I Found Out Something That I Am Very Good At!

I recently covered my wonderful and delightful experience with the USPS. It is from the February 27, "The Morning Rant". (Please do not comment on old threads or you will be lost in the bowels of some inner city USPS office.)

Things just keep getting better with those inept government workers. Nah, I'm just giving you a hard time. Their incompetence, ignorance and apathy are truly outstanding traits displayed each and every time I deal with them.

So to save wear and tear on our vehicles I signed up for Informed Delivery by USPS. Wow, just completely mind blowing or as an uncle of mine would say, "If shit goes in, then shit comes out."

I'm learning that some things can sit around for at least one if not two business days before I am informed. Recently a friend of mine who lives in Madison (which is a four drive for me) mailed on March 11th paying for Priority Mail, with an expectant delivery time of 1-3 business days. When did I get notified of the mail? I wasn't. It arrived at our post office on March 19th 9AM. This according to my friend's tracking information. I stopped in the lobby on the 20th to pick up some other pieces of mail and I was pleased to see my documents arrive to me in one piece.

Why in the hell it would take 8 days to travel 400 miles or so I have no clue. And they sure as hell don't.

I won't get into the package that The Fabulous shipped off to a niece in a neighboring state. We just hope she receives it as it has sentimental value.

I hope when the swamp is drained, the damn USPS goes down and doesn't clog the drain pipe.

*****

On the bright side, Neither rain or snow or some other utter bullshit phrase isn't as screwed up as the following: I'm from the government and I'm here to help you.

Iceland's Minister for Children has resigned in disgrace she was accused of having sex with a 15 year-old boy when she was 22 and getting pregnant by him.
Ásthildur Lóa Thórsdóttir said she met the troubled teen, identified as Eirík Ásmundsson by RUV, while she was working as a counsellor at a religious group he attended.
He was just 15-years-old when they began their secret relationship, the outlet reported. Thórsdóttir claims he was 16 when it became sexual.

*****

Not enough to join the club? She's a disgusting bitch. And is the poster diva for The Love of Money is The Root of All Trouble.

Democrats in Congress Drive Luxury Cars on Taxpayer Dime
Rep. Jasmine Crockett billed taxpayers $11,996 in 2024 for a fresh set of wheels

Can Trump 2.0 and JD Vance (2 terms) right the ship?

*****

But even a misanthrope as myself has a sense of humor.

The Bidens want back in
With the Democratic Party struggling to find a new direction, former President Joe Biden and former first lady Jill Biden have offered to jump in and help with fundraising and rebuilding.

I bet they want in on that sweet grifter cash and white powder.

Have an enjoyable day.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 10:00 AM

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1 >>With the Democratic Party struggling to find a new direction, former President Joe Biden and former first lady Jill Biden have offered to jump in and help with fundraising and rebuilding.

Please note this happened within a day or two of Hunter losing his premium Secret Service protection in South Africa.

They don't want to pay for stuff. They want the sweet luxury of "public service" back ASAP, thankyouverymuch!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2025 10:03 AM (Cki93)

2 Everybody I know hates the government.

How can that put me in such elite company?

Posted by: PMRich at March 22, 2025 10:04 AM (eh5ud)

3 >>Ásthildur Lóa Thórsdóttir said she met the troubled teen, identified as Eirík Ásmundsson by RUV, while she was working as a counsellor at a religious group he attended.

Predator.

She counseled him into having sex with her.
I don't care if she was young and (I'm guessing) hot, this is an adult entrusted with access to troubled teens and she used it to groom one. CREEP.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2025 10:06 AM (Cki93)

4 >>Why in the hell it would take 8 days to travel 400 miles or so I have no clue. And they sure as hell don't.

You may have noticed that the USPS has been totally DEI'd. . .

Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2025 10:07 AM (Cki93)

5 I think the Pony Express got bought out by Amazon.

I routinely get same day delivery to Dallas. From CHINA. It kinda scares me, because there's a decent chance that someone made a deal with the Devil to be able to make that happen.

Posted by: Fen at March 22, 2025 10:07 AM (c5hJL)

6 Ben and Jerry's needs a kick to their corporate brand. Joe needs some sweet cash. See where I'm going with this?

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Stochastic Corporate Branding Consultant at March 22, 2025 10:08 AM (PiwSw)

7 Amazon's delivery service isn't any better than USPS. "Hey, we'll just dump stuff on your doorstep, despite the fact that you specifically asked us not to. Then we'll take a picture and we'll save thieves the trouble by just stealing it ourselves. You can call Amazon and their response will be 'So sad, sucks to be you.'"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at March 22, 2025 10:10 AM (CHHv1)

8 Oh, it gets worse:

According to Vísir, the father is identified as Eiríkur Ásmundsson. He accused the former minister of preventing him from interacting with his son. However, Thórsdóttir denied the allegations. Reportedly, their secret relationship continued for some time, and Ásmundsson was present at his child’s birth.

Ásmundsson, according to the Icelandic news agency RUV, had requested the country’s justice ministry to give him access to his son but claimed that Thórsdóttir denied it. He further alleged that Thórsdóttir had been receiving child support payments from him for over 18 years.

Seduced a 15 year old, got pregnant, then denied him access to his child while extracting child support from him for 18 years.

Wow. Could she BE a bigger beyotch?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2025 10:12 AM (Cki93)

9 "Informed Delivery" – ha! I signed up for it, too. Every day (almost), I get 'notified' about what's coming to my maildrop. Funny how they never let me know when there's a package drop-off in the box next to it. They also fail to properly identify (or even count) the number and type of mail that's headed my way. They next insult us at the 'Post Office' when we attempt to buy stamps (remember them?). They're consistently out of the Medal of Honor or Purple Heart stamps, but hey!, they have 'gay' designs out the ass. When should we start looking for the commemorative 'BLM' issue ... ? Meh. F the PO.

Posted by: Dr_No at March 22, 2025 10:14 AM (ayRl+)

10 Mailed the mortgage on 2/13. Check cleared my bank on 3/15.
Next mortgage statement showed a missed payment.

Posted by: Chuck Kuekcer at March 22, 2025 10:15 AM (UxT09)

11 2 Everybody I know hates the government.

How can that put me in such elite company?
Posted by: PMRich at March 22, 2025 10:04 AM (eh5ud)

I cannot write how I actually feel about government
I would be banned

Let it burn is too good

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 22, 2025 10:15 AM (QXQ4l)

12 Is this the normal time to have a new thread?

I have no idea what any of you people do with your time zones, for all I know it's afternoon in the east.

Still, I thought the morning thread had at least an hour left.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2025 10:15 AM (HV2Ek)

13 Posted by: Dr_No at March 22, 2025 10:14 AM (ayRl+)

I see I am not alone with my USPS woes

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at March 22, 2025 10:16 AM (QXQ4l)

14 Well, to be fair, we hate you too.

Posted by: The Govt. at March 22, 2025 10:16 AM (GTqXr)

15 Good morning good people.

I do have a happy government story: I received the notice from the DMV to renew my car registration in the mail. I decided to pay for the renewal in person because I am a skinflint by heritage and necessity and it's cheaper that way. Sooooooo, I drive to the County office, park and walk in. Four windows are open with three of them busy with an other customer. The lady at the fourth window says "May I help you?" (No really, she did.) I walk up, hand her the card I got in the mail. She looks at it and tells me the cost. I hand her a CC. She hands me back the CC and the new registration tag and says "have a nice day!"

I wasn't even in there for a full minute.

Praise be!

Posted by: Tonypete at March 22, 2025 10:17 AM (cYBz/)

16 I'm all for ragging on government waste, but...

How is an $11,996 car a luxury?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2025 10:18 AM (HV2Ek)

17 Speaking of the gubmint, all of the ridiculous Covid mandates truly broke some people. Out on my weekly 'long' run, came across two AWFLs on the trail, both were fully masked...outside...on a wooded path...with virtually no one around. They couldn't get away from me fast enough.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at March 22, 2025 10:21 AM (GTqXr)

18 . . . but hey!, they have 'gay' designs out the ass. . . .
Posted by: Dr_No

ISWYDT

Posted by: Tonypete at March 22, 2025 10:21 AM (cYBz/)

19 If a private company provides a low quality service or makes things intentionally difficult for its customers they will go elsewhere, so there is always pressure to try to provide a good experience.

The government though? You can't switch from say the IRS to some other tax collection agency so why would they care if they make your life miserable?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 22, 2025 10:22 AM (t0Rmr)

20 I'm inclined to think that people who recognize Lent and who take Lent off from the board have the right idea. Overload on news probably contributes to exhaustion, irritation and depression. I probably wouldn't have the discipline to absent myself from the board for the entirety of Lent. At least I'm not doing it so far. 😊

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 22, 2025 10:22 AM (cpNmX)

21 3 out of seven checks mailed priority mail with signature didn't reach their destination (probably dumped in a field somewhere, as they were never cashed). Grateful for online banking and very disappointed in the PO.

Posted by: Inisfree at March 22, 2025 10:23 AM (3g6r+)

22 USPS handles my Amazon stuff out of Aberdeen, Md. Packages leave there about 230am, delivered about 1030am same day.
I ordered a George Foreman grill for my mother. PO on The Island said they delivered it and have a photo for proof. No, I could'nt see it.
About 2 months later, they delivered it. So, now we have two.

Posted by: Accomack at March 22, 2025 10:25 AM (YVT+g)

23 A winning 2028 ticket!

Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders
Today, @AOC and I had 34,000 people come out in Denver.
It is the largest rally that I have ever had.
And it tells me that the American people will not allow Trump to move us into oligarchy and authoritarianism.
We will fight back. We will win.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 22, 2025 10:25 AM (L/fGl)

24 The car itself is the luxury.

Posted by: Accomack at March 22, 2025 10:27 AM (YVT+g)

25 Remember when David Frum was allegedly a respected conservative analyst?

Frum Now:

Trump billionaire cabinet officers gleefully planning to finance their tax cuts by skipping one month's Social Security payments to 73 million beneficiaries.

He. Has. Lost. His. Mind.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 22, 2025 10:27 AM (xTIDn)

26 The government though? You can't switch from say the IRS to some other tax collection agency so why would they care if they make your life miserable?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 22, 2025 10:22 AM (t0Rmr)

Speaking of, I haven't filed my taxes yet. I've been using TaxAct for years, and frankly they get more expensive every year. I don't know why I pay them. It's a pretty straightforward process, they just basically save me from having to remember where to put the numbers, and then file the forms for me.

Surely there's a cheaper service. I guess I'll figure out which one to use, I'm sure they're all basically the same.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2025 10:28 AM (9fYDK)

27 Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders
Today, @AOC and I had 34,000 people come out in Denver.

Bernie will be 86 on Election Day, 2028.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 22, 2025 10:29 AM (xTIDn)

28 The car itself is the luxury.
Posted by: Accomack at March 22, 2025 10:27 AM (YVT+g)

Again, you can hate the government all you want, but anyone who works for the government, and has to move from Point A to Point B, is given access to a vehicle.

Trump's got more than one.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2025 10:32 AM (9fYDK)

29 Speaking of the gubmint, all of the ridiculous Covid mandates truly broke some people.

The Portland chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America requires masking at all of its meetings.

In 2025.

Four of the twelve new Portland city council members belong to DSA, and two more are DSA-adjacent.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 22, 2025 10:32 AM (xTIDn)

30 Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders
Today, @AOC and I had 34,000 people come out in Denver.
-----------
Bernie will be 86 on Election Day, 2028.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 22, 2025 10:29 AM (xTIDn)

Only 34K? In Denver?

It's the gayest place in the world. There's got to be half a million fags in that city.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2025 10:33 AM (9fYDK)

31 Wisdom from The View.

“The View” Co-Host Sunny Hostin Says “We’re at an Existential Crisis,” Dems Need to Stop Playing by the Rules

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 22, 2025 10:35 AM (L/fGl)

32 Ah, the USPS.

They send me an email almost every day with images of First class mail that I sometimes never receive.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at March 22, 2025 10:35 AM (ZmEVT)

33 I'm all for ragging on government waste, but...

How is an $11,996 car a luxury?
Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2025 10:18 AM (HV2Ek)

Dat wuz da costa da rims, sucka!

Posted by: Jazzy at March 22, 2025 10:38 AM (0eaVi)

34 Didn't MisHum just comment on an old thread? (Bet you've never heard that one before!)

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 22, 2025 10:38 AM (vd6bO)

35 My local USPS is OK...except for the occasional mis-delivery of my mail to a neighbor and vice-versa. I, being a decent human being, take my neighbor's mail to his mailbox; some of neighbors, unfortunately, do not reciprocate. Assholes...

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 22, 2025 10:39 AM (XMwZJ)

36 BurtTC--that's a rental cost--$1000/month.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 22, 2025 10:40 AM (XMwZJ)

37 Today, @AOC and I had 34,000 people come out in Denver.

And how much did that cost you?

Posted by: NR Pax at March 22, 2025 10:41 AM (mF3TZ)

38
Gene Hackman killed Kitty Dukakis, then was killed by George Foreman, who later killed himself.

Posted by: Ferris Bueller at March 22, 2025 10:41 AM (e1zM8)

39 I get stuff via DHL from Japan quicker than some stuff shipped USPS in CONUS.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2025 10:42 AM (k8Vnt)

40 Only 34K? In Denver?

It's the gayest place in the world. There's got to be half a million fags in that city.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2025 10:33 AM (9fYDK)
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Rookie numbers, padded by union members told to go and paid staff. Everything the Dems do is fake.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2025 10:43 AM (ZOv7s)

41
Probably lying about the 34K, but even still, so what? In Denver??

But yeah, I find 34K highly dubious.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 22, 2025 10:43 AM (e1zM8)

42 Bernie Sanders@BernieSanders
Today, @AOC and I

**********

~~Old: Beauty and the Beast~~

New: Batty and the Breasts

Posted by: muldoon at March 22, 2025 10:44 AM (/iMjX)

43 34,000 x $40/hr

There are still slush funds to kill.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2025 10:44 AM (k8Vnt)

44 BurtTC--that's a rental cost--$1000/month.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 22, 2025 10:40 AM (XMwZJ)

A thousand a month for a rental is not a luxury.

If you went to Enterprise or Hertz, it would cost you at least that much for a Camry with roll down windows and an AM radio.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2025 10:44 AM (yqynR)

45 Wisdom from The View.

“The View” Co-Host Sunny Hostin Says “We’re at an Existential Crisis,” Dems Need to Stop Playing by the Rules
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 22, 2025 10:35 AM (L/fGl)

What rules is she talking about? Ana Navarro gets the last donut?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 22, 2025 10:44 AM (kTd/k)

46 Speaking of, I haven't filed my taxes yet. I've been using TaxAct for years, and frankly they get more expensive every year.

If Trump wants to make certain his successor will be elected in a landslide he should end the IRS and personal income taxes.

However, if he doesn't want to be that bold and just wants to help people a bit he could reform the IRS:

1) Taxpayers can 100% deduct the cost of tax prep, including time spent on it though this deduction can't make your tax bill negative
2) Any advice given by the IRS help line is *binding* on the IRS for the person that called them
3) Remove the income cap on child credits and multiply it by 5. However, again, make it so it can't make your tax bill negative. You want to incentivize the upper middle class to have the kids right?

Posted by: 18-1 at March 22, 2025 10:45 AM (t0Rmr)

47 "because there's a decent chance that someone made a deal with the Devil to be able to make that happen."

And it wasn't me. As far as I know and wouldn't that suck.

"There's been a mistake! I want to speak to the manager!"

"There's no manager boy. And you agreed to this exchange."

Like Hell...uh no offense but there was no Stevie Nicks, no 3rd world empire and ...uhm I'm still 6 inches.

"No it's all right here. We acquired your soul March 4th 2023 in exchange for (checks notes) 1 day shipping from China. And that's not six inches. I can't help you with the witch but- oh... I apologize Mr Fen, it appears we have indeed overlooked certain clauses in your contract. Here we go, as stipulated as part of your Daily Temptation, LIVE from the Plains of Elysium, here's Brittney Spears!

Noooooo!

(Meh I was thinking of Christine McVie for the reveal, but a quick search to spell check indicates we lost her Nov 2022. It must have been a bitch to be that talented only to have your guitarist bring one of the seven Muses into the band. I'm such a softie. Much respect Mrs McVie, rest peacefully).

Posted by: Fen at March 22, 2025 10:45 AM (c5hJL)

48 “The View” Co-Host Sunny Hostin Says “We’re at an Existential Crisis,” Dems Need to Stop Playing by the Rules
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 22, 2025 10:35 AM (L/fGl)
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Rules that only apply when you are winning are not actual rules.

But we all knew that. What's interesting is how Trump is also throwing away the old rules. This is why the Dems are in a panic. They've never faced determined opposition.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2025 10:45 AM (ZOv7s)

49 Ásthildur Lóa Thórsdóttir ....hope she looked a lot better at 22...poor kid.

Posted by: BignJames at March 22, 2025 10:46 AM (Yj6Os)

50
I live in MA, so I remember when Dukakis & Fake News told us Kitty, his alcoholic crazy batshit wife, "accidentally" drank hair spray, after shave, anything she could find and got really sick.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 22, 2025 10:46 AM (e1zM8)

51 >>>I'm learning that some things can sit around for at least one if not two business days before I am informed.

Just the opposite for me. I have a PO box and Informed Delivery. But, I was getting notifications only to drive over and find nothing in my box. Complained to the manager of the branch and he said the pictures and notifications happened at the sorting facility, but that it still took 24 more hours for the mail to get to the branch and be placed into my box.

Now that I know how they are doing things, no big deal. Just have to wait an extra day after I get the email.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 22, 2025 10:46 AM (klJTj)

52 Yessiree, Bernie. Let us move back to the sensible policies of the Biden regime. We didn't actually know who was running things, but hot damn!, didn't they do a good job

oh, yes, let us defeat authoritarianism by bringing back the guillotine for Elon Musk and other Nazi like people who support eliminating fraud and waste in government , because we know there isn't any unless Republicans are in charge!

Posted by: Alexandra Ocasio- Cortez at March 22, 2025 10:46 AM (42Vb+)

53 It's been awhile since we've seen a new video with comments set to music. Here's one for Off White;

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

Posted by: Archimedes at March 22, 2025 10:47 AM (xCA6C)

54 Lease, not rental---$1000/month for a lease is a luxury car.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 22, 2025 10:47 AM (XMwZJ)

55 My USPS person is a contractor and she is pretty good and nice. I always drop her a GC at Christmas time, nothing big just enough to get lunch some where but it's enough that she is careful with my mail. When she had a car accident and was out for about 2 months... well, it was noticed.

Posted by: lin-duh of the garbage clan at March 22, 2025 10:48 AM (cDvOu)

56 Our local USPS outfit is pretty decent. Once had a letter sent my way with the right name, street address from an address I had two moves back, wrong City, but actually my current zip code, but they still got it delivered correctly...and when I come in while they are closing up for lunch they don't ignore me - have even had them come out in the middle of their lunch break to get a package for me.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 22, 2025 10:48 AM (vd6bO)

57 Thorsdottir - Thor's daughter

Does she bring the thunder?

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2025 10:49 AM (k8Vnt)

58 Thanks to Mis. Hum. For filling in today. I'm sitting in a hospital room partly prepped for some tests. Medical personnel present.

Posted by: KT at March 22, 2025 10:49 AM (DZDR7)

59
But we all knew that. What's interesting is how Trump is also throwing away the old rules. This is why the Dems are in a panic. They've never faced determined opposition.

The GOP became controlled opposition in '99. Trump is the first national GOP leader since then to actually want to do the things he said he'd do on the campaign trail. In his last run he tried to work with the GOPe and they sabotaged him.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 22, 2025 10:49 AM (t0Rmr)

60 USPS follies...

As of this past February there were still Christmas packages at the Louisville, KY sorting center yet to be delivered.

Why?

Because there are not enough "trained people."
Because people quit after a week.
Because it's FUBAR.
Because mail in my zip code, going to another address in my zip code gets routed to Louisville to be delivered two weeks from now to someone down the street.

That's why.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 22, 2025 10:49 AM (Q4IgG)

61 "I was never that big on creeds."

https://youtu.be/Bw_MOtnhIxw

Posted by: Newman at March 22, 2025 10:49 AM (dg+HA)

62 "send me an email almost every day with images of First class mail that I sometimes never receive.

(Nods) my ex-girlfriend does something similar

Posted by: Fen at March 22, 2025 10:50 AM (c5hJL)

63 I live in MA, so I remember when Dukakis & Fake News told us Kitty, his alcoholic crazy batshit wife, "accidentally" drank hair spray, after shave, anything she could find and got really sick.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 22, 2025 10:46 AM (e1zM

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The amount of drugs and alcohol Dem politicians consume is quite telling, isn't it? Here they are with all the worldly things one could want - fame, power, money - and they're still having to get sloshed just to make it through the day.

It's like there is a hollowness in their soul, and that for all their talk of joy, they lack the peace that faith can give you.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2025 10:50 AM (ZOv7s)

64 3She counseled him into having sex with her.
I don't care if she was young and (I'm guessing) hot, this is an adult entrusted with access to troubled teens and she used it to groom one.

She...is not. So much not.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 22, 2025 10:50 AM (xCA6C)

65 3) Remove the income cap on child credits and multiply it by 5. However, again, make it so it can't make your tax bill negative. You want to incentivize the upper middle class to have the kids right?
Posted by: 18-1 at March 22, 2025 10:45 AM (t0Rmr)

Yeah, I know people who pay no taxes, who get cash every year with the child tax "credit."

I'm paying you to have kids. I don't care if you can trace your family tree back to the Mayflower, I should not be FORCED to give you money, merely because you exist.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2025 10:50 AM (eCp9G)

66 You can lease a nice luxury car for !k / month.

straight rental not so much.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at March 22, 2025 10:50 AM (VofaG)

67 Take care KT and best wishes.

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2025 10:50 AM (k8Vnt)

68
Wikipedia is complete garbage, in case you had doubts.

Here's how Wiki lists Michael Dukakis' military service:

Military service

Branch/service: United States Army
Years of service: 1955–1957
Rank: Specialist
Unit: 8020th Administrative Unit
Battles/wars: Korean War

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 22, 2025 10:51 AM (unZNw)

69 I like the people at our local Canadian Post Office.

That being said, the entire subhu,an pieces of crap at the Canadian postal service went on strike around Christmas.

I thought it would be a good idea for banks to take over the operations somehow. They are located in even remote communities.

Posted by: Stateless...65% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 22, 2025 10:51 AM (jvJvP)

70 As of this past February there were still Christmas packages at the Louisville, KY sorting center yet to be delivered.

Why?

Because there are not enough "trained people."

How much training is needed to do this job? A retarded monkey could do it.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 22, 2025 10:51 AM (xCA6C)

71 Musk is suing Jamaal Bowman, the idiot former Dem Rep from NY who pulled a fire alarm to stop a vote in the House, for calling him a Nazi and a thief on CNN.

Good. It's way past time to slap back at these garbage people.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 22, 2025 10:51 AM (LkLld)

72 A 2025 3-Series BMW lease is less than $600/month.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 22, 2025 10:51 AM (XMwZJ)

73 Did we turn the clocks ahead again?

Posted by: From about That Time at March 22, 2025 10:53 AM (n4GiU)

74 Now taking my mom to get a drivers license renewal without an appointment... that was frustrating. All the personnel wear body cams. Think about that, the Licensing & Permit people have to wear body cams because their bubbly personalities cause people to go off enough that it warrants wearing a body cam to record incidents.

Posted by: lin-duh of the garbage clan at March 22, 2025 10:53 AM (cDvOu)

75 I actually worked part time during college for UPS. I say part time I loaded trucks and was about to add a third. Hardest job I ever had, slept the rest of the day to recover my I only lasted 6 months

Posted by: Fen at March 22, 2025 10:54 AM (c5hJL)

76 Wikipedia is complete garbage, in case you had doubts.

Here's how Wiki lists Michael Dukakis' military service:

Military service

Branch/service: United States Army
Years of service: 1955–1957
Rank: Specialist
Unit: 8020th Administrative Unit
Battles/wars: Korean War

Perhaps he was still fighting in the Philippine jungle.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 22, 2025 10:54 AM (xCA6C)

77 Lease, not rental---$1000/month for a lease is a luxury car.
Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 22, 2025 10:47 AM (XMwZJ)

I think there are better places to expend one's outrage.

Congresscritters get access to cars. Even the silly ones.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2025 10:55 AM (0fXeq)

78 Lin-duh, our TX DMV is fairly efficient--if you have an appointment. Went for a replacement title, in and out in 15 minutes. Surprising, as I thought that would be the biggest pain in the ass ever.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 22, 2025 10:55 AM (XMwZJ)

79 I'm inclined to think that people who recognize Lent and who take Lent off from the board have the right idea. Overload on news probably contributes to exhaustion, irritation and depression. I probably wouldn't have the discipline to absent myself from the board for the entirety of Lent. At least I'm not doing it so far. 😊
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 22, 2025 10:22 AM (cpNmX)
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I like to check the posts, but don't comment much during the week. With the weather improving, I'll probably be on even less.

The exception will be Wedneday, where I will be commenting constantly because my scope prep is going to have me locked in a sitting position all day.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2025 10:55 AM (ZOv7s)

80 How much training is needed to do this job? A retarded monkey could do it.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 22, 2025 10:51 AM (xCA6C)

Perhaps the English, how you say, is not their first or even second language, yes?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar - THIS Year in Corsicana - again at March 22, 2025 10:56 AM (hOUT3)

81 Thorsdottir - Thor's daughter

Does she bring the thunder?
Posted by: Anna Puma at March 22, 2025 10:49 AM (k8Vnt)

Only her thighs.

Posted by: Thor at March 22, 2025 10:56 AM (0eaVi)

82 If that minutes of hating the government is your 2024 total, you are short 1440 minutes, unless you took Feb. 29 off.

Posted by: tankdemon at March 22, 2025 10:57 AM (rG+ni)

83 It seems the leftwing idiot meme of the day is insisting the MAGA movement is lacking in masculinity. It seems orders have been released to tell the minions to take that line of attack.
What's that all about Alfie?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 22, 2025 10:57 AM (kTd/k)

84 Did we turn the clocks ahead again?
Posted by: From about That Time at March 22, 2025 10:53 AM (n4GiU)

I got up early this morning. I live in Arizona, I don't even know what day it is in the rest of the country.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2025 10:57 AM (0fXeq)

85 *Here's how Wiki lists Michael Dukakis' military service:*

They forgot to mention all that time he spent riding in a tank during the campaign.

Posted by: Rush called him The Loser at March 22, 2025 11:00 AM (dg+HA)

86 It seems the leftwing idiot meme of the day is insisting the MAGA movement is lacking in masculinity. It seems orders have been released to tell the minions to take that line of attack.
What's that all about Alfie?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 22, 2025 10:57 AM (kTd/k)
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Projection. It's about projection.

It's funny how little the left understand the right. They have no idea how we think. Walz is a prime example. You'd think being in the Army he might have learned something about normal men, but apparently he was just a chow thief working as a clerk, brown-nosing his way up through the ranks by polishing every apple.

He goes hunting and can't load his weapon. Like Biden, he feels this weird need to brag of being able to fight in his old age. No actual masculine man does that.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2025 11:01 AM (ZOv7s)

87 Sebastion Melmoth, I saw that you had asked Ciampino if he had gotten a pneumonia shot. I stupidly got one and it made me sicker than I have ever been. Took 3 months to get back to normal.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 22, 2025 11:01 AM (j6NlC)

88 83 It seems the leftwing idiot meme of the day is insisting the MAGA movement is lacking in masculinity.
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They always do that, don't they? Accuse others of the very thing that most describes themselves or their own behavior.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at March 22, 2025 11:02 AM (vd6bO)

89 Thx MisHum.
Iceland Minister for Children: it's for the children
Everyone else: hey wait just a darn minute

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 22, 2025 11:03 AM (1vqcm)

90 Did we turn the clocks ahead again?
Posted by: From about That Time

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Introducing new Daylight Super-Saver hours

Posted by: muldoon at March 22, 2025 11:03 AM (/iMjX)

91 It seems the leftwing idiot meme of the day is insisting the MAGA movement is lacking in masculinity. It seems orders have been released to tell the minions to take that line of attack.
What's that all about Alfie?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 22, 2025 10:57 AM (kTd/k)

They put Tim Walz on it.

And then Don Jr. said he was limp-wristed. I tried to find the quote, but DDG search engine only gives me left wing sites, with references to stuff from August of last year.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2025 11:04 AM (iW7Ee)

92 Sorting mail by hand, the stuff that can't be read by machines is a mind numbing job. So's sorting the packages that have no barcode label. You have to be able to read. Comprehend.

A lot of new hires can't do that. Don't want to do that.

They want to sit in the office, surf the web and make $80K their first year. Doing nothing.

We're rural and there isn't a person working for our local post office under the age of 40.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 22, 2025 11:05 AM (Q4IgG)

93 He goes hunting and can't load his weapon. Like Biden, he feels this weird need to brag of being able to fight in his old age. No actual masculine man does that.

The left's caricature of masculinity is that it means you go around beating people because you can and because you enjoy it. Waltz and Biden both play to that.

You'd think they'd play to the other caricature of masculinity too where you have a Chad that beds willing women at will...think James Bond. But I guess the AWFLs wouldn't like that.

Holding up these two as masculine though is especially odd considering their, uh, underage proclivities.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 22, 2025 11:05 AM (t0Rmr)

94
Outrage dialed up to 11 and language like Jamaal Bowman uses are permissible signs of passion for democrats today.

A union guy I used to go fishing with won't go to events they PAY YOU to attend because the blue hairs get right in his face and yell for the hell of it. Also, old, white, male, and told he should hate himself for it.

Posted by: Auspex at March 22, 2025 11:06 AM (j4U/Z)

95 It seems the leftwing idiot meme of the day is insisting the MAGA movement is lacking in masculinity.

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Yeah. David Hogg just screams testosterone overload.

Posted by: muldoon at March 22, 2025 11:06 AM (/iMjX)

96
Democrats: We've lost all our popularity! What do we do?

Also Democrats: The obvious remedy is to continue what we're doing BUT do MORE of it!

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 22, 2025 11:07 AM (dARiu)

97 Here is my USPS story.

I ordered some pants from Amazon and they gave them to the USPS to deliver. The day they were supposed to come Amazon sent me an email saying they weren't delivered because of animal interference. I don't have any pets and there aren't many wild animals in my area so I waited for them to be redelivered and they weren't

I saw my local mail guy and asked him about it, he said a different guy does the Amazon deliveries and I should call the office. I called my local post office and played phone tag with them. Eventually I got a human being that said my pants would be delivered tomorrow.This went on several times and no they wouldn't let me speak with the guy that was supposed to deliver my pants.

After about a week of this the pants mysteriously show up. I've never had this problem with actual Amazon deliveries.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 22, 2025 11:09 AM (t0Rmr)

98 And a little Hogg shall lead them.

Posted by: With a pillow at March 22, 2025 11:10 AM (dg+HA)

99 I just hope Hogg knows not to be alone in a room with Walz or to take any drinks from him...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 22, 2025 11:10 AM (t0Rmr)

100 I just hope Hogg knows not to be alone in a room with Walz or to take any drinks from him...
Posted by: 18-1

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Walz seems like the type who would roofie himself...

Posted by: muldoon at March 22, 2025 11:12 AM (/iMjX)

101 Being Masculine is like Fight Club. If you have to brag about it, you don't have it.

Posted by: Ignoramus at March 22, 2025 11:12 AM (Gqoy+)

102 5 It seems the leftwing idiot meme of the day is insisting the MAGA movement is lacking in masculinity.

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Yeah. David Hogg just screams testosterone overload.
Posted by: muldoon at March 22, 2025 11:06 AM (/iMjX)

Gavin Newsome giggles and wiggles when he talks. It shows he's a man's man.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 22, 2025 11:13 AM (g8Ew8)

103 How much training is needed to do this job? A retarded monkey could do it.
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Not really. Memorization for clerks when sorting. It’s easy once all the scheme is retained. It is hell until then. Trust Me. For letter carriers casing up the mail for delivery is also hell. Then they put you on a different route every day.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 22, 2025 11:13 AM (o0flu)

104 That is a starting guitar riff of some merit.
I wonder what it might inspire in the future.

Posted by: somejoe at March 22, 2025 11:13 AM (RCAte)

105 We finally have a great letter carrier! She arrives at about the same time everyday and always calls me by name. We also almost always get the stuff that is addressed to us!

Posted by: Weasel at March 22, 2025 11:14 AM (c8xsU)

106 MisHum! Revolution! Yes! I remember when that video hit the TV for the first time. I was like, whoa!, that is pretty great. You know what? It still is.

And because: Prince.
https://youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at March 22, 2025 11:15 AM (mhceY)

107 Until the last few years, USPS was very reliable for me. A couple years ago I had one year's worth of crop payment get lost in the mail, so now I deposit everything with an Ap.

I had a small piece for my tractor mailed to me on March 6th ... it got stalled in St. Louis for a week, finally got it yesterday ... no longer needed it. But I still get a lot of Amazon stuff shipped USPS ... usually smaller things.

DEI ... the three workers I know of at my local rural PO are all female.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 22, 2025 11:15 AM (Cus5s)

108 You'd think they'd play to the other caricature of masculinity too where you have a Chad that beds willing women at will...think James Bond. But I guess the AWFLs wouldn't like that.

Holding up these two as masculine though is especially odd considering their, uh, underage proclivities.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 22, 2025 11:05 AM (t0Rmr)
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They have no understand of that kind of masculinity.

Also note how they always lie about military service. Always. Conservatives never do that.

We have lots of Morons with military service and none of them do the jargon-infested chest-thumping that Walz, Kingzinger, Danang Dick and company do.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2025 11:16 AM (ZOv7s)

109 Thanks,, Anna Puma. They left for a while. just me and the IV pole right now.

Posted by: KT at March 22, 2025 11:16 AM (DZDR7)

110 I was a letter carrier for a long time. Great job in a lot of ways.

Would you believe …. leftists fucked it all up? I had no use for the union or management. The stories I could tell …

If DOGE gets in that mess .. ha!

Posted by: Common Tater at March 22, 2025 11:19 AM (o0flu)

111 The Post Office has been on a long downhill slide ever since John Kasich's dad left.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 22, 2025 11:19 AM (hY4dx)

112
Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create white liberal women.
White liberal women create hard times.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 22, 2025 11:20 AM (dg+HA)

113
If I lived in the olden times, I'd be a Milk Man.
They were always getting lots of tail.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 22, 2025 11:20 AM (dARiu)

114 Here's how Wiki lists Michael Dukakis' military service:

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 22, 2025 10:51 AM

Wait....that little twerp actually had military service?

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 22, 2025 11:20 AM (Wnv9h)

115 Years of service: 1955–1957
Rank: Specialist
Unit: 8020th Administrative Unit
Battles/wars: Korean War
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Can't any veteran since 1950 say that?
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That war was never legally ended, iirc.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 22, 2025 11:22 AM (n4GiU)

116 Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create white liberal women.
White liberal women create hard times.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at March 22, 2025 11:20 AM (dg+HA)
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I like the Slavic version:

Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create hard times.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2025 11:22 AM (ZOv7s)

117 "Here's how Wiki lists Michael Dukakis' military service:"

It doesn't really matter anymore. And so typical of God's sense of humor. I finally get a leader who will fight for us and suddenly my people (not you guys) reveal they're no longer worth fighting for.

This is the same God who not only demands we do the Right thing but insists we be martyred over it. His own Son, brings salvation to all mankind but that's not good enough, he also must be crucified and treated worse than a common criminal.

Gratias tibi ago, domine. Haec credam a deo pio? A deo iusto, a deo scito?

Yah sorry, I got the Other Guy in my ear these days. And Hod is not happy with me. Because I know the path and resist taking it. I would be angry with me too. I know it says you can be forgiven at the last moment but gaming the system to bask in sin is probably it's own sin.

Posted by: Fen at March 22, 2025 11:22 AM (c5hJL)

118 102 5 It seems the leftwing idiot meme of the day is insisting the MAGA movement is lacking in masculinity.

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Yeah. David Hogg just screams testosterone overload.
Posted by: muldoon at March 22, 2025 11:06 AM (/iMjX)

Gavin Newsome giggles and wiggles when he talks. It shows he's a man's man.

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Tampon Tim has joined the chat

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 22, 2025 11:22 AM (hY4dx)

119 One thing I noticed. When I was growing up (and mail volume was tremendous) the city routes, they all got done by about 2 or 3 pm. All their trucks were parked at the local bar, where they would hang out till it was time to clock out. LOL

Somehow with more people, way better pay, machine automation, and 1/10th the volume they can’t get it done.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 22, 2025 11:24 AM (o0flu)

120 That war was never legally ended, iirc.
Posted by: From about That Time at March 22, 2025 11:22 AM (n4GiU)
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"To receive this medal, military veterans must have served in the country of Korea, its territorial waters, or airspace within the inclusive period of June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953. "

So it was officially over.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2025 11:25 AM (ZOv7s)

121 Yeah. David Hogg just screams testosterone overload.
Posted by: muldoon at March 22, 2025 11:06 AM (/iMjX)

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I didn't even know 2.5 lb. dumbbells existed.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 22, 2025 11:27 AM (hY4dx)

122 The thing about liberals is that they are totally obsessed with status. A huge part of their hatred for Trump is that he does not respect their status and is accorded more respect than they are.

This is why the cheat to get degrees and doctorates, and also why liberals with military records embellish them. They know their service wasn't all that, so they have to claim rank, or try to make more of it than there was, etc.

Combat veterans have (in their mind) the ultimate status, so that's why the claim it so often. All the combat veterans I know are very low-key about it. It is not a subject of casual conversation. It's almost axiomatic that someone who keeps talking about it is almost certainly making it up.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at March 22, 2025 11:29 AM (ZOv7s)

123 Bernard Shaw, of CNN - asked Dukakis if he would be in favor of the death penalty if a burglar raped and murdered his wife, Kitty.

Dukakis sort of hemmed and hawed, ultimately saying no, he really didn’t think so. This torpedoed his chances, perhaps.

Historically I think it is why ALL political events are now scripted and fake and gay. Nobody wants to take a chance of saying the wrong thing. If nobody asks the wrong question the chances are even further reduced.

Town Halls aren’t really town halls. Press conferences that aren’t. Debates that really aren’t. Donny Two Scoops knew this, and blew it all up.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 22, 2025 11:30 AM (o0flu)

124 So there's this:

I-yp through Colorado is sort of a choke point for the West to East drug trafficking racket. Every couple of weeks or so we see a story of a traffic stop resulting in a bulk drug arrest. Latest was a Mexican from Sinaloa (cartel mule) stopped for going 82 mph just east of Glenwood Canyon which led to a drug-sniffing K9 and discovery of 42 lbs of methamphetamine. I've seen numbers like 50,000 fentanyl tablets, so this is major stuff.

My question is: "How many drug mules are NOT caught for traffic stops and end up reaching their destination?"

It's got to be a huge number, right?

Posted by: muldoon at March 22, 2025 11:30 AM (/iMjX)

125 I-yp? WTH?

I-70

Posted by: muldoon at March 22, 2025 11:31 AM (/iMjX)

126 That damn Trump!

Sky News Australia@SkyNewsAust
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been urged to call an "emergency meeting" after the Trump administration cut grants to seven Australian universities.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 22, 2025 11:32 AM (L/fGl)

127 Here's a better USPS story:

I ordered an item from Amazon, which was to be delivered by USPS. After a few days, I noticed an e-mail from Amazon saying the package had been delivered when I did not have it in hand.

I went to my local USPS station and explained the situation. I gave the guy behind the desk the routing number and he went into the back for 5-10 minutes. When he came back, he said that the geolocation for the delivery was slightly different from my address, and they'd work with the guy who actually delivered the package to get it to me. I filled out a very short form, signed it and left. About a week later, I had the package in hand. So there are diligent people at a few stations.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 22, 2025 11:32 AM (6K6Eu)

128 Sky News Australia@SkyNewsAust
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been urged to call an "emergency meeting" after the Trump administration cut grants to seven Australian universities.

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So good to know my hard-earned tax dollars were subsidizing universities in Kangaroo-land.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 22, 2025 11:33 AM (hY4dx)

129 Get thefinger stretching exercises going Muldoon.

Posted by: From about That Time at March 22, 2025 11:33 AM (n4GiU)

130 Why do I even pay those hunky quarterly taxes when the feds just set the money on fire?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 22, 2025 11:34 AM (hY4dx)

131 I didn't even know 2.5 lb. dumbbells existed.
Posted by: Cicero

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"Onnnnnnnne, ugh. Onnnnne and a half. Whew! Somebody spot me!"

*wipes forehead*
*flexes in mirror*
*hangs hand towel around neck*
*heads for the juice bar*

Posted by: muldoon at March 22, 2025 11:35 AM (/iMjX)

132 One thing I noticed. When I was growing up (and mail volume was tremendous) the city routes, they all got done by about 2 or 3 pm. All their trucks were parked at the local bar, where they would hang out till it was time to clock out. LOL

Somehow with more people, way better pay, machine automation, and 1/10th the volume they can’t get it done.
Posted by: Common Tater at March 22, 2025 11:24 AM (o0flu)
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City of London back in the day had at least five delivery times of day. Often, in the Sherlock Holmes stories, you'll see him send a letter to someone across town in the morning and get a reply in the early afternoon. I doubt that obtains any more.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 22, 2025 11:36 AM (6K6Eu)

133 Why do I even pay those hunky quarterly taxes when the feds just set the money on fire?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at March 22, 2025 11:34 AM (hY4dx)

Try not paying...see what happens.

Posted by: BignJames at March 22, 2025 11:36 AM (Yj6Os)

134 I had a huge route, sometimes I would see outgoing letters to an address later on in the day. It was fun to deliver those the same day. Of course “you’re not supposed to do that”.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 22, 2025 11:36 AM (uG1+h)

135 Yeah. David Hogg just screams testosterone overload.
Posted by: muldoon

Just like Twinkletoes Walz.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 22, 2025 11:37 AM (L/fGl)

136 > My question is: "How many drug mules are NOT caught for traffic stops and end up reaching their destination?"
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If they're moving drugs they're also moving humans.

I-71 is a huge drug and human trafficking corridor. At one time there were billboards up in N. Ohio telling motorists what to look out for.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 22, 2025 11:39 AM (Q4IgG)

137 I didn't even know 2.5 lb. dumbbells existed.
Posted by: Cicero

I try to lift nothing heavier than a Quarter Pounder with Cheese.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 22, 2025 11:39 AM (L/fGl)

138 Off to the garage for my last cup...and a smoke.

Posted by: BignJames at March 22, 2025 11:39 AM (Yj6Os)

139 If the USPS was a private business it would have gone tits up decades ago. Customer Service being the cruelest oxymoron

Posted by: Life of Wryly at March 22, 2025 11:41 AM (1FWWQ)

140 Business routes in the US had twice a day deliveries back in the day.

If you watch some of the historical Post Office vids from the 50s and 60s they still do it that way, a lot of it, and with literally the same equipment. The cases, pouch rack, carts, hampers and buggies. They don’t use canvas bags, nylon or plastic but everything is basically the same.

They are saddled with a dichotomy- some of the finest people you’ll ever meet work there. And then some folks …. who are rancid to the core, and can’t be fired. It’s a strange place.

Posted by: Common Tater at March 22, 2025 11:41 AM (uG1+h)

141 Sky News Australia@SkyNewsAust
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been urged to call an "emergency meeting" after the Trump administration cut grants to seven Australian universities.

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WTF? We're subsidizing indoctrination in Oz?

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 22, 2025 11:41 AM (g8Ew8)

142 If I lived in the olden times, I'd be a Milk Man.
They were always getting lots of tail.

Posted by: Soothsayer

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Not if they strapped it to the far side of the cow while milking.

Posted by: muldoon at March 22, 2025 11:41 AM (/iMjX)

143 I-yp through Colorado is sort of a choke point for the West to East drug trafficking racket. Every couple of weeks or so we see a story of a traffic stop resulting in a bulk drug arrest. Latest was a Mexican from Sinaloa (cartel mule) stopped for going 82 mph just east of Glenwood Canyon which led to a drug-sniffing K9 and discovery of 42 lbs of methamphetamine. I've seen numbers like 50,000 fentanyl tablets, so this is major stuff.

My question is: "How many drug mules are NOT caught for traffic stops and end up reaching their destination?"

It's got to be a huge number, right?
Posted by: muldoon at March 22, 2025 11:30 AM (/iMjX)

I got pulled over around Glenwood Springs some years ago, they had slowed traffic from 65 to 55, and I was letting my vehicle coast its way down. He clocked me at 68.

Come on, man.

He said they had a fatal accident a few days earlier, but maybe they were looking for drug mules.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2025 11:43 AM (Hnlcj)

144 Oh and I never did get an explanation of the supposed animal that stopped them from delivering my package. Maybe there was a particularly tough looking squirrel that day

Posted by: 18-1 at March 22, 2025 11:43 AM (t0Rmr)

145 I didn't even know 2.5 lb. dumbbells existed.
Posted by: Cicero

I try to lift nothing heavier than a Quarter Pounder with Cheese.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 22, 2025 11:39 AM (L/fGl)

Sonic double cheeseburger. GAINZ!!

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 22, 2025 11:43 AM (g8Ew8)

146 Oh and I never did get an explanation of the supposed animal that stopped them from delivering my package. Maybe there was a particularly tough looking squirrel that day
Posted by: 18-1 at March 22, 2025 11:43 AM (t0Rmr)
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Chupacabras. They're everywhere.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 22, 2025 11:44 AM (6K6Eu)

147 That package going 400 miles might have traveled a lot farther. A friend recently had a package go north to south across Arkansas. Once it reached Little Rock, it went to Fayetteville (where they live). Then it went back to Little Rock. Then it left Little Rock and the next day it re-left Little Rock. Then it arrived in Little Rock. Then it didn't leave Little Rock but arrived in Fayetteville. Then it left Little Rock again and didn't arrive in Fayetteville... but it was delivered there the next day.

And, of course, they shut down our mail center here several years ago. In, you know, one of the most populous areas of Virginia. So, for mail to go cross town now (say, from my house to someone in Virginia Beach - a half hour drive because of the roads/traffic)... it now has to go to RICHMOND and back. It's an hour and a half to two hours to Richmond, from my house. So it takes mail 3-4 days minimum to go that 15-20 miles.

Read David Brin's The Postman and it's like a totally different era. And the mail gets delivered faster in post-apocalyptic America than it does now.

Posted by: GWB at March 22, 2025 11:46 AM (T3e+N)

148 Collin Ruggg@CollinRugg
JUST IN: Elon Musk announces he is launching a lawsuit after former Rep. Jamaal Bowman called him a “thief” and a “Nazi” on live television.
The comment from Bowman came last night on CNN.
“I've had enough. Lawsuit inbound,” Musk said in response to the video clip below.

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Look at the big brain on Bowman!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 22, 2025 11:46 AM (L/fGl)

149 Glenwood Springs didn’t get 4 lane divided interstate till relatively recently. Even in the 1990s there was a white knuckle stretch in there, especially in the winter.

Denver had this weird zig-zag road construction defect on the interstate for years and years too. Practically a landmark fixture. Kept ya on yer toes, I guess

Posted by: Common Tater at March 22, 2025 11:47 AM (uG1+h)

150 Plants are up.

Posted by: Weasel at March 22, 2025 11:47 AM (c8xsU)

151 WTF? We're subsidizing indoctrination in Oz?
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at March 22, 2025 11:41 AM (g8Ew

This is why I say, not another damn dime in foreign aid.

To anybody.

It's gotten so insane, we have no idea where our "money" is going. It's so far removed from reality, it just has to stop. All of it. This is why I can't get worked up about Jizzy Crockett driving a fancy car. You think Congresscritters should be driving Chevy Malibus? Fine, but how's about we stop sending bazillions of dollars overseas first.

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2025 11:47 AM (Hnlcj)

152 Plants are up.
Posted by: Weasel at March 22, 2025 11:47 AM (c8xsU)

Seriously? Why is everything being rushed?

Is the Sunday Book Thread going to be posted in 10 minutes?

Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2025 11:49 AM (i4w4l)

153 Oz curriculums: Why America Sucks 101.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 22, 2025 11:50 AM (L/fGl)

154 > Oh and I never did get an explanation of the supposed animal that stopped them from delivering my package. Maybe there was a particularly tough looking squirrel that day
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Every day there's about 3 - 4 posts on a local Facebook group about "loose dogs." It's like a pandemic. And in every. single. post. there's someone bitching about not getting their mail because of these "loose dogs."

There's a solution for that, and it's offered up every. single. day. but nobody wants to deal with it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 22, 2025 11:52 AM (Q4IgG)

155 "Also note how they always lie about military service. Always. Conservatives never do that.

We have lots of Morons with military service and none of them do the jargon-infested chest-thumping"

Yeah that's great, I guess. But I can't get any online "conservatives" to help me fight false accusations of stolen valor. I was told "no one cares" and "go kill yourself ".

Relax CBD. I'm not going to ask Ace or anyone here for help because I can't afford to risk any more cruelty. It would be probably be the end for me. I need to pretend that somewhere in America people will still stand up for a Marine.

"none of them do the jargon-infested chest-thumping"

Yeah, we call it False Motivation. It's usually a good tell. We had a SGT in the S-3 of 2D LAR who was all Chesty Puller This and Chesty Puller That. Replaced our range control and Schools boards on the walls with a bunch of motivational crap you would find at a recruiting station, not Ops and Training. Very inefficient. Turns out he was sleeping with a CPLs wife - one of his own NCOs. Unbelievable. I think MSGT Zurat actually spat fire and brimstone the day he found out.

Posted by: Fen at March 22, 2025 11:52 AM (c5hJL)

156 This doesn't feel right after the prayer thread but:
About Icelands Minister of Children and the 16 yo kid. Meh I think questioning the 'victim'' as to the harm he encountered boffing his guidance counselor should be the fulcrum for the scales of justice. Something tells me he liked it.

Posted by: I I'm gumby damn it! at March 22, 2025 11:53 AM (37aB+)

157 Oz curricula:

Introduction to computer sciences,
"Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, 010101"

(...wait for it)

Posted by: muldoon at March 22, 2025 11:53 AM (/iMjX)

158 wasn't even in there for a full minute.

Praise be!
Posted by: Tonypete at March 22, 2025 10:17 AM (cYBz/)

California DMV: In Tennessee the DMV registers your cars.
In California the DMV registers you! ...if you have an appointment.

Posted by: waepnedmann at March 22, 2025 11:53 AM (CWffy)

159 Rep. Jasmine Crockett billed taxpayers $11,996 in 2024 for a fresh set of wheels
Huh. They shouldn't be allowed to bill anything. They can put their salary in a FSA like us regular shlubs. And why aren't they taking that D.C. Metro like all of us constituents in DC? They should get a few computers paid for, a Metro card, 2 staff (who aren't allowed to stay around when the next guy comes in), and a cabinet full of legal pads, dry erase markers, and a box of #2 pencils.

And they should have to make tents to make ends meet. (Good enough for the apostle Paul, should be more than good enough for all you Congresscritters.)

Posted by: GWB at March 22, 2025 11:55 AM (T3e+N)

160 Thanks to Mis. Hum. For filling in today. I'm sitting in a hospital room partly prepped for some tests. Medical personnel present.
Posted by: KT

KT! hope you are progressing well!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 22, 2025 11:57 AM (+GUcx)

161 and (I'm guessing) hot
Posted by: Lizzy at March 22, 2025 10:06 AM (Cki93)

Nope.

Posted by: GWB at March 22, 2025 11:57 AM (T3e+N)

162 London had an underground subway system with mini-trains especially for quick delivery of mail. I think it's just a touristy thing to look at the remains of it now, though.

Posted by: Beneath Contempt at March 22, 2025 11:58 AM (G5+As)

163 Oz curricula:

Studies in Midgets with Doll Fetishes 201 - "Throw another shrimp on the Barbie"

Posted by: muldoon at March 22, 2025 11:58 AM (/iMjX)

164 @ 51 >>>I'm learning that some things can sit around for at least one if not two business days before I am informed.
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Now that I know how they are doing things, no big deal. Just have to wait an extra day after I get the email.
________________________________________

I NEVER go to the box the same day I get the notice - that'd be the equivalent of pissing into the wind. Besides, it's usually stuff I'd rather not receive anyway ... like bills. F the PO.

Posted by: Dr_No at March 22, 2025 11:59 AM (ayRl+)

165 How is an $11,996 car a luxury?
Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2025 10:18 AM (HV2Ek)

First, she can pay for her own da** car.
Second, that's an annual LEASE cost. On a 5-year lease. Which has a balloon payment of at least $15,000.

Posted by: GWB at March 22, 2025 12:01 PM (T3e+N)

166
A thousand a month for a rental is not a luxury.

If you went to Enterprise or Hertz, it would cost you at least that much for a Camry with roll down windows and an AM radio.
Posted by: BurtTC at March 22, 2025 10:44 AM (yqynR)

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I honestly thought this gotcha journalism was a little stupid. Congressional reps can get per diem to lease cars to tour their districts. Big scandal.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at March 22, 2025 12:03 PM (ny95y)

167 Bernie will be 86 on Election Day, 2028.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 22, 2025 10:29 AM (xTIDn)

That's just shy of 3 in Base 29.

Posted by: GWB at March 22, 2025 12:04 PM (T3e+N)

168
why aren't they taking that D.C. Metro like all of us constituents in DC? They should get a few computers paid for, a Metro card

Posted by: GWB

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The auto leases are to tour their districts. That said I bet they get free public transportation in d c

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's phone at March 22, 2025 12:05 PM (ny95y)

169
I ought to be up in that gardening thread typing r394q8394898r3

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 22, 2025 12:08 PM (GDA4h)

170 All right. My work for the day is done. Hasta lambada y'all!

Endeavor to Persevere!

Posted by: muldoon at March 22, 2025 12:08 PM (/iMjX)

171 2) Any advice given by the IRS help line is *binding* on the IRS for the person that called them
Posted by: 18-1 at March 22, 2025 10:45 AM (t0Rmr)

^^^THIS^^^ Absolutely!

Seems to me that if the IRS can't give you a definitive answer then they also can't hold YOU responsible for definitive answers on their forms. Either that or they should put the lawyers and experts who will audit and fine you on the help lines - since they seem pretty sure about their answers.

Posted by: GWB at March 22, 2025 12:09 PM (T3e+N)

172 Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at March 22, 2025 10:46 AM (klJTj)

That doesn't really sound like it's Informed Delivery, then, does it? A fraud issue with that name. Informed Might Be Delivered Soon would be less fraud-like.

Posted by: GWB at March 22, 2025 12:11 PM (T3e+N)

173 "We need a Democratic Party that farts hard for us" - AOC.

Someone introduce her to Swalwell.

Posted by: Ian S. at March 22, 2025 12:13 PM (QZThv)

174 I'd expect Key and Peele's teacher to call Bowman, Jam - aal

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 22, 2025 12:16 PM (1vqcm)

175 I think AOC is at her cutest when she's at her stupidest.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at March 22, 2025 12:57 PM (SXxzC)

176 Posted by: GWB at March 22, 2025 11:55 AM (T3e+N)
It's worse than that--that lease was for her personal ride in her home district in TX.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at March 22, 2025 01:00 PM (XMwZJ)

177 Some people have gone to the gardening thread, but for anyone here I have a prayer request. In about half an hour I will be doing a worship service at the nearby Senior Care center. If the praying types could please pray that it all go smoothly and that people feel the loving presence of God, I would so much appreciate that. Thx very much!

Posted by: Alexandra Ocasio- Cortez at March 22, 2025 01:02 PM (7eQB8)

178 Pete Hegseth wants to know if we should call it the Department of War:
https://is.gd/e3Rgei
As Weasel said, if it's good enough for George Washington, it's good enough for me.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 22, 2025 01:47 PM (Vqx30)

179 Thanks to Mis. Hum. For filling in today. I'm sitting in a hospital room partly prepped for some tests. Medical personnel present.
Posted by: KT at March 22, 2025 10:49 AM

So, you're half-shaved?

Have you let the personnel know you'll be consulting HordeSource (tm) for medical advice?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 22, 2025 01:57 PM (a3Q+t)

180 "We need a Democratic Party that farts hard for us" - AOC.

Someone introduce her to Swalwell.
Posted by: Ian S. at March 22, 2025 12:13 PM

Don't forget:

"We will fart hard"
-- Hakeem Jeffries

I thought the Democrats were the party of reducing greenhouse gas emissions?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 22, 2025 02:01 PM (a3Q+t)

181 If you'd like to start protesting, but don't know where to start, here's a list of actions for you:

https://theblop.org/

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 22, 2025 02:03 PM (a3Q+t)

182 I think I found a photo of Ace's Vespa!

https://tinyurl.com/ek55vj68

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 22, 2025 02:24 PM (VNX3d)

183 About those 'magic money' computers - it's worse than you think (video,
https://is.gd/EjLQss

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 22, 2025 02:46 PM (Vqx30)

184 Late to this but I had a typewriter spend six days in St Louis. It would arrive, process, depart, repeat teo more times. It took as long to get this from FL as it did to get a package from the UK. Things slso stall out in Lenexa KS, where they can rest for awhile. I have a package that should arrive today but tracking shows it's still at the post office since the 20th.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 22, 2025 02:51 PM (cvWHI)

185 Now taking my mom to get a drivers license renewal without an appointment... that was frustrating. All the personnel wear body cams. Think about that, the Licensing & Permit people have to wear body cams because their bubbly personalities cause people to go off enough that it warrants wearing a body cam to record incidents.
Posted by: lin-duh
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Took me 3 hours. I think I could have fomented a revolution with the other folk there.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 22, 2025 02:55 PM (XeU6L)

186 I'm of the opinion that Priority Mail is 100% scam. My last experience with it mirrors MisHum's. Eight friggin' days.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at March 22, 2025 04:06 PM (paSBy)

187 >>> Trump DOJ Files Motion to Disqualify Obama Judge Beryl Howell From Perkins Coie Case

Could have done better with this DoJ.

Should be,
"Ongoing investigations into violations of civil rights under color of law, sedition, and treason. Accessories before, during, and after the fact are still being identified. These individuals, where applicable, have clearnces revokes, passports suspended, and access to Executive Branch facilities prohibited.
Further, some number of Judiciary Branch individuals have been identified and are subject of interest in the investigation.
Do YOU demand to know more or willing to disqualify the subject judge based upon the polite request alone?"

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 22, 2025 04:25 PM (/lPRQ)

188 Just had a birthday card I mailed to my son take over two weeks to finally arrive with envelope opened with the money and note inside missing. If you are going to open it and steal its contents why bother putting it back?

Posted by: Txdino at March 22, 2025 08:47 PM (4U+mU)

189 USPS 400 miles? Pfft - I live in a medium-large city, and it takes 8 days for my rent check to travel <4 miles from my bank to the landlord.

Posted by: Moses Lambert at March 23, 2025 08:00 AM (fP6fz)

190 USPS 400 miles? Junction City Kansas to Topeka Kansas- 65 miles. Priority Mail envelope-$9.65. Promised 2 day delivery. Actual delivery time? Thirteen days.

13 DAYS! I could have taken it there on a bicycle in that time! And returned with an answer to the mail!

Posted by: River Commander at March 24, 2025 11:14 AM (YoT4f)

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