Mid-Morning Art Thread

Independence
Frank Blackwell Mayer,

It's such a simple proposition; just leave us alone! Yet we are the only country on earth that really understands it and is willing to fight for it.

Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

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1 moi!

Posted by: runner at July 04, 2025 09:31 AM (g47mK)

2
Would be improved by an ol' hound dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 04, 2025 09:31 AM (/HVsR)

3 Amen!

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 04, 2025 09:32 AM (ftFVW)

4 What's in his pipe?

Also, that left leg looks broken.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 04, 2025 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

5
Also needs a jug of corn whiskey.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 04, 2025 09:32 AM (/HVsR)

6 Independence is awesome.

Posted by: runner at July 04, 2025 09:32 AM (g47mK)

7 He looks like a hobbit with marfan syndrome. Nice picture though.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 04, 2025 09:33 AM (cduTK)

8 COVID taught us there is no right more sacred than The Right To Be Left The Hell Alone.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 04, 2025 09:33 AM (XQo4F)

9 Looks like Andy Jackson.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 09:33 AM (77rzZ)

10 Yeah, but what his neighbor's freedom from want, huh?

Posted by: TJM's phone at July 04, 2025 09:34 AM (GBKbO)

11 Also, that left leg looks broken.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 04, 2025 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)

He used to be an adventurer.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 04, 2025 09:34 AM (ExV1e)

12
Listening to the ball game on the radio. The Mets are losing.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 04, 2025 09:34 AM (/HVsR)

13 In my mind, I am that guy.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 04, 2025 09:34 AM (RIvkX)

14 My wife has a step stool that looks exactly like that bench. Made by a nephew many decades ago in his shop class.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 04, 2025 09:34 AM (cduTK)

15 Wife had to run and make him a smammich. She'll be back to knitting on the bench shortly.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 04, 2025 09:35 AM (ftFVW)

16 He is clearly, CLEARLY, pursuing happiness !

Posted by: runner at July 04, 2025 09:35 AM (g47mK)

17 Left to your own devices you might make mistakes!

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 04, 2025 09:35 AM (hOUT3)

18 Hrothgar, Hey! Long time no see. How’re you doing?

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 09:36 AM (77rzZ)

19 This is beautiful painting and a perfect for choice for today. Would grace any house. Happy Independence Day to all.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly Whatever it is I'm against it at July 04, 2025 09:37 AM (qliBS)

20 Sunflowers in the background. Good detail on them and very purrty.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 04, 2025 09:37 AM (cduTK)

21 Left to your own devices you might make mistakes!
Posted by: Hrothgar at July 04, 2025 09:35 AM (hOUT3)

That is, precisely, my leftist SIL's attitude.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at July 04, 2025 09:38 AM (ExV1e)

22
He's dressed pretty well for lounging on the porch.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 04, 2025 09:38 AM (/HVsR)

23 Nooded.

Posted by: Nazdar at July 04, 2025 09:38 AM (NcvvS)

24 needed some time away from the missus, I see

Posted by: Otto Pen at July 04, 2025 09:38 AM (sJHOI)

25 He's all about independence until the HOA harpies show up to make him paint his house.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 04, 2025 09:39 AM (hY4dx)

26 That tree in the background is very happy. Would hang.

Posted by: Bob Ross at July 04, 2025 09:39 AM (PiwSw)

27 22 No shorts or flip-flops? And where’s the backwards ball cap?

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

28 Is that what I think it is under the bench??

Posted by: dantesed at July 04, 2025 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

29 America!

Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2025 09:40 AM (+qU29)

30
So we've gone from this doughty yeoman farmer to a population that would drown on its own saliva if there wasn't a government program to help them swallow.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 04, 2025 09:40 AM (/HVsR)

31 Bet he's having a smoke before heading off the government-run free supermarket.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 04, 2025 09:41 AM (hY4dx)

32 “Doughty” is a great word, Hadrian. Doesn’t get used nearly enough. Thanks.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 09:41 AM (77rzZ)

33 After he finishes, smoking his pipe, he'll go back to knitting his sweater.

Posted by: redridinghood at July 04, 2025 09:42 AM (NpAcC)

34
Yeah, but what [about] his neighbor's freedom from want, huh?
The James Monroe's phone

***********

Boundaries - a limerick

This guy strikes an insouciant pose
Just as every other freedom-lover knows
As to liberty, here's the gist
Your right to throw your fist
Comes to an end at the other fellow's nose

Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2025 09:42 AM (poXs5)

35
No shorts or flip-flops? And where’s the backwards ball cap?
Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 09:40 AM (77rzZ)

________

You've hit on three things that irritate me when I see them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 04, 2025 09:42 AM (/HVsR)

36 He’s thinking about boobs.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

37 >>> needed some time away from the missus, I see
Posted by: Otto Pen at July 04, 2025 09:38 AM (sJHOI)

He should go out to the garage and tune up his horse, check the timing, gap check the plugs, beer in the mini-fridge, tunes playing on the radio, etc...

Posted by: banana Dream at July 04, 2025 09:42 AM (cduTK)

38 Very nice painting. It does look like Andrew Jackson.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 04, 2025 09:43 AM (qflh1)

39
He’s thinking about boobs.
Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 09:42 AM (77rzZ)

________

Well, he's a guy...

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 04, 2025 09:43 AM (/HVsR)

40 I had to look up /ĭn-soo͞′sē-ənt, ăɴ″soo͞-syäɴ′/

Posted by: banana Dream at July 04, 2025 09:43 AM (cduTK)

41 Wonderful and subtle. His property, his home, a family (indicated by the knitting on the window sill), hardened features from his labor, and leisure that he has earned. All indicated in a simple, homely image. Nothing romantic, just realistic colors.

Can't help but hear an echo of:
"And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him."

Happy Independence Day.

Posted by: JTB at July 04, 2025 09:44 AM (yTvNw)

42 That's the guy on the $20.

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 04, 2025 09:45 AM (LL6Kc)

43 Thx CBD. Live this one. Would hang
Extremely appropriate for today.
Like the simple color scheme

Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 04, 2025 09:45 AM (2G3gH)

44 That’s the guy on the $20.

He’s the same when he’s in town.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

45 >>> Is that what I think it is under the bench??
Posted by: dantesed at July 04, 2025 09:40 AM (Oy/m2)

I think it's just a straw hat.

Posted by: banana Dream at July 04, 2025 09:47 AM (cduTK)

46 Yo, Bulg, doing the one day at a time routine and almost have it mastered...

Posted by: Hrothgar at July 04, 2025 09:47 AM (hOUT3)

47 Who has not sat in the arbor of his country seat, his limbs composed, a basin of cheery russet apples at his side, his meerschaum full of good shag; and listened to the wholesome bucolic sounds around him: the twitter of chimney swifts, the sweet piping of children at their games, the hale cries of the countryman to his oxen, the comfortable cackling of chickens, the braying of honest asses; and felt his nostrils deliciously assailed with aromas from the kitchen: the nourishing saddles of beef, the benificent gruels, the succulent tarts; and basked in the warmth of Sun and Earth, full bounty of abundant nature, and thought: "Of what moment is Man's travail for gain, his great unsettled yearning for he knows not what, when all about him if he would but perceive are the treasures of the globe, more precious far than any jewel which lies deep beneath virgin earth across unplumbed and perilous seas?"

Posted by: Bombadil at July 04, 2025 09:48 AM (MX0bI)

48 That's good farting posture. Looks like he had some bad greens.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at July 04, 2025 09:48 AM (p16cu)

49 I like this very much.
Reminds me of my dad's uncle George. Uncle George wore bib overalls, smoked a pipe, and lived in a three room house that had electricity but no running water or indoor plumbing. He listened to a radio for entertainment and news. A big 1930s radio, like the one on the Waltons TV show. He would sit outside under a shade tree and whittle. Kept about 100 pocket knives in a cigar box and all of them razor sharp. I still have the one he gave me. It's still sharp.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 04, 2025 09:48 AM (2J/Lj)

50
Kick up Your Heels and Set a Spell

There once was a gentleman named Smails
Spent his early years in and out of jails
After his final arrest
He gave it a rest
Spent his golden years "riding the rails"

Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2025 09:49 AM (poXs5)

51 Freedom is not living in a neighborhood with an HOA.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 04, 2025 09:49 AM (JVCkA)

52 On point

Posted by: H at July 04, 2025 09:49 AM (2gjbv)

53 He could be thinking about that reciprocating saw he wants at Lowe's.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 04, 2025 09:49 AM (hY4dx)

54 46 Good to hear, Hrothgar.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 09:50 AM (77rzZ)

55 And boobs.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 04, 2025 09:50 AM (hY4dx)

56 Can you imagine this guy's reaction if someone tried to force him to do something he thought was wrong?

Posted by: JTB at July 04, 2025 09:50 AM (yTvNw)

57 That might be his own knitting. Knitting was a man's activity back in the day.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 04, 2025 09:51 AM (rF2iL)

58 Also, that left leg looks broken.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 04, 2025 09:32 AM (Q4IgG)
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Artist is not acquainted with bad knees otherwise, like photographers, they will contort a pose in order to achieve that balance that they desire.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 09:51 AM (MJMyx)

59 Hadrian is right, as usual. The lack of a dog in this work is egregious.

Posted by: I'm Your Huckleberry! at July 04, 2025 09:52 AM (OXFtY)

60 Kept about 100 pocket knives in a cigar box and all of them razor sharp.

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Oh yeah. We remember that guy.

Posted by: Your Friends in the TSA at July 04, 2025 09:52 AM (hY4dx)

61 The face of contemplation.

Not constipation.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 04, 2025 09:54 AM (Q4IgG)

62 Looks like a corncob pipe, and I love the way that makes this image distinctly American.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 04, 2025 09:54 AM (0DdMG)

63 Happy Independence Day.

Fight! Fight! Fight!

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at July 04, 2025 09:55 AM (i24o9)

64 57 That might be his own knitting. Knitting was a man's activity back in the day.
Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 04, 2025 09:51 AM (rF2iL)

--------

You're right. Those do appear to be tactical knitting needles.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at July 04, 2025 09:56 AM (hY4dx)

65 Andrew Jackson puffing on his corncob pipe and pondering who he's going to punch/flog/shoot next.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 04, 2025 09:56 AM (kpS4V)

66 Corn cob pipe is the ultimate in cheapness. All that wood around and he smokes out of a corn cob! Bet he still has the first nickel he ever earned.

Posted by: Cheap Thrills at July 04, 2025 09:56 AM (OXFtY)

67 That guys legs aren't much thicker than the porch rails.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 04, 2025 09:56 AM (2J/Lj)

68
And On a More Personal Note - a limerick

I think that I can finally tell you this
Missus Muldoon's more a hit than a miss
It's sure to amaze
That in just two more days
We'll mark forty years of wedded bliss!

Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2025 09:56 AM (poXs5)

69 Can't help but hear an echo of:
"And each man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, with no one to frighten him."

Happy Independence Day.
Posted by: JTB at July 04, 2025 09:44 AM (yTvNw)

I like that. Thanks! Happy Independence Day to you as well, JTB!

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 04, 2025 09:57 AM (rF2iL)

70 47 ..,. Bombadil,
What is the source of your quote? I loved it.

Posted by: JTB at July 04, 2025 09:57 AM (yTvNw)

71 Congrats Muldoons!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 04, 2025 09:57 AM (kpS4V)

72
What is the source of your quote? I loved it.
Posted by: JTB at July 04, 2025 09:57 AM (yTvNw)

_________

All I can find is that it's quoted in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis".

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 04, 2025 09:58 AM (/HVsR)

73 Oh, so now we're just knit picking?

Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2025 09:58 AM (poXs5)

74 Wow. "Doughty" and "insouciant" in the same thread.
This place.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 04, 2025 09:58 AM (XQo4F)

75 Leave us alone, indeed. Every busybody wants to be Karen the HOA President and tell you what to do.

Posted by: Roy at July 04, 2025 09:58 AM (fO4QD)

76 65 Andrew Jackson, toward the end of his life, is said to have observed that his two greatest regrets in life was that he did not shoot Henry Clay and that he died not hang John C. Calhoun.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 09:59 AM (77rzZ)

77 36 He’s thinking about boobs.
Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 09:42 AM

A whole jiggle of them.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 04, 2025 10:00 AM (XQo4F)

78 He can't possibly be happy and fulfilled without our strict guidance. This is known.

Posted by: AFWLs at July 04, 2025 10:00 AM (0sNs1)

79
Wow. "Doughty" and "insouciant" in the same thread.
This place.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 04, 2025 09:58 AM (XQo4F)

________

*buffs fingernails on lapel*

*inspects them with self-satisfied air*

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 04, 2025 10:00 AM (/HVsR)

80 68 ... Muldoon,
Congrats on your upcoming 40th anniversary.

Posted by: JTB at July 04, 2025 10:00 AM (yTvNw)

81 Happy Anniversity to the Muldoons!

Posted by: Anniversity Alarm at July 04, 2025 10:00 AM (OXFtY)

82 This picture is seven times stronger than viagra.

OK, at least is is not as disgusting as the one they chose.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 04, 2025 10:01 AM (Vfq+S)

83 What is the source of your quote? I loved it.
Posted by: JTB at July 04, 2025 09:57 AM (yTvNw)

It's from a story called "The Unlucky Winner", which is a Dobie Gillis story. Dobie plagiarises the quote from an old book by Elmo Goodhue Pipgrass. Dobie's professor likes it so much he submits it to a contest, and the judge turns out to be Pipgrass, still alive 75 years later.

Posted by: Bombadil at July 04, 2025 10:02 AM (MX0bI)

84 That guys legs aren't much thicker than the porch rails.
Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at July 04, 2025 09:56 AM

Skips leg day.

Posted by: Coach Duncanthrax at July 04, 2025 10:02 AM (0sNs1)

85 How did this Mayer guy get a picture of how I imagine I'll look on my porch someday soon?

Well, okay, no corncob pipe. I just can't get over the notion that a corncob says "I'm Fred Ziffel, and this is my boy Arnold." Whereas a wooden (briar) pipe to me = attorney or author or professor.

Anyway, the star here looks much like Andrew Jackson in retirement, or relaxing at his own homestead while being president.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 04, 2025 10:02 AM (omVj0)

86 Congrats to you and the Missus, Muldoon. You kids doing anything special to mark the occasion?

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 10:03 AM (77rzZ)

87 A whole jiggle of them.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 04, 2025 10:00 AM

Now with 50% more jiggle.

Posted by: Women of Mars at July 04, 2025 10:03 AM (0sNs1)

88 Would Hang!

Flag raised.
Pledge recited.

I am fortunate and proud to be a citizen of the United States of America.

Happy Independence Day!

Posted by: Gref at July 04, 2025 10:04 AM (aBgBM)

89 Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2025 09:56 AM (poXs5

Congratulations and God bless you both , and the entire Muldoon family! And thanks, sir, for brightening the threads with your limericks. I'm sure the students appreciated that when you went to medical school.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 04, 2025 10:04 AM (2GCMq)

90
"See Sim Jenkins done built hissef a new barn."

"Yeah."

"Reckon some people thinks they made of money."

"Yeah."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 04, 2025 10:04 AM (/HVsR)

91 Is that what I think it is under the bench??
Posted by: dantesed at July 04, 2025

***
I'd say you'd want to have that outdoors if you could. But then, you wouldn't want to sit right above it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 04, 2025 10:06 AM (omVj0)

92 Straw hat?

Posted by: Boss Moss at July 04, 2025 10:06 AM (LL6Kc)

93 There's something to be said for being able to chill and enjoy life all around you.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 04, 2025 10:07 AM (3Ope8)

94 The painting is expertly done, but there is something inherent in it that I don't care for.

Would gift to a 2nd cousin.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 04, 2025 10:08 AM (XV/Pl)

95 Going back to the last thread, someone recommended the term 'a Parton' as the collective term for a consortium of boobs.
I would like to second this suggestion.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 04, 2025 10:08 AM (n4GiU)

96 Life was so much better before daytime television.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 04, 2025 10:08 AM (XQo4F)

97 This picture is seven times stronger than viagra.
*
OK, at least is is not as disgusting as the one they chose.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 04, 2025

***
He's waiting for the postman to deliver his latest pack of BlueChew.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 04, 2025 10:08 AM (omVj0)

98 What was the name of Jackson's homestead? The Hermitage?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 04, 2025 10:09 AM (omVj0)

99 What was the name of Jackson's homestead? The Hermitage?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Correct

Posted by: Tuna at July 04, 2025 10:11 AM (lJ0H4)

100 98 Wolfus, that’s correct.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 10:11 AM (77rzZ)

101 Second Hand Lions. The early years.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 04, 2025 10:11 AM (XQo4F)

102
The power went out in the house one day. Crisis, right? I went out and sat in the rocker on the porch. Bees were buzzing around one of the firebushes. A cardinal was enjoying a snack at one of the feeders. Our in the yard, four bluebirds were splashing in a low tray full of water. Somehow, not having power at that moment didn't seem all that important.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 04, 2025 10:12 AM (/HVsR)

103 (100 comment rule) - trying to time this properly, but i saw this in the last thread and had to comment.

331 >>You don’t do scary movies on psychedelics. You go out to the woods and howl at the moon.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2025 09:13 AM (viF8m)
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I saw Blue Velvet at the Waverly tripping my face off. We got there late and had to sit in the very first row. Still coming down from that.40 years later.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at July 04, 2025 09:19 AM (RIvkX)

If you were at the Waverly the Saturday evening of the Bill Buckner error during the World Series, we were probably at the very same movie showing. I walked out of the Waverly to a wild Met celebration in the Greenwich Village streets that night.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 04, 2025 10:14 AM (RCO6g)

104 102 That’s a nice story, Hadrian.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 10:16 AM (77rzZ)

105 We'll mark forty years of wedded bliss!
Posted by: muldoon at July

Muldoon, congratulations. This year would've been our fortieth if the wife hadn't up and died. She's still with me, but far less useful the last fifteen years.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 04, 2025 10:16 AM (n4GiU)

106
We'll mark forty years of wedded bliss!
Posted by: muldoon

_________

Just how long have you been married?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 04, 2025 10:17 AM (/HVsR)

107
One Damn Thing After Another

This painting carries a real subtle text
About man's life in many respects
He's doing the simple chore
After the thing he did before
And right before the thing he'll do next

Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2025 10:17 AM (poXs5)

108 👍 CBD.

Independence (Squire Jack Porter),
Artist Frank Blackwell Mayer
Date 1858
oil on paperboard

Jack Porter, a veteran of the War of 1812 who made a handsome living from Pennsylvania's coal mines, is surrounded by handmade objects, including a corncob pipe, a roughly-hewn wooden bench, and his wife's knitting. As a self-sufficient landholder and businessman, "Squire Jack" embodied an independent and enduring spirit that, by the 1850s, had become an American ideal, celebrated by painters and writers alike. The squire takes his ease on the porch of a substantial home, dressed in a flowered vest, black cravat, and polished boots that signal the rewards of his hard work.

Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 04, 2025 10:18 AM (NFX2v)

109 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 04, 2025 10:12 AM (/HVsR)

*Fist bump* I enjoy sitting out on the patio under the fan and watching the birds at the feeders and listening to the waterfall. Most of the time tha' lil nugget dawg joins me. Coffee and a cigar tops it off. I could sit there for hours.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at July 04, 2025 10:18 AM (3Ope8)

110 What was the name of Jackson's homestead? The Hermitage?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere
*
Correct
Posted by: Tuna at July 04, 2025

***
I wish I'd thought of that name first. Also "Wit's End," Dorothy Parker's name for Alexander Woollcott's NYC apartment. "Alec is at Wit's End."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 04, 2025 10:18 AM (omVj0)

111 Just how long have you been married?
Posted by: Hadrian

*********

ISWYDT

Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2025 10:18 AM (poXs5)

112 Happy 40th.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 10:19 AM (MJMyx)

113 My wife and I were just outside on our front porch, watching the Goldfinches at the feeder. No sounds... not traffic, airplanes.... nothing. Just quiet. The flag is on the garage and the buntings hung on the porch, southern style.

Not a care in the world.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at July 04, 2025 10:19 AM (Q4IgG)

114 The squire takes his ease on the porch of a substantial home, dressed in a flowered vest, black cravat, and polished boots that signal the rewards of his hard work.

Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 04, 2025

***
I've got the boots. I gotta find me a flowered vest and string tie like these, or like the ones Hugh O'Brian wore as Wyatt Earp on TV.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 04, 2025 10:20 AM (omVj0)

115 There's something satisfying to the Y chromosome to take a pile of yarn skeins, poke at it with two sticks for a while, and then suddenly have a sweater where you didn't have a sweater before.

Men love making something useful out of something not useful. It's in our nature. So it's really kind of weird that most men are deathly afraid of fiber crafts, as if halfway through sleeve island, men in suits from the government will come by the house one day and deliver their "You're A Homosexual Now" card.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 04, 2025 10:20 AM (BjH5D)

116 I will re-enact this scene today. However, I will substitute a more comfortable chair and add some corn whiskey.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at July 04, 2025 10:20 AM (tA1/w)

117 willowed

https://is.gd/8gGb4x

NSFW
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises)

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 10:20 AM (MJMyx)

118 Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Muldoon.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 04, 2025 10:21 AM (HFcKg)

119 Men love making something useful out of something not useful. It's in our nature. So it's really kind of weird that most men are deathly afraid of fiber crafts, as if halfway through sleeve island, men in suits from the government will come by the house one day and deliver their "You're A Homosexual Now" card.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 04, 2025 10:20 AM (BjH5D)

I pity the fool...

Posted by: Rosey Grier AS Mr. T. at July 04, 2025 10:22 AM (PiwSw)

120 Proportionally he's about 5'4" tall.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 10:22 AM (MJMyx)

121 115 There's something satisfying to the Y chromosome to take a pile of yarn skeins, poke at it with two sticks for a while, and then suddenly have a sweater where you didn't have a sweater before.

Men love making something useful out of something not useful. It's in our nature. So it's really kind of weird that most men are deathly afraid of fiber crafts, as if halfway through sleeve island, men in suits from the government will come by the house one day and deliver their "You're A Homosexual Now" card.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 04, 2025 10:20 AM (BjH5D)

Word, brother!

Posted by: Rosie Grier at July 04, 2025 10:23 AM (RCO6g)

122 Wasn't Rosey Grier actually gay, though?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 04, 2025 10:23 AM (BjH5D)

123 117 willowed

https://is.gd/8gGb4x

NSFW
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises)
Posted by: Braenyard
+++

You know about the cup sizes?

Posted by: Frank Costanza at July 04, 2025 10:23 AM (XQo4F)

124 I haven’t got the hand-eye coordination to knit.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 10:23 AM (77rzZ)

125 You look so handsome, Squire Jack. Buy me a drink? How long you here?

Posted by: Thai / Filipina Bar Girl at July 04, 2025 10:24 AM (wVcYX)

126 Men love making something useful out of something not useful. It's in our nature. So it's really kind of weird that most men are deathly afraid of fiber crafts, as if halfway through sleeve island, men in suits from the government will come by the house one day and deliver their "You're A Homosexual Now" card.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 04, 2025
*
I pity the fool...
Posted by: Rosey Grier AS Mr. T. at July 04, 2025

***
Grier had a small role as an Enforcement agent in an early U.N.C.L.E. episode. Funny to see those big hands assemble the small (as it was then) agents' carbine. I'm sure nobody laughed at Rosey Grier knitting.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 04, 2025 10:24 AM (omVj0)

127 NSFW
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

That's not a willowing, that's a reposting, and a welcome one.
However, theres something about the size and perfection of those boobs that's a little off putting.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 04, 2025 10:24 AM (n4GiU)

128 Reddit has been in meltdown mode for 24 hours. It’s hilarious how this bill is basically 90% of that a Democrat bill would have been. But the propaganda from the left is strong and effective. And they’re very stupid and gullible.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 04, 2025 10:24 AM (KrOdt)

129 I haven’t got the hand-eye coordination to knit.
Posted by: Bulg

But if you tried you might develop better hand-eye coordination...

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 04, 2025 10:25 AM (ftFVW)

130 Part of the Declaration of Independence:

We, therefore, the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World for the Rectitude of our Intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly Publish and Declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be, Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political Connection between them and the State of Great-Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 04, 2025 10:25 AM (2GCMq)

131 Happy Birthday, America!

https://tinyurl.com/HappyBirthdayAmericaKochsTour

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Plucky Comic Relief, AoS Ladies Brigade - Eat the Cheesecake, Buy the Yarn. at July 04, 2025 10:25 AM (SRRAx)

132 That's not a willowing, that's a reposting, and a welcome one.
However, theres something about the size and perfection of those boobs that's a little off putting.
Posted by: From about That Time

AI, right?

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 04, 2025 10:26 AM (ftFVW)

133 We'll mark forty years of wedded bliss!
Posted by: muldoon at July

Congratulations to the lovebirds!

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2025 10:26 AM (wVcYX)

134 Wasn't Rosey Grier actually gay, though?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 04, 2025

***
Wiki: "Grier has a daughter, Sherryl Brown-Tubbs, from an early relationship. He married Beatrice Lewis in 1962. She had one child, Denise, whom Grier adopted. Grier and Lewis divorced in 1970. In 1973, Grier married Margie Grier; they had one son, Roosevelt Kennedy Grier, in 1972. The couple divorced in 1978. They remarried in 1981 and remained married until her death in 2011. Grier married Wichita school teacher, Cydnee Seyler, on April 30, 2013."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 04, 2025 10:26 AM (omVj0)

135 Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Muldoon! That's lovely. 💖

You were married on the day of the Live Aid concerts held in both Philly and London?!

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 04, 2025 10:26 AM (NFX2v)

136 I never realized I was deathly afraid of fiber crafts.

Thank you, internet.

Posted by: eleven at July 04, 2025 10:26 AM (fV+MH)

137 Happy anniversary to the Muldoons! God bless you with many more!

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 04, 2025 10:26 AM (rF2iL)

138 We're in a continual state of meltdown.

Posted by: People on Reddit threads at July 04, 2025 10:27 AM (XQo4F)

139 If the declaration of independence happened today, it would be an all caps TrumpTweet out of nowhere at-ing Parliament saying "HAPPY ZERO-TH BIRTHDAY AMERICA THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!!!!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 04, 2025 10:27 AM (BjH5D)

140 Also needs a jug of corn whiskey.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 04, 2025 09:32 AM (/HVsR)

There's a ball of yarn and knitting needles on the window sill. Looks like he sent the wife to go fetch said jug when she was sitting next to him while darning a sock!

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 04, 2025 10:27 AM (pJWtt)

141 Rosie Grier was nothing without Ray Milland.

Posted by: eleven at July 04, 2025 10:28 AM (fV+MH)

142 122 Wasn't Rosey Grier actually gay, though?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 04, 2025 10:23 AM (BjH5D)

Not to my knowledge. Had lunch with him once, when we were both at the Milken Institute in Santa Monica about ten years ago. Mentioned a wife he once had at the time. Really nice guy. He was old then. Not sure what he's up to now. He and Mike Milken were long-time friends.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at July 04, 2025 10:29 AM (RCO6g)

143 The squire's left leg does look crooked, but it might only be that an outcrop of the bushes around the house is creeping up over the rail, and instead of cropping it back he's just slid his leg under it.

Once he finishes that pipe, he'll go after it with his machete. Or maybe a Bowie knife.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 04, 2025 10:29 AM (omVj0)

144 Knit happens when you least expect it.

Posted by: Oh, no... at July 04, 2025 10:29 AM (XQo4F)

145 136 I never realized I was deathly afraid of fiber crafts.

Thank you, internet.
Posted by: eleven at July 04, 2025 10:26 AM (fV+MH)

That's very perceptive of you to realize i was talking about you, specifically, out of every single human male on Earth. Good job. Wasn't sure it would land, honestly.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 04, 2025 10:30 AM (BjH5D)

146 Happy Independence Day to all of you.

Posted by: Archer at July 04, 2025 10:30 AM (IDphi)

147 speaking of knitting, when I was a kid my grandmother asked each of her grandkids their two favorite colors. She then knit each of us a full sized Afghan comforter in our chosen colors.

She had fifteen grandchildren.

Moral of the story: Grandma was awesome!!

Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2025 10:30 AM (poXs5)

148 We're in a continual state of meltdown.

Posted by: People on Reddit threads

It's an Escher staircase of panic.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 04, 2025 10:30 AM (Riz8t)

149 Not to my knowledge. Had lunch with him once, when we were both at the Milken Institute in Santa Monica about ten years ago. Mentioned a wife he once had at the time. Really nice guy. He was old then. Not sure what he's up to now. He and Mike Milken were long-time friends.

A quick Google shows he's now 92. I think it's unusual for a man of his (former) size to make it that far.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 04, 2025 10:31 AM (Riz8t)

150 1 moi!
Posted by: runner at July 04, 2025 09:31 AM (g47mK)

Indeed!

Posted by: m at July 04, 2025 10:32 AM (aURVT)

151 Woodworking is sort of a fiber craft.

Maybe it helps to squint a bit.

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2025 10:32 AM (wVcYX)

152 Doin' it to it Detroit

https://tinyurl.com/3885jvh6

Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2025 10:32 AM (viF8m)

153 And for the ladies. Not shirtless but nice picture of Mr Hegseth in a flag shirt. There are ones of him shirtless on the net , but I like this as I like his smile:

https://tinyurl.com/mxwh4zfa

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 04, 2025 10:33 AM (2GCMq)

154 Surgery is a fiber craft.

Posted by: eleven at July 04, 2025 10:33 AM (fV+MH)

155 Knot your average pastime.

Posted by: Oh, no... at July 04, 2025 10:33 AM (XQo4F)

156 His face looks like a cross between Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, and character actor Charles Bickford. The hair looks like Bickford's for sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 04, 2025 10:33 AM (omVj0)

157 What was the name of Jackson's homestead? The Hermitage?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 04, 2025 10:09 AM (omVj0)

Yes, Mrs. Cop and I toured the house last year. Still has some of AJ's stuff inside.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at July 04, 2025 10:34 AM (pJWtt)

158 I had another version where I told George to kiss my ass. Ben talked me out of it.

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at July 04, 2025 10:34 AM (u73oe)

159 It's going to get rather difficult for NYC libs to pretend Mamdani is some kind of intellectual.

How terrible must your grades and test scores be to be rejected from an Ivy when you’re "black" AND have a parent employed there?

https://is.gd/7sfh2t

Posted by: Archimedes at July 04, 2025 10:34 AM (Riz8t)

160 I found it fascinating that there's usually no knots in knitting. It's technically just a gigantic tangle.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 04, 2025 10:34 AM (BjH5D)

161 In 1973, Grier married Margie Grier

***********

It's nice when you marry someone with the same last name. You don't have to change the monogram on your luggage.

Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2025 10:35 AM (poXs5)

162 Yeah, that looks like a straw hat under the bench. A spittoon or chamberpot wouldn't have a natty ribbon around it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 04, 2025 10:35 AM (omVj0)

163 Independence
Frank Blackwell Mayer,
Posted by: CBD at 09:30 AM

Thank you, CBD! Nice one.

Posted by: m at July 04, 2025 10:35 AM (aURVT)

164 Fen getting a little hot and bothered...

Posted by: Down, girl at July 04, 2025 10:35 AM (XQo4F)

165 I love that painting.

Posted by: Stateless BUT NOT HOMELESS! 77%- mental state clawing up from 10%, shit happened, clawing back now at July 04, 2025 10:36 AM (jvJvP)

166 In quiet moments such as these, Squire Jack lets his mind drift back to a earlier time, a different front porch, a swing, and a girl named Charlotte Johnson . . .

Little Charlotte, she's as pretty as the angels when they sing

I can't believe I'm out here on her front porch in this swing

Just a-swingin'

Posted by: John Anderson at July 04, 2025 10:37 AM (wVcYX)

167 For a few seconds, I thought it was Clint Eastwood in the painting

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 04, 2025 10:37 AM (NFX2v)

168 I assume his wife is making a sammich

Posted by: jsg at July 04, 2025 10:37 AM (1l+t9)

169 Fen getting a little hot and bothered...
Posted by: Down, girl

Ben Had, too.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 10:37 AM (77rzZ)

170 Ace has reach CNN can only dream of.

From the tail of yesterday's Grift Thread

334 1. Thanks, Ace!; 2. I don't mind "Jim Varney" - he was very nice when I talked to him once in the 80s; 3. No, this money is *separate* from the "gold bars* O'Keefe's video referred to. That was the $27 billion the EPA gave out. But both that $27 bil and this $93 bil came primarily from the Inflation Reduction Act.
Posted by: James Varney at July 03, 2025 09:26 PM (BFhXu)

Posted by: toby928 at July 04, 2025 10:38 AM (jc0TO)

171 Posted by: Down, girl at July 04, 2025 10:35 AM (XQo4F

LOL. Not really . It's only a picture .Its not as if he's in my living room confessing undying love for me- and anyway, we're both married to other people. 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 04, 2025 10:39 AM (2GCMq)

172 I haven’t got the hand-eye coordination to knit.
Posted by: Bulg

But if you tried you might develop better hand-eye coordination...
Posted by: She Hobbit

Ah, but that would require patience. Something else that I do not possess.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 10:39 AM (77rzZ)

173 168 I assume his wife is making a sammich
Posted by: jsg at July 04, 2025 10:37 AM (1l+t9)

I reckon she's fetchin' the corn squeezins.

Posted by: m at July 04, 2025 10:40 AM (aURVT)

174 Fen, how is your son doing?

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 10:40 AM (77rzZ)

175 And for the ladies. Not shirtless but nice picture of Mr Hegseth in a flag shirt. There are ones of him shirtless on the net , but I like this as I like his smile:

https://tinyurl.com/mxwh4zfa
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

That is a nice pic. Personally, I like Hegseth with shirt rather than without. I mean, it's fine and he has a normal dude bod. But Hegseth shirtless is kind of like me in a low-cut top... nothing to see here.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 04, 2025 10:40 AM (ftFVW)

176 That guy is waiting for the Uber driver who's taking him downtown for his appearance on The Hollywood Squires game show.

Posted by: muldoon at July 04, 2025 10:40 AM (poXs5)

177 He looks like a Kentucky porch monkey.

Posted by: eleven at July 04, 2025 10:41 AM (fV+MH)

178 Wasn't Rosey Grier actually gay, though?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 04, 2025 10:23 AM (BjH5D)

I thought he was married a few times and had kids.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 04, 2025 10:41 AM (L5An7)

179 Man, I'd love to see that girl again.

https://tinyurl.com/3885jvh6

Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2025 10:42 AM (viF8m)

180 It's going to get rather difficult for NYC libs to pretend Mamdani is some kind of intellectual.

How terrible must your grades and test scores be to be rejected from an Ivy when you’re "black" AND have a parent employed there?

https://is.gd/7sfh2t
Posted by: Archimedes at July 04, 2025 10:34 AM (Riz8t)

Hoover: Mamdani is a legacy, Otter. His father works here. Mahmood Mamdani.

Flounder: He said legacies usually get admitted automatically.

Otter: Oh, well, usually. Unless the father and son in question turn out to be a real closet-cases.

Otter, Boon: Like Mahmood and Zohran

Posted by: Count de Monet at July 04, 2025 10:42 AM (wVcYX)

181 Baby Race has exciting finish

1:39

https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/
1940818223978762752

Posted by: Don Black at July 04, 2025 10:43 AM (AOsQT)

182 This looks like the kind of fellow who could pull a jug with you after church, or beat you to death with his cane if you insulted his wife. A classic American.

Posted by: toby928 at July 04, 2025 10:43 AM (jc0TO)

183 Why is Biden dancing today?
It's in depends dance day!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 04, 2025 10:44 AM (s3O4c)

184 Off to the pool with family.

Everyone have a wonderful Independence Day!

Posted by: Dr. T at July 04, 2025 10:45 AM (jGGMD)

185 Why is Biden dancing today?
It's in depends dance day!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

Are you sure he's not just confused about which direction he's supposed to walk?

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 04, 2025 10:45 AM (ftFVW)

186 159 It's going to get rather difficult for NYC libs to pretend Mamdani is some kind of intellectual.

How terrible must your grades and test scores be to be rejected from an Ivy when you’re "black" AND have a parent employed there?

https://is.gd/7sfh2t
Posted by: Archimedes at July 04, 2025 10:34 AM (Riz8t)

He's smart enough to know most people left in NYC are envious, lazy, idiots and this is his path to power. I've heard him give zero examples of where it works. Probably the whitest European nation as an example before they decided to kill themselves and import third worlders.

Posted by: jsg at July 04, 2025 10:46 AM (1l+t9)

187 Why is Biden dancing today?
It's in depends dance day!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

Reminds me of the "Let's Dance!" postings by Jimmy Carter that we used to have here.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 10:46 AM (77rzZ)

188 America and Israel fit the description.
Happy Indepence day.
🎆🇺🇸🎇

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at July 04, 2025 10:47 AM (t/2Uw)

189 Why is Biden dancing today?
It's in depends dance day!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats

Also, love the word play. *nods with satisfaction*

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 04, 2025 10:47 AM (ftFVW)

190 Hoover: Mamdani is a legacy, Otter. His father works here. Mahmood Mamdani.

Flounder: He said legacies usually get admitted automatically.

Otter: Oh, well, usually. Unless the father and son in question turn out to be a real closet-cases.

Otter, Boon: Like Mahmood and Zohran

Zohran, I'd like you to meet Mohamet, Jugdish, Sidney and Clayton...

Posted by: Archimedes at July 04, 2025 10:47 AM (Riz8t)

191 https://tinyurl.com/mxwh4zfa
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

People are very multifaceted, and when you realize this you can allow yourself to admire many aspects of a person, while acknowledging that they may also be complete idiots when it comes to other aspects.
Such as tattoos.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 04, 2025 10:47 AM (n4GiU)

192 Wasn't Rosey Grier actually gay, though?

He was very close to Ray Milland

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at July 04, 2025 10:47 AM (s3O4c)

193 >>It's going to get rather difficult for NYC libs to pretend Mamdani is some kind of intellectual.

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Sandy Cortez at July 04, 2025 10:47 AM (aBgBM)

194 like me in a low-cut top... nothing to see here.
Posted by: She Hobbit

Let us 'Rons be the judge of that.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 10:48 AM (77rzZ)

195 181 Baby Race has exciting finish

1:39

https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/
1940818223978762752
Posted by: Don Black at July 04, 2025 10:43 AM (AOsQT)

I'd like to see a race with Dad at the starting line and Mom at the finish line.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 04, 2025 10:49 AM (rF2iL)

196 Same to you, Sharon.

Posted by: Bulg at July 04, 2025 10:49 AM (77rzZ)

197 Would hang in the man cave.

Posted by: Linda Richman at July 04, 2025 10:50 AM (36PRH)

198 Could perhaps also be titled, "Retirement."

Posted by: Linda Richman at July 04, 2025 10:50 AM (36PRH)

199 Let us 'Rons be the judge of that.
Posted by: Bulg

Hahahaha, I'd say come on out to TX in October. But I don't wear low-cut tops, so that would be a bit of a bait and switch.

Posted by: She Hobbit at July 04, 2025 10:50 AM (ftFVW)

200 > >>It's going to get rather difficult for NYC libs to pretend Mamdani is some kind of intellectual.
----

I think they will manage!

Posted by: Don Black at July 04, 2025 10:51 AM (AOsQT)

201 The secret Little Arfin' Annie code for 'Independence' is: DFWM.

Posted by: Dr_No at July 04, 2025 10:51 AM (ayRl+)

202 Would hang. Outside the restrooms of a Cracker Barrel restaurant.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 04, 2025 10:51 AM (XQo4F)

203 UK Guardian, EPA puts 139 employees on leave after they sign a ‘declaration of dissent’

"More than 170 EPA employees put their names on the document, with about 100 more signing anonymously out of fear of retaliation, according to Jeremy Berg, a former editor in chief of Science magazine who is not an EPA employee but was among non-EPA scientists or academics to also sign."
--
CBS News, MoneyWatch
EPA puts 139 employees on leave after they publicly criticized Trump's environmental policies, July 3, 2025

In part, "The letter, titled a "Declaration of Dissent," accuses the Trump administration of undermining the EPA's mission of protecting the environment by promoting "harmful deregulation" and showing"disregard for scientific expertise."

The document, which was released publicly on Monday and which received 620 signatures, outlines several areas of concern. Those include changes to the EPA's research and development practices and cuts to its environmental justice initiatives, which provide funding to support vulnerable communities."
----
Meaning the non-profits for 'environmental justice' are wailing for Biden $ 'promised' in some prior Bill.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at July 04, 2025 10:51 AM (NFX2v)

204 /sock off, 2 days later

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at July 04, 2025 10:51 AM (36PRH)

205 Morn' all... Happy 4th !

Posted by: It's me donna at July 04, 2025 10:52 AM (VE6XX)

206 Signing anonymously?

Posted by: eleven at July 04, 2025 10:52 AM (fV+MH)

207 https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/
1940818223978762752
Posted by: Don Black at July 04, 2025 10:43 AM (AOsQT)

It is still weird to see schools in the ACC that aren't, you know, on the Atlantic Coast.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 04, 2025 10:53 AM (PiwSw)

208 America's No Kings Day

Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2025 10:53 AM (+qU29)

209 134 Wasn't Rosey Grier actually gay, though?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 04, 2025

***
Wiki: "Grier has a daughter, Sherryl Brown-Tubbs, from an early relationship. He married Beatrice Lewis in 1962. She had one child, Denise, whom Grier adopted. Grier and Lewis divorced in 1970. In 1973, Grier married Margie Grier; they had one son, Roosevelt Kennedy Grier, in 1972. The couple divorced in 1978. They remarried in 1981 and remained married until her death in 2011. Grier married Wichita school teacher, Cydnee Seyler, on April 30, 2013."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 04, 2025 10:26 AM (omVj0)

We'll put him down as bi-curious.

Posted by: LGBT+ Historian at July 04, 2025 10:53 AM (xzkgE)

210 >>It's going to get rather difficult for NYC libs to pretend Mamdani is some kind of intellectual.

Getting into Bowdoin is at least as hard as getting into an Ivy.

He's not stupid. He's a communist.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2025 10:53 AM (viF8m)

211
*203 UK Guardian, EPA puts 139 employees on leave after they sign a ‘declaration of dissent’*

And take your CAFE standards with you!

Posted by: People in the market for a small pickup truck at July 04, 2025 10:54 AM (XQo4F)

212 Email from SSA

The Social Security Administration (SSA) is celebrating the passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill, a landmark piece of legislation that delivers long-awaited tax relief to millions of older Americans.

The bill ensures that nearly 90% of Social Security beneficiaries will no longer pay federal income taxes on their benefits, providing meaningful and immediate relief to seniors who have spent a lifetime contributing to our nation's economy.

“This is a historic step forward for America’s seniors,” said Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano. “For nearly 90 years, Social Security has been a cornerstone of economic security for older Americans. By significantly reducing the tax burden on benefits, this legislation reaffirms President Trump’s promise to protect Social Security and helps ensure that seniors can better enjoy the retirement they’ve earned."

Posted by: toby928 at July 04, 2025 10:54 AM (jc0TO)

213 Syracuse is on the Atlantic coast if you squint real hard.

Posted by: eleven at July 04, 2025 10:54 AM (fV+MH)

214 200 > >>It's going to get rather difficult for NYC libs to pretend Mamdani is some kind of intellectual.

Super easy, barely an inconvenience!

Posted by: NYC libs who all voted for Warren Wilhelm at July 04, 2025 10:54 AM (PiwSw)

215 The new law includes a provision that eliminates federal income taxes on Social Security benefits for most beneficiaries, providing relief to individuals and couples. Additionally, it provides an enhanced deduction for taxpayers aged 65 and older, ensuring that retirees can keep more of what they have earned.

Social Security remains committed to providing timely, accurate information to the public and will continue working closely with federal partners to ensure beneficiaries understand how this legislation may affect them.

Posted by: toby928 at July 04, 2025 10:54 AM (jc0TO)

216 It is still weird to see schools in the ACC that aren't, you know, on the Atlantic Coast.
+++

Or Oklahoma in the SEC.

Posted by: Not that there's anything wrong with that at July 04, 2025 10:56 AM (XQo4F)

217 Getting into Bowdoin is at least as hard as getting into an Ivy.

He's not stupid. He's a communist.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2025 10:53 AM (viF8m)

It’s not hard to get into an Ivy if you’re a ‘correct’ applicant.

Looking at you two Obamas.

Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 10:56 AM (VofaG)

218 So glad I don't have any family that is this cray cray.

https://tinyurl.com/2zkfdeyy

Posted by: jsg at July 04, 2025 10:56 AM (1l+t9)

219 *203 UK Guardian, EPA puts 139 employees on leave after they sign a ‘declaration of dissent’*

And take your CAFE standards with you!
Posted by: People in the market for a small pickup truck at July 04, 2025 10:54 AM (XQo4F)

How I was hoping Zeldin would do this! It was a statement of open defiance from top EPA employees, who obviously thought that they were irreplaceable.
(If they contest being fired, which they probably will, I suggest continuing to pay them and just assigning them all to work out of a mobile home in Minot, North Dakota, studying the effects of intense cold on a human posterior.

Posted by: Tom Servo at July 04, 2025 10:57 AM (uWKK8)

220 203 UK Guardian, EPA puts 139 employees on leave after they sign a ‘declaration of dissent’

"More than 170 EPA employees put their names on the document, with about 100 more signing anonymously out of fear of retaliation, according to Jeremy Berg, a former editor in chief of Science magazine who is not an EPA employee but was among non-EPA scientists or academics to also sign."
--
CBS News, MoneyWatch
EPA puts 139 employees on leave after they publicly criticized Trump's environmental policies, July 3, 2025

In part, "The letter, titled a "Declaration of Dissent," accuses the Trump administration of undermining the EPA's mission of protecting the environment by promoting "harmful deregulation" and showing"disregard for scientific expertise."

Posted by: L - No nic, another

Hmmm. On the one hand, freedom of speech. On the other, attempting to sabotage efforts to make things better for Americans. Hmmm.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at July 04, 2025 10:57 AM (rF2iL)

221 154 Surgery is a fiber craft.
Posted by: eleven
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Speaking of: A heart replacement surgery has been accomplished without cracking the chest. Five inch incision just below the breastplate. Robots

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 10:57 AM (wHp1L)

222 Posted by: From about That Time at July 04, 2025

I don't really mind that He's been in the military and I don't think that is a terribly unusual thing on the military . The problem with tattoos in when people have them almost everywhere which doesn't look good.and large tattoos on women I don't care for but it's their choice to have them.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 04, 2025 10:57 AM (2GCMq)

223 217 Getting into Bowdoin is at least as hard as getting into an Ivy.

He's not stupid. He's a communist.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2025 10:53 AM (viF8m)

It’s not hard to get into an Ivy if you’re a ‘correct’ applicant.

Looking at you two Obamas.
Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 10:56 AM (VofaG)

Or George W. Bush, a guy who would need a life coach to fuck a football.

Posted by: Hut Hut at July 04, 2025 10:58 AM (xzkgE)

224 OT, but I'm making some Freedom sausage this weekend. Anyone have any favorites? They'll be cured and lightly smoked, but am looking for ideas.
We do a basic kielbasa, and a brat. Just did a hotdog one.
Now?

Posted by: MkY at July 04, 2025 10:59 AM (cPGH3)

225 >It is still weird to see schools in the ACC that aren't, you know, on the Atlantic Coast.
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right? U of Maryland got moved from the ACC to the Big Ten

and Maryland ACTUALLY HAS an Atlantic coast

so now MD is in with OSU and Michigan and Penn St and thus will never ever win any kind of championship ever again

ever

Posted by: Don Black at July 04, 2025 10:59 AM (AOsQT)

226 218 So glad I don't have any family that is this cray cray.

https://tinyurl.com/2zkfdeyy
Posted by: jsg at July 04, 2025 10:56 AM
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Women. It's always the women.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 04, 2025 11:00 AM (XQo4F)

227 WE HAZ A NOOD

Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2025 11:01 AM (+qU29)

228 "Speaking of: A heart replacement surgery has been accomplished without cracking the chest. Five inch incision just below the breastplate. Robots
Posted by: Braenyard"

Holy shit. Really?

Posted by: eleven at July 04, 2025 11:01 AM (fV+MH)

229 Or George W. Bush, a guy who would need a life coach to fuck a football.
Posted by: Hut Hut at July 04, 2025 10:58 AM

Heh. I'm old enough to remember when Al Gore was supposed to be the more intellectual of the pair. Until it was revealed that Al's highest semester GPA at college was lower that W's lowest.

Posted by: toby928 at July 04, 2025 11:01 AM (jc0TO)

230 Estrogen is LSD.

Posted by: eleven at July 04, 2025 11:01 AM (fV+MH)

231 Getting into Bowdoin is at least as hard as getting into an Ivy.

He's not stupid. He's a communist.
Posted by: JackStraw

Not quite. The Ivy acceptance rate is 5%. Bowdoin is 8%, and I'm sure they don't get nearly the number of high flyers that Harvard does.

Posted by: Archimedes at July 04, 2025 11:02 AM (Riz8t)

232 218 So glad I don't have any family that is this cray cray.

https://tinyurl.com/2zkfdeyy
Posted by: jsg at July 04, 2025 10:56 AM
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Women. It's always the women.
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 04, 2025 11:00 AM (XQo4F)

They always blame the mother.

Posted by: Marie Barone at July 04, 2025 11:02 AM (wVcYX)

233 Men and fiber today usually limited to making ropes.

Weavers were also once a thing.

Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 11:02 AM (VofaG)

234 218 So glad I don't have any family that is this cray cray.

https://tinyurl.com/2zkfdeyy
Posted by: jsg
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We used to have special places to care for afflicted people but crooked Democrats in Florida forced law that attenuated them.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 11:02 AM (wHp1L)

235 Both those states, if not the cities themselves, touch the Atlantic.
Pennsylvania cheats a little, via a bay.

Posted by: From about That Time at July 04, 2025 11:02 AM (n4GiU)

236 >>OT, but I'm making some Freedom sausage this weekend. Anyone have any favorites? They'll be cured and lightly smoked, but am looking for ideas.
We do a basic kielbasa, and a brat. Just did a hotdog one.
Now?

Jalapeno and cheese.

Posted by: JackStraw at July 04, 2025 11:02 AM (viF8m)

237 OT, but I'm making some Freedom sausage this weekend. Anyone have any favorites?
Posted by: MkY @ 10:59

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Conecuh. Hickory smoked.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at July 04, 2025 11:02 AM (XQo4F)

238 Nice. Would hang.

This is what I’m doing now, - the morning pipe.

Happy Independence Day.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 04, 2025 11:02 AM (fY84s)

239 Estrogen is LSD.
Posted by: eleven at July 04, 2025 11:01 AM

That explains the ability to see minute differences in shades of white.

Posted by: toby928 at July 04, 2025 11:03 AM (jc0TO)

240 Tailors

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 04, 2025 11:03 AM (wHp1L)

241 Or George W. Bush, a guy who would need a life coach to fuck a football.
Posted by: Hut Hut at July 04, 2025 10:58 AM (xzkgE)

Yeah he just flew a football.

Posted by: polynikes at July 04, 2025 11:03 AM (VofaG)

242 227 WE HAZ A NOOD
Posted by: Skip at July 04, 2025 11:01 AM (+qU29)

Posted by: m at July 04, 2025 11:04 AM (aURVT)

243 Tulsi Gabbard is tweeting a reporter from WP is using a burner phone to contact Intelligence Officers demanding secret info....

https://tinyurl.com/bdvcwhkp

Posted by: jsg at July 04, 2025 11:05 AM (1l+t9)

244 Bowdoin acceptance rate is 8%.

Harvard is 4%.

But Harvard is artificially lowered because everyone with good grades applies to Harvard figuring what the hell, give it a shot.

Places like Bowdoin don’t get the entire world applying. So I’d say relatively speaking it’s harder to get into there than Harvard.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 04, 2025 11:07 AM (KrOdt)

245 U.S. Senator John Fetterman@SenFettermanPA
Last week, Gallup polled only 36% of Democrats are “extremely or very proud” to be American.
In the greatest country in the world, that’s just wrong.
I’m unapologetically grateful for our nation and the American Way of Life—today, and always.
Happy Birthday, America.

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And that's when the murders started.

https://is.gd/P883pj

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 04, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)

246 I thought he was married a few times and had kids.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at July 04, 2025 10:41 AM (L5An7)

That's how they hide their gayness.

Posted by: Somewhere South of I-80 at July 04, 2025 11:09 AM (89Sog)

247 And then Fetterman turns around and votes for every communist piece of legislation in front of him. Fuck off asshole.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 04, 2025 11:09 AM (KrOdt)

248 Biden Says His Accomplishments Are "Disappearing So Rapidly" Under Trump

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Boo hoo.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Big Mouth of the West at July 04, 2025 11:28 AM (L/fGl)

249 I love this country and consider it a blessing to have been born here and enjoy life in the most exceptional nation on the planet. It's been an honor to have provided my miniscule contribution to the security of it's residents by proudly wearing the uniform of it's military.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 04, 2025 12:08 PM (zd+KQ)

250 Get the Grill lit us its time for a Backyard BBQ

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at July 04, 2025 05:49 PM (FLiOE)

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