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Wow. What a jaw-dropping week. Hard to keep up. In addition to the news items we've seen at AoSHQ, I was accidentally exposed to the Facebook page of an avowed communist. He lives in Canada. He was the only new lefty follower not blocked by a guy I follow who has some interesting ideas. In other words, this communist is a "nice" communist, not given to automatic abuse of those with other opinions. Rare. He said that Marxism was a way to analyze society - not a way to organize society. But wouldn't Lenin turn over in his grave (if he had a grave) to see how the USA rejected his message? Heh.

There were posts on his page demanding that imperialist Canada just leave poor Venezuela alone. There was an old video touting the ability of Soviet scientists to revive the severed head of a dog. There were posts of admiration for North Korea(!) including a clip from an old movie about a little Korean girl selling flowers and the Japanese occupation.

The posts on this Facebook page sent me on a search for context at The People's Cube. Why the nostalgia for the USSR among young communists at this time, for example?

Didn't help much with figuring out the Canadian communist, but during my visit to The People's Cube I noticed their news sidebar. I found this follow-up to California's official response against President Trump's ordered review of national monuments. You can't reverse the executive orders of other presidents creating national monuments, said the Attorney General of California. You can only make new monuments, or make them bigger. So:

Trump signs executive order making California and New York national monuments; residents have two days to vacate

Guess this weekend is going to be busier than I thought.

Meanwhile, back in the real world the oligarchs of Sacramento and Silicon Valley are cooperating in California's descent into socialism.

California's progressive regime of severe land-use controls has helped to make the state among the most unaffordable in the nation, driving homeownership rates to the lowest levels since the 1940s. It has also spurred a steady hegira of middle-aged, middle-class families -- the kind of tax-burdened people Gov. Jerry Brown now denounces as "freeloaders" -- from the state. They may have access to smartphones and virtual reality, but the increasingly propertyless masses seem destined to live in the kind of cramped conditions that their parents and grandparents had escaped decades earlier. . . .
The oligarchs of the Bay Area have a problem: They must square their progressive worldview with their enormous wealth. They certainly are not socialists in the traditional sense . . .

What would Lenin think of this alternate route to socialism? Why does anybody still care what Lenin would think?

You got anything interesting going on this weekend?

Posted by: Open Blogger at 11:11 AM

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1 Top ten!

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 17, 2017 11:04 AM (66CWr)

2 First?

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 17, 2017 11:04 AM (i5kvX)

3 Smallball, bitchez, smallball.

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 17, 2017 11:04 AM (66CWr)

4 Getting within spitting distance, anyway.

Posted by: Thanatopsis at June 17, 2017 11:05 AM (i5kvX)

5 Hell, I didn't think I'd actually snag the top...

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 17, 2017 11:07 AM (66CWr)

6 You are all invited to my room for drinks to celebrate the mistrial.

Posted by: Bill Cosby at June 17, 2017 11:07 AM (arhmY)

7 Socialism, Leninism, Marxism, ismism...
nothing more than attempts to run other people's lives for gain, all dressed in twisted language.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at June 17, 2017 11:08 AM (MINbv)

8 willowed: to all you who spill gasoline, why not use a funnel?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 17, 2017 11:09 AM (xAvrH)

9 top 20?

Posted by: some dope at June 17, 2017 11:09 AM (6OUNd)

10 I was accidentally exposed to the Facebook page of an avowed communist. He lives in Canada. He was the only new lefty follower not blocked by a guy I follow who has some interesting ideas. In other words, this communist is a "nice" communist, not given to automatic abuse of those with other opinions. Rare. He said that Marxism was a way to analyze society - not a way to organize society.

By this logic I'm a Marxist.

Marx - being a hater full of resentment - does well with sociology, because humans suck, so people who dislike humanity (like Macchiavelli and Hobbes) tend to do sociology better than hippies do.

Marx's problem is that he pretended, primarily, to be doing economic science. And this, he could not do. He couldn't manage so much as his own finances.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 11:09 AM (6FqZa)

11 So on FnF this morning they were teasing a story that Mueller may have to step down. But they never said why. Anybody know more?

Posted by: some dope at June 17, 2017 11:10 AM (6OUNd)

12 Donald Trump is the savior of western civilization and a servant of the Almighty who will bring this country back to God, example 1,437:

https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/875771056975466496

Posted by: most deplorable Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at June 17, 2017 11:14 AM (nXCp4)

13 I always wonder what exactly is wrong with someone who thinks redistributionalist collectivism A. Would work, B. Is not a giant graft scheme, C. Is fair, D. wouldn't result in monstrous poverty, death, famine, etc.,

The idea that you can literally take the money and resources of one person, group, country, continent and redistribute it to another person, group, country, continent and thus make everyone "equal" shows an epic level of immaturity. I understand that those that push this scheme are actually stealing the money for themselves under the auspices of redistribution, but how stupid do you have to be to not see that? How are there not-elites who think that's a good? And do they only do it because they're A. Jealous, B.Lazy?

Posted by: dagny at June 17, 2017 11:14 AM (OdHXU)

14 Got up late, but it's Saturday, so that's okay, right?

Pulled up the EMT and one of the first things I read is:

All Hail Eris: ...*fist bump to bebe's boobs*...

Ehrm...

Well, good morning, what's left of it.

Posted by: mindful webworker - knock knock knock Jesus? knock knock knock Jesus? at June 17, 2017 11:15 AM (vZ0KM)

15 I think Marx did well in predicting a border-spanning upper class with no loyalty to the proletariats in their nations. We have this today in - er - San Francisco. He also predicted a proletarian reaction.

Marx did less well in predicting that the proles would find common cause across borders. The leaders of any "transnational proletariat" ends up hobnobbing with the transnational "Bourgeoisie", and seeking rents therefrom. Orwell illustrates this pretty well.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 11:15 AM (6FqZa)

16 But wouldn't Lenin turn over in his grave (if he had a grave) to see how the USA rejected his message?

Not all of them have rejected his message. The people they vote for, for example.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 17, 2017 11:17 AM (xAvrH)

17 Coming Soon to a Theater Near You!

A New Collaboration in TERROR between -

Stephen King and KFC:

"Chickens of the Corn"

Yeah. I got nothing.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 17, 2017 11:17 AM (9q7Dl)

18 Wait, taxpayers are freeloaders now?

Zombie Orwell can only shake his head in wonder.

Posted by: rickl at June 17, 2017 11:18 AM (sdi6R)

19 A friend of the family was a young girl living in Pusan under Japanese occupation. Her uncle was an electrical engineer and the war and following independence was very hard since they lost everything including the uncle. And the Korean war and rebuilding afterwards was worse for her family.

The thing that infuriates me today is that all the thought leaders are up in arms about the US kid who was pithed by the Norks, but couldn't be bothered by the entire population of North Korea who are treated worse, and have been living in a nation-wide prison labor camp for 50 years.

What, one liberal arts major is a tragedy, but half of an entire ethnic group is a statistic? And you call me a heartless fascist?

Posted by: Kindltot at June 17, 2017 11:18 AM (mkDpn)

20 How are there not-elites who think that's a good? And do they only do it because they're A. Jealous, B.Lazy?

Posted by: dagny at June 17, 2017 11:14 AM (OdHXU)
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Humans have an innate sense of 'fairness'. Even small children will cry out "Not fair!" Marxism preys on that.

Posted by: grammie winger - maranatha at June 17, 2017 11:18 AM (lwiT4)

21 "....fist bump to bebe's boobs*...
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Sooo.... boob thread?

Posted by: Weasel at June 17, 2017 11:18 AM (Sfs6o)

22 12 Donald Trump is the savior of western civilization and a servant of the Almighty who will bring this country back to God, example 1,437:

https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/875771056975466496
Posted by: most deplorable Ghost of kari - certified sidebar at June 17, 2017 11:14 AM (nXCp4)
Wow. Finally.

Yet so many nitwits: "Huh?, not what my teachers said! You're uneducated!"

Posted by: dagny at June 17, 2017 11:18 AM (OdHXU)

23 boulder terlit hobo, well said about Marx and some of his social analysis.

Not that it seemed brilliant or uniquely good, but solid. And I like your explanation that misanthropes (of the non-humanitarian variety) sometimes have easy insight into human behavior.

Just last week, I think, some commenter mentioned The 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, one of Marx's essays (actually more journalism, of the real and heavy sort), of all things. I recall enjoying that one way back, when reading most of Marx's political and social analyses.

Contrasted with the dense nonsensical gobbledegook I heard at the Zhdanov Institute of Marxism-Leninism, at Leningrad State University, around the same time, Marx's stuff was actually well done and interesting.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 17, 2017 11:18 AM (+wjl1)

24 But wouldn't Lenin turn over in his grave (if he had a grave) to see how the USA rejected his message? Heh.

The USA has rejected his message? How so?

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 17, 2017 11:18 AM (Ybs+3)

25 I understand that those that push this scheme are actually stealing the money for themselves under the auspices of redistribution, but how stupid do you have to be to not see that? How are there not-elites who think that's a good? And do they only do it because they're A. Jealous, B.Lazy?

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Many are indoctrinated in public schools to believe socialism is a good idea. Countries like Sweden and Great Britain are held up as examples of socialism "working" while Venezuela is ignored.

Posted by: Aunt Luna at June 17, 2017 11:19 AM (Zd2ZF)

26 Planet Of The Apes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMbWDRzqNhc

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 11:20 AM (6FqZa)

27 Antiquities Act:

"...upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments"

Which is a major reason why most western states have sought to gain federal lands gratis.

Posted by: RioBravo at June 17, 2017 11:20 AM (OmhcY)

28
All hail Marx and Lenin

http://tinyurl.com/ya27qymr

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 17, 2017 11:21 AM (IqV8l)

29 Countries like Sweden and Great Britain are held up as examples of socialism "working" while Venezuela is ignored.
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It seems to matter not to Swedes that the government confiscates about 70 percent of their wealth. "Cradle to grave". That's what they want.

Posted by: grammie winger - maranatha at June 17, 2017 11:21 AM (lwiT4)

30 There were posts on his page demanding that imperialist Canada just leave poor Venezuela alone.

What did Canada do that got his dander up? Did they help Maduro? Or did they not help Maduro?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 17, 2017 11:22 AM (xAvrH)

31 dagny, what you said. Of course the darker more infuriating part of this is that these western "leaders" and "elites" pursuing their idiotic/destructive redistributionist fantasies are empowered, mostly, by voters and "citizens".

Not you, not me, not most commenters here, of course, but generally, this catastrophic stupidity is enabled by the people around us.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 17, 2017 11:22 AM (+wjl1)

32 You got anything interesting going on this weekend?

Mass vaccination of all 15 dogs. Mowing and edging their pens. Hog paneling needs to be installed in a few places. Won't get to the back 40 before going to dinner, then the Astros game tonight.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 17, 2017 11:23 AM (olnQu)

33 I'm wary of any political ideology that claims the perfectibility of human beings is possible, such as New Soviet man. Ummm, no. Hard to believe people fall for this.

Posted by: JuJuBee at June 17, 2017 11:23 AM (dargh)

34 As painful as reading Marx may be it is even worse when edited by Engels. Hence, Marx is often discussed but rarely read.

Posted by: RioBravo at June 17, 2017 11:23 AM (OmhcY)

35 Many are indoctrinated in public schools to believe socialism is a good idea. Countries like Sweden and Great Britain are held up as examples of socialism "working" while Venezuela is ignored.

Which can't provide all their own defense and had to import terrorists because the people didn't reproduce under socialism.

Even their examples are afact, ahistorical, areality.

Posted by: dagny at June 17, 2017 11:24 AM (OdHXU)

36 The oligarchs of the Bay Area have a problem: They must square their progressive worldview with their enormous wealth.

I suspect they will enjoy their wealth first, and worry about squaring worldviews later.

Posted by: rickl at June 17, 2017 11:24 AM (sdi6R)

37 It seems to matter not to Swedes that the government confiscates about 70 percent of their wealth. "Cradle to grave". That's what they want.

This sort-of works in a homogeneous nation, especially if Swedes. They figure everyone is part of the family (which is basically true).

It works less well when you count Fatima and her four teenaged black-flag-waving spawn as "Swedes".

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 11:24 AM (6FqZa)

38 Marx did less well in predicting that the proles
would find common cause across borders. The leaders of any
"transnational proletariat" ends up hobnobbing with the transnational
"Bourgeoisie", and seeking rents therefrom. Orwell illustrates this
pretty well.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 11:15 AM (6FqZa)

Marx blew the final question in the World Forum contest, which was 'Who won the (World) Cup final in 1949?' He lost out on the fabulous lounge suite.
https://youtu.be/kHI0e8mRWGA

Posted by: Count de Monet at June 17, 2017 11:25 AM (JO9+V)

39 I'm wary of any political ideology that claims the
perfectibility of human beings is possible, such as New Soviet man.
Ummm, no. Hard to believe people fall for this.

Posted by: JuJuBee at June 17, 2017 11:23 AM (dargh)
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Wouldn't evolution argue that man is being perfected?

Posted by: grammie winger - maranatha at June 17, 2017 11:26 AM (lwiT4)

40 The oligarchs of the Bay Area have a problem: They must square their progressive worldview with their enormous wealth.

That will be simple. Just follow the paths blazed by the Russian Oligarchs.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 17, 2017 11:26 AM (mkDpn)

41 The oligarchs of the Bay Area have a problem: They must square their progressive worldview with their enormous wealth.

What problem? Progressivism is now an attitude, not a program. And why do they have to square it? The consequences are for little people, not them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 17, 2017 11:27 AM (olnQu)

42 It seems to matter not to Swedes that the government confiscates about 70 percent of their wealth. "Cradle to grave". That's what they want.

This sort-of works in a homogeneous nation, especially if Swedes. They figure everyone is part of the family (which is basically true).

It works less well when you count Fatima and her ~~four~~ seven teenaged black-flag-waving spawn as "Swedes".
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo

Fixed

Posted by: Jean at June 17, 2017 11:27 AM (9TU00)

43 You got anything interesting going on this weekend?
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Mainly just sending carefully worded hate mail back to Paul Ryan, who for some reason seems to think I really, really want to hear about how unified he is with the progressives.

Posted by: Methos at June 17, 2017 11:28 AM (3Liv/)

44 You got anything interesting going on this weekend?
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I'm behind on my napping.

Posted by: Weasel at June 17, 2017 11:28 AM (Sfs6o)

45 "Chickens of the Corn"

How about Children of the Gorn?

Posted by: Lizard creature having sex with Captain Kirk at June 17, 2017 11:28 AM (xAvrH)

46 Wouldn't evolution argue that man is being perfected?

Yes, given the parameters of man's environment in any given time and place.

Idiocracy is one model for how man is "perfected" to best fit a social welfare state.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 11:29 AM (6FqZa)

47 Wouldn't evolution argue that man is being perfected?
Posted by: grammie winger - maranatha at June 17, 2017 11:26 AM (lwiT4)

Nope. More suited to current environment perhaps, but mostly "more successful strategies to having more and healthier surviving babies"

At the basis that is what evolution is all about. Putting an end goal to it is like pushing a slack rope. Doesn't happen.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 17, 2017 11:29 AM (mkDpn)

48 Or, what Kindltot said. (I was being a sarcastic jerk as usual)

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 11:30 AM (6FqZa)

49 Now, Grammie, Tromfin Lysenko would say that evolution, like Marxism, is pushing to the perfection of humanity, but that is a political statement, not a scientific one.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 17, 2017 11:31 AM (mkDpn)

50 My exciting plans this weekend include re-potting about 50 Aloe Vera plants. These things multiply faster than rabbits..

Posted by: Molly k. at June 17, 2017 11:32 AM (YxPh9)

51 Communism sorta sucks, actually, in practice.

Posted by: Zombie Kim Philby at June 17, 2017 11:33 AM (JO9+V)

52 Anyway, the Hindus are being introduced to modern genetic research, which proves the Aryan Invasion Theory, which linguists have known about ever since Jones realised "hey this Sanskrit language sure looks a lot like Old Greek".
http://tinyurl.com/y93s5e8s

Much salt is to be mined from the commenters, who don't want to hear it.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 11:33 AM (6FqZa)

53 31 dagny, what you said. Of course the darker more infuriating part of this is that these western "leaders" and "elites" pursuing their idiotic/destructive redistributionist fantasies are empowered, mostly, by voters and "citizens".

Not you, not me, not most commenters here, of course, but generally, this catastrophic stupidity is enabled by the people around us.

Posted by: rhomboid at June 17, 2017 11:22 AM (+wjl1)

I think in the end, the demise of western civilization will be traced to the ubiquitiousness of the TV, followed by electronics which just exasperated the initial problem.
People are miserably ill read, ill educated, ill trained to think. They imagine themselves "good" because they "care about people" or "care about the poor."
Well, if you "cared about people" you wouldn't vote for those who want to force the world into a redistributionist anti-colonialist collective where the only possible result within a generation would be famine, poverty, disease, war for resources, death and oppression.
You could take every dime from every American person, corporation, government then sink the continent into the earth then give it to the African continent and it would be in the pockets of a few thugs within a generation and they'd be right back where they started. No, worse off, because there would be no US to "help" them discover new drugs, clothe them, send food, design technology, know how to build roads.

Destroy the US and the world will sink into chaos making the post Pax Romana era look like dinner at Buckingham palace.

Posted by: dagny at June 17, 2017 11:34 AM (OdHXU)

54 Grammie, to be nicer to you, perfection of humanity is a social goal. And in this I mean a religious thing as well, because religion is part and parcel with society and culture.

I always get my quotations wrong but "common clay" is what we are and what we have, and God knows it is hard, that is why he gave us each other to help us along over the rough bits.

If it were easy, we would not be human.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 17, 2017 11:35 AM (mkDpn)

55 Marxism is revenge fantasy.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 17, 2017 11:35 AM (oVJmc)

56 The horde must get together and get KT installed as caretaker for National Monument California. KT as Czar of CA can allow the Republicans to stay, but of course only under absolute KT Rule.

Finally they get high speed rail, and the trains will run on time, and the landscaping will be fabulous.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 17, 2017 11:36 AM (O8hcu)

57 sometimes Camille Paglia seems to be the last intellect (with something worthy to attend) standing on the left, now that Hitchens is gone.

Link in my name leads to a should-read Weekly standard essay/interview.

Posted by: SarahW at June 17, 2017 11:37 AM (Sp1NT)

58 All hail Marx and Lenin

http://tinyurl.com/ya27qymr
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 17, 2017 11:21 AM (IqV8l)

Ha! I just knew it was going to be that FST album cover even before I clicked on the link.

"Oh, how can you be in two places at once..."

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 17, 2017 11:37 AM (Ybs+3)

59
Moderate muslims cheer radical muslims committing terror and murder.
Moderate democrats cheer radical democrats committing terror and murder.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 17, 2017 11:38 AM (npdX6)

60 What most don't understand about the Bay area, and housing prices...

Most people form other countries don't have the US view on Homes.... in other places they are neither as large, or affordable enough to actually own...

Now, add in that Sillycone Valley has imported much of its labor? That I'd venture the much of the Bay Area population is Foreign Born?

Their expectations are different...

Posted by: Don Q. at June 17, 2017 11:40 AM (NgKpN)

61 Civil Rights Commission Launches Investigation into Trump Admin.
-Breitbart

Why do we still have a Civil Rights Commission?

Posted by: Under Fire at June 17, 2017 11:40 AM (l4aLi)

62 The God Emperor needs to shut down these witch-hunts already and assert his imperium.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 11:42 AM (6FqZa)

63 Socialism is slavery. All dressed up in self-congratulatory language, socialism of all kinds from National to International with Fabian thrown in only seeks to put different colored shackles on their slaves that they harvest and direct. They are neo-aristoi who believe that a deft word and directed violence will give them a throne and give their enemies a mass grave.

The only difference is their the titles they give themselves (doctor instead of Baron) - else they are the same scum our Founding Fathers defeated in the Revolution.

Socialism is slavery. Communism is genocide. Leftism is treason to Liberty.

Posted by: Inspector Cussword at June 17, 2017 11:43 AM (c1VpD)

64 So ~ I read about the "Breatharians" in the sidebar. I absolutely buy into this ~ and the "paleo" diet too!(because by studying paleolithic skeletons we have obviously been able to determine that they were way stronger and healthier than we are. I mean ~ they were able to survive, rickets, beriberi, scurvy and loss of all teeth before the age of 30 way better than we would!). I also believe that all members of the Democrat party, communists, and socialists (I know ~ repetitive) should "join me " and go on this diet immediately. For the good of Gaia!

Posted by: Publius Redux at June 17, 2017 11:43 AM (UOr6C)

65 It seems to matter not to Swedes that the government confiscates about 70 percent of their wealth. "Cradle to grave". That's what they want.

Posted by: grammie winger - maranatha at June 17, 2017 11:21 AM (lwiT4)

Which works great as long as you have a small, homogenous population and are not overrun with hordes of immigrants who won't assimilate, will not learn the Swedish language and so cannot be employed and therefore cannot pay their fair share of the 70% tax rate.

And then the country becomes like a ship that is slowly taking on water.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 17, 2017 11:43 AM (Ybs+3)

66 61 Civil Rights Commission Launches Investigation into Trump Admin.
-Breitbart

Why do we still have a Civil Rights Commission?
Posted by: Under Fire

good question. every single one of these moles that sticks their head up needs to be whacked and sent packing to the taxpaying sector.

Posted by: The Original REAL Galactic Lord Sir Covfefe at June 17, 2017 11:43 AM (nFwvY)

67 Much salt is to be mined from the commenters, who don't want to hear it.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 11:33 AM (6FqZa)
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Moderns genetics research does tend to muddle as much as it resolves. Even relatively isolated populations as southeast Britain are in dispute from recent research. The English are either mostly Teutonic (angle/saxon/jute), mostly Britonic (Brito-celtic/Belgae), or muttic.

Posted by: RioBravo at June 17, 2017 11:43 AM (OmhcY)

68 Regarding Karl Marx and the Left:

What part of "Thou shalt not steal" don't you understand?

Posted by: JAS at June 17, 2017 11:44 AM (EX4Wr)

69 My nephew, now a progressive multi millionaire, married to a Harvard lawyer has just paid $5 mil for a bay area house because they didn't want to put their children in private school because that was too "elitist" and probably not "diverse enough." So they moved and bought a bigger house to a public school district they thought was better.

Nice trick though, spending your money on YOU instead of educating your kids in a better atmosphere while still virtue signaling.

No, seriously.

Posted by: dagny at June 17, 2017 11:45 AM (OdHXU)

70 Unlike Sean hannity, I DO BLAME Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, most especially Obama, and the entire left for the baseball mass murder attack on their political enemies.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 17, 2017 11:45 AM (npdX6)

71 What part of "Thou shalt not steal" don't you understand?

Posted by: JAS at June 17, 2017 11:44 AM (EX4Wr)

"Private property is theft!"

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 17, 2017 11:45 AM (Ybs+3)

72 OregonMuse, again translating boulder terlit hobo from its original Sarcasticese :^)

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 11:46 AM (6FqZa)

73 and Treason is Patriotism!

Posted by: JAS at June 17, 2017 11:47 AM (EX4Wr)

74 Baseball mass murder?

"Shakespeare in the ballpark!"

Posted by: JAS at June 17, 2017 11:48 AM (EX4Wr)

75 Jake Tapper just told me that my chocolate ration is being increased from 30 grams to 25 grams. So I got that going for me.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 17, 2017 11:48 AM (npdX6)

76 Holy schnikes, Holly Sanders has some very nice sweater puppies!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 11:48 AM (kTF2Z)

77 What Kindltot said above.

Lots of people have an erroneous belief that evolution means progress, which is reinforced by the famous graphic depicting the stages of the evolution of man from a chimpanzee-like creature to modern humans.

https://tinyurl.com/y9vj7q2y

They get taller from left to right, which evokes a rising line on a graph. Upwards is better, right? That's clear evidence of progress.

But perhaps this is a more accurate graphic:

https://tinyurl.com/y82y3bcq

Posted by: rickl at June 17, 2017 11:48 AM (sdi6R)

78 I'm sorry. I meant to type attempted mass politically motivated murder.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 17, 2017 11:49 AM (npdX6)

79 Unlike Sean hannity, I DO BLAME Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, most especially Obama, and the entire left for the baseball mass murder attack on their political enemies.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at June 17, 2017 11:45 AM (npdX6)

As do I. And Sanders was the only one who denounced the violence, probably because he felt like he had to. And not a damn one of them apologized for the inflammatory things they said.

Posted by: Aunt Luna at June 17, 2017 11:49 AM (Zd2ZF)

80 How many people thought that a DJT Presidency would be a cake walk? I think more than a few believed that. They were wrong. Will continue to be wrong for some time.

Let the opposition show itself. Then let President Trump whack it down.

The deep state is decades old. You won't undo that in a few months. It will take time but it will happen.

Posted by: Tim in Illinois at June 17, 2017 11:49 AM (sf2BM)

81 Moderns genetics research does tend to muddle as much as it resolves. Even relatively isolated populations as southeast Britain are in dispute from recent research. The English are either mostly Teutonic (angle/saxon/jute), mostly Britonic (Brito-celtic/Belgae), or muttic.

Hey, since my paternal ancestry is southeast British (Wolverhampton area), I've been reading up on this!

The research is doing well at pinpointing the ancient Celtic stock of the British Isles, to a mass invasion during the Bronze Age from the "bell beaker culture". This invasion nearly wiped out the farmers who were there beforehand. (Ancient European farmers were basically Sardinians.)

The research is not doing as well - yet - at finetuning a Celt from a Saxon. Since they are both Western Europeans speaking an Indo-European language, their genetics look very similar.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 11:50 AM (6FqZa)

82 It seems to matter not to Swedes that the government
confiscates about 70 percent of their wealth. "Cradle to grave". That's
what they want.

Posted by: grammie winger - maranatha at June 17, 2017 11:21 AM (lwiT4)

The strong stock in Sweden has been leached out to other countries. All that's left is a bunch of fools trying to convince themselves of their moral superiority, as they sacrifice their own culture at the altar of said moral superiority. Sad!

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 17, 2017 11:50 AM (Id9+8)

83 the proof must have been hidden in the pudding.

Posted by: The Original REAL Galactic Lord Sir Covfefe at June 17, 2017 11:50 AM (nFwvY)

84 Not properly tithing is stealing and evasion of social responsibility.

(I am being sarcastic and non-sarcastic at the same time because that is who I are.)

Posted by: RioBravo at June 17, 2017 11:50 AM (OmhcY)

85 quake swarm in Yellowstone caldera -
http://tinyurl.com/y8zzouhc

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 11:53 AM (6FqZa)

86 Not properly tithing is stealing and evasion of social responsibility.

Posted by: RioBravo at June 17, 2017 11:50 AM (OmhcY)

I actually think this is correct.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 17, 2017 11:55 AM (Ybs+3)

87 I had a horrific epiphany:

I realized that North Korea INTENTIONALLY put Otto Warmbier in a vegetative state.

Then, they waited for a year so there was no possibilty that the brain damage could be reversed.

Posted by: qzy at June 17, 2017 11:55 AM (LCTR/)

88
Q: What did communists use for light before candles?

A: Electricity!

(old joke)

Posted by: Love Gun at June 17, 2017 11:56 AM (no0Da)

89 I saw something about Silicon Valley planning housing units for their workers. The writer said they were returning to feudalism.

I'm sure life will be nice and fiber optic will mean the 800 square foot (or whatever) units will be a happy place for the next 500,000 H1B Indians, happy to escape their country. And they can be called in to work at a moment's notice for urgent projects.

These oligarchs think of everything, except how to employ Americans that would take those jobs if not displaced by controllable foreign serfs.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 17, 2017 11:57 AM (O8hcu)

90 If we are going to talk about Sweden and Norway, let's ponder what the spinning of their ancestors in their graves is going to do to the permafrost. Never in their wildest dreams did the Viking folk think that their descendants would welcome in an invading group of scum and let them rape and pillage at will while the natives do nothing but give them public assistance checks.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is not a vinegar-c**ted hag, thank you very much. at June 17, 2017 11:57 AM (kXoT0)

91 A pinball wizard
http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/selection-du-weekend-248-64.jpg

And what gun?
http://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2017/06/GunGirl-17.jpeg

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2017 12:00 PM (I6YUj)

92 Sherry , Norway (and Denmark and Finland and Iceland) largely doesn't have that problem. It's mainly the Swedes

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 12:00 PM (6FqZa)

93 I am still trying to figure out how Merkel thinks Germany benefits from not having any actual Germans. Those Muslim Yutes rampaging across their borders are not precision engineers, scientists, et al, and they certainly do not have the German devotion to work, perfection, or thrift.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is not a vinegar-c**ted hag, thank you very much. at June 17, 2017 12:00 PM (kXoT0)

94
Most people form other countries don't have the US view on Homes....
in other places they are neither as large, or affordable enough to
actually own...
=====

When the 'homeowners association' came to the Midwest, it was all over. The HO owns the underlying land (usufruct?) and somehow you are leasing your plot. A nightmare scenario would be that someone offers $1k to every member to buy up their share of the HO. Duke of Happy Acres here we come!

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 17, 2017 12:01 PM (MIKMs)

95 Never in their wildest dreams did the Viking folk
think that their descendants would welcome in an invading group of scum
and let them rape and pillage at will while the natives do nothing but
give them public assistance checks.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is not a
vinegar-c**ted hag, thank you very much. at June 17, 2017 11:57 AM
(kXoT0)

^^^THIS^^^

Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at June 17, 2017 12:02 PM (Id9+8)

96 willowed: to all you who spill gasoline, why not use a funnel?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 17, 2017 11:09 AM (xAvrH)

Well, y h nd do sn' s a e.
m a e t h k

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 17, 2017 12:02 PM (XUcIQ)

97 Instead of Potterville, it will be Googleville.

WithGoogleQuikMart

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2017 12:03 PM (I6YUj)

98 81 Moderns genetics research does tend to muddle as much as it resolves. Even relatively isolated populations as southeast Britain are in dispute from recent research. The English are either mostly Teutonic (angle/saxon/jute), mostly Britonic (Brito-celtic/Belgae), or muttic.

Hey, since my paternal ancestry is southeast British (Wolverhampton area), I've been reading up on this!

The research is doing well at pinpointing the ancient Celtic stock of the British Isles, to a mass invasion during the Bronze Age from the "bell beaker culture". This invasion nearly wiped out the farmers who were there beforehand. (Ancient European farmers were basically Sardinians.)

The research is not doing as well - yet - at finetuning a Celt from a Saxon. Since they are both Western Europeans speaking an Indo-European language, their genetics look very similar.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 11:50 AM (6FqZa)

I consume everything I can find on this as well. I enjoyed (it's getting old now) some of John Oliver's stuff on youtube and a more recent Amazon Prime "First peoples".
My husband's father is Sardinian and there is some really interesting stuff on that Hapalog Group, which also includes the Basques.

The british research can't differentiate between the Normans and the Anglo-saxons since they're the same genetically. I've thought about having my own dna run to see if I'm more anglo than celt. I do have the "ginger gene" tho. I'd rather not be the celtic branch.

Posted by: dagny at June 17, 2017 12:03 PM (OdHXU)

99 Well, y h nd do sn' s a e.
m a e t h k

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 17, 2017 12:02 PM (XUcIQ)

Aaargh! Format fail.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 17, 2017 12:03 PM (XUcIQ)

100 Never in their wildest dreams did the Viking folk
think that their descendants would welcome in an invading group of scum
and let them rape and pillage at will while the natives do nothing but
give them public assistance checks.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is not a
vinegar-c**ted hag, thank you very much. at June 17, 2017 11:57 AM
(kXoT0)

Um, look up Surtr (Surtur) who guards the border of Musspellheim. It is part of the Ragnarok cycle.

Posted by: Kindltot at June 17, 2017 12:04 PM (mkDpn)

101
These oligarchs think of everything, except how
to employ Americans that would take those jobs if not displaced by
controllable foreign serfs. Posted by: illiniwek at June 17, 2017 11:57 AM (O8hcu)
=====

If you are from Illinois, Pullman might bring up some history.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 17, 2017 12:04 PM (MIKMs)

102 Some odd looking maneuvers by the container ship just before it hit the USS Fitzgerald.

http://tinyurl.com/ybm7oflr

Posted by: geoffb5 at June 17, 2017 12:05 PM (d3wbb)

103 What the actual fuck have these people done? Let me reiterate. WE do the raping and pillaging, we DONT allow it to be done to us. Capisce?

Posted by: Ragnar Lothbrook at June 17, 2017 12:05 PM (kTF2Z)

104 92 Sherry , Norway (and Denmark and Finland and Iceland) largely doesn't have that problem. It's mainly the Swedes
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 12:00 PM (6FqZa)

Norway supports its socialism by harvesting vast amounts of North Sea Oil (eek global warming). Finland and Iceland aren't destinations for many islamists, yet.

Posted by: dagny at June 17, 2017 12:05 PM (OdHXU)

105 Sherry , Norway (and Denmark and Finland and Iceland) largely doesn't have that problem. It's mainly the Swedes
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 12:00 PM (6FqZa)

Maybe Finland and Iceland don't, but, Norway certainly does. They are offering classes to the refugees there on not raping, etc. They are also desperately trying to reduce the number of Muslim migrants that they admit. I will give them credit for deporting Muslim refugees with ties to extremist groups. Just do an internet search using the term, Norway muslim refugee problems.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is not a vinegar-c**ted hag, thank you very much. at June 17, 2017 12:06 PM (kXoT0)

106 Just listened to Montco D.A. crying as he wiped the egg of his face resulting from the debacle of a Cosby mistrial.

His tears are delicious.

Posted by: kallisto at June 17, 2017 12:07 PM (kD8Fh)

107 Sweden's population is roughly 27% foreign while Norway's is roughly 17% foreign. In a historo-cultural context, the statistics will be self-irrelevantizing within two generations.

Posted by: RioBravo at June 17, 2017 12:08 PM (OmhcY)

108 right, I was unclear. Norway sits between Sweden and Finland/Iceland on the Islamic problem. they do have the problem, but they know about it and are doing something about it, which means less terrorism and crime than in Sweden.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 12:08 PM (6FqZa)

109 Cosby's lawyer was stupid like a fox. Six minutes of 'argument' and let the jury ponder if the trial was rigged.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 12:09 PM (6FqZa)

110 2 more hours until kid the youngers blackbelt test is done.
Started last night at 7

Posted by: @votermom's phone at June 17, 2017 12:09 PM (u8vcQ)

111 99 Well, y h nd do sn' s a e.
m a e t h k

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 17, 2017 12:02 PM (XUcIQ)

Aaargh! Format fail.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 17, 2017 12:03 PM (XUcIQ)
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Thought maybe it had been absorbed through your skin!

Posted by: Weasel at June 17, 2017 12:10 PM (Sfs6o)

112 89 I saw something about Silicon Valley planning housing units for their workers. The writer said they were returning to feudalism.

I'm sure life will be nice and fiber optic will mean the 800 square foot (or whatever) units will be a happy place for the next 500,000 H1B Indians, happy to escape their country. And they can be called in to work at a moment's notice for urgent projects.

These oligarchs think of everything, except how to employ Americans that would take those jobs if not displaced by controllable foreign serfs.
Posted by: illiniwek at June 17, 2017 11:57 AM (O8hcu)

This. Coastal California and the ME Oil Sheikdoms have a lot in common. Import their compliant slave labor.

Posted by: charley horse at June 17, 2017 12:13 PM (+kahX)

113 Some odd looking maneuvers by the container ship just before it hit the USS Fitzgerald.
http://tinyurl.com/ybm7oflr
Posted by: geoffb5 at June 17, 2017 12:05 PM
~~~~~

Definitely looks intentional. And the container ship was registered in the Philippines. Hmmmm.

Posted by: IrishEi at June 17, 2017 12:13 PM (HiDrR)

114 Norway supports its socialism by harvesting vast amounts of North Sea Oil (eek global warming). Finland and Iceland aren't destinations for many islamists, yet.

Posted by: dagny at June 17, 2017 12:05 PM (OdHXU)

Finland actually requires its immigrants to become Finns. Learn the language. Find jobs. That sort of thing.

Finland is big on assimilation.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 17, 2017 12:16 PM (Ybs+3)

115 NOOD!

Gardening thread.

Posted by: IrishEi at June 17, 2017 12:16 PM (HiDrR)

116 The Cosby retrial is going to be a circus.

There will be enough time for Cosby supporters to marshal the anti-Whitey forces.

some background for those not in SEPA:

Bruce Castor, longstanding Montco GOP D.A, declined to prosecute the Cosby case on the basis that he couldn't convict. Kevin Steele used this as a campaign issue and defeated Castor. Now little Kevvy is crying and will have to face loud cries of RAAYYYCISSS when he retries Cosby.

Eff all the effing coconspirators who are ruining this country. Their inefficacy is a joy to behold.

And eff Gloria Allred in particular

Posted by: kallisto at June 17, 2017 12:16 PM (kD8Fh)

117 19th century Swedish nationalism was a follower and quite derivative of 19th century Norwegian nationalism (itself a response to assertion of Norwegian identity following the Treaty of Kiel) which placed Norway under Sweden. Norwegian nationalism still retains a few embers.

Posted by: RioBravo at June 17, 2017 12:17 PM (OmhcY)

118 93 I am still trying to figure out how Merkel thinks Germany benefits from not having any actual Germans. Those Muslim Yutes rampaging across their borders are not precision engineers, scientists, et al, and they certainly do not have the German devotion to work, perfection, or thrift.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is not a vinegar-c**ted hag, thank you very much. at June 17, 2017 12:00 PM (kXoT0)
---
From my morning reading ("Blitzed"), perhaps they need to hop up their Aryan remainders on Pervitin and stuff them into panzerkampfwagens.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 12:17 PM (QGoUX)

119 93 I am still trying to figure out how Merkel thinks Germany benefits from not having any actual Germans.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is not a vinegar-c**ted hag, thank you very much. at June 17, 2017 12:00 PM (kXoT0)

I am so going to steal this line. As AosHQ Thought Leader, I am entitled to do so.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 17, 2017 12:21 PM (Ybs+3)

120 Grun panzerkampwagens ja?

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 17, 2017 12:22 PM (I6YUj)

121 "Socialism is slavery. Communism is genocide. Leftism is treason to Liberty.
Posted by: Inspector Cussword

good summary. I at times call Communism "the mafia with a government kicker". The globalist thing is sorta where the Soviet infiltration has turned ... Clinton Crime Family was one of the biggest mafias, to join/coordinate with the other oligarch families, in dividing up the turf.

But mafias and kingdoms are effective, as long as they control their territory/properties well (and their property includes humans).

So our founders recognized the need for a government to defend from the invading hordes of those that claim ownership of their people (kings, popes, imams, cartel run states). So "Liberty" can never be quite "absolute" (except in anarchy perhaps, which would fail). The fight to limit centralized power (over some of our liberty) is always the battle.

Man is basically moral.
Groups tend toward immorality as force of the group defeats those not "organized".
So we are forced into "gangs" of one sort or another.

Posted by: illiniwek at June 17, 2017 12:22 PM (O8hcu)

122 Ja ja!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 12:22 PM (QGoUX)

123 Maybe a better way to think of evolution instead of "progress" is that it gives rise to greater complexity. Descendants of the earliest anaerobic bacteria still exist today, but they don't dominate the Earth like they did billions of years ago.

Here is a fascinating article I read recently, about a new theory that evolution is a series of revolutions in the use of energy:

https://tinyurl.com/ybcvjhzj

Posted by: rickl at June 17, 2017 12:26 PM (sdi6R)

124 Finland and Iceland aren't destinations for many islamists, yet.

Posted by: dagny at June 17, 2017 12:05 PM (OdHXU)

I wonder if that's because the muzz understand that the Finns can be just as stabby as they are.

Posted by: Country Singer at June 17, 2017 12:27 PM (yzxic)

125 Rakka short movie on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjQ2t_yNHQs

Posted by: goon at June 17, 2017 12:28 PM (EaQ6/)

126 I haven't heard anyone articulate a rational reason for Merkel's immigration policy. All I hear is that it would be recast to oppose it. Suicidal virtue signaling.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 12:31 PM (kTF2Z)

127 My nephew, now a progressive multi millionaire, married to a Harvard lawyer has just paid $5 mil for a bay area house because they didn't want to put their children in private school because that was too "elitist" and probably not "diverse enough." So they moved and bought a bigger house to a public school district they thought was better.

Which public school district is doubtless lily white/Asian.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 17, 2017 12:32 PM (SRKgf)

128 Recast? Jeez. Y'all know what i meant.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 12:32 PM (kTF2Z)

129 I knew an ex-Nazi once. Very polite guy. He'd been a captain of infantry.
He said of all the countries he'd visited later in his life, and there were a lot, he thought the "best-run place" was Finland. "Great people, great country. We wanted to end up like them."

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 17, 2017 12:33 PM (H5rtT)

130 I haven't heard anyone articulate a rational reason
for Merkel's immigration policy. All I hear is that it would be recast
to oppose it. Suicidal virtue signaling. Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 12:31 PM (kTF2Z)
=====

So in love with her ideas/progeny that she demands sacrifice. Pasiphae.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 17, 2017 12:34 PM (MIKMs)

131 Here is a fascinating article I read recently, about a new theory that evolution is a series of revolutions in the use of energy:

https://tinyurl.com/ybcvjhzj
Posted by: rickl at June 17, 2017 12:26 PM (sdi6R)

I think the driver for evolution is maximizing entropy generation. "Die Entropie der Welt strebt einem Maximum zu," and all that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 17, 2017 12:34 PM (SRKgf)

132 I am so going to steal this line. As AosHQ Thought Leader, I am entitled to do so.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader at June 17, 2017 12:21 PM (Ybs+3)

Go ahead, I have posted it many times. Germany without any actual Germans, whodathunkit!

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is not a vinegar-c**ted hag, thank you very much. at June 17, 2017 12:34 PM (kXoT0)

133 Which public school district is doubtless lily white/Asian. Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 17, 2017 12:32 PM (SRKgf)
=====

Every Realtor in the US: the schools are award-winning. Pay more.

Posted by: mustbequantum at June 17, 2017 12:37 PM (MIKMs)

134 Well, y h nd do sn' s a e.
m a e t h k

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
-----------

This Cree, right?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 17, 2017 12:37 PM (OdK9v)

135 I haven't heard anyone articulate a rational reason for Merkel's immigration policy. All I hear is that it would be recast to oppose it. Suicidal virtue signaling.
---

I believe some of the official lies include stating that Germany needs low income workers to do the work that Germans won't do. Plus... Germany does not have a sustainable birth rate, so they need to bring in immigrants to pay for the pensions of those who are retired.

Posted by: shibumi, CNNisISIS at June 17, 2017 12:38 PM (aT+Bx)

136 Final season of Turn starts tonight.

I certainly don't miss the bad old days when summer was just reruns.

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 12:39 PM (GsAUU)

137 I haven't heard anyone articulate a rational reason
for Merkel's immigration policy. All I hear is that it would be recast
to oppose it. Suicidal virtue signaling. Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 12:31 PM (kTF2Z)

I haven't either. I have read some tortured pieces about guilt over the World wars and Germany's war crimes. Personally, I think Merkel is Batshit Crazee and she thinks she will be in office permanently from this policy. I also do not discount the idea of huge sums of Arab money being deposited into Swiss bank accounts for her as a reward. By rights, these refugees should stay in the ME, but, none of the the ME countries want a NEW bunch of rampaging dissatisfied Yutes, they have enough problems with their own citizenry.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is not a vinegar-c**ted hag, thank you very much. at June 17, 2017 12:39 PM (kXoT0)

138 This Cree, right?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 17, 2017 12:37 PM (OdK9v)

Cray. What happens when a super-computer interacts with Pixy.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 17, 2017 12:39 PM (XUcIQ)

139 I believe some of the official lies include stating that Germany needs low income workers to do the work that Germans won't do. Plus... Germany does not have a sustainable birth rate, so they need to bring in immigrants to pay for the pensions of those who are retired.
Posted by: shibumi, CNNisISIS at June 17, 2017 12:38 PM (aT+Bx)

--Will all the anti-white racism spewed for a generation by the media and globalists, is it realistic to think black and brown people will pay for old white people?

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 12:40 PM (GsAUU)

140 And just as I get ready to post something truly profound and illuminating, the thread dies.

Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 12:40 PM (ISM+7)

141 Civil Rights Commission Launches Investigation into Trump Admin.
-Breitbart

Oh, look. Lefty group Pro Publica magically receives an internal CRC memo that they use to make a story out of this.

The Deep State works with cronies to protect it's money and power yet again.

All running on the false notion that government bureau = 'civil rights.'

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 17, 2017 12:40 PM (oVJmc)

142 140 And just as I get ready to post something truly profound and illuminating, the thread dies.

Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 12:40 PM (ISM+7)

Nah, the gardening thread IS a gardening thread

Posted by: CN at June 17, 2017 12:42 PM (2+tI4)

143 Here's a question for Jay Guevara:

We've all seen those little packets of silica gel in packages of food (and non-food) products, and they all have written on them "Do Not Eat!"

So what harsh fate would befall one, were one to eat such a packet of silica gel, not that I am in any way tempted to try it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 17, 2017 12:43 PM (XUcIQ)

144 --Will all the anti-white racism spewed for a generation by the media and globalists, is it realistic to think black and brown people will pay for old white people?

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 12:40 PM (GsAUU)
Nope, especially when the brown people are uneducated and angry

Posted by: CN at June 17, 2017 12:43 PM (2+tI4)

145 Too Good Not To Repost:

Just finished reading a collection of Poul Anderson sci-fi that ended on the short story called "Industrial Revolution."
https://www.amazon.com/Third-Golden-Science-Fiction-MEGAPACK-ebook/dp/B00KO6DL42

The premise? An entrepreneurial asteroid mining facility, funded with borrowed capital from a bank but turning a handsome profit and poised for growth, is visited by an earth warship commanded by officers who are members of the Social Justice Party -- no kidding, they're called the SJs -- who have won elections back on Earth on a platform of bitter "you didn't build that" socialism. The warship attempts to sabotage the facility and drive out its owners so it can be seized by the government. The CEO, an engineer, and his team outwit the warship's officers but the story is told in flashback as the first incident of a war between Earth and the productive asteroid mining colonies.

The story was first published in 1963.

Posted by: undocumented SMOD at June 17, 2017 12:43 PM (e8kgV)

146 140 And just as I get ready to post something truly profound and illuminating, the thread dies.
Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 12:40 PM (ISM+7)

--Go for it.

I'm waiting with bated breath.

You can always copy and paste it later!

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 12:44 PM (GsAUU)

147 --Will all the anti-white racism spewed for a generation by the media and globalists, is it realistic to think black and brown people will pay for old white people?

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 12:40 PM (GsAUU)

It's the moisture indicator that's added that is a poison

Posted by: CN at June 17, 2017 12:45 PM (2+tI4)

148 121
Man is basically moral.
Groups tend toward immorality as force of the group defeats those not "organized".
So we are forced into "gangs" of one sort or another.
Posted by: illiniwek at June 17, 2017 12:22 PM (O8hcu)

I'm not sure I agree that man is basically moral. If that was true, then socialism and communism would work. Instead we get socialists and communists saying, "It will work *this time*, once we get the right people in charge."

Also the Founding Fathers sought to prevent concentration of power into too few hands, since they knew how that ended up.

Posted by: rickl at June 17, 2017 12:45 PM (sdi6R)

149 We've all seen those little packets of silica gel in packages of food (and non-food) products, and they all have written on them "Do Not Eat!"

So what harsh fate would befall one, were one to eat such a packet of silica gel, not that I am in any way tempted to try it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 17, 2017 12:43 PM (XUcIQ)

--All the water in your body will get sucked into your stomach?

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 12:46 PM (GsAUU)

150 This is Cree, right?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 17, 2017 12:37 PM (OdK9v)

Cray. What happens when a super-computer interacts with Pixy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon
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One day, when the history of our AI Overlords is written, it will read, 'In the beginning, there was Pixy'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 17, 2017 12:46 PM (OdK9v)

151 --All the water in your body will get sucked into your stomach?

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 12:46 PM

HA! there is some choking hazard, I'm sure, for kiddies and pets, but...

Posted by: CN at June 17, 2017 12:47 PM (2+tI4)

152 -All the water in your body will get sucked into your stomach?
Posted by: logprof,
---------

So, kind of like a pre-colonoscopy purge.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 17, 2017 12:47 PM (OdK9v)

153 129 I knew an ex-Nazi once. Very polite guy. He'd been a captain of infantry.
He said of all the countries he'd visited later in his life, and there were a lot, he thought the "best-run place" was Finland. "Great people, great country. We wanted to end up like them."
Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 17, 2017 12:33 PM (H5rtT)

******

In my first tour of duty in Germany in the late 70's I met a few as well. The old soldiers were great to chat with, the old ladies not so much. Bitter.
Second tour included deploying to Desert Storm. The old Wehrmacht soldiers started showing up at the gate into the base and would tell us how to protect the vehicles from the desert conditions. We finally invited them in to get some details. It was a great experience.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 17, 2017 12:47 PM (0tfLf)

154 Man is basically moral.
Groups tend toward immorality as force of the group defeats those not "organized".
So we are forced into "gangs" of one sort or another.
Posted by: illiniwek at June 17, 2017 12:22 PM (O8hcu)

EXCEPT for the proportion of the population that are sociopaths or psychopaths who literally have no moral compass and those sorts always wind up in charge in Communist/Socialist schemes because there are no checks and balances to prevent it.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is not a vinegar-c**ted hag, thank you very much. at June 17, 2017 12:48 PM (kXoT0)

155
Cray. What happens when a super-computer interacts with Pixy.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at June 17, 2017 12:39 PM

It goes Cray Cray.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 17, 2017 12:49 PM (IqV8l)

156 139 I believe some of the official lies include stating that Germany needs low income workers to do the work that Germans won't do. Plus... Germany does not have a sustainable birth rate, so they need to bring in immigrants to pay for the pensions of those who are retired.
Posted by: shibumi, CNNisISIS at June 17, 2017 12:38 PM (aT+Bx)

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Which might make some sense if the population you were importing were educated and hard working, which they aren't.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 12:49 PM (kTF2Z)

157 Grammie (still here?), here's another way of thinking about imperfection:

"Imperfection" simply measures the distance between desire or expectation, and what is actually there.

The space between "what is" and the "what should be" that imperfection describes is a subjective value judgement, not an objective measurement.

Strictly speaking, imperfections don't exist.

(I don't know, I find this clarifying...)

Posted by: Piercello, on the road at June 17, 2017 12:50 PM (WbaUv)

158
--Will all the anti-white racism spewed for a generation by the media and globalists, is it realistic to think black and brown people will pay for old white people?
Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 12:40 PM

Is it realistic to import angry young men people with no skills who don't speak the language who do not want to work and expect them to get a job that will earn enough to pay for the old white people?

I think not.

However, I'm just repeating what I've read. Which sounds insane.

Posted by: shibumi, CNNisISIS at June 17, 2017 12:51 PM (aT+Bx)

159 Will all the anti-white racism spewed for a generation by the media and globalists, is it realistic to think black and brown people will pay for old white people?
Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 12:40 PM (GsAUU)

Realistically, how good are black and brown people at even providing for themselves in the old country? Why would they do any better somewhere else? It's the "magic soil" hypothesis.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 17, 2017 12:51 PM (SRKgf)

160 The space between "what is" and the "what should be" that imperfection describes is a subjective value judgement, not an objective measurement.

"In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 17, 2017 12:52 PM (SRKgf)

161 By rights, these refugees should stay in the ME, but, none of the the ME countries want a NEW bunch of rampaging dissatisfied Yutes, they have enough problems with their own citizenry.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes

Or send them to Chechnya or Albania.

One thing that amuses me. The citizens of European socialist paradises have allowed their governments to regulate every aspect of their lives because they thought they were getting guarantees for themselves: guaranteed healthcare, guaranteed pensions, etc. And now those governments have said, "Ah, fuck it. We will destroy and replace you with Muslims". Reminds me of:

"Those who exchange liberty for security will lose both and deserve neither" - Ben Franklin

"Don't feel bad, Flounder. You fucked up. You trusted us" - Otter

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 17, 2017 12:52 PM (xAvrH)

162
--Go for it.

I'm waiting with bated breath.

You can always copy and paste it later!
Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 12:44 PM (GsAUU)

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Nope. Not now. Not enough commenters around to bask in the glory of my insightful genious.

Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 12:52 PM (dYJQg)

163
Nope. Not now. Not enough commenters around to bask in the glory of my insightful genious.

Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 12:52 PM (dYJQg)
Maybe you'll post it Lata

Posted by: CN at June 17, 2017 12:53 PM (2+tI4)

164 Just last week I finished Thomas Sowell's Migrations and Cultures. It was published just over two decades ago, but its afterword was prescient. Made a sharp contrast between legit refugees of the past who made significant economic contributions to their adopted countries (Jews and Huguenots) and those of today who do not. Also noted how immigrants and refugees are used as pawns by politicians.

A good read.

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 12:54 PM (GsAUU)

165 *fist-bumps Jay*

Posted by: Piercello, on the road at June 17, 2017 12:55 PM (WbaUv)

166 Nope. Not now. Not enough commenters around to bask in the glory of my insightful genious.
Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 12:52 PM (dYJQg)

Hey, Soona, what do you think about Stoops retiring and Lincoln Riley being the Head Coach.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is not a vinegar-c**ted hag, thank you very much. at June 17, 2017 12:55 PM (kXoT0)

167 I at times call Communism "the mafia with a government kicker".

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Not fair. The Mafia is a parasite smart enough to not kill the host. Government, on the other hand . . .

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, the Real Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 17, 2017 12:55 PM (Nwg0u)

168 Wait, Stoops retired?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 12:56 PM (kTF2Z)

169 Wait, Stoops retired?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 12:56 PM (kTF2Z)

Yep, the day after the Sooner Women won the National College Softball title. He bought a $2,000,000 home in Ohio and is moving back there.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is not a vinegar-c**ted hag, thank you very much. at June 17, 2017 12:58 PM (kXoT0)

170 Man is basically moral.

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Not even close. When Eve bit into that apple and then used the promise of her girly bits to convince Adam to take a bite, morality started the downhill slide.

Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 12:58 PM (dYJQg)

171 So we are forced into "gangs" of one sort or another.

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The same is true of wolves, buffalo, and even ants.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, the Real Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 17, 2017 12:59 PM (Nwg0u)

172
At the Q there's a 'ron named Soona
Nothing rhymes so I'll just say tuna
He put his drink on her head
As he smiled and said
I'd comment, but I'm having a Noona!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 12:59 PM (kTF2Z)

173 165 *fist-bumps Jay*
Posted by: Piercello, on the road at June 17, 2017 12:55 PM (WbaUv)

One of the joys of the HQ is getting to dust off the old bromides I said to grad students.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 17, 2017 01:00 PM (SRKgf)

174 I must have this flag.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 17, 2017 01:00 PM (LTHVh)

175 168 Wait, Stoops retired?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 12:56 PM (kTF2Z)

--Yup. I think he's going into the broadcast booth. It would be fun to see Stoops reunited on screen with Spurrier.

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 01:01 PM (GsAUU)

176 Nope. Not now. Not enough commenters around to bask in the glory of my insightful genious.

Posted by: Soona

Seize the day! Go for it now. Don't let your whole life pass you by just because you are afraid of getting willowed.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 17, 2017 01:01 PM (xAvrH)

177 Hey, Soona, what do you think about Stoops retiring and Lincoln Riley being the Head Coach.
Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is not a vinegar-c**ted hag, thank you very much. at June 17, 2017 12:55 PM (kXoT0)

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I'll wait until after the OU/TX weekend how I feel about him.

Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 01:01 PM (dYJQg)

178 Not even close. When Eve bit into that apple and then used the promise of her girly bits to convince Adam to take a bite, morality started the downhill slide.
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I'd say that any individual is capable of being moral or imoral at any paritcular moment. People that are referred to as "good people" probably choose "moral" the majority of the time, but that doesn't mean they can't --and aren't-- nasty individuals in certain aspects of their life.

Posted by: shibumi, CNNisISIS at June 17, 2017 01:01 PM (aT+Bx)

179 172
At the Q there's a 'ron named Soona
Nothing rhymes so I'll just say tuna
He put his drink on her head
As he smiled and said
I'd comment, but I'm having a Noona!
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 12:59 PM (kTF2Z)

--There is (was?) a Moron who goes by Tuna.

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 01:01 PM (GsAUU)

180 What else rhymes with Soona? Look, I'm not Muldoon!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 01:03 PM (kTF2Z)

181 Seize the day! Go for it now. Don't let your whole life pass you by just because you are afraid of getting willowed.

Seriously. You could be dead by this afternoon.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 17, 2017 01:03 PM (LTHVh)

182 Lacuna rhymes with Soona.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 17, 2017 01:04 PM (xAvrH)

183 "they didn't want to put their children in private school because that
was too 'elitist' and probably not 'diverse enough.' So they moved and
bought a bigger house to a public school district they thought was
better"

I see this all the time. All. The. Time.

And that purported "diverse" public school they homed in on in their expensive new neighborhood will have primarily safe, studious Asians for its "diversity".

Pedro, Maria, Dametrius, and Shaquana aren't too likely to have parents shelling out $5M for a house.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 17, 2017 01:06 PM (ujwCG)

184 182 Lacuna rhymes with Soona.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 17, 2017 01:04 PM (xAvrH)

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So does Altuna, but that wouldn't make any sense. Look, I think some of you are overthinking this.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 01:07 PM (kTF2Z)

185 All right, off for a shopping run and getting my free Sandwich of Great Hate.

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 01:07 PM (GsAUU)

186 I'm rewatching a favorite movie of mine, "Another Earth" with Brit Marling. A promising MIT-bound student leaves a party tipsy and crashes into a car while searching the sky for the mirror image Earth that is slowly drawing closer to ours. Filled with self-loathing, her life goes into a downward spiral. But what is happening to her alter ego on the other Earth?

I hear our own J.J. Sefton has a small part in this film, though we only hear his voice.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 01:07 PM (QGoUX)

187 Somewhere along the line, the global elites must have decided that there can be no white-majority nations. It would be interesting to read the minutes of their meetings and see their reasoning.

I'm convinced that something of the sort is happening because all of the Western leaders seem to be on the same page. I don't think it's a coincidence and I don't think they're all stupid and can't envision the consequences of their actions.

The only explanation for the tidal wave of Third World immigration to the First World that makes sense to me, and it is loony as hell, is that the elites are planning to depopulate much of the Earth, and want to maintain as much genetic diversity as possible in the countries that will still have people when they are through. Remember, the more hardcore environmentalists say that the population should be reduced to no more than a billion people. That won't happen by itself. It will have to be a deliberate policy.

Posted by: rickl at June 17, 2017 01:07 PM (sdi6R)

188 Pedro, Maria, Dametrius, and Shaquana aren't too likely to have parents shelling out $5M for a house.
Posted by: torquewrench at June 17, 2017 01:06 PM (ujwCG)

Surely an oversight by Mom and Dad that they ended up in a different school district than Pedro, Maria, Dametrius, and Shaquana.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at June 17, 2017 01:07 PM (SRKgf)

189 So does Altuna, but that wouldn't make any sense. Look, I think some of you are overthinking this.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 01:07 PM (kTF2Z)

--It's Altoona.

I read that Al Toona has a small statue of the former Jets receiver Al Toon.

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 01:08 PM (GsAUU)

190 Duma
Fortuna
Huma
Kahuna
Luna
Yuma

Just helping out. Feel free to pick any or all.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 17, 2017 01:10 PM (0tfLf)

191
Who's this guy round as a balloon-ah
With an ass as red as a baboon-ah
Who promises great insight
Then goes fly a kite
Why it's that Carrot Chili cooker, Soona!

Posted by: naturalfake is totally unconcerned with Formalism at June 17, 2017 01:11 PM (9q7Dl)

192 I hear our own J.J. Sefton has a small part in this film, though we only hear his voice.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 01:07 PM (QGoUX)
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I got to hear JJ's voice last year, when he called in to the Mark Levin show. He sounded just like I thought he would, which is a good thing.

Posted by: bluebell ~ send us your recipes! at June 17, 2017 01:13 PM (sBOL1)

193 >>Hey, Soona, what do you think about Stoops retiring and Lincoln Riley being the Head Coach.

Posted by: Sherry McEvil, Stiletto Corsettes, who is not a vinegar-c**ted hag, thank you very much

If I say this has nothing to do with my health a dozen times during the announcement, it might just have something to do with my health.

Posted by: Aviator at June 17, 2017 01:13 PM (/Nite)

194 Duma
Fortuna
Huma
Kahuna
Luna
Yuma

Just helping out. Feel free to pick any or all.
Posted by: Diogenes at June 17, 2017 01:10 PM (0tfLf)
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You left out moon-a and June-a.

Posted by: bluebell ~ send us your recipes! at June 17, 2017 01:14 PM (sBOL1)

195 I'm hoping his voice will have that Seftonescense that makes it easily identifiable.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 01:14 PM (QGoUX)

196 189 So does Altuna, but that wouldn't make any sense. Look, I think some of you are overthinking this.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 01:07 PM (kTF2Z)

--It's Altoona.

I read that Al Toona has a small statue of the former Jets receiver Al Toon.
Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 01:08 PM (GsAUU)

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Ah, yes, the Jets. The epitome of football genius.

Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 01:14 PM (dYJQg)

197 What else rhymes with Soona? Look, I'm not Muldoona!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 01:03 PM (kTF2Z)

*minor edit*

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 17, 2017 01:14 PM (v5iqM)

198 Instead of Potterville, it will be Googleville.

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St. Peter don't call me 'cause I can't go.
I owe my soul to the Googleville store.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, the Real Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 17, 2017 01:15 PM (Nwg0u)

199 Before he sailed off on his schoona
He said nothing rhymed with ol' Soona
He pulled up his anchor
And took off, the wanker
He rhymes, but he's sure no Muldoona.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 17, 2017 01:16 PM (H5rtT)

200 Checking the Undergrowth

Over here, fellas.

Posted by: Trigglypuff at June 17, 2017 01:18 PM (DMUuz)

201 I'm hoping his voice will have that Seftonescense that makes it easily identifiable.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 01:14 PM (QGoUX)
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Think Barry White, if he were a native New Yorker.

Posted by: bluebell ~ send us your recipes! at June 17, 2017 01:19 PM (sBOL1)

202 How about that. Double barrelled Muldoons.

AOP et moi were "having it out" on ONT, about whether 20th century poets Kipling and Service (AOP leads a veritable Life of Service) are "current."
My point was that nobody quotes current poets, they're just that bad.
But, I left out Muldoon, who we quote extensively, and for that I'm sorry.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 17, 2017 01:19 PM (H5rtT)

203 199 Before he sailed off on his schoona
He said nothing rhymed with ol' Soona
He pulled up his anchor
And took off, the wanker
He rhymes, but he's sure no Muldoona.
Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 17, 2017 01:16 PM (H5rtT)

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I hate poetry, but this ain't bad.

Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 01:20 PM (dYJQg)

204 Posted by: rickl at June 17, 2017 01:07 PM (sdi6R)
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It is now fashionable (around Houston anyway) to refer to Houston as the "most diverse big city in America." What that actually means is that it is the least (non-hispanic) white (25 %). No one who knows anything about American cities would rate Houston as more culturally diverse than New York (all boroughs), LA, or Chicago. The surviving in-white diversity of Chicago alone exceeds the overall diversity of Houston.

Posted by: RioBravo at June 17, 2017 01:21 PM (OmhcY)

205 Walt Erickson, who comments at Belmont Club, is a brilliant modern poet. No matter the subject, within a matter of hours he comes up with a poem that is precisely on-topic.

Posted by: rickl at June 17, 2017 01:22 PM (sdi6R)

206 Think Barry White, if he were a native New Yorker.

Posted by: bluebell ~ send us your recipes! at June 17, 2017 01:19 PM (sBOL1)
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Can't get enough of your mish baayyyyybeeeee!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 01:22 PM (QGoUX)

207 I think in the end, the demise of western civilization will be traced to the ubiquitiousness of the TV

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The revolution will ~~not be televised~~ be television.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, the Real Anonosaurus Wrecks at June 17, 2017 01:23 PM (Nwg0u)

208 There once was a commenter named Soona.
Twixt his legs he desired a lacuna
He got boobs, a vagina,
Wore rouge and eye liner.
Now xhe goes by the name of Oona.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 17, 2017 01:25 PM (xAvrH)

209 206 Think Barry White, if he were a native New Yorker.

Posted by: bluebell ~ send us your recipes! at June 17, 2017 01:19 PM (sBOL1)

*****

I was thinking maybe Sam Kinnisin.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 17, 2017 01:25 PM (0tfLf)

210 I hope you don't think I'm a hater
But we can craft rhymes that are greater
We can't all be Muldoon
But when we're all in tune
We all get there, Soona or later!

Posted by: Brother Cavil, turkey ain't all that's stuffed at June 17, 2017 01:26 PM (spOze)

211
It is now fashionable (around Houston anyway) to refer to Houston as the "most diverse big city in America." What that actually means is that it is the least (non-hispanic) white (25 %). No one who knows anything about American cities would rate Houston as more culturally diverse than New York (all boroughs), LA, or Chicago. The surviving in-white diversity of Chicago alone exceeds the overall diversity of Houston.
Posted by: RioBravo at June 17, 2017 01:21 PM (OmhcY)

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What happened to "metropolitan "?

Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 01:27 PM (dYJQg)

212 Anybody know where Christopher Wray is in the nominating process? Does McConnell have him locked in the basement or is he in the Judicial Cmte., stuck in Ethics where?

I think it would be a good idea to shake up the Rosenstein/Mueller love affair by introducing a third party post haste. Wray worked as personal attorney for Christie so this should be interesting.

In 2003, Wray was nominated by President George W. Bush as assistant attorney
general in charge of the Department of Justice's criminal division. The
Senate unanimously confirmed him.

Acting Director McCabe was also being considered. The Dems and NBC like him very much. So I expect that Wray's path to confirmation will be torturous and may not happen until after the August luxury vacation month, if at all.

Posted by: gracepc at June 17, 2017 01:27 PM (OU4q6)

213 What happened to "metropolitan "?
Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 01:27 PM (dYJQg)
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Now that means "gay".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 01:27 PM (QGoUX)

214 When the hell did all the "Whites" get thrown in the same bucket? My dad was noted for his liberal attitude when, as a yoot, he'd talk to Hungarians. The local French (Quebeckers) and Germans didn't speak; when my mother's parents, one of each, married, they were mutually disowned for ten years.

It was a miracle! that Poles, Bulgarians, Baltics, Ukrainians, plus Lebanesers and Syrians (Eastern Rite) and yer Jews all "learned to get along" in these parts. And now allasudden they're just one tribe? Why, it's an insult to bigots.

Except the Irish. Them sorry bastids was on their own.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 17, 2017 01:28 PM (H5rtT)

215 I was thinking maybe Sam Kinnisin.

Gilbert Gottfried

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 17, 2017 01:30 PM (LTHVh)

216 boulder terlit hobo at June 17, 2017 11:09 AM

Thanks for the interesting comment. I'm gonna think about that for a while.

Posted by: KT at June 17, 2017 01:32 PM (BVQ+1)

217 What happened to "metropolitan "?

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Now that means "gay".

Oh yeah. Sure as hell does. Civic Politicians say "The Creative Class."
But you always know who they mean.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 17, 2017 01:33 PM (H5rtT)

218 213 What happened to "metropolitan "?
Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 01:27 PM (dYJQg)
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Now that means "gay".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 01:27 PM (QGoUX)

*****

HEY!!!!
That's the name of the drink recipe I sent into Bluebell for the book. It's not a gay drink.

"stamps foot and pouts"

Posted by: Diogenes at June 17, 2017 01:33 PM (0tfLf)

219 It's not a Soona!

Posted by: Ahnuld at June 17, 2017 01:33 PM (xAvrH)

220 215 I was thinking maybe Sam Kinnisin.

Gilbert Gottfried
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 17, 2017 01:30 PM (LTHVh)

*****

Even better!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at June 17, 2017 01:34 PM (0tfLf)

221 The local French (Quebeckers)
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In other news, Jack Kerouac has been re-assigned from the "beaty American" category to the "immigrant community writer" category due the fact his parents were immigrants.

Posted by: RioBravo at June 17, 2017 01:34 PM (OmhcY)

222 I have never had any interest to work for a politician, but I would absolutely love to work for Trump. Even being the coffee girl just so I could listen in on conversations.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 17, 2017 01:35 PM (Rsi2C)

223 "Man is basically moral."

Strongly disagree.

Morality must be taught. Otherwise, we never grow past the stage of childhood which includes selfishness, avarice, greed and sloth.

Posted by: navybrat at June 17, 2017 01:36 PM (w7KSn)

224 I have never had any interest to work for a politician, but I would absolutely love to work for Trump. Even being the coffee girl just so I could listen in on conversations.
Posted by: L, Elle at June 17, 2017 01:35 PM (Rsi2C)
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I am sure the words would be grabbing.

Posted by: RioBravo at June 17, 2017 01:36 PM (OmhcY)

225

Gilbert Gottfried
Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 17, 2017 01:30 PM (LTHVh)

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He'll always be remembered as a Jewish duck.

Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 01:36 PM (dYJQg)

226
HEY!!!!
That's the name of the drink recipe I sent into Bluebell for the book. It's not a gay drink.

"stamps foot and pouts"
Posted by: Diogenes at June 17, 2017 01:33 PM (0tfLf)
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Just because it's got creme de violette, rose petals, and the sweat of a first year Oxford coxman in no way makes it gay!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 01:38 PM (QGoUX)

227 "stamps foot and pouts"
Posted by: Diogenes at June 17, 2017 01:33 PM (0tfLf)
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*edits Diogenes' recipe to add "not a gay drink."

Posted by: bluebell ~ send us your recipes! at June 17, 2017 01:38 PM (sBOL1)

228 Morality must be taught. Otherwise, we never grow past the stage of childhood which includes selfishness, avarice, greed and sloth.
Posted by: navybrat at June 17, 2017 01:36 PM (w7KSn)

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Don't forget lust!

Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 01:38 PM (dYJQg)

229 "Man is basically moral."

Strongly disagree.

Morality must be taught. Otherwise, we never grow past the stage of childhood which includes selfishness, avarice, greed and sloth.
Posted by: navybrat at June 17, 2017 01:36 PM (w7KSn)
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Disagree too. I would change that statement to "Man is basically selfish." We operate first and foremost out of self interest and self preservation. Selflessness is a virtue and must be taught. It is a supernatural virtue I would say bc it operates against our own self interest.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 17, 2017 01:38 PM (Rsi2C)

230 @221 No, re-assigned. Fifty years ago there was still a significant Francophone population in the Nordeast. Kerouac's kinda-sorta Frenchiness was taught as a prime factor in his beatiness, because we French were like that.

As that population vanished, so did that "academic insight." The new racial realities have brought it all rushing back. To what end, we may wonder.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 17, 2017 01:39 PM (H5rtT)

231
*edits Diogenes' recipe to add "not a gay drink."
Posted by: bluebell ~ send us your recipes! at June 17, 2017 01:38 PM (sBOL1)
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Put that in purple with a metropolitan font.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 01:39 PM (QGoUX)

232 I haven't come up with a cookbook entry yet
:-(

I'm a big copy cat and don't have any original recipes.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 17, 2017 01:40 PM (Rsi2C)

233 Just because it's got creme de violette, rose petals, and the sweat of a first year Oxford coxman in no way makes it gay!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 01:38 PM (QGoUX)
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I'm glad you didn't mention umbrellas in that list o' shame.

Posted by: bluebell ~ send us your recipes! at June 17, 2017 01:41 PM (sBOL1)

234 232 I haven't come up with a cookbook entry yet
:-(

I'm a big copy cat and don't have any original recipes.
Posted by: L, Elle at June 17, 2017 01:40 PM (Rsi2C)

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I don't have any either. Doesn't mean I'm not submitting any.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at June 17, 2017 01:42 PM (kTF2Z)

235 223
Morality must be taught. Otherwise, we never grow past the stage of childhood which includes selfishness, avarice, greed and sloth.
Posted by: navybrat at June 17, 2017 01:36 PM (w7KSn)

Or the absolutely childish notion that it is "unfair" if one person has more than another. Hence the popularity of socialism.

Posted by: rickl at June 17, 2017 01:42 PM (sdi6R)

236 We need to stage a Revolution in Walnut Grove. We will storm the Olsen's General Store, and hang those filthy capitalists! Then their entire inventory will belong to the workers!

Posted by: Laura Engels at June 17, 2017 01:42 PM (xAvrH)

237 L, Elle - they don't have to be original! You just need to tell us where you got it from ( or adapted it from) if you didn't make it up.

Posted by: bluebell ~ send us your recipes! at June 17, 2017 01:42 PM (sBOL1)

238 I'm glad you didn't mention umbrellas in that list o' shame.

Posted by: bluebell ~ send us your recipes! at June 17, 2017 01:41 PM (sBOL1)
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Totally not gay! Except in the traditional sense.

*traipses*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 01:42 PM (QGoUX)

239 I think I look good in red, don't you?

Posted by: bluebell ~ send us your recipes! at June 17, 2017 01:44 PM (sBOL1)

240 Posted by: bluebell ~ send us your recipes! at June 17, 2017 01:42 PM (sBOL1)

Is there a deadline?

Posted by: kallisto at June 17, 2017 01:48 PM (kD8Fh)

241 236 We need to stage a Revolution in Walnut Grove. We will storm the Olsen's General Store, and hang those filthy capitalists! Then their entire inventory will belong to the workers!
Posted by: Laura Engels at June 17, 2017 01:42 PM (xAvrH)

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Do as you want. But personally, I'm saving myself for the Food King.

Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 01:50 PM (dYJQg)

242 Thanks Bluebell.
As I mentioned in the comments, this is a potent drink.

Posted by: Diogenes at June 17, 2017 01:50 PM (0tfLf)

243 Is there a deadline?
Posted by: kallisto at June 17, 2017 01:48 PM (kD8Fh)
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June 30. I've been hoping you would send something.

Posted by: bluebell ~ send us your recipes! at June 17, 2017 01:52 PM (sBOL1)

244 We operate first and foremost out of self interest and self preservation. Selflessness is a virtue and must be taught. It is a supernatural virtue I would say bc it operates against our own self interest.

Posted by: L, Elle

Antifas and Islamists don't think selflessness is a virtue. I think this has allowed things to degenerate to the point they have. They take advantage of the fact that majority Christian nations have a conscience. Just because something is a moral virtue doesn't mean it gives you an evolutionary advantage.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 17, 2017 01:53 PM (xAvrH)

245 I tasted some of the craziest likker evah last night and
am now trying to work it into a tasty brand new cocktail.

So far all my ideas are not wallet friendly which make them not cookbook friendly but I'm thinking

We'll see

Posted by: naturalfake at June 17, 2017 01:53 PM (NyJwR)

246 Hey! Maybe this import tax idea that I fully support is not such a great idea.

Posted by: Kevin Brady (Shit Necked Manatee-TX) at June 17, 2017 01:54 PM (l4aLi)

247 Naturalfake, I've been looking for your recipes, too! Don't disappoint me!

Ok, the recipe Nazi is going to go wash dishes now.

Posted by: bluebell ~ send us your recipes! at June 17, 2017 01:55 PM (sBOL1)

248 I just got some inspiration. x2. I have two submissions for the cookbook that are copies but ones that no one else will have thought of on their own or have their own versions of. Look for my entries in the next few days, bluebell. They're coming. I'll try to get them to you by Monday.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 17, 2017 01:57 PM (Rsi2C)

249 June 30. I've been hoping you would send something.

Posted by: bluebell ~ send us your recipes! at June 17, 2017 01:52 PM (sBOL1)

Most likely I will. The problem I have with my own recipes is that I don't really have measurements of ingredients. But I can submit recipe that I have obtained from other sources.

Posted by: kallisto at June 17, 2017 01:58 PM (kD8Fh)

250 Hopefully my recipes will meet the low standards of the cookbook committee.

:-)

Posted by: L, Elle at June 17, 2017 01:58 PM (Rsi2C)

251 My attitude towards selfishness is summed up perfectly in the quote (for which I forget the attribution)

"If I am not for me, who shall be?
If I am only for me, who am I?"

Posted by: navybrat at June 17, 2017 01:59 PM (w7KSn)

252 Back to say - Eris, tell Cochran I've been looking for him. And that he can't hide from me forever.

L, Elle, this is a moron cookbook - we have no standards!

Thank you all for sending things in. It's a lot of fun.

Posted by: bluebell ~ send us your recipes! at June 17, 2017 02:01 PM (sBOL1)

253
Antifas and Islamists don't think selflessness is a virtue. I think this has allowed things to degenerate to the point they have. They take advantage of the fact that majority Christian nations have a conscience. Just because something is a moral virtue doesn't mean it gives you an evolutionary advantage.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 17, 2017 01:53 PM
****
Exactly right, you are. Take for example the viewpoint that all life is sacred. I used to think thy was self evident and innately understood. Not so, it turns out. Taught.
And,even worse, it's used against those of us believers.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 17, 2017 02:02 PM (Rsi2C)

254 I have a recipe for 4 paste pizza, if anyone's interested.

Posted by: Joe Biden at June 17, 2017 02:04 PM (xAvrH)

255 My attitude towards selfishness is summed up perfectly in the quote (for which I forget the attribution)

"If I am not for me, who shall be?
If I am only for me, who am I?"
Posted by: navybrat at June 17, 2017 01:59 PM (w7KSn)
*****
That's so good and stealworthy!
Anyone know who said it first?

Posted by: L, Elle at June 17, 2017 02:04 PM (Rsi2C)

256 @251
I believe that was Rabbi Hillel, also quoted to great effect by Ronaldus Maximus.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 17, 2017 02:04 PM (BsGS1)

257 Hannity in fall attack on Deep State/MSM.

GOP shooting may cost the Ds the GA 6th district.

I wonder if CNN is covering today's anti-CNN protest at its Atlanta HQ>

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 17, 2017 02:05 PM (pV/54)

258 Exactly right, you are. Take for example the viewpoint that all life is sacred. I used to think thy was self evident and innately understood. Not so, it turns out. Taught.
And,even worse, it's used against those of us believers.
Posted by: L, Elle at June 17, 2017 02:02 PM (Rsi2C)

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My travels to Southeast Asia woke me up to that fact. Even the European nations have different views of life than Americans.

Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 02:05 PM (dYJQg)

259
256 @251
I believe that was Rabbi Hillel, also quoted to great effect by Ronaldus Maximus.
Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 17, 2017 02:04 PM (BsGS1)
****
Thank you so much

Posted by: L, Elle at June 17, 2017 02:06 PM (Rsi2C)

260 You are very welcome. It is actually part of the Ethics of the Fathers (Pirkei Avot) which is a semi-sacred text in Judaism that contains a lot of practical wisdom/collected sayings of the great Rebbes. It's been awhile since I dipped into it but it is worth reading from any religious perspective.

Posted by: xnycpeasant at June 17, 2017 02:08 PM (BsGS1)

261 My dad spent a little time in China right after WWII and said that human life is cheap there.

Posted by: rickl at June 17, 2017 02:11 PM (sdi6R)

262 257 ...

I wonder if CNN is covering today's anti-CNN protest at its Atlanta HQ>

Posted by: Ignoramus at June 17, 2017 02:05 PM (pV/54)

I think they should have rented one of those huge inflatable rats for the gathering. The type the unions typically deploy. Can't miss those things.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 17, 2017 02:15 PM (l4aLi)

263 If I am only for me, who am I?"
Posted by: navybrat

Hillary.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 17, 2017 02:15 PM (xAvrH)

264
My attitude towards selfishness is summed up perfectly in the quote (for which I forget the attribution)

"If I am not for me, who shall be?
If I am only for me, who am I?"
Posted by: navybrat at June 17, 2017 01:59 PM

Whether I'm right or whether I'm wrong
Whether I find a place in this world or never belong
I gotta be me, I've gotta be me
What else can I be but what I am
I want to live, not merely survive
And I won't give up this dream
Of life that keeps me alive
I gotta be me, I gotta be me
The dream that I see makes me what I am
That far away prize, a world of success
Is waiting for me if I heed the call
I won't settle down, won't settle for less
As long as there's a chance that I can have it all
I'll go it alone, that's how it must be
I can't be right for somebody else
If I'm not right for me
I gotta be free, I've gotta be free
Daring to try, to do it or die
I've gotta be me
I'll go it alone, that's how it must be
I can't be right for somebody else
If I'm not right for me
I gotta be free, I just gotta be free
Daring to try, to do it or die
I gotta be me
Songwriters: WALTER MARKS
© Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
For non-commercial use only.
Data From: LyricFind

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 17, 2017 02:16 PM (IqV8l)

265 Wow.

Really.

You're all amazing. So much depth here

Posted by: L, Elle at June 17, 2017 02:19 PM (Rsi2C)

266 My dad spent a little time in China right after WWII and said that human life is cheap there.

Posted by: rickl

Maybe we could send them all our Chicago/Detroit/Baltimore gangbangers?

China is not very diverse, ethnically. They should jump at the chance.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 17, 2017 02:20 PM (xAvrH)

267 I gotta be me, I've gotta be me
What else can I be but what I am

*fistbump*

Posted by: Popeye at June 17, 2017 02:21 PM (xAvrH)

268 Ah, yes, the Jets. The epitome of football genius.
Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 01:14 PM (dYJQg)

--Does anyone not think the Jets are just trying to tank this year?

No matter, even if they get the #1 pick, they'll still blow it.

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 02:25 PM (GsAUU)

269 Okay Bluebell, I submitted!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 02:27 PM (QGoUX)

270 "But, enough talk about me.
How do you like my shoes?"

Posted by: navybrat at June 17, 2017 02:28 PM (w7KSn)

271 I'm not going anywhere near that Gardening thread. Those gardeners scare me...i mean I think they are trying to create the perfect vegetable or flower up there. Pretty soon they'll be breeding unholy combinations like cauliflower and broccoli. Its unnatural and scary. I mean Little Shop of Horrors. Amirite?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:28 PM (E8apb)

272 Oops. get me out of here.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:29 PM (E8apb)

273 Pet Thread is usually up by now.

Is Mis Hum okay?

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 02:29 PM (GsAUU)

274 Wait. Where the hell am I?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:30 PM (E8apb)

275 Yum, a whole show on bacon in the Travel channel.

Posted by: Infidel at June 17, 2017 02:31 PM (gDoff)

276 271 I'm not going anywhere near that Gardening thread. Those gardeners scare me...i mean I think they are trying to create the perfect vegetable or flower up there. Pretty soon they'll be breeding unholy combinations like cauliflower and broccoli. Its unnatural and scary. I mean Little Shop of Horrors. Amirite?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:28 PM (E8apb)

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It's when they start talking about carrots is what creeps me out.

Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 02:31 PM (2le9y)

277 Na na na

Na na na

Na na na

Na na

https://youtu.be/3aFh4oTmIio

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 02:32 PM (GsAUU)

278 Wait. Where the hell am I?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:30 PM (E8apb)

The call is coming from inside the Venus Fly Trap! Run!

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 17, 2017 02:32 PM (v5iqM)

279 I'm going to be upset about the Motoring Press all day now. May have to post this several times. Detest blasphemy.

Watching LeMans, and they do a nice breakaway about 1968 and the US victory. Then they mention that Dan Gurney drove east, and won the Belgian GP, in his own car. All true, and it was great. And then they say that was the only Grand Prix victory by an American in an American car.

They do this all the time, just like the TV guys who begin Indianapolis history with the first year the 500 was televised. No, guys. "Formula One, Inc." of the post WWII era is not the whole history of Grand Prix racing.

Jimmy Murphy won the 1921 French Grand Prix. In a Duesenberg.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 17, 2017 02:32 PM (H5rtT)

280
Thank you all for sending things in. It's a lot of fun.

Posted by: bluebell ~ send us your recipes! at June 17, 2017 02:01 PM (sBOL1)

Hey, bluebell, I just submitted a recipe. the submission is slightly off though - since it's an appetizer and the recipe calls for 2-21/2 lbs. shrimp, I didn't fill in servings and so it automatically filled in 5 Morons. As an appetizer it can feed more than that. (Although I confess I made it for dinner occasionally and am entirely capable of scarfing down 2 lbs of shrimp over the course of an evening.)

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V sez the Brewers are NO.1 in the NL Central for the next 15 minutes at June 17, 2017 02:32 PM (P8951)

281
It's when they start talking about carrots is what creeps me out.
Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 02:31 PM (2le9y)

Yup. theres no way to discuss carrots thats...well...natural.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:32 PM (E8apb)

282 Yup. theres no way to discuss carrots thats...well...natural.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:32 PM (E8apb)
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Carrots and parsnips make a nice root vegetable bed when roasting hobo.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 02:33 PM (QGoUX)

283 Jimmy Murphy won the 1921 French Grand Prix. In a Duesenberg.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 17, 2017 02:32 PM (H5rtT)

The German Team passed the Belgians to take the win from France and England in the 1940 Grand Prix.

Those tanks were blitzkrieg fast, I tellya! And they could flatten out the corners like nobody's business.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at June 17, 2017 02:35 PM (v5iqM)

284 282 Yup. theres no way to discuss carrots thats...well...natural.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:32 PM (E8apb)
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Carrots and parsnips make a nice root vegetable bed when roasting hobo.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 02:33 PM (QGoUX)

Well Ok. Theres that exception. Maybe I'll go up there and troll. "Friendly vs. unfriendly vegetables...discuss."

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:35 PM (E8apb)

285 Cannibal Bob, "want to hear something really scary?"

Pretty sure you could cross broccoli and cauliflower. They're both just forms of cabbage, contorted into unholy forms by mad monks.

Now, you'll see that in your nightmares, right?

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 17, 2017 02:36 PM (H5rtT)

286 If the Jets or Browns were to purposely tank a season, how could you tell?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 02:37 PM (kTF2Z)

287 MisHum is on vacay.

Also: Thank you navybrat and xnycpeasant
You know how people have spirit animals? I have a spirit quote now.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 17, 2017 02:37 PM (Rsi2C)

288 "I have never had any interest to work for a politician, but I would absolutely love to work for Trump. Even being the coffee girl just so I could listen in on conversations."

Ditto that. I'd be the ice cream scooper.

Posted by: Tuna at June 17, 2017 02:37 PM (jm1YL)

289 Okay Bluebell, I submitted!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Did you say the Shahada?

Posted by: Mohammed at June 17, 2017 02:38 PM (xAvrH)

290
285 Cannibal Bob, "want to hear something really scary?"

Pretty sure you could cross broccoli and cauliflower. They're both just forms of cabbage, contorted into unholy forms by mad monks.

Now, you'll see that in your nightmares, right?
Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 17, 2017 02:36 PM (H5rtT)

Thanks soooo much Stringer. I will Never be able to unsee that. My God. What an abomination!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:38 PM (E8apb)

291 my favorite Hillel comment is, What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: this is the whole Torah the rest is the explanation, go and learn

Posted by: willow at June 17, 2017 02:39 PM (iS1Cb)

292 So no pet thread?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 02:39 PM (kTF2Z)

293 I'll be right back. I'm going to see what sins theyre committing up there.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:39 PM (E8apb)

294 You know how people have spirit animals? I have a spirit quote now.
Posted by: L, Elle at June 17, 2017 02:37 PM (Rsi2C)

we certainly see many people behave as if they are.

Posted by: willow at June 17, 2017 02:39 PM (iS1Cb)

295 Carrots are fine in there place, such as roasted around a beef roasr or in a salad.

Posted by: Skip at June 17, 2017 02:40 PM (Ot7+c)

296 286 If the Jets or Browns were to purposely tank a season, how could you tell?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at June 17, 2017 02:37 PM (kTF2Z)

--I can tell with the Jets because they're dropping Decker and shopping Sheldon Richardson, two of their best payers.

The Browns?

You got me. I wanted them to repeat the feat of the Lions' epic 0-16 season last year, but those Lions are still alone.

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 02:40 PM (GsAUU)

297 Cannibal Bob, if you are worried about the garden thread and the mayhem, we can wait for the pet thread where I can again out my cat for killing another hummingbird.

Posted by: willow at June 17, 2017 02:41 PM (iS1Cb)

298 Pet thread when started usually was at 2pm but seems to be more at 3pm now

Posted by: Skip at June 17, 2017 02:41 PM (Ot7+c)

299 Yellowstone earthquake swarms picking up

https://tinyurl.com/y8zzouhc

Sweet Caldera Of Death- SCOD

I welcome SCOD.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 17, 2017 02:42 PM (l4aLi)

300 Pretty sure you could cross broccoli and cauliflower. They're both just forms of cabbage, contorted into unholy forms by mad monks.

Now, you'll see that in your nightmares, right?

Posted by: Stringer Davis

Brussels sprouts are in the same family, as well as broccoli rabe. "Cruciferous". I love them all, I don't get the hate. Even cabbage can be ok if boiled.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 17, 2017 02:42 PM (xAvrH)

301 293 I'll be right back. I'm going to see what sins theyre committing up there.

See if they're discussing hybrids. Be afraid of the hybrids.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 17, 2017 02:43 PM (l4aLi)

302 If Mis Hum is off, is another cob doing the Pet Thread, or are we waiting for Chess?

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 02:43 PM (GsAUU)

303 I'm back unscathed....but they were discussing Bearded Irises! I mean wtf? theyre off the rails up there. isn't there someone to monitor them?

A cat killing a hummingbird (although sad) is not half as bad as that.

Posted by: Moron troll from the downstairs thread at June 17, 2017 02:45 PM (E8apb)

304 steve don't sneer at this , it actually tatse great and is cheap.
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/15802/ramen-cabbage-salad/

Don't sneer!

Posted by: willow at June 17, 2017 02:45 PM (iS1Cb)

305 Damn off Moron Troll. That was my cover up there.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:46 PM (E8apb)

306 My cat plays with anything it can catch to death. Then it brings it to me for re-animation. So far I have failed the cat in re-animating its play things.

Posted by: Marx Brothers at June 17, 2017 02:46 PM (HGnpK)

307 cabbage doesn't only have to be boiled with brisket to be good.

Posted by: willow at June 17, 2017 02:46 PM (iS1Cb)

308 303 I'm back unscathed....but they were discussing Bearded Irises! I mean wtf? theyre off the rails up there. isn't there someone to monitor them?

Good work!

Posted by: Under Fire at June 17, 2017 02:46 PM (l4aLi)

309 @283 You're just being a smartass now. 1940 was the end of racing for a while, but Nuvolari beat the Germans at the course Hitler had built just to show off the Benz cars, and it was a glorious victory. Alfa F'n Romeo, baby.

There's a certain irony, or aluminy, to how good Fascists were at building "a certain type of automobile." And it was fun to watch them fight. Alfa had a top engineer, Wilfredo Ricart, and a pretty good team manager, Enzo Ferrari. They both had a quirk or two (Ricart wore thick crepe soles on his shoes, so his brain would not get joggled). He left first, and ended up at a Spanish (fascist) bus and truck maker, Pegaso, where in the 1950's he got the apprentices to build some very nice sports cars indeed. Ferrari left, and you know what came of that. Ettore Bugatti, in Alsace, was also not a democrat.

The post-WWII F1 regime was headed up by Britons of an unfortunate political background. We're just now getting to a remove where you can joke about it. Hard to imagine that in the 60's, early 70's, sports car racing had a hippie following. That's all over now.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 17, 2017 02:47 PM (H5rtT)

310 marx, I srlsy hate when my cats bring offerings.
I scold them, cry and say no ! only mice!

like I don't fill their bowl to the brim and spend extra money on fancy feast?

Posted by: willow at June 17, 2017 02:48 PM (iS1Cb)

311 Cats. When we were in Fl. They stayed on the screened porch but there were lizards galor. We had twitchy tails ad dead tailless toys all over the damn house.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:48 PM (E8apb)

312 my favorite Hillel comment is, What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: this is the whole Torah the rest is the explanation, go and learn

Posted by: willow

Hillel tends to have more in common with Jesus than his contemporary Shammai did, except when it came to divorce.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 17, 2017 02:49 PM (xAvrH)

313 307 cabbage doesn't only have to be boiled with brisket to be good.

Sometimes we'll slice the cabbage into 1/2" thick slices and put them under the broiler with a light coating of olive oil and S&P. Yum.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 17, 2017 02:49 PM (l4aLi)

314 Btw. i do love me some Brussels sprouts (in frig now) and broccolorabe. Yum.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:50 PM (E8apb)

315
Did you say the Shahada?
Posted by: Mohammed

♫Let's Go To the Hop♫

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 17, 2017 02:51 PM (IqV8l)

316 Red cabbage is great in stir fry. With snow peas, broccoli, bok chop and shrimp. Mmmmmmm.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:52 PM (E8apb)

317 You know what i mean. Choy.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:52 PM (E8apb)

318 311 Cats. When we were in Fl. They stayed on the screened porch but there were lizards galor. We had twitchy tails ad dead tailless toys all over the damn house.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:48 PM (E8apb)
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In Hawaii it's geckos. Which means you wake up to the crash of breakables knocked off of cabinets and shelves as your cats chase them around your bedroom at two in the morning.

God, the twitching snapped off tails...

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 02:53 PM (QGoUX)

319 Steve, looks down at my feet,re; hillel and shammai there might have been a slight actual partriarchy back in the day.
but take the best of each and hope we end up over the target.

Posted by: willow at June 17, 2017 02:53 PM (iS1Cb)

320 306 My cat plays with anything it can catch to death. Then it brings it to me for re-animation. So far I have failed the cat in re-animating its play things.
Posted by: Marx Brothers at June 17, 2017 02:46 PM (HGnpK)

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Heh. My cats step back from the dead thing and then scowl at me when I don't make it jump one last time.

Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 02:53 PM (2le9y)

321 We have a 19lb Savanah Cat that stands taller than the neighbors little yap dog. I have to clip it's claws in a few minutes--after suiting up in welders gloves. Wish me luck.

Posted by: Under Fire at June 17, 2017 02:53 PM (l4aLi)

322 I love the real crunchiness of cabbage. but almost any sweetness added in a cold salad type thing ..
yum

Posted by: willow at June 17, 2017 02:54 PM (iS1Cb)

323 Don't sneer!

Posted by: willow

I won't sneer, but that sounds ... a bit crunchy. My first impulse would be to take the Ramen and cabbage and make a soup out of it.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 17, 2017 02:54 PM (xAvrH)

324 steve,i'm thinking that might actually work.

Posted by: willow at June 17, 2017 02:55 PM (iS1Cb)

325 Cats? Up in that gardening thread, they've got spiders hunting hummingbirds!

I got me a thang about boiled cabbage. Won't do it. Not in my kitchen, not in my house. Smells like that fat scottish guy said, in that one movie. Now, raw cabbage, in a salad or in a slaw, I like a lot.

And that's some cultural misappropriation. I come from caggage-eaters, on both sides. So it's just me.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 17, 2017 02:55 PM (H5rtT)

326 but summer, so i'm not going to try that yet

Posted by: willow at June 17, 2017 02:56 PM (iS1Cb)

327 314 Btw. i do love me some Brussels sprouts (in frig now) and broccolorabe. Yum.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:50 PM (E8apb)

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Brussel sprouts soaked through and through with hot butter aren't bad. Quite tasty.

Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 02:56 PM (2le9y)

328 boiled cabbage can resemble smelly toes.

Posted by: willow at June 17, 2017 02:56 PM (iS1Cb)

329

God, the twitching snapped off tails...
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 02:53 PM (QGoUX)

Exactly. And FL has flying palmetto bugs. Middle of night hijincks. God what a racket! Lol.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:58 PM (E8apb)

330 Brussel sprouts soaked through and through with hot butter aren't bad. Quite tasty.
Posted by: Soona at June 17, 2017 02:56 PM (2le9y)

Thats it. Tonight.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at June 17, 2017 02:58 PM (E8apb)

331 Cats hunt for pleasure. Some ecofascists are for requiring pet cats to be kept indoors. Because they are generally healthy and well fed, they are able to hunt for longer periods and kill lots of birds and other small animals. A few years ago, IIRC, New Zealand tried to ban them.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 17, 2017 02:59 PM (xAvrH)

332 I can only think of beetsand beets but especially as borsch as the one veggie I would be polite but have to eat plugging my nose.

Posted by: willow at June 17, 2017 02:59 PM (iS1Cb)

333 Pet Thread's up.

Posted by: logprof, with added covfefe and Macedonian content at June 17, 2017 03:00 PM (GsAUU)

334 eris, gecko murdering is sad, but even the remains of mice with their tiny bellies half eaten.

I try to not think too hard when it comes to my cats tatses.
but I do believe they would eat me if I became incapactitates for sport or became bored.

Posted by: willow at June 17, 2017 03:02 PM (iS1Cb)

335 Sorry for the confusion while I stepped away from the blog. MisHum is out of cell phone range from what I can tell bc he generally replies to my texts quickly and he hasn't this morning.

The pet thread is his. I'm just his personal cheerleader. When he goes away for the weekend someone has to post the thread for him.

So it will either be pets or chess. Hopefully one of those sonner rather than later

Posted by: L, Elle at June 17, 2017 03:02 PM (Rsi2C)

336 icapacitated

Posted by: willow at June 17, 2017 03:02 PM (iS1Cb)

337 uhm, nevermind.

Posted by: willow at June 17, 2017 03:03 PM (iS1Cb)

338 334...I do believe they would eat me if I became incapactitates(sic) for sport or became bored.

Posted by: willow at June 17, 2017 03:02 PM (iS1Cb)

I've read they would go for the soft organs first. The eyes. nom nom

Posted by: Under Fire at June 17, 2017 03:04 PM (l4aLi)

339 I try to not think too hard when it comes to my cats tatses.
but I do believe they would eat me if I became incapactitates for sport or became bored.
Posted by: willow at June 17, 2017 03:02 PM (iS1Cb)
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I have often wondered where I would be on the food chain if I and my cats were the same size.

If our respective sizes were reversed? No question. I would be stalked, and batted around, and...*shudder*

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 17, 2017 03:08 PM (QGoUX)

340 These 6 common vegetables are actually all the same plant species

http://read.bi/2sNFl5L

Posted by: Grump928(C) at June 17, 2017 03:13 PM (LTHVh)

341 Pet thread up!

Posted by: Brother Cavil at June 17, 2017 03:16 PM (66CWr)

342 they would go for the soft organs first.

This is why, for health and survival, I endeavor to keep all my organs hard.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 17, 2017 03:23 PM (H5rtT)

343 64 years ago today, East Germany de facto ceased to exist as the people rose up all over the country and rioted. At first, the protests demanded a rescinding of new work norms demanding more work for less pay but quickly took a turn to demands for fully free elections. A group of youths even went to the top of the Brandenburg Gate, tore down the red flag there, yelling "We want freedom, we want bread, we will beat all Russians dead!" Enter the Soviet soldiers and tanks which were sent in to restore order. Most likely a few hundred East Germans were killed, and the country was restored to the East German government, which in the meantime was hiding out in Karlshorst while the Soviets did their bidding.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at June 17, 2017 04:27 PM (eq0EU)

344 This is why, for health and survival, I endeavor to keep all my organs hard.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at June 17, 2017 03:23 PM (H5rtT)

Yeah, me, too.

Posted by: Anthony Weiner at June 17, 2017 04:34 PM (Ybs+3)

345 "Countries like Sweden and Great Britain are held up as examples of socialism "working" while Venezuela is ignored.
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It seems to matter not to Swedes that the government confiscates about 70 percent of their wealth. "Cradle to grave". That's what they want."

Ah, but it DOES matter to Swedes...it just manifests itself in different ways. For instance, it cannot be said enough the reason they are importing taxpayers is this: Swedes have stopped having kids. Children are expensive enough as it is, but more so when the government confiscates 70% of your income, and God help you if you do well for yourself: the government WILL kick your ass. The government there is fine with immigrant rapists: they consider being successful and personal achievement to be far greater crimes (millions of Americans are of the same mindset).

Also, I read in Maclean's some time ago that Sweden's education system has slipped in PISA rankings. There is thinking out there that the reason for this is the kids in school. They see up close and personal that if they attempt to do good in school and make something of themselves beyond that, the State WILL severely punish them and make examples of them. So, at a young age, even the kids are saying "why bother"?

The desire of some people for whatever reason to enforce mediocrity at the point of a police officer's gun has pernicious effects far beyond what people think at first glance.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at June 17, 2017 04:37 PM (eq0EU)

346 35
Many are indoctrinated in public schools to believe socialism is a
good idea. Countries like Sweden and Great Britain are held up as
examples of socialism "working" while Venezuela is ignored.

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Great Britain and Sweden are welfare states. Their means of production are not State owned or as leftists now phrase it, "The community as a whole".

Why people want to be vassals of the State is beyond me.

Posted by: Javems at June 17, 2017 06:13 PM (yOqwj)

347 The desire of some people for whatever reason to enforce mediocrity at the point of a police officer's gun has pernicious effects far beyond what people think at first glance.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at June 17, 2017 04:37 PM (eq0EU)
*************
stir in a few bong hits of superweed like in Commiefornie and see what kind of shithole you can create.

Posted by: torabora at June 18, 2017 08:29 AM (uTsZE)

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