Sunday Overnight Open Thread (8/20/17)

(Relaxing on the Sunday ONT Porch)

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Quotes of The Day

Or as The ONT would call it: Food For Thought.

Quote I

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. President Benjamin Harrison (20 August 1833 – 13 March 1901)

Quote II

It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power — power to oppress others. Eric Hoffer

Quote III

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. John Adams,

Quote IV

On September 11th 2001, the American mainland was attacked for the first time since the War of 1812. The perpetrators were foreign – Saudis and Egyptians. Since 9/11, Europe has seen the London Tube bombings, the French riots, Dutch murders of nationalist politicians. The perpetrators are their own citizens – British subjects, citoyens de la république française. That's the difference: America is fighting a foreign war, Eurabia is in the early stages of an undeclared civil war. Mark Steyn

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The Democratic Party of MO. Calls for the resignation of State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal. It took them long enough.

The Missouri Democratic Party called for the resignation of the state senator who said she hoped President Trump is assassinated.
"State Senator [Maria] Chappelle-Nadal's comments are indefensible," Missouri Democratic Party Chairman Stephen Webber wrote in a statement on Sunday. "All sides need to agree that there is no room for suggestions of political violence in America – and the Missouri Democratic Party will absolutely not tolerate calls for the assassination of the President."

Word is she won't do the right thing.

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Within the week, Jerry Lewis had hosted a telethon. h/t Billy The Mountain- Frank Zappa.

Jerry Lewis, RIP.

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The U.S.A., for being a country of imperial dogsthe Russians sure liked our property.

Over the long and complicated history of spycraft between the United States and Russia (and its predecessor, the Soviet Union) nabbing and expelling secret agents was commonplace. Seizing real estate wasn’t.
In fact, no Cold War expert consulted by McClatchy could recall it ever happening in the United States.
The rules of the game changed last Dec. 29 when the Obama administration effectively seized Russian compounds in New York and Maryland and declared 35 Russians, including a cook, “personas non grata” in retaliation for Moscow’s meddling in the 2016 election and physical harassment of U.S. diplomatic personnel in Russia.

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Marriage. No one ever said it would be easy. Even in death. Man's widow and girlfriend brawl at his wake.

According to Dayton's WHIO-TV, a woman arrived at the funeral home claiming to be the current girlfriend of the departed. A police report indicates the man's widow wanted the alleged girlfriend to be removed from the funeral home, leading to a physical fight involving several women.
WDTN-TV reported that two men tried to break up the quarrel but were unsuccessful.

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Unintended consequences? Real women inmates don't care for fake women inmates.

Four women are suing the Department of Justice so they can be moved from prison facilities housing transgender inmates. The government is telling them they should stay put.
All four plaintiffs are inmates in Texas prisons. They filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in June. Not only do they want to be moved to facilities without trans inmates, but they want the Bureau of Prisons to stop housing “male inmates in federal prison that normatively incarcerates only female inmates

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Who died and made the United Nations God?

"There's a clear right to be able to live in dignity, to enjoy a decent standard of living to get access to education, healthcare, and so on. All of these things are fundamentally linked to human rights," he said during an earlier Facebook live event.
One way to counteract the tremendous job loss that might take place in the nearing future is to consider Universal Basic Income. Guaranteeing each person a certain no-strings-attached amount of money every month would protect basic human rights, argues Alston.

Talk about central planning and price controls.

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AIDS is on decline. Medication prevents the disease.

The global epidemic is driven in eastern and southern Africa, and it’s driven predominantly among women,” said Mitchell Warren, executive director of New York-based advocacy group AVAC, which tracks more than 40 ongoing and planned PrEP studies across the world. “To really end the global epidemic, we have got to figure out if oral PrEP can have an impact in Africa like it can in other places.”
HIV diagnoses at the U.K.’s busiest sexual health center — London’s 56 Dean Street clinic in Soho — plunged 42 percent last year, and in San Francisco they have halved since PrEP was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in July 2012.

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It looks like New Mexico could use a good burger joint. U.S.A. state by state favorite burger joints.

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Once again, Climate is unpredictable.

Winter has arrived about 10 days early in the Arctic, and Greenland’s surface has gained 500 billion tons of ice – about 33% above normal.

Don't hold your breath waiting for Al Gore to spew forth a reason.

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The new president of Ford Motor Co. discusses autonomous vehicles.

[Chronicle]: So do you think we’ll shift entirely to autonomous vehicles, or will there still be a place for the car that you buy and drive yourself?
[Hackett]: It’s the latter. We don’t know that autonomous vehicle intelligence in the future will all be delegated to a service that no one owns but everyone uses. It could play a role in vehicles that people own, vehicles that aren’t supposed to crash. You’re buying the capability because of the protection it gives you

I remember the days I couldn't wait until I could drive and have my license. My how times have changed, again.

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This should be good. VA plans to rename the Jefferson Davis Highway. They are looking for names via internet public feedback.

The city council of Alexandria, Virginia unanimously voted to rename Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway and have now set up a survey for public feedback and suggestions for what to rename the road. You probably have ideas.
Alexandria’s decision to rename the highway that leads to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Arlington National Cemetery, and the Pentagon was made in September of last year, and now people can send in suggestions. One of the people in our office has already suggested The Ayrton Senna Memorial Highway.

Here is hoping you VA Morons make a splash with the naming rights.

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August 21st. Tomorrow, solar eclipse. Don't look at it without proper protection.

Everyone knows that watching an eclipse—or staring into the Sun in general—can damage eyes. But in a series of articles published Friday in JAMA and JAMA Ophthalmology, a group of ophthalmologists explains in detail how sunlight damages the retina, plus dispels some misconceptions about viewing techniques for the rare event. They also provide a case study of what happens when you go into an eclipse event eyeballs-out.
David Calkins and Paul Sternberg of The Vanderbilt Eye Institute in Nashville, Tennessee, (which will experience a total eclipse) wrote one of the pieces in JAMA Ophthalmology. In it, they point out that many people have the misconception that an eclipse allows safe viewing of the Sun—that the lunar disk will cover everything but the Sun’s beautiful corona. This is true for those lucky ones that are along the path of the total eclipse, albeit only briefly. For those in the totality path, the Sun’s core will be blotted out for no more than two minutes and 41 seconds. “However, for most people, at least some portion of the Sun’s core will be visible during the event,” Calkins and Sternberg note.

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The ONT Musical Interlude

Quite a bit of history on this day.

1949, Born on this day, Phil Lynott, Irish singer, songwriter, bass player, Thin Lizzy. (1973 UK No.6 single 'Whisky In The Jar'). Lynott died on 4th Jan 1986 of heart failure and pneumonia after being in a coma for eight days following a drug overdose. A life-size bronze statue of Phil Lynott was unveiled on Harry Street in Dublin in 2005. via thisdayinmusic.com

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August 20, 1924, Born on this day, Jim Reeves US country singer. The first country singer to crossover into the pop market. (1960 US No.2 single 'He'll Have To Go', 1966 UK No.1 single 'Distant Drums'). Reeves was killed in a plane crash on 31st July 1964 when the single engine aircraft flying from Arkansas to Nashville crashed in thick fog. via thisdayinmusic.com

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August 20, 2004, A man from Stoke-on-Trent, England, named Bryan Adams as the 'other man' in his divorce papers after years spent trying to cope with his wife's obsession with the singer. Rob Tinsley said he had to live with a 6ft cut-out of Adams which stood at the foot of the bed and posters on the bedroom walls. via thisdayinmusic.com

Sometimes there is no accounting in taste.

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Thermometers. Are they a thing of the past?

Ear and forehead thermometers are great, but you don’t always have one on hand, especially when traveling. CNN host Lisa Ling posted her solution on Facebook. While on vacation, she used Fever-Bugz Stick-On Fever Indicators to monitor her daughter’s temperature.

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So a week or so ago, The ONT had a link about marijuana causing hypertension. This weeks marijuana story is quite different. Pot can reduce chance of stroke.

Smoking marijuana can reduce the risk of a stroke to a large extent, a new study has found. The findings of the study have been published in the journal, "Neuropsychopharmacology."
Although the use of marijuana is legal for medical purposes in 29 states of the country, 21 states including Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, and Kansas do not allow the use of the drug. In the states where marijuana use is legal, strains of the drug are prescribed to cure chronic pain, anxiety, and epilepsy.
A number of experts have warned of the side-effects of marijuana. However, a new study conducted by the University of Texas at Dallas has found cannabis can improve a person’s health by enhancing the blood and oxygen flow, thus reducing the risk of blood clots and the possibility of a stroke.

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If you don't believe The ONT will you believe a professor? Scientist confirms everybody at work hates your emojis.

Specifically, they’re bad for you in a work setting. BGU’s new study published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science reveals that sliding in that smiley emoticon, while well-intentioned, is likely to undermine you professionally. While a real life smile is likely to make people in the workplace both like and trust you, an ersatz one made of punctuation marks can have an adverse effect. (Emojis and emoticons seem to be used interchangeably here, though traditionally, the former refers to thumbnail images you add from a mobile device, and the latter refers to putting together keyboard symbols that they seem to represent a thing or feeling.)

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According to NASA don't be worried about S.M.O.D. Yellowstone super volcano poses a greater threat to mankind. And they want to do something about it.

'I was a member of the NASA Advisory Council on Planetary Defense which studied ways for NASA to defend the planet from asteroids and comets,' Brian Wilcox, now at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology, told BBC.
'I came to the conclusion during that study that the supervolcano threat is substantially greater than the asteroid or comet threat.'

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At this point in time, What difference does it make?

The Republican National Committee expanded its massive fundraising lead over the Democratic National Committee in July, bringing in over $6 million more than its rival.
The RNC raised $10.2 million in July compared to the DNC's $3.8 million. This marks the Democrats' worst fundraising performance in July in a decade, according to The Hill:
The Democrats haven't raised that little money in a July since 2007; the party raised $3.4 million in that month.

What has the RNC done for the 2016 Republican voters? Other than confirming Neil Gorsuch to the SCOTUS. I can't think of much.

Sorry for my disillusionment, but F*CK the national GOP.

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Yes Virginia there really is Customer Service. Tonight's Feel Good Story of The Day. h/t Hrothgar

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Weekly commenter stats for 8/20/2017

Top 10 commenters:
1 [685 comments] 'Insomniac' [96.15 posts/day]
2 [591 comments] 'J.J. Sefton'
3 [500 comments] 'TheQuietMan'
4 [456 comments] 'Steve and Cold Bear'
5 [448 comments] 'FenelonSpoke'
6 [414 comments] 'Banana Splits Guy'
7 [397 comments] 'Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. All Honor & Glory to Kekistan! '
8 [397 comments] 'rickb223''
9 [397 comments] 'Under Fire'
10 [387 comments] 'willow'

Top 10 sockpuppeteers:
1 [103 names] 'Steve and Cold Bear' [14.46 unique names/day]
2 [52 names] 'Under Fire'
3 [49 names] 'Notorious BFD'
4 [48 names] 'andycanuck'
5 [43 names] 'Mike Hammer, etc., etc.'
6 [43 names] 'The Political Hat'
7 [42 names] 'Hillary 2020!'
8 [41 names] 'Adirondack Patriot'
9 [39 names] 'Duncanthrax'
10 [37 names] 'an indifferent penguin'

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:02 PM

Comments

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1 Hi

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 20, 2017 10:02 PM (3C9q2)

2 Where da corgis?

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 20, 2017 10:03 PM (3C9q2)

3 Lonely in here

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 20, 2017 10:03 PM (3C9q2)

4 Yay! ONT!

Posted by: Country Singer at August 20, 2017 10:03 PM (pGXU3)

5 Wow, such content. Thanks Mis Hum.

Posted by: Bete the deplorable at August 20, 2017 10:04 PM (F9322)

6 Keith Olbermann could change his name to Madeleine but he'd still be a twat

Posted by: Dragon who hasn't eaten this month at August 20, 2017 10:05 PM (ILitO)

7 Thank you Mis Hum.

Posted by: GnuBreed, still deplorable after all these months at August 20, 2017 10:05 PM (6jaju)

8 WDTN-TV reported that two men tried to break up the quarrel but were unsuccessful.

The other dozen were busy cheering the girls on and hooking up the hose to spray them down.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 20, 2017 10:05 PM (Tnhbr)

9 Glad to see Country Boy-- this place was as empty as a home game at Citizens Bank Park (aaaand-- the Phillies actually head home with a win over the Midgets . . .)

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 20, 2017 10:06 PM (3C9q2)

10 FUCK!!! I really did not want to make top ten this week! I denounce myself!

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 20, 2017 10:06 PM (RrhD2)

11 What if SMOD triggers Yellowstone?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 20, 2017 10:07 PM (28bqZ)

12 Pray for the ten missing sailors from USS John S. McCain.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 20, 2017 10:08 PM (28bqZ)

13 Seems this new Yob of mine is keeping out of the top 10. LOL

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 20, 2017 10:08 PM (SjImc)

14 When did "transgender" supposedly replace transsexual? Let's not play along. There are two biological sexes.

In extraordinarily rare circumstances babies are born with defective genitals. Gender refers to words, not people.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 10:09 PM (E9vLe)

15 Pray for the ten missing sailors from USS John S. McCain.
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 20, 2017 10:08 PM (28bqZ)

Yes. And for the crew of the USS America who I understand its rushing to the scene

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 20, 2017 10:09 PM (SjImc)

16 I think we should start recognizing the bottom ten for their posting discipline and restraint.

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at August 20, 2017 10:09 PM (RrhD2)

17 forgot to get back to one of my usual nics

marriage: a woman is dying in the hospital, husband comes to visit. She tells him, "Honey, I'll understand if you decide to marry again after I'm gone, but please promise me that you won't let your next wife wear my clothes." Husband holds her and and replies, "Don't worry about that, Susie is about three sizes smaller than you."

Posted by: Mallfly Maddow at August 20, 2017 10:09 PM (ILitO)

18 Word is she won't do the right thing.

Since they are her words that she won't resign, yeah, probably not. And since she won her last election with almost 95% of the vote, if she quit now she can run again. And win. Better that she be impeached. If state follows federal she can't run for a state office again after that.

Posted by: GnuBreed, still deplorable after all these months at August 20, 2017 10:09 PM (6jaju)

19 What if SMOD triggers Yellowstone?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 20, 2017 10:07 PM (28bqZ)

Stop teasing us

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 20, 2017 10:10 PM (SjImc)

20 Because letting the Internet name things has never gone wrong before.

Roady McRoadyface. I'm calling it now.

Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at August 20, 2017 10:10 PM (kNk/4)

21 11 What if SMOD triggers Yellowstone?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 20, 2017 10:07 PM

AFAIK, Yellowstone isn't a snowflake, so it might not be subject to triggering.

If it did happen next week, however, according to CNN we wouldn't see it, as the sun is going to disappear.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 20, 2017 10:11 PM (DMUuz)

22 @14 When did "transgender" supposedly replace transsexual? Let's not play along. There are two biological sexes.
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The argument that's frequently bandied about these days is that sex is biological, but gender is a cultural construct.

Or in other words, whether you have XY or XX chromosomes is up to Mother Nature. But whether you're a man or woman is a cultural thing.

It's basically an attempt to sidestep comments about chromosomes and Mother Nature.

Posted by: junior at August 20, 2017 10:11 PM (Q6qiA)

23 Darn; I missed being number 1 in the most frequent poster c contest. I will have to try harder next week. :^(

And the MO state senator has now said she did a bad thing and she's sorry but her only judge and jury is Christ the Lord, so I guess that means the Holy spirit has told her not to resign. :^(

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2017 10:11 PM (iVOAv)

24 "VA plans to rename the Jefferson Davis Highway."

Here's one vote for Roady McRoadface.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 20, 2017 10:11 PM (398bZ)

25
Dammit I went to some trouble to post the following and got Willowed. So I'm gonna repost it here.

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H2 and Fluorine would have the highest specific impulse. IIRC, Lithium may be in there as well.
Tripropellant.

But the stuff is so dangeous to handle and toxic, and the exhaust itself it so toxic that it is impractical to use.

The highest efficiency (in terms of specific impulse) would be a photon engine. Pure energy out the ass, no rest mass.

Shining a flashlight in space gives you a specific impulse of c. But a thrust vanishingly small.

Getting high thrust is the trick.

Note that specific impulse is really best measured as a velocity. The definition most often used by the rocket people just divided that by 'g'.

It's the difference between the ratio of thrust per weight per second, and thrust per mass per second.

The later has units of velocity, the former of time. The highest specific impulse relativistically possible is 'c'.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 20, 2017 10:11 PM (8O3HH)

26 What if SMOD triggers Yellowstone?

What if Yellowstone calls in SMOD for backup?

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 20, 2017 10:12 PM (3C9q2)

27 @23 And the MO state senator has now said she did a bad thing and she's sorry but her only judge and jury is Christ the Lord, so I guess that means the Holy spirit has told her not to resign. :^(
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Funny how the press doesn't break out the mockery whenever a Lefty politician feels the need to invoke God for one of their controversial decisions.

Posted by: junior at August 20, 2017 10:13 PM (Q6qiA)

28 A superhero for the Horde:

SMODman!

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 20, 2017 10:13 PM (eMKNe)

29 24 "VA plans to rename the Jefferson Davis Highway."

Here's one vote for Roady McRoadface.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 20, 2017 10:11 PM (398bZ)

Bumpy McBump-Bump Hwy

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 20, 2017 10:13 PM (ZTRlp)

30 Hey everybody.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 20, 2017 10:13 PM (eMKNe)

31 Looks like we made it
Met each other in the ONT
for another night

of delight

and all I can think is I need to go read the content.

Posted by: Sherri Manilow at August 20, 2017 10:14 PM (5O20Y)

32 Who is still sending money to the RNC? We must find them and kill them.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 20, 2017 10:14 PM (c8EhQ)

33 Good evening.

Posted by: Robert at August 20, 2017 10:15 PM (mknWS)

34 Roads McRoadface

Posted by: Not Bobby Flay at August 20, 2017 10:15 PM (JqQBz)

35 Who is still sending money to the RNC? We must find them and kill them.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)

It's either the RNC or fluffy porn!

Posted by: Mitt "Magic Underwear" Romney at August 20, 2017 10:15 PM (eMKNe)

36 Posted by: junior at August 20, 2017 10:13 PM (Q6qiA)

Good point.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2017 10:16 PM (iVOAv)

37 I'd like to sit on that porch and have a double sour mash whiskey along with a cigar. Best I can do though, is sit in my den (1950's era knotty pine and have the drink. No cigars.

Posted by: Eromero at August 20, 2017 10:16 PM (zLDYs)

38 There is only one proper internet naming suggestion: Roady McRoadsalot.

Posted by: Anachronda at August 20, 2017 10:16 PM (d/MYT)

39
On an ONT the other night, I was looking this up. There is a near 100% certainty of an extinction level event in the next million years.

A supervolcano will almost certainly go off. The probability of an extinction level SMOD is also high.

And, there is a nearby gamma-ray burst candidate star, a Wolf-Rayet type. It's poles are likely pointed in our direction, but there is enough uncertainty there, and it will change over time.

Anyway, it will likely go off in the next 300K years, and if it makes a gamma-ray burst and the poles are pointed at us within the window, we can a sterilizing burst of gamma rays one fine day. Kill everything dead on the exposed side of the planet, and so fuck up the ecosystem that's it extinction city.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 20, 2017 10:17 PM (8O3HH)

40 I have a U. S. Flag & my older brother was in the Army. You either take Flag in right before sunset or keep a light on it all night. A friend sent me one in 2014 & it came with flag code on box, it was getting faded & I ordered new one last year from my congressman. I kept old one up last spring-fall & am now using new one,

I have to take 3 year old one to the American Legion to destroy. You are not supposed to throw in the trash.
New one did not dome with U. S. Flag Rules & I am glad I took pic of rules.
Have a great ONT.

Posted by: Carol at August 20, 2017 10:17 PM (NKOy9)

41 I've never understood the difference between 'transsexual' and 'transgender', or anything else in homosexual gender play kink... 'Faggotry' works well for me as a descriptor in all circumstances!

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 20, 2017 10:17 PM (e9G8E)

42 We Americans have no commission from God to police the world. President Benjamin Harrison (20 August 1833 - 13 March 1901)
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Well, there's a bit of irony. A thread or two back, I linked to a picture of the barracks where I was billeted at Ft. Benjamin Harrison.

Post 284
http://tinyurl.com/ybrkfcga

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 10:17 PM (OdK9v)

43 24 "VA plans to rename the Jefferson Davis Highway."

Here's one vote for Roady McRoadface.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 20, 2017 10:11 PM (398bZ)

Rebel Yell Highway!

Posted by: Don Q. at August 20, 2017 10:17 PM (NgKpN)

44 rename the highway after Reagan. Watch Dems heads explode

Posted by: Mallfly Maddow at August 20, 2017 10:18 PM (ILitO)

45 g'evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 20, 2017 10:18 PM (KCxzN)

46 Okay, this has been killing me for years. Maybe its a Bryan Adams song, maybe it's not. I don't know the name of the song, I don't know the lyrics, and I haven't heard it in over 20 years.

Basically it's a song told form the Devil's perspective and with each verse the voice grows...I don't know..."evil-ier".

Or...maybe Chris Isaak?

Maybe neither?

I turn to the Horde.

Posted by: Robert at August 20, 2017 10:18 PM (mknWS)

47 Hey if people have money to spare... I could use some pletty prease...

https://www.gofundme.com/8k4zdgw9

Or just buy one of my books.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 20, 2017 10:18 PM (28bqZ)

48 "There's a clear right to be able to live in dignity, to enjoy a decent standard of living to get access to education, healthcare,"

If you tried Capitalism you'd have all that again.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 20, 2017 10:18 PM (+g8fL)

49 Clearly I have no life.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 10:18 PM (8nAzo)

50 'Who is still sending money to the RNC? '

Probably the Democrats.

Posted by: freaked at August 20, 2017 10:19 PM (bOWNk)

51 Another ship collision. WTH?

Posted by: rammajamma at August 20, 2017 10:19 PM (VJ4aP)

52 Buggery is a perfect description too. Not as well known as it used to.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 10:19 PM (E9vLe)

53 Trying to come up with a Manilow song to spoof...

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 20, 2017 10:20 PM (eMKNe)

54 From an early, last thread comment.

"How's about we start a new narrative?"

Good idea.
Also not a bad name for a band.
The New Narrative
Hmmm

Posted by: teej at August 20, 2017 10:20 PM (WgTfj)

55 RNC represents their constituents, the big corporations and foreign governments. I think that's how it works. It's all there in the rulebook.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 10:20 PM (E9vLe)

56 @46 Basically it's a song told form the Devil's perspective and with each verse the voice grows...I don't know..."evil-ier".
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Sure it's not the Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for the Devil"?

Posted by: junior at August 20, 2017 10:21 PM (Q6qiA)

57 qdpsteve, a spoof?

So Lola was not a Kig into kicks?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 20, 2017 10:21 PM (28bqZ)

58 Unintended consequences? Real women inmates don't care for fake women inmates.
Four women are suing the Department of Justice so they can be moved from prison facilities housing transgender inmates.

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Prison Chix Nix Mix With Dix

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 20, 2017 10:21 PM (c8EhQ)

59 Oh, I love 'buggery'!

The word, that is...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 20, 2017 10:21 PM (e9G8E)

60 Basically it's a song told form the Devil's perspective and with each verse the voice grows...I don't know..."evil-ier".

Sympathy For The Devil?

Posted by: Meremortal at August 20, 2017 10:22 PM (+g8fL)

61 Anna, hmmm...

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 20, 2017 10:22 PM (eMKNe)

62 "Okay, this has been killing me for years. Maybe its a Bryan Adams song, maybe it's not. I don't know the name of the song, I don't know the lyrics, and I haven't heard it in over 20 years.

Basically it's a song told form the Devil's perspective and with each verse the voice grows...I don't know..."evil-ier".

Or...maybe Chris Isaak?

Maybe neither?

I turn to the Horde."

Sympathy for the Devil by the Rolling Stones?

Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at August 20, 2017 10:22 PM (kNk/4)

63 I really don't get the 5 Guys love. I went one time. The workers areas behind the counter was as crowded as the standing room only dining area. And slower than molasses. I could understand the high prices with the wall of employees, but not the crowded slo-mo chaos behind the counter it caused, and not the whispered "call" for the completed order. Burger was only decent.

Posted by: Downcast at August 20, 2017 10:22 PM (0m0zi)

64 "Buggery is a perfect description too. Not as well known as it used to."

We should have a thread for all these terms. You hardly ever hear "Rump Ranger" or "Trouser Pilot" any more.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 20, 2017 10:22 PM (398bZ)

65 "VA plans to rename the Jefferson Davis Highway."

How about the Antifa Road to Hellway?

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 20, 2017 10:23 PM (3C9q2)

66 43: highway to hell. it is virginia after all.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at August 20, 2017 10:23 PM (KP5rU)

67 Rename Jefferson Davis Highway to The Ayrton Senna Memorial Highway? Sure, why the hell not. I take it to work when I have to drive in to DC. I can think of worse renames. Why not one of the greatest F1 drivers ever. Alas, I think the later great Ayrton won't win that honer. Probably some SJW wanker. Frankly just call it what it is, Route 1, and be done with it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 20, 2017 10:23 PM (tA0W4)

68 The ex-wife of "feminist" writer-director Joss Whedon claims he repeatedly cheated on her. Liberal hypocrisy from Hollywood? Inconceivable!

Posted by: Pete in TX at August 20, 2017 10:23 PM (2RBkF)

69 20 Because letting the Internet name things has never gone wrong before.

Roady McRoadyface. I'm calling it now.
Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at August 20, 2017 10:10 PM (kNk/4)

Wait just one minute!

Posted by: Boaty McBoarface at August 20, 2017 10:23 PM (TdMsT)

70 Clearly I have no life.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 10:18 PM (8nAzo)

Only one person on the planet can fix that.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 20, 2017 10:23 PM (+g8fL)

71 Sure it's not the Rolling Stones song "Sympathy for the Devil"?
Posted by: junior at August 20, 2017 10:21 PM (Q6qiA)

Oh, just to clarify. Not Sympathy For The Devil.

I'm thinking of a song either from the very late 80s or early 90s.

Posted by: Robert at August 20, 2017 10:23 PM (mknWS)

72
This should be good. VA plans to rename the Jefferson Davis Highway. They are looking for names via internet public feedback.

Cecil Road

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2017 10:23 PM (IqV8l)

73 Hi all, what's going on?

Posted by: Farmer at August 20, 2017 10:23 PM (yJ1e6)

74 I really don't get the 5 Guys love. I went one time. The workers areas behind the counter was as crowded as the standing room only dining area. And slower than molasses. I could understand the high prices with the wall of employees, but not the crowded slo-mo chaos behind the counter it caused, and not the whispered "call" for the completed order. Burger was only decent.
Posted by: Downcast at August 20, 2017 10:22 PM (0m0zi)

The one close to my place is excellent. Might be a management thing.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 20, 2017 10:24 PM (v3I5m)

75 Rename Jefferson Davis Highway to The Ayrton Senna Memorial Highway?

I prefer "Whining Wanker Way".

Posted by: Brother Cavil, SERENITY NOW! at August 20, 2017 10:24 PM (66CWr)

76 The ex-wife of "feminist" writer-director Joss Whedon claims he repeatedly cheated on her. Liberal hypocrisy from Hollywood? Inconceivable!
Posted by: Pete in TX at August 20, 2017 10:23 PM (2RBkF)

Fucking around on your wife?

Totes empowering!

Posted by: Feminist Hollywood at August 20, 2017 10:24 PM (mknWS)

77 "State Senator [Maria] Chappelle-Nadal's comments are indefensible," Missouri Democratic Party Chairman Stephen Webber wrote

What he meant was, "sadly, our defense hasn't worked..."

Posted by: t-bird at August 20, 2017 10:24 PM (pszv/)

78 Clearly I have no life.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 10:18 PM (8nAzo)

I used to think I had a life, but I was delusional back then

Posted by: Nevergiveup at August 20, 2017 10:24 PM (SjImc)

79 This should be good. VA plans to rename the Jefferson Davis Highway. They are looking for names via internet public feedback.

Cecil Road
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Well played, sir.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, SERENITY NOW! at August 20, 2017 10:24 PM (66CWr)

80 More to give The Anime Hat nightmares

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ydgeo732

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 20, 2017 10:25 PM (28bqZ)

81 My late dad had a singing voice very close to Jim Reeves'. I grew up hearing Reeve's songs on the record player.

As for renaming the highway: Freeway McFreewayperson.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 20, 2017 10:25 PM (rJUlF)

82 Hmm. I loves me some Butterburger!

Posted by: Sheppie at August 20, 2017 10:25 PM (OdK9v)

83 Google locked Thomas Wictor's Youtube account. Evidently they're coming for Trump apologists.

Posted by: zmdavid at August 20, 2017 10:25 PM (xqRaG)

84 Evening all.

Wow, top 10 commenting totals way higher than average this week. Good or bad?

Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 10:25 PM (Z0uHT)

85 Well, skimming through some Chris Isaak songs...

I had forgotten how much he adored both Elvis and pussy. Not sure what he adored more.

Posted by: Robert at August 20, 2017 10:26 PM (mknWS)

86 Hi all. Just finished watching USS Indianapolis-Men of Valor starring Nicholas Cage as the Captain. Incredible story of desperation and heroism, and a nasty cya bureaucracy.

It kind of flew under the radar when it came out, but well worth a watch. Might have been too dark a story for typical popular viewing, which is sad. Give it a look see.

I suspect most know the story of that ship but if you don't recall Quint's story to Hooper in Jaws.

Posted by: RM at August 20, 2017 10:26 PM (eP+dt)

87 Odd, isn't it, that the Left loves "freedom of speech" when they call out for the assassination of the President, but then they hate it when someone calls the BLM/Antifa Communists.

Posted by: JAS at August 20, 2017 10:26 PM (UnDQI)

88 Not on the list this week. Must have had to work at my real job more than normal.

Posted by: Jack Sock at August 20, 2017 10:26 PM (LuKE7)

89 20 Because letting the Internet name things has never gone wrong before.

Roady McRoadyface. I'm calling it now.
Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness

Heh!! Perfect!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 20, 2017 10:26 PM (tA0W4)

90 "Google locked Thomas Wictor's Youtube account. Evidently they're coming for Trump apologists."

I hope someone starts an alternative to YouTube. This shit should not be tolerated.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 20, 2017 10:27 PM (398bZ)

91 Phil Lynott. Original Black Irish.

The Boys Are Back in Town may be the best Irish pub juke box song of all time. You can dance to it; you can fight to it.

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 20, 2017 10:28 PM (pV/54)

92 I hope VA is prepared for all the sarcasm and derision they will get from people for wanting to rename the Jefferson Davis Highway

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2017 10:28 PM (iVOAv)

93 14 When did "transgender" supposedly replace transsexual? Let's not play along. There are two biological sexes.

In extraordinarily rare circumstances babies are born with defective genitals. Gender refers to words, not people.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 10:09 PM (E9vLe)

++++

I just call them trannies. Everyone seems to know what I mean.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 20, 2017 10:28 PM (pvjTE)

94
The Boys Are Back in Town may be the best Irish pub juke box song of all time. You can dance to it; you can fight to it.
Posted by: Ignoramus

You can punch dancers!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2017 10:28 PM (IqV8l)

95 I don't think Louisiana is going to change the name of one of their parishes. But I guess you never should say never.

Posted by: Jack Sock at August 20, 2017 10:29 PM (LuKE7)

96 Name it the Hussein Onyango Obama Highway after his grandfather.

...who owned a slave, Obama's grandmother.

Posted by: t-bird at August 20, 2017 10:29 PM (OBJWS)

97 Thank you Mis Hum!

Also, prayers for the missing McCain sailors. The advanced communication abilities of the modern day are both a blessing and a curse; I received a couple of text from friends asking "Is your son's ship the one involved in the collision?" even before I knew of the accident.

It's funny how well-meaning folks sometimes attempt to 'help' when in fact, they don't.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2017 10:29 PM (tr2D7)

98 And the MO state senator has now said she did a bad thing and she's sorry but her only judge and jury is Christ the Lord, so I guess that means the Holy spirit has told her not to resign. :^(

If she's a Christian, then I'm a brain surgeon. She should perhaps look up those Commandment thingys and then she can look up the Golden Rule, just for starters.

I'd sure like to see a nationally prominent preacher-type person call her out on that.. She's giving Christians a bad name by falsely claiming to be one.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 20, 2017 10:29 PM (bIwZ6)

99 "Google locked Thomas Wictor's Youtube account. Evidently they're coming for Trump apologists."

I hope someone starts an alternative to YouTube. This shit should not be tolerated.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed

I want them bogged down defending hundreds of lawsuits.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, SERENITY NOW! at August 20, 2017 10:29 PM (66CWr)

100 10 missing after USS John S. McCain collides with merchant ship; search underway

https://tinyurl.com/ybny5rgs

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Now this brain tumor is getting people killed.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 20, 2017 10:30 PM (c8EhQ)

101 New Name for the JeffersonDavis Highway:Highway McHighwayface

Posted by: steevy at August 20, 2017 10:30 PM (rmVvL)

102 46 I don't know the name of the song, I don't know the lyrics, and I haven't heard it in over 20 years.

Are you not really sure how it goes? Was it sad? Was it sweet? Did you know it complete, when you wore a younger man's clothes?

Posted by: Billy Joel at August 20, 2017 10:30 PM (0m0zi)

103 The Boys Are Back in Town may be the best Irish pub juke box song of all time. You can dance to it; you can fight to it.
Posted by: Ignoramus

You can punch dancers!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2017 10:28 PM (IqV8l)

I like where this is going.

Posted by: Robert at August 20, 2017 10:30 PM (mknWS)

104 And steevy before I can go to "Roady McRoadface".

God Bless the Horde.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, SERENITY NOW! at August 20, 2017 10:30 PM (66CWr)

105 "Within the week, Jerry Lewis had hosted a telethon" La La La, Nice Lady!!

Frank Zappa Just Another Band from LA

Posted by: Bill W. at August 20, 2017 10:31 PM (9IGAr)

106 Billy, have a microphone since it smells like a beer.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 20, 2017 10:31 PM (28bqZ)

107 The Boys Are Back in Town may be the best Irish pub juke box song of all time. You can dance to it; you can fight to it.

I learned that song for one of my bands, playing it on bass and singing the lead vocal. It took quite a bit a work. Great tune.

Phil was very talented. Heroin sucks.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 20, 2017 10:31 PM (+g8fL)

108 Winston Smith Memorial Highway

Posted by: Chuck C at August 20, 2017 10:32 PM (v8B+3)

109 Are you not really sure how it goes? Was it sad? Was it sweet? Did you know it complete, when you wore a younger man's clothes?
Posted by: Billy Joel at August 20, 2017 10:30 PM (0m0zi)

I'll settle for you telling me how you weaseled your way into Christie Brinkley's panties.

Posted by: Robert at August 20, 2017 10:32 PM (mknWS)

110

Politically Correct Bullshit Highway

Posted by: Jack Sock at August 20, 2017 10:33 PM (LuKE7)

111 Knee-jerk reactions are the best.

Remember when people painted over the rare General Lee vehicles in their possession?

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 20, 2017 10:33 PM (smD62)

112 Give a worn out flag to your local Boy Scout troop. They will retire it with respect and honor, and as training for new Scouts.

Posted by: RM at August 20, 2017 10:33 PM (eP+dt)

113 Since we were talking about rocket fuel earlier.

The Apollo lunar module ascent stage used two different propellants that, when mixed together, provided the thrust for the engine. Hypergolic. However these chemcials are so corrosive, there is no way to test the engine on earth, and use that oarticular engine ever again.

Consequently, the first time each Apollo engine was ever "tested", was on the 6 different takeoffs. There was no room for error. If the ascent engine didn't work - they were stuck on the moon.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 10:33 PM (E9vLe)

114 And the MO state senator has now said she did a bad thing and she's sorry but her only judge and jury is Christ the Lord, so I guess that means the Holy spirit has told her not to resign. :^(

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2017 10:11 PM (iVOAv)

She's a Democrat. So her judge and jury might be Christ, but her God is Satan.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 10:33 PM (Z0uHT)

115 while well-intentioned, is likely to undermine you professionally.

To me, they show a lack of seriousness and/or lack of language ability. In our setting here, of course, who cares? ;-)

Posted by: t-bird at August 20, 2017 10:33 PM (pszv/)

116 This version of The Cowboy Song is so great with Gary Moore.

Posted by: mark1971 at August 20, 2017 10:34 PM (xPl2J)

117 86 Hi all. Just finished watching USS Indianapolis-Men of Valor starring Nicholas Cage as the Captain. Incredible story of desperation and heroism, and a nasty cya bureaucracy.

It kind of flew under the radar when it came out, but well worth a watch. Might have been too dark a story for typical popular viewing, which is sad. Give it a look see.

I suspect most know the story of that ship but if you don't recall Quint's story to Hooper in Jaws.
Posted by: RM

I recall a movie about the USS Indianapolis that stared Stacey Keach as the Captain. It was pretty good. Didn't know they made one with Cage.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 20, 2017 10:34 PM (tA0W4)

118 "her only judge and jury is Christ the Lord"

Guilty as sin and free as a bird.

Everybody in prison agrees this should be true!

Posted by: Meremortal at August 20, 2017 10:34 PM (+g8fL)

119 osted by: Chuck C at August 20, 2017 10:32 PM (v8B+3)

I don't know if they'd get the dark humor, but send it in unless they're just asking for suggestions from VA residents, and you are not one.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2017 10:34 PM (iVOAv)

120 Prayers for the USS John McCain.

Posted by: The Mouse that Roared, Americans don't Serf at August 20, 2017 10:34 PM (DxWUs)

121 get off me, superstar sock!

Posted by: booknlass at August 20, 2017 10:34 PM (5O20Y)

122 97 Thank you Mis Hum!

Also, prayers for the missing McCain sailors. The advanced communication abilities of the modern day are both a blessing and a curse; I received a couple of text from friends asking "Is your son's ship the one involved in the collision?" even before I knew of the accident.

It's funny how well-meaning folks sometimes attempt to 'help' when in fact, they don't.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2017 10:29 PM (tr2D7)

Oh my gosh, Tonypete. You must had a few bad moments. I take it from this post that your son is okay.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 20, 2017 10:35 PM (TdMsT)

123 Well, I guess Jeb Stuart Highway will be up for desecration next. Come to think of it, I suppose the town of Stuart is a gonedy too.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 10:35 PM (OdK9v)

124 Tamerlan "Speed Bump" Tsarnaev Freeway.

Posted by: t-bird at August 20, 2017 10:35 PM (pszv/)

125 102 46 I don't know the name of the song, I don't know the lyrics, and I haven't heard it in over 20 years.

"Born with a tail", by the SuperS*ckers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igR-ypkIKnU

Posted by: Billy Joel at August 20, 2017 10:35 PM (0m0zi)

126 Always been indifferent to live albums in general, but Thin Lizzy's "Live and Dangerous" is stellar.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 20, 2017 10:35 PM (v3I5m)

127 Now this brain tumor is getting people killed.

He was on the USS Forrestal in 1967 when a series of explosions on the flight deck killed 134 of the crew, including most of those trained as firefighters. The tumor, of course, escaped.

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 20, 2017 10:36 PM (3C9q2)

128 It must be empowering to claim no worldly laws apply to you.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 20, 2017 10:36 PM (+g8fL)

129 Consequently, the first time each Apollo engine was ever "tested", was on the 6 different takeoffs. There was no room for error. If the ascent engine didn't work - they were stuck on the moon.
Posted by: Common Tater

That there were no casualties on the missions that actually flew--even Apollo 13, which by all rights should have been a catastrophic loss--is a testament to engineering brilliance, the will of the astronauts, and good old fashioned Divine Grace. Probably not quite in that order.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, SERENITY NOW! at August 20, 2017 10:36 PM (66CWr)

130 Common Tater - Moon Machines: Lunar Module. 45 minutes

https://youtu.be/VhUGNaLgDJ8

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 20, 2017 10:36 PM (28bqZ)

131 She's a Democrat. So her judge and jury might be Christ, but her God is Satan.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 10:33 PM (Z0uHT)

Now!. Now! Some of my favorite people here-and some high on the list of the Frequent Posters Hall of Fame-are DINOs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2017 10:36 PM (iVOAv)

132 123 Well, I guess Jeb Stuart Highway will be up for desecration next. Come to think of it, I suppose the town of Stuart is a gonedy too.

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Change to the Jeb Bush Highway. Easy peasy. And, please clap.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 20, 2017 10:36 PM (c8EhQ)

133 How about the Robert Byrd highway?

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 20, 2017 10:37 PM (6n332)

134 How about FU Highway? It is said alot on Route 1 in Alexandria.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 20, 2017 10:37 PM (tA0W4)

135 Jebus, I keep seeing the ads on Sundance for Transparent. They didn't even try to make the tranny freak remotely attractive. Just a dude with long hair.

Unfortunately my kids have fallen for the cultural viewpoint on the freaks.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 10:37 PM (Z0uHT)

136 Michael Walker Highway

Posted by: Jack Sock at August 20, 2017 10:38 PM (LuKE7)

137 Posted by: Meremortal at August 20, 2017 10:36 PM (+g8fL)

It's a ridiculous assessment anyway, Scripture says we are subject to Civil Law, so if she means that her eternal judge is Christ-o.k. but that doesn't excuse her from culpability if her colleagues impeach her.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2017 10:38 PM (iVOAv)

138 My son told me there is also a USS Indianapolis documentary. Maybe that is the one with Stacy Keach. We're going to check it out.

Posted by: RM at August 20, 2017 10:38 PM (eP+dt)

139 If she's a Christian, then I'm a brain surgeon. She should perhaps look up those Commandment thingys and then she can look up the Golden Rule, just for starters.
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No, if she says she is Christian, it's not our place or ethically justifiable to dispute that. Only she knows what's in her heart, and that's between her and God.

(Now of course if she claimed to be Moslem and detonated a suicide bomb at the day care center, well that's completely different.)

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 10:39 PM (E9vLe)

140 46 Okay, this has been killing me for years. Maybe its a Bryan Adams song, maybe it's not. I don't know the name of the song, I don't know the lyrics, and I haven't heard it in over 20 years.

Basically it's a song told form the Devil's perspective and with each verse the voice grows...I don't know..."evil-ier".

Or...maybe Chris Isaak?

Maybe neither?

I turn to the Horde.

Posted by: Robert at August 20, 2017 10:18 PM (mknWS)

++++

Devil Went Down To Georgia?
Charlie Daniels Band

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 20, 2017 10:39 PM (FUu/Z)

141 "Born with a tail", by the SuperS*ckers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igR-ypkIKnU
Posted by: Billy Joel at August 20, 2017 10:35 PM (0m0zi)

No. Damn.

I'm liking this, though.

Posted by: Robert at August 20, 2017 10:40 PM (mknWS)

142 Has anyone seen my bottle of Beano? I'm feeling a wee bit gaseous right now.

Posted by: Yellowstone Super Volcano at August 20, 2017 10:40 PM (SXt2w)

143 I guess Jeb Stuart Highway will be up for desecration next

W's baby bro is going to need a new nic-- or maybe "Heb" will go back to being called John Ellis.

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 20, 2017 10:41 PM (3C9q2)

144 I recently learned that Vipunen, a giant in Finnish mythology, had a cavernous mouth and a tree growing out of his shoulder. I wonder if FZ ever read the Kalevala?

Posted by: freaked at August 20, 2017 10:42 PM (bOWNk)

145 Slow night. Is everybody contemplating what happened on GOT tonight?

Posted by: Jack Sock at August 20, 2017 10:42 PM (LuKE7)

146 This should be good. VA plans to rename the Jefferson Davis Highway.
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Go to the site, make suggestions...lots of them. I stepped up for George Orwell Memorial Hwy, and Diana Moon Glampers Memorial Hwy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 10:42 PM (OdK9v)

147 I'm not sure of Obama's seizure of Russian property in the US, but we do need limits on foreign entities buying up US property and production.

When those half trillion a year trade deficits with China get returned via them buying US, they are conquering, not "free trading".

Free trade doesn't work, the concept was never a legit academic economic theory, and the brief "Chicago sKool of eKonomics" was wrong. Pretending some magic fairy would turn commies into Christian capitalists was always a farce. But the leveraged Wall Street guys loved the corporate windfalls, and leveraged buyouts.

here is an academic ...
http://www.freetradedoesntwork.com/

or Citizens for prosperous America ... could help Trump win the rust belt again
http://www.prosperousamerica.org/

Posted by: illiniwek at August 20, 2017 10:43 PM (veVl1)

148 Devil Went Down To Georgia?
Charlie Daniels Band

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 20, 2017 10:39 PM (FUu/Z)

Heh, noooo, definitely not gonna forget that one.

Posted by: Robert at August 20, 2017 10:43 PM (mknWS)

149 Unfortunately my kids have fallen for the cultural viewpoint on the freaks.
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What are their ages? When did "they" start working them over in school?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 10:43 PM (E9vLe)

150 138 My son told me there is also a USS Indianapolis documentary. Maybe that is the one with Stacy Keach. We're going to check it out.
Posted by: RM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102455/

It was a movie, not a documentary.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 20, 2017 10:44 PM (tA0W4)

151 *sighs*

I give up. People still insist on using the 134 dead aboard Forrestal to pillory a pilot who had to climb out of a burning fully armed A-4 and then get to the deck which was also on fire and somehow get to safety.

The fault started with a start cart on an F-4B Phantom II on the fantail. Because the squadron used a work around in the arming procedures, voltage from the cart crossed a gap and energized the firing circuit which resulted in a Zuni rocket striking the forward parked A-4 Skyhawks.

The bombs loaded on those A-4s were old and rusty. They lacked the 90 second built in safety. These bombs were being used because LBJ was lying about a bomb shortage in Vietnam. Because these bombs did not have that safety they cooked off in under 50 seconds which meant the trained fire crews had just enough time to get close enough to be killed.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 20, 2017 10:44 PM (28bqZ)

152 yike

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 20, 2017 10:44 PM (28bqZ)

153 hey, sweet Teej,

maybe your trio could be the New Narrative?

Posted by: booknlass at August 20, 2017 10:44 PM (5O20Y)

154 No, if she says she is Christian, it's not our place or ethically justifiable to dispute that. Only she knows what's in her heart, and that's between her and God.

Her decidedly non-Christian words betray her.

There are a gaggle of people who claim to be Christians who really aren't and have demonstrated their lying on numerous occasions. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and "Father" Pfleiger spring to mind.

I don't have a problem calling them out on their blatant hypocrisy and lying. It needs to be done and it just might help them.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 20, 2017 10:44 PM (bIwZ6)

155 @147 When those half trillion a year trade deficits with China get returned via them buying US, they are conquering, not "free trading".
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We don't have to worry about the Chinese buying up the US because the Japanese already bought everything back in the '80s.

Posted by: junior at August 20, 2017 10:45 PM (Q6qiA)

156 Not to defend my home-state Dems, but the more prominent ones were fairly quick to denounce Chappelle-Nadal. The party as an organization dragged its feet some, but the individuals among them figured out pretty fast how it would look for them and acted accordingly.

Posted by: T at August 20, 2017 10:45 PM (Vgw1E)

157 "There's a clear right to be able to live in dignity, to enjoy a decent
standard of living to get access to education, healthcare,"

Show me the tree that these things can be plucked off for free. Otherwise what you mean is you think you have a right to MY standard of living and healthcare that I pay for with MY money.

As the Apostle Paul said, he who shall not work, neither should he eat.

Posted by: redbanzai at August 20, 2017 10:46 PM (FTXAT)

158 ***That's the difference: America is fighting a foreign war, Eurabia is in the early stages of an undeclared civil war. Mark Steyn ***

And the McCains, virtual and real keep fouling up.

Posted by: gNewt at August 20, 2017 10:47 PM (UG4SD)

159 Don't be surprised if it turns out the federal lands were sold or pledged as collateral a long time ago. The government reneged on the dollar/ gold convertability to foreign central banks 50 years ago and have been running on fumes ever since. I'm sure they've been doing some great deals.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 10:47 PM (E9vLe)

160 I always thought AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" sounded pretty evil.

Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at August 20, 2017 10:47 PM (T71PA)

161 I don't think Louisiana is going to change the name of one of their parishes.

There is a parish in western LA and a National Guard training camp named for P.G.T. Beauregard. His statue was removed, so it may be that his grave in Metairie Cemetery will be next.

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 20, 2017 10:47 PM (3C9q2)

162 Renaming highways and tearing down statues is ridiculous. IF people are racist changing the highway is not going to change their minds. For that they need a heart" transplant" which, IMO, only the Holy Spirit can provide. It's a blatant power play by leftists along the line of Maos's cultural revolution or as people noted ISIS or the other radical Islamic terrorist groups do.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2017 10:48 PM (iVOAv)

163 No, if she says she is Christian, it's not our place or ethically justifiable to dispute that. Only she knows what's in her heart, and that's between her and God.
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Titus 1:16
They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
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2 Timothy 3:1-17

But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 10:49 PM (OdK9v)

164 Changed TV services this week and was trying to find a channel I'd watch sometimes. It carried overseas news broadcasts like "France 24" and Euro crime dramas at night.

Did a search for "France 24" and found it but the channel was one I'd never heard of. Link TV.

"Link TV, originally WorldLink TV, is a
non-commercial liberal / progressive American satellite television
network providing what it describes as "diverse perspectives on world
and national issues."

And I thought PBS/MSNBC/CNN was bad.

Posted by: geoffb5 at August 20, 2017 10:49 PM (zOpu5)

165 personas non grata

Personae non gratae.

Sheesh. Doesn't anyone study Latin anymore?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 20, 2017 10:50 PM (SRKgf)

166 I really enjoyed that History Channel show about the seven ways life on Earth could be destroyed. IIRC Yellowstone Caldera will wipe out North American east of it. Europe and Asia, might survive.

My favorite? Gamma Ray burst. We get fried before we even know what happened.

Posted by: JAS at August 20, 2017 10:50 PM (UnDQI)

167 Free trade is good capitalism. Free trade controlled/interfered with by the government is not capitalism. It's not free trade either.

Posted by: gNewt at August 20, 2017 10:50 PM (UG4SD)

168 ""VA plans to rename the Jefferson Davis Highway."

Berkeley, California is named after George Berkeley, a slaveowner who approved of slavery, since slavery was the fastest way to convert the slaves to Christianity.

Obviously, both the city and the University need to renamed - I suggest calling them both Trayvon.

Posted by: Oregon Is Dumber Than Dirt at August 20, 2017 10:50 PM (xnAyb)

169 Renaming highways and tearing down statues is ridiculous.

Rename every MLK Blvd. the "David Duke Avenue."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 20, 2017 10:51 PM (SRKgf)

170 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 10:49 PM (OdK9v)

A wonderful comment Mike.

I get a kick out of certain people who apologize should not have to pay a price for their 'sin'. Just ask the thief next to Christ on the cross.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 20, 2017 10:51 PM (ZTRlp)

171 Now!. Now! Some of my favorite people here-and some high on the list of the Frequent Posters Hall of Fame-are DINOs.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2017 10:36 PM (iVOAv)

DINO is fine if they don't support the babykillers. I'd bet my children that particular scum isn't.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 10:51 PM (Z0uHT)

172 What does Gratis have to do with this Persona mutt?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 20, 2017 10:52 PM (28bqZ)

173 Renaming highways and tearing down statues is ridiculous. IF people are racist changing the highway is not going to change their minds. For that they need a heart" transplant" which, IMO, only the Holy Spirit can provide. It's a blatant power play by leftists along the line of Maos's cultural revolution or as people noted ISIS or the other radical Islamic terrorist groups do.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
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That is not their aim. Their aim is to destroy American culture, with the bonus of possibly promoting confrontations which the media will spin.

This entire thing is political...not sociological.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 10:52 PM (OdK9v)

174
Sheesh. Doesn't anyone study Latin anymore?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 20, 2017 10:50 PM (SRKgf)

Not since 1975 so biteus meus or something like that.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 20, 2017 10:52 PM (ZTRlp)

175 Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at August 20, 2017 10:44 PM (28bqZ)

I agree but I also acknowledge that that pilot turned in a obvious false dossier to the FBI with the intention of damaging the President.

Posted by: Jack Sock at August 20, 2017 10:52 PM (LuKE7)

176 Spurring off Vic's link on the Indianapolis I found this:
https://www.dc3dakotahunter.com /blog/pby-catalina-saved-uss-indianapolis-sailors-
from-massive-shark-attack/

The site had some photos I had not seen before.

Posted by: gNewt at August 20, 2017 10:53 PM (UG4SD)

177 'Link TV.'

That was one of the crappy channels up in the 300s before I eliminated DirecTv from our house. One of many reason I got rid of that shit.

Posted by: freaked at August 20, 2017 10:53 PM (bOWNk)

178 Berkeley, California is named after George Berkeley, a slaveowner who approved of slavery, since slavery was the fastest way to convert the slaves to Christianity.

Obviously, both the city and the University need to renamed - I suggest calling them both Trayvon.
Posted by: Oregon Is Dumber Than Dirt at August 20, 2017 10:50 PM (xnAyb)

In fairness, I believe Berkeley was named after Lord Berkeley, not George or Bubba Berkeley.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 20, 2017 10:53 PM (SRKgf)

179 No, if she says she is Christian, it's not our place or ethically justifiable to dispute that. Only she knows what's in her heart, and that's between her and God.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 10:39 PM (E9vLe)

With all due respect, that's bullshit.

"Ye shall know them by their deeds."

We have every right to call out the fakes.

You cannot be a Christian and support the murder of God's most innocent creation at the same time. Period.

She's a fake.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 10:54 PM (Z0uHT)

180 "Renaming highways and tearing down statues is ridiculous. "

I just visited the American Hall of Fame at what used to be NYU's science and engineering campus in The Bronx. It's a remarkable place and has sculptured busts of notable Americans. It used to be a big deal, and could and should be again.

Andy Cuomo just had the busts of Lee and Stonewall Jackson removed. Sure enough they'e been cut from their pedestals and the plaques removed. Lee and Stonewall used to face off from US Grant.

Will Andrew Jackson survive?

Also, Matthew Maury, a pioneering oceanographer who quit the US Navy to join in with the Confederates. He also has the sin of questioning the modern science of Climate Change before it was even a thing

Posted by: Ignoramus at August 20, 2017 10:54 PM (pV/54)

181 Just saying hi before going to bed. Getting up VERY early to get to the place where we want to watch the total eclipse. There's limited parking where we want to watch from, so I'm worried it'll all be gone if I wait to long. Means we'll have to sit around and wait for several hours, but this is the last chance I'll have to see one. Have fun ya'll.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at August 20, 2017 10:54 PM (w+Jhj)

182 osted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 10:52 PM (OdK9v)

Yes, I understand that :^) which i thought I got across in my comments about the cultural revolution and ISIS

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 20, 2017 10:54 PM (iVOAv)

183
75 Rename Jefferson Davis Highway to The Ayrton Senna Memorial Highway?

I prefer "Whining Wanker Way".
Posted by: Brother Cavil, SERENITY NOW! at August 20, 2017 10:24 PM (66CWr)

Kurdzin Way.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at August 20, 2017 10:55 PM (e1mEI)

184 "There's a clear right to be able to live in dignity, to enjoy a decent standard of living to get access to education, healthcare,"

Sounds reasonable, doesn't it? Who pays for it? Strictly speaking, rights are only those things that don't require another entity to perform.

If I have a "right" to health care - then a doctor is at some level forced to provide care. Is she going to work for free? That's why the Soviet Union collapsed. "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us."

What is remarkable is the insistence of our betters that they can change human nature, that the last 5,000 years of recorded history apparently brought no insights into human nature, what systems were successful, and what systems were disastrous. They keep bringing up failed ideas that sucked when the pyramids were built. I don't get it.

And our politicians play along.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 10:55 PM (E9vLe)

185 This should be good. VA plans to rename the Jefferson Davis Highway. They are looking for names via internet public feedback.

Fuck it. Name it the Trayvon Martin Memorial Highway.

Maybe we can do the Cloward-Piven thing, too.

Posted by: rickl at August 20, 2017 10:55 PM (sdi6R)

186 in
retaliation for Moscow's meddling in the 2016 election
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Remember when Obama interfered in the Israeli election? And Brexit?

So on the one hand Obama only wiretapped journalists and his domestic political opposition, versus Putin killing them.

But...on the other hand Obama created, armed, and supplied ISIS whereas Russia has been fighting them.

What a world we live in when the American president is arguably morally worse then a Russian autocrat!?!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2017 10:55 PM (aZq03)

187 The site had some photos I had not seen before.
Posted by: gNewt
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That Catalina had to be abandoned, it was no longer fit to fly by the time that surface aid arrived.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 10:56 PM (OdK9v)

188 Well, song about the devil can wait.

Here's some Batdad Vines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdSmam1MKqI

Just...watch...

Good night!

Posted by: Robert at August 20, 2017 10:56 PM (mknWS)

189 Sunday Swimwear ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899324562361503744

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899324658968920064

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899324751918792712

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899324886140805120

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899324971809472512

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899325071403220992

Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2017 10:56 PM (3i2nH)

190 Sheesh. Doesn't anyone study Latin anymore?

If the personae non gratae were direct objects of a transitive verb like declarare, the correct form would be personas non gratas.

Some of us morons do know Latin.

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 20, 2017 10:56 PM (3C9q2)

191 Sheesh. Doesn't anyone study Latin anymore?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 20, 2017 10:50 PM (SRKgf)

Not since 1975 so biteus meus or something like that.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 20, 2017 10:52 PM (ZTRlp)

I should have known. First, all the retards with license plate surrounds saying they're an "alumni" of Mustang Ranch or Kennelwood Academy or some such.

Second, from all the retards who can barely keep subject and verb in agreement in English, never mind Latin.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 20, 2017 10:56 PM (SRKgf)

192 I'm so desperately lonely!! And I can't stop eating these sandwiches made with Lonely ManWich!!!!

Posted by: Joss Whedon at August 20, 2017 10:57 PM (eMKNe)

193 On September 11th 2001, the American mainland was attacked for the first time since the War of 1812
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This isn't quite correct. Japan managed a balloon attack in WWII that made it into the American mainland. Oregon maybe?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2017 10:57 PM (aZq03)

194 "One way to counteract the tremendous job loss that might take place in the nearing future is to consider Universal Basic Income."

We already have an example of that - Saudi Arabia. Every male Saudi is guaranteed an basic income, sometimes accompanied by a meaningless, make-work government job.

Giving Saudis tremendous amounts of leisure has turned Saudi Arabia into a world center of culture, of course - leisured Saudis complete with each other to produce the best plays, books, paintings, and symphonies.

As we all know, if you give an average person unlimited leisure, they will use that time to create great culture.

Posted by: Oregon Is Dumber Than Dirt at August 20, 2017 10:57 PM (xnAyb)

195 More Sunday Swimwear ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899325235853504512

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899325326899261441

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899325417315864580

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899325583133470721

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899325689312276481

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899325785378611200

Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2017 10:58 PM (3i2nH)

196 "With all due respect, that's bullshit."

You saw the first paragraph only. It won't make any sense otherwise. Sarcasm can be difficult to detect at times, but I thought it was pretty clear.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 10:58 PM (E9vLe)

197 This should be good. VA plans to rename the Jefferson Davis Highway. They are looking for names via internet public feedback.
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I vote for the Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho memorial highway. I mean if we are going to live Idiocracy, let's embrace it!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2017 10:58 PM (aZq03)

198 If the personae non gratae were direct objects of a transitive verb like declarare, the correct form would be personas non gratas.

Some of us morons do know Latin.
Posted by: Basement Cat at August 20, 2017 10:56 PM (3C9q2)

Ah, but these people are declared TO BE ... - and hence are not the direct objects of the verb declarare, and thus nominative case controls.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 20, 2017 10:59 PM (SRKgf)

199 This isn't quite correct. Japan managed a balloon attack in WWII that made it into the American mainland. Oregon maybe?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2017 10:57 PM (aZq03)

I believe one of those balloons landed near Thermopolis, Wyoming.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at August 20, 2017 10:59 PM (v3I5m)

200 Even More Sunday Swimwear ONT Compliance Pics

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899325925371805701

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899326012172926976

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899326118456635392

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899326247498645504

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899326338338889728

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/899326425123127296

Posted by: kbdabear at August 20, 2017 11:00 PM (3i2nH)

201 "One way to counteract the tremendous job loss that might take place in
the nearing future is to consider Universal Basic Income."
***
If you make the stipend enough to live a decent life off of it, I'm quitting my job in the productive class and starting a new career as professional video game player and internet bikini photo examiner.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2017 11:00 PM (aZq03)

202 Not since 1975 so biteus meus or something like that.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian
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Posts like this keep me coming back to this place.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 11:00 PM (OdK9v)

203 New Mexico is home of the best fastfood burger chain in the country, Blake's Lotaburger.

Posted by: Idano at August 20, 2017 11:00 PM (w6tyE)

204 Germany conducted sabotage attacks on America before we even entered WWI.

Posted by: josephistan at August 20, 2017 11:01 PM (ANIFC)

205 >> I've never understood the difference between 'transsexual' and 'transgender', or anything else in homosexual gender play kink... 'Faggotry' works well for me as a descriptor in all circumstances!

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Pffft, that's basic Fagotry 101.

In more advanced levels, you learn the difference between trannies, shemales, fembois, traps, and ladyboys.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 20, 2017 11:01 PM (8O3HH)

206 "What has the RNC done for the 2016 Republican voters? Other than confirming Neil Gorsuch to the SCOTUS. I can't think of much."

Preaching to the choir brother. They are giving aid and comfort to the enemy of all that is good and just, that is the democrat party. Trump is behind enemy lines and under siege from all directions. There is no 3rd Army under Patton to come to the rescue. Trump is going to have to fight his way out.

RIP Jerry, now reunited with your brother, Dean. Best film they did was Money From Home, based on a Damon Runyon story.

I was telling my son, thank God for recordings, both audio and visual, we'll never see such talent again without it, that of Martin and Lewis and The Rat Pack.

Posted by: Locke Common at August 20, 2017 11:01 PM (I2kp0)

207 Unfortunately my kids have fallen for the cultural viewpoint on the freaks.
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What are their ages? When did "they" start working them over in school?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 10:43 PM (E9vLe)

They're both in their mid 20's. Being homo and tranny has been shoved down their throats for a while.

My daughter even lived with me the last 3 years of high school. It's difficult to overcome the culture, especially as a single parent.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 11:01 PM (Z0uHT)

208 "In fairness, I believe Berkeley was named after Lord Berkeley, not George or Bubba Berkeley."

Not that Wikipedia is determinative, but:

One of them, Frederick Billings, thought of the lines of the Anglo-Irish Anglican Bishop George Berkeley, 'westward the course of empire takes its way,' and suggested that the town and college site be named for the eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish philosopher."

Posted by: Oregon Is Dumber Than Dirt at August 20, 2017 11:01 PM (xnAyb)

209 Thin Lizzy
Jailbreak, Emerald, Boys Are Back, Rosalie/Cowboy Song
A Night On The Town - Live - 1976

https://youtu.be/QreSqOBDPWI

17 minute set, pretty damn good.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at August 20, 2017 11:02 PM (pvjTE)

210 However, our embattled Assembly GOP Leader Mayes could not resist the temptation, and negotiated quite possibly the worst deal in legislative history. Believe it or not, Mayes is proud to report that in return for Republican votes to pass cap and trade, he received a non-binding assurance that Jerry Brown and Democrats would support a ballot measure requiring a two-thirds majority to spend cap-and-trade funds on high-speed rail. Then, if, and only if, the ballot measure passes, a super-majority would be required to spend those funds - sound familiar? Here's the rub: if all of these things go exactly as planned, the new law requiring a two-thirds majority would not take effect until 2024, leaving Democrats with seven years to freely spend cap-and-trade funds on high-speed rail before facing a financial "speed bump" for its ballooning costs.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at August 20, 2017 11:02 PM (PRT1c)

211
Second, from all the retards who can barely keep subject and verb in agreement in English, never mind Latin.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 20, 2017 10:56 PM (SRKgf)

i, isti erant or whatever

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 20, 2017 11:03 PM (ZTRlp)

212 However, our embattled Assembly GOP Leader Mayes
could not resist the temptation, and negotiated quite possibly the worst
deal in legislative history. Believe it or not, Mayes is proud to
report that in return for Republican votes to pass cap and trade, he
received a non-binding assurance that Jerry Brown and Democrats would
support a ballot measure requiring a two-thirds majority to spend
cap-and-trade funds on high-speed rail. Then, if, and only if, the
ballot measure passes, a super-majority would be required to spend those
funds - sound familiar? Here's the rub: if all of these things go
exactly as planned, the new law requiring a two-thirds majority would
not take effect until 2024, leaving Democrats with seven years to freely
spend cap-and-trade funds on high-speed rail before facing a financial
"speed bump" for its ballooning costs.

Posted by:Islamic Rage Boy at August 20, 2017 11:02 PM (PRT1c)

I was unaware there were any Republican legislators left in Cali.

Posted by: redbanzai at August 20, 2017 11:04 PM (FTXAT)

213 208 "In fairness, I believe Berkeley was named after Lord Berkeley, not George or Bubba Berkeley."

Not that Wikipedia is determinative, but:

One of them, Frederick Billings, thought of the lines of the Anglo-Irish Anglican Bishop George Berkeley, 'westward the course of empire takes its way,' and suggested that the town and college site be named for the eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish philosopher."
Posted by: Oregon Is Dumber Than Dirt at August 20, 2017 11:01 PM (xnAyb)

Fair enough. I thought he'd been elevated to the peerage.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 20, 2017 11:04 PM (SRKgf)

214 @207

I've seen it infiltrate my alma mater.....a small town, extremely conservative Catholic high school.

There is literally nowhere to send your kids to school.

Not that they were indoctrinated by teachers; they weren't.

But, all it takes is 2 or 3 gay kids to transfer in and be all "cool" and "different" and besties with all the girls....and minds get turned...just like that.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 20, 2017 11:05 PM (smD62)

215 We could rename the highway "The Big Gummint Can't Fill A Pothole Anymore Because It's Too Busy Putting Men Into Women's Prisons-Memorial Highway".

Jeff would understand.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at August 20, 2017 11:05 PM (Ndje9)

216 "We don't have to worry about the Chinese buying up the US because the Japanese already bought everything back in the '80s.
Posted by: junior

ha, yeah that is a good point and I almost brought it up. We sunk them by our real estate tanking as they bought into (or caused) the bubble, while they had a bubble? But China is now buying resources around the world. Japan's problems ... were different, I think. They inflate incredibly, but debt is domestically owned.

The globalists and leveraged players these days ... different story. But really, the US currency is terrible, our debt extreme ... it will take something beyond normal economic policy to fix it.

War? Currency collapse and cancellation of debt to foreign currency manipulators? Global currency run by Soros et. al.? idk

Posted by: illiniwek at August 20, 2017 11:05 PM (veVl1)

217 I've never understood the difference between 'transsexual' and
'transgender', or anything else in homosexual gender play kink...
'Faggotry' works well for me as a descriptor in all circumstances!
***
Well, you've got your pervs - but for the non-exhibitionist ones they want to get their freak on at home with the man, woman, or goat of their choice. And you know what? Go get your freak in, in your home or preferred sex dungeon you freaky wackos.

But most of the ones screaming about pronouns aren't really in it because it is their kink. They are into it because it makes them the center of attention...and makes you bow to them. Those are a problem, and will destroy our culture if we don't do something about it soon.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2017 11:05 PM (aZq03)

218 The Republican National Committee expanded its massive fundraising lead over the Democratic National Committee in July, bringing in over $6 million more than its rival.

Is this because grassroots voters have switched parties and are now donating to R's? Or is it because people like Soros are thinking "R's now control more seats than D's, so I'd better start bribing them instead"?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 20, 2017 11:06 PM (/qEW2)

219 Country Boy, I couldn't keep my kids from succumbing to the communist, anti-american, racist crap either. I even homeschooled for a couple years.

I'm sorry you're experiencing this heartache too.

Posted by: booknlass at August 20, 2017 11:06 PM (5O20Y)

220 A relative of mine was a personal friend of Jefferson Davis and his wife. I have four letters written by Davis during the Civil War to my relative, and a couple written by Davis' wife.

They aren't tremendously significant letters because they are mostly social in nature.

I had planned to donate them to the Jefferson Davis Society at Rice University, which previously indicated an interest in them, but now I'm afraid the documents will end up being destroyed.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 20, 2017 11:06 PM (TdMsT)

221 I've never understood the difference between 'transsexual' and 'transgender', or anything else in homosexual gender play kink... 'Faggotry' works well for me as a descriptor in all circumstances!

I plump for "pervert." That covers all possibilities.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 20, 2017 11:06 PM (SRKgf)

222 Fuck it. Name it the Trayvon Martin Memorial Highway.

Maybe we can do the Cloward-Piven thing, too.
Posted by: rickl at August 20, 2017 10:55 PM (sdi6R)

I just sold my condo in Arlington. Too bad I would vote for something retarded.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 20, 2017 11:06 PM (Ri/rl)

223 I was unaware there were any Republican legislators left in Cali.
Posted by: redbanzai at August 20, 2017 11:04 PM (FTXAT)

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It seems Cali "Republicans" are like those in IL, NJ and other Blue strongholds. DIABLOs.

Posted by: GOULD at August 20, 2017 11:07 PM (Ystq3)

224 The desire to remove statues has nothing to do with morality or making things better.

It's simply a way to insult the other side.

Posted by: Meremortal at August 20, 2017 11:07 PM (+g8fL)

225 So who is ahead in the Pacific War of Attrition of 2017. The US Navy or the oriental commercial and fishing fleets?

Posted by: RioBravo at August 20, 2017 11:07 PM (giT7q)

226 It is doubtful the oppressed every fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power - power to oppress others. --Eric Hoffer

I had a Philosophy professor in college who absolutely loathed Eric Hoffer, which I found out when someone in the class quoted Hoffer at the professor. It was only later, after reading a few of Hoffer's books and noting some of Hoffer's observations, that I realized that yes, Eric Hoffer was indeed full of shit, then and now. There is no rigor in any of his pithy little aphorisms. But, you say, Hoffer was a stevedore, a working man, in touch with the real-world as opposed to those fancy-schmancy ivory tower intellectuals.

No, Hoffer was a third-rate bullshit artist who manufactured mental cotton candy for easy consumption.

Posted by: troyriser at August 20, 2017 11:08 PM (4qf5a)

227 Since they are her words that she won't resign, yeah, probably not. And since she won her last election with almost 95% of the vote, if she quit now she can run again. And win. Better that she be impeached. If state follows federal she can't run for a state office again after that.

Posted by: GnuBreed, still deplorable after all these months at August 20, 2017 10:09 PM (6jaju)

Since she seems to think violence solves problems...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 20, 2017 11:09 PM (2le8w)

228 Believe it or not, Mayes is proud to

report that in return for Republican votes to pass cap and trade
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I would tend to think, if you are an R in a hopeless state like CA, that every election you'd run a "Had enough yet? Because you are going to be pissed at whatever democrat you just elected in two years." campaign.

Eventually you'd think people would get it...and even in benighted states like IL or MA they do...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2017 11:09 PM (aZq03)

229
You saw the first paragraph only. It won't make any sense otherwise. Sarcasm can be difficult to detect at times, but I thought it was pretty clear.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 10:58 PM (E9vLe)

I completely missed it, sorry.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 11:09 PM (Z0uHT)

230 ... Too bad I would vote for something retarded.
Posted by: CaliGirl at August 20, 2017 11:06 PM (Ri/rl)

The thing is that they'll probably choose something retarded as the new name.

Posted by: Duke of Righteous WTF? at August 20, 2017 11:09 PM (T71PA)

231 220
I had planned to donate them to the Jefferson Davis Society at Rice University, which previously indicated an interest in them, but now I'm afraid the documents will end up being destroyed.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 20, 2017 11:06 PM (TdMsT)

I still can't shake the nagging feeling that I should be sealing my books in plastic and burying them in lead-lined boxes.

And no, that's not a joke.

Posted by: rickl at August 20, 2017 11:09 PM (sdi6R)

232 207 Unfortunately my kids have fallen for the cultural viewpoint on the freaks.
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What are their ages? When did "they" start working them over in school?

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 10:43 PM (E9vLe)

They're both in their mid 20's. Being homo and tranny has been shoved down their throats for a while.

My daughter even lived with me the last 3 years of high school. It's difficult to overcome the culture, especially as a single parent.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 11:01 PM (Z0uHT)

Yup.... I lost a Daughter to the freaks... fighting now not to loose my Son...

Once they are out of your house, in College... they are inundated with crap 24/7.... in an echo chamber...

It is blatant brainwashing, using Social Pressure...

We train our children from 5 years on, that Teachers / Professors are right... to succeed you have to listen to them, and parrot what they say...

So then put them in the Liberal Echo chamber of modern Colleges???? And that training is hard to overcome...

Posted by: Don Q. at August 20, 2017 11:09 PM (NgKpN)

233 It was named after Charles Barkley, I think.

Posted by: t-bird at August 20, 2017 11:09 PM (OBJWS)

234 Keep in mind the government will renege on social security (as just one example) before foreign creditors. 2008 was an example of that. In other words your money may become worthless, not just worth less like now, but creditors will own us. Given the way the middle east is setting up mosques and importing "refugees" everywhere maybe we're already there.

Absolutely insane.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 11:10 PM (E9vLe)

235 I had planned to donate them to the Jefferson Davis Society at Rice University, which previously indicated an interest in them, but now I'm afraid the documents will end up being destroyed.
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 20, 2017 11:06 PM (TdMsT)

My friend from California sends a check to the ladies of mount Vernon every year. He likes what they do.

Posted by: CaliGirl at August 20, 2017 11:10 PM (Ri/rl)

236 Wow. Mega-content Sunday! Nice ONT MisHum.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:10 PM (z79tQ)

237 now I'm afraid the documents will end up being destroyed.
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That sounds like the right thing to do!

Posted by: The Left...and the Taliban at August 20, 2017 11:10 PM (aZq03)

238 Someone told me the Dixie Highway in South Miami was renamed a few years ago.
I vote for "The Dixie Freeway" instead of JeffersonDavis Highway.

Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at August 20, 2017 11:10 PM (B9t7n)

239
New Mexico is home of the best fastfood burger chain in the country, Blake's Lotaburger.

Posted by: Idano at August 20, 2017 11:00 PM

Double meat Lota with cheese and green chiles, please. Or, a chili dog. It's a difficult choice.

Posted by: huerfano at August 20, 2017 11:10 PM (TO4Og)

240 The argument that's frequently bandied about these days is that sex is biological, but gender is a cultural construct.

Or in other words, whether you have XY or XX chromosomes is up to Mother Nature. But whether you're a man or woman is a cultural thing.

It's basically an attempt to sidestep comments about chromosomes and Mother Nature.

Posted by: junior at August 20, 2017 10:11 PM (Q6qiA)

That's a great explanation, other than it being completely wrong, of course.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 20, 2017 11:10 PM (2le8w)

241 "Fair enough. I thought he'd been elevated to the peerage."

Remember, Portland Oregon just renamed two schools named after people named "Lynch", not because they had done anything wrong, but merely because they shared the same last name as the guy that lynching was named after.

Even if the city and university were named after a different Berkeley, the name still has to go. Similarly, any city or place name called "Jackson" has to go - it doesn't matter which Jackson they were named after.

Posted by: Oregon Is Dumber Than Dirt at August 20, 2017 11:11 PM (xnAyb)

242 I still can't shake the nagging feeling that I should be sealing my books in plastic and burying them in lead-lined boxes.

___
America has never been less free...and it will almost certainly get worse.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2017 11:11 PM (aZq03)

243 Marty Robbins' song "A White Sport Coat" was no. 1 on the country charts and crossed over to the pop charts ar #2 in 1957.

Posted by: Leonero at August 20, 2017 11:11 PM (ZBGyR)

244 Was the song, "Barack Hussein Obama Om.... Om.... Om...."?

Posted by: t-bird at August 20, 2017 11:11 PM (OBJWS)

245 And The Cowboy Song from Thin Lizzy does it for me. Big time. Any time I get the itch to roll on that throttle and tear up some asphalt that song starts to play in my head.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:12 PM (z79tQ)

246 63 I really don't get the 5 Guys love. I went one time. The workers areas behind the counter was as crowded as the standing room only dining area. And slower than molasses. I could understand the high prices with the wall of employees, but not the crowded slo-mo chaos behind the counter it caused, and not the whispered "call" for the completed order. Burger was only decent.

Posted by: Downcast at August 20, 2017 10:22 PM (0m0zi)

This exactly matches my experience there, although describing the burger as "decent" is a bit generous.

Posted by: Iowa Bob at August 20, 2017 11:12 PM (mrsAC)

247 Country Boy, I couldn't keep my kids from succumbing to the communist, anti-american, racist crap either. I even homeschooled for a couple years.

I'm sorry you're experiencing this heartache too.

Posted by: booknlass at August 20, 2017 11:06 PM (5O20Y)

They're rather apolitical too, although they both did vote for Trump here in Michigan.

I'm on vacation here with them, and my daughter doesn't even like me wearing my "TRUMP: because you had it coming" tshirt 'cause she doesn't want to have to explain it in pictures or something. So I've been needling her with it as much as possible.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 11:13 PM (Z0uHT)

248 210 However, our embattled Assembly GOP Leader Mayes could not resist the temptation, and negotiated quite possibly the worst deal in legislative history. Believe it or not, Mayes is proud to report that in return for Republican votes to pass cap and trade, he received a non-binding assurance that Jerry Brown and Democrats would support a ballot measure requiring a two-thirds majority to spend cap-and-trade funds on high-speed rail.

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Also, he received assurance from Rep. Lucille Van Pelt (D, Petaluma), that she will not pull the football away this time.

Posted by: josephistan at August 20, 2017 11:13 PM (ANIFC)

249 Remember, Portland Oregon just renamed two schools
named after people named "Lynch", not because they had done anything
wrong, but merely because they shared the same last name as the guy that
lynching was named after.

Posted by: Oregon Is Dumber Than Dirt at August 20, 2017 11:11 PM (xnAyb)
Here's some reading: https://tinyurl.com/y7h82y93

Posted by: Country Singer at August 20, 2017 11:13 PM (pGXU3)

250 The argument that's frequently bandied about these days is that sex is biological, but gender is a cultural construct.
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Yeah, I've started asking people's sex instead of their gender. Obviously using the word sex in this context is a bit awkward...bu with the current stupidity over gender their is no point in even using the term any more.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2017 11:13 PM (aZq03)

251 Posted by: Leonero

Big Iron is a classic. I still think of that song sometimes.

Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at August 20, 2017 11:13 PM (B9t7n)

252 Also, anyone who whines that they made the wall of shame and didn't want to could comment less.

Seems like a humble-brag to me.

I may make it a goal for this week to hit the list for the first time ever, just for shits and giggles.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:13 PM (z79tQ)

253 Yes all federal roads should be renamed after NBA Stars.

Posted by: gNewt at August 20, 2017 11:14 PM (UG4SD)

254 Dairy Queen makes the best bacon cheeseburger! Love the ice cream too! It didn't show up on that map though.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 20, 2017 11:14 PM (tA0W4)

255 There is only one proper internet naming suggestion: Roady McRoadsalot.

Posted by: Anachronda at August 20, 2017 10:16 PM (d/MYT)

The Dave Jefferson (heh) Memorial Highway. Include the (heh) in the formal name.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 20, 2017 11:14 PM (2le8w)

256 Evenin' everyone.

It looks like New Mexico could use a good burger joint.

I was introduced to Whataburger in Las Cruces, NM. Specifically, their green chili and bacon cheeseburger.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 20, 2017 11:14 PM (IcT7t)

257 My (both in their 20s) are fiscal conservatives, but we disagree when it comes to the gay rights/transgender issues.

My daughter only took two years of college. My son is opting out for trade school, so at least I've got that going for me. CW Jr. has said he doesn't want to waste his time and money sitting in a lecture hall and being told how evil he is.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 20, 2017 11:15 PM (rJUlF)

258 well at least they voted for Pres. Trump!

my youngest accused me of putting her 'body in danger' the day after the election because I voted for him! lol

it's all so ludicrous

Posted by: booknlass at August 20, 2017 11:15 PM (5O20Y)

259 I still can't shake the nagging feeling that I should be sealing my books in plastic and burying them in lead-lined boxes.

And no, that's not a joke.
Posted by: rickl at August 20, 2017 11:09 PM (sdi6R)

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Include a complete set of pre 1965 Encyclopedia and do it. Not joking either. They are erasing history in favor of todays whimsical narrative.

Posted by: GOULD at August 20, 2017 11:15 PM (Ystq3)

260 Two other great songs written by Marty Robbins...

Ain't I Right

https://www.youtube dot com/watch?v=-sEqzEgDZ0g

My Own Native Land

https://www.youtube dot com/watch?v=nPMOqE9rJ_k

Posted by: RioBravo at August 20, 2017 11:15 PM (giT7q)

261 Sex is biological but gender is grammatical.

Posted by: gNewt at August 20, 2017 11:16 PM (UG4SD)

262 Yes all federal roads should be renamed after NBA Stars.
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Its FedGov...so I'm thinking historical mass murderers. Yep, take the Tamerlane highway until you get to the Genghis Khan Turnpike. Then in about 20 miles you'll turn on to the Muhammad Freeway - can't miss the pig slaughtering house at the first exit!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2017 11:16 PM (aZq03)

263 I had planned to donate them to the Jefferson Davis
Society at Rice University, which previously indicated an interest in
them, but now I'm afraid the documents will end up being destroyed.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 20, 2017 11:06 PM (TdMsT)

I would not trust any university with your family history.

Posted by: redbanzai at August 20, 2017 11:17 PM (FTXAT)

264 >>>What has the RNC done for the 2016 Republican voters?

Tell everyone that '"AntiFa is peaceful and if you don't agree with me, then they you must be a dirty, racist NAZI-loving bigot'?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 20, 2017 11:17 PM (7A4qQ)

265 The George Jefferson freeway. Moving on up.

Posted by: freaked at August 20, 2017 11:17 PM (P8ayj)

266 If the personae non gratae were direct objects of a transitive verb like declarare, the correct form would be personas non gratas.

Some of us morons do know Latin.
Posted by: Basement Cat at August 20, 2017 10:56 PM (3C9q2)

I prefer personas au gratin.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:17 PM (0mRoj)

267 Pffft, that's basic Fagotry 101.

In more advanced levels, you learn the difference between trannies, shemales, fembois, traps, and ladyboys.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 20, 2017 11:01 PM (8O3HH)

Shit, that sounds like most sailors' first cruise.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 20, 2017 11:18 PM (Tnhbr)

268 I prefer personas au gratin.
Posted by: Insomniac

OH! NO! Meatloaf, again ?!?!

Posted by: Adriane the Movie Critic ... at August 20, 2017 11:19 PM (AoK0a)

269 >> The George Jefferson freeway

I want a Weezie freeway.

And an Aunt Esther something, too. It would have to be something really ugly.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 20, 2017 11:19 PM (8O3HH)

270 @216 ha, yeah that is a good point and I almost brought it up. We sunk them by our real estate tanking as they bought into (or caused) the bubble, while they had a bubble? But China is now buying resources around the world. Japan's problems ... were different, I think. They inflate incredibly, but debt is domestically owned.
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China's going colonialist (though everyone pretends that's not the case since only Western nations - and Japan - can be colonialists). There are indications that the locals are in many cases not happy about what the Chinese are doing locally. So if the Chinese can't keep good care of the local governments, they're going to get kicked out of those places very quickly and lose access to those resources.

Additionally, there are indications that the Chinese economy is about to have some very severe "corrections".

Posted by: junior at August 20, 2017 11:19 PM (Q6qiA)

271 I prefer personas au gratin.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:17 PM (0mRoj)

Heh. People in cheese?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:19 PM (z79tQ)

272 them, but now I'm afraid the documents will end up being destroyed.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 20, 2017 11:06 PM (TdMsT)

I would not trust any university with your family history.

Posted by: redbanzai at August 20, 2017 11:17 PM (FTXAT)
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Keep it and teach it in the family as long as you can.

Posted by: gNewt at August 20, 2017 11:19 PM (UG4SD)

273 Tell everyone that '"AntiFa is peaceful and if you don't agree with me,
then they you must be a dirty, racist NAZI-loving bigot'?
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I like how Trump is a lying liar which lies for saying Ameri-fa is violent...after the Boston cops tweeted requests for Ameri-fa to stop throwing rocks, feces and urine at them.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2017 11:19 PM (aZq03)

274 well at least they voted for Pres. Trump!

my youngest accused me of putting her 'body in danger' the day after the election because I voted for him! lol

it's all so ludicrous

Posted by: booknlass at August 20, 2017 11:15 PM (5O20Y)

My kiddos have mostly escaped the retard (other than my daughter is going through a REALLY irritating atheist phase). I think the best decision I ever made was urging them not to go to college unless it was absolutely required for their life plans.

Posted by: redbanzai at August 20, 2017 11:20 PM (FTXAT)

275 Ah, but these people are declared TO BE ... - and hence are not the direct objects of the verb declarare, and thus nominative case controls

Nope. Declarare in Latin takes the accusative even though the English may imply "to be." When Benedict XVI announced his resignation of the Papacy, he said, "Declaro me ministerio Episcopi Romae . . . renuntiare. . . " even though the English translation has to read "I declare that I am resigning . . ."

Spanish also uses the accusative personas non gratas, as in Maduro's references to former presidents of other Latin American countries.

Posted by: Basement Cat at August 20, 2017 11:20 PM (3C9q2)

276 Old man Rice is rolling in his grave.

Posted by: gNewt at August 20, 2017 11:20 PM (UG4SD)

277 Boaty McBoatface Memorial Highway

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 20, 2017 11:20 PM (oVJmc)

278 Adams is pretty remarkable, you know. Just a blond guy, who kept on rockin, and writing some pretty sweet love songs.

My little brother and his dear wife danced at their wedding to "(everything I do) I do it for you"

but i think my favorite Adams song is "Have you ever really loved a woman" for the line "when you see your unborn children in her eyes"

Posted by: booknlass at August 20, 2017 11:20 PM (5O20Y)

279 Boston cops tweeted requests for Ameri-fa to stop throwing rocks, feces and urine at them.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2017 11:19 PM (aZq03)

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Now that's pussification !

Posted by: RioBravo at August 20, 2017 11:21 PM (giT7q)

280 Additionally, there are indications that the Chinese economy is about to have some very severe "corrections".
Posted by: junior at August 20, 2017 11:19 PM (Q6qiA)

I guess we should be happy that historically China hasn't been the type to use a foreign war to distract themselves from domestic woes.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:21 PM (z79tQ)

281 How is Illinois' favorite burger In-n-Out when there isn't even an In-n-Out in the state? Closest one is Texas. In-n-Out stuffing the ballots in IL?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 20, 2017 11:22 PM (7A4qQ)

282
I still can't shake the nagging feeling that I should be sealing my books in plastic and burying them in lead-lined boxes.

And no, that's not a joke.
Posted by: rickl at August 20, 2017 11:09 PM
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Include a complete set of pre 1965 Encyclopedia and do it. Not joking either. They are erasing history in favor of todays whimsical narrative.
Posted by: GOULD at August 20, 2017 11:15 PM

Fahrenheit 451

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2017 11:22 PM (IqV8l)

283 but i think my favorite Adams song is "Have you
ever really loved a woman" for the line "when you see your unborn
children in her eyes"

Posted by: booknlass at August 20, 2017 11:20 PM (5O20Y)

That is a very cool lyric.

Posted by: redbanzai at August 20, 2017 11:22 PM (FTXAT)

284 Ladylibertarian, I think in light of what's going on today, I'd hang on to those letters.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 11:22 PM (Z0uHT)

285 257
CW Jr. has said he doesn't want to waste his time and money sitting in a lecture hall and being told how evil he is.
Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 20, 2017 11:15 PM (rJUlF)

Good for him. I hope there are many more young men like him.

And we will definitely need their practical skills in the Burning Times.

Posted by: rickl at August 20, 2017 11:22 PM (sdi6R)

286 SEMPER VBI SVB VBI

I saw that written on a Roman ruin somewhere...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 20, 2017 11:23 PM (e9G8E)

287 Shit, that sounds like most sailors' first cruise.

Manly men doing manly things aboard the Raging Queen.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 20, 2017 11:23 PM (bIwZ6)

288 271 I prefer personas au gratin.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:17 PM (0mRoj)

Heh. People in cheese?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:19 PM (z79tQ)

Well sure. How would you prepare them?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:23 PM (0mRoj)

289
Boston cops tweeted requests for Ameri-fa to stop throwing rocks, feces and urine at them.
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Now that's pussification !

Please clap!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2017 11:24 PM (IqV8l)

290 I like how Trump is a lying liar which lies for saying Ameri-fa is violent...after the Boston cops tweeted requests for Ameri-fa to stop throwing rocks, feces and urine at them.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2017 11:19 PM (aZq03)

I hope some enterprising meme-generator is saving that tweet for the "antifa is a peaceful blablabla" retort.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:24 PM (z79tQ)

291 284 Ladylibertarian, I think in light of what's going on today, I'd hang on to those letters.
Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 11:22 PM (Z0uHT)

I'm going to take your advice, CB.

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 20, 2017 11:24 PM (TdMsT)

292 277 Boaty McBoatface Memorial Highway
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 20, 2017 11:20 PM (oVJmc)

Roady McRoadface

Posted by: rickl at August 20, 2017 11:24 PM (sdi6R)

293 Have The Left vote on the one person they can all agree on and then rename every single street and highway in the nation after him/her/etc.

Posted by: t-bird at August 20, 2017 11:25 PM (kuiuS)

294 Part of the problem is that even adults aren't being taught how to think anymore. We're constantly bombarded with the idea that "experts" are to be trusted, and their word is final, and that's all there is to it. Authority figures, like teachers, and popular culture figures in sports and entertainment.

You can't explain every possible permutation and combination of nonsense that will be foisted on someone, but they have to have a basic level of education that allows them to have a finely calibrated bullshit detector. One the most useful tools in the toolbox is the principles of argumentation. Rhetoric is the art of persuasion.

When you want someone to do something, think about it - your only choices are to talk them into it, or force them to do it. Thousands of years ago, logical fallacies were outlined for people to study and be able to recognize. These are common techniques used by unscrupulous sorts to try and make a BS argument. They work, but they don't have to, if one is armed with knowledge. When you learn them, you'll see them every single day on TV, hear them on the radio, by politicians and "policy makers".

If you study them well, understand where your opponents are coming from and the underhanded techniques they use to discredit good people, they will never best you in a discussion or debate or anything of the sort. They may well hate you, or worse. But it's worth it.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 11:25 PM (E9vLe)

295 Huge props for the Zappa quote.

Posted by: rechill at August 20, 2017 11:25 PM (lYLWl)

296 AA3B Highway...
X1A Street...
34B Avenue...

Just to be safe

Posted by: RioBravo at August 20, 2017 11:26 PM (giT7q)

297 Well sure. How would you prepare them?
Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:23 PM (0mRoj)

One of the funniest t-shirts I've ever seen was
"Battered Women?" in bold letters and then underneath in smaller print "And all this time I've been eating them raw"

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:26 PM (z79tQ)

298 My kiddos have mostly escaped the retard (other than my daughter is going through a REALLY irritating atheist phase). I think the best decision I ever made was urging them not to go to college unless it was absolutely required for their life plans.
Posted by: redbanzai at August 20, 2017 11:20 PM (FTXAT)

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My daughter has escaped it too, going into Senior year at Alabama. She is going into Nursing, so a degree is required to start. She plans to get her first employer to pay for her MBA, ehich most happily do.

According to her, the stoopid is there at Bama if you choose to look for it, but in no way is it prevalent.

Posted by: GOULD at August 20, 2017 11:26 PM (Ystq3)

299 279 Boston cops tweeted requests for Ameri-fa to stop throwing rocks, feces and urine at them.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2017 11:19 PM (aZq03)

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Now that's pussification !
Posted by: RioBravo at August 20, 2017 11:21 PM (giT7q)

Boston Strong.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:26 PM (0mRoj)

300 In fairness to the Boston cops, they physically put themselves in between Ameri-fa and the speakers so no civilians got hurt.

New England liberals are horrible people, but they do have a strong love of [german accent] ORDER!

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2017 11:26 PM (aZq03)

301 BTW....I am down to 20,719

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 20, 2017 11:26 PM (smD62)

302 >>>293 Have The Left vote on the one person they can all agree on and then rename every single street and highway in the nation after him/her/etc.

George Soros Highway/Blvd/St/Lane?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 20, 2017 11:26 PM (7A4qQ)

303 One of the funniest t-shirts I've ever seen was

"Battered Women?" in bold letters and then underneath in smaller print "And all this time I've been eating them raw"

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:26 PM (z79tQ)

LOL... my son just bought a tee shirt that says I'M NOT GAY... but $20 is $20.

Posted by: redbanzai at August 20, 2017 11:27 PM (FTXAT)

304 Unfortunately my kids have fallen for the cultural viewpoint on the freaks.

Posted by: Country Boy

Get a friend to do a Steven Crowder on them. The next time they go to the restroom, the locker room or a dressing room he goes in there, and if they protest...

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 20, 2017 11:28 PM (/qEW2)

305 286 SEMPER VBI SVB VBI

I saw that written on a Roman ruin somewhere...
Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at August 20, 2017 11:23 PM (e9G8E)

BVBIES

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:28 PM (0mRoj)

306 One of the funniest t-shirts I've ever seen was
"Battered Women?" in bold letters and then underneath in smaller print "And all this time I've been eating them raw"
Posted by: OneEyedJack
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And then there is the Tempura Shelter.

It's for lightly battered women.

Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2017 11:28 PM (tr2D7)

307
Have The Left vote on the one person they can all agree on and then rename every single street and highway in the nation after him/her/etc.
Posted by: t-bird at August 20, 2017 11:25 PM

Go east on Obama Road until you get to Obama Avenue then take a left until you get to Obama Boulevard and then hang a right on Obama Court until you get to Obama Lane. It dead ends on Obama Court.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2017 11:28 PM (IqV8l)

308 the idea that "experts" are to be trusted, and their word is final, and that's all there is to it.
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This is where the FNM and the schools never talking about Woodrow Wilson, America's first fascist president, is a real problem...

He was the most expertly expert which ever did expert his way around the white house. And he f***ed the country up. And he was also a virulent racist.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2017 11:29 PM (aZq03)

309 One of the funniest t-shirts I've ever seen was
"Battered Women?" in bold letters and then underneath in smaller print "And all this time I've been eating them raw"
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:26 PM (z79tQ)

Nice.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:29 PM (0mRoj)

310 It's from June, but it's still nice:

Poll: Senator Bob Corker May Be In Trouble With Tennessee Republican Primary Voters

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yacbwlvq

Primary this twat.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 20, 2017 11:29 PM (oVJmc)

311 In fairness to the Boston cops, they physically put themselves in between Ameri-fa and the speakers so no civilians got hurt.

I thought the cops did all right. Kept everybody separated, nobody got killed, and they probably cleaned up on overtime.

Posted by: tu3031 at August 20, 2017 11:30 PM (O5Q3r)

312 306 One of the funniest t-shirts I've ever seen was
"Battered Women?" in bold letters and then underneath in smaller print "And all this time I've been eating them raw"
Posted by: OneEyedJack
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And then there is the Tempura Shelter.

It's for lightly battered women.
Posted by: Tonypete at August 20, 2017 11:28 PM (tr2D7)

He's not a bad guy, he just lost his tempura.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:30 PM (0mRoj)

313 Prediction 1: Tomorrow, some time after 2:00 p.m., hundreds of Daywalkers will abruptly disappear from the current thread.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 11:30 PM (OdK9v)

314 For those of you who've been following the Marvel Knights shows on Netflix (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist), I just thought you'd all like to know that The Defenders is up now!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at August 20, 2017 11:30 PM (3YxFh)

315 Poll: Senator Bob Corker May Be In Trouble With Tennessee Republican Primary Voters

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yacbwlvq

Primary this twat.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 20, 2017 11:29 PM (oVJmc)

GOOD!

Posted by: redbanzai at August 20, 2017 11:31 PM (FTXAT)

316 Go east on Obama Road until you get to Obama Avenue then take a left until you get to Obama Boulevard and then hang a right on Obama Court until you get to Obama Lane. It dead ends on Obama Court.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2017 11:28 PM (IqV8l)

That's what I'm talkin about! Give em what they want, good and hard!

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:31 PM (z79tQ)

317 314 For those of you who've been following the Marvel Knights shows on Netflix (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist), I just thought you'd all like to know that The Defenders is up now!
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at August 20, 2017 11:30 PM (3YxFh)

Came out Friday. Watched the whole thing over two days. I'll withhold comment to avoid spoilage.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:31 PM (0mRoj)

318 Prediction 1: Tomorrow, some time after 2:00 p.m., hundreds of Daywalkers will abruptly disappear from the current thread.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 11:30 PM (OdK9v)

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The Rapture. It's what's for lunch tomorrow.

Posted by: GOULD at August 20, 2017 11:32 PM (Ystq3)

319 When all the statues and memorials are razed; when the wrong-speech books are destroyed; when the schools, buildings and streets are re-named with words approved by the Left: what will the Left come for next?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 20, 2017 11:32 PM (TdMsT)

320 Insomniac, I remember that it was scheduled for Friday, but it didn't show up in my queue for some reason until today.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at August 20, 2017 11:33 PM (3YxFh)

321 Thanks for the Thin Lizzy. This vid has always been my favorite version of the Cowboy Song, haven't seen it in a while. What a great band they were.

-C

Posted by: Cnation at August 20, 2017 11:33 PM (Go0mQ)

322 318 Prediction 1: Tomorrow, some time after 2:00 p.m., hundreds of Daywalkers will abruptly disappear from the current thread.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 11:30 PM (OdK9v)

=======

The Rapture. It's what's for lunch tomorrow.
Posted by: GOULD at August 20, 2017 11:32 PM (Ystq3)

The Apoceclipse is upon us!

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:33 PM (0mRoj)

323 Roady McRoadface gets my vote.

Damn, that Jim Reeves had a smooth voice with a fine, masculine timbre.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 20, 2017 11:34 PM (0jtPF)

324 " So if the Chinese can't keep good care of the local
governments, they're going to get kicked out of those places very
quickly and lose access to those resources.
Additionally, there are indications that the Chinese economy is about to have some very severe "corrections".
Posted by: junior

They have been buying mining and other resources globally ... they probably lie about their domestic economy, and we could probably tank that if we cut them off to any degree.

But the half trillion a year surplus from us is real "money", with which they have been buying real foreign assets (not free trading) ... so I don't comprehend how it settles out if the fiat currency charade ends. I don't understand what you mean, they "get kicked out of their own local governments". Where will the local government go?

you may be right ... our states should have rejected our federal controls as well. not sure how that works in the real push comes to shove world.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 20, 2017 11:34 PM (veVl1)

325 LOL... my son just bought a tee shirt that says I'M NOT GAY... but $20 is $20.
Posted by: redbanzai at August 20, 2017 11:27 PM (FTXAT)

That's funny.

Until someone walks up at closing time with a $20 in their hand.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:34 PM (z79tQ)

326 Prediction 2: Tomorrow morning, thousands of people will look at the weather prediction flood the highways, frantically trying to drive to an area that is not overcast.

Hardest hit - Those who paid an outrageous price for accommodations at the overcast area.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 11:34 PM (OdK9v)

327 320 Insomniac, I remember that it was scheduled for Friday, but it didn't show up in my queue for some reason until today.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at August 20, 2017 11:33 PM (3YxFh)

Odd. All I will say is I still want to beat Danny Rand about the head with a baseball bat.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:34 PM (0mRoj)

328 Misanthropic Humanitarian turned me onto Adams tonight, and I've been listening to some of his songs on you tube. Discovered a new one to me, "All For Love" he did with Stewart and Sting. it's fun.

Posted by: booknlass at August 20, 2017 11:35 PM (5O20Y)

329
Prediction 1: Tomorrow, some time after 2:00 p.m., hundreds of Daywalkers will abruptly disappear from the current thread.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 11:30 PM

Sucked into a White Hole.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2017 11:35 PM (IqV8l)

330 When all the statues and memorials are razed; when the wrong-speech books are destroyed; when the schools, buildings and streets are re-named with words approved by the Left: what will the Left come for next?
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 20, 2017 11:32 PM (TdMsT)

You.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:35 PM (z79tQ)

331 I vote for Osama bin Laden Highway. Why not? So absurd even a VA voter or office-holder *might* catch it?

OK. Admiral Kolchak Highway. Even after the cretins in VA look it up, they won't get it (like every other sad country on earth, the US now will obliterate any mention of losers in civil wars, jettisoning its uniquely admirable history of reconciliation).

Still not happy? Alfred Rosenberg Highway. Idiots like McAuliffe and Co. will think it's some Jewish guy.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 20, 2017 11:35 PM (cJDvr)

332 "Black Lives Matter Memorial Highway", it's a slam-dunk.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 11:35 PM (OdK9v)

333 Another useful area of study is the "Delphi Technique", or actually a perverted derivative of it, used to hoodwink people in groups. Widely used, but not much recognized. Used to be some good websites explaining it, by some good educators who want parents to be informed what's being done to their kids in schools. And of course it doesn't stop there.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 11:35 PM (E9vLe)

334 319 When all the statues and memorials are razed; when the wrong-speech books are destroyed; when the schools, buildings and streets are re-named with words approved by the Left: what will the Left come for next?
Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 20, 2017 11:32 PM (TdMsT)

Those of us who still remember the old times.

Posted by: rickl at August 20, 2017 11:36 PM (sdi6R)

335 The Apoceclipse is upon us!
Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:33 PM (0mRoj)

=======

Can you imagine this at the last one 99 years ago? They must have thought this was true, unless where they were was cloudy.

Posted by: GOULD at August 20, 2017 11:36 PM (Ystq3)

336 How about 'Politcally Correct Highway'?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 11:36 PM (OdK9v)

337 Still not happy? Alfred Rosenberg Highway. Idiots like McAuliffe and Co. will think it's some Jewish guy.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 20, 2017 11:35 PM (cJDvr)

Will the rest stops have Kosher vending machines?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 20, 2017 11:37 PM (ZTRlp)

338 Watched The Defenders yesterday while eating waffles and pizza because why the fuck not? The season was good. A bit rushed, but I liked it.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 20, 2017 11:37 PM (Tnhbr)

339 BTW....I am down to 20,719
Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 20, 2017 11:26 PM (smD62)

What does this mean?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:37 PM (z79tQ)

340
OK. Admiral Kolchak Highway.

Night Stalker highway?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2017 11:37 PM (IqV8l)

341 336 How about 'Politcally Correct Highway'?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 11:36 PM (OdK9v)

Hershey Highway. Abolish Whiteness Boulevard. Kill Whitey Causeway.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:37 PM (0mRoj)

342 If you make the stipend enough to live a decent life off of it, I'm quitting my job in the productive class and starting a new career as professional video game player and internet bikini photo examiner.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 20, 2017 11:00 PM (aZq03)

Of course, such a universal basic income would be hugely inflationary, and prices of all goods and services would rise; because more money chasing the same basket of goods and services. In a year or so, the UBI recipients would be whining again.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 20, 2017 11:38 PM (2le8w)

343 339 BTW....I am down to 20,719
Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 20, 2017 11:26 PM (smD62)

What does this mean?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:37 PM (z79tQ)

Lost another two pounds.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:38 PM (0mRoj)

344
BTW....I am down to 20,719
Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 20, 2017 11:26 PM

What does this mean?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:37 PM

GAINZZZ

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2017 11:38 PM (IqV8l)

345 Those of us who still remember the old times.
Posted by: rickl at August 20, 2017 11:36 PM (sdi6R)

========

Aptly labeled "The Remnants".

Posted by: GOULD at August 20, 2017 11:38 PM (Ystq3)

346

And make sure the ladies (the hot ones) know the watch word: GOTO, Glasses On, Tits Out.

The boobs must be out during the entirety of the eclipse. Because science.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 20, 2017 11:39 PM (8O3HH)

347 When all the statues and memorials are razed; when
the wrong-speech books are destroyed; when the schools, buildings and
streets are re-named with words approved by the Left: what will the Left
come for next?

Posted by: Ladylibertarian at August 20, 2017 11:32 PM (TdMsT)

Like the French Revolutionaries, they will turn on each other.

Posted by: redbanzai at August 20, 2017 11:39 PM (FTXAT)

348 Well, I'm off now to watch a bit of The Defenders before I go to sleep. Good night, everyone!

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at August 20, 2017 11:39 PM (3YxFh)

349 Mencken said something like "Government is that great fiction where everybody thinks they can live at someone else's expense."

Sane people mostly want to be left alone. Progressives want to use the power of government to punish their enemies.

Posted by: Common Tater at August 20, 2017 11:39 PM (E9vLe)

350
The good news: Guaranteed basic income.
The bad news: Payable in Zimbabwe currency.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2017 11:39 PM (IqV8l)

351 Lost another two pounds.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:38 PM (0mRoj)

Better you said it than me.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:39 PM (z79tQ)

352 339 BTW....I am down to 20,719
Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 20, 2017 11:26 PM (smD62)

What does this mean?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:37 PM (z79tQ)

You. Really. Don't. Want. To. Know.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 20, 2017 11:40 PM (ZTRlp)

353 335 The Apoceclipse is upon us!
Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:33 PM (0mRoj)

=======

Can you imagine this at the last one 99 years ago? They must have thought this was true, unless where they were was cloudy.
Posted by: GOULD at August 20, 2017 11:36 PM (Ystq3)

Maybe in places but I would think people in 1918 America would have had an idea of what a solar eclipse is.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:40 PM (0mRoj)

354 When you've traveled the Hershey Highway as many times as I...

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at August 20, 2017 11:40 PM (kuiuS)

355 Came out Friday. Watched the whole thing over two days. I'll withhold comment to avoid spoilage.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:31 PM (0mRoj)

It isn't a spoiler to say the Iron Fist character is a whiny twit. I read 'Luke Cage and Iron Fist' as a kid. Iron Fist is not a whiny twit in the comics, at least not back then. He was a total badass who got real joy from kicking bad guy ass.

Posted by: troyriser at August 20, 2017 11:41 PM (4qf5a)

356 Oh, and 18-1, there were several direct attacks on CONUS by Japan, not just Operation Elephant (the balloon thing).

February 23, 1942, I-17 shells the oil facility at Ellwood, near Santa Barbara. Then June 21, I-25 shelled Fort Stevens, in Oregon.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 20, 2017 11:41 PM (cJDvr)

357 Prepare your sacrifices! BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!!!

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:41 PM (0mRoj)

358 Abolish Whiteness Boulevard.

Where's the outrage. Can you imagine if we were crusading to eliminate blacks from everything, saying we should punch all black people in the face?

it's not everybody. I just have to remember, they have a big megaphone, but they are just a puny minority. and by they, I mean people saying that all whites are racist.

tutors and students at the community college say stuff like that. yet I'm the one who needs to watch my tongue.

Posted by: booknlass at August 20, 2017 11:41 PM (5O20Y)

359 BTW....I am down to 20,719
Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 20, 2017 11:26 PM (smD62)

What does this mean?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:37 PM (z79tQ)

Lost another two pounds.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:38 PM (0mRoj)

So now I'm reminded of this comedian on Catch a Rising Star (you oldsters will remember it) who said the reason a fat woman can't be Miss America is because they'd have to change the lyrics to
"Here she comes, North America"

couldn't do that bit in 2017

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:42 PM (z79tQ)

360 34B Avenue...

Just to be safe

Posted by: RioBravo at August 20, 2017 11:26 PM (giT7q)
**************************

That's sexist.

Posted by: gNewt at August 20, 2017 11:42 PM (UG4SD)

361 So now I'm reminded of this comedian on Catch a Rising Star (you oldsters will remember it) who said the reason a fat woman can't be Miss America is because they'd have to change the lyrics to
"Here she comes, North America"

couldn't do that bit in 2017
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:42 PM (z79tQ)

Just wait. Some 300 pound land whale will sue her way into Miss America.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:43 PM (0mRoj)

362 Bertram - Admiral Kolchak. Russian civil war.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 20, 2017 11:43 PM (cJDvr)

363 Most roads would be named Pothole McPothole.

Still think we should sell naming rights for roads. Wanna change the name? Pay up, suckah.

Be fun if self driving cars looking for gas or food were commandeered to drive to the highest bidder. Wanna override? Pay up, suckah.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at August 20, 2017 11:43 PM (e1mEI)

364 358 Abolish Whiteness Boulevard.

Where's the outrage. Can you imagine if we were crusading to eliminate blacks from everything, saying we should punch all black people in the face?

it's not everybody. I just have to remember, they have a big megaphone, but they are just a puny minority. and by they, I mean people saying that all whites are racist.

tutors and students at the community college say stuff like that. yet I'm the one who needs to watch my tongue.
Posted by: booknlass at August 20, 2017 11:41 PM (5O20Y)

Yep. But it's different when they're a bunch of racist assholes, because white privilege and shit.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:44 PM (0mRoj)

365 Axelbuster drive
Rimbender road.

Posted by: gNewt at August 20, 2017 11:45 PM (UG4SD)

366 362 Bertram - Admiral Kolchak. Russian civil war.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 20, 2017 11:43 PM (cJDvr)

Before he retired and became the night stalker.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:45 PM (0mRoj)

367 358
I just have to remember, they have a big megaphone, but they are just a puny minority. and by they, I mean people saying that all whites are racist.

tutors and students at the community college say stuff like that. yet I'm the one who needs to watch my tongue.
Posted by: booknlass at August 20, 2017 11:41 PM (5O20Y)

That means they're winning.

Posted by: rickl at August 20, 2017 11:45 PM (sdi6R)

368 Bertram - Admiral Kolchak. Russian civil war.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 20, 2017 11:43 PM (cJDvr)

Before he retired and became the night stalker.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:45 PM (0mRoj)

Prowling for dead bodies to autopsy?

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:46 PM (z79tQ)

369

Racist Europeans knew all about eclipses well before poor indigenous peoples. In 1504, there was a lunar eclipse, which was predicted and well known. Chris Columbus was stranded in Jamaica. The natives had stopped giving his men food after a while.

Columbus told the leaders his God was angry with them for denying them food, and would make the Moon red with anger.

The ploy worked and scared the shit of 'em during the lunar eclipse.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 20, 2017 11:47 PM (8O3HH)

370 How about 'Politcally Correct Highway'?

Nope. Parts of it are straight.

And on that note, it's Bedtime for Bonzo.

Y'all try to behave.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 20, 2017 11:47 PM (bIwZ6)

371 CW Jr and I have taken one of Madame Gao's lines from "Iron Fist"..."no place for Danny Rand" and had some fun with attaching various places to the beginning...

"Coney Island is no place for Danny Rannnd...."
"Walmart..."
"Chuck E. Cheese...."

We're easily amused.
We also say it in her voice, so we're automatically racist.

Posted by: Captain Whitebread at August 20, 2017 11:47 PM (rJUlF)

372 368 Bertram - Admiral Kolchak. Russian civil war.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 20, 2017 11:43 PM (cJDvr)

Before he retired and became the night stalker.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:45 PM (0mRoj)

Prowling for dead bodies to autopsy?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:46 PM (z79tQ)

Investigating supernatural activity. You know, vampires, werewolves, that sort of thing.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:48 PM (0mRoj)

373
Prowling for dead bodies to autopsy?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:46 PM

You're thinking of Admiral Quincy.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2017 11:48 PM (IqV8l)

374 >>>332 "Black Lives Matter Memorial Highway", it's a slam-dunk.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 11:35 PM

Will Black Lives Matter block traffic on "Black Lives Matter Memorial Highway"?

Would it be "cultural appropriation" for Whites to drive on "Black Lives Matter Memorial Highway"?

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 20, 2017 11:49 PM (7A4qQ)

375 That means they're winning.
Posted by: rickl at August 20, 2017 11:45 PM (sdi6R)

Yep. Unfortunately it does.
The point about herd instinct and everybody loves a strong horse is pretty true here.
Quiet truths don't stand a chance against screaming bullshit, and bullies and the weak minded love to pile on.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:49 PM (z79tQ)

376 Mike Hammer: I was stationed at Uncle Benny's Rest Home from 10/66 to 12/67. I worked in the Finance Center building.

Posted by: CMU VET at August 20, 2017 11:49 PM (C+wjz)

377 You're thinking of Admiral Quincy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2017 11:48 PM (IqV8l)

Yep. Quincy's career was varied.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:50 PM (z79tQ)

378
Columbus told the leaders his God was angry with them for denying them food, and would make the Moon red with anger.

The ploy worked and scared the shit of 'em during the lunar eclipse.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 20, 2017 11:47 PM

From that moment on he was known as Sir Boss.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2017 11:50 PM (IqV8l)

379 New England liberals are horrible people, but they do have a strong love of [German accent] ORDER!
Or Irish and Italian cops don't want to be left out of a fight?

Posted by: andycanuck at August 20, 2017 11:50 PM (mJ8mX)

380 368 Bertram - Admiral Kolchak. Russian civil war.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 20, 2017 11:43 PM (cJDvr)

Before he retired and became the night stalker.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:45 PM (0mRoj)

Prowling for dead bodies to autopsy?
Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:46 PM (z79tQ)

Is that Carl with a C or Karl with a K?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 20, 2017 11:50 PM (ZTRlp)

381 "This should be good. VA plans to rename the Jefferson Davis Highway. They are looking for names via internet public feedback. "

The Road to Socialism

Posted by: Ripley at August 20, 2017 11:51 PM (NbRJx)

382 "tutors and students at the community college say stuff like that. yet I'm the one who needs to watch my tongue.

Posted by: booknlass

yeah that sucks. I've faced the "terror" of institutionalized dogma before ... even "religious" nice folks can turn evil. I didn't hold my tongue ... I paid a price, but not "violence". But they sought to fire "my people" or harm them in other ways.

Staying true to your self/beliefs seems like the best course of action. "Watch you tongue" say the things that are right, and force them to fire you for their wrong fascism. Easy for me to say, but submission in stages is not satisfying. Go out with a Bang? Or maybe the people that are wrong back down?

Either way seems better for your psyche.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 20, 2017 11:51 PM (veVl1)

383 RIP Jerry Lewis. What a life.

Posted by: cm9000 at August 20, 2017 11:51 PM (U4cJH)

384 rickle, we'll see about that. after all, President Trump.

Posted by: booknlass at August 20, 2017 11:51 PM (5O20Y)

385 Thousands of years ago, logical fallacies were outlined for people to study and be able to recognize. These are common techniques used by unscrupulous sorts to try and make a BS argument. They work, but they don't have to, if one is armed with knowledge. When you learn them, you'll see them every single day on TV, hear them on the radio, by politicians and "policy makers".

...

Posted by: Common Tater

^This^ x 1000. It is so aggravating, drives me nuts.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 20, 2017 11:52 PM (/qEW2)

386 Well is it too much to hope that someone with a sense of humor vandalizes some MLK memorials and makes threats about MLK Blvds somewhere, so that it can be pointed out that the names should be changed because "these things have become a flash point, and public safety requires a change"??

Which reminds me, this pattern now playing out in this pathetic, dumbed-down country is exactly the way authoritarian and totalitarian govts. suppress dissidents, or prevent foreign eyes from prying: "we cannot guarantee your safety".

Saw one Lincoln memorial (not the big one, that was also hit) has been hit, and Father Serra and Christopher Columbus too. The antifa/BLM/fascists really need to step up their game, desecrate some cemeteries - sure they don't have the slightest idea what the real Nazis were, or did, but every time they imitate them it enriches the degradation of the USA.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 20, 2017 11:52 PM (cJDvr)

387
Would it be "cultural appropriation" for Whites to drive on "Black Lives Matter Memorial Highway"?
Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 20, 2017 11:49 PM

We'll take the Honky Bypass.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2017 11:52 PM (IqV8l)

388 Isn't the Hershey Highway already named for Obama?

Posted by: andycanuck at August 20, 2017 11:52 PM (mJ8mX)

389 We'll take the Honky Bypass.
That's really badly marked; I always end up taking the Cracker Cutoff by mistake.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 20, 2017 11:53 PM (mJ8mX)

390 388 Isn't the Hershey Highway already named for Obama?
Posted by: andycanuck at August 20, 2017 11:52 PM (mJ8mX)

Glory Hole Road

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:53 PM (0mRoj)

391
When the lunar eclipse started, the natives came running in terror to Columbus, saying they would do anything. Of course, he knew how exactly how long it would last, they had fairly accurate predictions, even then.

So, he told them he would go pray and try to intercede on their behalf. He waited until just before it would end, then came out and told them that God had finally agreed to forgive them.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 20, 2017 11:53 PM (8O3HH)

392 >>>Another useful area of study is the "Delphi Technique", or actually a perverted derivative of it, used to hoodwink people in groups.

This only works if people allow a leftist turd to be the "facilitator".

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at August 20, 2017 11:53 PM (/qEW2)

393 February 23, 1942, I-17 shells the oil facility at Ellwood, near Santa Barbara. Then June 21, I-25 shelled Fort Stevens, in Oregon.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 20, 2017 11:41 PM (cJDvr)

One of those subs also shelled Estevan Point lighthouse on Vancouver Island. I don't believe there were any casualties, or much damage, either.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 20, 2017 11:53 PM (2le8w)

394 @339

Number of emails I have....I have been working to get rid of them, slowly but surely.

I try to report my progress here. Kind of an accountability thing. Like weight loss, but....email loss.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 20, 2017 11:54 PM (smD62)

395 AOP - Never got to reply last night. Yes, of course as you stated, for the obvious reason that the sprockets and chain bushings otherwise do not experience uniform wear, but rather, establish block patterns that are not even. That in turn leads to even a higher rate of wear, and seeming 'tight' and 'loose' sections of chain as it cycles.

The problem being that alloys are not absolutely homogeneous, and manufacturing tolerances allow variability in both sprocket tooth spacing, pitch spacing, and bushing ID/OD.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 11:54 PM (OdK9v)

396 And I'm pleased that Jerry Lewis died in Las Vegas in his own home and not away.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 20, 2017 11:54 PM (mJ8mX)

397 So they want to rename the Jeff Davis Highway. I propose it be renamed Roady McRoadface.

Posted by: Final Arbiter of Reality at August 20, 2017 11:54 PM (3pGfC)

398 "This should be good. VA plans to rename the Jefferson Davis Highway. They are looking for names via internet public feedback. "

The Road to Socialism
Posted by: Ripley at August 20, 2017 11:51 PM (NbRJx)

Good Intentions Hwy.?

they'd never have to pave it again. Saves money.
and virtue signals.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:54 PM (z79tQ)

399 Glory Hole Road
I thought that was a cul-de-sac not a road?

Posted by: andycanuck at August 20, 2017 11:55 PM (mJ8mX)

400 re: NASA drilling into a magma chamber
1) Russkies spent 36 years drilling to 12km deep - Kola Deep Borehole. Wiki says there are a couple of bores that are now longer but horizontal, not deeper
2) about 35 years ago, Sandia worked on hot geothermal energy. One of the chief findings was that stainless steel drill collar in superheated pressurized briny water just sort of dissolves like a candy cane in regular hot water. Stainless is a marketing term, engineers refer to CRES - corrosion resistant steel. I wonder if any of the NASA guys has checked in with the archives at Sandia?
3) if NASA can talk Congress into throwing money down a hole, maybe they should start smaller than a supervolcano. Much smaller.

Posted by: chuckR at August 20, 2017 11:55 PM (qS1uX)

401 Down Low Lane

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:56 PM (0mRoj)

402 Number of emails I have....I have been working to get rid of them, slowly but surely.

I try to report my progress here. Kind of an accountability thing. Like weight loss, but....email loss.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 20, 2017 11:54 PM (smD62)

Holy Shit!

protip: look for the box marked Delete All

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:56 PM (z79tQ)

403 399 Glory Hole Road
I thought that was a cul-de-sac not a road?
Posted by: andycanuck at August 20, 2017 11:55 PM (mJ8mX)

More of a lik-de-sac

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:56 PM (0mRoj)

404 AOP with the good correction: I think it was I-25, same sub that shelled Fort Stevens, that hit Vancouver Island.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 20, 2017 11:56 PM (cJDvr)

405 How long is the eclipse supposed to last in any given location?

Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 11:57 PM (Z0uHT)

406 I read a story today re the breakup of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in the mid-1950s, that during an argument Dean once yelled at Jerry, "when I look at you all I see is a fucking dollar sign!" Ouch.

I think that's how the RNC pretty much sees their voters at this point.

Posted by: qdpsteve at August 20, 2017 11:57 PM (eMKNe)

407 Mike Hammer: I was stationed at Uncle Benny's Rest Home from 10/66 to 12/67. I worked in the Finance Center building.
Posted by: CMU VET
------------

Ships in the night, troop. You left about the time I arrived. Did you recognize the barracks picture that I linked?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 20, 2017 11:57 PM (OdK9v)

408 @402

I'm down like.....6000!

Chippin away.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 20, 2017 11:57 PM (smD62)

409 405 How long is the eclipse supposed to last in any given location?
Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 11:57 PM (Z0uHT)

Long enough for the Great Old Ones to emerge from the interdimensional rift.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 20, 2017 11:58 PM (0mRoj)

410 I'm with Benjamin Harrison.. I hope Trump announces we are done in Afghanistan tomorrow.. We're done.. 16 years.. Afghan forces should be ready to take on the job.. if not, fuck 'em.

It should have been an in and out job anyway.. Destroy the Al Quaeda training camps and get out.. The Taliban is zero threat to America... why we ever got wrapped up in that local conflict is beyond me.. except for the fact that it made lots of money for contractors.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at August 20, 2017 11:58 PM (i2KAN)

411 Well, Yellow Dog is giving me the heavy head treatment.
Guess he didn't do all his business and need to finish..Brb.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 20, 2017 11:59 PM (z79tQ)

412 How long is the eclipse supposed to last in any given location?
==

I think it depends where you are. The "totality" where we're watching lasts 2'40" or something like that. And the time from when the moon starts crossing the sun to when it stops is several hours.

Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at August 20, 2017 11:59 PM (4bKiB)

413 protip: look for the box marked Delete All
Posted by: OneEyedJack
----------

Or, do a search for the real junk, then delete them in large blocks.

FIND - 'Nigerian Prince'

DELETE - all

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 12:00 AM (OdK9v)

414 405 How long is the eclipse supposed to last in any given location?
Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 11:57 PM (Z0uHT)

======

About 90 minutes, at full cover.

Posted by: GOULD at August 21, 2017 12:00 AM (Ystq3)

415 Do a non-safe image search for "cul" and get back to me, Insomniac.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 21, 2017 12:00 AM (mJ8mX)

416 >> How long is the eclipse supposed to last in any given location?

NASA has a map up. Google it. Click on any location in the path and you'll get the data. Duration varies somewhat.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 12:00 AM (8O3HH)

417 Average size of donations to the RNC should be knowable. This will tell part of the story. Most likely: large donations.

It is too awful to imagine that regular GOP voters are actually contributing, much less at a record rate, given the GOP's overall performance.

Oh - and Gen. Kelly, if you're lurking here (ha!), just one suggestion: president should state he will be signing *no* continuing resolutions extending beyond 2 weeks, and *no* grouped/omnibus CRs of any duration. WhyTF this has not been laid down already I will never understand.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 12:01 AM (cJDvr)

418
How long is the eclipse supposed to last in any given location?
Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 11:57 PM (Z0uHT)

This site will give you that info. You can put in your zip code.

Unfortunately, it's VOX so ignore the lefty crap.

http://tinyurl.com/yat7tdu9

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2017 12:01 AM (IqV8l)

419 AOP with the good correction: I think it was I-25, same sub that shelled Fort Stevens, that hit Vancouver Island.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 20, 2017 11:56 PM (cJDvr)

Not a correction! Just a note of possible further interest.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 12:01 AM (2le8w)

420 I think that's how the RNC pretty much sees their voters at this point.
Posted by: qdpsteve at August 20, 2017 11:57 PM (eMKNe)

I disagree

GOP-dick/voters-hole

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 12:01 AM (ZTRlp)

421 @413

That's what I've been doing....the search/delete all method

Just plucking away.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 12:01 AM (smD62)

422 It occurred to me that progressive targeting of Confederate monuments wasn't just pulled from the air by some academic. They did it in order to draw out the white nationalist/supremacist fringe and then tar all Republicans and conservatives with that brush, specifically the President.

I'm sure I'm late to the game and many others have made the same observation and drawn the same conclusion far earlier than me, but thought I would post it here because it needed saying.

Posted by: troyriser at August 21, 2017 12:01 AM (4qf5a)

423 timeanddate.com also has a nice feature where you put in your location and it gives data on eclipse timing, duration, etc.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 12:02 AM (cJDvr)

424 Do the mid-Atlantic states black top highways, or is that only in the racist heartland?

Posted by: Downcast at August 21, 2017 12:02 AM (0m0zi)

425 illiniwek, thank you for the ideas. tomorrow is the 1st day of the semester. you know me! i'll keep you all posted.

Posted by: booknlass at August 21, 2017 12:03 AM (5O20Y)

426 Thanks folks.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 21, 2017 12:04 AM (Z0uHT)

427 Have The Left vote on the one person they can all agree on and then rename every single street and highway in the nation after him/her/etc.
Posted by: t-bird at August 20, 2017 11:25 PM
----------------------------
You mean like the Robert Byrd Library in WVA on Robert Byrd Avenue right off the Robert Byrd Parkway, which goes under the Robert Byrd Bridge, passing the Robert Byrd rest stop with the Robert Byrd Memorial Toilets?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 21, 2017 12:04 AM (0jtPF)

428 please sign the petition to stop the eclipse because it is racist.
it is not too late ... Trump is an eclipsist.

I'll drive an hour or two south if it is not overcast ... but clouds are forecast. Get like 97% if I stay home.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 21, 2017 12:05 AM (veVl1)

429 The Road to Socialism
Posted by: Ripley at August 20, 2017 11:51 PM (NbRJx)

The Road to Serfdom?

Posted by: FA Hayek at August 21, 2017 12:05 AM (398bZ)

430 I'm sure I'm late to the game and many others have made the same observation and drawn the same conclusion far earlier than me, but thought I would post it here because it needed saying.
Posted by: troyriser
----------

They could care less about the civil war. It's a ploy to promote divisiveness and induce a reaction that the media and Democrats will spin to their advantage.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 12:05 AM (kUfFq)

431 422
It occurred to me that progressive targeting of Confederate monuments
wasn't just pulled from the air by some academic. They did it in order
to draw out the white nationalist/supremacist fringe and then tar all
Republicans and conservatives with that brush, specifically the
President.

I'm sure I'm late to the game and many others have made the same
observation and drawn the same conclusion far earlier than me, but
thought I would post it here because it needed saying.

Posted by: troyriser at August 21, 2017 12:01 AM (4qf5a)

I don't think it's working, though. It just makes them seem more idiotic to the "deplorables." Keep it up, Democrats! You're doing great!

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 21, 2017 12:06 AM (jK8Z7)

432 You mean like the Robert Byrd Library in WVA on
Robert Byrd Avenue right off the Robert Byrd Parkway, which goes under
the Robert Byrd Bridge, passing the Robert Byrd rest stop with the
Robert Byrd Memorial Toilets?

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 21, 2017 12:04 AM (0jtPF)

And he was an Exalted Cyclops!!

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 21, 2017 12:07 AM (jK8Z7)

433
Hmmph. The point of greatest duration is fairly near to Cape Girardeau, Rush's hometown. The location of greatest eclipse is a bit further down the track in Kentucky.

Here, totality will last about 2' 18".

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 12:07 AM (8O3HH)

434 405 How long is the eclipse supposed to last in any given location?
Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 11:57 PM (Z0uHT)

From PennLive --
Its longest duration will be near Carbondale, Illinois, where the sun will be completely covered for two minutes and 40 seconds.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 21, 2017 12:07 AM (OeYuN)

435 307

Have The Left vote on the one person they can all agree on and
then rename every single street and highway in the nation after
him/her/etc.

Posted by: t-bird at August 20, 2017 11:25 PM

Go east on Obama Road until you get to Obama Avenue then take a left
until you get to Obama Boulevard and then hang a right on Obama Court
until you get to Obama Lane. It dead ends on Obama Court.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 20, 2017 11:28 PM (IqV8l)

If I had my druthers, everything named after Obama would be in the smug liberal part of town, not the ghetto.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 21, 2017 12:08 AM (jK8Z7)

436 Hey, where all da white wimmen at?

Posted by: Sheriff Bart at August 21, 2017 12:08 AM (c8EhQ)

437 1) Russkies spent 36 years drilling to 12km deep - Kola Deep Borehole. Wiki says there are a couple of bores that are now longer but horizontal, not deeper
2) about 35 years ago, Sandia worked on hot geothermal energy. One of the chief findings was that stainless steel drill collar in superheated pressurized briny water just sort of dissolves like a candy cane in regular hot water. Stainless is a marketing term, engineers refer to CRES - corrosion resistant steel. I wonder if any of the NASA guys has checked in with the archives at Sandia?
3) if NASA can talk Congress into throwing money down a hole, maybe they should start smaller than a supervolcano. Much smaller.

Posted by: chuckR at August 20, 2017 11:55 PM (qS1uX)

Of course, even if you could make drilling tools that would resist corrosion from hot brines, and that is likely quite possible, drilling into a magma chamber would be problematic, because the rock into which you are drilling becomes plastic with increasing temperature, and the hole will simply squeeze in on the drilling tools. Now to some extent, this could be thwarted by weighting up the drilling mud, so that hydrostatic pressure in the hole equals or slightly exceeds the lithostatic pressure of the formation. But sooner or later, Nature will win.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 12:08 AM (2le8w)

438 193 Jap subs also shelled Santa Barbera

Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 12:09 AM (9TR2V)

439 Why not Benedict Arnold Highway?

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at August 21, 2017 12:09 AM (398bZ)

440 "illiniwek, thank you for the ideas. tomorrow is the 1st day of the semester. you know me! i'll keep you all posted.
Posted by: booknlass

good luck ... I would not endure. But staying can also mean you have influence on kids as opposed to leaving, and they then get some full PC nut instead. So I support your judicious choice.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 21, 2017 12:09 AM (veVl1)

441 S'up fappers? I haz sadz. Final Main Street Electrical Parade tonight.

Y5 here? What's new on the field trip to DL with booze? Get the dump truck rented? Should SMFH & I start checking out our preferred Louboutins online so we're ready?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 12:09 AM (8Ok4c)

442 It occurred to me that progressive targeting of Confederate monuments wasn't just pulled from the air by some academic. They did it in order to draw out the white nationalist/supremacist fringe and then tar all Republicans and conservatives with that brush, specifically the President.

I'm sure I'm late to the game and many others have made the same observation and drawn the same conclusion far earlier than me, but thought I would post it here because it needed saying.
Posted by: troyriser at August

Someone has got themselves a plan. They started with the nazis and worked their way to the confederates. They started with the most objectionable white people and worked their way to less objectionable white people that were Americans and are not universally reviled by Americans. There are more moves coming but they are moving close and closer to all white people.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 12:09 AM (0wem/)

443 That's what I've been doing....the search/delete all method

Just plucking away.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 12:01 AM (smD62)

You are not deleting all, because if you were to really delete all, your inbox would be empty in one fell swoop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 12:10 AM (2le8w)

444 418
How long is the eclipse supposed to last in any given location?
Posted by: Country Boy at August 20, 2017 11:57 PM (Z0uHT)

This site will give you that info. You can put in your zip code.

Unfortunately, it's VOX so ignore the lefty crap.

http://tinyurl.com/yat7tdu9
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2017 12:01 AM (IqV8l)

NASA has an interactive map that will tell give you the beginning, peak, and end time for the eclipse in your location, including the amount of obscuration. I'll get about 85% where I am

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 12:11 AM (0mRoj)

445 i guess this is as close to a jerry lewis memorial thread. my favorite martin/lewis movies are:

"you're ever too young"

"the caddy"

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at August 21, 2017 12:12 AM (AxFdW)

446 436 Hey, where all da white wimmen at?
Posted by: Sheriff Bart at August 21, 2017 12:08 AM (c8EhQ)

They are here with me, the Paolo, cheating on their husbands!

Posted by: Paolo at August 21, 2017 12:12 AM (0mRoj)

447 413 protip: look for the box marked Delete All
Posted by: OneEyedJack
----------

Or, do a search for the real junk, then delete them in large blocks.

FIND - 'Nigerian Prince'

DELETE - all
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 12:00 AM (OdK9v)

Or don't fall into her "Oh woe is me dilemma."

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 12:13 AM (ZTRlp)

448 S'up fappers? I haz sadz

da fuq?

--put electrical tape over webcam--

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 21, 2017 12:13 AM (z79tQ)

449 Hey AOP
Do you ever do XFR???

Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 12:13 AM (9TR2V)

450 I think there is also a Robert Byrd fountain in Morgantown. No joke.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 21, 2017 12:13 AM (89T5c)

451 386
Well is it too much to hope that someone with a sense of humor
vandalizes some MLK memorials and makes threats about MLK Blvds
somewhere, so that it can be pointed out that the names should be
changed because "these things have become a flash point, and public
safety requires a change"??

Which reminds me, this pattern now playing out in this pathetic,
dumbed-down country is exactly the way authoritarian and totalitarian
govts. suppress dissidents, or prevent foreign eyes from prying: "we
cannot guarantee your safety".

Saw one Lincoln memorial (not the big one, that was also hit) has
been hit, and Father Serra and Christopher Columbus too. The
antifa/BLM/fascists really need to step up their game, desecrate some
cemeteries - sure they don't have the slightest idea what the real Nazis
were, or did, but every time they imitate them it enriches the
degradation of the USA.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 20, 2017 11:52 PM (cJDvr)

In New Orleans someone vandalized Joan of Arc. Some real rocket scientists there.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 21, 2017 12:13 AM (jK8Z7)

452 troyriser, I don't think so (about grand strategy for monuments). Timing/nature of events doesn't support that. If the car hadn't killed/injured anyone on Fri., or if the driver had been non-descript or antifa/BLM - you'd never have known the rally in the park took place.

The loathsome idiot McAuliffe himself was whining yesterday that apart from the car incident, not much happened, no hospitalizations, etc. - in pathetic defense of his/his agencies' handling of the affair.

What seems dead certain, and completely consistent with events and timing, is that the Dems have latched onto this for the reason they do almost everything in the last few years, and esp. after Hillary's defeat: race-bait to generate black super-turnout, without which they stand zero chance on the presidential level and face even further reductions on lower levels.

Recall the sickening, unprecedented race-baiting of Obama and Co. in both the Trayvon and Ferguson, MO cases. A repugnant spectacle without parallel in American history. Sure, Holder and Obama and many around them are weird people with bizarre racist chips on their shoulders - but the main point was turnout, turnout, turnout. Same reason Hillary took the risk of pandering to BLM, and Sanders and that MD gov. pathetically and publicly acted so cravenly towards their provocations.

The Dems literally now depend on stoking the crippling racism of the black electorate for their electoral survival, on the national level and in select markets.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 12:14 AM (cJDvr)

453 Carbondale's 5 hours from here.

my oldest daughter will be there. I'm just going to look at the reflection of it in my phone screen.

Posted by: booknlass at August 21, 2017 12:14 AM (5O20Y)

454
That NASA map is very precise. I didn't zoom in and click. At my exact location, totality will last 2 minutes, 8 secs.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 12:14 AM (8O3HH)

455 424 Do the mid-Atlantic states black top highways, or is that only in the racist heartland?
Posted by: Downcast

Its called The Persons of Color top highway here in the Peoples Republic of Fairfax County! Yes, you are a unredeemable racist!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 21, 2017 12:16 AM (tA0W4)

456 18"
So this is a mockup of what the full-size one will look like?

Posted by: nigel tufnel at August 21, 2017 12:16 AM (mJ8mX)

457
Robert Byrd Memorial Toilets?
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 21, 2017 12:04 AM

And he was an Exalted Cyclops!!
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon

That's because he stared at an eclipse!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2017 12:17 AM (IqV8l)

458 Horrywood! Horrywood!

Posted by: jap sub parascope operator at August 21, 2017 12:17 AM (mJ8mX)

459 Okay I'm done with emails for the night...I can only look at so many before getting a headache.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 12:18 AM (smD62)

460 Carbondale also gets the 2024 eclipse.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2017 12:18 AM (IqV8l)

461 Okay I'm done with emails for the night...I can only look at so many before getting a headache.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at August

you realize the amount of risk you are exposing your computer to by opening so many emails?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 12:19 AM (0wem/)

462 Call the highway the Trans-Virginia Intersectional Parking Lot and Whore House.

Posted by: geoffb5 at August 21, 2017 12:19 AM (zOpu5)

463 @447

You know the people in the other threads get along with me just fine, and have no problem with me...

You might try it sometime

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 12:20 AM (smD62)

464 458 Horrywood! Horrywood!
Posted by: jap sub parascope operator

I haven't seen 1941 in years. I remember John Belushi was in it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 21, 2017 12:20 AM (tA0W4)

465 Hey AOP
Do you ever do XFR???

Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 12:13 AM (9TR2V)

You mean XRF, X-ray Fluorescence? Might be applicable in certain types of academic studies of rocks, but it is of no use to me at work.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 12:20 AM (2le8w)

466 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 12:13 AM
-----------

There's a thought.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 12:20 AM (OdK9v)

467

I've been having mocking all this eclipse hype, but seriously, the coronal light during totality is a sight to see. Cornal light is very different that regular sunlight, and has an eerie, spooky character.

And NASA's map is not corrected for lunar surface irregularities, like mountains and valleys So, the actual start and stop in your location can be slightly different. Error will be 1 - 3 seconds, depending.

And, back to coronal light. There's nothing like the sight of bare boobs bathed in coronal light. And twerking bee-hinds. And girlie parts.

See if you can get 'em nekkid.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 12:21 AM (8O3HH)

468 @461

Oh I don't open them all...or even most. I usually delete the unread ones, but there are still some here and there I read through.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 12:21 AM (smD62)

469 Carbondale also gets the 2024 eclipse.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2017 12:18 AM (IqV8l)

What?!
You mean this is going to happen again?

In our lifetimes? (Lord willing)

From all the ado, I was given to thinking it was a once in a millenium chance to blind myself before getting stuck in a huge rural traffic jam no doubt caused by blind drivers.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 21, 2017 12:21 AM (z79tQ)

470 465 People selling mining claims in Arizona are using it to demonstrate their viability
Ebay real estate ftw

Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 12:23 AM (9TR2V)

471 Yup...where I am we get 97%

And 2024 should go straight through us, so should be a total eclipse.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 12:23 AM (smD62)

472 pretty funny how the stoner school of my home state is ground zero for this eclipse.

It's put it on the map! NASA's got 5 telescopes there.

Posted by: booknlass at August 21, 2017 12:24 AM (5O20Y)

473 You know, someone probably thought that greater dissemination of stupid behavior would serve as something of a cautionary tale to others and prevent them from engaging in the same stupid behavior.

In reality the opposite has happened, people read about others doing stupid things and decide to engage in similarly stupid behavior themselves.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 12:24 AM (0wem/)

474 Great. And now I realize it's 'periscope' and not 'oscope'. I can't recall alot about 1941 either (from a TV viewing and not big-screen).

Posted by: andycanuck at August 21, 2017 12:25 AM (mJ8mX)

475 470 My father was an oilman in Saudi and Iran and he said if they ever run out of oil they could just start yanking out the gold instead.
Don't they occur together?

Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 12:26 AM (9TR2V)

476 I haven't seen 1941 in years. I remember John Belushi was in it.
Posted by: Puddleglum

-----

That is the craziest son of a bitch I've ever seen!

This isn't the state of California, it's a state of insanity.

Posted by: General Stilwell at August 21, 2017 12:26 AM (OdK9v)

477 So the other week there was a bit of a discussion amongst some here about video games and I was pretty critical of Mass Effect Andromeda. Well its been officially announced that there will be no storyline DLC, and no more patches for single player. So basically they're completely abandoning it and likely will ditch doing anything for multiplayer once they feel they've milked enough out of the players dumb enough to actually pay real money for their RNG loot crate drops.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 12:26 AM (cAnNx)

478 So, has anyone here ever used one of the Tracking-point.com rifles?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 12:27 AM (0wem/)

479 99.1%

*kicks dirt*

Dammit.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 12:28 AM (OdK9v)

480 Never saw the movie 1941 but I believe it was "inspired" by the sub attack near Santa Barbara and subsequent SoCal panic and "Battle of Los Angeles" (false alarm air raid) that followed. Which was in 1942.

Of course the concern, and panic, started on Dec. 7, for obvious reasons.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 12:28 AM (cJDvr)

481 I recall Belushi was a fighter pilot. And I remember the Japanese and German naval officers agreeing to talk to each other in English rather than having to read the others' subtitles, or similar. But that's about it although I know that I enjoyed it well enough.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 21, 2017 12:29 AM (mJ8mX)

482 Rabun County will be in the totality and I probably should have gone home to see it, but I am so tired ofall the hype.

Plus I don't really want to be anywhere near large gatherings of people crazy enough to drive long distance to watch it get dark.

We'll be at 95% and that's fine by me.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 12:30 AM (3ipea)

483 >>99.1%

*kicks dirt*

Dammit.
-----------

Missed it by --><-- that much.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 12:30 AM (8O3HH)

484 Too bad Chris Cornell's gone. he could have sang "Black Hole Sun" tomorrow at Carbondale on a live feed during the eclipse. it would have been synchronistic.

Posted by: booknlass at August 21, 2017 12:31 AM (5O20Y)

485 Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 12:20 AM (smD62)

No one on The ONT gives a flying fuck about your emails.

And with your attitude you might have a lot of time on your hands to do what ever you want to

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 12:31 AM (ZTRlp)

486 See you tomorrow unless I go blind while I'm out.

Posted by: andycanuck at August 21, 2017 12:32 AM (mJ8mX)

487 People selling mining claims in Arizona are using it to demonstrate their viability
Ebay real estate ftw

Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 12:23 AM (9TR2V)

Well, you can buy a hand-held XRF device that will give a pretty accurate "assay" of what makes up the surface layer of a hunk of rock. So you could pick up a pretty blue rock, with a thin coating of Azurite (copper carbonate), and the XRF would read some nice high number for copper, but if you crushed that same rock and did a traditional fire assay for copper, it would return a pitifully low number.

I wouldn't buy a mining claim simply on the strength of a few "hits" with such a device. It's too easy to simply record the good readings, and ignore the duds.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 12:33 AM (2le8w)

488 I recall Belushi was a fighter pilot.
------

Wild Bill Kelso.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 12:34 AM (OdK9v)

489 141 "Born with a tail", by the SuperS*ckers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igR-ypkIKnU
Posted by: Billy Joel at August 20, 2017 10:35 PM (0m0zi)

No. Damn.

I'm liking this, though.
Posted by: Robert at August 20, 2017 10:40 PM (mknWS)

Speak of the Devil - Chris Isaak

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at August 21, 2017 12:35 AM (BGUdD)

490 @485

Well Erik when he is around usually encourages me, so there.

And, you may not like me, but I am not mean to anyone on this forum...so I don't think I am the one with the bad attitude.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 12:35 AM (smD62)

491 1941 had John Candy in blackface. Get in the bank of the tank.

Posted by: Downcast at August 21, 2017 12:35 AM (0m0zi)

492 Missed it by -->
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear
---------

Story of my life.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 12:36 AM (OdK9v)

493 How cool is this: "look at the shadow of a leafy tree during the partial eclipse; you'll see the ground dappled with crescent suns projected by the tiny spaces between the leaves."

from NASA's website. you can also just weave your outstretched fingers together, turn your back on the sun, and look at your hands' shadow on the ground. between your fingers will be a grid of small images on the ground.

Posted by: booknlass at August 21, 2017 12:38 AM (5O20Y)

494 Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 12:35 AM (smD62)

Then you and Erik should hold hands and start your own blog.

You don't like it. Go.
Or I can do it for you

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 12:38 AM (ZTRlp)

495 From PennLive --
Its longest duration will be near Carbondale, Illinois, where the sun will be completely covered for two minutes and 40 seconds.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 21, 2017 12:07 AM (OeYuN)

Where our very own SMFH is ensconced for tomorrow.

Posted by: Country Boy at August 21, 2017 12:39 AM (Z0uHT)

496 487 Haha that was my suspicion thanks haha

Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 12:39 AM (9TR2V)

497 @494

I'm not entirely sure where this anger is coming from.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 12:40 AM (smD62)

498 So this happened tonite. Brother want to fix dinner with dad. He must have fallen asleep bc dad called me on brother's phone at 8pm and asked if it was Tuesday, he needed to get ready for an appt. Dad is wondering why he is confused. Appt. with doc on Tuesday may recommend radiation or chemo. After reading up on side affects, not sure it it is wise for a 78 year old who is already weak from lung surgery.

Posted by: Infidel at August 21, 2017 12:40 AM (5Xc/W)

499 Frankly, I wouldn't go out during a Solar Eclipse. The dragon will eat you.

Posted by: Puddleglum, totally not superstitious at August 21, 2017 12:41 AM (tA0W4)

500 Y5 am I going to have to spank you? Keep this up & it's a certainty!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 12:41 AM (mD4UL)

501 How cool is this: "look at the shadow of a leafy tree during the partial eclipse; you'll see the ground dappled with crescent suns projected by the tiny spaces between the leaves."
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I've done that before for a annular eclipse, and plan on doing it again tomorrow. I've already scouted good foliage, and have a sheet of poster paper.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 12:41 AM (OdK9v)

502 oooohh Tickled Pink

Not a smart idea to sass the COB's. There are a lot of people here who don't "get along with you."

Posted by: WyomingDoglover at August 21, 2017 12:41 AM (j4sAj)

503 @502

I'm not sassing. I am genuinely confused.

Also, as I mentioned before...in other threads people get along with me just fine.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 12:42 AM (smD62)

504 Y5 am I going to have to spank you? Keep this up & it's a certainty!
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August

Why don't you come over here and lay across my knee while we discuss what's bothering you.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 12:43 AM (0wem/)

505 My father was an oilman in Saudi and Iran and he said if they ever run out of oil they could just start yanking out the gold instead.
Don't they occur together?

Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 12:26 AM (9TR2V)

I know of no geochemical reason why gold and oil should occur together. Their genesis is entirely different. Now I could postulate a pebble conglomerate, a fossil placer, that contains gold, and subsequently became an oil reservoir upon burial, but the gold and the oil would be together as a matter of coincidence, neither being the cause of the other.

But both Saudi and Iran are large countries, and it's to be expected that both will have mineral resources other than petroleum. After all, Montana has both oil resources and hard rock mineral resources.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 12:43 AM (2le8w)

506
Also, look up "shadow bands" and "Bailey's beads" which occur just before and after totality. Again, behold the corona and the coronal light. It will be about as bright as a full Moon. But it's very eerie.

Also, you can see the Moon's shadow approaching from the West (and moving off to the East).

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 12:43 AM (8O3HH)

507 I saw Dunkirk tonight in 70mm IMAX (Maryland Sience Center). Wow. Quite the experience. The picture was so sharp and it was really engrossing to have your entire perspective covered by the expanded vertical format.

Posted by: Serious Cat at August 21, 2017 12:43 AM (HaZvX)

508 Tickled Pink: I think you are mistaking "barely tolerating" for getting along with you.

Posted by: WyomingDoglover at August 21, 2017 12:45 AM (j4sAj)

509 @502

Also...I don't know why as I said before. I have never called anyone names, been mean to them, denigrated anyone, or talked behind their backs.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 12:46 AM (smD62)

510 so, what are the odds people will look through their pinhole cameras to get a shot of the sun?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 12:46 AM (0wem/)

511 Posted by: Serious Cat at August 21, 2017 12:43 AM (HaZvX)

It didn't have enough blacks, queers or transgendered
What it is wrong with you

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Sounds great we hope to catch it this week

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 12:46 AM (ZTRlp)

512
I'm being followed by a moon shadow. Moon shadow. Moon shadow.

Posted by: Sun Stevens at August 21, 2017 12:48 AM (IqV8l)

513 So has anyone noticed this commercial?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VrNEIika_Q

pretty cool

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 12:49 AM (0wem/)

514 I'm not in the path of the totality so hopefully there won't be too many loons out.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 12:50 AM (0mRoj)

515 505 Thanks buddy
When he died I got his collection of interesting rocks he picked up from everywhere in the world he had been
I can number the people I know on one hand who would even give a shit
but I like them

Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 12:50 AM (9TR2V)

516 497 @494

I'm not entirely sure where this anger is coming from.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 12:40 AM (smD62)

I'm in a fantastic mood
I had a wonderful weekend
I told you no fucking cares about your emails
Instead of being a mature adult and zipping your pie hole
You continue to sass and question me
If I were angry like you suggest I would have banned you about 30 minutes ago
But, just so you know you are close to being buh-bye

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 12:51 AM (ZTRlp)

517 Sounds great we hope to catch it this week
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 12:46 AM (ZTRlp)

It is outstanding, Thor and I loved it. Alas not in IMAX format.

But I have to tell you, every blessed one of the actors but 3 are brunette. They all look eerily alike. I had trouble telling them apart, and I wondered if it was intentional.

Oh wait, forgot about the Dutch guy, so 4. And one of them looked like it was dyed blonde, very odd.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 12:51 AM (3ipea)

518 so, what are the odds people will look through their pinhole cameras to get a shot of the sun?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 12:46 AM (0wem/)

I remember making an actual pinhole camera as a kid. Used a stout cardboard carton that had contained sheet film or photo paper. I used contact print paper for the "film", and took several very sharp photos.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 12:51 AM (2le8w)

519 If I were angry like you suggest I would have banned you about 30 minutes ago
But, just so you know you are close to being buh-bye

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 12:51 AM (ZTRlp

Dude? Really?

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 12:51 AM (cAnNx)

520 I remember making an actual pinhole camera as a kid. Used a stout cardboard carton that had contained sheet film or photo paper. I used contact print paper for the "film", and took several very sharp photos.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 12:51 AM (2le8w)

Very cool. I had a pinhole "viewer" but not on the same level.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 12:52 AM (0mRoj)

521 When he died I got his collection of interesting rocks he picked up from everywhere in the world he had been
I can number the people I know on one hand who would even give a shit
but I like them

Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 12:50 AM (9TR2V)

Are the rocks cataloged or labeled, so you know what they are, or where they came from?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 12:52 AM (2le8w)

522 I can number the people I know on one hand who would even give a shit
but I like them
Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 12:50 AM (9TR2V)

I drag rocks home from every damn where we go on vacation.

Sadly, I did not see any in Paris, and nothing of interest in England.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 12:53 AM (3ipea)

523 Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 12:51 AM (cAnNx)

You're dead shut up

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Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 12:53 AM (ZTRlp)

524 Yeah Tammy both of us got confusulated about who was who in the movie, towards the end - too many looked alike.

I saw it for a very cheap matinee price, with zero hassle. Any less favorable conditions and it would not have been worth it, to me. But others' mileage will vary, and has.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 12:53 AM (cJDvr)

525 521 When he died I got his collection of interesting rocks he picked up from everywhere in the world he had been
I can number the people I know on one hand who would even give a shit
but I like them

Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 12:50 AM (9TR2V)

Are the rocks cataloged or labeled, so you know what they are, or where they came from?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 12:52 AM (2le8w)

They're not rocks! They're minerals!

Posted by: Hank Schrader at August 21, 2017 12:54 AM (0mRoj)

526
remember making an actual pinhole camera as a kid. Used a stout cardboard carton that had contained sheet film or photo paper. I used contact print paper for the "film", and took several very sharp photos.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 12:51 AM

How long did you have the "shutter" open to take a picture?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2017 12:54 AM (IqV8l)

527 But I have to tell you, every blessed one of the actors but 3 are brunette. They all look eerily alike. I had trouble telling them apart, and I wondered if it was intentional.

Oh wait, forgot about the Dutch guy, so 4. And one of them looked like it was dyed blonde, very odd.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 12:51 AM (3ipea)

I read that it was intentional. Director did not want the individual stories to get in the way of the big picture.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 12:54 AM (2le8w)

528 I'm not the one being naughty, you are. I will be doing the spanking! Well, me and the gals from castle anthrax.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 12:55 AM (mD4UL)

529 521 Nope I guess that's me to wonder

Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 12:55 AM (9TR2V)

530 How long did you have the "shutter" open to take a picture?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2017 12:54 AM (IqV8l)

About a minute, I think. It was 50 years ago.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 12:56 AM (2le8w)

531 I'm not the one being naughty, you are. I will be doing the spanking! Well, me and the gals from castle anthrax.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August

Who is being naughty?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 12:56 AM (0wem/)

532 I always note how I love mad ace (though we haven't had mad ace in a while).

I also enjoy happy, calm, but ruthless MisHum.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 12:56 AM (cJDvr)

533 529 For ME to wonder...

Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 12:56 AM (9TR2V)

534 522 I can number the people I know on one hand who would even give a shit
but I like them
Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 12:50 AM (9TR2V)

I drag rocks home from every damn where we go on vacation.

Sadly, I did not see any in Paris, and nothing of interest in England.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 12:53 AM (3ipea)

Really? Not even around Salisbury?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 12:56 AM (0mRoj)

535 So why do people want to move to some island, get a place on top of a mountain and have a beautiful view of the ocean, and the slum between them and the ocean?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 12:58 AM (0wem/)

536 My father was an oilman in Saudi and Iran and he said if they ever run out of oil they could just start yanking out the gold instead.
Don't they occur together?

Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 12:26 AM (9TR2V)

I know of no geochemical reason why gold and oil should occur together. Their genesis is entirely different. Now I could postulate a pebble conglomerate, a fossil placer, that contains gold, and subsequently became an oil reservoir upon burial, but the gold and the oil would be together as a matter of coincidence, neither being the cause of the other.

But both Saudi and Iran are large countries, and it's to be expected that both will have mineral resources other than petroleum. After all, Montana has both oil resources and hard rock mineral resources.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 12:43 AM (2le8w)

Y'know, Egypt, Iran and Iraq were all very major gold-holding States, many centuries before Big Oil bestowed upon them the value of Black Gold, Texas Tea.....Oil, that is.

That gold came from conquest, trade, or as it happened back in the day, both being one and the same.

I can't recall as I've ever heard of any locally sourced, found or mined gold, produced natively by any of those nations?

But of course, would welcome the correction were I proved to be wrong.

Know what would not surprise me though? A major gold find within Israel.

Because, Israel.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 21, 2017 12:58 AM (MGCfm)

537 so, what are the odds people will look through their pinhole cameras to get a shot of the sun?
Posted by: yankeefifth
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100%

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 12:59 AM (OdK9v)

538 AOP, really (about the movie) - that's, um, "interesting". There was a "film school project" feel to much of the movie, for me and a friend.

But could be me. I was a normal/big movie consumer much of my life, but last 10 years ..... not so much. To put it mildly.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 12:59 AM (cJDvr)

539 So why do people want to move to some island, get a place on top of a mountain and have a beautiful view of the ocean, and the slum between them and the ocean?
Posted by: yankeefifth
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So you've been to Honduras, eh?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 01:00 AM (OdK9v)

540 Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 12:56 AM (cJDvr)

I appreciate your fan club

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 01:00 AM (ZTRlp)

541 519 Dude? Really?
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 12:51 AM (cAnNx)

You don't think the schtick is beyond old? It's not funny like the fapping ghosts, or your running feud with happy fun ball.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 01:00 AM (mD4UL)

542 Ships in the night, troop. You left about the time I arrived. Did you recognize the barracks picture that I linked?
Mike Hammer: Nope. I seem to recall that we were in the WW II type barracks, but maybe I'm thinking Basic at Fort Campbell.

Posted by: CMU VET at August 21, 2017 01:01 AM (C+wjz)

543 I remember making a pinhole project in elementary school to look at an eclipse in the 60's. Was very cool at the time.

Posted by: Infidel at August 21, 2017 01:01 AM (5Xc/W)

544 Nope I guess that's me to wonder

Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 12:55 AM (9TR2V)

You could probably take some of the rocks to a local geology school, or to a gem and mineral club or show, and ask folks to try to identify them. Some minerals, rocks, and fossils are so distinctive that their provenance can be assumed with a fair degree of accuracy. Like Green River fish fossils, or Franklinite, or some of the north African belemnites, to name but a few.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 01:01 AM (2le8w)

545 So you've been to Honduras, eh?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August

Heh. No but have some friends that like it there. Whoever thinks retiring to latin America is a good idea has no knowledge of history.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:02 AM (0wem/)

546 MisHum, my Prime Directive prevents me from commenting other than cryptically on the current contretemps, but in order to avoid scurrilous charges of brown-nosing and careerism, I am obliged to say "you suck, MisHum! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of spoiled cheese!".

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:02 AM (cJDvr)

547 I drag rocks home from every damn where we go on vacation.

Sadly, I did not see any in Paris, and nothing of interest in England.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
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Heck, you could have grabbed off a piece of Stonehenge.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 01:02 AM (OdK9v)

548 I remember making a pinhole project in elementary school to look at an eclipse in the 60's. Was very cool at the time.
Posted by: Infidel at August

Was that right before or right after the Civil War?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:03 AM (0wem/)

549
541 519 Dude? Really?
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 12:51 AM (cAnNx)

You don't think the schtick is beyond old? It's not funny like the fapping ghosts, or your running feud with happy fun ball.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 01:00 AM (mD4UL)

I find a lot of people's schtick to be beyond old. Finding someone's unobjectionable comments on an open thread to be tiresome isn't bannable.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 01:03 AM (cAnNx)

550 Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 12:53 AM (cJDvr)

Oh we did,too,I am too cheap to pay much cash for anything but a matinee,although I do like IMAX, but we do not have one here

The movie wasn't what I thought it would be, but I am one that gets caught up in things and I get very moved by stories like this.

I had not even heard of the Little Ships until the London Olympics, and then went through a little phase learning all about it.

I am not a movie person, but I truly did enjoy it. I do wish someone would make the movie I wanted to see, more Churchill, and more centered on people like the man in his boat who went out. (I realize that was not the norm)

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:04 AM (3ipea)

551 531 Who is being naughty?
Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 12:56 AM (

You are! Toying with an unarmed opponent. Now, tell me about the upcoming choo shopping spree.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 01:04 AM (mD4UL)

552 Heh. No but have some friends that like it there. Whoever thinks retiring to latin America is a good idea has no knowledge of history.
Posted by: yankeefifth
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I'm amused by those who wax rhapsodic about Belize, without bothering to check the murder rate.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 01:04 AM (OdK9v)

553 Just after Y5.

Posted by: Infidel at August 21, 2017 01:04 AM (5Xc/W)

554 Heck, you could have grabbed off a piece of Stonehenge.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 01:02 AM (OdK9v)

One of the hinges, maybe. Not like they are using the doors, anyway.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 01:05 AM (2le8w)

555 Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:02 AM (cJDvr)

That they were.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 01:05 AM (ZTRlp)

556
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of spoiled cheese!".

Posted by: rhomboid

Maggot cheese?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2017 01:05 AM (IqV8l)

557 532 I always note how I love mad ace (though we haven't had mad ace in a while
Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 12:56 AM (

Why do you want to tempt fate like that?!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 01:06 AM (mD4UL)

558 AOP, your comments fascinate me.

I wanted to tell you that in the library of the old college here, down in the basement, there is a 7' by 10' glass case displaying arrowheads and spear heads, and the pieces of rock from which they were chipped. I guess what I find the most interesting is the value of the rock where they came from.

Posted by: booknlass at August 21, 2017 01:07 AM (5O20Y)

559 You are! Toying with an unarmed opponent. Now, tell me about the upcoming choo shopping spree.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August

I have got nothing new for you tonight. Working on the dinner and drinking events. Oddly everyone wants a precise number of guests. Fuckers.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:07 AM (0wem/)

560 Pot causes high blood pressure.

Pot reduces the chance of stroke.

Science!

Man's widowed wife and girlfriend bawl at Man's funeral. They really missed the old guy. Eh? What? Did I skim through that one too fast?

You mean to say I have to go back a read all of that content a second time?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at August 21, 2017 01:08 AM (m9X4Y)

561 I watched my Pirates defeat the Cardinals tonight on MSESPN. They were playing in Williamsport, PA where MSESPN is currently exploiting children for greed and ratings covering the LLWS (I keed, probably). Would have enjoyed it better if the play by play crew for the Pirates had done the announcing. Or the Cardinals. Or the local Williamsport AM radio morning DJs.

Posted by: Puddleglum, totally not superstitious at August 21, 2017 01:09 AM (tA0W4)

562 I read that it was intentional. Director did not want the individual stories to get in the way of the big picture.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 12:54 AM (2le8w)

I wondered if that wasn't the case, that it was intentional, I mean.... I even asked in a thread a few days back!

Kind of bad form to make the hero pilots blonde and blue eyed though?

And I kept thinking there was some significance tot he son on the boat, the one whose hair looked dyed. He had that maroon sweater on, when everything else was pretty colorless, but there was nothing of interest that I noticed, anyway..

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:09 AM (3ipea)

563 I wanted to tell you that in the library of the old college here, down in the basement, there is a 7' by 10' glass case displaying arrowheads and spear heads, and the pieces of rock from which they were chipped. I guess what I find the most interesting is the value of the rock where they came from.

Posted by: booknlass at August 21, 2017 01:07 AM (5O20Y)

Really not in my wheelhouse, but I gather that rock suitable for stone tool-making was a big trade item, back in the day. Not every locality is blessed with an abundance of good flint or obsidian.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 01:09 AM (2le8w)

564 ...I always note how I love mad ace (though we haven't had mad ace in a while.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 12:56 AM

Furious Ace, or Hydrophobic Ewok Ace?

There is a difference, y'know.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at August 21, 2017 01:09 AM (MGCfm)

565 Tammy, you echo many of my thoughts. Ironically, one of the 247 trailers and ads that preceded our showing of the movie was for "Darkest Hour," and the trailer even included a scene where Winston is talking about Dunkirk and how bad things look. This was the basis for some humor after about how the two movies should be shown together.

I suppose it's just bowing to mass illiteracy and the decline of the language, but the dedication at the end of Dunkirk was embarrassingly stupid.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:09 AM (cJDvr)

566 I'm amused by those who wax rhapsodic about Belize, without bothering to check the murder rate.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August

Yeah. Seems lots of people think these are good places for when the shtf, not realizing the importance of the U.S. being the global hyperpower plays in guaranteeing their day-to-day safety in these holes.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:10 AM (0wem/)

567 Posted by: booknlass at August 21, 2017 01:07 AM (5O20Y)

I have a couple of old arrow heads my grandfather found on his farm. He had more plus a hell of a gun collection unti the hose burnt

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 01:10 AM (ZTRlp)

568 549 I find a lot of people's schtick to be beyond old. Finding someone's unobjectionable comments on an open thread to be tiresome isn't bannable.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 01:03 AM (cAnNx)

I see. Well, I'll keep my tits to myself from now on.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 01:12 AM (mD4UL)

569 I'm amused by those who wax rhapsodic about Belize, without bothering to check the murder rate.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 01:04 AM

Shhhhhh!

Posted by: Totally not the Belize Ministry of Tourism. at August 21, 2017 01:12 AM (H5knJ)

570
Self driving cars? I'll bet we find out those maritime collisions were self driving ships with no human awake at the wheel; the commercial ships, I mean, on auto pilot. And the US Navy had the right of way and assumed the commercial ship would avoid the collision.

If that is true, then the maritime 'rules of the road' are no longer operative. Which way ya gonna dodge when in the shipping lanes when there are no rules?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at August 21, 2017 01:13 AM (m9X4Y)

571 Mis.Hum., my father in law had some in a box he'd found while planting. he and his older brother took over their dad's farm when they were 12 and 17!

Posted by: booknlass at August 21, 2017 01:13 AM (5O20Y)

572 >>>I have got nothing new for you tonight. Working on the dinner and drinking events. Oddly everyone wants a precise number of guests. Fuckers.

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Sir, I'm a professional cat wrangler I haven't the foggiest clue. Just set it up

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 01:14 AM (ZTRlp)

573 559 I have got nothing new for you tonight. Working on the dinner and drinking events. Oddly everyone wants a precise number of guests. Fuckers.
Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:07 AM (

Bastards! So did you, or did you not get the dump truck?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 01:14 AM (mD4UL)

574 You don't think the schtick is beyond old? It's not funny like the fapping ghosts, or your running feud with happy fun ball.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 01:00 AM (mD4UL)

In all fairness,I do not think she realizes she gets on some people's nerves.

I worry about that all the time, cuz God knows I have no filter.

I must say I think I have been very good lately, though.

Kind of sad, really!

Of course.... emojis. I am bad about emojis, I know.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:14 AM (3ipea)

575 For Jim in Texas:

http://www.sgs.org.sa/English/MineralResources/Pages/default.aspx

(Link to Saudi Geological Survey)

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 01:14 AM (2le8w)

576 that's so sad,

"until the house burnt."

Posted by: booknlass at August 21, 2017 01:15 AM (5O20Y)

577 Mike H. - we had our own Moron with a hand in Belize hereabouts, as I recall. Not sure if he's still around under new plumage.

"Mad" ace was ace during the primaries when some knuckleheads would come on and mud-wrestle him in the comments - over nothing, really, and always ignoring the refs' helpful suggestion of sitting out a few shifts to cool off. Then - bam! Bannination.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:15 AM (cJDvr)

578
Boobs are never schtick. The Venn diagrams are like miles apart.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 01:15 AM (8O3HH)

579
Gone in sixty seconds

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at August 21, 2017 01:16 AM (m9X4Y)

580 558 AOP, your comments fascinate me.

Tell us again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 01:16 AM (0mRoj)

581 Tammy al-Thor,

You never get on anyone's nerves. You are a treasure here!

Posted by: WyomingDoglover at August 21, 2017 01:16 AM (j4sAj)

582 568 549 I find a lot of people's schtick to be beyond old. Finding someone's unobjectionable comments on an open thread to be tiresome isn't bannable.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 01:03 AM (cAnNx)

I see. Well, I'll keep my tits to myself from now on.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 01:12 AM (mD4UL)

I didn't say your schtick was one of those I find old.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 01:16 AM (cAnNx)

583 Bastards! So did you, or did you not get the dump truck?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August

Yeah, the dump truck was the easiest thing.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:17 AM (0wem/)

584 haha insomniac.

nite, all.

Posted by: booknlass at August 21, 2017 01:17 AM (5O20Y)

585 Aha! See - just *hint* that the tits are being embargoed, and everybody gets reasonable all of a sudden. It's almost like "The Art of the Deal".

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:17 AM (cJDvr)

586 I have been a whiner lately. My apologies.

Posted by: Infidel at August 21, 2017 01:17 AM (5Xc/W)

587 Wow, so 5 Guys is the favorite burger in the southeast? I've eaten there exactly once. At around 11 bucks for a burger and fries, I was underwhelmed. Ever the heretic, I don't think much of Chik Fil A either.

Posted by: GnuBreed, still deplorable after all these months at August 21, 2017 01:18 AM (6jaju)

588 580 558 AOP, your comments fascinate me.

Tell us again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
Posted by: Insomniac

Actually its Haggis. You just put it in the crevices of the fault and those earthquakes just melt away!!

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 21, 2017 01:18 AM (tA0W4)

589 Sir, I'm a professional cat wrangler I haven't the foggiest clue. Just set it up
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August

you must have hacked my email.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:19 AM (0wem/)

590 574 worry about that all the time, cuz God knows I have no filter.
I must say I think I have been very good lately, though.
Kind of sad, really!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:14 AM

Ms T you are at your best when you ignore your filter!

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 01:19 AM (mD4UL)

591 If that is true, then the maritime 'rules of the road' are no longer operative. Which way ya gonna dodge when in the shipping lanes when there are no rules?

Posted by: Skandia Recluse at August 21, 2017 01:13 AM (m9X4Y)

There's being right, and there's being dead right. Seems to me, the smaller, more powerful, more maneuverable vessel would be prudent to yield, even in instances where it has the "legal" right of way. Because do you really trust the other guys to be on top of their game?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 01:19 AM (2le8w)

592 Anyone else recall the mine disaster in Chile .... 7 or so years ago?? As I recall it turned out well - everyone went home. But there was a hilarious part (similar to the story in the ONT) - where a wife AND a girlfriend showed up at the mine head for the vigil during the rescue.

Hilarious. And, so, so Latin American.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:19 AM (cJDvr)

593 588 580 558 AOP, your comments fascinate me.

Tell us again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
Posted by: Insomniac

Actually its Haggis. You just put it in the crevices of the fault and those earthquakes just melt away!!
Posted by: Puddleglum at August 21, 2017 01:18 AM (tA0W4)

I don't believe in using things that are of the devil.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 01:19 AM (0mRoj)

594 Heck, you could have grabbed off a piece of Stonehenge.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 01:02 AM (OdK9v)

We stayed in Salisbury our last night! We did drive over, but didn't get out. I just wanted to be able to say I'd seen it!

But we did get to attend Evensong (Vespers?) at Salisbury Cathedral. Chills. Just beyond beautiful.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:19 AM (3ipea)

595 Wow, so 5 Guys is the favorite burger in the southeast?

Posted by: GnuBreed, still deplorable after all these months at August

well, most of their walk-in traffic, in the southeast, is from people looking for gay orgies.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:20 AM (0wem/)

596 >>>you must have hacked my email.

Nope, just that our lives run parallel at times

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 01:21 AM (ZTRlp)

597 But we did get to attend Evensong (Vespers?) at Salisbury Cathedral. Chills. Just beyond beautiful.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor
------
Ah! Good for you. Mrs. H and I did the same.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 01:21 AM (OdK9v)

598 592 Anyone else recall the mine disaster in Chile .... 7 or so years ago?? As I recall it turned out well - everyone went home. But there was a hilarious part (similar to the story in the ONT) - where a wife AND a girlfriend showed up at the mine head for the vigil during the rescue.

Hilarious. And, so, so Latin American.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:19 AM (cJDvr)

Yep.

http://minx.cc:1080/?post=305326

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 01:21 AM (cAnNx)

599 595 Wow, so 5 Guys is the favorite burger in the southeast?

Posted by: GnuBreed, still deplorable after all these months at August

well, most of their walk-in traffic, in the southeast, is from people looking for gay orgies.
Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:20 AM (0wem/)

TFG walked into one and walked right back out. Not the meat he was looking for.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 01:21 AM (0mRoj)

600 583Yeah, the dump truck was the easiest thing.
Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:17 AM (

Sweet! Think SMFH will let me have a turn driving?

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 01:22 AM (mD4UL)

601 Wasn't the original 5 Guys in Alexandria VA area (some obscure place, one of those highways whose numbers I could never keep straight)?

Only have eaten at one (in Corona, CA). It was fine. Whatever.

Chik-fil-A is I think quite good, but their peach milkshakes are really apart from anything else served by any fast food outfit. We go in (a few times a year) literally just for those.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:22 AM (cJDvr)

602 huh, would not think MissTammy and Thor would go the vespa route for the grand tour. Must have seemed odd with him holding on to her tiny waist as they tore through the narrow winding streets.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:23 AM (0wem/)

603 Tami - You might want to read the historical novel 'Sarum'. Mostly deals with Salisbury and the Cathedral. A good read.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 01:23 AM (OdK9v)

604 Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:09 AM (cJDvr)

It must have been bad, because I don't even remember it, unless you mean where they had Churchill's voice and then the young man reading along with it? Which I found rather lame, because....Churchill, ffs. No one needs to speak overtop Winston.

We always stay til the absolute end, too, I can't believe I missed it.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:24 AM (3ipea)

605
There's being right, and there's being dead right. Seems to me, the smaller, more powerful, more maneuverable vessel would be prudent to yield, even in instances where it has the "legal" right of way. Because do you really trust the other guys to be on top of their game?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 01:19 AM

I think there was a Bill Cosby routine where he said something about people thinking the crosswalk painted on the pavement would protect them from vehicles.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 21, 2017 01:24 AM (IqV8l)

606 Nope, just that our lives run parallel at times
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August

you poor, poor man. Hang on I am shoving a csse of scotch through one of these ports.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:24 AM (0wem/)

607 If I get banned, then I get banned.

But, I have never said a mean word to or about any of you. I don't know any of you personally enough to do that.

But, we aren't just little gray boxes. And, we aren't just words on a screen.

We are all human beings. I am a real-life living, breathing human being. And I have feelings. Feelings that get hurt.

You may think you can dump on me because I am just some random person behind a computer somewhere. But, I am a random person who takes things to heart and I won't give anyone the satisfaction of knowing what they have done to me. But, you can guess, I'm sure.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 01:24 AM (smD62)

608 Boobs are never schtick. The Venn diagrams are like miles apart. Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 01:15 AM (8O3HH)

The two circles are next to each other but not touching.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at August 21, 2017 01:24 AM (rnAwa)

609 Now, tell me about the upcoming choo shopping spree.

Y5, you poor bastard. She never gives up.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 21, 2017 01:24 AM (IcT7t)

610 587 I don't think much of Chik Fil A either.
Posted by: GnuBreed, still deplorable after all these months at August 21, 2017 01:18 AM (

Me too, but they are super polite. Great service. There's a shake shack going in near where I work. Want to see if that lives up to its reputation.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 01:25 AM (mD4UL)

611 Posted by: WyomingDoglover at August 21, 2017 01:16 AM (j4sAj)

You are incredibly sweet to say so,but you know....some man somewhere is always tired of some women's shit!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:26 AM (3ipea)

612 Y5, you poor bastard. She never gives up.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August

Well, the methlab's trainer describes that as a "high drive" trait and says it is a good thing and bad thing, depending upon the situation. Seems neither likes to let go of choos.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:27 AM (0wem/)

613 Mike Hammer: Nope. I seem to recall that we were in the WW II type barracks, but maybe I'm thinking Basic at Fort Campbell.
Posted by: CMU VET
-----------

Yeah there were still wooden barracks over on the west side. As I recall, F company built a replica of the 'F Troop' tower. Was that there when you were there?

Also, do you recall the name of that bar that was just outside of the gate?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at August 21, 2017 01:28 AM (OdK9v)

614 Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 01:24 AM (smD62)

Oh honey, steady on, steady on.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:28 AM (3ipea)

615 Oh no, Tammy, it was before the credits - sort of the normal place for a dedication, I think. From memory: This film is dedicated to all those whose lives were impacted by the events at Dunkirk.

Are you effing kidding me?

Sounds like it was written by a low-ranking bureaucrat at the DMV.

Not to mention so stupidly neutral. Wouldn't want to take sides, I mean, it was just the good guys vs. the Third Reich, after all.

One imagines applying this to other films:

(Schindler's List) This film is dedicated to everyone impacted by stuff that, like, happened in eastern Europe during the war. And stuff.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:30 AM (cJDvr)

616 609 Now, tell me about the upcoming choo shopping spree.
Y5, you poor bastard. She never gives up.
Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 21, 2017 01:24 AM (I

You be quiet! He already promised that he's gonna score big at craps & then the 'ettes get choos. He hasn't said if the 'rons get shirts.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 01:30 AM (mD4UL)

617 I'd sure like to see a nationally prominent preacher-type person call her out on that.. She's giving Christians a bad name by falsely claiming to be one.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at August 20, 2017 10:29 PM (bIwZ6)

H8er!

Posted by: Donna Brazile, One More Lying Democrat 'Christian' at August 21, 2017 01:30 AM (BIsma)

618 You be quiet! He already promised that he's gonna score big at craps & then the 'ettes get choos. He hasn't said if the 'rons get shirts.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August

You will only have shoes. Expensive shoes, but only shoes.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:31 AM (0wem/)

619 Wasn't the original 5 Guys in Alexandria VA area (some obscure place, one of those highways whose numbers I could never keep straight)?

Only have eaten at one (in Corona, CA). It was fine. Whatever.

Chik-fil-A is I think quite good, but their peach milkshakes are really apart from anything else served by any fast food outfit. We go in (a few times a year) literally just for those.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:22 AM (cJDvr)

I had a burger and fries at a "Boardwalk" location in Calgary. I think they got their start in some East Coast beachfront location (not Atlantic City). For an outfit that is very proud of their fries, I'd say I've had better at McDonalds. Tough on the outside, tasteless on the inside. I told the manager as much. Burger was OK, nothing to write home about.

The Five Guys outlets in Alberta have been consistently good, IMHO, and their fries are light-years better than Boardwalk's were. I wish Five Guys would offer coffee, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 01:31 AM (2le8w)

620 Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:23 AM (0wem/)

BeBe is absolutely right and I hope she beats you within an inch of your life. With or without her stilettos.

I can just about see me and Thor on a Vespa, dear God.I suspect his knees would be ahead of the front wheel.

And FYI, I went with two of my dearest friends, both of whom are also Gingers. They didn't know what to make of us in Paris, I must say.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:32 AM (3ipea)

621 549---I find a lot of people's schtick to be beyond old. Finding someone's unobjectionable comments on an open thread to be tiresome isn't bannable.
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 01:03 AM (cAnNx)
------------------------------------
Thank you, dead one.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 21, 2017 01:32 AM (0jtPF)

622 Tammy al-Thor,

I know my husband of 40 years is tired of mine, lmao!

Posted by: WyomingDoglover at August 21, 2017 01:32 AM (j4sAj)

623 Sweet! Think SMFH will let me have a turn driving?
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August

well, that is up to you two. Would think she should need some rest eventually. knees get sore.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:34 AM (0wem/)

624 I can just about see me and Thor on a Vespa, dear God.I suspect his knees would be ahead of the front wheel.

And FYI, I went with two of my dearest friends, both of whom are also Gingers. They didn't know what to make of us in Paris, I must say.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:32 AM (3ipea)

I think you have to be gay to ride a Vespa. At least, it would help.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 01:34 AM (2le8w)

625 620 And FYI, I went with two of my dearest friends, both of whom are also Gingers. They didn't know what to make of us in Paris, I must say.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:32 AM (

Omg it must have been hilarious rattling the blase French.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 01:35 AM (mD4UL)

626 Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 01:24 AM (smD62)

Your apology is accepted

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 01:36 AM (ZTRlp)

627 Oh - on that MO legislator, I am hoping against hope she hangs in there, defiant. And keeps talking. I don't see her as much use if she resigns. Plus from what I gather, her district is cretinous, so they'll just send another garbage drone to replace her.

I don't think much help is needed in MO, overall (though I don't know if a GOPer of any value will beat McCaskill), in 2018. But having as many flaming clown cars stuffed with flaming clown boners - to use ace's historic formulation - crashing around on the Dem side is only to be welcomed.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:37 AM (cJDvr)

628 Mike Hammer, I suspect you and the lovely Mrs understood the service a bit more than this old Holy Roller, but it was surely stunning to hear the choir in such surroundings!

We also got to go up in a little alcove at Westminster Abbey, and participate in the daily prayer service at the tomb of Edward the Confessor. Talk about awe inspiring. Put tears in my eyes.

I thought I had read Sarum, but the author doesn't sound familiar. Thank you!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:37 AM (3ipea)

629 Posted by: WyomingDoglover at August 21, 2017 01:32 AM (j4sAj)

High Five!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:38 AM (3ipea)

630 Do we get to vote on apologies being accepted?

(I keed! I keeeeed!)

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:38 AM (cJDvr)

631 @614

Thank you. And, I wish I could.

But, when I am told point blank that most people don't like me, and the ones that do..."barely tolerate" me...there is only so much a person can take, emotionally.

And, then to post something in an open thread and get sworn at and told that nobody cares....I'm not a robot sitting behind a computer screen...that's all I wanted to say.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 01:39 AM (smD62)

632 Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:38 AM (cJDvr)

This isn't a democracy; it's an Ewokracy.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 01:39 AM (0mRoj)

633 Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:38 AM (cJDvr)

Flings cheese

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 01:40 AM (ZTRlp)

634 Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:30 AM (cJDvr)

OH God yes, I do remember that, Thor even said something. I mean, could it get any more neutral and meaningless??

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:40 AM (3ipea)

635 601
Chik-fil-A is I think quite good, but their peach milkshakes are really apart from anything else served by any fast food outfit. We go in (a few times a year) literally just for those.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:22 AM (cJDvr)
------------------------
Yes! And the holiday shakes are fantastic too.

That's the main reason we mostly go there at certain times of the year.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 21, 2017 01:40 AM (0jtPF)

636 633 Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:38 AM (cJDvr)

Flings cheese
Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 01:40 AM (ZTRlp)

Was that the kind with maggots?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 01:40 AM (0mRoj)

637 5 Guys started in some non descript strip mall in Arlington Va. That place is no more but they have obviously expanded. They're ok. Not a huge fan. I like Dairy Queen's burgers better. They need more of those here in NoVA.

Posted by: Puddleglum at August 21, 2017 01:41 AM (tA0W4)

638 WTH is Infidel's post about his/her Daddy?

I agree, chemo doesn't seem like the greatest idea, but do the drs think it's okay?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:41 AM (3ipea)

639 I thought I had read Sarum, but the author doesn't sound familiar. Thank you!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:37 AM (3ipea)

You probably read that one about the zombie outbreak in the palace of the Sultan, Harem Scare 'Em.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 01:42 AM (2le8w)

640
Limburger cheese. Smells like foot odor. Same bacteria.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 01:42 AM (8O3HH)

641 610 Me too, but they are super polite. Great service.
There's a shake shack going in near where I work. Want to see if that
lives up to its reputation.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy

I had Chik's buffalo chicken sammich, and it sucked. Service was fine though. I rarely get shakes; trying to keep my sugar intake down.

Had a real disappointing dining experience this week. I do the driving, and mom does the 'watching', which until her recent cataract surgeries consisted mainly of admiring the blurs as they went by. She watched TV thru binoculars, fer cryin' out loud. Now her vision is 20/20. And so she saw a German- Italian restaurant along a route we frequently take.

I luvs me some good weinersnitzel, so when I got home I looked up the place. Yelp had a ton of good to great food reviews; hey, I'm sold.

It was awful. I'm being extra kind by not naming and shaming. $35 down the drain, counting the tip. Hey, the Spaten beer was good, if overpriced. Sigh.

Posted by: GnuBreed, still deplorable after all these months at August 21, 2017 01:42 AM (6jaju)

642 So does the Navy do "safety stand-downs" like the services do after a series of, usually, aircraft mishaps?

I would think not. Basically would mean tying up all the ships, sort of like the Royal Navy (what's left of it).

Because it seems this 2nd case of bumper cars with freighters demands some kind of dramatic action.

Meanwhile, the American colossus looms ..... sort of like a bumbling dumbass, actually, in that part of the world.

Keel-hauling, on an experimental, trial basis, might be something for SecNav to look at.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:43 AM (cJDvr)

643 >>>Was that the kind with maggots?

No silly.
Squeaky curds

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 01:45 AM (ZTRlp)

644 Parade time. Bye bye

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 01:46 AM (mD4UL)

645 Drove by the original Five Guys for years, never stopped. Wasn't even sure what it was.

Lots of good Peruvian chicken and a few good cheap Indian places down that way - burgers were rarely on my radar then.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:46 AM (cJDvr)

646 Omg it must have been hilarious rattling the blase French.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at August 21, 2017 01:35 AM (mD4UL)

The blase French were fun to get a rise out of, but the derned Northern Africans were a tad too persistent! But we're all pretty used to how some Mexican men can be around redheads, so we kind of knew how to handle it. As I know you know!

We had our pictures taken by a lot of Chinese tourists, too, people are crazy all over the world, I guess.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:47 AM (3ipea)

647 @626

Not an apology.

But, if it seriously doesn't bother you that your open hatred of someone within the community would cause pain and someone to physically become emotional....if that doesn't bother you at all, maybe this isn't a very nice group of people after all.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 01:47 AM (smD62)

648 I went to the "open farm" show at the Bison Coulee bison ranch today. It's where my doggie was born, so it was a homecoming for her. Got the tour of the corrals, saw a bunch of yearling bison, had a bison brisket sammich with tater salad, and a couple of beers. It was a fun day.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 01:48 AM (2le8w)

649 Nossa senhora.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:49 AM (cJDvr)

650 * falls in from trap door in ceiling *

HI!

I've just found out that we're getting 90% ecalypso tomorrow. But, wow! not only is this eclipse thingy happening tomorrow, but it's happening around Noonish, and it's also during a New Moon!!

I'm pretty sure this is a right-whing nationalist supremicist fascistic naziish plot by Trump.

But I start the day off right - with a dental checkup and cleaning. After that, Armageddon!

Posted by: mindful webworker - we don' need no steenkin' totality at August 21, 2017 01:50 AM (TnoDk)

651 Not an apology.

But, if it seriously doesn't bother you that your open hatred of someone within the community would cause pain and someone to physically become emotional....if that doesn't bother you at all, maybe this isn't a very nice group of people after all.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 01:47 AM (smD62)

Oh, for fuck's sake. It's not "open hatred", honey. You can just get a little tedious every now and then.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 01:51 AM (2le8w)

652 "And the MO state senator has now said she did a bad thing and she's sorry but her only judge and jury is Christ the Lord"

Drat. I see that I've already been beaten to it on the parallel to enormously corrupt lying criminal Donna Brazile whining that everyone should lay off on describing her incredibly obvious moral awfulness because she's "a Christian woman".

False witness, bearing of. Hellfire, immersion in. Some assembly required.

Posted by: torquewrench at August 21, 2017 01:52 AM (ujwCG)

653
650 * falls in from trap door in ceiling *

HI!

I've just found out that we're getting 90% ecalypso tomorrow. But, wow! not only is this eclipse thingy happening tomorrow, but it's happening around Noonish, and it's also during a New Moon!!

I'm pretty sure this is a right-whing nationalist supremicist fascistic naziish plot by Trump.

But I start the day off right - with a dental checkup and cleaning. After that, Armageddon!

Posted by: mindful webworker - we don' need no steenkin' totality at August 21, 2017 01:50 AM (TnoDk)

All Solar Eclipses happen during a New Moon. Just like all Lunar Eclipses happen during a Full Moon. Kind of a requirement for the occurrence.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 01:52 AM (cAnNx)

654 Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 01:47 AM (smD62)

The Morons area fine group
I'm an asshole, to you that's Mr. Asshole.
Do what you have to do

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 01:52 AM (ZTRlp)

655 Nicest group of people here.

Posted by: wyomingdoglover at August 21, 2017 01:52 AM (7N26M)

656 This is gonna be great (in Flounder's - may he RIP - voice) ......

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:53 AM (cJDvr)

657 So, tonight my supervisor hassled me about going to the bathroom. BTW... it was ONE time.

Our department has never had to get "permission" to use the bathroom, but, with less than five weeks before the place closes, my supervisor decided to hassle me.

And wanted to make sure I returned to my post and was working.

/that's what happens when you give random people manager jobs who have NO management skills.

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 01:53 AM (aT+Bx)

658 @655

You specifically told me that people "barely tolerate" me.

That's not very nice.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 01:53 AM (smD62)

659 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 01:48 AM (2le8w)

That sounds delicious

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 01:54 AM (ZTRlp)

660 And it made me cry.

Not that you care.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 01:54 AM (smD62)

661 "Damn, I'm sure this grenade is live, if I could just get this pin out, and raise the handle ..... "

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 01:54 AM (cJDvr)

662 Speaking of "teejus":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkLQsO3kXpU

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 01:55 AM (2le8w)

663 what was stuck on stupid's girls name?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:55 AM (0wem/)

664 Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 01:39 AM (smD62)

I know I get too motherly with you, so please forgive me, but yes, you can take it.

We're all real people, and many are dealing with painful stuff well beyond getting snapped at , so ya just gotta suck it up.

It's this kind of drama that grates on folks' nerves, (God please let that be an appropriate apostrophe) and makes me think you're about 16 years old.

Seriously, do not let things bother you so much! These are random strangers on the internet, their comments mean absolutely nothing, even if it does hurt your feelings some. Don't let us geezers get you down!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 01:55 AM (3ipea)

665 You need to lighten up. It is supposed to be fun here.

Posted by: wyomingdoglover at August 21, 2017 01:56 AM (7N26M)

666 Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 01:54 AM (smD62)

Peace offering.

Here's a Mydol

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 01:56 AM (ZTRlp)

667 Reading backward upthread, and it's... interesting.

Just got msg from daughter. Listening to "live" Hawaiian music wafting up from the beach below her hotel room balcony. Tough life.

Posted by: mindful webworker - al oh ha ha ha at August 21, 2017 01:56 AM (TnoDk)

668 Bison coulis? Wouldn't that be, uh, kinda gross? What do they do with the horns? How do they fit them in the blender?

Oh.

Never mind.

Posted by: rhomboid as Emily Litella at August 21, 2017 01:56 AM (cJDvr)

669 huh

Posted by: mindful webworker - was it? at August 21, 2017 01:56 AM (TnoDk)

670 I know I get too motherly with you, so please forgive me, but yes, you can take it.

We're all real people, and many are dealing with painful stuff well beyond getting snapped at , so ya just gotta suck it up.

It's this kind of drama that grates on folks' nerves, (God please let that be an appropriate apostrophe) and makes me think you're about 16 years old.

Seriously, do not let things bother you so much! These are random strangers on the internet, their comments mean absolutely nothing, even if it does hurt your feelings some. Don't let us geezers get you down!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August

Don't you have any motherly advice that has bitch slapping?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:57 AM (0wem/)

671
They go in pairs. You'll not there was a partial lunar eclipse on August 7th, half a moon-th ago. But the intervening solar motion keeps then both from being in perfect total pairs.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 01:57 AM (8O3HH)

672 Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 01:57 AM (8O3HH)

Sounds like white privilege

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 01:58 AM (ZTRlp)

673 Sigh.

It's pre-eclipse bitchiness.

That's the way it was at work tonight.

Some native americans say that an eclipse generates negativity, so stay in and do something quiet and positive, like meditation.

Or fap.

IDK.

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 01:59 AM (aT+Bx)

674 Slap. Don't. Slap. Ever. Slap. Do. Slap. That. Slap. Ever. Slap. Slap. Slap. Slap. Slap.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 01:59 AM (0wem/)

675 665 You need to lighten up. It is supposed to be fun here.

Posted by: wyomingdoglover at August 21, 2017 01:56 AM (7N26M)

I'll defend her, and say she was being pretty light-hearted and having fun until MisHum started threatening her with banning.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 01:59 AM (cAnNx)

676 @664

I understand that everyone has hard things and painful things in life.

But, not everyone in here is treated with open contempt. And, not everyone is told that people don't like them. And, not everyone has to wonder why everyone seems to hate them.

I can suck up many things. I can turn my cheek on many things. But...when it feels like it is the entire Horde vs. me, I feel very much alone.

And, no I am much older than 16.....but everyone in my real life knows how to "handle" me, so...yeah.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 02:00 AM (smD62)

677 Hummingbird.

He said her name was Hummingbird.

And I'm guessing she would not by God dare to wear a Che T-shirt.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:00 AM (3ipea)

678 657 Our department has never had to get "permission" to use the bathroom,
but, with less than five weeks before the place closes, my supervisor
decided to hassle me.

Posted by: shibumi

That novel by Trevanian is among the best in spy thrillers. Two thumbs up!

As to your job, I hope you have a new gig lined up.

Posted by: GnuBreed, still deplorable after all these months at August 21, 2017 02:00 AM (6jaju)

679 Hummingbird.

He said her name was Hummingbird.

And I'm guessing she would not by God dare to wear a Che T-shirt.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August

Oh, that is different. Thought it was hummerchick. Not the same.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 02:01 AM (0wem/)

680 Bison coulis? Wouldn't that be, uh, kinda gross? What do they do with the horns? How do they fit them in the blender?

Oh.

Never mind.

Posted by: rhomboid as Emily Litella at August 21, 2017 01:56 AM (cJDvr)

Buddy says they don't dehorn their bison, but some animals do get "tipped", meaning they saw the points off the horns. Some cows have gored their calves, it seems.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 02:01 AM (2le8w)

681 Our department has never had to get "permission" to use the bathroom,
but, with less than five weeks before the place closes, my supervisor
decided to hassle me.

Posted by: shibumi

For future reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MKRLF1r3Mw

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 02:02 AM (0wem/)

682 Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 01:59 AM (cAnNx)

I suggest you go back are read the entire thread. Yes I ,adve a remark for .......

Fuck it I don't have to explain myself to you. Or to her. Mouth off to any other cob they wouldn't be as nice.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at August 21, 2017 02:02 AM (ZTRlp)

683 They go in pairs. You'll not there was a partial lunar eclipse on August 7th, half a moon-th ago. But the intervening solar motion keeps then both from being in perfect total pairs.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 01:57 AM (8O3HH)

Same could be said for boobies.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 02:02 AM (2le8w)

684 buzzion: All Solar Eclipses happen during a New Moon....

Yeah, duh - that whizzing sound you hear is my joke going just slightly over your head.

What happens when I don't put a winky-emoji for clarification.

Posted by: mindful webworker - astronomically gastronomic at August 21, 2017 02:02 AM (TnoDk)

685 Mark Steyn on Fox and Friends talking about Awan potentially selling secrets to Russia.

At WZ.

Good interview. .

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:03 AM (aT+Bx)

686 y5: what was stuck on stupid's girls name?

Dangit! You would bring up something like that.

I want to say sunflower or wildflower but it probably was nothing like that.

Posted by: mindful webworker - memeishly at August 21, 2017 02:04 AM (TnoDk)

687 Our department has never had to get "permission" to use the bathroom,
but, with less than five weeks before the place closes, my supervisor
decided to hassle me.

Posted by: shibumi

The EPA has a solution for that one.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 02:04 AM (2le8w)

688 Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 02:00 AM (smD62)

Deep breath, girl, deep breath.

Plenty here have stuck up for you, and nobody hates you.

A grown woman should not need to be handled constantly.

Well, I mean, ya know. She ought to be handled regularly but, what I mean is, with kid gloves.

Unless she's into kid, of course. I find it can get a little sticky but YMMV.

But what I mean is, you're getting overly dramatic, way too dramatic, and this is probably the sort of thing that drives people away in real life, too.

Thank and not answering your emails in a timely fashion.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:05 AM (3ipea)

689 Barry & I love the In 'n Out @ Man's Country!

Posted by: Reggie at August 21, 2017 02:05 AM (bc2Lc)

690 Hummingbird?

Posted by: mindful webworker - memeishly at August 21, 2017 02:05 AM (TnoDk)

691 549 Well this may be the first sign of the Apocalypse but I agree 100% with buzzion

Posted by: MAxIE at August 21, 2017 02:05 AM (9TR2V)

692 That novel by Trevanian is among the best in spy thrillers. Two thumbs up!

As to your job, I hope you have a new gig lined up.
--

Thank you. The novel is one of my favorites, and I do like Japan, so... it's my secret homage that is not so secret.

I have some freelance stuff I'm doing but finding something good is taking time, and I'm super stressed. However... I'm miserable at the job that's ending, and will not miss it at all. Although it closes in about five weeks, I probably have less than seven days-- it's kind of a work when needed thing,

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:06 AM (aT+Bx)

693 Our department has never had to get "permission" to use the bathroom,
but, with less than five weeks before the place closes, my supervisor
decided to hassle me.

Posted by: shibumi

Oh, you can take him right to the labor board with that, yes you can.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:06 AM (3ipea)

694
There were beliefs that eclipses would cause birth defects, particularly facial deformities, if a pregnant woman went outside during a solar eclipse.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:06 AM (8O3HH)

695 As per my usual, I plumb rurn't my joke.

That should have been NOT handled with kid gloves.

Le Sigh.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:07 AM (3ipea)

696 Tammy I still got it, it was excellent.

Beyond that, I revert to my strict policy.

Posted by: rhomboid as Emily Litella at August 21, 2017 02:08 AM (cJDvr)

697 677 Hummingbird.

He said her name was Hummingbird.

And I'm guessing she would not by God dare to wear a Che T-shirt.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:00 AM (3ipea)

Twas an epic tale. I'm still not certain of how much if any of it was true, but it was damn entertaining.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:08 AM (0mRoj)

698 Plenty here have stuck up for you, and nobody hates you.

A grown woman should not need to be handled constantly.

Well, I mean, ya know. She ought to be handled regularly but, what I mean is, with kid gloves.

Unless she's into kid, of course. I find it can get a little sticky but YMMV.

But what I mean is, you're getting overly dramatic, way too dramatic, and this is probably the sort of thing that drives people away in real life, too.

Thank and not answering your emails in a timely fashion.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August

so there is not bitch slapping?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 02:09 AM (0wem/)

699 >> Same could be said for boobies.

Unless a bad boob job leads to the deaded uniboob.

And speaking of the T reminds me of the A. Where is our favorite Moon Goddess, Hope Solo going to be during the eclipse.

She should do some sort of ritual. A least take matching selfies.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:09 AM (8O3HH)

700 I see Tammy al-Thor beat me to Hummingbird.

Funny the memorable dramas that happen in plain text in gray boxes. Almost like some of these people are real.

Posted by: mindful webworker - artificially intelligible at August 21, 2017 02:09 AM (TnoDk)

701 Speaking of WZ, check out the top pic there:

https://www.weaselzippers.us/

He looks like the poster boy for a prophylactic.

Posted by: GnuBreed, still deplorable after all these months at August 21, 2017 02:10 AM (6jaju)

702 I fondly recall how one boss once described how dealing with a certain colleague of his was like "being killed by a duck" (he made me deal with him, even take a trip with him, instead).

That saying has exquisite application to tonight's drama.

"I can say no more"

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 02:10 AM (cJDvr)

703 699 >> Same could be said for boobies.

Unless a bad boob job leads to the deaded uniboob.

Frankenboobs.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:10 AM (0mRoj)

704 Oh, you can take him right to the labor board with that, yes you can.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:06 AM
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The place is closing in five weeks.

I reported them earlier this year for an ongoing hazardous work situation (which caused a contract labor worker to fall and crack his head open last year) and OSHA never even bothered to get back to me, or anyone else.

Also.. it's owned by a "capital management group" and I'm cynical enough to think that people like that have the cash to make any problems go away.

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:11 AM (aT+Bx)

705 Mark Steyn on Fox and Friends talking about Awan potentially selling secrets to Russia.

At WZ.

Good interview. .

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:03 AM (aT+Bx)

stubbornly refuses to recycle Lawrence Welk joke

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 02:11 AM (2le8w)

706 I am not trying to be dramatic. My feelings were hurt, and I thought it was important to stand up for myself and share that my feelings were hurt.

And Tammy, that's very kind but....there are those who do hate me. And, even if they don't...they don't mind telling me I'm not welcome.

MisHum...with all due respect...this issue started when another Moron asked me a question, to which I answered, politely and concisely. But, you interceded to suggest that particular Moron not talk to me about it. My comment wasn't hurting anyone, and his question to me wasn't hurting anyone. I got the imporession you were trying to turn said Moron against me. Maybe I was wrong about that.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 02:11 AM (smD62)

707 "Like being killed by a duck"

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 02:12 AM (cJDvr)

708 The other day on some thread, some Moron surmised that the eclipse was an opening for the Elder Gods to return.

I read that to Milady and she said,

"Maetenloch's coming back?"

She may not contribute much, but she's a Moronette of the first order at heart.

Posted by: mindful webworker - younger godlet at August 21, 2017 02:12 AM (TnoDk)

709 Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:06 AM (8O3HH)

Looka here now, I know for an actual fact that my Aunt Gloria has a birthmark shaped exactly like a flying squirrel on her right thigh, exactly like a flying squirrel, Sir, because my grandmother was coming out of the house one day whilst pregnant with her and was startled by...wait for it... a flying squirrel.

I know it's hard to believe, but facts is facts, and you dare not try to deny what I know to be true.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:13 AM (3ipea)

710 As for renaming the Jeff Davis Hwy, I vote for changing it to 'The Politically Correct Highway'. They'll never use tar again to repair that road.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2017 02:13 AM (BIsma)

711 Our department has never had to get "permission" to use the bathroom,
but, with less than five weeks before the place closes, my supervisor decided to hassle me.

Seems like a dumb time to get a sexual harassment complaint dropped on themselves, but some folks gotta go big.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 21, 2017 02:13 AM (IcT7t)

712 707 "Like being killed by a duck"

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 02:12 AM (cJDvr)

I'd always heard it as "being nibbled to death by ducks." Must be a regional thing.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:13 AM (0mRoj)

713 For future reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MKRLF1r3Mw
---

hahahaha!

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:13 AM (aT+Bx)

714 Peter Falk described a murderer being hounded by Columbo has like being pecked to death by a duck.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:14 AM (8O3HH)

715 709 Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:06 AM (8O3HH)

Looka here now, I know for an actual fact that my Aunt Gloria has a birthmark shaped exactly like a flying squirrel on her right thigh, exactly like a flying squirrel, Sir, because my grandmother was coming out of the house one day whilst pregnant with her and was startled by...wait for it... a flying squirrel.

I know it's hard to believe, but facts is facts, and you dare not try to deny what I know to be true.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:13 AM (3ipea)

Does your uncle have a birthmark shaped like a moose?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:14 AM (0mRoj)

716 The other day on some thread, some Moron surmised that the eclipse was an opening for the Elder Gods to return.

I read that to Milady and she said,

"Maetenloch's coming back?"

She may not contribute much, but she's a Moronette of the first order at heart.

Maet would nice, but there is another. Yeah, him.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 21, 2017 02:15 AM (IcT7t)

717 The EPA has a solution for that one.
--

You know, I forgot about that. Yes, they do.

BTW... the average age in our department is probably 45. Most have worked there for 15 years +

So we're not talking about 17 year olds here.

/grumble grumble, asshole bosses.

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:15 AM (aT+Bx)

718 Our department has never had to get "permission" to use the bathroom,
but, with less than five weeks before the place closes, my supervisor decided to hassle me.

So you're in grade school?

Seriously what job do you ever need permission to go to the bathroom for, unless its a continuous production job and you need someone to cover your spot.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 02:16 AM (cAnNx)

719 708 The other day on some thread, some Moron surmised that the eclipse was an opening for the Elder Gods to return.

I read that to Milady and she said,

"Maetenloch's coming back?"

She may not contribute much, but she's a Moronette of the first order at heart.
Posted by: mindful webworker - younger godlet at August 21, 2017 02:12 AM (TnoDk)

Surmise hell, I'm rooting for it!

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:16 AM (0mRoj)

720
There's also the dreaded "quad boob". Bad placement of implants by some butcher leading to two bulges in each breast. Hence 4 boobs.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:16 AM (8O3HH)

721 Tickled Pink, if you're still around, email me at alexander.b.moon@gmail.com

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 21, 2017 02:16 AM (Tnhbr)

722 Maet would nice, but there is another. Yeah, him.
--

I miss Monty and his Economic Doom Threads.

I always felt like Alex from A Clockwork Orange was addressing me...

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:16 AM (aT+Bx)

723 Peter Falk described a murderer being hounded by Columbo has like being pecked to death by a duck.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August

Huh, thought he said it was like being poked to death by a dick. May have got it wrong.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 02:16 AM (0wem/)

724 720
There's also the dreaded "quad boob". Bad placement of implants by some butcher leading to two bulges in each breast. Hence 4 boobs.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:16 AM (8O3HH)

Oh god, that's awful. Then there are the walleye boobs.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:17 AM (0mRoj)

725 And Tammy, that's very kind but....there are those who do hate me. And, even if they don't...they don't mind telling me I'm not welcome.

Eh, well, fuck the fucking h8ters, child...just ignore it.

Look within to see if there is possibly anything you might improve on just a skosh, and then don't pay them any mind.

I would not give them the satisfaction of seeing that they had rattled you at all. I would just pity their black hearts and remain nobly silent.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:17 AM (3ipea)

726 665 You need to lighten up. It is supposed to be fun here.

Posted by: wyomingdoglover at August 21, 2017 01:56 AM (7N26M)
-------------------------
High-school lunchrooms are not FUN.
Cliques ganging up on individuals are not FUN.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August 21, 2017 02:17 AM (0jtPF)

727 "The other day on some thread, some Moron surmised that the eclipse was an opening for the Elder Gods to return. I read that to Milady and she said, 'Maetenloch's coming back?'"

Imma let you finish, but no return of the Elder Gods would possibly be complete if it did not include CTHULHU!!!

Posted by: torquewrench at August 21, 2017 02:18 AM (ujwCG)

728 Coothie, not Maet.

I miss them both.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:18 AM (3ipea)

729 We need Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, Azathoth, the whole abhorrent pantheon.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:20 AM (0mRoj)

730 Huh, thought he said it was like being poked to death by a dick.

Well, there are worse ways to go.....

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:21 AM (3ipea)

731 Tonight's "To be expected" consists of all these women online who are defending Joss Whedon against his ex-wife's remarks.

Daughters of the women who said they'd happily give Clinton blowjobs.

*sigh*

Posted by: Shopgirl at August 21, 2017 02:21 AM (oze3i)

732
Seriously what job do you ever need permission to go to the bathroom
for, unless its a continuous production job and you need someone to
cover your spot.
---

No, this is not an assembly line job, and in the past have never had to do such a thing. However, suddenly I was in the wrong and it was a "where are you going, why are you going there and do you have permission?" moment. Which is why I went to a bitchiness level of almost 11 immediately.

This is the same boss that sat in the crew room the other day and denigrated one of the other female workers. Said in front of a room of his employees and contract labor that she was a bad worker and didn't want her to work with anyone else, because it might rub off on them.

BTW... she's not a bad worker.

For those who haven't experienced it, that's what a bad boss is like.

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:22 AM (aT+Bx)

733 730 Huh, thought he said it was like being poked to death by a dick.

Well, there are worse ways to go.....
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:21 AM (3ipea)

Speak for yourself.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:22 AM (0mRoj)

734 High-school lunchrooms are not FUN.
Cliques ganging up on individuals are not FUN.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at August

sometimes people get picked on because they piss the herd off.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 02:22 AM (0wem/)

735 >> Then there are the walleye boobs.

Or nipples point in opposite directions -- giving a cross eye effect. One nipple pointing up and the other down.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:22 AM (8O3HH)

736 Blanco Basura: Maet would nice, but there is another. Yeah, him.

You don't mean...

Gabe?

Posted by: mindful webworker - ho ho ho it's yo ko at August 21, 2017 02:23 AM (TnoDk)

737 Tonight's "To be expected" consists of all these women online who are defending Joss Whedon against his ex-wife's remarks.
---

I might be proud to admit that I don't know who Joss Whedon is, outside of "Hollywood dude."

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:24 AM (aT+Bx)

738 Does your uncle have a birthmark shaped like a moose?
Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:14 AM (0mRoj)

That's not the sort of question a lady likes to ask her uncle, child.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:24 AM (3ipea)

739 Or nipples point in opposite directions -- giving a cross eye effect. One nipple pointing up and the other down.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:22 AM (8O3HH)

One lookin' at you, and one lookin' for you.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 02:24 AM (2le8w)

740 Since there won't be any solar radiation pressure on me tomorrow for a couple of minutes, should I pop off an earthquake or two?

Posted by: Yellowstone Super Volcano at August 21, 2017 02:25 AM (WB1Kh)

741 No, this is not an assembly line job, and in the past have never had to do such a thing. However, suddenly I was in the wrong and it was a "where are you going, why are you going there and do you have permission?" moment. Which is why I went to a bitchiness level of almost 11 immediately.

This is the same boss that sat in the crew room the other day and denigrated one of the other female workers. Said in front of a room of his employees and contract labor that she was a bad worker and didn't want her to work with anyone else, because it might rub off on them.

BTW... she's not a bad worker.

For those who haven't experienced it, that's what a bad boss is like.

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:22 AM (aT+Bx)

Kind of sounds like an asshole that doesn't like working with women.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 02:25 AM (cAnNx)

742 Via Breitbart, CNN is now asking if Trump is mentally ill.

Wow.

Just... wow.

It's like they're in the Nazi uniforms, holding a gun at a lineup of Jews who are headed towards that gas chamber and are shouting "no, YOU'RE the Nazi!!!!!"

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:26 AM (aT+Bx)

743 Does your uncle have a birthmark shaped like a moose?
Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:14 AM (0mRoj)

That's not the sort of question a lady likes to ask her uncle, child.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:24 AM (3ipea)

I have a birthmark on my ankle shaped like a drop of welding slag. Oh, wait....I thought I smelled smoke.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 02:26 AM (2le8w)

744 738 Does your uncle have a birthmark shaped like a moose?
Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:14 AM (0mRoj)

That's not the sort of question a lady likes to ask her uncle, child.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:24 AM (3ipea)

Well is he at least from Frostbite Falls?

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:27 AM (0mRoj)

745 sometimes people get picked on because they piss the herd off.
Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 02:22 AM (0wem/)

Ah, but some things are mere annoyances, and not worth being mean about, not really. Especially when it's more a case of self absorption than any bad behavior.

I still miss chemjeff, and hate to see a replay.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:27 AM (3ipea)

746 737 Tonight's "To be expected" consists of all these women online who are defending Joss Whedon against his ex-wife's remarks.
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I might be proud to admit that I don't know who Joss Whedon is, outside of "Hollywood dude."

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:24 AM (aT+Bx)

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly. And he directed the first and second Avengers movies.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 02:28 AM (cAnNx)

747 Since there won't be any solar radiation pressure on me tomorrow for a couple of minutes, should I pop off an earthquake or two?

Posted by: Yellowstone Super Volcano at August 21, 2017 02:25 AM (WB1Kh)

And the Sun and Moon are both sucking in the same direction, too. Go for it!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 02:28 AM (2le8w)

748 Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:27 AM (0mRoj)

Well, most of them are from Mingo County or the Tallulah Gorge!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:29 AM (3ipea)

749 Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:27 AM (3ipea)

He was cool up until the TrumpWars. Then like many others he went off the rails.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:30 AM (0mRoj)

750 Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 02:26 AM (2le8w)

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:30 AM (3ipea)

751 Robert, could your song be "In the Garden of Allah" by Don Henley? He does a running narrative as the devil in that song, goes on about, "...there is no right, there is no wrong, only winning, winning winning."

Posted by: Western Slope Mope at August 21, 2017 02:30 AM (WrMht)

752 Kind of sounds like an asshole that doesn't like working with women.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 02:25 AM
---

Yep.

You see, there's that whole "wow, women have it made in the workplace, you can scream discrimination at any point," and I'm sure in some cases, that's true. In the job in question, there are FOUR women in a workplace of 40. I think they'd like 0 out of 40.

I've worked in live events for years, and there are many people who do not want women in those jobs. So there is low level crap like that going on, most especially at this job. It's not enough to go to HR, and it's not typically enough for a lawsuit, but, over time, it wears on you.

BTW... the VP of the department is also a member of the He Man Woman Haters Club, so he picks his supervisors accordingly.

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:31 AM (aT+Bx)

753 BTW... the VP of the department is also a member of the He Man Woman Haters Club, so he picks his supervisors accordingly.
Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:31 AM (aT+Bx)

I always wondered what Spanky was up to these days.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:33 AM (0mRoj)

754 Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly. And he directed the first and second Avengers movies.
---

So, I was thinking "director." And I was right.

I also seem to think of him as some sort of Gen X guy with a scruffy beard who looks like Michael Moore minus 250 lbs.

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:34 AM (aT+Bx)

755 Speak for yourself.
Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:22 AM (0mRoj)

LOL!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:34 AM (3ipea)

756 Oooh! Sort of what I wanted, and was blabbing about above.

The assassination-wishing MO legislator "apologized" to Trump and family and MO colleagues for her outrageous (quickly deleted) comment.

Not sure if she also apologized to the slimy Holocaust-ish message she directed toward the governor.

Anyway, seems she isn't resigning - oh, her judgement will come from Christ, you see.

Perfect. Just afraid she'll be careful, now. What we need is 1,000 Maxine Waters barfing up nonsense 24/7, to the point where some news of its leaks, and normal people see/hear it.

Well, not sure about "need", it may be all academic anyway. But the bonfire of the civic culture is at least more entertaining when the barbarians are clumsy and ludicrous.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 21, 2017 02:35 AM (cJDvr)

757 What happened to chemjeff?

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 02:35 AM (smD62)

758
There's some claims I've seen. During a solar eclipse, the gravitational tidal stresses are the highest. It's not apparent, but highest tides occur during both new and full moon.

Anyway, when there is a perfect alignment, the tidal stresses are the highest, and some claim that can trigger earthquakes over sensitive spots. Seismic activity is higher doing the full and new moon phases, as well.

So.......New Madrid may go off! Yellowstone may blow!!

Seriously, there is some basis for this, but just how strong this effect is, I don't know. It's certainly not a proven thing.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:35 AM (8O3HH)

759 So, I was thinking "director." And I was right.

I also seem to think of him as some sort of Gen X guy with a scruffy beard who looks like Michael Moore minus 250 lbs.

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:34 AM (aT+Bx)

Yeah, that's about right.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 02:36 AM (cAnNx)

760
Yep.

You see, there's that whole "wow, women have it made in the workplace, you can scream discrimination at any point," and I'm sure in some cases, that's true. In the job in question, there are FOUR women in a workplace of 40. I think they'd like 0 out of 40.

I've worked in live events for years, and there are many people who do not want women in those jobs. So there is low level crap like that going on, most especially at this job. It's not enough to go to HR, and it's not typically enough for a lawsuit, but, over time, it wears on you.

BTW... the VP of the department is also a member of the He Man Woman Haters Club, so he picks his supervisors accordingly.

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:31 AM (aT+Bx)

Can I guess that they are hardcore democrats?

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 02:38 AM (cAnNx)

761 So.......New Madrid may go off! Yellowstone may blow!!
--

Yeah, but what about those of us not impacted by New Madrid or Yellowstone?

We have to wait around for the Norks to nuke us. Which doesn't seem fair at all!

/SMOD, where are you???

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:39 AM (aT+Bx)

762 You see, there's that whole "wow, women have it made in the workplace,
you can scream discrimination at any point," and I'm sure in some cases,
that's true. In the job in question, there are FOUR women in a
workplace of 40. I think they'd like 0 out of 40.

Paolo loves the women in the workplace. And in the home place. Paolo pretty much loves them anywhere he can get 20 minutes alone with them.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 21, 2017 02:39 AM (IcT7t)

763 Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:30 AM (0mRoj)

There was a subtle vein of meanness running through a lot of commenters towards him long before Trump. Long before Trump.

Was it JeffB who was so bad to him all the time? Or Empire of Jeff, who I adore, but anyway....someone was nasty all the time to chemjeff, or at least most of the time. Lotta Hello Kitty references,which may have been funny once, but it often led to picking on behavior.

I know some people really grate, but seriously...can't you just scroll past it?

I truly don't understand why we can't just ignore even the really bad stuff myself, but I do understand that some things can't be tolerated that 'd get ace in trouble.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:40 AM (3ipea)

764 What happened to chemjeff?

He lost it when the local Applebee's closed. Said it was Trump's fault. At least, that's what I think happened.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 21, 2017 02:40 AM (IcT7t)

765 Good night, deplorable malcontents.

I've got to rest up for the Big Armageddon tomorrow.

And the dentist.

But mostly the dentist.

Posted by: mindful webworker - toothily at August 21, 2017 02:40 AM (TnoDk)

766 Can I guess that they are hardcore democrats?
---

I avoid interacting with the two bad supervisors, but I'd bet money on it.

Also, as per a conversation from last summer, the one that I interacted with today seems to think that Europe is totally safe and there are no "refugee issues" or "rapes."

Posted by: shibumi at August 21, 2017 02:42 AM (aT+Bx)

767 Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:35 AM (8O3HH)

You shut your whore mouth, you know we're both ( I think?) pretty damn close to that!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:42 AM (3ipea)

768 What happened to chemjeff?

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 02:35 AM (smD62)

He got a full-blown case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and flounced.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 02:42 AM (2le8w)

769 some people know how to take ALL the fun out of the ONT.

Posted by: redc1c4 at August 21, 2017 02:43 AM (BOpNY)

770 Joss the Vagina Layer.

Posted by: Rename Everything at August 21, 2017 02:45 AM (bc2Lc)

771 There was a subtle vein of meanness running through a lot of commenters towards him long before Trump. Long before Trump.

Was it JeffB who was so bad to him all the time? Or Empire of Jeff, who I adore, but anyway....someone was nasty all the time to chemjeff, or at least most of the time. Lotta Hello Kitty references,which may have been funny once, but it often led to picking on behavior.

Huh. I honestly hadn't noticed that. He never bothered me until he got on his NeverTrump one-note Johnny kick.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:45 AM (0mRoj)

772 Posted by: mindful webworker - artificially intelligible at August 21, 2017 02:09 AM (TnoDk)

Or not!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:46 AM (3ipea)

773 763 Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:30 AM (0mRoj)

There was a subtle vein of meanness running through a lot of commenters towards him long before Trump. Long before Trump.

Was it JeffB who was so bad to him all the time? Or Empire of Jeff, who I adore, but anyway....someone was nasty all the time to chemjeff, or at least most of the time. Lotta Hello Kitty references,which may have been funny once, but it often led to picking on behavior.

I know some people really grate, but seriously...can't you just scroll past it?

I truly don't understand why we can't just ignore even the really bad stuff myself, but I do understand that some things can't be tolerated that 'd get ace in trouble.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:40 AM (3ipea)

Not really. People were very critical of his defending the Paul Ryan "We totally did good with our give the Democrats everything final CR." And then he truly went off the deep end with immigration and Trump. Of course even then some were taking it too far. For instance going after him for simply saying "hello" on an ONT. But he was definitely passive aggressive in a lot of behavior and after his multiple flouncings acted like he wanted ace to ban him to fulfill some martyr complex.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 02:46 AM (cAnNx)

774 I keep meaning to ask y'all what is the damn deal with Hope Solo?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:47 AM (3ipea)

775
Paolo is only good for 20 minutes?

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:47 AM (8O3HH)

776 774 I keep meaning to ask y'all what is the damn deal with Hope Solo?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:47 AM (3ipea)

She was one of the victims of "The Fappening" and some of her pics were of her chocolate starfish.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 02:48 AM (cAnNx)

777 775
Paolo is only good for 20 minutes?
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:47 AM (8O3HH)

The Paolo, he has a very full schedule.

Posted by: Paolo at August 21, 2017 02:48 AM (0mRoj)

778 "Kind of sounds like an asshole that doesn't like working with women."

We had a guy in our lab that was that way. He had some hair up his ass about having a female boss. That woman fought harder for us lab rats than most of the males did before her. My problems with her were about micromanagement. She overall was a good boss though. Oddly enough the chick hater got laid off.

Posted by: X-ray at August 21, 2017 02:48 AM (zoSd2)

779 Butt hole pics

Posted by: wyomingdoglover at August 21, 2017 02:48 AM (j4sAj)

780 G'night everyone.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at August 21, 2017 02:51 AM (IcT7t)

781 I keep meaning to ask y'all what is the damn deal with Hope Solo?
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:47 AM (3ipea)

Her phone was hacked and several dirty picture she had sent to her hubby were leaked. In a couple of them she's squatting in front of a mirror, exposing everything.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 21, 2017 02:51 AM (Tnhbr)

782 >> I keep meaning to ask y'all what is the damn
>> deal with Hope Solo?

Oh boy..... seriously?

Let's see how can say this. There was a great leak of hacked celebrity nudes called "The Fappening". The celebs took various nude photos of themselves on their phones and hackers got 'em and leaked them.

Well, our gal Hope Solo was one of 'em. You can put that in Google and find them. It provoked much mirth and merriment from the Horde, being, well, the bunch of pervs we are.

She liked showing off her "Moon" there. Close up, wide open shots of the old, well you know.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:51 AM (8O3HH)

783 She was one of the victims of "The Fappening" and some of her pics were of her chocolate starfish.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 02:48 AM (cAnNx)

Moral: don't take no butthole pictures, won't be no butthole pictures.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 02:52 AM (2le8w)

784 >> Butt hole pics

You guys just come out and say it, and me, I have to beat around the bush for a couple paragraphs to say it without just directly saying it.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:52 AM (8O3HH)

785 Ah, I see. Or rather, thank God I didn't.

That's kind of gross.

But I know you reprobates loved it, God bless your...hearts.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:53 AM (3ipea)

786 Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 02:46 AM (cAnNx)

I had gone on hiatus by then, but surely you remember long before that.

I know he was awful about Trump and the Muslims and he stuck up for his students and maybe even had a Muzzie gf for awhile.

But years before that, someone and I think it was JeffB, but hell maybe it was Bla*er, was usually pretty damned snide to him.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:54 AM (3ipea)

787 Let's see how can say this. There was a great leak of hacked celebrity nudes called "The Fappening". The celebs took various nude photos of themselves on their phones and hackers got 'em and leaked them.

Well, our gal Hope Solo was one of 'em. You can put that in Google and find them. It provoked much mirth and merriment from the Horde, being, well, the bunch of pervs we are.

She liked showing off her "Moon" there. Close up, wide open shots of the old, well you know.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:51 AM (8O3HH)

What's really strange though is the meme here didn't start with the Fappening.

It started during either the Olympics last year, or the 2015 Women's World Cup.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 02:54 AM (cAnNx)

788 That's kind of gross.

But I know you reprobates loved it, God bless your...hearts.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:53 AM (3ipea)

Honestly, I felt kinda sad for her. I saw the pictures, and she doesn't look happy. She looks rather miserable in them.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 21, 2017 02:55 AM (Tnhbr)

789 I"ll have you know it took me several minutes to get that comment to post, kept getting rejected for spam. Was beginning to think I pissed Mis Hum off!

Finally realized it was Bla*er .

Man, off all nights to miss, that was one for the ages.

I missed Treacher's meltdown, too.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:56 AM (3ipea)

790
I remember when the Hope pics came into our awareness. Sort of gaped open in our consciousness.

I didn't know anything about it, then, until I saw it here. I think that was the case with a lot of the Horde.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:56 AM (8O3HH)

791 All right, time for me to punch out. Those virgins aren't going to sacrifice themselves during the eclipse so I'll need my strength. Be well, ya reprobates.

Posted by: Insomniac at August 21, 2017 02:56 AM (0mRoj)

792 But I know you reprobates loved it, God bless your...hearts.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:53 AM (3ipea)

What we really loved was all the indignation expressed by these stupid people, when feelthy peectures that they, or their partners willingly took, and stored in the "Cloud" got hacked. So utterly avoidable. See 783

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 02:57 AM (2le8w)

793 She looks rather miserable in them.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 21, 2017 02:55 AM (Tnhbr)

Dude, that's her fierce, sexy face!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:57 AM (3ipea)

794
ANd besides the ol' browneye, there were some question of her "grooming skills" that provoked much merriment with the horde as well.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 02:57 AM (8O3HH)

795 Dude, that's her fierce, sexy face!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:57 AM (3ipea)

LOL, nope. Just kind of RBF mixed with annoyance and boredom.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 21, 2017 02:58 AM (Tnhbr)

796 But I know you reprobates loved it, God bless your...hearts.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:53 AM (3ipea)

Is a 'reprobate' above or below a 'deplorable' in the pecking order?

Asking for myself.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2017 02:58 AM (BIsma)

797 795 Dude, that's her fierce, sexy face!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:57 AM (3ipea)

LOL, nope. Just kind of RBF mixed with annoyance and boredom.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 21, 2017 02:58 AM (Tnhbr)

Think her hubby was badgering her for "sexy pics" and finally she just went "Fine, here."

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 02:59 AM (cAnNx)

798 Think her hubby was badgering her for "sexy pics" and finally she just went "Fine, here."
Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 02:59 AM (cAnNx)

I agree.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 21, 2017 03:00 AM (Tnhbr)

799
Was Jennifer Lawrence in the Fappening as well? She took some broweye shots, too. Well, she was in what I call "The Position", head down, ass up, everything wide open.

That was what got Ken Buck in trouble. He commented that was the prettiest, well, you know he'd ever seen or something, and the left destroyed him over it. What a perv.

ANd of course, that's nothing compared to the perversion and debauchery they're into. On a slow day. Made me sick.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 03:00 AM (8O3HH)

800 Okay listen...this may be a dumb question but...

when guys ask for "sexy" pics....and I haven't seen the ones in question, but....isn't a picture in a tight black dress or maybe of a woman biting her lower lip. Or maybe a little bit of cleavage. Or, so and and so forth....aren't those kinds of things exponentially more "sexy" than.....hey look at this hole.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 03:03 AM (smD62)

801 Moral: don't take no butthole pictures, won't be no butthole pictures.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 02:52 AM (2le8w)

Word.
Ain't nothing new under the sun, but if you're gonna do that sort of thing ( and who's to blame you?) ya gotta have a plan.

I bought Thor a Polaroid decades ago ( yea, get off my gawt damned lawn) and I made sure I kept the pictures. Same thing when video cameras came out, I kept that shiz under lock and key .

And for the record, there were no butthole pictures!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 03:04 AM (3ipea)

802 grooming skills" that provoked much merriment with the horde as well.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August

? what were the grooming criticisms?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:04 AM (0wem/)

803 I don't recall if Hope Solo was in the Fappening or not. I know Jennifer Lawrence was, as was Kate Upton. I sort of thought the Hope Solo pics surfaced at the time of her antics at the Brazil Olympics?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 03:04 AM (2le8w)

804 802 grooming skills" that provoked much merriment with the horde as well.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August

? what were the grooming criticisms?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:04 AM (0wem/)

Lack of bleaching?

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 03:05 AM (cAnNx)

805 I missed Treacher's meltdown, too.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:56 AM (3ipea)

Wait, what?

That's one I'd love a quick recap on, not an Ace movie review.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2017 03:05 AM (BIsma)

806 Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2017 02:58 AM (BIsma)

Who is doing the pecking?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 03:05 AM (3ipea)

807 when guys ask for "sexy" pics....and I haven't seen the ones in question, but....isn't a picture in a tight black dress or maybe of a woman biting her lower lip. Or maybe a little bit of cleavage. Or, so and and so forth....aren't those kinds of things exponentially more "sexy" than.....hey look at this hole.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 03:03 AM (smD62)

Maybe, but those types of pictures generally require another person to take them. Naughty selfies are gonna be in a mirror or a closeup of body parts. That said, the full gynecological exam is a bit silly, IMHO.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 21, 2017 03:05 AM (Tnhbr)

808 Word.
Ain't nothing new under the sun, but if you're gonna do that sort of thing ( and who's to blame you?) ya gotta have a plan.

I bought Thor a Polaroid decades ago ( yea, get off my gawt damned lawn) and I made sure I kept the pictures. Same thing when video cameras came out, I kept that shiz under lock and key .

And for the record, there were no butthole pictures!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August

well, none that you took.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:06 AM (0wem/)

809 803: Yep that was it. I remember the event of it coming her, but not the time. But I think that was it.

Hope Solo shot her mouth off in some sore loser thing, and someone mentioned the browneye shots.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 03:06 AM (8O3HH)

810 803 I don't recall if Hope Solo was in the Fappening or not. I know Jennifer Lawrence was, as was Kate Upton. I sort of thought the Hope Solo pics surfaced at the time of her antics at the Brazil Olympics?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 03:04 AM (2le8w)

As I said, she was part of the Fappening. The meme here came about during that or the World Cup. Her bitchy antics brought her to the attention of the Horde which got the pictures brought up.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 03:06 AM (cAnNx)

811 when guys ask for "sexy" pics....and I haven't seen the ones in question, but....isn't a picture in a tight black dress or maybe of a woman biting her lower lip. Or maybe a little bit of cleavage. Or, so and and so forth....aren't those kinds of things exponentially more "sexy" than.....hey look at this hole.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 03:03 AM (smD62)

There's a difference between nude glamor shots, and out-and-out porno pics.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 03:07 AM (2le8w)

812 Wait, what?

That's one I'd love a quick recap on, not an Ace movie review.
Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2017 03:05 AM (BIsma)

Something set Treacher off, and he ended up in a nasty fight with several commenters here one night. This was after he was hit by the Secret Service and was dealing with all of that.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 21, 2017 03:07 AM (Tnhbr)

813 Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2017 03:05 AM (BIsma)

Well, I was not around that night, so someone else will have to fill you in, but I would only ask that you remember that he had recently been run over by a State Department SUV. Or was it the Secret Service?

But he was not in his right mind.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 03:07 AM (3ipea)

814 don't recall if Hope Solo was in the Fappening or not. I know Jennifer Lawrence was, as was Kate Upton. I sort of thought the Hope Solo pics surfaced at the time of her antics at the Brazil Olympics?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August

Well, did not happen across the Kate Upton fappening photos until long after they were on the web. Made me reconsider my position on her. She still has a funky waist line but she is a naughty naught girl in definite need of spanking.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:08 AM (0wem/)

815 Lack of bleaching?
Posted by: buzzion at August

Bleaching, hell, how about wiping?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:10 AM (0wem/)

816 805 I missed Treacher's meltdown, too.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 02:56 AM (3ipea)

Wait, what?

That's one I'd love a quick recap on, not an Ace movie review.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2017 03:05 AM (BIsma)

Treacher was in the comments. Being a bit of a dick. Empire of Jeff snarked at him about the car hitting him, being unaware that he was still dealing with health problems because of it. Treacher lost his shit, EOJ apologized, and he continued to lose his shit and carry it over into the ONT thread and going after other people. And then Gabe showed up and acted like the liberal that he is and had to equally punish the bully and the people he was going after that decided to stick up for themselves.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 03:10 AM (cAnNx)

817 As I said, she was part of the Fappening. The meme here came about during that or the World Cup. Her bitchy antics brought her to the attention of the Horde which got the pictures brought up.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 03:06 AM (cAnNx)

OK, I concede you that. I guess, at the time of the Fappening, Hope Solo was all but unknown outside of fans of womens' soccer, whereas JLaw, and Kate Upton were big names.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 03:10 AM (2le8w)

818 Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 03:03 AM (smD62)

Do not under any circumstances answer those kinds of emails, just delete them.

They are not interested in some coy little boudoir shot.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 03:10 AM (3ipea)

819 Looked like hope solo had the whole klingon empire hanging on down there.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:10 AM (0wem/)

820 Who is doing the pecking?

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 03:05 AM (3ipea)

Well, I'm a deplorable reprobate. I was jus' wonderin' if I should stick with one or the other.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2017 03:11 AM (BIsma)

821 >> ? what were the grooming criticisms?

"Corona" problems. If you're gonna show it off in porn star fashion, need a proper wax and bleach. No problem with J-Law there, IIRC....

Also, things were pretty meaty on the old, uh, pink flesh flaps, and that provoked some comments. Some dude put a parody page, and he made a homage, a nice reproduction of the pink shot with an Arby's roast beef sandwich.

And yes, I know I'm a perv for keeping all this fresh in my mind. I was born that way.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 03:12 AM (8O3HH)

822 Treacher was in the comments. Being a bit of a dick. Empire of Jeff snarked at him about the car hitting him, being unaware that he was still dealing with health problems because of it. Treacher lost his shit, EOJ apologized, and he continued to lose his shit and carry it over into the ONT thread and going after other people. And then Gabe showed up and acted like the liberal that he is and had to equally punish the bully and the people he was going after that decided to stick up for themselves.
Posted by: buzzion at August

Sow are you committing the entire blog to memory so you can pass it down orally in the camps?

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:12 AM (0wem/)

823 817 As I said, she was part of the Fappening. The meme here came about during that or the World Cup. Her bitchy antics brought her to the attention of the Horde which got the pictures brought up.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 03:06 AM (cAnNx)

OK, I concede you that. I guess, at the time of the Fappening, Hope Solo was all but unknown outside of fans of womens' soccer, whereas JLaw, and Kate Upton were big names.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 03:10 AM (2le8w)

Yeah she was a minor note in that at the time of the Fappening. But once you're being a raging bitch on the world stage... well even morons are going to notice you.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 03:12 AM (cAnNx)

824 well, none that you took.
Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:06 AM (0wem/)

I don't have much of an ass, though!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 03:12 AM (3ipea)

825 @807

exactly my point.

I think guys are sexy. I don't know that I want to see pictures of their genitalia.

I have to imagine it's the same way...they find women generally sexy and may even find their nude figure sexy...but they don't necessarily need to see the up close details.

Posted by: Tickled Pink at August 21, 2017 03:13 AM (smD62)

826 "Corona" problems. If you're gonna show it off in porn star fashion, need a proper wax and bleach. No problem with J-Law there, IIRC....

Also, things were pretty meaty on the old, uh, pink flesh flaps, and that provoked some comments. Some dude put a parody page, and he made a homage, a nice reproduction of the pink shot with an Arby's roast beef sandwich.

And yes, I know I'm a perv for keeping all this fresh in my mind. I was born that way.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August

Thanks. Scotch out the nose. Best laugh in more than a week.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:13 AM (0wem/)

827 819 Looked like hope solo had the whole klingon empire hanging on down there.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:10 AM (0wem/)

Go look up the new look of the Klingons for that new Star Trek Discovery series.

Awful.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 03:13 AM (cAnNx)

828 Yea, I really think allowances ought to have been made for Treacher.

Does anyone ever hear from Gabe? I know he was on Twitter a lot, but I was afraid i"d get arrested if I kept going back on.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 03:15 AM (3ipea)

829 Thanks, all, for the responses. I had forgotten about Treacher being run over by a Secret Service SUV (at least I think I remember now it was a Secret Service SUV in a motorcade).

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2017 03:16 AM (BIsma)

830 Do not under any circumstances answer those kinds of emails, just delete them.

They are not interested in some coy little boudoir shot.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 03:10 AM (3ipea)

Or simply send a picture of a pair of great tits: (sfw)

http://preview.tinyurl.com/yc8eg87e

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 03:16 AM (2le8w)

831 I don't have much of an ass, though!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August

Well, there is a chance that when I was in high school there was a thing for a while where someone would happen across someone's unattended camera shove it in their pants, snap a few shots and walk away, leaving the camera where they had found it. No one that I know of ever shoved it down the back of their pants but there had to be someone once.

One time some girl may have said "why does my camera have pubes on it?"

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:16 AM (0wem/)

832 Well, there is a chance that when I was in high school there was a thing for a while where someone would happen across someone's unattended camera shove it in their pants, snap a few shots and walk away, leaving the camera where they had found it. No one that I know of ever shoved it down the back of their pants but there had to be someone once.

One time some girl may have said "why does my camera have pubes on it?"

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:16 AM (0wem/)

The danger of disposable cameras for wedding photos at a wedding reception.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 03:17 AM (cAnNx)

833 Made the mistake of spending a few hours reading the news. Ugh. Vomitous.

BUT...the Antifa petition hit over 100,000. Yay.

The Boston rally did not give the Antifa the fight they wanted, deflating them and disappointing their puppet masters.

So I'll take those 2 good things.

How anti-fa & free speech are now on different sides is an odious creation of the press. I mean, I'm both anti-fascist & pro free speech. They used to be the same thing. But the press has twisted & perverted their meaning.

And when did white privilege morph to white supremacy?

/rant over

Move along.

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 21, 2017 03:18 AM (TE+16)

834 The danger of disposable cameras for wedding photos at a wedding reception.
Posted by: buzzion at August

Yeah that too.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:19 AM (0wem/)

835 Well, bedtime for tired Peons. Night, horde.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 21, 2017 03:19 AM (2le8w)

836 night Alberta Oil Peon

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:20 AM (0wem/)

837 No, baby, they wanna see all the details.

I mean, I suppose there are levels, I mean, obviously they're making fun of Ms Solo, so perhaps not that much detail.

Or maybe just better attention to detail, as in fastidious grooming of the er, starfish.

They also prefer the lights on at all times, ALL the lights, the brighter the better, or at least Thor does.

Cuz they don't wanna miss a thing!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 03:20 AM (3ipea)

838 Heh. So I'm watching Summerslam. WWE has a sponsorship deal with KFC, so they do bits of the wrestlers trying to be the next Colonel. Shawn Michaels came out as the new one.

https://youtu.be/E3pDb4cquOE

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 03:21 AM (cAnNx)

839 No, baby, they wanna see all the details.

I mean, I suppose there are levels, I mean, obviously they're making fun of Ms Solo, so perhaps not that much detail.

Or maybe just better attention to detail, as in fastidious grooming of the er, starfish.

They also prefer the lights on at all times, ALL the lights, the brighter the better, or at least Thor does.

Cuz they don't wanna miss a thing!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August

and

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:22 AM (0wem/)

840 822 Treacher was in the comments. Being a bit of a dick. Empire of Jeff snarked at him about the car hitting him, being unaware that he was still dealing with health problems because of it. Treacher lost his shit, EOJ apologized, and he continued to lose his shit and carry it over into the ONT thread and going after other people. And then Gabe showed up and acted like the liberal that he is and had to equally punish the bully and the people he was going after that decided to stick up for themselves.
Posted by: buzzion at August

Sow are you committing the entire blog to memory so you can pass it down orally in the camps?
Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:12 AM (

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I know none of these people, but damn sorry I missed it. Sounds interesting.

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 21, 2017 03:22 AM (TE+16)

841 Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August

God I love this place.

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 03:22 AM (3ipea)

842 I know none of these people, but damn sorry I missed it. Sounds interesting.
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August

well, when you get to the camps, look up the buzz.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:23 AM (0wem/)

843 They also prefer the lights on at all times, ALL the lights, the brighter the better, or at least Thor does.

Cuz they don't wanna miss a thing!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August

If the lights are off then the cameras can't record anything!

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 21, 2017 03:23 AM (Tnhbr)

844 Well, I'm a deplorable reprobate. I was jus' wonderin' if I should stick with one or the other.
Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2017 03:11 AM (BIsma)

No, no...you have reached the very pinnacle, and cannot ascend any higher!

Welcome, friend!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 03:24 AM (3ipea)

845
843 They also prefer the lights on at all times, ALL the lights, the brighter the better, or at least Thor does.

Cuz they don't wanna miss a thing!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August

If the lights are off then the cameras can't record anything!

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 21, 2017 03:23 AM (Tnhbr

Paris Hilton on night vision proves you wrong.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 03:24 AM (cAnNx)

846 They also prefer the lights on at all times, ALL the lights, the brighter the better, or at least Thor does.

Cuz they don't wanna miss a thing!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 03:20 AM (3ipea)

Personally, my camera is my visual memory, so yeah, you need the lights. Now if they can ever download my memory onto a flash drive, I'm toast. Or a PornHub star. Or a fine example on a blooper satire site. Depends on who you ask.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2017 03:25 AM (BIsma)

847 yeah hope solo's junk was a little rough looking. seemed she must have tried to block every shot on goal with her crotch.

Posted by: yankeefifth at August 21, 2017 03:26 AM (0wem/)

848 >> Cuz they don't wanna miss a thing!

Amen. Science proves it too. Put any red-blooded man in one of those MRI machines, whatever they call them that light up with brain activity.

Now, show him a picture of a hottie with a lot of "detail". His brain looks like it's having a seizure.

It's hard-wired, in the firmware of the brain circuits. Hell, I can remember, even as a little boy, knowing nothing about sex having certain reactions to certain stimulu involving the female form.

I had no idea why or what the hell was happening.

That was the low level circuits, even at the early age responding to the stimuli. Sort of taking their first baby steps, you might say.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 03:27 AM (8O3HH)

849 Sorta in line with this, uh, conversation, my boy heads off to sixth grade tomorrow, the proud owner of a new (el cheapo) calculator. So, being an 'ette in good standing, I showed him how to spell, uh, 80,085 on the display. Yeah. Just a number. Yeah.

He should be the life of the playground for a couple of days, at least.

Posted by: tcn in AK at August 21, 2017 03:30 AM (NXsWM)

850 Okay, I am so sleepy I can barely see...I must say good night.

And thank you for so many laughs!

And maybe also think about how we're fighting these fucking psycho leftists, and should focus our anger there instead of inward? And get a bit of backbone and stiff upper lips and such.

Bon soir, mon amis!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 03:31 AM (3ipea)

851 No, no...you have reached the very pinnacle, and cannot ascend any higher!

Welcome, friend!

Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at August 21, 2017 03:24 AM (3ipea)

Thanks for the welcome to club. But are you sure you have the direction right? I've always maintained having friends in low places means you can have a helluva good time. Just never leave home without that bail bondsman's card in your wallet.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2017 03:32 AM (BIsma)

852 "Corona" problems. If you're gonna show it off in porn star fashion, need a proper wax and bleach. No problem with J-Law there, IIRC....

Gee, thanks, I guess.

Posted by: Jude Law at August 21, 2017 03:32 AM (8x8kp)

853 848 >> Cuz they don't wanna miss a thing!

Amen. Science proves it too. Put any red-blooded man in one of those MRI machines, whatever they call them that light up with brain activity.

Now, show him a picture of a hottie with a lot of "detail". His brain looks like it's having a seizure.

It's hard-wired, in the firmware of the brain circuits. Hell, I can remember, even as a little boy, knowing nothing about sex having certain reactions to certain stimulu involving the female form.

I had no idea why or what the hell was happening.

That was the low level circuits, even at the early age responding to the stimuli. Sort of taking their first baby steps, you might say.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 03:27 AM (8O3HH)

My dad tells a story about us being on a vacation in a hotel elevator when I was I think kindergarten age or even a bit younger. And a bunch of girls in bikini's got in with us. After they got off the elevator I said "Woo woo dad."

I do have a memory of that too.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 03:32 AM (cAnNx)

854 well, when you get to the camps, look up the buzz.
Y5
----
Camps? Are these good camps or bad camps?

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 21, 2017 03:33 AM (TE+16)

855 Question for Top Commenters:

How many hours a week do you spend on the computer?
And when do you get your chores done?

Posted by: ALH at August 21, 2017 03:33 AM (AYrAT)

856 And when do you get your chores done?

Posted by: ALH at August 21, 2017 03:33 AM (AYrAT)

I guess it all depends on the meaning of 'chores'.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2017 03:35 AM (BIsma)

857 Omg! Look at the time.
Well, that's what I get for doing a news binge and missing out on the hijinks here. Bad call on my part.

Guess I'm out. Nite all.

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 21, 2017 03:36 AM (TE+16)

858 Camps? Are these good camps or bad camps?
Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 21, 2017 03:33 AM (TE+16)

Depends how you feel about Social Justice sing-a-longs, forced macrame and macaroni pictures of Che Guevara.

Posted by: Bilwis, Devourer of Gluten Free Souls at August 21, 2017 03:37 AM (tMFgx)

859 Camps? Are these good camps or bad camps?

Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 21, 2017 03:33 AM (TE+16)

The good camps will serve tree bark soup with some greasy rat meat in it. The bad camps will serve only vegetarian tree bark soup.

Posted by: RickZ at August 21, 2017 03:38 AM (BIsma)

860 He should be the life of the playground for a couple of days, at least.
Posted by: tcn in AK at August 21, 2017 03:30 AM (NXsWM)

The answer to many a young lads dreams.

But as we get older, the only place to find them is government.

Posted by: Edd Zachary at August 21, 2017 03:39 AM (EUoin)

861 >>Gee, thanks, I guess.
Posted by: Jude Law at August 21, 2017 03:32 AM (8x8kp)

--------------

ROFL.

You know, somehow, unbeknownst to me, that J-Law (*Jennifer* Lawrence, wise guy) somehow got saved here on my hard drive. Don't know how such smut got there.

In The Position, wide open. Nicely groomed. Could have been a little "slicker", but better than Hope by a long shot.

I'm sure she has professional attention.

And with that lastest bit of raunch, I'm gonna have to call it a night. Wonder what I'll dream of tonight....

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at August 21, 2017 03:44 AM (8O3HH)

862 It's good to know that you are always here, Horde.

I don't know what I would do without you guys.

Like tonight, when I wake up with insomnia.

Posted by: ALH at August 21, 2017 03:48 AM (AYrAT)

863 You may have lost Empire of Jeff, but you've gained the privilege of living in the Empire of JEF, so cheer up.

Posted by: Barack Obama at August 21, 2017 03:49 AM (/qEW2)

864 Guess everyone ran away from the Empire of JEF.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 04:12 AM (cAnNx)

865 Posted by: Gorilla Gumdrop at August 21, 2017 03:18 AM (TE+16)

Antifa is an old group. Look at the sidebar. That picture is of their banner, with the insignia virtually unchanged from the one they use today, at the 3rd Communist International (aka Comintern). They've never been big in the USA until recently, but this is an international terrorist group with a history going back for the better part of a century.

They may claim to be anti-fascist, but what they are is communist.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 21, 2017 04:13 AM (J+mig)

866 There should be the "Best Sockpuppet Comment of the Week" here, IMHO! I don't get to read enough Moron remarks as I'd like, and would appreciate a good laugh at week's end.

Posted by: Very Undude at August 21, 2017 04:15 AM (2X7pN)

867 My dad tells a story about us being on a vacation in a hotel elevator when I was I think kindergarten age or even a bit younger. And a bunch of girls in bikini's got in with us. After they got off the elevator I said "Woo woo dad."

I do have a memory of that too.

I thought that was going to have a happier ending, IYKWIMAITYD!

Posted by: Very Undude at August 21, 2017 04:25 AM (2X7pN)

868 Good morning horde

Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2017 04:34 AM (pPKG5)

869 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu6--WBPBHo

Still one of the best movie scenes ever.

Good Morning!

Posted by: the guy across the street at August 21, 2017 04:54 AM (sf2BM)

870 Friends SJW daughter going to Hopkinsville, Ky to see eclipse. Best site near Cincinnati. Hope it brings her enlightenment to capitalism as Hop-ville is marketing the hell out of it.

Posted by: Eclipseville, Ky at August 21, 2017 05:13 AM (bc2Lc)

871 Mornin'.

Just back from a week in Colorado. I'm 2 hrs jetlagged and have no damn food in the joint. Grumble grumble...

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 21, 2017 05:18 AM (ul9CR)

872 I think I was the only person LEAVING the Front Range. Eclipse tourists were pouring in.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 21, 2017 05:19 AM (ul9CR)

873 I should have gone to SC

Posted by: Skip at August 21, 2017 05:25 AM (pPKG5)

874 My interest level in the eclipse.

[ ] High
[ ] Low
[X] Barely registers

Posted by: the guy across the street at August 21, 2017 05:26 AM (sf2BM)

875 People paying all that money for travel and accommodations, for a two-minute event. I couldn't believe the throngs. Hotels are cleaning up with inflated prices. It's a once-in-a-lifetime event. I get that. But still. Two freakin' minutes.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 21, 2017 05:53 AM (ul9CR)

876 875 People paying all that money for travel and accommodations, for a two-minute event. I couldn't believe the throngs. Hotels are cleaning up with inflated prices. It's a once-in-a-lifetime event. I get that. But still. Two freakin' minutes.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at August 21, 2017 05:53 AM (ul9CR)

I remember one in middle school. So it would have been early/mid 90's. I could probably drive a couple hours and be at a good location for this one. So twice in a lifetime.

Posted by: buzzion at August 21, 2017 06:00 AM (cAnNx)

877 Sunday Night ONT with 870+ comments?

-Wow.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 21, 2017 06:03 AM (Ckg4U)

878 Would of been more but you weren't here.

Posted by: the guy across the street at August 21, 2017 06:13 AM (sf2BM)

879 Where o'where were you last night?

Posted by: the guy across the street at August 21, 2017 06:14 AM (sf2BM)

880 Yes... doctors say that "sleeping" should be a part of your daily regimen. Who knew?

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 21, 2017 06:14 AM (Ckg4U)

881 Why did you leave me here all alone?

Posted by: the guy across the street at August 21, 2017 06:14 AM (sf2BM)

882 I searched the blog over and thought I found Slap.

Posted by: the guy across the street at August 21, 2017 06:15 AM (sf2BM)

883 But you found another place to comment and

ppfftttt

you were gone.

Posted by: the guy across the street at August 21, 2017 06:16 AM (sf2BM)

884 Could probably make a boatload of money if you ordered a few boxes of cheap eclipse glasses from China before the main event and sold 'em to tourists for 5 bucks a pop.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 21, 2017 06:16 AM (J+mig)

885 Der Spiegel has a pic of Trump wearing a KKK hood, at least the American MFM hasn't stooped that low yet??

Posted by: Colin at August 21, 2017 06:18 AM (lSeoO)

886 885 Der Spiegel has a pic of Trump wearing a KKK hood, at least the American MFM hasn't stooped that low yet??

Posted by: Colin at August 21, 2017 06:18 AM (lSeoO)

Another baseless character assassination.

Must be a day ending in y.

Posted by: Cato the Rebel Without a Party at August 21, 2017 06:19 AM (J+mig)

887

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 21, 2017 06:25 AM (j/Mlu)

888 Well, it looks like 50 percent cloud cover here for the big event. That's too bad, a lot of people were looking forward to it.

Posted by: Bruce at August 21, 2017 06:25 AM (8ikIW)

889 G'morning, all.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 21, 2017 06:26 AM (J+eG2)

890 *hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton

Hills, I've heard from a good source that you can look directly at the sun thru an empty Heineken bottle. You've got one of those laying around?

Posted by: Bruce at August 21, 2017 06:27 AM (8ikIW)

891 Five injured Sailors.
Four medivac'd to Singapore

Ten Missing still.

Prayers for our brothers and sisters at sea.

And their families.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 21, 2017 06:28 AM (J+eG2)

892 The Navy didn't go around crashing ships all the time back in Vic's day. And they didn't have nearly all the fancy shit then like they do now. Things like ...

Radar
Steel Hulls
Intercoms
Steam
Antibiotics

Nope. Sails, a barrel of limes, and buckets to bail with. That was about it. But they made do.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2017 06:34 AM (fiGNd)

893 Nope. Sails, a barrel of limes, and buckets to bail with. That was about it. But they made do.
Posted by: ScoggDog

No grogg?

Posted by: Bruce at August 21, 2017 06:36 AM (8ikIW)

894 Mornin' y'all
Happy Monday

Posted by: wing at August 21, 2017 06:37 AM (Ohl7S)

895 "Nope. Sails, a barrel of limes, and buckets to bail with."

That was Vic's second enlistment.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 21, 2017 06:37 AM (J+eG2)

896 Get ready for a bullshit assault of, dude, historic proportions.
Full-pager in this morning's WSJ:

"Today, Americans know fewer veterans than any other generation.
Because of this, many veterans are asked questions that make assumptions about their service.
Since 2013, we've hired over 10,000 veterans and military spouses --
and we're committed to hiring 15,000 more. Asking better questions has brought us closer as co-workers, neighbors and friends."

READY?

"Starbucks Military Commitment."

You CANNOT
MAKE this SHIT UP.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 21, 2017 06:38 AM (H5rtT)

897 My dad tells a story about us being on a vacation in a hotel elevator when I was I think kindergarten age or even a bit younger. And a bunch of girls in bikini's got in with us. After they got off the elevator I said "Woo woo dad."

I do have a memory of that too.

I thought that was going to have a happier ending, IYKWIMAITYD!
Posted by: Very Undude

Yeah. That age is midget height. I thought a mention of a cannery was in order.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 21, 2017 06:39 AM (R+p/Q)

898 No grogg?
Posted by: Bruce at August 21, 2017 06:36 AM (8ikIW)

Not invented during Vic's time onboard. Back then, if they wanted a buzz, they'd guzzle some sea-water. Sometime before the dehydration set in - you'd get a little high. Unless you died, of course.

Posted by: ScoggDog at August 21, 2017 06:41 AM (fiGNd)

899
Hills, I've heard from a good source that you can look directly at the sun thru an empty Heineken bottle. You've got one of those laying around?

Posted by: Bruce
_______________________

I'ma gonna' use this piece of rock candy, it's not for eatin' it's for looking through...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at August 21, 2017 06:42 AM (j/Mlu)

900 44 shot in Chicago this weekend?

Damn...

Now I understand why those NYPD cops are kneeling in protest.

Cops apparently capping people left and right.

>>> /Sarc <<<

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 21, 2017 06:43 AM (J+eG2)

901 I'ma gonna' use this piece of rock candy, it's not for eatin' it's for looking through...

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton

HA!! Damn near a coffee spit

Posted by: Bruce at August 21, 2017 06:43 AM (8ikIW)

902 you'd get a little high. Unless you died, of course.
Posted by: ScoggDog

Sea water and lime. The original Salty Dog

Posted by: Bruce at August 21, 2017 06:45 AM (8ikIW)

903 Hello, I'm John Davis and THiS IS MOTORWEEK.

After 30 some years, you think he could quit shouting his lines.

Posted by: Bruce at August 21, 2017 06:46 AM (8ikIW)

904 @886

Not true, the New Yorker has Trump on the cover sailing a boat while blowing wind into the sail, the sail look the white hood of the KKK.

The MSM and it's affiliates and satellites are just as venile as their European counterparts.

Posted by: Kreplach at August 21, 2017 06:52 AM (2JcMg)

905 Among the usual Chicago Tribune hate for Trump articles: (hes anti-business now) 1 dead 15 shot. Lets see at $52,000 a hospital bill for each shooting...that's $780,000. That doesn't include rehab, etc. No big deal...

Posted by: Colin at August 21, 2017 06:52 AM (lSeoO)

906 Der Spiegel can put a KKK hood on Trump, but can't even see Merkel's toothbrush mustache?

Huh. "Journalistic standards."
"Shatterhand."

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 21, 2017 06:54 AM (H5rtT)

907 Huh. "Journalistic standards."
"Shatterhand."

You have something against the dog?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 21, 2017 06:56 AM (gIRsn)

908 That doesn't include rehab, etc. No big deal...
Posted by: Colin

On Hey Jackass, it's showing about 124 million in medical cost thru 8/7

Posted by: Bruce at August 21, 2017 06:56 AM (8ikIW)

909 Big Ben to Bong for the last time at 7:00 before being silenced for 4 years for repairs.

Posted by: KWDreaming at August 21, 2017 06:58 AM (S6xeB)

910 On Hey Jackass, it's showing about 124 million in medical cost thru 8/7

Posted by: Bruce at August 21, 2017 06:56 AM (8ikIW)

Hey, Hillary spent that much to look younger and perky...

Posted by: Colin at August 21, 2017 06:59 AM (lSeoO)

911 " Big Ben to Bong for the last time at 7:00 before being silenced for 4 years for repairs."

Maybe go digital.

With really big screens on all four sides?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at August 21, 2017 07:00 AM (J+eG2)

912 Big Ben to Bong for the last time at 7:00 before being silenced for 4 years for repairs.

Four years to fix a clock.

Yeah, that's government.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at August 21, 2017 07:02 AM (oVJmc)

913 F'yeah! Gonna be awesome.

Posted by: Bonnie Tyler at August 21, 2017 07:06 AM (8x8kp)

914 Maybe go digital.
With really big screens on all four sides?
----------------------
Muezzin.
Call to Prayer.
A Certain Party's favourite sound.

Posted by: Stringer Davis at August 21, 2017 07:08 AM (H5rtT)

915 an eclipse across america

big ben silenced

didn't nostradamus write a quatrain about this?

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at August 21, 2017 07:12 AM (AxFdW)

916 Wasn't there something about if Big Ben failed to bong on a certain day, that met the British Empire's days were over, or something like that.

Posted by: Colin at August 21, 2017 07:15 AM (lSeoO)

917 nood

Posted by: Bruce at August 21, 2017 07:16 AM (8ikIW)

918 Conspicuously absent from the mfm's relentless search for lovers of the KKK are Robert Byrd and Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: LASue at August 21, 2017 07:17 AM (hZ+us)

919 the bell will be silenced in the great city.
day will turn to night in the new land.

the master of jokes will reanimate,
to lead one more telethon.

nostradamus

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at August 21, 2017 07:18 AM (AxFdW)

920 "Big Ben to Bong for the last time at 7:00 before being silenced for 4 years for repairs."
-Posted by: KWDreaming at August 21, 2017 06:58 AM (S6xeB)

There's a Roethlisberger Pot-Smoking joke in there somewhere.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at August 21, 2017 07:37 AM (9L4Po)

921 The Jefferson Davis Highway SHOULD BE RENAMED - Drivey McDriveway.

Posted by: Marooned at August 21, 2017 08:22 AM (8hRlF)

922 Democrat Jefferson Davis Highway.

Posted by: DakotaMoonbeam at August 21, 2017 02:06 PM (5Plqo)

923 I have a porsche like that and a banjo too...and i'm only thixteen.

Posted by: saf at August 21, 2017 04:00 PM (cS/ge)

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