 09:50 AM (n4GiU)

79 Something like that. And yes, I know I'm leaving it out over the plate.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 28, 2025 09:48 AM (LxER7)

It is, how you say, not very far out over this plate of yours.

Posted by: The Paolo at February 28, 2025 09:50 AM (VoAdT)

80 68 Yeah, winter has killed off what little affection I had left for the season. I'm tired of waking up in the cold and dark every morning. Just another 15-20 years until I can retire somewhere warmer.
Posted by: Josephistan at February 28, 2025 09:47 AM (y9ksN)

Same.

Posted by: Kris at February 28, 2025 09:50 AM (EwaUh)

81 Can't imagine sledding in Victorian era clothes, though. . .
Posted by: Lizzy at February 28, 2025 09:34 AM

I can. Awkward, and very quickly wet, cold, heavy and uncomfortable.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2025 09:50 AM (Wnv9h)

82 This may be true, but still don't eat the yellow snow.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 28, 2025 09:49 AM (GTqXr)

We had snow on the ground here for a couple weeks. After my dog got done with it, the back yard was practically polka-dot.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 28, 2025 09:51 AM (LxER7)

83 "In the Land of the Faceless, The Lady With a Face is Queen!!!...
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Like the Twilight Zone episode where hideously-deformed Mongoloid features are the standard of beauty and e.g. Ann-Margret would be the ugly one!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 09:52 AM (/tzYP)

84 At first glance I though it was penguins on the lake. Colored ones, but penguins.

Posted by: Javems at February 28, 2025 09:52 AM (8I4hW)

85 You watched the the Twilight Zone pig face episode again didn’t you.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 09:50 AM (VofaG)

"Which one is that?"

"They're all like that."

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld Reference at February 28, 2025 09:52 AM (VoAdT)

86 Just another 15-20 years until I can retire somewhere warmer.
Posted by: Josephistan

A great deal of evidence points to 2033 being the end of the world.

Posted by: Get Out Now! at February 28, 2025 09:52 AM (G5+As)

87 Jeepers. Why do y'all live in a place you hate? Life is far too short to not love where you live.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 28, 2025 09:52 AM (vHN7R)

88 Bellows, it seems, was an Ohio boy who went to New York City. He was born in 1882 and died pretty young in NY in 1925. He overlapped, then, with Georgia O'Keeffe and the writers of the Algonquin Round Table crowd.

I think we've had his Men of the Docks here before?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 09:53 AM (J2vNu)

89 Yeah, winter has killed off what little affection I had left for the season. I'm tired of waking up in the cold and dark every morning. Just another 15-20 years until I can retire somewhere warmer.
Posted by: Josephistan at February 28, 2025 09:47 AM (y9ksN)

Same.
Posted by: Kris

I'm in supposedly "too hot" Texas and we were in single digits last week. Any further south and I'd be bragging about Salt Life.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 09:53 AM (vHL8T)

90 59 Nurse, this exactly what it looks like from my little ski cabin in the mountains. Except for the people.
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And they look like tiny ants from it??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 09:53 AM (/tzYP)

91 I don't see any kids building a snowman. That's odd.

Posted by: dantesed at February 28, 2025 09:53 AM (Oy/m2)

92 That group of people in the background looks like a horde of penguins charging into the breach...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2025 09:53 AM (7fElN)

93 Faceless people!
Posted by: dantesed

*********

The Hanson Brothers - a limerick

There was a hockey player named Horner
Had a fight with an ornery foreigner
'Twas a vicious, cross, Czech
Our hero hit the deck
...and there was a face off in the corner

Posted by: muldoon at February 28, 2025 09:53 AM (/iMjX)

94 >Good times, good times.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 28, 2025 09:50 AM (n4GiU)

In my yute, there was a pond in the coal strippings. Us lads couldn't wait for the ice to be thick enough for skating - usually mid-December. We'd spend Saturday afternoons playing hockey and warming up by the ever present fire. Good times indeed.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 28, 2025 09:54 AM (GTqXr)

95 As a lover of winter. I would hang for sure! Wonder what the occasion was? St.Paul has had a winter carnival for over 100 years. Maybe an event like that?

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 09:54 AM (ewjUl)

96 Looks like a mash-up of Kinkade and Seurat.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 28, 2025 09:54 AM (Py1md)

97 Jeepers. Why do y'all live in a place you hate? Life is far too short to not love where you live.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 28, 2025 09:52 AM (vHN7R)

It’s only bad five months out of the year. The other seven, it’s alright.

And the winter makes us appreciate the summer all the more.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 28, 2025 09:54 AM (l3YAf)

98 Just another 15-20 years until I can retire somewhere warmer.

Posted by: Josephistan

Just stay where you're at...by that time you'll have palms and beaches...according to some.

Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2025 09:55 AM (Yj6Os)

99 Like the Twilight Zone episode where hideously-deformed Mongoloid features are the standard of beauty and e.g. Ann-Margret would be the ugly one!
Posted by: andycanuck

Marilyn Munster has entered the chat.

Posted by: 1313 Mockingbird Lane at February 28, 2025 09:55 AM (G5+As)

100 Chilly. Hard pass.
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So, don't carrot for it??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 09:55 AM (/tzYP)

101 The famous impressionist artists have some very good winter paintings.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 09:55 AM (VofaG)

102 It’s only bad five months out of the year. The other seven, it’s alright.

I spend 6 months out of the year waiting for the other 6 months.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 09:56 AM (SfhV1)

103 Lol. I have Tim Dillon on in the background while I work. He's interviewing Steve Bannon. It's crazy. It's like watching an old man's younger self interview him on a podcast. They look that similar.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at February 28, 2025 09:56 AM (BI5O2)

104 85 You watched the the Twilight Zone pig face episode again didn’t you.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

Pigman?

https://youtu.be/ALpcxliWLeI

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at February 28, 2025 09:56 AM (dg+HA)

105 OK!
Main page. Check out top billing on the Bloggers in Arms!

Posted by: RI Red at February 28, 2025 09:56 AM (xpM9w)

106 91 I don't see any kids building a snowman. That's odd.
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It's not 'packing snow'.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 09:57 AM (/tzYP)

107 Last time I saw anything like this was when some new across the street neighbors from cambodia, or somewhere around there, saw their first snowfall, and it was a good one. Kids and the adults were screaming, diving in the snow, rolling in it, throwing it, etc. I sat there thinking, just wait, it's going to get old.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 28, 2025 09:57 AM (VwHCD)

108 106 91 I don't see any kids building a snowman. That's odd.
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It's not 'packing snow'.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 09:57 AM (/tzYP)

========

Let it go. They just wanna build a snowman.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 09:57 AM (GBKbO)

109 Saw a guy on Antique Roadshow with a Bellows boxing painting, garage sale find. Worth six figures. He got if for the price of the frame.

Posted by: Javems at February 28, 2025 09:58 AM (8I4hW)

110 A great deal of evidence points to 2033 being the end of the world.
Posted by: Get Out Now!

I watched "An Inconvenient Truth". I'm pretty sure we all died a decade ago.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at February 28, 2025 09:58 AM (JCZqz)

111 Jeepers. Why do y'all live in a place you hate? Life is far too short to not love where you live.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 28, 2025

***
As with a lot of things in life, Nurse, for me it has come down to "I have a job here and can't find one where I want to live."

Once I retire, though, I'm moving full speed on the hunt for a new venue for my life.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 09:58 AM (J2vNu)

112 I would cross the Rhinecliff bridge over the Hudson everyday during the winter and look at the ice flows to measure time before I could quit being miserable .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 09:58 AM (VofaG)

113 I like it. A time when people dressed well.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2025 09:58 AM (pLaQB)

114 OK!
Main page. Check out top billing on the Bloggers in Arms!

Posted by: RI Red at February 28, 2025 09:56 AM (xpM9w)

Congratulations!

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 09:58 AM (SfhV1)

115 "Which one is that?"
"They're all like that."
Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld Reference at February 28, 2025 09:52 AM (VoAdT)

The Old Man In The Cave

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 28, 2025 09:59 AM (EEZHI)

116 106 91 I don't see any kids building a snowman. That's odd.
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It's not 'packing snow'.
Posted by: andycanuck

If they get cold, they can come warm up at my place. I'll show them how to pack fudge!

Posted by: Sam Brinton at February 28, 2025 09:59 AM (JCZqz)

117 Reports are that SDNY NYC FBI office missed the 8 AM deadline to produce the documents. Send in the Federal Marshals

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 10:00 AM (EG7Bp)

118 Last time I saw anything like this was when some new across the street neighbors from Cambodia, or somewhere around there, saw their first snowfall, and it was a good one.
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I've seen that with Aussies too at a bar/social club here, although not rolling in it.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 10:00 AM (/tzYP)

119 I'd like to give a shout out to the artist...

Posted by: muldoon at February 28, 2025 10:00 AM (/iMjX)

120 Here in coastal NC, we had 14" of snow last Wednesday and sustained cold for 5 days. Yesterday hit 73 or so and as I was feeding my kitties on the back step, mosquitoes were harassing us.

Posted by: It's Always Something at February 28, 2025 10:00 AM (G5+As)

121 I actually embrace winter. I think you have to if you live here. I love playing hockey (even at my old age of 29) I ice fish. I winter camp in the BWCA while ice fishing. Snowshoe etc. The solitude is glorious. Then sitting in me cozy cabin with a roaring fire and a book is heaven to me. Everything is quieter in the winter. It doesn't mean I don't enjoy summer or fall. I do! But winter is special if you learn to embrace it than endure it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:01 AM (ewjUl)

122 >If they get cold, they can come warm up at my place. I'll show them how to pack fudge!

Posted by: Sam Brinton at February 28, 2025 09:59 AM (JCZqz)

Step off! I'm working this corner!

Posted by: Mayor Pete! at February 28, 2025 10:01 AM (GTqXr)

123 And they look like tiny ants from it??
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 09:53 AM (/tzYP)

Nope, Andy. They look like . . . They are not there!
And, Nurse, not only do we spend a lot of time here, we live here!
Retired to our tiny cabin and made it into a larger one.
And I love the winter. By February I’m completely acclimated. But no shorts.

Posted by: RI Red at February 28, 2025 10:01 AM (xpM9w)

124 Appropos of nothing, if you’ve ever had to melt snow for drinking water, it requires ginormous quantities of snow, time, and fuel to get a meager amount. It helps to have a little bit of water in the pan to start, or you’ll “burn the snow”; the pan actually will warp and bend and make strange noises in protest. Also, even clean snow has a surprising amount of dirt or debris in it.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 10:01 AM (B4klT)

125 " Reports are that SDNY NYC FBI office missed the 8 AM deadline to produce the documents. Send in the Federal Marshals"

OK Bondi, you have been publicly humiliated by both sides now.

What are you going to do??

Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2025 10:01 AM (QB+5g)

126 I like my 4 seasons. Jersey sucks, but it has 4 nice evenly spaced seasons, so as soon as you start getting tired of one, another starts coming in. The average winter temp is in the 30's, and the bugs are dead.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 28, 2025 10:03 AM (VwHCD)

127 Appropos of nothing, if you’ve ever had to melt snow for drinking water, it requires ginormous quantities of snow, time, and fuel to get a meager amount. It helps to have a little bit of water in the pan to start, or you’ll “burn the snow”; the pan actually will warp and bend and make strange noises in protest. Also, even clean snow has a surprising amount of dirt or debris in it.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 10:01 AM

When I winter camp, as I am next week. I use a coffee filter after I boil it to get rid of any pine needles or other debris.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:03 AM (ewjUl)

128 As with a lot of things in life, Nurse, for me it has come down to "I have a job here and can't find one where I want to live."

Once I retire, though, I'm moving full speed on the hunt for a new venue for my life.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

This. And after 35 years with the same company, I'm not losing six weeks of paid vacation. Among the other bennies.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 10:03 AM (vHL8T)

129 125 " Reports are that SDNY NYC FBI office missed the 8 AM deadline to produce the documents. Send in the Federal Marshals"

OK Bondi, you have been publicly humiliated by both sides now.

What are you going to do??
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She's already done what was asked of her. We now know where the rot is. Not surprisingly, its in Manhattan. It likely occurs there due to its Federal Courts - aka SoDiNY. Its a pirate town!

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2025 10:03 AM (pLaQB)

130 OK Bondi, you have been publicly humiliated by both sides now.

What are you going to do??
Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2025 10:01 AM (QB+5g)

Sternly-worded Tweet.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 28, 2025 10:04 AM (l3YAf)

131 The lady at center with the yellow outfit looks underdressed for the weather.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 10:04 AM (J2vNu)

132 Reports are that SDNY NYC FBI office missed the 8 AM deadline to produce the documents. Send in the Federal Marshals"

OK Bondi, you have been publicly humiliated by both sides now.

What are you going to do??
Posted by: pawn

Send in Marshals with a huge box of handcuffs.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 10:05 AM (vHL8T)

133 ...a cross Czech.

Heh! I crack myself up.

Posted by: muldoon at February 28, 2025 10:05 AM (/iMjX)

134 125 " Reports are that SDNY NYC FBI office missed the 8 AM deadline to produce the documents. Send in the Federal Marshals"

OK Bondi, you have been publicly humiliated by both sides now.

What are you going to do??
----------------------------------------

It's go time ... we either have a republic or we don't. I dont even care about the files at this point. She needs to start at the top there in the SDNY FBI and just work her way down until she gets what she ordered ...

Posted by: Wardo at February 28, 2025 10:05 AM (SqPlq)

135 Thanks, Grammie. It’s my idle pastime now.
Working on Part 3 of the Ruger 10-22 story. And choosing the next Kat Nap.

Posted by: RI Red at February 28, 2025 10:05 AM (xpM9w)

136 The lady at center with the yellow outfit looks underdressed for the weather.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 10:04 AM

Menopause?

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:05 AM (ewjUl)

137 Every snowflake has a single bacterium in the center of it.

I know. I checked.

Every single one. Since ever.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 10:05 AM (VoAdT)

138 I'd like to give a shout out to the artist...

Posted by: muldoon at February 28, 2025 10:00 AM (/iMjX)

That's a bit bellow your usual high standard.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 10:06 AM (mWSu4)

139 So we have reached the reality of How Many Divisions does SoDiNY have.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2025 10:06 AM (pLaQB)

140 As with a lot of things in life, Nurse, for me it has come down to "I have a job here and can't find one where I want to live."

Once I retire, though, I'm moving full speed on the hunt for a new venue for my life.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
This. And after 35 years with the same company, I'm not losing six weeks of paid vacation. Among the other bennies.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025

***
Same here -- 22 years, closing in on 23. I have considerable vacation time banked and will use it as my relocation money.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 10:06 AM (J2vNu)

141 BTW. Snowshoe rabbit hunting in the winter while wearing snowshoes yourself in a quiet still forest is amazing. The quiet is hard to describe. But it's an amazing feeling.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:07 AM (ewjUl)

142 Responsibilities keep most people where they are. I’ve been responsible for no one ( regrettably ) so I’ve been able to move when I get the itch. I think though I’m now in my forever home.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 10:07 AM (VofaG)

143 California Judge Finds Mass-Firings Of Probationary Federal Employees Likely Unlawful

[The judge] took a moment to share his appreciation for probationary employees, calling them “the lifeblood of our government.”

They come in at low levels and work their way up, he said. They’re the bright minds that come out of college and the way we renew ourselves.

They want to contribute to our country, he added, and when we terminate probationary employees, it hurts the mission of their agencies.

***

This is just politicking. This has nothing to do with the law, which is the judge’s supposed job.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 28, 2025 10:08 AM (l3YAf)

144 Where ees taco truck ... ?

Posted by: Dr_No at February 28, 2025 10:08 AM (ayRl+)

145
There used to be an outdoor ice rink and warming house behind Sherman Gymnasium and pool at my school, Michigan Tech. It was great fun to round up a half dozen guys (the school was nearly 9:1 male:female at the time), strap on our skates and go out to play a pickup ice hockey game in the late evening to overnight hours. That is one of my favorite memories of the place.

After I had gone, they doubled the size of the building and made it a performing arts center, so bye-bye ice rink. Then, to add insult to injury, they set up three broom ball ice sheets on the other side of the same building. There are no skates worn to play broom ball, and the rinks are smaller. All in all, that's quite a letdown from how things used to be.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 28, 2025 10:08 AM (xG4kz)

146 Winter...

It had been 10 years since we had what my late mother would have called; "a proper winter." Lots of snow, bitterly cold temperatures and hardly any sun for weeks on end. Our heating (propane) bill and usage was way up compared to previous years. Same for electric. All to keep warm.

On the plus side, we made soup by the gallons.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2025 10:09 AM (Q4IgG)

147 The lady at center with the yellow outfit looks underdressed for the weather.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 10:04 AM

Menopause?
Posted by: Minnfidel

What are we pausing for?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 10:09 AM (vHL8T)

148 I hope that the Admin is willing to go to using physical force to secure these documents because it looks like that is what it is going to take.

Trump need to show that his bite is real.

Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2025 10:09 AM (QB+5g)

149 I'm pretty much stuck here. With a business. Ageing parents to take care of. Once grandkids come along my wife will never move. So I embrace it. Life's too short to bitch about winter. We are thinking about doing like a month each year in FL at some point.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:09 AM (ewjUl)

150 Minnfidel, what campstove do you prefer? Lots of people like the MSR series. I always wanted to like it, but it is a rube goldberg contraption. Mainly though - the “plate burner” design is noisy. I’d be ready to strangle someone if I had to listen to that thing for more than a few minutes.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 10:09 AM (B4klT)

151 It helps to have a little bit of water in the pan to start, or you’ll “burn the snow”; the pan actually will warp and bend and make strange noises in protest.

This also applies to people!

Posted by: Perillos of Athens at February 28, 2025 10:09 AM (JCZqz)

152 BTW. Snowshoe rabbit hunting in the winter while wearing snowshoes yourself in a quiet still forest is amazing. The quiet is hard to describe. But it's an amazing feeling.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:07 AM

I used to love getting out in the woods on XC skis in the woods around Ft. Drum. Very quiet. Beavers. Grouse. Great way to spend a Saturday morning.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2025 10:09 AM (kgE5c)

153 Winter is my favorite season.. Summer my least...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 28, 2025 10:10 AM (VE6XX)

154 It's go time ... we either have a republic or we don't. I dont even care about the files at this point. She needs to start at the top there in the SDNY FBI and just work her way down until she gets what she ordered ...
Posted by: Wardo at February 28, 2025 10:05 AM (SqPlq)

The funny part is that it really has nothing to do with the form of government, republican or otherwise. This would be the same basic problem in any conceivable form of state (outside of pure anarcho-capitalism where there are no chains of command to even speak of).

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 10:10 AM (VoAdT)

155 OK!
Main page. Check out top billing on the Bloggers in Arms!

Posted by: RI Red at February 28, 2025 09:56 AM (xpM9w)

...

...oh.

I thought maybe you wanted to sell all of your leftover boxes of Trefoils fro your Girl Scout Cookies Sale at a 26% Discount.

Hmmphff.

Well, congrats.... I guess.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2025 10:10 AM (iJfKG)

156 The quiet is hard to describe. But it's an amazing feeling.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:07 AM (ewjUl)

Concur, Minnfidel. I was out last week and stopped many times to listen to the no noise.

Posted by: RI Red at February 28, 2025 10:10 AM (xpM9w)

157
Menopause?
Posted by: Minnfidel

What are we pausing for?
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 10:09 AM

Men. Trust me, I found out.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:10 AM (ewjUl)

158 Is Bondi effective?

So far I'm seeing a tendency to message too far in advance of the situation. Publicly announcing an 8 am deadline puts her reputation at risk. Remember, this is a first impression thing which is very difficult to overcome when it's a bad one.

Rule of thumb - just like lawyers don't ask questions until they know the answer in advance, don't announce things before you know what they are, and definitely don't announce things that are still dependent on the actions of another entity.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 28, 2025 10:10 AM (PzXaK)

159 >>Minnfidel, what campstove do you prefer?

442

There can be no other.

Posted by: garrett at February 28, 2025 10:11 AM (oa1NA)

160 Concur, Minnfidel. I was out last week and stopped many times to listen to the no noise.
Posted by: RI Red at February 28, 2025 10:10 AM

It's amazing isn't it? It's indescribable to someone who's never experienced it.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:11 AM (ewjUl)

161 I wonder if the SDNY FBI is doing this deliberately in order to provoke a reaction involving frogmarching agents in handcuffs. What this would accomplish eludes me, though. Bad publicity? Seems like that's not going to work out the way they think it will.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 10:11 AM (xCA6C)

162 141 BTW. Snowshoe rabbit hunting in the winter while wearing snowshoes yourself in a quiet still forest is amazing. The quiet is hard to describe. But it's an amazing feeling.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Rabbit starvation is real!!!

Posted by: Donner Party at February 28, 2025 10:12 AM (JCZqz)

163 Bondi needs to get on the phone with Patel.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 10:12 AM (VofaG)

164 161 I wonder if the SDNY FBI is doing this deliberately in order to provoke a reaction involving frogmarching agents in handcuffs

Last time I looked Patel was in charge of the FBI

Posted by: It's me donna at February 28, 2025 10:12 AM (VE6XX)

165 >>[The judge] took a moment to share his appreciation for probationary employees, calling them “the lifeblood of our government.”

They come in at low levels and work their way up, he said. They’re the bright minds that come out of college and the way we renew ourselves.

>They want to contribute to our country, he added, and when we terminate probationary employees, it hurts the mission of their agencies.

So. Write them a Poem.

But so far, there's nothing Lawful about your order, sir.

Posted by: garrett at February 28, 2025 10:12 AM (oa1NA)

166 thought maybe you wanted to sell all of your leftover boxes of Trefoils fro your Girl Scout Cookies Sale at a 26% Discount.

Hmmphff.

Well, congrats.... I guess.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2025 10:10 AM (iJfKG)

Cold. Dead. Cookie-crumb-covered. Hands.

Posted by: RI Red at February 28, 2025 10:13 AM (xpM9w)

167 So Trump end runned everyone with the Ukraine Rare Earth deal.
Now as a business partner with US you have to decide are you for big tech, big growth, and more robust economies or do you hope it fails and the world is worse off.

Interesting choices.

Posted by: rhennigantx at February 28, 2025 10:13 AM (gbOdA)

168 They come in at low levels and work their way up, he said. They’re the bright minds that come out of college and the way we renew ourselves.

They want to contribute to our country, he added, and when we terminate probationary employees, it hurts the mission of their agencies.

***

This is just politicking. This has nothing to do with the law, which is the judge’s supposed job.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 28, 2025 10:08 AM

This judge is clearly a moron who doesn't realize that everyone who comes on board, from janitor to lawyer, is probationary for a period of time. Does this dolt think it means entry level? And I should listen to his opinion....why?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2025 10:13 AM (kgE5c)

169 Send in Marshals with a huge box of handcuffs.
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Go up there with Kash and begin firing people and promises of criminal prosecutions depending on what they're hiding.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 10:13 AM (/tzYP)

170 Minnfidel, what campstove do you prefer?

442

There can be no other.
Posted by: garrett at February 28, 2025 10:11 AM

For winter camping I have to keep things light as I haul stuff on my pulk. I use a Coleman single burner white gas stove. The smaller compact buytane ones for hiking don't owrk when it's cold out. Well, they do, but if it's cold, the gas doesn't vaporize well. It's like if you've ever used a lighter that's cold. No bueno.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:13 AM (ewjUl)

171 168 This judge is clearly a moron who doesn't realize that everyone who comes on board, from janitor to lawyer, is probationary for a period of time. Does this dolt think it means entry level? And I should listen to his opinion....why?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2025 10:13 AM (kgE5c)

======

shipwreckedcrew called the judge a long-term SF crank.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 10:13 AM (GBKbO)

172 Yes and firing a rifle in that bitter cold stillness is also quite an experience.

Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2025 10:13 AM (QB+5g)

173
>They want to contribute to our country, he added, and when we terminate probationary employees, it hurts the mission of their agencies.

Yeah, Well we don't want to contribute money to unnecessary employees..

Posted by: It's me donna at February 28, 2025 10:14 AM (VE6XX)

174 ...a cross Czech.

Heh! I crack myself up.
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5-minute penalty for high-schticking, Muldoon!

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 10:14 AM (/tzYP)

175 We'll hear that the dude responsible for getting the Epstein documents to Patel was taking some personal time off to recover from the shock of receiving the Musk email.

He'll get to it on Monday when the trauma has passed.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 28, 2025 10:14 AM (PzXaK)

176 169 Send in Marshals with a huge box of handcuffs.
--------
Go up there with Kash and begin firing people and promises of criminal prosecutions depending on what they're hiding.
Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 10:13 AM (/tzYP)

Yeah, this isn't some kind of "didn't hit your sales targets for the month" thing, this is people willfully withholding and possible tampering with evidence in a criminal matter...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 10:14 AM (VoAdT)

177 Elderly crank Democrat judge rules he is now President, according to CNBC.

“The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe, to hire and fire employees within another agency,” (Judge William) Alsup said Thursday night. “It can hire its own employees, yes. Can fire them. But it cannot order or direct some other agency to do so.”

“OPM has no authority to tell any agency in the United States government, other than itself, who they can hire and who they can fire, period. So on the merits, I think, we start with that important proposition,” he said.

Alsup called probationary employees “the lifeblood of our government.”

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 10:14 AM (AhYe1)

178 That's a bit bellow your usual high standard.
-------
But not a Hugh mistake.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 10:15 AM (/tzYP)

179 Ever since the “New Journalism” took over, news stories read like editorials.

“Willow stirs her saffron Tea with an air of practiced detachment, while gazing out the window with a wistful expression. ‘I mean, like, my feelings felt like they weren’t really feelings, you know? It is an existential crisis what they are doing.”

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 10:15 AM (B4klT)

180 Minnfidel, what campstove do you prefer? Lots of people like the MSR series. I always wanted to like it, but it is a rube goldberg contraption. Mainly though - the “plate burner” design is noisy. I’d be ready to strangle someone if I had to listen to that thing for more than a few minutes.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 10:09 AM

MSR ones are great for warmer temps. They suck ass below 50. Below 50 or so I use a Coleman white gas. Heavier and kind of a PITA. But I haven't had anything work better.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:15 AM (ewjUl)

181 Yes and firing a rifle in that bitter cold stillness is also quite an experience.
Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2025 10:13 AM

I just use my trusty ol' Ruger 10-22.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:16 AM (ewjUl)

182 Wakes up.
Scratches.
Looks around.
Dang. I swear I can hear Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye singing SNOW! SNOW! SNOW!
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 28, 2025 10:17 AM (W/lyH)

183 “The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe, to hire and fire employees within another agency,” (Judge William) Alsup said Thursday night. “It can hire its own employees, yes. Can fire them. But it cannot order or direct some other agency to do so.”

“OPM has no authority to tell any agency in the United States government, other than itself, who they can hire and who they can fire, period. So on the merits, I think, we start with that important proposition,” he said.

*raises hand*
Who is in ultimate charge of OPM and every other department?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 10:17 AM (xCA6C)

184 @167

>>So Trump end runned everyone with the Ukraine Rare Earth deal. Now as a business partner with US you have to decide are you for big tech, big growth, and more robust economies or do you hope it fails and the world is worse off.

The other issue is, now that we are in a reciprocal financial arrangement with Ukraine, the US is now has a financial stake in securing and defending what are now our resources in Ukraine.

Which means making peace and securing a better future for Ukranian's is in our interest, unless we become Reavers and just strip Ukraine of our assets and leave.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 28, 2025 10:17 AM (XV/Pl)

185 Flaming skull choices for the day:
Bondi shits the bed and is a failure
Holy Shit, FBI arrests FBI

Posted by: Ben Had at February 28, 2025 10:17 AM (mB6WH)

186 @177 , the great thing is now the individual agencies are going to start firing people. The judges decision got the Trump administration to do it right

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 10:17 AM (EG7Bp)

187 shipwreckedcrew called the judge a long-term SF crank.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 10:13 AM

Seems he isn't wrong.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2025 10:17 AM (kgE5c)

188 thought maybe you wanted to sell all of your leftover boxes of Trefoils fro your Girl Scout Cookies Sale at a 26% Discount.

Hmmphff.

Well, congrats.... I guess.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2025 10:10 AM (iJfKG)

Cold. Dead. Cookie-crumb-covered. Hands.
Posted by: RI Red at February 28, 2025 10:13 AM (xpM9w)

😀

Posted by: naturalfake at February 28, 2025 10:17 AM (iJfKG)

189 Stay out in the woods with a campstove?
No. My cabin is out in the woods. With a furnace and a fireplace.

Posted by: RI Red at February 28, 2025 10:18 AM (xpM9w)

190 Wolfus,

I'll eat my hat the day you move out of NO.

I hope you do, it's hard hating where you live, I'd imagine.

We have 43 and foggy on the water. The ferries are toot toot tooting across the Bay. I love it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 28, 2025 10:18 AM (g4m12)

191 *raises hand*
Who is in ultimate charge of OPM and every other department?
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 10:17 AM

It's literally a face palm statement by the "judge". That "judge" is brick fucking stupid apparently.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:18 AM (ewjUl)

192 Oops, I see commenters are already laughing at Elderly Crank Judge Who Think He Rules The Federal Government (that's his Indian name)

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 28, 2025 10:18 AM (AhYe1)

193 >>I use a Coleman white gas. Heavier and kind of a PITA. But I haven't had anything work better.

Worth every bit of the bulk. The best camping stoves ever made.
Never had an MSR owner not use mine when camping together. The MSR is just a hassle by comparison.

Posted by: garrett at February 28, 2025 10:19 AM (oa1NA)

194 Holy Shit, FBI arrests FBI
Posted by: Ben Had at February 28, 2025 10:17 AM (mB6WH)

Would a constable or marshal be the one to do the actual arresting? I have no idea.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 10:19 AM (VoAdT)

195 186 @177 , the great thing is now the individual agencies are going to start firing people. The judges decision got the Trump administration to do it right
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 10:17 AM (EG7Bp)

=======

The CFPB is laying off "nearly all" of its employees.

Right now.

1,700 people. Assume and average of $100,000 cost per employee (low-end, for sure). That's a savings of $170 million. Of course, funding for those employees came from fines from banks, not from Congressional appropriations. But still.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 10:19 AM (GBKbO)

196 It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

Bitches.

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at February 28, 2025 10:20 AM (hXQfZ)

197 I’m partial to the Coleman 400A “Peak 1” for cold weather use. (Brown tank) Possibly the hottest stove ever made. The generator has become unobtanium or at least damnably expensive, so if a replacement is ever needed it can be a problem.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 10:20 AM (B4klT)

198 28 Where's the ice fishing?

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 28, 2025 09:37 AM (SfhV1)

Just look around for where a group of lunatics have gathered.

Posted by: No Name Today at February 28, 2025 10:20 AM (vlXMQ)

199 192 Oops, I see commenters are already laughing at Elderly Crank Judge Who Think He Rules The Federal Government (that's his Indian name)
-----------
Why do you ask, One-Jurist Wanking??

Posted by: just the punchline at February 28, 2025 10:20 AM (/tzYP)

200 @183 Archimedes, the Trump administration is now having the individual agencies do the firing. The judge only ruled the OPM didn't have the power. Thx judgey

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 10:21 AM (EG7Bp)

201 Grew up in the north. Moved to the southwest 22 years ago. I still don't even like to see snow on television.

Posted by: Azjaeger at February 28, 2025 10:21 AM (HVwFM)

202
Worth every bit of the bulk. The best camping stoves ever made.
Never had an MSR owner not use mine when camping together. The MSR is just a hassle by comparison.
Posted by: garrett at February 28, 2025 10:19 AM

MSR's are great for backpacking when all you need to do is boil a few cups of water to make food. They are much lighter than the Coleman 1 burner. So they have their uses and it's nice not having to carry a cannister of white gas. It's all about weight when backpacking. But the Coleman is the shizzle in the cold. I have also tried alchohol stoves. Meh. They don't put out enough heat IMHO.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:21 AM (ewjUl)

203 Mornin', All. Late to the blog this morning due to a doctor's appointment.

I suppose the usual winter-haters have been trashing the art, but I like it a lot.

Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 10:21 AM (77rzZ)

204 Darn, have to leave on 8 hour road trip.
Be back in “a bit”.

Posted by: RI Red at February 28, 2025 10:22 AM (xpM9w)

205 200 @183 Archimedes, the Trump administration is now having the individual agencies do the firing. The judge only ruled the OPM didn't have the power. Thx judgey
Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 10:21 AM (EG7Bp)

=======

"You can't order the Secretary of the Treasury to lay off workers!"

"Okay. Sorry, OPM. I'm just gonna lay off these workers anyway."
-Secretary of the Treasury

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 10:22 AM (GBKbO)

206 @200

>>The judge only ruled the OPM didn't have the power. Thx judgey

Then why do we have an Office of Personnel And Management if they can't manage personnel?

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 28, 2025 10:22 AM (XV/Pl)

207 >> Of course, funding for those employees came from fines from banks, not from Congressional appropriations.

If a bank is fined, then it should mean that it did something that harmed someone. That means the fine should be distributed to those injured, not turned into a slush fund for Pocahontas.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 28, 2025 10:22 AM (l3YAf)

208 Elderly crank Democrat judge rules he is now President, according to CNBC.

“The Office of Personnel Management does not have any authority whatsoever under any statute in the history of the universe, to hire and fire employees within another agency,” (Judge William) Alsup said Thursday night. “It can hire its own employees, yes. Can fire them. But it cannot order or direct some other agency to do so.”

“OPM has no authority to tell any agency in the United States government, other than itself, who they can hire and who they can fire, period. So on the merits, I think, we start with that important proposition,” he said.

Alsup called probationary employees “the lifeblood of our government.”
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Last in, first out, probie. Always has been. Always will be.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 10:22 AM (vHL8T)

209 I hate Winter, but really like this painting. Such a sweet moment in time, when a whole community could come out and enjoy the uniqueness of the frozen pond and simple pleasure of gliding on the ice.

sigh

Posted by: red speck at February 28, 2025 10:22 AM (0Id0S)

210 207 If a bank is fined, then it should mean that it did something that harmed someone. That means the fine should be distributed to those injured, not turned into a slush fund for Pocahontas.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 28, 2025 10:22 AM (l3YAf)

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How else are you supposed to fund a completely independent federal agency without any Congressional oversight?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

211 We have 43 and foggy on the water. The ferries are toot toot tooting across the Bay. I love it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 28, 2025 10:18 AM

A nice sunny 45 here. Turning colder next week, though. I can't believe it's March tomorrow.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2025 10:23 AM (kgE5c)

212 Darn, have to leave on 8 hour road trip.
Be back in “a bit”.
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Driving 2 miles from your winter cabin to the grocery store and back??

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 10:23 AM (/tzYP)

213 #212 ... through the snow???

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 10:24 AM (/tzYP)

214 Ran across an interesting news item in regards to Ukraine - Zelensky's former chief adviser Oleksii Arestovych has been demanding elections for the last year or so and has said he would run against his former boss.

The new news is his platform would be to...arrest Zelensky for various crimes.

BTW, he and lil Z got on the outs when he admitted that a "missile attack on an apartment complex by Russia" was caused by a Uke defensive missile - this led to him not only being forced out of office but threatened with arrest. I guess I can see why this would be quite a wake up call...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:24 AM (t0Rmr)

215 Beautiful painting. Seeing a happy crowd not holding up binders full of blank pages like idiots is refreshing.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 28, 2025 10:24 AM (2ap+5)

216 Snowshoes, Andy, snowshoes.

Posted by: RI Red at February 28, 2025 10:24 AM (xpM9w)

217
The energy required to change a unit mass of a solid into the liquid state without a change in temperature is called its heat of fusion or enthalpy of fusion.

Heat of fusion can be expressed as either calories per gram or calories per mole. The heat of fusion of water is 80 calories per gram. The energy required to melt 1 gram of ice cube at 0 C to water at 0 C is 80 calories or 334 Joules.

Water's heat of vaporization (i.e., water to steam) is about 7x higher.

Neither of these changes of physical state occurs instantaneously. The material sits there are the melting temperature or vaporizing temperature until sufficient heat has been delivered to take it from its origin state to its new state.

Here endeth the thermodynamics lecture.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 28, 2025 10:25 AM (xG4kz)

218 Would a constable or marshal be the one to do the actual arresting? I have no idea.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 10:19 AM (VoAdT)

Citizen's Arrest! Citizen's Arrest!

Posted by: Gomer Pyle, Faggot at February 28, 2025 10:25 AM (EEZHI)

219 I used to filch the fuel sample from the black hawk in the morning to fuel an X-GK. Jp8 is Jet A is basically kerosene. Ran fine.

But the whole contraption is a mess of springs and packings and check balls, and a plastic pump is not a great idea. The fuel tube is impossible to empty completely so it smells and requires double bagging lest ye pack innards smell like fuel. I liked the idea of multi-fuel capability. They’ve had numerous recalls for safety or liability issues.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 10:25 AM (B4klT)

220 Last in, first out, probie. Always has been. Always will be.

True, bit it shouldn't be. I'd prefer a system where the deadwood can be fired first, and there's always lots of deadwood. As it is, they're throwing out lots of good, young, CHEAP employees.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 10:26 AM (xCA6C)

221 Beautiful painting. Seeing a happy crowd not holding up binders full of blank pages like idiots is refreshing.
Posted by: Oglebay at February 28, 2025 10:24 AM

And nobody is staring at their phones! They are, you know, interacting! Crazy shit!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:26 AM (ewjUl)

222 3 >>Colorful. No mosquitos. I'm more of a summer than a winter.

A few years back, I needed gas, but it was unbearably cold out -- like -20 windchill. I happened to find a station where the attendant pumped the gas. I thanked him and asked how he was holding up. Without missing a beat, he replied, "At least there's no mosquitoes."

Posted by: red speck at February 28, 2025 10:26 AM (0Id0S)

223 Also I see the detained Romanian presidential candidate has specifically asked for help from Trump. I suspect Vance's speech was step 1 but...I wonder if Trump will directly intervene?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:26 AM (t0Rmr)

224 The energy required to change a unit mass of a solid into the liquid state without a change in temperature is called its heat of fusion or enthalpy of fusion.

Heat of fusion can be expressed as either calories per gram or calories per mole. The heat of fusion of water is 80 calories per gram. The energy required to melt 1 gram of ice cube at 0 C to water at 0 C is 80 calories or 334 Joules.

Water's heat of vaporization (i.e., water to steam) is about 7x higher.

Neither of these changes of physical state occurs instantaneously. The material sits there are the melting temperature or vaporizing temperature until sufficient heat has been delivered to take it from its origin state to its new state.

Here endeth the thermodynamics lecture.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars

I'm not going to trust this until it's fact-checked by Bill Nye and Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

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

225 MSR's are great for backpacking when all you need to do is boil a few cups of water to make food. They are much lighter than the Coleman 1 burner. So they have their uses and it's nice not having to carry a cannister of white gas. It's all about weight when backpacking. But the Coleman is the shizzle in the cold. I have also tried alchohol stoves. Meh. They don't put out enough heat IMHO.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:21 AM

Yup. I like my Whisperlite for that use. Light, easy to use, boils water.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2025 10:27 AM (kgE5c)

226 The energy required to change a unit mass of a solid into the liquid state without a change in temperature is called its heat of fusion or enthalpy of fusion.

Heat of fusion can be expressed as either calories per gram or calories per mole. The heat of fusion of water is 80 calories per gram. The energy required to melt 1 gram of ice cube at 0 C to water at 0 C is 80 calories or 334 Joules.

STFU asshole, or we’re gonna pitch your sorry ass in a Crevasse!! Now git to boilin’

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 10:27 AM (B4klT)

227 I'm not going to trust this until it's fact-checked by Bill Nye and Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

Did you try asking what state that matter feels like today?

Posted by: Bill Nye at February 28, 2025 10:28 AM (t0Rmr)

228 Last in, first out, probie.
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I don't think so.

Posted by: sandra fluke at February 28, 2025 10:28 AM (/tzYP)

229 > Flaming skull choices for the day:
Bondi shits the bed and is a failure
Holy Shit, FBI arrests FBI
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Honestly, could go either way. Or both.

Bondi or her staff's move with the binders and influencers was cringe. Don't do cringe. She'll recover. Probably is pissed off... good.

Patel was blindsided. Not a good look either, but he'll recover. Probably pissed off too... good.

I'd personally like to have the confrontation with the rank and file, recalcitrant FBI personnel sooner rather than later and get that little issue out of the way.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2025 10:28 AM (Q4IgG)

230 All I smell is molasses.

Posted by: just the punchline at February 28, 2025 10:29 AM (/tzYP)

231 >> I'd prefer a system where the deadwood can be fired first, and there's always lots of deadwood.

Don’t worry, plenty of downsizing to go around. We’ll get to the deadwood soon enough.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 28, 2025 10:30 AM (l3YAf)

232 The energy required to change a unit mass of a solid into the liquid state without a change in temperature is called its heat of fusion or enthalpy of fusion.

Heat of fusion can be expressed as either calories per gram or calories per mole. The heat of fusion of water is 80 calories per gram. The energy required to melt 1 gram of ice cube at 0 C to water at 0 C is 80 calories or 334 Joules.

Water's heat of vaporization (i.e., water to steam) is about 7x higher.

Neither of these changes of physical state occurs instantaneously. The material sits there are the melting temperature or vaporizing temperature until sufficient heat has been delivered to take it from its origin state to its new state.

Here endeth the thermodynamics lecture.

*throws flag for failing to mention Fourier's Law of Thermal Diffusion

Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 10:30 AM (xCA6C)

233 All I smell is molasses.

What is Boston in the summer Alex?

Posted by: Some Jeopardy contestant at February 28, 2025 10:30 AM (t0Rmr)

234 You guys sound like OG backpackers.

There is a new variant, called “Ultralight”. An even deeper psychosis. I read a forum the other day, one enthusiast was pondering the weight of packing out wet teabags. Really. Too heavy.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 10:30 AM (B4klT)

235 229 I'd personally like to have the confrontation with the rank and file, recalcitrant FBI personnel sooner rather than later and get that little issue out of the way.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2025 10:28 AM (Q4IgG)

=======

"I was totally going to follow orders from the AG, but my supervisor told me not to. I was scared for my job. I'm a brave soldier who should be made head of the office."
-the lemming at the FBI, 99% probability

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 10:30 AM (GBKbO)

236 *throws flag for failing to mention Fourier's Law of Thermal Diffusion
Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 10:30 AM (xCA6C)

Heat diffuses. Absolute heat diffuses absolutely.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 10:30 AM (VoAdT)

237 You have to be born and raised in winter to love winter.

Posted by: Eromero at February 28, 2025 10:30 AM (LHPAg)

238 I think what happened yesterday may have been a ploy on Bondi's part, to prove to everybody, beyond a shadow of a doubt, just what shits the FBI and DOJ personnel are.

That's want I want to believe, anyway.

Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 10:31 AM (77rzZ)

239 234 You guys sound like OG backpackers.

There is a new variant, called “Ultralight”. An even deeper psychosis. I read a forum the other day, one enthusiast was pondering the weight of packing out wet teabags. Really. Too heavy.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 10:30 AM (B4klT)

Well then just lie down in a hole and wait and you can save a whole 150 to 200 odd pounds of pack-out weight.

nutjobs.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 10:32 AM (VoAdT)

240 I'd prefer a system where the deadwood can be fired first, and there's always lots of deadwood.

Deadwood in fedgov can be a little different from in the private sector though due to the fact many fedgov jobs are pointless and in some cases implement negative value.

An effective EPA regulator, for example, likely decreases our economy more then a lazy, ineffective one.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:32 AM (t0Rmr)

241 "Check balls" like a Scotsman's scrotum?

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 10:32 AM (/tzYP)

242 Mawdi Graw is rushing down up on us like a runaway train. Decades ago the locals started in calling the day before Fat Tuesday "Lundi Gras," i.e., "Fat Monday." This morning on the local Fox outlet I saw a chyron trumpeting "Samedi Gras." What's next, "Dimanche Gras"?

What's French for "Annual Insanity"?

(I have bittersweet memories connected with this weekend, so I both love and hate it.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 10:32 AM (J2vNu)

243 "Check balls" like a Scotsman's scrotum?

Pretty sure modern Scotsmen don't have them

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:32 AM (t0Rmr)

244 Veterans have preference in firing (as well as hiring) so this might be interesting for some. Their time in service counts in ways (seniority) that otherwise don’t. Little known codicil in the Faber College handbook

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 10:33 AM (B4klT)

245 WSJ: Trump to Sign Executive Order Making English Official U.S. Language

Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 10:33 AM (RHGPo)

246 "Obeying an unlawful order. You're fired."

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 10:33 AM (/tzYP)

247 All I smell is molasses.

What is Boston in the summer Alex?
Posted by: Some Jeopardy contestant at February 28, 2025 10:30 AM

A cromulent local reference.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 28, 2025 10:34 AM (Wnv9h)

248 You guys sound like OG backpackers.

There is a new variant, called “Ultralight”. An even deeper psychosis. I read a forum the other day, one enthusiast was pondering the weight of packing out wet teabags. Really. Too heavy.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 10:30 AM

Some guys geek out at being ultralight. I have found to bring what I need and being able to enjoy it. Things like an MSR in the spring-fall are great for the purpose. I like having a few comforts. Was on Isle Royale a couple years back and met a dude with basically a tarp and some jerky. Fck that.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:34 AM (ewjUl)

249 Stay out in the woods with a campstove?
No. My cabin is out in the woods. With a furnace and a fireplace.
Posted by: RI Red at February 28, 2025 10:18 AM (xpM9w)
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I've seen that movie.

It doesn't end well for the world at large.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 28, 2025 10:34 AM (7fElN)

250 WSJ: Trump to Sign Executive Order Making English Official U.S. Language

If this means government documents are only available in EN, and he restricts fedgov spending money on translators, this alone could have an amazing impact on restricting inflation.

Good luck figuring out those welfare forms when you don't speak English...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:35 AM (t0Rmr)

251 Here endeth the thermodynamics lecture.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 28, 2025 10:25 AM (xG4kz)

I can take liquid water to solid almost instantaneously. Super cool the water, then bounce the vessel a bit. Whoosh!

And it's fun!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 10:35 AM (mWSu4)

252 Was on Isle Royale a couple years back and met a dude with basically a tarp and some jerky. Fck that.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:34 AM (ewjUl)

"I'm not camping! Please send help!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 10:35 AM (VoAdT)

253 245 WSJ: Trump to Sign Executive Order Making English Official U.S. Language
Posted by: SMOD

Cue cries of racist and fascist in 3 2 1...

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 28, 2025 10:35 AM (Dv3i1)

254 "Check balls" like a Scotsman's scrotum?

Pretty sure modern Scotsmen don't have them
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:32 AM (t0Rmr)

The Scotswomen do, however. (I never trusted men who wore skirts.)

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at February 28, 2025 10:36 AM (l3YAf)

255 You guys sound like OG backpackers.

There is a new variant, called “Ultralight”. An even deeper psychosis. I read a forum the other day, one enthusiast was pondering the weight of packing out wet teabags. Really. Too heavy.
Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 10:30 AM

Some guys geek out at being ultralight. I have found to bring what I need and being able to enjoy it. Things like an MSR in the spring-fall are great for the purpose. I like having a few comforts. Was on Isle Royale a couple years back and met a dude with basically a tarp and some jerky. Fck that.
Posted by: Minnfidel

Titanium everything. At 4x the cost.

Americans - the only group of people who spend thousands of dollars to live like homeless people for a weekend.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 10:36 AM (vHL8T)

256 Sorry meant restricting immigration not inflation...though cutting government aid to immigrants will reduce inflation as well

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:36 AM (t0Rmr)

257 "I'm not camping! Please send help!"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 10:35 AM

LOL. Some of the UL crowd are downright snobbish about it. What you don't cut the corners off your map? Or cut the handle off your toothbrush? Eye roll.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:37 AM (ewjUl)

258 >>Some guys geek out at being ultralight. I have found to bring what I need and being able to enjoy it. Things like an MSR in the spring-fall are great for the purpose. I like having a few comforts.

With a pack, there's no way I am getting away under 200lbs in weight. Might as well bring a stove that always works and never sets the camp on fire.

Posted by: garrett at February 28, 2025 10:37 AM (oa1NA)

259 The entitled children at WaPo are going nuts because of Bezos' new commitment to free speech, and it's glorious. Pink slips soon to follow.

https://is.gd/bcfYJ3

Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 10:37 AM (xCA6C)

260 OPM. Office of Personnel Management. All personnel of the federal government.
Management like notifying personnel that they have been terminated at the direction of the chief executive.
That judge doesn't seem like a deep thinker type.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 28, 2025 10:37 AM (n4GiU)

261 ¿Qué?

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 10:37 AM (/tzYP)

262 The Scotswomen do, however. (I never trusted men who wore skirts.)

As a more serious Christian than you, I can't tolerate this sort of hate speech.

Whether a man, or a woman with plump lady balls wants to wear a skirt or not is up to them h8ter.

Posted by: David French at February 28, 2025 10:38 AM (t0Rmr)

263 I read the Ultralight Forum for comic relief.

The editor or whatever, is blind. He went hiking. Solo.

You’ll never guess what happened.

Yup. He got turned around on the trail, and got lost. Just for a couple days. All of the members were twisting themselves into knots while rescue crews searched. And going out of their way not to imply that, you know, blind people out on the trail hiking solo may …. not be a great plan. “No Judging, H8er”. It’s all good, you see.

Judgment and discernment, discretion, has been beaten out of younger generations. They are incapable of it, by design.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 10:38 AM (B4klT)

264 Bondi, Cerno, Draino - 3YearLetterman is right about the whole embarrassing display. It was a disaster and if it turns out the FBI has destroyed the Epstein files, prosecuting those who destroyed the files is not going to help Bondi. If it comes to that, the prosecution should be handled by the new AG.

Posted by: Oglebay at February 28, 2025 10:38 AM (2ap+5)

265 ¿Qué?
Posted by: andycanuck

QUACK!

Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 10:38 AM (77rzZ)

266 LOL. Some of the UL crowd are downright snobbish about it. What you don't cut the corners off your map? Or cut the handle off your toothbrush? Eye roll.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:37 AM (ewjUl)

"THE WHAT NOW? Sorry, I can't hear you over the generator or the refrigerator or the keggerator or my two ATVs idling..."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 10:39 AM (VoAdT)

267 @ 190 Wolfus,

I'll eat my hat the day you move out of NO.
______________________

Wolfus, BRAH! You a N'Awlins boi also too ... ? Where y' at? I moved to TN after Katrina and now I'm closer to my daughter and her family. Where I'm at now is also better than when I was in the Memphis environs ...

Posted by: Dr_No at February 28, 2025 10:39 AM (ayRl+)

268 Americans - the only group of people who spend thousands of dollars to live like homeless people for a weekend.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 10:36 AM

Where I go, it's all about solitude for me. I am happy to go days without seeing another human. And I love when the cell phone doesn't work. It beckons to a time where one could actually disappear for a couple days. There's been trips that other than some pics, the phone never leaves it's pouch. It's glorious!

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:39 AM (ewjUl)

269 Was on Isle Royale a couple years back and met a dude with basically a tarp and some jerky. Fck that.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:34 AM (ewjUl)

"I'm not camping! Please send help!"

He might have been a Japanese holdout.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 10:39 AM (xCA6C)

270 Wolfus,

I'll eat my hat the day you move out of NO.

I hope you do, it's hard hating where you live, I'd imagine.

We have 43 and foggy on the water. The ferries are toot toot tooting across the Bay. I love it.
Posted by: nurse ratched at February 28, 2025

***
Start preparing the sauce, Nurse. It's gonna happen this year. I'm driving to IN and KY in April to look around. If I'm not impressed or actively turned off for some reason, then I'll look beyond. But I can NOT keep living where I am. The city and my apt. complex are both run by retarded, feral children, and the weather is awful. I'm done with hurricanes.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 10:39 AM (J2vNu)

271 nutjobs.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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The Scotswomen do, however. (I never trusted men who wore skirts.)

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 10:40 AM (/tzYP)

272 The entitled children at WaPo are going nuts because of Bezos' new commitment to free speech, and it's glorious. Pink slips soon to follow.

While I suspect Trump's victory had some impact on the likes of Bezos and Zuck, I think the left murdering that healthcare CEO and then crowing about it had a much bigger impact.

Bezos and Zuck don't like normies and would prefer the hierarchical society the left is promising BUT if that includes murdering oligarchs you can see why that would motivate them to back away from their would be murderers

Posted by: David French at February 28, 2025 10:40 AM (t0Rmr)

273 One member, also suggested not to remove pointy rocks, twigs, and sticks from the ground when pitching a tent, because micro-organisms live under them, and this disturbs them.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 10:40 AM (B4klT)

274 Yes, you could've stopped reading as soon as you hit the words "National Unity."

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National unity is the American equivalent of the two state solution.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 28, 2025 10:40 AM (L/fGl)

275 Gah stupid David French sock

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:40 AM (t0Rmr)

276 Seriously i'd be bragging about sheer tonnage if I were gonna go that route with camping.

"Does my butler count in the weight total? Jeeves! Eat this tub of margarine!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 10:40 AM (VoAdT)

277 The OPM v OSD argument is on-going. Most view the OPM request for work reporting as a fishing expedition to ascertain who are real people versus ghost people at OPM.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2025 10:41 AM (pLaQB)

278 I like hiking...but I'd rather then spend my evening at home or in a hotel then continuing to stay out in the woods...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:41 AM (t0Rmr)

279 "THE WHAT NOW? Sorry, I can't hear you over the generator or the refrigerator or the keggerator or my two ATVs idling..."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 10:39 A

Have a buddy who "camps" like that. I have an ATV, but I am not out for solitude when using it. But people that "camp" with campers etc. are an anathema to me. Why would I want to pack up all that shit, drive 3 hours to be surrounded by a bunch of strangers? To each their own I guess.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:41 AM (ewjUl)

280 Winter camping is awesome. But you don't go ultra light. More like car camping. Sometimes even make the guys do two trips.

There's no one else out there and the campfire is huge.

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 28, 2025 10:41 AM (FuWOw)

281 (Basks in Arizona winter. Should hit 80 degrees today.)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2025 10:42 AM (8zz6B)

282 I like hiking...but I'd rather then spend my evening at home or in a hotel then continuing to stay out in the woods...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:41 AM

Ah, you've met my wife I see.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:42 AM (ewjUl)

283
Wolfus, BRAH! You a N'Awlins boi also too ... ? Where y' at? I moved to TN after Katrina and now I'm closer to my daughter and her family. Where I'm at now is also better than when I was in the Memphis environs ...
Posted by: Dr_No at February 28, 2025

***
Dr_No, I've been seeing your name here for years. Surely you must have noted my rants against Da Swamp. I live on the West Bank of the river -- once cheaper than the eastern bank, but not any more.

My mother was western Canadian. She loved it here, I guess, but I've never felt as though I belonged.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 10:42 AM (J2vNu)

284 One member, also suggested not to remove pointy rocks, twigs, and sticks from the ground when pitching a tent, because micro-organisms live under them, and this disturbs them.[/v]
Posted by: Common Tater

WTF are you doing out here then? You are stepping all over them!!!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 10:42 AM (vHL8T)

285 Here endeth the thermodynamics lecture.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 28, 2025 10:25 AM (xG4kz)

What's w/the IU/metric crap?....BTUs and Pounds

Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2025 10:43 AM (Yj6Os)

286 Not today barrel. Not today.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 10:43 AM (vHL8T)

287 Wolfus, where are you gonna get an Oyster Po Boy in Kentucky?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2025 10:43 AM (pLaQB)

288 One member, also suggested not to remove pointy rocks, twigs, and sticks from the ground when pitching a tent, because micro-organisms live under them, and this disturbs them.

Seems to me that killing yourself now would be a better way to achieve what you seem to value.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 28, 2025 10:43 AM (xCA6C)

289 see, this is what Charles Wysocki was envisioning when he put his paintbrush to laminated panel.

Posted by: Kindltot at February 28, 2025 10:44 AM (D7oie)

290 Thought the painting was Idaho until I noticed that nobody was wearing Ugg boots.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 28, 2025 10:44 AM (EWvKs)

291 Ah, you've met my wife I see.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:42 AM (ewjUl)

Indoor Sportsman

Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2025 10:44 AM (Yj6Os)

292 My mother was western Canadian. She loved it here, I guess, but I've never felt as though I belonged.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Ignatius Reilly never regretted leaving.

Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 10:44 AM (77rzZ)

293 feed me

Posted by: the barrel at February 28, 2025 10:44 AM (/tzYP)

294
There is a new variant, called “Ultralight”. An even deeper psychosis. I read a forum the other day, one enthusiast was pondering the weight of packing out wet teabags. Really. Too heavy.
Posted by: Common Tater

Have you encountered the zealots who advocate bagging your own poop and packing that out of the woods? Bat shit crazy, they are.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 28, 2025 10:44 AM (xG4kz)

295
Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 10:38 AM

That's funny! I can usually tell within seconds of meeting someone on the trail what they are like. I came upon a campsite with a couple like that. I promptly picked up my pack and kept moving.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:45 AM (ewjUl)

296 When you rule, we demand tolerance because that is your ideology

When we rule, we demand obedience because that is our ideology

-not my original thought but forget whom to credit

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 28, 2025 10:45 AM (RIvkX)

297 Ignatius Reilly never regretted leaving.
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He certainly didn't like the Vista Cruiser he was riding in.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2025 10:45 AM (pLaQB)

298 296 When you rule, we demand tolerance because that is your ideology

When we rule, we demand obedience because that is our ideology

-not my original thought but forget whom to credit
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 28, 2025 10:45 AM (RIvkX)

==

Probably some asshole.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 10:45 AM (GBKbO)

299 My mother was western Canadian. She loved it here, I guess, but I've never felt as though I belonged.

I'd love to make it out to Banff some day but I don't think I'd enjoy living out there year round...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:45 AM (t0Rmr)

300 Bat shit crazy, they are.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 28, 2025 10:44 AM (xG4kz)

Bat shit crazy shit crazy?

woah.

Shit-ception.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 10:45 AM (VoAdT)

301 Have you encountered the zealots who advocate bagging your own poop and packing that out of the woods? Bat shit crazy, they are.
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Depending upon one's diet also a nutjob sometimes.

Posted by: andycanuck (/tzYP) at February 28, 2025 10:46 AM (/tzYP)

302 Have you encountered the zealots who advocate bagging your own poop and packing that out of the woods? Bat shit crazy, they are.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 28, 2025 10:44 AM

I have. All I do is laugh. You know, bears shit in the woods too. In fact every animal is pissing and shitting all the time out here. Dig a cat hole and that's it. Let nature be nature. it will disappear.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:46 AM (ewjUl)

303 Fired L.A. Fire Chief Kristin Crowley Fights Back; Appeals to City Council

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Let xe who has not burned a city down cast the first stone.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 28, 2025 10:47 AM (L/fGl)

304 When you rule, we demand tolerance because that is your ideology

When we rule, we demand obedience because that is our ideology

-not my original thought but forget whom to credit

I wonder if Merz and Macron realize they are the Harkonnens and Corrinos from Dune...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:47 AM (t0Rmr)

305 Have you encountered the zealots who advocate bagging your own poop and packing that out of the woods? Bat shit crazy, they are.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars

Aren't there some wilderness areas that require people to do that?

Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

306 304 I wonder if Merz and Macron realize they are the Harkonnens and Corrinos from Dune...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:47 AM (t0Rmr)

=======

I just finished Sandworms of Dune last night!

Not good.

Not terrible.

But not good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 10:48 AM (GBKbO)

307 Pretty sure the people bagging their poop are doing it for reasons that have little to do with environmental concerns

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:48 AM (t0Rmr)

308 Wolfus, where are you gonna get an Oyster Po Boy in Kentucky?
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2025

***
Not too worried about it. Da Food and Da Music, the two things the locals all mention as excuses to live here, are not worth putting up with bad roads, high crime and rents, low employment, and trash both animate and inanimate.

I can make my own food and play the music I like on CD or the computer.

I'm sure oysters and French bread can be purchased, somewhere, in KY.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 10:48 AM (J2vNu)

309 "Neither of these changes of physical state occurs instantaneously. The material sits there are the melting temperature or vaporizing temperature until sufficient heat has been delivered to take it from its origin state to its new state.

Here endeth the thermodynamics lecture."

Ah, but the key phase here is "phase change".

Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2025 10:48 AM (QB+5g)

310 Over at X General Mike Flynn does a great analysis of what is happening with the Epstein files and who and where the corruption lies. He says Bondi and Patel have to be much tighter in how they handle it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 28, 2025 10:48 AM (EG7Bp)

311 Stop Trans Violence (this guy did, fortunately for him and his kids)
Libs of TikTok-
Graham Bain, a self-described they/them, allegedly broke out into a fit of road rage in KY, chasing down and repeatedly ramming into another man's vehicle while his three young kids were inside, nearly flipping it over.

The man pulled a gun a shot Bain in self-defense. Bain survived and was taken into police custody where he was charged with 4 counts of wanton endangerment.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 28, 2025 10:48 AM (Dv3i1)

312 Aren't there some wilderness areas that require people to do that?
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

Those are called "shopping malls". Teenagers and old people used to go there, i've heard, but now it's mostly the homeless and the afflicted.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 10:48 AM (VoAdT)

313 One member, also suggested not to remove pointy rocks, twigs, and sticks from the ground when pitching a tent, because micro-organisms live under them, and this disturbs them.[/v]
Posted by: Common Tater

WTF are you doing out here then? You are stepping all over them!!!
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 10:42 AM

LOL. Those people should stay inside (an asylum)

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:48 AM (ewjUl)

314 I just finished Sandworms of Dune last night!

Not good.

Not terrible.

But not good.
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Dude, I quit at Dune Messiah. I was 19 at the time.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2025 10:49 AM (pLaQB)

315 @ 283
Wolfus, BRAH! You a N'Awlins boi also too ... ? Where y' at?

***
Dr_No, I've been seeing your name here for years. Surely you must have noted my rants against Da Swamp. I live on the West Bank of the river -- once cheaper than the eastern bank, but not any more.

My mother was western Canadian. She loved it here, I guess, but I've never felt as though I belonged.
______________________________

Wolfus, I've seen 'em but have obviously not said 'Hi, brah!' 'til now. I'm a East Bank boi (Uptown area) but have made many trips to the West side of the MS. TN's nice, but I miss being able to make day trips to places like Boutte, Edgard, Norco, LaPlace, etc ... did a lot of my early childhood daze in the Edgard area, and Mom & Dad introduced me to the culinary pleasures of Airline Motors and Blanchard's restaurant ... yeah, good times - but like we're told in the song: "To everything / There is a season" ... da's rite, y' know.

Posted by: Dr_No at February 28, 2025 10:49 AM (ayRl+)

316 Aren't there some wilderness areas that require people to do that?
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

Hey you! Yes you! Where's you bagged poop?

Posted by: Federal Bagged Poop Inspector at February 28, 2025 10:49 AM (EEZHI)

317 Hamassholes demand Phase 2 negotiations start now.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 28, 2025 10:49 AM (mB6WH)

318 The "off grid" people who buy acres of desert out in Texas, New Mexico or Arizona are an odd bunch. Some build an actual house, solar of course, maybe with wind too. But they never seem to realize that they'll need water, and lots of it.

Even if they're going to live U.L. Like with a string, tarp and some dried fruit. For the next dozen years. They have, like a gallon of water and think they'll out there for years.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 28, 2025 10:49 AM (Q4IgG)

319 Conservative Bondi critics at this point are no help especially when it’s just opinion and not about objective errors.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 10:49 AM (VofaG)

320 314 Dude, I quit at Dune Messiah. I was 19 at the time.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2025 10:49 AM (pLaQB)

=======

It didn't hurt me to read it. I was mildly entertained for 10 days as I readied myself to sleep.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

321 One member, also suggested not to remove pointy rocks, twigs, and sticks from the ground when pitching a tent, because micro-organisms live under them, and this disturbs them.[/v]
Posted by: Common Tater

Micro-organisms are people too!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 28, 2025 10:49 AM (L/fGl)

322 I'd love to make it out to Banff some day but I don't think I'd enjoy living out there year round...
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025

***
Her father worked for the railroad there in Saskatchewan. When she was twelve, right before the Depression, they moved . . . to near Orlando, FL, and had a farm.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 10:50 AM (J2vNu)

323 I just finished Sandworms of Dune last night!

Not good.

Not terrible.

But not good.

I tried to read through all the original Dune books and I just sort of stopped in the middle of God Emperor of Dune

I did actually like The Butlerian Jihad when I read it later though

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:50 AM (t0Rmr)

324
One member, also suggested not to remove pointy rocks, twigs, and sticks from the ground when pitching a tent, because micro-organisms live under them, and this disturbs them.

I'd lay odds that there is a better than even chance that very same person gathers stones and stacks them vertically to create ad hoc "shrines".

Those infuriate me -- because an asshole created them -- and I kick them over with extreme delight.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 28, 2025 10:50 AM (xG4kz)

325 Aren't there some wilderness areas that require people to do that?
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 10:47 AM

Some. I never leave any trace, garbage etc. That's fucked up to do that. But carry out my actual poo? Nope. When I see bears etc. bagging theirs up, well maybe then I will. It's such a joke. It's going to last a few days and turn into fertilizer.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:51 AM (ewjUl)

326
Gave a lift to a couple backpackers off the Appalachian years ago, they didn't have to pack their poop. Hell of a time getting their smell out of the car.

Posted by: Auspex at February 28, 2025 10:51 AM (j4U/Z)

327 Have you encountered the zealots who advocate bagging your own poop and packing that out of the woods?
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In popular federal areas, particularly river corridors, this is required now. Wag Bags. Clean Waste makes a nice little shitter.

Deuteronomy had it figured out thousands of years ago. But modern folk can’t be bothered, since Covid, it has gotten real bad. Turds right on the trail, etc. They have no conception of human borne pathogens, i.e. “deer poop on the trail, it’s natural” etc.

Posted by: Common Tater at February 28, 2025 10:52 AM (B4klT)

328 323 I tried to read through all the original Dune books and I just sort of stopped in the middle of God Emperor of Dune

I did actually like The Butlerian Jihad when I read it later though
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:50 AM (t0Rmr)

======

The Butlerian Jihad books are apparently really important to the final "trilogy" that turned into four books.

What I admire is the wraparound of the entire universe that Herbert had planned.

It's just...not that well written. It would have probably been outright unreadable had Frank Herbert actually lived long enough to write it instead of his son and Kevin J. Anderson using their perfectly unimaginative approach to writing to lay things out as simply as possible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 28, 2025 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

329 It's going to last a few days and turn into fertilizer.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:51 AM (ewjUl)

You can't disturb a stick lest you disturb the soil food web and its delicate fungal hyphae.... but you can deprive that very same web of the raw nutrients it needs to survive.

Jerks.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 28, 2025 10:52 AM (VoAdT)

330 I really hope
You get out, Wolfus!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 28, 2025 10:52 AM (0wzNL)

331 One member, also suggested not to remove pointy rocks, twigs, and sticks from the ground when pitching a tent, because micro-organisms live under them, and this disturbs them.[/v]
Posted by: Common Tater

That asshole would be politely asked to GTFO out of my campsite. Or being the asshole I am. I would start moving every fucking object I could find.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:52 AM (ewjUl)

332 Surely you must have noted my rants against Da Swamp.

>>>>>Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 10:42 AM (J2vNu)

Most people just skip over your incessant complaining.

Posted by: test pattern at February 28, 2025 10:53 AM (qnw3j)

333 Not too worried about it. Da Food and Da Music, the two things the locals all mention as excuses to live here, are not worth putting up with bad roads, high crime and rents, low employment, and trash both animate and inanimate.

I can make my own food and play the music I like on CD or the computer.

I'm sure oysters and French bread can be purchased, somewhere, in KY.
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Agree on the music. We called it Museum Music. There was a hot music further out from NO proper. Don't remember the name. Yeah, its trashy but there are a shit on of things to do outside of NO. The French Quarter is an amusement park. Like Oahu the amusements lose their charms fast.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 28, 2025 10:53 AM (pLaQB)

334 Send in Marshals with a huge box of handcuffs.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 10:05 AM (vHL8T)

And barbed-wire wrapped baseball bats.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 28, 2025 10:53 AM (8zz6B)

335 I'm a East Bank boi (Uptown area) but have made many trips to the West side of the MS. TN's nice, but I miss being able to make day trips to places like Boutte, Edgard, Norco, LaPlace, etc ... did a lot of my early childhood daze in the Edgard area, and Mom & Dad introduced me to the culinary pleasures of Airline Motors and Blanchard's restaurant ... yeah, good times - but like we're told in the song: "To everything / There is a season" ... da's rite, y' know.
Posted by: Dr_No at February 28, 2025

***
I grew up in the French Quarter -- Bourbon St., no less -- and shop at Walmart nowadays in Boutte when the spirit moves me. Hwy. 90 just got nicely repaved and it's a fun drive for me and my car. But the Quarter is alien to me now, and so many places in town are too dangerous to go to. And . . . I'm bored with it all. I need new vistas.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 10:53 AM (J2vNu)

336 Had a vista cruise back in the seventies. Climbed on the roof to fix a basketball net, put my foot through the roof window.
Not as strong as thought.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 28, 2025 10:53 AM (n4GiU)

337 Most people just skip over your incessant complaining.

Complaining is job #1 at AoS. River otter outside should have told you

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:53 AM (t0Rmr)

338 Morning. How did that FBI 8am deadline hold up?

Posted by: jhawk90 at February 28, 2025 10:53 AM (ggOdn)

339 Most people just skip over your incessant complaining.
Posted by: test pattern at February 28, 2025

***
Thanks. You're a champ.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 10:54 AM (J2vNu)

340 Aren't there some wilderness areas that require people to do that?

Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

Grand Canyon, maybe?

Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2025 10:54 AM (Yj6Os)

341
Grand Canyon, maybe?

Now THAT would be an upperdecker

Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:54 AM (t0Rmr)

342 I got through the first two Dunes.

The second was so forgettable I can't remember a single thing from it.

Posted by: eleven at February 28, 2025 10:55 AM (0HaGk)

343 Grand Canyon, maybe?

Now THAT would be an upperdecker
Posted by: 18-1 at February 28, 2025 10:54 AM

Rimjob?

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:55 AM (ewjUl)

344 Aren't there some wilderness areas that require people to do that?

Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

Grand Canyon, maybe?
Posted by: BignJames

Find a pile of animal poop. Poop on top of that. No one will know.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025 10:55 AM (vHL8T)

345 340 Aren't there some wilderness areas that require people to do that?

Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 10:47 AM (77rzZ)

Grand Canyon, maybe?
Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2025 10:54 AM (Yj6Os)

"You expect me to reach all the way down there? I don't think so!"

Posted by: Bombs away! at February 28, 2025 10:55 AM (VoAdT)

346 Above the tree line cairns are useful. Don't kick them over.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 28, 2025 10:55 AM (n4GiU)

347 So now it's a poop thread.

Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

348 Find a pile of animal poop. Poop on top of that. No one will know.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 28, 2025

***
They might guess, but they won't investigate to be sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 10:56 AM (J2vNu)

349 ‘Trust in Allah’ Signs Blanket London as King Charles Hands Out Ramadan Treats.

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They need to Charles I that asshole!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 28, 2025 10:56 AM (L/fGl)

350 So now it's a poop thread.

Hey guys, should I post all my thoughts on this topic in one post or break it down in several with hyperlinks and stuff?

Posted by: San Francisco at February 28, 2025 10:56 AM (t0Rmr)

351 >>Aren't there some wilderness areas that require people to do that?

No. You bury it properly or smear it on a rock.

But you are not required to pack your shit out of anywhere.

Posted by: garrett at February 28, 2025 10:57 AM (oa1NA)

352 347 So now it's a poop thread.
Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

it certainly became about excrement by increments.

Posted by: Bombs away! at February 28, 2025 10:57 AM (VoAdT)

353 We're all looking forward to the complaints about Indiana weather.

Posted by: But you didn't hear that from me at February 28, 2025 10:57 AM (DobEs)

354 Those infuriate me -- because an asshole created them -- and I kick them over with extreme delight.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 28, 2025 10:50 AM (xG4kz)

It's graffiti, and motivated by the same arrogance.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 10:57 AM (mWSu4)

355 Louisiana is totally different once you leave New Orleans. Though Baton Rouge is a shit hole now too along with the shithole of the NW, Shreveport.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 10:57 AM (VofaG)

356 Aren't there some wilderness areas that require people to do that?

Boundary Waters Canoe area and Quetico on the Canadian side. It's not like I crap in the lakes. If it's far from a water source and you bury it, there's nothing wrong with it. Yea I am a rebel, a rule breaker. But I am not hauling merde in a bag.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:57 AM (ewjUl)

357 On some Wilderness Riverways, you are required to use certain sites for pooping. But those are permit areas / trips.

Posted by: garrett at February 28, 2025 10:58 AM (oa1NA)

358 Have you encountered the zealots who advocate bagging your own poop and packing that out of the woods? ~~Bat~~ Bag shit crazy, they are.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

Edited for accuracy.

Posted by: Fake AoS Editor at February 28, 2025 10:58 AM (JCZqz)

359 Hujust now noticed Hanoi Jane on the previous. Perhaps the homecoming queen of Brattleboro High?
A good reminder. I need range time.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 28, 2025 10:58 AM (W/lyH)

360 For a mini-Grand Canyon experience, there's Palo Duro Canyon near Amarillo, TX, and the small town of Canyon. (Fun fact: Georgia O'Keeffe once taught art there in Canyon before she discovered Taos, NM.) Palo Duro is impressive, and its history as winter quarters for the Comanches make it fascinating as well. I enjoyed visiting there.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 10:58 AM (J2vNu)

361 No. You bury it properly or smear it on a rock.

I'm camping at home when I smear it on the walls!

Posted by: 2 year old at home at February 28, 2025 10:59 AM (JCZqz)

362 Morning. How did that FBI 8am deadline hold up?
Posted by: jhawk90
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About as expected - like a paper umbrella in a rain delay.

Posted by: scampydog at February 28, 2025 10:59 AM (2bFN5)

363 So now it's a poop thread.

Posted by: Bulg at February 28, 2025 10:56 AM (77rzZ)

That has always simmered just below the surface.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 10:59 AM (mWSu4)

364 950+ [ asshole ] law professors label Trump’s actions a ‘constitutional crisis’

The illegality of these actions, even when the illegality has been adjudged in federal courts, does not seem to be deterring the President’s actions. Instead, the President and his administration are openly flirting with disobeying judicial rulings against him. In fact, the President has proclaimed, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

We are saddened by the fact that we have to explain to the President this fundamental democratic principle, but we do: a president has the obligation to obey the Constitution as well as court orders enjoining his illegal and unconstitutional efforts. The law is not whatever Mr. Trump says it is. He is not king.

... please cite when Trump shredded the Constitution
None of these 950 should ever get on a court bench

Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 10:59 AM (RHGPo)

365 I'd love to do a Grand Canyon Hike. I am heading there to do some in April to do some smaller hikes. I'd love to do a rim to rim hike, but lack of water freaks me the fuck out.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:59 AM (ewjUl)

366 We're all looking forward to the complaints about Indiana weather.
Posted by: But you didn't hear that from me at February 28, 2025

***
I haven't complained about the minor-league cold in Jan. and Feb. here. The natives do -- 50 F. is bitter cold to them. But I enjoy it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 10:59 AM (J2vNu)

367 Is scotus ever going to start bitch slapping these judges?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at February 28, 2025 11:00 AM (WR88G)

368 Tim Walz Claims America Was Stolen ‘By Fascists And ‘Nazis’

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Twinkle Toes says what?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 28, 2025 11:00 AM (L/fGl)

369 Smel tthe Gove,

Which General Mike Flynn account? There are a lot.

This is a really big deal because this is the first real campaign against the Deep State.

Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2025 11:00 AM (QB+5g)

370
Above the tree line cairns are useful. Don't kick them over.
Posted by: From about That Time

I don't disagree with that. It's the ones that I find at lower elevations, especially alongside bodies of water, that irk me most.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 28, 2025 11:00 AM (xG4kz)

371 >> I'd love to do a Grand Canyon Hike. I am heading there to do some in April to do some smaller hikes. I'd love to do a rim to rim hike, but lack of water freaks me the fuck out.

Toroweep / Tuweup Area.

Go hike the Cinder Cone. North Rim is where it's at.

Posted by: garrett at February 28, 2025 11:01 AM (oa1NA)

372 Tim Walz Claims America Was Stolen ‘By Fascists And ‘Nazis’

Someone's mad because he won't get to take over Biden's role as official tween-sniffer

Posted by: San Francisco at February 28, 2025 11:01 AM (t0Rmr)

373 Posted by: But you didn't hear that from me at February 28, 2025

What’s your problem?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 11:01 AM (VofaG)

374 Poison Ivy rant.

Posted by: Noodicus at February 28, 2025 11:01 AM (DobEs)

375 @ 335 I'm a East Bank boi (Uptown area) but have made many trips to the West side of the MS.
Posted by: Dr_No at February 28, 2025

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I grew up in the French Quarter -- Bourbon St., no less -- and shop at Walmart nowadays in Boutte when the spirit moves me. Hwy. 90 just got nicely repaved and it's a fun drive for me and my car. But the Quarter is alien to me now, and so many places in town are too dangerous to go to. And . . . I'm bored with it all. I need new vistas.
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I did some time in the Quarter - during the late '60s / early '70s I played at the Red Garter (St Peter @ Bourbon) and Your Father's Mustache. I also remember 'Club My-O-My'. My daughter and SIL just made a 4-day trip to NO, but they stayed in JP - that 'safety' thing, y' know. Best part was that she brought me some Dorignac's boiled ham and a muffuletta - along with a few Hubig's pies and at least six samples of diff'rent King Cakes … now I gotta lose weight all over again.

If you swap environs, check middle TN or S KY. Might work.

Posted by: Dr_No at February 28, 2025 11:01 AM (ayRl+)

376 Poison Ivy rant.

She just needs a snack and a spankin'

Posted by: Harley Quinn at February 28, 2025 11:02 AM (t0Rmr)

377 I'd love to do a rim to rim hike, but lack of water freaks me the fuck out.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 10:59 AM (ewjUl)

When I was a yoot I hiked the Bright Angel down to the river and back. It was difficult, and the ice at the top of the trail was no fun at all. But damn... what an amazing place.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:02 AM (mWSu4)

378 Oh, don't look now, but the Hollywood murderer, Alec Baldwin, is allegedly on the Epstein list. What a fine human being he turned out to be.

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at February 28, 2025 11:02 AM (hXQfZ)

379 Ha!

I bought a new keyboard to improve my typing.

Silly me.

Posted by: pawn at February 28, 2025 11:02 AM (QB+5g)

380
Tim Walz Claims America Was Stolen ‘By Fascists And ‘Nazis’

Figured out how to clear your "favorite shotgun", yet, genius?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at February 28, 2025 11:02 AM (xG4kz)

381 Tim Walz Claims America Was Stolen ‘By Fascists And ‘Nazis’

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Twinkle Toes says what?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Covfefe Today, Covfefe Tomorrow, Covfefe Forever! at February 28, 2025 11:00 AM

Which is ironic considering he was/is one of the worst facist governors. had a WuFlu snitch line. Was a lockdown nazee. Had his own Krisalnacht with the Saint George of Fentanyl mostly peaceful firebombing and looting. Fuck that guy.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 11:03 AM (ewjUl)

382 But you are not required to pack your shit out of anywhere.

Posted by: garrett at February 28, 2025 10:57 AM (oa1NA)

Oh yeah?

https://tinyurl.com/yp947bwu

Posted by: BignJames at February 28, 2025 11:03 AM (Yj6Os)

383 My Dad didn't kill all those commies in 'Nam so that some candy-ass in a Smokey Bear hat could tell me where to shit in the woods.

In Idaho, we're free. You can actually poop on a park ranger if you can overpower one.

What happens in Hell's Canyon stays in Hell's Canyon.

Also, the Grand Canyon is fake and gay compared to Hell's Canyon. But I'm biased.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 28, 2025 11:03 AM (TLf/c)

384 When I was a yoot I hiked the Bright Angel down to the river and back. It was difficult, and the ice at the top of the trail was no fun at all. But damn... what an amazing place.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 28, 2025 11:02 AM

Did you do water drops? I am used to hiking where water is never really an issue.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 11:04 AM (ewjUl)

385 In Idaho, we're free. You can actually poop on a park ranger if you can overpower one.

Apparently we are importing German park rangers.

Posted by: Harley Quinn at February 28, 2025 11:04 AM (t0Rmr)

386 384.

"A tarp in every backpack" is the state park motto.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 28, 2025 11:05 AM (TLf/c)

387 >>>Tim Walz Claims America Was Stolen ‘By Fascists And ‘Nazis’

Figured out how to clear your "favorite shotgun", yet, genius?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison!

>Don't you have to blow in the muzzle to clear out the cartridge in the chamber?

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at February 28, 2025 11:06 AM (hXQfZ)

388 ‘I Will Kick Myself’: Tim Walz Reveals 2024 Campaign Issue He ‘Got Sucked’ Into That Flopped

“I will kick myself that I got sucked in. I bet you I spent three or four days, maybe longer, not clowning, but just hammering them over the eating dogs and cats because it was so ridiculous,” Walz said. “And I took that hook, line and sinker. We were talking about immigration at a critical part of the campaign. And it was hurtful. And it pissed me off. And I was standing there to defend people. And it didn’t do a damn bit of good electorally.”

Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 11:06 AM (RHGPo)

389 I did some time in the Quarter - during the late '60s / early '70s I played at the Red Garter (St Peter @ Bourbon) and Your Father's Mustache. . . .

If you swap environs, check middle TN or S KY. Might work.
Posted by: Dr_No at February 28, 2025

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When you were at St. Peter and Bourbon, you were half a block from my house.

Yeah, I'm considering SW Indiana and NW Kentucky, right across the Ohio from each other. But as I drive up, I'll keep my eyes open.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 28, 2025 11:06 AM (J2vNu)

390 Which is ironic considering he was/is one of the worst facist governors. had a WuFlu snitch line. Was a lockdown nazee. Had his own Krisalnacht with the Saint George of Fentanyl mostly peaceful firebombing and looting. Fuck that guy.
Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 11:03 AM (ewjUl)

Mentally ill Leftist projection. SOP as much as playing the race card.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 28, 2025 11:06 AM (VofaG)

391 Noodicles.

Posted by: Sifty Boones at February 28, 2025 11:07 AM (TLf/c)

392 US President Donald Trump extend for one year certain sanctions introduced against Russia earlier in connection with the situation in Ukraine, the White House said in released documents, APA reports quoting TASS.

Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 11:08 AM (RHGPo)

393 Rep. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio, sparked a firestorm on social media over comments questioning DOGE chief Elon Musk’s allegiance to the U.S. given that he has been a citizen for "only" 22 years. "Mr. Musk has just been here 22 years," Kaptur said outside the Capitol on Wednesday. "And he’s a citizen of three countries. I always ask myself the question, with the damage he’s doing here, when push comes to shove, which country is his loyalty to? South Africa? Canada? Or the United States? And he’s only been a citizen, I’ll say again, 22 years."

... tell me again where Democrats stand on immigration

Posted by: SMOD at February 28, 2025 11:09 AM (RHGPo)

394 >>Oh yeah?

https://tinyurl.com/yp947bwu

Crazy. They don't even have that requirement in the Maze at Canyonlands.

Smear it and leave it. It will be gone in under 48 hours.

Posted by: garrett at February 28, 2025 11:10 AM (oa1NA)

395 >>Did you do water drops? I am used to hiking where water is never really an issue.

Stash bottles on the way down.

Bring a purifier to refill at the river.

Don't go to the South Rim.

Posted by: garrett at February 28, 2025 11:12 AM (oa1NA)

396 Stash bottles on the way down.

Bring a purifier to refill at the river.

Don't go to the South Rim.
Posted by: garrett at February 28, 2025 11:12 AM

Thanks! Good to know.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 28, 2025 11:14 AM (ewjUl)

397 @ 389 If you swap environs, check middle TN or S KY. Might work.
Posted by: Dr_No at February 28, 2025

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When you were at St. Peter and Bourbon, you were half a block from my house.

Yeah, I'm considering SW Indiana and NW Kentucky, right across the Ohio from each other. But as I drive up, I'll keep my eyes open.
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In SW IN, there's a town called Danville - it has the 'Mayberry Cafe' - with a genuine period repro Mayberry Police car - complete with dummies of Andy and Barney in the front seat - outside the restaurant. Worth a shot if you're in the 'hood.

Posted by: Dr_No at February 28, 2025 11:48 AM (ayRl+)

398 LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW LET IT SNOW

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 28, 2025 05:43 PM (wGqjj)

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